Top 30 Essential/Favorite Thrash Metal Albums

[@darcysixstringsninelives3493]

What a fantastic list ! I just ordered Nuclear Assault handle with care & game over on CD , looks like survive is gonna be tough to get ! 🤔

[@a.w.c.thrasher9495]

The Top 12 Most Essential Thrash Metal Albums Of All Time: 1. Master Of Puppets - Metallica 2. Rust In Peace - Megadeth 3. Reign In Blood - Slayer 4. Among The Living - Anthrax 5. The New Order - Testament 6. Bonded By Blood - Exodus 7. The Years Of Decay - Overkill 8. The Ultra-violence - Death Angel 9. Beneath The Remains - Sepultura 10. Alice In Hell - Annihilator 11. Darkness Descends - Dark Angel 12. Pleasure To Kill - Kreator

[@AberranceMetal]

A.W.C. Thrasher awesome list. Hard to deny that Master Of Puppets is the greatest thrash album ever.

[@richardpavlik5585]

@@AberranceMetal Forbidden twisted into form is really good.

[@chrisa1125]

You pretty much nailed it, but I slightly prefer Arise over Beneath the Remains. To me Arise is in my top 10 thrash albums ever (even including multiple albums by the same band).

[@JimmieDiamondX]

Good List, Mine Would Be :) Anthrax: Spreading The Disease S.O.D: Speak English Or Die Slayer: Regin In Blood Nuclear Assault: Handle With Care Overkill: Years Of Decay Toxic Holocaust: Evil Never Dies Lich King: Crossover Metallica: Ride The Lightning Megadeth: Rust In Peace Testament: Souls Of Black Kreator: Endless Pain Bio-Cancer: Ear Pericing Thrash Thrash Or Die: Poser Holocaust D.R.I: Thrash Zone Whiplash: Power And Pain Vio-Lence: Eternal Nightmare Havok: Burn Razor: Execuitoners Song Sepultura: Morbid Visions Dark Angel: Untitled

[@AberranceMetal]

Glitchy Michael awesome list man, all great albums

[@mcsuckalives2302]

Good for you, choosing Spreading the Disease over Among the Living, i agree. BUT,,!! I must disagree with a couple of choices you made release wise, not band wise Overkill, how could you not go with Feel the Fire?! Baffling,,Nuclear Assault- H.w C. Over Survive !? Or The Plague ep even?! Game Over? Hmmm? And Testament- Souls of Black, not only a questionable choice imo considering The Legacy, The New Order, but sob is a weak album altogether even not in comparison, maybe weakest of thier catalouge imo

[@METALMETALAS]

Biocancer hahaha

[@ryanforsythe]

Killer list man! By Inheritance is my favorite thrash album ever, so glad it was one of your inclusions.

[@MotleyCrueforever1]

I must admit man your list was a lot better than mine lol. When I was doing mine I totally forgot about Dark Angel and Annihilator! I actually got super pissed when I realized I forgot Dark Angel lol. I almost included Metal Church as well but most people don't really consider them a thrash band so I left them out. I definitely have to agree with you about Show No Mercy. Imo it is Slayer's best album and its my favorite Slayer album as well. But anyways, awesome video and list! Take care!

[@AberranceMetal]

Haha thanks man! Your list was good though. We had a lot of similar bands. Yeah man I had to include those albums. Alice in Hell has some of the best riffing I've ever heard in thrash. So underrated. And yeah I was on the fence about including Metal Church, but I had to lol. As far as Slayer goes, I think Show No Mercy is always overlooked because Reign in Blood gets all the attention. But Show No Mercy was released in 1983, and I think it was pretty ahead of its time, even with all the Venom and NWOBHM influence. Such a killer album. But thanks man, take care as well!

[@hmpz36911]

Metal Church, pseudo thrash, I guess? Hell, if Exciter counts... Close enough!

[@michaelgreene7041]

Agent Steel's Skeptic's Apocalypse is an absolute must if you're looking for new suggestions. Only recently discovered it but more than worth the wait.

[@aaronornelas8571]

Your list was badass, some I've never heard, most I have still only on cassette, Didn't know Annihilator came on a cd, I have it with another cd

[@rodturner6759]

VIO-LENCE Kings of Thrash!

[@chrisa1125]

I respect the fact that you pick Master of Puppets as your favorite thrash album. Most people feel the need to pick something not as "mainstream", but you can't deny the fact that is pretty much the perfect thrash album. Also respect the fact that you actually paid money for all these and have the actual CDs. Awesome list brother!

