Battle of the guitarists.

[Shoden]

CH, you're good at defining the sub genres of metal, right? Explain the basis of Thrash Metal, I think I mucked up on mine. Sure King is pretty crap, but he does kick alot of ass at speeds, but then again Jef Hanneman kills him. Always prefered good ol' Jef to Kerry.
Jef is always overshadowed by King. I haven't heard much of Friedman's works to be honest. Back to the point in defining thrash, if speed is not the main factor of Thrash Metal, then is general Thrash Metal just normal Heavy Metal? Thrash may not be as fast or dark as black or death but the thrashy speeds is what makes Thrash, thrash.

I know I'm repeating myself, but King is good at what he does best, shredding and going to light speeds on his guitar while Friedman is extremely melodic, not extremely fast but he should try it out. If you can make sense of this post then you guys must be pretty smart. There's worse guitarists then King out there and better guitarists then Friedman too.

[Crushed Hope]

Thrash metal is a combination of old school Hardcore Punk with Classic Heavy Metal, early thrash bands took the two emerging styles merged them added a healthy dose of speed and went from there. One word defines the instruments in thrash "fast", Riffs are sets of fast chords, drums are played in double bass rolls and fast snare reliant blasts, bass is often limited to fast plucking of the top two strings. Vocals are usually intense but clean and lack vibrato.

[Shoden]

I think we got the thread killed, CH. Hmmm...
Err... King's beard is mad, Friedman has more hair... Damn.