The legendary true metal institution GRAVE DIGGER delivers a taste of what is to come on their forthcoming album “Ballads of a Hangman”. To make the wait bearable, the men around screamer Chris Boltendahl have assembled a genuine metallic package. Hellbent metalheads will be pleased to not only find three non-album tracks, but also the title track “Pray” featured in this video as an exclusive extended version of the original to be featured on the upcoming longplayer and a cover of Motörhead’s “Overkill”.
Speed metal is a sub-genre of heavy metal music originating in the early 1980s that was the direct musical progenitor of thrash metal. When speed metal first emerged as a genre, it increased the tempos that had been used by early heavy metal bands such as Led Zeppelin, Black Sabbath, and Deep Purple, while retaining their melodic approaches. Many elements of speed metal are rooted in the music of UK’s NWOBHM bands while fusing their stylistic approach with the music of 1970’s punk rock
The term speed metal has been broken down and specified with other terms under heavy metal (typically thrash metal, power metal, and to a lesser extent, black metal) and is often succeeded by such terms when an artist’s sound or style is specifically defined. The term ’speed metal’ was also used in a very broad sense by some glam metal and NWOBHM groups during the 1980s. Many Japanese bands from the 1980s to the present can also be described as speed metal, largely due to the success of X Japan.
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