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Dave Mustaine would go on to form Megadeth and release one of the best thrash debut albums ever.

David Ellefson's longtime business partner Thom Hazaert says that he had nothing to do with the leak of the MEGADETH bassist's messages and videos ...

By the time Forbidden released their debut album, Forbidden Evil, on September 30th, 1988, the NorCal crew had some big shoes to fill. The Bay Area thrash scene had already given birth to many important and highly influential metal acts including Exodus, Death Angel, Testament, Possessed and, of course, Metallica (who had relocated from Southern California in 1983). Forbidden had been kicking around the scene for three years up to that point, so they were well aware of the region's legacy — and the need to come out guns blazing with their debut. And they delivered. Upon its release, Forbi...

The San Francisco Bay Area is known far and wide as the epicenter of the Eighties thrash movement, and one of the bands central to the scene's second wave was Forbidden. While they may not have achieved the same widespread recognition as Bay Area forebears like Metallica and Exodus or peers like Testament and Death Angel, Forbidden left an indelible mark on the genre with two now-classic albums — the 1988 debut Forbidden Evil (which was also the band's original name) and the 1990 follow-up Twisted Into Form. Both efforts are packed with the sort of breakneck precision riffing, pounding dr...

"Bonded By Blood" is inspiring a whole new breed of thrash metal. EXODUS's controversial re-recording of "Bonded By Blood", Zaentz Records. At the time, Holt stated about the band's decision to revisit "Bonded By Blood" with then- EXODUS-vocalist EXODUS singer] Paul Baloff by showing how relevant these songs we had written together still are. We aren't trying to replace the original; that's impossible anyway. We are just giving these songs the benefit of modern production. It's something we talked about before Paul's death and it's always been important to us to do. We were super-excit...