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[dave4378]

Megadeth and Metallica pioneered that style. To be heard over the noise of the crowd, and from pure adrenaline, they played louder and faster until the crowd stopped ignoring them.

Metallica & Megadeth didn't pioneer Thrash or Speed Metal they only popularised it. I could rattle off a handful of examples that displayed all the the qualities that could easily qualify as speed or thrash, but the first thing that comes to mind off the top of my head is Accept - Fast As A Shark.
That was a speed/thrash metal song a year or two before Metallica or Megadeth even released their first albums. And there a many other examples.

[DrNewcenstein]

Well, if we're going back to "who started it", there's YouTubes of a Danish band from the 1950s that were tuned down to D or lower and were doing crushing Thrash-style riffs on a Dutch variety show.

I'm sure Exodus, Slayer, and Anthrax and a host of other bands were right there alongside Meta and Mega developing the sound, not to mention the Ramones' Speed Punk (which itself is like distorted Rockabilly), but the fact remains that musically R.I.P. is not a Heavy Metal album. It's a Thrash/Speed album, and that's not a bad thing.