Your TOP 10: favorite Thrash bands

I realize there are a lot of thrash threads floating around here - but I couldn't find one quite like this one.

Who are your TOP 10 favorite Thrash metal bands?


Keeping in mind that my top 10 list would probably change monthly:
Mine would have to be:

1. Sodom
2. Kreator

these two bands are my favorites and are almost tied. I really like that aggresive German sound.

3. Forbidden
4. Exodus
5. Sacrament
6. Overkill
7. Slayer
8. Testament
9. Shadows Fall (their new stuff is thrash)
10. Sacred Reich


I'd have added Metallica, but of course their new catalogue just doesn't match up to their old stuff. I love their old stuff though.

I love hundreds of thrash bands - but those 10 are the cream of my crop so to speak.

How about you? If you had to limit it down to 10.

these are my current faves of bands still together & playing thrash...

1.) Slayer
2.) Holy Moses
3.) Kreator
4.) Dew Scented
5.) Bewitched
6.) Overkill
7.) Destruction
8.) Demiricous
9.) Sodom
10.) Testament

Honorable Mentions... Exodus, Tankard, Grip Inc, Exciter, Onslaught

R.I.P.... Demolition Hammer, Laaz Rockit, Rigor Mortis, Znowhite, The Crown, Gothic Slam, Detente

So many great thrash bands, I really have a hard time coming up with a Top 10 list. I'll give it some thought and try to come up with a list.

(in no particular order)

Artillery
Megadeth
Dark Angel
Slayer
Testament
Exodus
Annihilator
Flotsam and Jetsam
Forbidden
Overkill

Soemhow I just feel that Shadows Fall does not belong in a thrash conversation. But I guess it's in the eye of the beholder.

My List:
1.Testament
2.Overkill
3.Kreator
4.Destruction
5.Sodom
6.Metallica (early)
7.Megadeth (early)
8.Sacrament
9.Sepultura (early)
10.Exodus

Pretty cliche list, but it'll do.

Megadeth
Slayer
Exodus
Kreator
Testament
Sepultura
Dark Angel
Devastation
Overkill
Heathen

There is no real order to this except the first three:

Tourniquet
Metallica (old)
Testament
Sepultura
Overkill
Slayer (even though I don't listen to them much anymore due to the fact that I hate most of their lyrics)
Anthrax
Flotsam & Jetsam
Suicidal Tendencies
Extol

I like almost any thrash but here are my 10 main ones, also since most people don't count them as thrash, I kept Iced Earth and Nevermore off even though I consider them a kind of power thrash (although Iced Earth is more power than ever before).

Other thrash I listen to: Ultimatum, Deliverance, Defiance, Kreator, Sacrament, etc.

No particular order.


1. Razor
2. Megadeth
3. Overkill
4. Sodom
5. Destruction
6. Anthrax
7. Testament
8. Vio-Lence
9. Hirax
10.Death Angel

1. Flotsam
2. Overkill
3. Testament
4. Metallica (early)
5. Dark Angel
6. Megadeth
7. Coroner
8. Anthrax
9. Believer
10. Tourniquet

Not in any order:
SLAYER
DARKNESS
LIVING DEATH
SODOM
DESTRUCTION
TANKARD
KREATOR
SEPULTURA
METALLICA(old)
SACRED REICH

Overkill is by far my fav. i dont know why they appeal to me so much but they just do. heres my list


Overkill
Exodus
Megadeth
Destruction
Anthrax
Vio-Lence
Testament

Tourniquet
Metallica
Testament

In no particular order:

Overkill
Anthrax
Annihilator
Hirax
Vengeance Rising
Coroner
Testament
Exodus
Sodom
Kreator

Believer, Dark Angel, among many, many others.

(Again, in no particular order)

Kreator
Overkill
Wrath
Dark Angel
Paradox
Forbidden
Exciter (I'm calling them fathers of thrash)
Devastation
Annihilator
Slayer

Top ten at the moment, tomorrow I would probably choose some different bands.

In no particular order:
Kreator
Sodom
Dark Angel
Forbiden
Testament
Slayer
Megadeth
Nuclear Assault
Overkill
Exodus

Sodom
Kreator
Destruction
Gehennah
Deathchain
old Slayer
Exumer
Rigor Mortis
Tankard
Bewitched

You guys listed some great stuff! Reminds me I need to replace a lot of stuff I used to have on cassette!

Some more honorable mentions for me would be:

Ultimatum
Vengeance Rising
Deliverance
Believer
Annihilator
Death
Venom (I consider them fathers of thrash)

etc.

By the way - I included Shadows Fall in my list as their new stuff (past two albums) have gone in a more thrash metal direction and the band themselves are calling themselves thrash. I seen them live recently and they said this).

I don't think I could whittle a list down to just 10...

I'll give this a try later. I have to write a paper on network security measures right now...

sounds like fun!!!

blackieboy wrote:

Death

Death were great, but not a thrash band.

mc666 wrote:

blackieboy wrote:

Death

Death were great, but not a thrash band.

Wouldn't Symbolic or Sound of Perseverance considered to be thrash or at least a thrash/death metal hybrid?

i thought those were more progressive death metal. i've always seen the bands thrash influence... even on Scream Bloody Gore. i've just never considered them a thrash band.

perhaps i'm wrong.

Death were originators in the field of death metal by bringing in thrash elements. But really I think it boils down to personal view.

mc666 wrote:

i thought those were more progressive death metal. i've always seen the bands thrash influence... even on Scream Bloody Gore. i've just never considered them a thrash band.

perhaps i'm wrong.

Nahhh, I don't think anyone is right or wrong, it's all opinions. I've always considered Death to be one of the fathers of death metal, along with Possessed., but compared to bands like Cannibal Corpse, Deicide, Carcass, etc., they sound a bit close to thrash metal. I've heard people say that Sepultura were early death metal, but again, they sound like thrash to me.

Then again, I don't consider bands like Exciter to be thrash either. Exciter, Anvil, Raven, etc. were certainly some of the bands that inspired the thrash metal revolution. Shoot, even Accept had their thrash moments in the early years. Look at "Fast As A Shark". However, I don't know that I'd call them "thrash" either.

It's a labels game. Sometimes bands just don't fit neatly into a label.

I agree completely Ult!

Honestly, I do consider Death to be a death metal band, but their later works just sound thrash to me ears. Certainly their first 3 albums are death metal.

It is all a labels game - and it's a matter of opinion.

That's one thing I'm really liking about this board. No one is throwing stones and getting into strife because someone does not 'agree' with them. This place is very cool.

Anyway - Ult it's funny! I have always seen those thrash tendencies in early Accept's material too. I used to tell my friends up in Colorado this, but no one agreed with me haha! I'm not the only one who sees this!

Metallica
Megadeth
Slayer
Testament
Flotsam and Jetsam
Anthrax
Sepultura
Exodus
Overkill
Death Angel