Top 20 Thrash Albums

Here's mine for this week at least, not really in the order I would rank them, just when they come to mind:

1. Nuclear Assault- Survive
2. Celtic Frost- Into The Pandemonium
3. Coroner- Punishment For Decadence
4. Vulture- Easier To Lie
5. Megadeth- Killing Is My Business...And Business Is Good!
6. Overkill- Taking Over
7. Blind Illusion- The Sane Asylum
8. Dead On- S/T
9. Rigor Mortis- S/T
10. Morbid Saint- Spectrum Of Death
11. Anthrax- State Of Euphoria
12. Exodus- Fabulous Disaster
13. Megadeth- Peace Sells...But Who's Buying?
14. Overkill- Under The Influence
15. Nuclear Assault- Game Over/The Plague (I know their seperate albums, but since they're usually paired up, why not)
16. Forced Entry- As Above, So Below
17. Voivod- Killing Technology
18. Forbidden- Twisted Into Form
19. Slayer- Hell Awaits
20. Razor- Shotgun Justice

What are yours? or discuss mine, whatever

I'll post mine soon!

Funny you should put Forced entry on, at first I did not "get" that album when I listened to it for the first time, upon listening again its actually pretty badass. They were from seattle and used to come down and play shows in Portland with wehrmacht and spazztic blur in the late 80's.

I'm just going to riff these out real quick, in no particular order.

Slayer - Reign In Blood
Metallica - Ride The Lightning
Exciter - Heavy Metal Maniac
Venom - Black Metal
Megadeth - Peace Sells
Coroner - Mental Vortex
Celtic Frost - To Mega Therion
Metal Church - Metal Church
Kreator - Terrible Certainty
Destruction - Infernal Overkill
Slayer - Hell Awaits
Slayer - Show No Mercy
Nuclear Assault - Survive
Whiplash - Ticket To Mayhem
Kreator - Pleasure To Kill
Sepultura - Beneath The Remains
Prong - Beg To Differ
Megadeth - Rust In Peace
Overkill - Taking Over
Wrathchild America - 3-D

1. Megadeth-Rust In Peace
2. Megadeth-Peace Sells...But Who's Buying?
3. Metallica-No Life 'Til Leather
4. Megadeth-Killing Is My Business...And Business Is Good!
5. Anthrax-Persistence Of Time
6. Razor-Shotgun Justice
7. Razor-Violent Restitution
8. Anthrax-State Of Euphoria
9. Vulture-Easier To Lie
10.Rigor Mortis-S/T
11.Anvil-Absolutely No Alternative
12.Overkill-Taking Over
13.Destruction-Infernal Overkill
14.Nuclear Assault-Survive
15.Exodus-Fabulous Didaster
16.Nuclear Assault-Game Over/The Plague
17.Metallica-Kill 'Em All
18.Metallica-Ride The Lightning
19.Anthrax-Spreading The Disease
20.Anthrax-Fistful Of Metal

No particular order.....

1.Exodus-bonded by blood
2.Vengeance rising-human sacrifice
3.Morbid saint-spectrum of death
4.Dark angel-darkness descends
5.Attitude adjustment-american paranoia
5.Vulture-easier to lie
6.Wehrmacht-biermacht
7.Eviction-the world is hours...away!
8.Deliverance-weapons of our warfare
9.Dead head-feast begins at dawn
10.Kreator-endless pain
11.Vengeance rising-once dead
12.Seventh angel-lament for the weary
13.DRI-thrash zone
14.The crucified-s/t
15.metallica-kill em all
16.Ratos de porao-brasil
17.Sepultura-schizophrenia
18.Realm-suiciety
19.Anthrax-spreading the disease
20.Suicidal tendencies-how can I laugh tomorow...

Was just thinking about somethin ol' Enos mentioned elsewhere about most of the classic albums suck and nostalgia being the main factor in them being considered great, half agree and half disagree there. I'd been thinking about this for awhile, but attributed to most of metal in general, not just thrash. To stay on the ball here though, let's talk about some thrash. Granted, ever since the advent of the internet and creation of forums you've had plenty of ass head fan boys babbling on about how this was actually better than that and blah blah blah. Recently, theres been alot of "who should've really been in the big 4" bullshit going on, and the epitome of what REALLY got me to pondering this is the following statement you see at least one (if not more) varitation of in these threads: "TESTAMENT!@! they deserve to be there, they could definately take Slayer's spot, they're alot better then that poorly recorded noize!".

