Top 10 - 20 Thrash songs.

Excluding songs that I love for their non-thrash elements (i.e. Orion, Ktulu...)

Anacrusis - Stop Me
Annihilator - Crystal Ann/Alison Hell
Antagonist - Black Sands of Time
Artillery - 7:00 From Tashkent/Khomaniac
Aspid - Give Me (Play for a Ballet)
Coroner - Son of Lilith
Dark Angel - Death is Certain (Life is Not)
Destruction - No Need to Justify
Dream Death - Back From the Dead
Exodus - Strike of the Beast
Megadeth - Last Rites/Loved to Deth
Messiah - Aggressive Perfector
Morbid Saint - Assassin
Overkill - Feel the Fire
Realm - Fate's Wind
Testament - Over the Wall
Thought Industry - Third Eye
Ulysses Siren - Leviathan/Above the Ashes
Voivod - Brain Scan
Watchtower - Asylum

Metallic Blaze wrote:

I notice a few of you had Metal Church in your list. Not to be a genre cop, but do you guys really consider Metal Church to be a thrash band?

I'm just curious. I always thought of them as more aggressive power metal.

I remember Kerrang!, or was it Metal Hammer, did a thrash metal special during the thrash craze of the mid- to late 80's. And amongst the bands they covered were Metallica, Testament, Anthrax & Metal Church. So becasue of that, and the fact that many of the bands songs easliy fit in the thrash mold, I chose to include them. Sure, they are also the blueprint for a power metal band (heavier than classic metal, but not always as heavy as a thrash), but back then speed metal, power metal and thrash metal was used describing the same bands.

Keeping it to 20, with the first ones that come immediately to mind:

Anthrax - Who Cares Wins
Artillery - Beneath The Clay (R.I.P.)
Coroner - Reborn Through Hate
Dark Angel - Act Of Contrition
Death Angel - Mistress Of Pain
Exodus - The Last Act Of Defiance
Forbidden - Out Of Body (Out Of Mind)
Heathen - Hypnotized
Kreator - When The Sun Burns Red
Laaz Rockit - Fire In The Hole
Megadeth - Tornado Of Souls
Metal Church - Ton Of Bricks
Metallica - Fight Fire With Fire
Overkill - Wrecking Crew
Powermad - Slaughterhouse
Sacred Reich - Death Squad
Sepultura - Inner Self
Sodom - Tired And Red
Vio-lence - Liquid Courage
Xentrix - Questions

Sodom - Minejumper
Artillery - Khomaniac
WatchTower - Meltdown
The Chasm - Dark Cloud
Celtic Frost - Jewel Throne
Tankard - Die With A Beer In Your Hand
Megadeth - Take No Prisoners
Toxik - World Circus
Believer - Shadow of Death
Megadeth - Rattlehead
Celtic Frost - Into The Crypts of Rays
Bulldozer - Cut Throat
Sodom - Tired And Red
Vengeance - White Throne
Sadus - Certain Death
Realm - Endless War

Required Fields wrote:

Metallic Blaze wrote:

I notice a few of you had Metal Church in your list. Not to be a genre cop, but do you guys really consider Metal Church to be a thrash band?

I'm just curious. I always thought of them as more aggressive power metal.

I love them, but apart from the occasional thrashy riff, they are not a thrash band, in my opinion.

Aggressive, melodic heavy/power metal would be a good way to describe them.

I agree.

It's not a big deal of others see them as thrash though.

Metal Church rode the fence between traditional metal and thrash metal in those early years. Ton of Bricks was pretty much a thrash song.

ultmetal wrote:

Metal Church rode the fence between traditional metal and thrash metal in those early years. Ton of Bricks was pretty much a thrash song.

That's a good point; a band doesn't really have to be a thrash band to have a thrash song. Saxon isn't really a thrash band, but "Machine Gun" is pretty much a thrash song.

ultmetal wrote:

Metal Church rode the fence between traditional metal and thrash metal in those early years. Ton of Bricks was pretty much a thrash song.

I'd say the song Psycho is probably the "thrashiest" Metal Church ever got.

They would be songs from Dark Angel, Death Angel, Believer, Hirax, Sacred Reich, Metallica, Megadeth, Exodus, Anthrax, Deliverance, and probably Celtic Frost.

I think I will actually make CDs out of my list for when I finish my Savatage comps.

Required Fields wrote:

ultmetal wrote:

Metal Church rode the fence between traditional metal and thrash metal in those early years. Ton of Bricks was pretty much a thrash song.

I'd say the song Psycho is probably the "thrashiest" Metal Church ever got.

On the live album they speed everything up to a thrash level.

Sodom - Outbreak of Evil
Kreator - Ripping Corpse
Destructor - Hot Wet Leather/Bondage
Slayer - Black Magic
Metallica - Hit the Lights
Destruction - Mad Butcher
Sabbat (Jpn) - Envenom into the Witch's Hole
Bulldozer - Ilona the very best
Venom - Black Metal
Agent Steel - The Rager

Schbopo wrote:

ultmetal wrote:

Metal Church rode the fence between traditional metal and thrash metal in those early years. Ton of Bricks was pretty much a thrash song.

That's a good point; a band doesn't really have to be a thrash band to have a thrash song. Saxon isn't really a thrash band, but "Machine Gun" is pretty much a thrash song.

How very true. Even Riot touched on thrash with parts of "Thundersteel" at times.

DallasBlack wrote:

Not in order of preference but if I were to make a comp (2CD):

CD1

Deliverance-No Time

BTW, great thread!

OLD SKULL MASTERY!!!!

Top 20 that come to mind and without repeating bands:

Brainwashed- Nuclear Assault
Elimination- Overkill
Questions- Xentrix
Ravenous Medicene- Voivod
Near Death- Vulture
Now It's Dark- Anthrax
Good Mourning/Black Friday- Megadeth
The Last Act Of Defiance- Exodus
You End, Get Up! You- Doom
The Old Kingdom Of Hell- Jurassic Jade
Shotgun Justice- Razor
Masked Jackal- Coroner
Leatherface- Laaz Rockit
Thunderhead- Forced Entry
Re-Animator- Rigor Mortis
Lock Up Your Children- Morbid Saint
Toxic Trace- Kreator
Piece By Piece- Slayer
Lethal Tendencies- Hallows Eve
Phantom Lord- Metallica