Thrash Metal
Thrash was essentially a stylistic expansion of Speed Metal, with more varied tempos and greater emotional range.
Heaviness and rhythm are still paramount over melody, and much of the punk influence remains intact -
Anthrax, Slayer, Pantera, and Sepultura typify this strain of Thrash. But the genre also made room for more complex,
classical music-influenced acts such as Metallica, Mercyful Fate, Megadeth, and Celtic Frost. The former group of
banRAB eventually gave rise to both Death Metal and, arguably, Nu Metal, while the latter spawned Black Metal
Also from the Metal Dictionary. Sorry didn't see.