Bay Area thrash metal | |
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Other names | Bay Area thrash |
Stylistic origins | |
Cultural origins | The San Francisco Bay Area in the early 1980s |
Derivative forms | Groove metal |
Regional scenes | |
San Francisco, California | |
Local scenes | |
The San Francisco Bay Area |
Bay Area thrash metal (also known as Bay Area thrash) referred to a steady following of heavy metal bands in the 1980s who formed and gained international status in the San Francisco Bay Area in California.[1] Along with Central Florida, the scene was widely regarded as a starting point of American thrash metal, crossover thrash and death metal.[2][3]