List of thrash metal bands
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A
- Acid Reign (Crossover - UK)
- Addictive
- Agent Steel (Speed Thrash - US/Los Angeles)
- Am I Blood
- Annihilator (Canada)
- Anthrax (US/New York-Jersey)
- Artillery
- Attitude Adjustment (Crossover - US/Bay Area)
- Atrophy (US/Phoenix)
B
- Believer
- Blasthrash (Brazil)
- Blind Guardian (Speed/Power/Thrash early - Germany)
- Blind Illusion (US/Bay Area)
C
- Coroner
- Celtic Frost
- Cynic (Demos Only)
D
- Dark Angel (US/Los Angeles)
- Darkane
- Dead Horse
- Death Angel (US/Bay Area)
- Deathchain
- Defleshed (Sweden)
- Deliverance (US/Los Angeles)
- Demonoid
- Destroyer 666
- Destruction (Germany)
- Dew-Scented
- Dirty Rotten Imbeciles (Crossover, US/Texas-Bay Area)
- Divine Decay
E
- Epidemic (US/Bay Area)
- Equinox
- Eudoxis (Canada)
- Evildead (US/Los Angeles)
- Executer (Brazil)
- Exhorder (US/Texas)
- Exodus (US/Bay Area)
- Exciter (Canada)
F
- Flotsam and Jetsam (US/Phoenix)
- Forbidden (US/Bay Area)
- Forced Entry (US/Seattle)
G
- Gama Bomb
- God Forbid (later works)
- GWAR
H
- The Haunted
- Heathen (US/Bay Area)
- Helstar
- Hermética (Argentina)
- Hirax (US/Los Angeles-Bay Area)
- Hobbs' Angel of Death (Australia)
- Holy Moses (Germany)
I
K
- King Diamond
- Korzus (Brazil)
- Kreator (Germany)
- Kremate (Brazil)
- Kublai Khan
L
- Laaz Rockit (US/Bay Area)
- Lamb Of God {US}
- Lawnmower Deth (Crossover; UK)
- Living Death (Germany)
- Living Sacrifice
- Lobotomia (Crossover; Brazil)
- Lunatics Without Skateboards Inc.
M
- Machine Head (Post Thrash; US/Bay Area)
- Megadeth (US/Los Angeles)
- Memorain
- Messiah (Suiss)
- Metal Church (US/Seattle)
- Metallica (earlier albums) (US/Bay Area/Los Angeles)
- Mekong Delta
- Mokoma (Finland)
- Mortal Sin (Australia)
- MX (Brazil)
N
- Nepal (Argentina)
- Nevermore (Post Thrash - US/Seattle)
- No Mercy (Crossover - US/Venice-Los Angeles)
- Nuclear Assault (US/New York-Jersey)
- Nuestros Derechos
O
P
- Pantera (Post Thrash-Later Work, US/Texas)
- Pestilence (early works)
- Possessed (US/Bay Area)
R
- Ratos de Porão (Crossover - Brazil)
- Razor (Canada)
- Rigor Mortis
- Ritual Carnage
- Rumpelstiltskin Grinder
- Running Wild (Germany)
S
- Sabbat (UK)
- Sacred Reich (US/Phoenix)
- Sadus (US/Bay Area)
- Sarcofago (Brazil)
- Scatha
- Sepultura (Brazil)
- Slayer (US/Los Angeles)
- Sodom (Germany)
- Stone (Finland)
- Suicidal Tendencies (US/Venice-Los Angeles)
T
- Tankard (Germany)
- Testament (US/Bay Area)
- Total Mayhem (Brazil)
- Tourniquet
- Toxik (US/New York-Jersey)
- Trivium
- Turbo
U
V
W
- Watchtower (US/New York-Jersey)
- Witchery
- Wehrmacht (US/Los Angeles)
- Whiplash (US/New York-Jersey)
Y