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THE GODFATHERS OF THE GENRE AND ONE OF THE BIGGEST BANDS OF ALL TIME. CHECK OUT THE INCREDIBLE IST THREE OFERINGS THAT ABSOLUTELY BLEW AWAY THE ANGRY YOUTH OF THEIR GENERATION. MOST HEADBANGERS WILL NEVER FORGET "KILL THEM ALL", "RIDE THE LIGHTNING" OR "MASTER OF PUPPETS" AS THEIR LIVES WERE FOREVER CHANGED!
THE CREATORS OF "REIGN IN BLOOD" THE ULTIMATE THRASH ALBUM. THEY HAVE FLOWN THE THRASH METAL FLAG AND HELPED CONTINUE THE GENRE FOR DECADES!
IT REALLY IS REMARKABLE THAT DAVE MUSTAINE WAS IN TWO OF THE TOP FOUR ON THIS LIST. MOST GUITARISTS THAT HAVE BEEN FIRED FROM LEGENDARY BANDS FALL INTO OBSCURITY OR DIE AN EARLY DEATH. "PEACE SELLS BUT WHO'S BUYING" REMAINS A HIGH POINT FOR THE BAND! THE TOUR OF THE BIG FOUR WAS A DREAM OF ALL THRASH METAL FANS AND THESE BAND MEMBERS WHO EMBRACED IT LIKE NOTHING THEY EVER HAD BEFORE OR SINCE!
CHECK OUT THEIR EARLY RELEASES "SPREADING THE DISEASE" AND "AMONG THE LIVING" AND YOU WILL UNDERSTAND WHY THEY ARE CONSIDERED OF SO HIGHLY IN THE ANNALS OF THRASH!
THE ORIGINAL PIONEERS OF THE BAY AREA THAT SPAWNED THIS WHOLE STYLE OF METAL. THEY LOST A KEY MEMBER WHEN KIRK HAMMETT TO HIS SPEED GUITAR VIRTUSO PLAYING TO METALLICA. "BONDED BY BLOOD" IS A MUST LISTEN AS THEY FINALLY HAD THEIR DEBUT TO MARK THEIR TERRITORY. THEY HAVE ALWAYS REMAINED TRUE TO THEIR ORIGINS AND YOU CAN SEE THEM SOON AS THEY CONTINUE THEIR ASSAULT ON THE PLANET AND EARDRUMS OF THEIR LOYAL LISTENERS.
ANOTHER BAND THAT WAS THERE AT THE START. UNFORTUNATELY THEY TOOK A SERIOUS BLOW WHEN THEY LOST THEIR SINGER TO EXODUS. WHEN THEY FOUND CHUCK BILLY TO REPLACE STEVE SOUZA A NEW ERA HAD BEGUN BUT THEY WERE NOW A TOUCH LATE TO THE PARTY. THEY WERE A FORCE TO BE RECKONED WITH EARLY ON AND THEN AS THE NEW MILLENIUM HAD COME THEY RE-EMERGED AND PUT OUT THRASH GEMS!
DESPITE THEIR REVOLVING DOOR LINEUP THEY REMAIN ONE OF THE MOST INFLUENTIAL THRASH BANDS OF ALL TIME. THEY HAVE BEEN CALLED THE MOTORHEAD OF THRASH! ONE OF THE FIRST TO SIGN TO A MAJOR LABEL WHEN ATLANTIC RECORDS INKED THEM IN 1986. THEY HAVE RELEASED OVER 20 ALBUMS WITH MOST REACHING THE CHARTS.
THESE GUYS CAME FROM A DIFFERENT PLANET AAS MOST THRASH BANDS GERMINATED FROM THE BAY AREA. THE BRAZILIANS WERE ONE OF THE MOST IMPORTANT METAL BANDS ON EARTH. WITH "BENEATH THE REMAINS THEY BECAME METAL GODS AND REACHED #1 ON THE CHARTS FOR ALL MUSIC IN BRAZIL! THIS DESTRUCITVE FORCE OF NATURE REMAINS ONE OF THE VALUED GEMS IN THIS LIFE!
