Punk

Punk
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Punk may refer to:
Punk rock, an anti-establishment rock music genre
Punk subculture, a subculture associated with punk rock
Punk fashion, clothing styles associated with the punk subculture
Punk ideologies, a group of social and political beliefs associated with the punk subculture
Punk visual art, artwork associated with the punk subculture
Punk (magazine), a 1970s United States punk fanzine
Punk (fireworks), a utensil for lighting fireworks
Punk, one of the Mega Man Killers, robots in the Mega Man Classic video game series
Punk, a street term for a male prostitute
"Punk", a single from the 2003 album Right of Way by Ferry Corsten
"Punk", a song from the band Gorillaz's debut album
Punk may also refer to:
Punk'd, a hidden-camera MTV series in which punking refers to executing a prank
CM Punk, professional wrestler
Donny the Punk, United States prison reform activist

Thrash metal

Thrash metal
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Slayer's Reign in Blood (1986) was a landmark thrash metal album
Thrash metal emerged in the early 1980s under the influence of hardcore punk and the New Wave of British Heavy Metal,[73] particularly songs in the revved-up style known as speed metal. The movement began in the United States, with the leading scene in the San Francisco Bay Area. The sound developed by thrash groups was faster and more aggressive than that of the original metal bands and their glam metal successors.[73] Peter Steel of Type O Negative described thrash as a form of "urban blight music" and a palefaced cousin of rap.[74]
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Slayer's "Angel of Death", from Reign in Blood (1986), which features the fast, technically complex musicianship typical of thrash metal
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The subgenre was popularized by the "Big Four of Thrash": Anthrax, Megadeth, Metallica, and Slayer.[75] Three German bands, Kreator, Sodom, and Destruction, played a central role in bringing the style to Europe. Others, including San Francisco's Testament and Exodus, New Jersey's Overkill, and Brazil's Sepultura, also had a significant impact. While thrash began as an underground scene, and remained largely for that for almost a decade, the leading bands in the movement began to reach a wider audience. Metallica brought the sound into the top 40 of the Billboard album chart in 1986 with Master of Puppets; two years later, the band's ...And Justice for All hit number 6, while Megadeth and Anthrax had top 40 records.[76]
Though less commercially successful than the rest of the Big Four, Slayer released one of the genre's definitive records: Reign in Blood (1986) was described by Kerrang! as the "heaviest album of all time."[77] Two decades later, Metal Hammer named it the best album of the preceding twenty years.[78] Slayer attracted a following among far-right skinheads, and accusations of promoting violence and Nazi themes have dogged the band.[79] In the early 1990s, thrash achieved breakout success, challenging and redefining the metal mainstream.[80] Metallica's self-titled 1991 album topped the Billboard chart, Megadeth's Countdown to Extinction (1992) hit number 2, Anthrax and Slayer cracked the top 10, and albums by regional bands such as Testament and Sepultura entered the top 100.

Underground metal

Underground metal (1980s, 1990s, and 2000s)
Many subgenres of heavy metal developed outside of the commercial mainstream during the 1980s.[72] Several attempts have been made to map the complex world of underground metal, most notably by the editors of Allmusic, as well as critic Garry Sharpe-Young. Sharpe-Young's multivolume metal encyclopedia separates the underground into five major categories: thrash metal, death metal, black metal, power metal, and, lastly, the related subgenres of doom and gothic metal.