Best Year for Thrash

[Caecius]

Pick the best year for thrash metal.

I voted 1985.

I made a small list to help some people out, but I know I missed a bunch. Just list ones you think people should be aware of and I'll add them.

1983

Metallica - Kill'em All
Slayer - Show No Mercy

1984

Anthrax - Fistful of Metal
Dark Angel - We Have Arrived
Metallica - Ride The Lightning
Sodom - In the Sign of Evil EP
Voivod - War and Pain

1985

Anthrax - Spreading The Disease
Artillery - Fear of Tomorrow
Destruction - Infernal Overkill
Exodus - Bonded By Blood
Kreator - Endless Pain
Megadeth - Killing Is My Business...And Business Is Good
Overkill - Feel The Fire
Sacrifice - Torment in Fire
Slayer - Hell Awaits
Watchtower - Energetic Disassembly

1986

Dark Angel - Darkness Descends
Destruction - Eternal Devastation
Exumer - Possessed By Fire
Flotsam & Jetsam - Doomsday For The Deceiver
Holy Moses - Queen of Siam
Kreator - Pleasure to Kill
Megadeth - Peace Sells...But Who's Buying?
Metallica - Master of Puppets
Nuclear Assault - Game Over
Sepultura - Morbid Visions
Slayer - Reign In Blood
Sodom - Obsessed By Cruelty

1987

Anthrax - Among The Living
Artillery - Terror Squad
Coroner - R.I.P.
Death Angel - Ultra-Violence
Exodus - Pleasures of the Flesh
Exumer - Rising From The Sea
Heathen - Breaking The Silence
Holy Moses - Finished With The Dogs
Kreator - Terrible Certainty
Overkill - Taking Over
Sepultura - Schizophrenia
Sodom - Persecution Mania
Testament - The Legacy
Toxik - World Circus
Voivod - Killing Technology

1988

Blind Illusion - The Sane Asylum
Coroner - Punishment For Decadence
Destruction - Release From Agony
Flotsam & Jetsam - No Place For Disgrace
Forbidden - Forbidden Evil
Hexenhaus - A Tribute To Insanity
Megadeth - So Far, So Good, So What?
Metallica - ...And Justice For All
Nuclear Assault - Survive
Overkill - Under the Influence
Rigor Mortis - Rigor Mortis
Sabbat - History of a Time to Come
Slayer - South Of Heaven
Testament - The New Order
Voivod - Dimension Hatross

1989

Annihilator - Alice In Hell
Coroner - No More Color
Dark Angel - Leave Scars
Exodus - Fabulous Disaster
Holy Moses - The New Machine of Liechtenstein
Kreator - Extreme Aggression
Nuclear Assault - Handle With Care
Overkill - The Years of Decay
Sabbat - Dreamweaver
Sepultura - Beneath The Remains
Sodom - Agent Orange
Toxik - Think This

1990

Annihilator - Never, Neverland
Anthrax - Persistence of Time
Artillery - By Inheritance
Demolition Hammer - Tortured Existence
Destruction - Cracked Brain
Exodus - Impact Is Imminent
Forbidden - Twisted Into Form
Kreator - Coma of Souls
Megadeth - Rust In Peace
Slayer - Seasons of the Abyss
Sodom - Better Off Dead
Testament - Souls of Black

1991

Coroner - Mental Vortex
Dark Angel - Time Does Not Heal
Heathen - Victims of Deception
Overkill - Horrorscope
Sepultura - Arise

1992

Demolition Hammer - Epidemic of Violence
Sodom - Tapping the Vein

 

[youdontknowme]

I'm torn between 85 and 86

 

[Orion Crystal Ice]

6666

 

[The Ozzman]

Overkill didn't do Eternal Devastation. That was Destruction

 

[youdontknowme]

Overkill didn't do Eternal Devastation. That was Destruction

yea that made me go

thanks for clearing that up!

I'm going with 86 then.

edit: 1990 was pretty strong as well

 

[The Ozzman]

I'm tempted to say 1989 because Think This was released that year along with the best thrash album ever

 

[Vegard Pompey]

1988 has pretty much the only thrash album I really care about.

 

[Caecius]

My bad on the Destruction error. I was typing a lot...

EDIT: I added the two Toxik albums.

 

[V.V.V.V.V.]

86 without a doubt.

 

[viewerfromnihil]

I was stuck between 83 and 86 but ended up going with 86

 

[Nightmare_Heaven]

for me its either 85 for Hell Awaits or 88 for Justice...can't choose

 

[mutantllama]

85 for me.

You also forgot the Metal Church s/t for 85.

 

[youdontknowme]

kind of disappointed, not a whole lot of crossover

 

[Black Friday]

'85 easily.

 

[Dak]

It was between 88 and 86 for me. Went with 86 but that was a tossup.

 

[Omni]

It's clearly 1985.

 

[waif]

86, but you could maybe win me over to 87. I need to get a lot of these albums, though.

 

[Slayed Necros]

'85

 

[The Ozzman]

I've heard a majority of these albums and it's hard to pick a date tbh.

 

[Caecius]

I'm tempted to say 1989 because Think This was released that year along with the best thrash album ever

Which is what? Dreamweaver? BTR? Years of Decay?