Browsing: thrash metal

Formed by Ice-T and Ernie C, Body Count fused thrash, punk, and rap with hard political lyrics – and helped define rap metal’s edge.

In 1984 Metallica escaped to Copenhagen, wrote bigger songs, bent thrash rules, and let Cliff Burton’s musical brain widen the band’s future.

In May 1981, a shy SoCal guitarist met a loud Danish drummer through a Recycler ad. That awkward jam lit the fuse for Metallica and thrash metal.

In April 1983, Metallica tore through a lethal set at Brooklyn’s L’Amour, then fired Dave Mustaine the next morning and handed him a bus ticket home. That brutal exit ignited Kill ‘Em All and Megadeth.