THE PREMINENT THRASH BAND OUT OF EUROPE AND TOP ONE FROM GERMANY WHICH WAS A HOTBED FOR THE THRASH SCENE. WHEN THEY SIGNED WITH EPIC RECORDS IN 1988 THEY CREATED A NEW PIPELINE OF THE GENRE! THEY ACTUALLY REACHED # 1 ON THE GERMAN CHARTS WITH "GODS OF VIOLENCE" RELEASED IN 2017.
EVEN THOUGH THE DIDN'T FLY THE THRASH METAL FLAG THROUGHOUT THEIR CAREER WHEN THEY ENTERED INTO THE CATEGORY THEY PROVIDED A NUCLEAR BOMB LIKE BLAST INTO THE GENRE! THEY MIGHT BE A CONTROVERSIAL PICK HERE BUT WHEN WE GO BACK IN TIME AND THEY EMERGED WE FELT THEY WERE JUST A HEAVIER VERSION OF THRASH WITH A TWIST!
WHEN GEOFF BARTON OF THE MUSIC NEWSPAPER "SOUNDS' COINED THE PHRASE HE DESCRIBED THE EMERGENCE OF THE BRITISH HEAVY METAL GIANTS WHO SPARKED A MUSIC REVOLUTION. THIS TERM BECAME THE IDENTIFIER FOR THE WHOLE MOVEMENT!
THE BIGGEST AND BEST SELLING OF ALL OF THE ARTISTS WHO EMERGED FROM THE UK AT THE TIME. THE INCREDIBLE GUITAR SOUNDS FROM DAVE MURRAY AND ADRAIN SMITH COMPLIMENTED BY THE BASS SOUNDS OF STEVE HARRIS LAYED THE FOUNDATION. WHEN BRUCE DICKINSON JOINED THE BAND THEY EXPLODED IN POPULARITY AND EMBARKED ON EPIC WORLD TOURS ON A MASSIVE SCALE. THEIR ARTIST DEREK RIGGS CREATED A MASCOT THAT IS STILL SEEN ON SHIRTS TO THIS DAY
THESE "METAL GODS" HAD A LARGE LIST OF HIT SONGS AND ARE ONE OF THE BEST METAL BANDS OF ALL TIME. THEY HAVE SOLD MORE THAN 50 MILLION RECORDS WORLDWIDE.
THEY KIND OF MORPHED INTO MORE POP ROCK BUT WERE DEFINTELY METAL WHEN THEY WERE DISCOVERED. THEIR ALBUM "PYROMANIA' GOT THEM NOTICED WORLWIDE AND STARTED THEM ON A HALL OF FAME JOURNEY INTO THE LIVING ROOMS OF MILLIONS UPON MILLIONS.
THEY WERE LEADERS OF THE MOVEMENT. WITH A LOT OF CHART SUCCESS THEY WERE VERY INFLUENTIAL.THE NOTABLE ACTS THAT CITED THEM AS INSPIRATIONAL AND INFLUENTIAL INCLUDE METALLICA, SLAYER, MEGADETH, ANTHRAX, MOTLEY CRUE, PANTERA,, TESTAMENT, SKID ROW, DOKKEN AND MANY MORE. THEY HAD 2 ALBUMS IN THE TOP 5 AND 4 IN THE TOP TEN AND 8 IN THE TOP FORTY OF THE UK CHARTS.
JUST SAY LEMMY AND YOU GET AN IMMEDIATE HEAD BANG AND HANDS FORM INTO THE METAL SIGN. THIS IS ONE OF THE HARSHEST SOUNDING VOCALS OF THE TIME AND THE FAST TEMPO SPARKED THE IMAGINATIONS OF BANDS TO FOLLOW. THIS BAND INFLUENCED MOST SPEED AND THRASH METAL BANDS TO FOLLOW!
A LEADING MEMBER OF THE NWOBHM. ANOTHER ONE OF THE INCREDIBLY INFLUENTIAL BANDS FOR THE EVENTUAL THRASH METAL MOVEMENT. ESPECIALLY METALLICA AND MEGADETH. THEY TOURED EARLY AS SUPPORT ACTS TO IRON MAIDEN, AC/DC AND BLACK SABBATH THEN LATER WITH MEGADETH AND METALLICA.
