Top 20 Favorite Thrash Albums?

stepcousin wrote:

Celtic Frost, Lazz Rockit and Voivod are thrash?

Even if i didnt put any of this 3 bands on my fave thrash metal list i still have to give my opinion:D.
LAAZ ROCKIT after NO STRANGER TO DANGER with albums like KNOW YOUR ENEMY or ANNIHILATION PRINCIPLES started to put thrash metal influences in their music and went away from their early US METAL sound and look. Still, the voice of the singer have never been pure thrash metal and some of their riffs were more us power metal but still they had many thrash metal influences and those albums are known by many people being thrash metal records.
VOIVOD started like a THRASH METAL band with their first two albums but later started to experiment more and more.
Also CELTIC FROST had many thrash influences in their music and people know them for being a thrash metal band. I would say black-thrash band but black metal from the first wave of black metal of course, not much in common with the second wave of black metal that came out in the late 80s early 90s with bands like DARKTHRONE, IMPALED NAZARENE or BEHERIT for exemple.

1. Metallica-Kill 'Em All
2. Metallica-Ride The Lightning
3. Metallica-Master Of Puppets
4. Metallica-...And Justice For All
5. Sabbat-Dreamweaver(Reflections Of Our Yesterdays)
6. Kreator-Pleasure To Kill
7. Kreator-Endless Pain
8. Blood Feast-Kill For Pleasure
9. Forbidden-Twisted Into Form
10. Forbidden-Forbidden Evil
11. Razor-Evil Invaders
12. Slayer-Show No Mercy
13. Slayer-Haunting The Chapel
14. Slayer-Hell Awaits
15. Slayer-Divine Intervention
16. Onslaught-What Lies Ahead
17. Nuclear Assault-Game Over
18. Nuclear Assault-Survive!
19. Testament-The New Order
20 Testament-The Gathering

Well, I suppose it's high time for my list too.

1. Sodom - Agent Orange
2. Kreator - Extreme Aggression
these are my top two fave thrash albums and have been so for many years now.

3. Exodus - Fabulous Disaster
4. Forbidden - Forbidden Evil
5. Testament - The Legacy
6. Slayer - Seasons in the Abyss
7. Metallica - ... And Justice for All
8. Overkill - The Years of Decay
9. Sodom - Tapping the Vein
10. Sacrament - Haunts of Violence
11. Deliverance - Weapons of Our Warfare
12. Deliverance - Deliverance
13. Believer - Extraction from Mortality
14. Testament - The New Order
15. Slayer - Reign in Blood
16. Metallica - Master of Puppets
17. Vengeance Rising - Destruction Comes
18. Sacred Reich - The American Way
19. Metallica - Ride the Lightning
20. Testament - Practice What You Preach

blackieboy wrote:

9. Sodom - Tapping the Vein

smurf poo, i forgot about that one!

It's pretty much going to be all 'Tallica for me.

1) Master Of Puppets, Metallica
2) (the black album), Metallica (not as thrash as most of the other material on This List).
3) ...And Justice For All, Metallica
4) Ride The Lightning, Metallica
5) Kill 'Em All, Metallica
6) Live Sh*t: Binge And Purge, Metallica (yes, it's live, but it's so great).
7) Reign In Blood, Slayer

1-SLAYER-Reign In Blood (1986)
2-METALLICA-Master Of Puppets (1986)
3-MEGADETH-Peace Sells...But Who's Buying? (1986)
4-NUCLEAR ASSAULT-Game Over (1986)
5-ONSLAUGHT-In Search Of Sanity (1989)
6-ANTHRAX-Among The Living (1987)
7-DARK ANGEL-Darkness Descends (1986)
8-EXODUS-Fabulous Disaster (1989)
9-KREATOR-Extreme Aggression (1989)
10-OVERKILL-Under The Influence (1988)
11-HALLOW'S EVE-Death & Insanity (1986)
12-FORBIDDEN-Forbidden Evil (1988)
13-DELIVERANCE-Weapons Of Our Warfare (1990)
14-BELIEVER-Extraction From Mortality (1989)
15-DESTRUCTION-Infernal Overkill (1985)
16-POSSESSED-Seven Churches (1985)
17-LAAZ ROCKIT-Annihilation Principle (1989)
18-RIGOR MORTIS-Rigor Mortis (1988)
19-TESTAMENT-The Legacy (1987)
20-WHIPLASH-Ticket To Mayhem (1987)