[@c.d.e.s.2210]

My List: 1. Dead Head - The Feast Begins at Dawn. 2. Dead Head - Depression Tank. 3. Fastkill - Infernal Thrashing Holocaust. 4. Slayer - Reign in Blood. 5. Kreator - Pleasure to Kill. 6. Kreator - Endless Pain. 7. Sodom - Obsessed by Cruelty. 8. Mx - Simoniacal. 9. Attomica - Disturbing the Noise. 10. Chakal - Abominable Anno Domini. 11. King's Evil - Sacrosanct 12. Schizo - Main Frame Collapse. 13. Protector - Golem. 14. Hypnosia - Extreme Hatred. 15. Deathstorm - Blood Beneath the Crypts.

[@AberranceMetal]

Great list man. Hypnosia was an awesome band

[@shinita02aguirre73]

You should check out Mass Hypnosia thrash metal band from the philippines

[@SaintMartins]

Your list is great ! My 10 favorites (no ranking & 1 choice per band) Metallica - Master Of Puppets (1986) Slayer - Reign In Blood (1986) Anthrax - Spreading The Disease (1985) Nuclear Assault - Game Over (1986) Destruction - Sentence Of Death (1984) VoiVod - RrrOooAaaRrr (1986) Metal Church - The Dark (1986) Corrosion Of Conformity - Technocracy (1987) Sacrifice - Torment In Fire (1986) Detente - Recognize No Authority (1986)

[@kmikmi1311]

One of the best thrash metal lists I've seen..just bummed it took 4 years for KZbin to recommend this video.

[@blacksabbath3474]

Good list. Other very good albums are: - At War 'Ordered to kill' (Mighty sounding mixture of US Power Metal and Thrash Metal) - Blind Illusion 'The sane asylium' (Technical Thrash Metal) - Flotsam and Jetsam 'No place for disgrace' - Holy Terror 'Terror and Submission' ( Technical Thrash Metal) - Sacrifice 'Torment in fire'

[@AberranceMetal]

Definitely some great albums too. I would include one of the first 2 Flotsam albums if I could re-do this list. Love Blind Illusion too.

[@BrianClem]

Great list! Glad to see Coroner on here.

[@rudyfavela7451]

Great list. Got many of them on LP. Dude I feel old. Personally I would have included Forbidden Forbidden Evil, Sacrifice Forward to Termination, Death Spiritual Healing, Excel The Jokes On You, and Ratos de Porao Brasil.

[@matthewvoss7365]

Your list is excellent. Peace Sells is my favorite Megadeth Album, Show No Mercy is my favorite Slayer Album. I love the album cover on Testament's A New Order. The Earth just shows up so well on it.

[@DeathMetalThrasher]

Aspid, Watchtower and Obliveon is pretty cool if you're into technical thrash.

[@rememberbeginning]

My list would definitely contain a Nuclear Assault album. That Believer album is badass! I use to have it on cd. Now I see it on ebay and I'm like, Fuck! Some of these albums are pretty spendy! I like Voivod-killing technology a lot too. Slayer - south of heaven is a favorite. Metallica-any of the first 3 or 4. Flotsam and Jetsam- no place for disgrace. Megadeth- peace sells and rust in peace (love countdown alot) Anthrax - state of euphoria is my favorite. Holy Terror, Kreator, D.R.I., S.O.D., Testament, anyway, cool list you have! Cheers 🍻

[@nickmegadeth6633]

Great list! You nailed it. I would choose rust in peace, the legacy, and raining blood. And fabulous or bonded is a really tough one!

[@Northertba]

Awesome shout out to believer, they are incredible and the follow up album is amazing as well! Do you write or record guitars? Hit me up on Facebook, Philip Jackson Keenan

[@rickdeckard2240]

When you realize bands like Coroner, Metallica, Slayer, Anthrax, Kreator, Annihilator are all labelled under thrash metal and that they don't sound the same at all to me, this is quite a vast sub genre!

[@rodturner6759]

Thrash is defined by the tempo, not the riffage...

[@rickdeckard2240]

@@rodturner6759 I'm not convinced by that, many hardcore bands would then be considered thrash, so would be many death metal bands. To me thrash is defined by palm muted oriented riffs, no gutural vocals, and as much as skank beats as possible in the recipe.

[@gagegarton6844]

Great move with Show No Mercy. The Years of Decay Horrorscope, and I Hear Black are also good Overkill ones too

[@CoreysChannel]

Great essential round up! There are 3-4 I need to get working on. Very cool Whiplash compilation. Great vid

[@rhinojimeneziii2750]

Awesome list bro .

