Who says headbanging can’t pay the bills? Over the decades, some heavy metal bands have gone far beyond filling sweaty clubs ...

Guitar modes lesson 3: It has the sound of thrash metal at its core, but also Latin and flamenco music too – here’s how the exotic sounding Phrygian mode works. Stuart Ryan.

The virtuoso took a detour from heavy music to work on TV and film scores in the ’90s. Now he’s working on new material with ...

Bay Area thrash-metal guitar hero Gary Holt recently talked to CBS News Bay Area about his new memoir, upcoming plans for his band Exodus and returning to the stage with Slayer.

If rock & roll has historically been a boys club, then heavy metal is the He-Man Woman Haters Club. Thankfully, that’s changing. Of all the genres, though, metal is definitely the laggard. And unless ...

Three legendary local thrash-metal bands bring their "The Bay Strikes Back" show to the South Bay Saturday as Testament, Exodus and Death Angel share the San Jose Civic stage.

Thrash’s roots and influences can be found in the hallmarks of classic heavy metal, such as the guitar wizardry and epic arrangements from, say, Iron Maiden and Judas Priest.

By the mid-’80s, this marriage of styles birthed a new subgenre: thrash metal. It quickly spread across the globe, offering a raw, aggressive alternative to the glam metal and mainstream rock ...

SAN FRANCISCO (CBS SF) -- With roots dating back to the primordial days of the Bay Area thrash-metal revolution during the early '80s, local heroes Death Angel have long been representatives of ...

Thrash metal pioneers across the country are reaching their 50s and 60s and facing health problems. ... both of whom played guitar in local thrash metal legend Gammacide.

After firing many warning shots on their first two albums, Slayer perfected thrash metal in 1986 on Reign In Blood.Pushing the agenda to play faster, harder, and nastier than the other bands in ...

The band's songs might be short — most clocking in at less than 2 minutes — but still brimming with thrash-metal, old-school punk awesomeness.