Ya know...it's kind of difficult to really devise my "perfect" list because there were just so many amazing Thrash records back then. About half my list would always stay the same no matter what, but the other half could change depending on the day of the week, or the mood that I was in. Not only that, but some bands had 2 or 3 records that could very easily have made it, like OVERKILL, METALLICA, MEGADETH, SLAYER, ANTHRAX, KREATOR, DESTRUCTION, DELIVERANCE, etc. Plus, there were some really obscure bands out there that put out some amazing Thrash. They could have been included as well. Then you can get into the "nit-picking" stuff, such as the fact that I really favor "Spreading The Disease" slightly more than "Among The Living" overall, but I just think that riff-wise and delivery-wise, "Among" thrashes more. It's more "full-blown" Thrash, if you will. In the case of a band such as KREATOR, I prefer their rawer '86-'87 style more, but I think "Extreme Aggression" is just a masterpiece, even if slightly more polished. With ONSLAUGHT, I used to favor "The Force" until they changed pace and put out what I consider perhaps the most underrated Thrash record ever in "In Search Of Sanity." This was England's version of METALLICA. It was "state of the art" Speed/Thrash. The riffing was extremely tight and fast, excellent musicianship, great vocals, and highly intelligent lyrics. Just cue up the song "Powerplay" and LET RIP!!! Beware, though, you may end up ripping your living room to shreds after raging-out to this stuff! There is no filler material here, unless you conside the "Asylum" intro as unnecessary. They have several songs that seemed to be based off METALLICA's '86-'88 ideas, not so much in a copy-cat sort of way, but just in a well-written, top-notch Thrash-terpiece way. If you listen to "Welcome To Dying" you can sense a "Sanitarium" vibe going on, for instance. Anyway, enough yacking already...lol

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Ya know...it's kind of difficult to really devise my "perfect" list because there were just so many amazing Thrash records back then.

I know what you mean.

Welcome to the Heart of Metal board George.

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1.)NUCLEAR ASSAULT-SURVIVE
2.)MEGADETH-KILLING IS MY BUSINESS
3.)CORONER-PUNISHMENT FOR DECADENCE
4.)TESTAMENT-THE NEW ORDER
5.)EXODUS-BONDED BY BLOOD
6.)BLIND ILLUSION-THE SANE ASYLUM
7.)KREATOR-PLEASURE TO KILL
8.)EXCITER-HEAVY METAL MANIAC
9.)VIO-LENCE-ETERNAL NIGHTMARE
10.)SODOM-AGENT ORANGE
11.)DESTRUCTION-INFERNAL OVERKILL
12.)SLAUGHTER-STRAPPADO
13.)ABATTOIR-VICIOUS ATTACK
14.)S.O.D.-SPEAK ENGLISH OR DIE
15.)SLAYER-REIGN IN BLOOD
16.)DARK ANGEL-DARKNESS DESCENDS
17.)EVILDEAD-ANNHILATION OF CIVILIZATION
18.)ARTILLERY-TERROR SQUAD
19.)D.R.I.-DEALING WITH IT
20.)RIGOR MORTIS-S/T

AND A FEW MORE:
OVERKILL-TAKING OVER
ANTHRAX-AMONG THE LIVING
EXORCIST-NIGHTMARE THEATRE
DEMOLITION HAMMER-TORTURED EXISTENCE
CRYPTIC SLAUGHTER-CONVICTED
PILEDRIVER-METAL INQUISITION

This is by no means all of my favorite thrash albums, and 20 isnt even close to enough to cover all of them. But, I did my best here.

Cool stuff there!!!

There is no way to get this list even close to right as I have left at least 40 Cds off this list that could easily be on it

not in any order


Sodom-Agent Orange
Sabbat - History Of A Time To Come
Slayer - South of Heaven
Sepultura - Beneath the Remains
Megadeth - Rust in Peace
Exodus-Fabulous Disaster
Kreator - Pleasure to Kill
Laaz Rockit-Know Your Enemy
Slayer - Hell Awaits
Death Angel-The Ultra Violence
Voivod - Killing Technology
Overkill - The Years of Decay
Forbidden - Twisted Into Form
Sodom - Persecution Mania
Testament - The New Order
Testament - The Gathering
Razor - Evil Invaders
Possessed - Seven Churches
Overkill- Taking Over
Metallica - Kill 'em all
Agent Steel - The Omega Conspiriasy

Primus-Frizzle Fry
Megadeth-SFSGSW
Metallica-Kill em' all
Accept-Restless and wild
Anthrax-Persistence of time
Pantera-VDOP
The Pyromaniacs-Some stuff happened
Megadeth-Rust in peace
Slayer-Seasons in the abyss
Nuclear assault-Handle with care
Metallica-Ride the lightning
Megadeth-Killin is my business
Primus-Sailing the seas of cheese
Motorhead-Overkill
Slayer-Christ illusion
Nuclear assault-Survive
Ultimatum-Puppet of destruction
Anthrax-Spreading the disease
Yellow Death machine-s/t
Slayer-Reign in blood

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