THEY TOURED ACROSS BRITIAN IN SUPPORT OF ACTS THE SCORPIONS AND BUDGIE AND THEN IRON MAIDEN AND SAXON. THIS BAND HAD SOME HITS RIGHT FROM THE START BUT EVENTUALLY HAD TERRIBLE DIFFERENCES WITH THEIR RECORD LABEL MCA. AND DISBANDED. THEY HAVE REFORMED A FEW TIMES OVER THE YEARS WITH VERY LIMITED SUCCESS.
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WE WANTED TO PUT TOGETHER LISTS TO HONOR THE BEST BANDS OF ALL TIME IN THEIR METAL GENRE
WHEN THE GROUP DEBUTED WITH "APPETITE FOR DESTRUCTION" THEY TOOK OVER THE MANTLE AS THE TOP BAND IN THIS GENRE. THEY REACHED #1 ON THE BILLBOARD 200 AND EVENTUALLY SOLD OVER 30 MILLION COPIES OF THIS ALBUM. THE MONIKER "THE MOST DANGEROUS BAND IN THE WORLD" FUELED THEIR REPUTATION AND EVENTUALLY LED TO A LOT OF TROUBLES WITH ADDICTION AND INFIGHTING. THIS BECAME ONE OF THE BEST SELLING BNADS IN HISTORY WITH OVER 100 MILLION ALBUMS PURCHASED WORLWIHEY WERE INDUCTED INTO THE HALL OF FAME IN 2012
ANOTHER BAD BOY LEGENDARY GROUP THAT GAINED THE REPUTATION FOR THE HARD PARTYING LIFESTYLE AND HEDONISM. THIS ACT EVENTUALLY SOLD OVER 100 MILLION ALBUMS AND MADE THEM VERY FAMOUS. THEY EVENTUALLY JOINED THE GLAM METAL MOVEMENT FOR A STRETCH BUT WENT BACK TO THEIR ROOTS AS THEIR CAREER PROGRESSED.
THEY STARTED BEFORE MOST OF THE BANDS IN THIS STYLE BUT WERE ALMOST ALWAYS CONSIDERED IN THIS GENRE. THEIR ORIGINAL LINEUP REMAINED THE MOST REVERED AND THEY BECAME HEROES TO MOST KIDS WHO WERE TEENAGERS DURING THEIR HEYDAY. THE MAKEUP AND COSTUMES WERE A BIG DRAW BUT WERE DISCARDED FROM 1983 TO 1996 AS THEY WENT THROUGH MANY LINEUP CHANGES. THEY HAVE SOLD OVER 75 MILLION ALBUMS AND WERE INDUCTED INTO THE ROCK AND ROLL HALL OF FAME IN 2014.
THE BEST SELLING AMERICAN HARD ROCK BAND OF ALL TIME WITH MORE THAN 150 MILLION RECORDS SOLD. THEY ALSO STARTED MUCH BEFORE THE HAIR BAND MOVEMENT AND THAT IS WHY THEY ARE NOT #1 ON THIS LIST. DURING THEIR INCLUSION OF THE HAIR METAL SCENE THEY BECAME ONE OF THE BIGGEST BANDS IN THE WORLD. THEIR ROCK AND ROLL HALL OF FAME INDUCTION CAME IN 2001.
TANOTHER BAND THAT HAS CROSSED OVER MORE THAN ONE GENRE OF METAL. THEY WERE PART OF THE HAIR METAL BANDS SCENE FOR THE RISE AND FALL OF IT. THEY HAVE ALSO JOINED THE 100 MILLION ALBUMS SOLD CLUB. THEIR ROCK AND ROLL HALL OF FAME INDUCTION CAME IN 2019. THEIR ALBUMS "PYROMANIA" AND "HYSTERIA" IN THE 80'S SHOT THEM TO SUPERSTARDOM.
THIS BAND ALSO STARTED BEFORE THE HAIR METAL WAS EVEN A THING BUT WERE ABLE TO CAPITALIZE WHEN IT WAS HAPPENING. THEY HAVE SOLD MORE THAN 80 MILLION ALBUMS. VH1 RANKED THEM 7TH ON A LIST OF TOP 100 HARD ROCK ARTISTS OF ALL TIME
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