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speed metal

n.
Heavy metal music that is exceptionally harsh and fast. Also called thrash.
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And I graduated from that to folk, then speed metal and punk.
Silhouetted against a storm of strobes, he led the band through speed metal versions of past glories, including a hardly recognisable Bullet With Butterfly Wings.
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The band are seen as pioneers of thrash and speed metal and champions of a hard-living, hardrocking lifestyle.
Then Eugene band Sanctifyre will fast forward to today's speed metal with "shredding solos, thunderous riffs and air raid siren vocals." Learn and listen: http://rgne.ws/1LEle0l.
I'll just come right out and say it: I think Megadeth is better than other metal bands: The beautiful symphonic quality of "A Tout Le Monde," the grittiness of "Symphony of Destruction," the speed metal eruption of "Holy Wars ...
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Rather than being thrashed in rock-star style, guitars were laid across the musicians' laps and romanced with a bizarre array of appendages to pull Scrambled Eggs' audience out of its speed metal comfort zone.
We didn't want to think, "We're just going to play doom, or speed metal, or black metal, or punk rock." There's doom in there and you can hear Pink Floyd, but we really try to not sound like our influences either.
As the central figure of Megadeth and a former Metallica lead guitarist and co-songwriter, Dave Mustaine is one of a handful of people considered to have pioneered thrash metal and speed metal. He will play a virtuoso performance at the award winning festival.