The Melody Web what each genre heard, and what it passed on

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Heard

Hardcore punk style · 1979–

Crossover thrash takes hardcore’s short song, shout, and skate-hall public and hangs thrash mute-riffs on them.

Influence
Thrash metal style · 1983–

Crossover thrash takes thrash’s muted riff and metal-guitar unit and cuts it to hardcore song length and shout.

Influence

Crossover thrash

style · 1985–1990

Also called crossover

Kind of Thrash metal

Mid-1980s U.S. named meeting of thrash riffs with hardcore song length, shout, and skate-punk public (S.O.D., D.R.I., Suicidal Tendencies). It is a style of Thrash metal. Hardcore punk supplies the short-song and skate-hall job. Groove-metal leftover as a later down-tempo fork. Skate-punk leftover as a clothes-and-circuit tag. Metalcore leftover as already hanging on thrash plus hardcore, not as a child of this named 1985 meeting. Empty Given after that check is historical.

Listen

  1. Speak English or Die Stormtroopers of Death (1985) YouTube · Spotify · Amazon
  2. The Hunter D.R.I. (1987)
  3. Institutionalized Suicidal Tendencies (1983) YouTube · Spotify · Amazon
  4. Tear It Up D.R.I. (1985) YouTube
  5. United Forces Stormtroopers of Death (1985) YouTube · Spotify · Amazon

Passed on

Nothing in the corpus yet that this genre passed on.

Hardcore punk → Crossover thrash

form and structureperformance practicemelodystrength: highwell documented1985–1987oralrecording

Mechanism

Crossover thrash takes hardcore’s short song, shout, and skate-hall public and hangs thrash mute-riffs on them. Strength high. Thrash metal supplies the guitar-school parent. Groove-metal leftover as a later down-tempo fork. Skate-punk leftover as a clothes tag.

Evidence

D.R.I. Crossover and S.O.D. Speak English or Die as hardcore-length metal records (Waksman).

Debate

Whether this is already hardcore. The named mute-riff metal meeting is crossover’s; the earlier hardcore song is the parent.

Mediators

artist: D.R.I.; artist: Stormtroopers of Death

Thrash metal → Crossover thrash

phrase and licktimbre and productionform and structurestrength: highwell documented1985–1987recordingoral

Mechanism

Crossover thrash takes thrash’s muted riff and metal-guitar unit and cuts it to hardcore song length and shout. Strength high. Hardcore punk is the second parent. Groove-metal leftover as a later down-tempo fork.

Evidence

S.O.D. Speak English or Die and D.R.I. Crossover against 1983–85 thrash riff grammar (Waksman).

Debate

Whether this is already thrash. Album-length Bay Area riff density is thrash’s; the named skate-and-hardcore meeting is crossover’s.

Mediators

artist: Stormtroopers of Death; artist: D.R.I.