Genre
Thrash Metal
13 bands in the Top 500 carry Thrash Metal as a primary or secondary tag.
- 13 bands
- 1990s dominant era
- 5 countries
- #011 Metallica
The biggest thrash metal band, defining heaviness for generations of metal fans.
- #059 Pantera
Texas groove-metal monsters who reshaped post-thrash heaviness.
- #060 Slayer
Speed-and-fury L.A. thrash icons among the genre's most influential.
- #061 Megadeth
Technical thrash titans led by Dave Mustaine after his Metallica exit.
- #062 Anthrax
New York thrash mainstay rounding out the Big Four with crossover swagger.
- #176 Meshuggah
Umeå polyrhythm masters whose sound spawned djent.
- #180 At the Gates
Gothenburg melodic-death-metal architects whose 'Slaughter of the Soul' is canon.
- #240 Venom
Newcastle band whose name and album titles seeded black metal.
- #241 Bathory
Quorthon's solo-vehicle Swedish project that pioneered Scandinavian black metal.
- #260 Sepultura
Belo Horizonte band whose 'Roots' fused thrash with Brazilian rhythm.
- #261 Soulfly
Max Cavalera's post-Sepultura tribal-metal project.
- #344 Voivod
Quebec progressive thrash band of dissonant, sci-fi imagination.
- #345 Annihilator
Ottawa thrash-metal band of shred-virtuoso pedigree.