Top 20 Thrash Metal albums of all time.

ultmetal wrote:

1. Metallica - Kill 'Em All (the one
that started it all for me!)
2. Vengeance Rising - Human Sacrifice (few can match it's raw power! Obviously one of my all time favorites and a huge influence on me personally!)

3.
TIE:
Anthrax - Spreading the Disease
Overkill- Taking Over (two of the soundtracks of my youth!)

4. Metallica - Ride the Lightning
5. Exodus - Fabulous Disaster
6. Testament - Practice What You Preach
7. Dark Angel - Leave Scars
8. Anthrax - Among the Living
9. Megadeth - Peace Sells...

10. TIE:
Deliverance - s/t
Deliverance - Weapons of our Warfare (both equally great IMO)

11. Dark Angel - Time Does Not Heal
12. Megadeth - Rust in Peace
13. Believer - Extraction from Mortality
14. Voivod - Killing Technology
15. Nuclear Assault-Survive!
16. Kreator - Terrible Certainty

17. Hirax - New Age of Terror (this is one newer thrash album that has
become one of my all time favorites.)

18. Sodom -Code Red
19. Death Angel - Frolic Through the Park
20. Overkill - Under the Influence

A few of my newer favorites:
Havok - Burn
Vektor - Black Future
Disaffection - Begin the Revolution
Bonded by Blood - Feed the Beast

I can't agree more with your List ULT. Kill Them All is my main inspiration when I practice Guitar

powermacho wrote:

MetalGuy71 wrote:

My Top 5...(all interchangable)

Megadeth - So Far, So Good, So What
Metallica - Ride the Lightning
Metallica - Master of Puppets
Anthrax - State of Euphoria
Megadeth - Peace Sells

Followed by 15 more I like (also interchangable)

Slayer - Reign In Blood
Hatchet - Awaiting Evil
Megadeth - Rust In Peace
Death Angel - Frolic In The Park
Death Angel - The Art of Dying
Lazarus AD - The Onslaught
Testament - The New Order
Flotsam & Jetsam - High
Exodus - Pleasures of the Flesh
Exodus - Fabulous Disaster
Evile - Enter the Grave
Megadeth - The System Has Failed
Metallica - Kill 'Em All
Metallica - And Justice For All
Anthrax - The Sound of White Noise

Honorable mentions to Overkill's Horrorscope, Sacred Reich's Independant, Shadows Fall's The War Within and Fueled By Fire's Spread the Fire.

Great list bro. I was going to say INDEPENDANT too, but it is more groove than thrash, so I picked up the first one they did

Thanks.

Independant was my introduction to the band and the disc I've had the longest, so it tends to get more spins, so I threw that one in there. And I still don't own Ignorance. I've got all their other releases, but I've been holding out on finding a cheap-ish copy of that one.

ultmetal wrote:

Guitar World - 10 Essential Thrash Records (2007)
1. Metallica - Master of Puppets
2. Slayer - Reign in Blood
3. Megadeth - Rust in Peace
4. Exodus - Bonded By Blood
5. Metallica - Kill 'Em All
6. Anthrax - Among the Living
7. Testament - The New Order
8. Overkill - The Years of Decay
9. Possessed - Seven Churches
10. Pantera - Cowboys from Hell

This is actually a pretty decent list but Cowboys from hell? How is that thrash metal?

1. Slayer:reign in blood
2. Metallica:Ride the lightning
3. Kreator:Pleasure to kill
4. Overkill: Feel the fire
5. Exodus: Pleasures of the flesh
6. Hirax: New Age of Terror
7. Ultimatum: Into the pit
8. Testament: the legacy
9. Megadeth: So Far So Good So what
10. Vengeance: Human sacrifice
and that is leaving off a lot!!!!

mc666 wrote:

detuned wrote:

I find it interesting how many of these lists have NO Slayer albums in them at all. When I think of thrash, that's the first band that comes to mind.

only 5 failed to list any Slayer. one of them was Sax, & he hates Mercyful Fate too, so there you go.

Someone needs to show some class around here..... [and I don't hate MF, just KD. If they had a different singer, they would have been great!]