Rate Your Music's Top 100 Thrash Metal Albums of the 1980s

I have 36 of those, but I'll bet that mc666, Temple of Blood and ult have about 100 of 100.

One notable album is missing on that list and should be in the top 10 - even topping the chart:

Megadeth's Rest in Peace!

Alex Dee Rokket wrote:

One notable album is missing on that list and should be in the top 10 - even topping the chart:

Megadeth's Rest in Peace!

Released in 1990... missed the 80s by that much!

Sutekh wrote:

Alex Dee Rokket wrote:

One notable album is missing on that list and should be in the top 10 - even topping the chart:

Megadeth's Rest in Peace!

Released in 1990... missed the 80s by that much!

Yeah September 1990 to be precise. Otherwise it would have definitely been somewhere in the top 5. On BNR the album was voted the best all time metal album.

Jesus Christ, get over it! The list is piled together through people's personal opinions - no one is to say what is "too low" and what is not. If you seriously are pissed about there not being any christian albums on a list you had nothing to do with, well that's just silly. I think it's a fairly good list, though.

I think the Metallica entries were rather predictable but if anything it shows how influential those albums are. Like them or not they were / are one of the most influential thrash metal bands around and all of their 80s albums imo have stood the test of time.

I also like that Overkill is featured on the list. The Years of Decay is a monumental album and it's nice to see other people liking it along side the likes of Master of Puppets, Peace Sells or Reign in Blood.

Interestingly, not much love for Anthrax. I was expecting Among the Living and Spreading the Disease to be higher in the list. In a way it's ironic because you'd expect a band that's part of the big four to feature higher on the list yet Overkill is ranked higher so go figure.

There are 563 total albums in Rate Your Music's Thrash Albums of the 1980s...

Deliverance - s/t comes in at #201

Believer - Extraction From Mortality comes in at #205

Vengeance Rising - Human Sacrifice comes in at #312

Shawn Of Fire wrote:

Your opinion, my friend. Just because you'd rank them in the Top 100 doesn't mean the members of Rate Your Music agree.

Its also kind of lame that you jump right to religious prejudice as well. Get over yourself...

Maybe, That is all I was doing was stating my opinion. To Me it is lame!

I am sure Exhorder is somewhere in the other 463 albums. If its not it only means that nobody on Rate Your Music has given it a rating.

stevegarveyfan wrote:

I have 36 of those, but I'll bet that mc666, Temple of Blood and ult have about 100 of 100.

Nope. Don't own them all, at least not hard copies. I have them all on CD or vinyl except these:

10 Morbid Saint
Spectrum of Death (1988)

48 Infernäl Mäjesty
None Shall Defy (1987)

50 Stone
No Anaesthesia! (1989)

56 Holy Terror
Terror and Submission (1987)

63 Vendetta
Brain Damage (1988)

64 Sarcófago
I.N.R.I. (1987)

68 Slaughter
Strappado (1987)

71 Rigor Mortis
Rigor Mortis (1988)

73 Poison
Into the Abyss (1987)

77 Onslaught
The Force (1986)

78 Kat
Oddech wymarłych światów (1988)

86 Amebix
Monolith (1987)

87 Tormentor
Anno Domini (1988)

88 Carnivore
Retaliation (1987)

94 Holy Moses
Finished With the Dogs (1987)

98 Dream Death
Journey Into Mystery (1987)

i don't have them all either. i still don't have these 22.

10 Morbid Saint
Spectrum of Death (1988)
28 Sabbat
Dreamweaver (1989)
32 Sacrifice
Forward to Termination (1987)
43 Paradox
Heresy (1989)
46 Razor
Violent Restitution (1988)
50 Stone
No Anaesthesia! (1989)
52 Agent Steel
Unstoppable Force (1987)
53 Holy Terror
Mind Wars (1988)
59 Razor
Evil Invaders (1985)
60 Stone
Stone (1988)
67 Agent Steel
Skeptics Apocalypse (1985)
73 Poison
Into the Abyss (1987)
78 Kat
Oddech wymarłych światów (1988)
82 Toxik
Think This (1989)
85 Toxik
World Circus (1988)
86 Amebix
Monolith (1987)
89 Exodus
Pleasures of the Flesh (1987)
91 Xentrix
Shattered Existence (1989)
92 Evildead
Annihilation of Civilization (1989)
97 Living Death
Protected From Reality (1987)
98 Dream Death
Journey Into Mystery (1987)
100 Lääz Rockit
Know Your Enemy (1987)

i have the other 78 though.

Not a bad list at all. I only have one minor gripe, at that is Metallica's AND JUSTICE FOR ALL being ranked so high. I can see it in the top 100, but the top 5??

I'd have to go back and do a count, but I think I have about 70 of these.

I'm surprised that I have 42 on that list. That's a pretty good list. And I'm not even going to get into on who or rwhat should be on the list. Just read and enjoy it for what it is.

I'm not even sure if I own 100 thrash metal albums.
My buddies think I'm all in as much as I listen to metal and they all listen to country or ccm. Now I'm thinkin' I don't know anything.

ryanmetalman wrote:

I'm not even sure if I own 100 thrash metal albums.
My buddies think I'm all in as much as I listen to metal and they all listen to country or ccm. Now I'm thinkin' I don't know anything.

I love your honesty man!

MORBID SAINT in the top 10 thrash list for the 80s? LOLZ

It's a cult album that is highly appreciated by its few fans and therefore has a high rating.

Not bad at all... I think Kreator should've been further up, but otherwise it's decent.