Favorite Bay Area Thrash Album

On topics of "Would they or wouldn't they count?", would Sadus count or not?

I would say that Sadus count.

1.Metallica (Kill 'Em All - Ride The Lightning - Master Of Puppets)
2.Exodus

Exodus - Bonded by Blood
or
Metallica - Kill 'Em All

They both had a major impact on thrash in the beginning. Metallica's star quickly outshined Exodus, but at the starting line they were equal in my opinion.

journeyman wrote:

Exodus - Bonded by Blood
or
Metallica - Kill 'Em All

They both had a major impact on thrash in the beginning. Metallica's star quickly outshined Exodus, but at the starting line they were equal in my opinion.

and these days Exodus's output is stomping all over Metallica's. it's a circle.

Have to go with Metallica 's Ride the Lightning. Then as honorable mentions - Death Angel's Act III and Testament's Practice What You Preach.

Not counting this as a 'who was more influential, or who started things out first', my picks are simply my favorite albums from this scene. In order of preference they are:

1. Forbidden - Forbidden Evil

This album is a masterpiece. Simply put. It best represents the Bay Area sound to me and is just a classic album in it's own right.

2. Exodus - Fabulous Disaster

3. Testament - The Legacy

4. Metallica - ... And Justice for All

5. Metallica - Master of the Puppets

6. Metallica - Ride the Lightning

7. Testament - New Order

8. Testament - Practice What You Preach

9. Exodus - Pleasures of the Flesh

10. Metallica - Kill Em All




There's my top 10.

Master of Puppets for me.

Out of the ones listed, I will go with Master Of Puppets. I love every single song on that album. Second would be Souls of Black and third is Fabulous Disaster. Granted, apart from all Metallica and Testament, Void Terra Firma, and Fabulous Disaster; I never heard the other band's music. I love(d) all the albums that I have listened to that were mentioned though. Every Metallica and Testament album are great and I will add those that I no longer have in the future. Same goes with Fabulous Diaster and Void Terra Firma (got rid of those when I became a Christian ).

Ride The Lightning
Master Of Puppets
Practice What You Preach
Bonded By Blood

all the metallica albums listed are classic discs as it eternal nightmare

Exodus hands down!! They have matured the most of all metal bands in that area, and Metallica sucks and are lazy now...

Something unexplainable happened to Metallica after the black album, wicked before - pretty lame after. They got lazy and greedy

Metallkaninchen wrote:

Exodus hands down!! They have matured the most of all metal bands in that area, and Metallica sucks and are lazy now...

Well to be honest, if Metallica took 12 years between studio albums like Exodus did (Force of Habit 1992-Temple of the Damned 2004), their output could have been better. But they had that whole "biggest metal band in the world" thing to deal with in the early 90's.