‘We built a castle on stage complete with battlements’: how 80s German thrash bands pushed metal to new extremes

T he noise might have been building since the early 80s, but 1986 was the year thrash metal broke – bursting like a zit on a teenage metalhead’s bumfluffed chin. Slayer, Megadeth and Metallica all released landmark albums, with the latter swapping fleapit rock clubs for a string of arena dates suppo...

Redirecting to full article...