Ava Lawless breaks down the inspirations behind her persona as “The Hellion.” With an affinity for 1980s thrash and hair metal, Ava Lawless has molded her wrestling persona into “The Hellion.” In the ...

A TV series about 1980s thrash metal and the Satanic-panic insanity it begat should, by definition, be a fast, furious, and funny affair. Yet Hysteria! is so slow and distended that it proves an ...

Before the 1980s, the idea of blending heavy metal and hardcore punk was nearly unthinkable. However, this dynamic fusion began to take shape in the early part of the decade, paving the way for a ...

Zurich thrash-metal trio Coroner emerged in the early 1980s out of a Swiss scene that included pioneering extreme-metal outfit Celtic Frost. After some big changes in personnel and sound, in 1985 they ...

The past few years have seen vinyl come back in a big way. Seemingly every new album gets pressed on a series of limited-edition colored records, and fans eagerly add them to their collection. While ...

Exodus made one of the best metal albums of 1985, Bonded by Blood. Twenty-two years later, the Bay Area thrash legends released one of the best metal albums of 2007, The Atrocity Exhibition: Exhibit A ...

Dave Pehling is website managing editor for CBS Bay Area. He started his journalism career doing freelance writing about music in the late 1990s, eventually working as a web writer, editor and ...

The internet has a lot of questions about thrash metal's Big 4, so we've gone ahead an answered over 10 of the most searched questions. For the younger metal fans who are in their teenage years or ...

Death Angel joins Exodus and Testament on the “Bay Strikes Back Tour,” which comes to Ace of Spades Wednesday, May 25. Nuclear Blast Starting in the mid-1980s, about 90 miles west of Sacramento, a new ...