THRASH, TRASH, & CASH
Once upon a time, it seemed that heavy metal was a genre all its own. When you spoke of metal, you were speaking of one similar type of music. That was before punk and hardcore. With the advent of these two musical forms, the whole thing got twisted.
THRASH, TRASH, & CASH
Once upon a time, it seemed that heavy metal was a genre all its own. When you spoke of metal, you were speaking of one similar type of music. That was before punk and hardcore. With the advent of these two musical forms, the whole thing got twisted. And when they decided to merge with metal—creating that mutant offspring called thrash—well, it was mighty hard to ever speak of metal the same again.
So within the current ranks of heavy metal, you have a bunch of different subgroups—and it often seems that no one can get together. Oh, there are those heavy metal heads who like all types— but there’s also a lot of arguments over what really constitutes TRUE metal today. Some of these debates have taken place right in the very pages of METAL’s “Letters” section... I
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