[@kaelanmcalpine2011]

Some of my favorites: Overkill - The Years of Decay Metallica - ...And Justice For All Megadeth - Peace Sells...But Who's Buying? Vektor - Terminal Redux Evile - Enter The Grave Kreator - Violent Revolution Overkill - Taking Over Anthrax - Persistence of Time Havok - Unnatural Selection Metallica - Ride The Lightning Cavalera Conspiracy - Inflikted Sepultura - Beneath The Remains Kreator - Pleasure To Kill Megadeth - Endgame Megadeth - Countdown To Extinction Overkill - Iron Bound Violator - Chemical Assault

[@SavvasKsiros89]

Seven Churches is DEFINITELY considered an all time classic and a release of high importance .. it should had been on this list instead of Sanity obscure ,or Annihilation of...overall ,good selection of albums. Personally I would also include Black Future by Vektor

[@rodturner6759]

Possessed is not a thrash band...

[@SavvasKsiros89]

@@rodturner6759 Lmao. Make up your mind man .. as a result ,according to this logic, neither voivod, D.R.I ,or Metal Church can be considered thrash metal acts

[@wolfdesmitd6866]

great list my friend a several disc makes me fan of metal thrash good bands excelent list

[@AndresHernandez-qz2zd]

I am so behind on the thrash. Good video. Check out Wartooth - they dropped an album in 2020. Peace out

[@tonling1318]

Pretty good list. Coroner is a great band . I am more into technical thrash, so I would probably choose bands like Watchtower, Voivod, Vendetta, Sieges Even, Hexenhaus, Anacrusis, Despair, Depressive Age, Sacrosanct. But I do like ordinary thrash metal like Atrophy, Paradox, Poltergeist, D.A.M., Forbidden, etc.

[@AberranceMetal]

Yeah I like tech thrash as well. The list of bands could go on and on lol, it was hard enough to narrow it down

[@helvete111]

Very Nice video! Beneath the Remains is in my opinion a lot better than Arise, I think Schizophrenia is superior to Arise also.

[@cubbykovu8955]

Great list I must do thid although i dont have some of youf rarer releases yet

[@JuanMartinez-ib7mz]

metallica first 5 albums ranked 1)ride the lightning 2)...and justice for all 3)kill em all 4)metallica 5)master of puppets

[@Lurts]

1. Justice 2. Puppets 3. Black 4. Ride 5. Kill

[@triad5766]

Juan Martinez 1) Justice 2) MOP 3) RTL 4) KEA 5) BA

[@dylanrus8117]

Kill em all Ride the lightning Master of Puppets And Justice for all Black album

[@sargentd995]

You like a thrash version of moist critical

[@cubbykovu8955]

Annoyingly I need most of these on cd still ARGH !!!i dont need most of them anymore

[@MLGCREEPERPLAYZMC]

Great list man

[@MLGCREEPERPLAYZMC]

Listen to Municipal Waste they are a killer band

[@paulhetrick1759]

Not really.

[@qharemswagbola7159]

All I hear is SCREAMING

[@josecelestino]

You're confusing underrated and overlooked.

[@johnathonmcdaniel751]

Have you ever heard of a 80s thrash band Viking?

[@AberranceMetal]

I've heard of them but I haven't really give them a listen. Any albums that you recommend?

[@helvete111]

The first two are very good, Do or Die is a little bit rougher and more chaotic, but I prefer the riffing on Man of Straw.

[@paulhetrick1759]

@@helvete111 Do Or Die blows Man Of Straw away.

[@L-Slayer]

The best albuns thrash death Black 1 venom Black metal 2 hellhamer ep apocaliptic raids 3 slayer show no mercy 4 celtic frost to mega therion 5 celtic frost morbid tales 6 possessed seven churches 7 possessed beyond the gates

[@garrettpraznik194]

Man where the hell did you find by inheritance on cd at?

[@AberranceMetal]

Man I got it back in probably 2006 when it was reissued. Killer album, wish they would reissue it on vinyl

[@garrettpraznik194]

I got it on vinyl off of discogs

[@cubbykovu8955]

@@garrettpraznik194 i got it tooo

[@cubbykovu8955]

Komaniac

[@marksantucci4230]

I'm surprised you didn't pick bonded by blood? that Kreator album is very famous. what made you pick peace sells over rust in peace? My favorite Metallica album is Ride the lightening. didn't Metal church release an album in 1984? do you like Haunting the chapel?

