Crossover Thrash

Crossover Thrash metal, often abbreviated to crossover, is a form of thrash metal that contains more hardcore punk elements than standard thrash. The genre lies on a continuum between heavy metal and punk rock. Other genres on the same continuum have significant overlap with crossover thrash, and besides tradition hardcore punk and thrash metal, include such related genres as thrashcore, grindcore and skate punk.

Terminological ambiguity

The genre is often confused with thrashcore, which is essentially a faster hardcore punk rather than a more punk-oriented form of heavy metal.  Throughout the early and mid 1980s, the term "thrash" was often used as a synonym for hardcore punk (as in the New York Thrash compilation of 1982). The term "thrashcore" to distinguish acts of the genre from others was not coined until at least 1993. Many crossover bands, such as D.R.I., began as influential thrashcore bands. The "-core" suffix of "thrashcore" is sometimes used to distinguish it from crossover thrash and thrash metal, the latter of which is often referred to simply as "thrash", which in turn is rarely used to refer to crossover thrash or thrashcore. Thrashcore is occasionally used by the music press to refer to thrash metal-inflected metalcore.

History

Crossover thrash evolved when performers in heavy metal began borrowing elements of hardcore punk's music. Punk-based metal bands generally evolved into the genre by developing more musical technique than the average hardcore outfit, and getting bored with the musical limitations of "pure" hardcore (which focused on very fast tempos and very brief songs). Especially early on, crossover thrash had a strong affinity with skate punk, but gradually became more and more the province of metal audiences. The scene gestated at a Berkeley club called Ruthie's, in 1984. The term "metalcore" was originally used to refer to these crossover groups. Hardcore punk groups Corrosion of Conformity, Dirty Rotten Imbeciles and Suicidal Tendencies played alongside thrash metal groups like Anthrax, Metallicaand Slayer. This scene influenced the skinhead wing of New York hardcore, which began in 1984, and included groups such as Cro-Mags,Beastie Boys, Murphy's Law, Agnostic Front, and Warzone. Other prominent crossover thrash groups include Nuclear Assault, SSS, Stormtroopers of Death, Cryptic Slaughter, SSD, DYS, Gwar, and Septic Death, Electro Hippies, The Exploited, and Discharge.

Musical characteristics

Crossover incorporates fast paced thrash riffs mixed with breakdown riffs commonly used in hardcore and helped forge a derivative known asgroove metal (sometimes referred to as post-thrash).

List of crossover thrash bands

Acid Reign
The Accüsed
Agnostic Front
A.N.S
Attitude Adjustment
Aversion
Bad Acid Trip
Beastie Boys (early)
Beowulf
Birth A.D.
Biohazard
Blast!
Blunt Force Trauma
Body Count
Bones Brigade
Broken Bones
The Brood
Carnivore
Cerebral Fix
Christ on Parade
Circle Jerks
Clown Alley
Concrete Sox
The Cooters
Corrosion of Conformity
Cro-Mags
The Crucified
Crumbsuckers
Cryptic Slaughter
Dead Ideas
DFA
Dayglo Abortions
Dead Horse
Dead Serious
Desecration
D.R.I.
Discharge
Dr. Know (band)
Dresden 45
D.Y.S.
Electro Hippies
English Dogs
Excel
The Exploited
Final Conflict
Gang Green
Gama Bomb
Generation Kill
Ghoul
Green Jellÿ
Gwar
Hellbastard
Hirax
Holier Than Thou
JV And The Carburetors
Lawnmower Deth
Leeway
Lobotomia
Lost Generation
Ludichrist
M.O.D.
Matanza
Madball
The Mentors
Method of Destruction
Mindsnare
Mucky Pup
Municipal Waste
MX Machine
NadimaČ
Neurosis
Nuclear Assault
No Mercy
No Warning
Template:Oi Polloi
Poison Idea
Post Mortem
Prong
Ratos de Porão
Rigor Mortis
Ritam Nereda
S.O.B.
Sacrilege
Send More Paramedics
Septic Death
Shell Shock
Sick Mother Fakers
Sick Of It All
Snake Nation
Soziedad Alkohólika
SSD
Short Sharp Shock (SSS)
Stormtroopers of Death (S.O.D.)
The Stupids
Suicidal Tendencies
Sworn Enemy
Toxic Holocaust
Uncle Slam
Unseen Terror
Verbal Abuse
Vitamin X
Wasted Youth (American band)
Wehrmacht
What Happens Next?
X-Cops