Tankard

Metallica and Slayer grabbed the headlines, but they couldn’t match Germany’s Kreator, Sodom or Destruction for filthy viciousness

Metallica, Megadeth and Exodus all have some clangers in their catalogue – but at least these songs saved them from being total write-offs

The German thrash scene may not have been as big as its US counterpart. But in Kreator, Destruction, Tankard and Sodom, it had its own vicious Big Four