A band like LAMB OF GOD are considered Metalcore. This tag gives me a generic make up of Metal and Hardcore. If that is correct, then METALLICA are Metalcore, they basically fused DIAMOND HEAD with DISCHARGE, but they are thrash!
Lamb of God combines modern hardcore (far different then the OGs) with groove thrash tendencies.
Metallica first was a combination of as you said Diamond Head (NWOBHM, Aka classic rock/punk drumming, blues and classic influences, a higher pitched singer) and Discharge (classic hardcore punk) which makes them thrash. Thrash is, in its crudest form, a combination of traditional metal (like NWOBHM) complexity in the music, with the aggression, and heavy distortion of original hardcore punk.
I personally find it best to use as many genre tags as I can when describing a band. I don't know why but it makes feel like I can identify them more than just throwing a general tag on them and forget everything.
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