You'll see a few veteran heavy hitters on this list, including Testament (whose latest offering, Para Bellum, was named Loudwire's best metal album of 2025) and Swiss progressive thrashers Coroner, ...

On July 25, 1983, Metallica released Kill 'Em All, the world's first-ever thrash album, igniting a fresh new movement in metal as the U.S. finally had a response to the New Wave of British Heavy Metal ...

Thrash metal, the linchpin of our modern metal universe. Born out of Cold War anxieties in the 1980's, thrash took traditional metal to grittier new heights and set the stage for all extreme sub ...

Fans of classic thrash metal, get ready. Testament, one of the defining bands of the 1980s Bay Area thrash scene, just ...

Set to kick off on March 14 in Portland, Oregon and coming to a close on April 10 in Berkeley, California, the ‘Thrash Of The Titans’ U.S. tour will rip through 20 different stops across the country.

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Dave Pehling is website managing editor for CBS Bay Area. He started his journalism career doing freelance writing about music in the late 1990s, eventually working as a web writer, editor and ...