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Contents 1 History 1.1 1980's: The Beginning 1.2 Scenes 1.3 Impact 1.4 End of the 80s and beginning of the 90s 2 90s 3 Today 4 Important bands

While in the beginning of the 80s in the U.S., Germany and Canada was appearing bands such as Metallica, Slayer (U.S.), Destruction, Kreator (Germany) and Voivod, Exciter (Canada), in Brazil at the same time was growing a scene of bands too, influencied by the same music that the bands cited above was too (N.W.O.B.H.M. and Hardcore).

The Brazilian rock has its roots in the 60s, developing from the movement called Jovem Guarda, passing through the Progressive rock and finally falling into Heavy metal. In 1982, the first Latin American heavy metal LP was released, of the heavy metal band Stress, from the city of Belém (on north of Brazil), and the punk scene in the city of São Paulo was emerging too with the albums of bands like Restos De Nada in 1982.

The European and North American Heavy metal and Hardcore have been great influences for all those bands, but the first Thrash metal (or Speed metal) album released officially in Brazil was the split album between two bands in 1984, the split album Ultimatum, with bands Dorsal Atlântica and Metalmorphose, only one year after the Kill 'Em All album of Metallica, War and Pain of Voivod and Sentence of Death of Destruction.

Dorsal Atlântica from Rio de Janeiro was a pioneer because of the appearance official on the record, but there was other bands releasing demos, like Vulcano from São Paulo and Sepultura from Belo Horizonte.

Basically, was three regions where the thrash metal was been formed (Belo Horizonte, São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro). The most strong of the three scenes, was Belo Horizonte, city where Sepultura came from.

In Belo Horizonte, the scene had the roughest bands, close to what became to call death metal. Bands like Sepultura, Sarcófago and Mutilator was too extreme for that time, even more than the German Teoutonic thrash. Sarcofago was influential for the most of European Black metal and Death metal bands.

In São Paulo, the scene was more close to the Crossover or to the American thrash. Bands like Ratos de Porão and Lobotomia, were hardcore bands turning into thrash metal along side with born thrash metal bands, like Korzus, MX, Attomica, Anthares, etc.

In Rio de Janeiro, the bands sounded more like the European metal. Names such as Taurus, Metrallion, Antitese was real important that time.

The most known bands in Brazil, were Sepultura, Sarcófago, Korzus, Ratos de Porão and Dorsal Atlântica.

Albums like Schizphrenia by Sepultura, Sonho Maníaco by Korzus, Cada Dia Mais Sujo e Agressivo by R.D.P. and Antes do Fim by Dorsal Atlântica were the most "crusher" in the scene, taking a lot of followers around the country.

The bands that succeed the best out of Brazil were Sepultura and Ratos de Porão. When in 1987 the album Schizophrenia was released in the States and was well received, Sepultura got a deal with Roadrunner Records and became what become. Because of Sepultura, Ratos de Porão sign with the label too and went to record in Germany with Harris Johns (of Tankard and Voivod fame). And Sepultura became known around the world with Beneath The Remais in 1989.

Sepultura was making success out side of Brazil. The last "true" thrash album by them was Arise in 1991. The last thrash metal albums to represent the old-school of thrash in Brazil was Mass Illusion by Korzus (1991), Rotten Authorities by Executer (1991), Disturbing The Noise by Attomica (1991) and The Law Of Scourge by Sarcófago (1991). After this, the scene decayed, been the last band to represent a record with "old" qualities, the Frozen Hell by the band Siecrist from Espírito Santo.

Entering the 90s, thrash was mixed with alternative metal, grunge, industrial music and in Brazil in specific, with the Brazilian "roots". Sepultura and Overdose (from Belo Horizonte), mixed thrash with tribal sounds. Who simply disappear from the scene, had to adapt the sound to the new things that were coming.

Korzus brought the NYHC influences to their sound with the KZS album. Sarcófago put a drum machine in their last studio album. The Mist (from Belo Horizonte) became an "industrial-thrash" band and Dorsal Atlântica turned into a hardcore/crust. Ratos de Porão had an approach with the alternative metal before coming back to a more punk roots.

During the 90s, the most important bands to appear in the decade were Scars, Distraught and Zero Vision. But their sound had much more of groove metal of Machine Head then thrash metal.

Today, all over the world, thrash was ressurging, old bands like Destruction, Exodus came back, who don't stop came back with a more old-school sound (Slayer, Kreator).

In Brazil, Executer, Attomica, Chakal, Sextrash, Holocausto had their "come back", and Max Cavalera's Soulfly released an albun almost "old school" (mixing new and old things), Ratos de Porão came back to the crossover style.

There are a lot of new thrash metal bands living together with the old ones who returned. New bands since the year 2000 have been releasing albuns in independent labels. Names like Andralls, Bywar, Blasthrash, Claustrofobia, Farscape, Kremate, Violator among others, have been playing around the Brazilian land and across the South America.

• From Belo Horizonte:

- Chakal
- Holocausto
- Mutilator
- Sarcófago
- Sepultura
- Sextrash
- The Mist
- Witchhamer

• From São Paulo

- Anthares
- Attomica
- Blasthrash
- Bywar
- Executer
- Korzus
- Lobotomia
- MX
- Ratos de Porão
- Vulcano