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controlled violence set to four chords and pure adrenaline, riffs sharpened into weapons
means To beat or strike repeatedly with force, or to move wildly and violently — and, in music, to play fast, aggressive metal driven by chugging guitars.
from From Old English 'þerscan,' to thresh — the work of beating grain to separate seed from stalk. 'Thrash' and 'thresh' are the same word grown apart: one stayed on the farm flailing wheat, the other wandered off to mean any furious flailing, eventually lending its name in the 1980s to a genre that hits as hard as a flail on a threshing floor.
- speed obsession
- defined by frantic tempos topping 200 beats per minute
- big four
- Metallica, Slayer, Megadeth, Anthrax built the genre
- origin word
- means to beat or flail wildly about
- crossover roots
- born from hardcore punk crashing into heavy metal
- pit ritual
- spawned the mosh, controlled chaos as crowd sport
slayer — american band formed in 1981, pioneered thrash metal with albums like reign in blood
metallica — american thrash metal band formed in 1981, master of puppets (1986) is a landmark album
megadeth — american thrash metal band formed in 1983 by dave mustaine, known for peace sells album