| LC control no. | gf2014027138 |
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| Thesaurus/term list | lcgft |
| Genre/Form term | Thrash metal (Music) |
| Variant(s) | Speed metal (Music) |
| See also | Heavy metal (Music) |
| Found in | Work cat.: Sharpe-Young, Garry. Thrash metal, 2007. Cambridge history of Am. Music, 1998: p. 378 (the thrash metal style, with its increased speed, growled vocals, heavy distortion, complex song structures and precise ensemble performances, originated in the San Francisco Bay Area early in the decade with groups such as Metallica, Slayer, Testament, Exodus, Megadeath and Possessed) Shuker, Roy. Pop. mus.: the key concepts, 2005 (thrash metal, speed metal; an influential subgenre of heavy metal, sometimes referred to as speed metal and overlapping with hardcore largely a U.S. phenomenon, thrash developed out of hardcore and punk and became a journalistic convenience for guitar-based, non-mainstream metal, usually played faster and louder) |
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