After their lead singer shed his glam rock spandex, the band became rivals to thrash’s Big Four... In the Bay Area of mid-1980s California, a heavy metal scene was forming that was angrier, louder ... thrash.
thrash ... the kind of music that thrash metal fans poured scorn on, and sometimes worse ... By 1986, thrash metal was peaking ... By now it was 1992 and grunge had swept in, hitting pause on thrash metal’s mainstream moment.
... outlet of extreme thrash carnage ... The day we left, the council wrote to the studio asking them to close, because the noise of us playing thrash metal upstairs was traumatising the children.” READ MORE.