SAN FRANCISCO (CBS SF) -- One of the prime forces in the early '80s crossover movement that found hardcore punk bands mixing elements of thrash-metal into their sound, D.R.I. (aka Dirty Rotten ...

Tongue-in-cheek thrash/punk vets Lawnmower Deth have just released their first new album in 29 years, Blunt Cutters. Having formed in 1987 and put out their official debut in 1989 (a split with Metal ...

Throughout heavy metal's dizzying evolution and splicing into countless subgenres (and subgrenres of subgenres), thrash metal's core DNA of high-tempo riffage, ripping solos and full-throttle, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Thrash wasn’t initially a genre: it was what a band did. And in the ’80s it swarmed across the globe like a plague of locusts, ...

Dave Pehling is website managing editor for CBS Bay Area. He started his journalism career doing freelance writing about music in the late 1990s, eventually working as a web writer, editor and ...

I’ve found punk rock in dingy bars, at big music festivals, blasting out of beat-up old cars. I’ve found punk rock on the radio and on vinyl records, cassette tapes, CDs, iPods, and music streaming ...

Some of punk and metal's most influential outfits arose from the Bay Area, with many of them serving as an exciting and ...

The internet has a lot of questions about thrash metal's Big 4, so we've gone ahead an answered over 10 of the most searched questions. For the younger metal fans who are in their teenage years or ...