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Metal Hammer
Metal Hammer
Entertainment
Dave Everley

“Partly a tribute to a fallen bandmate, it’s as emotionally raw as thrash ever got”: 10 epic ballads that show thrash metal’s emotional side

Metallica posing for a photograph in 1984.

There was more to thrash than speed. Not too much more, admittedly, but the scene’s velocity merchants did occasionally dial things down a little and show their emotional sides.

Most of thrash’s big beasts had at least one slow song designed to get a club full of 80s or 90s kids holding their old school Zippos aloft. And if got them on MTV? Hey, all the better.

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