Throughout heavy metal's dizzying evolution and splicing into countless subgenres (and subgrenres of subgenres), thrash metal's core DNA of high-tempo riffage, ripping solos and full-throttle, ...

There is a band that absolutely cannot be left out when talking about the history of heavy metal.One of them is the American ...

In a new interview with The Adventures Of Pipeman, FORBIDDEN guitarist Craig Locicero talked about how early San Francisco ...

Of metal’s many subgenres, thrash is perhaps the iconic. A cutthroat mixture of heavy metal’s big riffs and hardcore punk’s ferocious speed, thrash is metal at its most vital. It has the loudest ...

Fans of classic thrash metal, get ready. Testament, one of the defining bands of the 1980s Bay Area thrash scene, just announced their “Thrash of the Titans” North America tour for 2026. The 20-city ...

Dave Mustaine of Megadeth has pitched a new Big Four of thrash metal in an attempt to give the original concept a modern update. As fans know, the Big Four represents the bands that helped bring ...

Metal on metal violence has been a real issue over the years, but let’s promote pan-metallic unity with these amazing black on thrash cover songs! 10 Thrash Albums You Probably Don't Have in Your ...

Thrash metal flayed disco band Kiss before bingeing on high-speed guitars, rapid double bass drum and foul lyrics. The emergence of thrash in the early ’80s poked fun at a fan base of metal historians ...

Dennis Pepa, a founding member of influential Bay Area thrash-metal band Death Angel, says he was diagnosed with Stage 4 duodenal cancer in February.

Speed metal or thrash metal? The consensus seems to be that the terms are interchangeable and probably not even applicable in 2016, although the term “thrash” metal doesn’t elicit the groans that ...