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Thrash metal (or simply thrash) is an extreme subgenre of heavy metal music characterized by its overall aggression and fast tempo. [4] The songs usually use fast percussive beats and low-register guitar riffs, overlaid with shredding-style lead guitar work.
V is the fifth studio album by American thrash metal band Havok, released on May 1, 2020. [4] [5] This is the band's only release with bassist Brandon Bruce, who left Havok in August of the following year, [6] and the last to feature lead guitarist Reece Scruggs before his departure from the band in July 2024. [7]
According to Dave Mustaine, Lars Ulrich composed the song's opening riff while Mustaine was still a member of Metallica. [5] A riff from David Bowie's song "Andy Warhol" is quoted in "Master of Puppets". It is a homage made by Cliff Burton and Kirk Hammett to whom Bowie was a huge influence. [6]
Impressed with Heafy's performance, they accepted him into the band known as "Trivium", which is a Latin three-way intersection they used to explain their music as combining metalcore, melodic death metal and thrash metal. [5] Lewter played a number of local gigs with the band before departing about a year later.
A new generation of thrash metal bands emerged in the early 2000s, drawing lyrical and visual inspiration from the older groups. [10] [11] Thrash metal was an inspiration for later extreme genres such as death metal and black metal. This list also includes certain bands which belong to the first wave of black metal.
"Stone Cold Crazy" is known for its fast tempo and heavy distortion, thus being a precursor to speed metal. [15] Music magazine Q described "Stone Cold Crazy" as "thrash metal before the term was invented". [5] In 2009, it was named the 38th best hard rock song of all time by VH1. [16]
Artillery are a Danish thrash metal band. They participated in the early development of the genre, and were pioneers in the Danish thrash metal scene with their highly energetic, riff-centric and often fast-paced music. After releasing three full-length albums and touring extensively throughout the 1980s and early 1990s, Artillery disbanded in ...
The group has been called an "innovative and often forgotten speed metal band...who infused progressive metal styles and European styles into abstract American speed metal." The band's intricate riff formulations were heavily influenced by thrash metal acts like Metallica and Testament. Vocalist Joel DuBay's singing is easily recognizable with ...