Tag Archives: Speed/Thrash Metal

This German black metal band’s early lineup contains Tom Angelripper (bass/vocals), Aggressor (guitar/vocals), and Chris “Witchhunter” Dudek (drums). These were seriously affected by thrash/acceleration metal rings like Motörhead, Venom, and Mercyful Destiny, discovering the darkest subject material feasible. Aggressor quit the group before its 1st full-length album premiered and was …

Slayer were perhaps one of the most distinctive, influential, and intensive thrash metal rings from the 1980s. Their visual lyrics handled everything from loss of life and dismemberment to battle as well as the horrors of hell. Their full-throttle speed, wildly chaotic electric guitar solos, and effective musical chops decorated …

Originally founded in 1999 simply because Getting rid of Machine, Terror 2000 certainly are a Swedish neo-thrash outfit made up of full-time members of death metal bands Soilwork (vocalist/bassist Björn Strid, drummer Henry Ranta) and Darkane (guitarist Klaus Ideberg), plus second guitarist Nick Sword, who frequently convene to record their …

The origins of the brand new Zealand-based speed metallic band Shihad day back again to 1985, when guitarist Jon Toogood and drummer Tom Larkin formed their first group, Exit, while attending senior high school within the Wellington area. Many other aspiring music artists came and proceeded to go, but by …

Although they didn’t fare nearly in addition to fellow Teutonic thrashers like Kreator and Sodom with regards to career longevity or commercial success, Würzburg, Germany’s Paradox certainly seemed, on the top, to truly have a better shot in the big time making use of their even more melodic and accessible …

Showing up in 2001 using the brutally large Feasting on Bloodstream, Severe Torture took the metallic world by surprise using its thunderous approach and razor-sharp riffs. Although fairly new at that time, the music group adopted it up with another amazing split disk with founded headbangers Blood Crimson Throne that …

The preeminent metal band of the first to mid-’90s, Pantera put to rest every remnants from the ’80s metal scene, almost single-handedly demolishing any notion that hair metal, speed metal, power metal, et al., had been anything but moveé. Loathe to acknowledge it, the Tx band had actually been one …

Germany’s self-proclaimed “Kings of Beverage,” Tankard are mostly of the thrash metal rings that never took themselves too seriously, pouring an extended discography straight down listeners’ gullets over time, filled up with furious moshing along with a barrel of laughs. Originally founded in the town of Frankfurt circa 1982, they …

Michael Romeo shaped Symphony X in NJ in 1994. The initial lineup of the group included Thomas Miller (bass acoustic guitar), Pole Tyler (vocals), Jason Rullo (drums), and Michael Pinnella (keyboards). They released their self-titled debut later on that same yr. The next yr they released the follow-up The Damnation …

Founded in 2015 by guitarist Doyle Shiny, formerly of Rigor Mortis and Hallows Eve, among additional steel outfits over the last three decades, SOG (Special Ops Group) is definitely a thrash steel band away of Atlanta, Georgia. Self-described mainly because “harder, quicker, louder,” the lineup also included guitarist Alan Unusual, …