[@mcsuckalives2302]

Ocd?

[@L-Slayer]

Show no mercy the best fucking slayer

[@ianfaucher1480]

No Forbidden ?? 🤔

[@L-Slayer]

Slayer kreator destruction sodom fucking thrash metal

[@thedawnoftheblackhearts2745]

Where is onslaught?

[@AberranceMetal]

Not big on onslaught except In Search Of Sanity

[@jpmtlhead39]

And Sodom....

[@alanr4263]

Hang the Pope great tune that Game over is the best.

[@mcsuckalives2302]

This def a case of , " shouldnt have got me started,," im 48, thrash was peaking in quality ( imo) just as i was at the most influencial age, and i fell deeply and forever in love, my fave genre within metal, the palm muted power chord, the open E chugga, fovever branded me in 85-86

[@mcsuckalives2302]

Ok dang it to do it. Now, behold the ultimate top 30, those with knowledge will read it and go,, ohh, yea, shit numerous times. I only picked my fav release by each band tho a few could have a couple entries. 1. Met- Master of Puppets 2. SOD- Speak eng or Die 3. Slayer- Reign in Blood 4. Overkill- Feel the Fire 5.Flotsam + Jetsam- Doomsday for the Deciever 6.Anthrax- Spreading the Disease 7.Sepultura- Beneath the Remains 8.Deadhorse- Peaceful Death and Pretty Flowers 9.Testament- The Legacy 10.Kreator- Terrible Certainty 11.Death Angel- Act III 12.Exodus- Bonded by Blood 13. Possessed- The Eyes of Horror 14.Destruction- Release from Agony 15.Megadeth- Peace Sells,,, 16.Sacred Reich- Ignorance 17.Nuclear Assault- The Plague 18.Suicidal Tendencies- Controlled by Hatred 19.Blind Illusion,- The Sane Asylum 20.Incubus- Serpent Temptation 21.MX Machine-Manic Panic 22.Sodom- Agent Orange 23.Coroner- No More Colour 24.INC- The Visitor 25. Forced Entry- As Above, So Below 26 Exhorder- Slaughter in the Vatican 27. Atrophy- Violent by Nature 28.Necrophagia- Season of the Dead 29.Numskull- Ritually Abused 30.Forbidden- Forbidden Evil

[@mcsuckalives2302]

Honorable Mention (JUST BAND) Bloodfeast, Havok, Municipal Waste, Powertrip, MOD, Tankard, Sabbat, Demolition Hammer, Viking, DBC, Powermad, Excel, Ripping Corpse, Devestation, Voivod, Morbid Saint, Vengeance Rising, Believer, Mordred, Brutal Truth, Razor, and. The Carpenters

[@mcsuckalives2302]

Never liked Darl Angel, annihilator, violence

[@mcsuckalives2302]

How bout a best old school( or any) thrash song list ? Ill throw a top 20 to start the shit. Im not gonna say the order is set in stone, just that they all make you gotta move, bang ur head or go flying thru the air: 1. The Conjuring-Megadeth 2.Bone crackin Fever- Forced Entry 3.Unconcious Ruins- Destruction 4. My Belief - Possessed 5. Hypodermic Coastline- INC 6. Psychotic killing Machine- MX Machine 7. Alone in the dark- Testament 8. Metalshock- Flotsam + Jetsam 9. Reborn - Slayer 10. Freddy Krueger - SOD 11. InnerSelf - Sepultura 12. Madhouse- Anthrax 13. Waking the Dead - Suicidal Tendencies 14. Violent Solutions - Sacred Reich 15. The Murder Song - deadhorse 16. Nuclear War - Nuclear Assault 17. Tunnel of Pain - Coroner 18. Hammerhead - Overkill 19. Behind the Mirror - Kreator 20. Bitch - Toxic Holocaust

[@mcsuckalives2302]

Ps- never cared for Dark Angel, Annihlator, Vio- lence, sorry

[@the_guy_who_steals_your_beer_]

Icead Earth isn't Power Metal ????

[@AberranceMetal]

They definitely have elements of power metal but thrash too especially the early stuff.

[@the_guy_who_steals_your_beer_]

oke

[@kaelanmcalpine2011]

xterman from what I've heard, they're a little too slow for thrash. Then again all I've heard was the Dystopia and Plagues of Babylon so meh.

[@relinquishh]

They are power metal. Personally I don't consider them thrash at all, just pure USPM.

[@helvete111]

The first two has a lot of thrash influences, and those two are their best, by far, in my opinion.