High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! This is a list of bands that have played thrash metal at some point during their career, sorted by country of origin. This list, however, also includes certain bands belonging to the first wave of black metal. These bands essentially played thrash metal with a heavy emphasis on Satanic and occult themes in lyrics as well as imagery. Thrash metal was the product of American bands, who fused the sound of New Wave of British Heavy Metal with the speed of hardcore punk in the early 1980s. Thrash metal was also the major influence in the development of extreme genres like groove metal, death metal and the second wave of black metal. Four American bands, Metallica, Slayer, Anthrax and Megadeth, are credited with popularizing the genre, earning them the title of The Big Four of Thrash. Many people credit Metallica with pioneering thrash metal. Outside of the U.S., Teutonic thrash bands such as Kreator, Sodom, and Destruction as well as Brazil's Sepultura were key contributors to the development of thrash.

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