fusion made from the speed metal rush with the hardcore fury, Thrash Metal kicked off the door and whatever else came along in the 1980s. In jeans or leather jackets, ripped pants, guitars and drums at the speed of light, high doses of alcohol and sharp social criticism, the Bay Area kids in San Francisco (USA) made me feel old for the first time — please note that I am what I am precisely because of my age! It wasn’t easy to keep up with the boys in many ways. Is that so that when they came up with a crossover wave, I gave up. And now people say there are some bands injecting doses of progressive rock and psychedelia to the nervous “pauleira” (a Brazilian expression for heavy metal). To me, this is punk.