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  • Heavy metal icon Ozzy Osbourne, 2012
    heavy metal
    / Metal subgenres

    Megadeth, Anthrax, and Slayer pioneered thrash metal, distinguished by its fast tempos, harsh vocal and guitar timbres, aggressiveness, and critical or sarcastic lyrics.

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    Megadeth, Anthrax, and Slayer pioneered thrash metal, distinguished by its fast tempos, harsh vocal and guitar timbres, aggressiveness, and critical or sarcastic lyrics.

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  • Megadeth
    Megadeth
    / Disbanding, legal issues, and The Big 4 concert

    …Megadeth and Metallica, along with Slayer and Anthrax, played in Bulgaria for a concert and film billed as The Big 4: Live from Sofia, Bulgaria. The live album of the concert quickly went double platinum. In 2010 Mustaine published Mustaine: A Heavy Metal Memoir, in which he described his time…

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    …Megadeth and Metallica, along with Slayer and Anthrax, played in Bulgaria for a concert and film billed as The Big 4: Live from Sofia, Bulgaria. The live album of the concert quickly went double platinum. In 2010 Mustaine published Mustaine: A Heavy Metal Memoir, in which he described his time…

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