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Metal that got sick of solos and learned to sprint instead.
means A fast, aggressive subgenre of heavy metal built on rapid palm-muted riffs, shouted or snarled vocals, and breakneck tempos, pioneered by bands fusing punk's speed and aggression with metal's heaviness.
from The word 'thrash' itself is old — rooted in Old English 'þrescan,' meaning to beat grain to separate it from husks, which evolved into 'thresh' and the more violent cousin 'thrash,' meaning to flail or beat wildly. By the early 1980s, musicians and fans reached for that word to describe the genre's assaultive speed, where drums and guitars seemed to thrash like a flail against a body. It stuck as shorthand once bands and the press needed a name for music too fast and raw to just call 'heavy metal.'
- origin
- Bay Area and NYC, early 1980s
- big four
- Metallica, Slayer, Megadeth, Anthrax
- tempo
- often exceeds 200 beats per minute
- mosh pits
- basically invented the circle pit