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, ...

Here is the best album by 15 legendary thrash metal bands. For over 40 years, thrash has been a dominant force in heavy metal. The '90s proved to be challenging as the musical tides shifted in both ...

If you're a longtime thrash enthusiast or just getting into it and are looking for to dive deeper into the genre, some thrash fans online have named underground bands to listen to. But there's a high ...

Since its emergence in the early ’80s, thrash has always been metal’s most reliable genre. Trends come and go, bands rise and fall, but at the end of the day what we all really want is a fast riff and ...

When it comes to trying to pinpoint the heyday of thrash metal, it’s hard to beat the ’80s. All of the biggest albums came out in that decade, and labels like Megaforce, Combat, and Metal Blade were ...

There are a handful of essential thrash albums that every metalhead should own on vinyl. Thrash’s beginnings date back to the early 1980s, but by that point, cassette tapes were much more popular than ...

Forty years into their career, Kreator seem to be going as strong as ever, producing an intense thrash album reminiscent of their late ’80s heyday, but benefitting from more modern (but not too slick) ...

Thrash - when the technical prowess of heavy metal formed a holy trinity with its best friends - power and speed. Motörhead led the way, predating the blistering tempos of not only punk rock, but also ...

Almost exactly 26 years ago, Prong released one of the most tightly wound, surgically effective, gloriously brutal thrash albums ever made. That Beg to Differ came at the tail end of the Golden Age of ...