Heathen
Heathen is an American thrash metal band originating from the San Francisco Bay Area, active from 1984 to 1993 and again from 2001 onwards. Despite never achieving commercial success, the band is often credited – alongside Exodus, Testament, Forbidden, Death Angel and Vio-lence – as one of the leaders of the Bay Area thrash metal scene of the mid-to-late 1980s. To date, Heathen has released four studio albums: Breaking the Silence (1987), Victims of Deception (1991), The Evolution of Chaos (2009) and Empire of the Blind (2020). As of guitarist Lee Altus' split with Heathen in 2026, there are no original members left in the current lineup of the band although he and frontman David White (who joined in 1985) are the only ones to appear on every album.
Genre: speed-metal, old-school-thrash, thrash-metal, technical-thrash
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Top Tracks
- A Silent War
- Hellbound
- Hellbound
- Opiate of the Masses
- Morbid Curiousity
- Coolin
- Morbid Curiousity
- Timeless Cell of Prophecy
- Hellbound
- Journal Entry
- Morbid Curiousity
- Guitarmony
- Kill the King
- Morbid Curiousity
- Mercy Is No Virtue
- Talkin Bout
- Opiate of the Masses
- Hypnotized
- Timeless Cell of Prophecy
- Timeless Cell of Prophecy
Albums (40)
- It's Heavy the 90's (2024)
- Metal! (2023)
- Thrash Nuggets (2023)
- Thrash Metal Bangers (2023)
- Nineties Metal (2023)
- Thrash Metal (2023)
- Metal Throwback (2023)
- OVERKILL (2023)
- Metal (2022)
- Classic Metal (2022)
- Metal 100 (2021)
- Old School American Metal (2021)
- Damage, Inc. (2021)
- Extreme Metal (2021)
- Heavy Metal Kings (2021)
- Power Metal (2021)
- Power Up: Metal (2021)
- All in One (2020)
- Thrash Metal 80s (2020)
- Empire of the Blind (2020)
- Hard & Heavy 100 (2020)
- Epic Metal (2020)
- Metal for the Masses (2020)
- Rewind (2020)
- The Evolution Of Chaos (10th Anniversary Edition) (2020)
- Technical Metal (2019)
- Super Speed Metal (2019)
- True American Metal (2019)
- Songs of Armageddon: Metal Doom (2019)
- Thrash Finest (2019)
- Full Metal (2019)
- Power Thrashing Metal (2019)
- Thrash Like You Mean It (2019)
- Thrash Metal C60 (2018)
- Pray for Death (The Complete Demo Collection) (2017)
- The Evolution Of Chaos (2010)
- Destination Hip Hop (2009)
- Recovered (2004)
- Victims Of Deception (1991)
- Breaking the Silence (1970)
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