Huh? Did some radioactive freak ejaculate into the gene pool and fuck up everyone's rationality? Fucking TESTAMENT?! and over SLAYER of all bands?! There might be alot of dumbass fanboys out there, but I've seen that comment way more than should've EVER been written. There's a reason we used to call them Testasuck, and it was because they were a second tier clone with maybe a few good songs an album. Ok, so they knocked it out of the park with The Legacy, and The New Order was pretty damn good. Overall though, they sounded like a bunch of guys trying to play like Metallica who couldn't quite get their shit together long enough to make excellent albums, or at least bother to change their tone so they didn't SOUND the fucking same. "Souls Of Black" for example, Billy even sings like Hetfield on that one, and its got that damn dry production Justice had. Lost thrash classic? Better than South Of Heaven? Fuck you, and your mom. Which also brings to mind Anthrax's Among The Living. It's ok, it might've been their most popular, but it isn't their best, Joey sound's like an asshole on most of it, and alot of it isn't even that focused.

That expands far and wide though, whether it be Metal or other genres. The biggest recent offender though is (drum roll) fucking ANVIL. Again, two good albums, got by on the singer's attitude, and passed out of existence by the end of the 80's. Mucho personal respect for their drive and still hanging around despite all the personal problems and everything, and its great they finally got recognized. Really now though, they weren't that good, get over it.

Anyway rant over, thrash is still my favorite, but man theres alot of crap out there.

Damn, DC what a rant! But I will say that Among The Living is overrated IMO, it's the one I listen to the least when I wanna jam some Anthrax. I usually reach for Persistence Of Time or most of the time State Of Euphoria.

As far as my top 20, I'm gonna have to redo mine.

DeathCult wrote:

Anyway rant over, thrash is still my favorite, but man theres alot of crap out there.

For sure. It's yet another genre that's killed by its fans.

Anyway, I'll try to make a list, not in any real order;

Voivod-Nothingface
Megadeth-So Far, So Good, So What
SOD-Speak English Or Die
Annihilator-Alice In Hell
Sepultura-Chaos AD
Nuclear Assault-Game Over/The Plague
Anthrax-Persistence Of Time
Blind Illusion-The Sane Asylum
Vio-lence: Eternal Nightmare
Viking-Man Of Straw
Dead And Bloated-You Don't
Acid Reign-Obnoxious
Overkill-Under The Influence
Atrophy-Violent By Nature
DRI-Thrash Zone
Possessed-Seven Churches (most people would say death metal, but in the 80's there wasn't much of a difference)
Metallica-Ride The Lightning
Accuser-Double Talk
Xentrix-For Whose Advantage
Slayer-Seasons In The Abyss

Yeah. I'm pretty lacking in the ways of thrash

You still managed to list some killer stuff, Guest.

Hmmmm... again, in no particular order...

Metallica - KILL'EM ALL (the fountain from whence all Thrash Blessings Flow)
Carnivore- RETALIATION
Anthrax - SPREADING THE DISEASE
S.O.D. - SPEAK ENGLISH OR DIE
Atrophy - SOCIALIZED HATE
Deceased - FEARLESS UNDEAD MACHINES
Deliverance - S/T
GWAR - AMERICA MUST BE DESTROYED
Mortal Sin - FACE OF DESPAIR
Laaz Rockit - ANNIHILATION PRINCIPLE
Exodus - BONDED BY BLOOD
Overkill - FEEL THE FIRE
Sepultura - ARISE
Slayer - HELL AWAITS
Suicidal Tendencies - LIGHTS, CAMERA, REVOLUTION
Exciter - LONG LIVE THE LOUD
Nuclear Assault - SURVIVE
Testament - LOW
Piledriver - METAL INQUISITION
Plasmatics - COUP D'ETAT*

* - maybe not a "thrash" album per se, but it totally makes me wanna break stuff so I say it qualifies.

Slayer - South of Heaven
Megadeth - Rust in Peace
Coroner - Punishment for Decadence
Dark Angel - Darkness Descends
Anthrax - Spreading the Disease
Metallica - Kill 'em All
Sepultura - Arise
Kreator - Pleasure to Kill
Sepultura - Beneath the Remains
Coroner - No More Color
Slayer - Seasons in the Abyss
Vektor - Black Future
Vektor - Outer Isolation
Annihilator - Never, Neverland
Celtic Frost - Morbid Tales
Kreator - Extreme Aggression
Heathen - Victims of Deception
Anacrusis - Suffering Hour
Metallica - Master of Puppets
Sadus - A Vision of Misery