Top 10 Thrash Albums Ever

[Joel]

My music listening habits go around in strange cycles, where I will listen to nothing but a certain genre of music for a couple of months. And then switch to a different genre for the next few months. In the last day I've circled back round to being in the mood for metal, specifically Thrash.

This may have been done before on MG, but I thought it would be fun to list our 10 favourite Thrash albums - the only rule is only one album per band.

I'll start:

1) Metallica - Ride the Lightning
2) Exodus - Bonded by Blood
3) Dark Angel - Darkness Descends
4) Slayer - Reign in Blood
5) Vio-lence - Eternal Nightmare
6) Razor - Violent Restitution
7) Nuclear Assault - Handle with Care
8) Megadeth - Rust in Peace
9) Demolition Hammer - Epidemic of Violence
10) Kreator - Coma of Souls

I really wanted to fit some Overkill, Testament, F&J, Coroner and more on here, but that's the difficulty with only 10.

edit: I’d probably have Forbidden in my list instead of Demolition Hammer now I’m looking back at it.

[Toshiro]

Being that I listened to most of this list before I'd ever even heard Metallica or Megadeth, I might have a bit of an odd order.

1. Kreator - Coma Of Souls
2. Suicidal Tendencies - Lights Camera Revolution
3. Testament - Low
4. Slayer - Reign In Blood
5. Megadeth - Rust In Peace
6. Metallica - Ride The Lightning
7. Overkill - Horrorscope
8. Vio-lence - Oppressing The Masses
9. Sepultura - Beneath The Remains
10. Forced Entry - As Above So Below

[Überschall]

In no particular order.

Forbidden. Twisted Into Form.
Megadeth. Peace Sells.
Overkill. Years of Decay.
Coroner. Punishment for Decadence.
Metallica. Master of Puppies.
Slayer. Reign in Blood.
Flotsam. No Place for Diisgrace.
Kreator. Extreme Agression.
Cyclone Temple. I Hate, Therefore I Am
Sepultura. Arise.

Honorable mentions
Realm. Endless War.
Death Angel. Act III.
Mordred. In this Life.
Destruction. Release from Agony.
Toxic. Think This.
Anacrusis. Screams and Whispers.
Testament. The Nee Order.
Vio-lence. Oppressing the Masses.

[Mike]

No one that's ever heard Division (so both of you) will be surprised by the similarities of my list and Crooks'

Forbidden - Twisted Into Form
Metallica - Pastor of Muppets
Megadeth - Peace Sells...
Exodus - Bonded By Blood
Cyclone Temple - I Hate Therefore I Am
Flotsam - No Place For Disgrace
Slayer - Reign In Blood
Artillery - By Inheritance
Testament - The New Order
Coroner - No More Color

my honorables:

WatchTower - Control and Resistance
Anthrax - Among the Living
Voivod - Killing Technology
Kreator - Extreme Aggression
Death Angel - The Ultra-Violence
Realm - Suiciety
Heathen - Victims of Deception
Sepultura - Beneath the Remains
OverKill - Horrorscope
Mordred - In This Life
Toxik - Think This

[petereanima]

Glad that there is some Coma Of Souls love.

1) Metallica - Ride The Lightning
2) Metallica - Master Of Puppets
3) Slayer - Seasons In The Abyss
4) Sepultura - Arise
5) Kreator - Coma Of Souls
6) Megadeth - Rust In Peace
7) Testament - The Legacy
8) Overkill - Taking Over
9) Megadeth - Countdown To Extinction
10) Machine Head - Burn My Eyes (yes, seriously)

[Joel]

Glad that there is some Coma Of Souls love.

1) Metallica - Ride The Lightning
2) Metallica - Master Of Puppets
3) Slayer - Seasons In The Abyss
4) Sepultura - Arise
5) Kreator - Coma Of Souls
6) Megadeth - Rust In Peace
7) Testament - The Legacy
8) Overkill - Taking Over
9) Megadeth - Countdown To Extinction
10) Machine Head - Burn My Eyes (yes, seriously)

You’re breaking my fake rules here. Only one album per band

[petereanima]

Ah shit, i have overseen that

Well, i will kick Countdown To Extinctiona nd add Exdus Bonded By Blood isntead, and also I would argue that RTL Metallica and MOP Metallica are basically already two different bands.

[Megametal7]

Some bands I never heard on this list, youtube search begins to check them out

[Chris]

Can't really make a best ever list but if you asked me to name some great thrash albums my list would look something like:

1. Rust in Peace
2. AJFA
3. Reign in Blood
4. No Place for Disgrace
5. Practice What you Preach

Nuclear Assault would be in that list somewhere too, Critical Mass and The Plague especially.

[Joel]

Some of these lists are great. I don’t really care about ‘the best ever’ I just like these because it helps me find some classic albums I may have overlooked.

[Markus]

For me it would be something like

1. And Justice for all
2. Rust in Peace
3. Anacrusis - Screams and Whispers
4. Forbidden - Omega Wave
5. Antidote - Mind Alive
6. Anthrax - Worship Music
7. Slayer - Seasons in the Abyss

Can't think of more stuff right now.

[Bloody_Inferno]

In no particular order:

Metallica - Master Of Puppets (I can pick between this, Ride and Justice all day long)
Megadeth - Rust In Peace
Slayer - Reign In Blood
Testament - The Gathering (New Order is the more obvious choice so...)
Sepultura - Arise
Kreator - Coma Of Souls
Anthrax - Among The Living
Death Angel - Act III
Exodus - Bonded By Blood
Overkill - Years Of Decay

[Mike]

For me it would be something like
4. Forbidden - Omega Wave
6. Anthrax - Worship Music

I don't think these get enough credit for what they are - reunion albums that can pretty much hang with the band's "classic" back catalog.

[Markus]

I don't think these get enough credit for what they are - reunion albums that can pretty much hang with the band's "classic" back catalog.

Yeah, one thing that I definitely like more on Omega Wave than the classics is the vocals - they're just so much meaner sounding on Omega Wave.

[mpexus]

Hard to make a Best 10... but some are to me clear winners:

Slayer - Reign in Blood
Exodus - Bonded by Blood (to me the real original Thrash album and not Kill em All)
Metallica- Ride the Lightning
Destruction - Infernal Overkill
Testament - The Legacy
Death Angel - The Ultraviolence
Possessed - Seven Churches (although if it's Thrash or Death is dubious although to me Death started the genre with Scream Bloody Gore)
Sepultura - Beneath The Remains
Megadeth - Rust in Peace
Paradox- Product of Imagination