ThrashBack Campaign!

In the year that Metallica are announced as headlining the iconic Glastonbury Festival, in addition to Sonisphere (the 40th anniversary of gigs at Knebworth) Universal Music is celebrating 30 years of Thrash music by re-issuing seminal albums from the founding fathers of this sub-genre for the ThrashBack campaign. Thrash music has generated album sales of overIn the year that Metallica are announced as headlining the iconic Glastonbury Festival, in addition to Sonisphere (the 40th anniversary of gigs at Knebworth) Universal Music is celebrating 30 years of Thrash music by re-issuing seminal albums from the founding fathers of this sub-genre for the ThrashBack campaign. Thrash music has generated album sales of over 200,000,000 copies and has been responsible for one of the world's biggest bands in Metallica. 80's rock music was dominated by Metallica, Slayer, Megadeth and Anthrax – the so called "Big Four". These bands helped shape the world of heavy music and to this day still have a substantial influence in modern metal music. Faster than lightning and louder than war, thrash was the mutant lovechild of metal's fist-in-the-air bravado and punk rock fury, and for a generation of 80s dropouts it was the ear-splitting antidote to the high-gloss sheen of pop, cold war hysteria, and the decade of greed. The ThrashBack campaign is a 21-gun salute to a sound and a scene that, 30 years later, is still as heavy as it gets. Developed in the early 80's in the U.S, Thrash Metal represents the evolution of the so-called "New Wave Of British [...]

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