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 ...

Move over, thrash — these are the six best hair metal albums of 1986. As the Bay Area headbangers were catching fire and pioneering a subgenre based on full-speed-or-nothing brutality, a different ...

The album art for Metallica's St Anger, Slayer's Diabolus In Musica and Destruction's The Least Successful Human Cannonball Thrash has been one of the key movements in the metal world. Arguably the ...

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 ...