Now the bands I'm mentioning are not thrash metal bands, but they are still in the metal genre/spectrum.
The Soup Dragons
The lines can be a bit vague at time. Death Metal was derived from Thrash - it basically took Thrash, and stripped it down even further to its most basic elements. Early Death Metal bands (Possessed, Incubus - the band now known as Opprobrium, pre-Arise era Sepultura, Graf Spee, etc.) were still Thrash bands at their core. In the 1990s, Death Metal sought to further the gap between Thrash bands and themselves, and turned to Hardcore Punk and its derivatives (Powerviolence, Crust Punk, Grindcore, etc.) for influence - this is especially apparent with bands such as Cannibal Corpse, later Morbid Angel albums, Deicide, etc. Thus, your more modern Death Metal bands tend to be quite distinguishable from Thrash bands, whereas earlier Death Metal bands drew a much finer line.
Children of Bodom isn't thrash metal. It's melodic death metal. They are influenced by thrash, though.
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I say..METALLICA! :D
my favorite band is dragon force how about you?
The lines can be a bit vague at time. Death Metal was derived from Thrash - it basically took Thrash, and stripped it down even further to its most basic elements. Early Death Metal bands (Possessed, Incubus - the band now known as Opprobrium, pre-Arise era Sepultura, Graf Spee, etc.) were still Thrash bands at their core. In the 1990s, Death Metal sought to further the gap between Thrash bands and themselves, and turned to Hardcore Punk and its derivatives (Powerviolence, Crust Punk, Grindcore, etc.) for influence - this is especially apparent with bands such as Cannibal Corpse, later Morbid Angel albums, Deicide, etc. Thus, your more modern Death Metal bands tend to be quite distinguishable from Thrash bands, whereas earlier Death Metal bands drew a much finer line.
Children of Bodom isn't thrash metal. It's melodic death metal. They are influenced by thrash, though.
Bands such as: Smoking Popes, Anti-Flag, Bad Brains, and also some influences from thrash metal (coming from band member Zach Blaire)
Kreator is thrash metal band.
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Death/thrash metal
That's hard to say since the line from thrash metal to death metal is very blurry. Kreator, Slayer and Sepultura are widely known for creating riffs in a rather death metal fashion (more alternate picking, slower note changes). Probably the first of those bands to completely disband the punk attitude from thrash metal were Possessed and Death, so they could be called the 2 first metal bands.
I say..METALLICA! :D
"WhiteChapel" or "as blood runs black" That is a wrong answer as none of those bands are even thrash, let alone the best. The best thrash band ever would probably be Slayer even though they are not my favorite and there are many bands that are better than them AT CERTAIN POINTS. Pretty much all of Slayer's music is good, it is real thrash not alternative Metallica and Megadeth stuff, and they have developed the biggest loyal following out of the four bands. what about Sodom? Agent orange, Persucution Mania, and Tapping the vein rock man. and they do have many good albums.
Metallica falls under the Thrash Metal category. They are noted as being one of the four bands that make up The Big Four of Thrash Metal, along with Anthrax, Megadeth, and Slayer. The members of Metallica have said that their primary influences in music were early heavy metal bands such as Black Sabbath, Deep Purple, Led Zeppelin and and Scorpions, New Wave of British Heavy Metal bands such as Venom, Motorhead, Diamond Head, Judas Priest, and Iron Maiden.
my favorite band is dragon force how about you?
From when the band was first started until the making of Cowboys From Hell they were glam metal. But changed their style to Thrash when they made CFH