GMD Votes: Top 20 Thrash Albums
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HamburgerBoy
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Death metal is for plebs. Only the truest and most dedicated fans of kvlt explore tenth-tier thrash bands.
EDIT: And actually, I disagree anyways. In the grand scheme of each respective genre, Suffocation, Incantation, etc are roughly about Kreator/Sodom-tier. Holy Terror is more obscure than Demigod too, although maybe roughly on par with The Chasm in terms of UM-fetishization.
I'm not counting your submission unless you have all 20 ranked
Edit: nm I'll just put HA at 20
Suffocation as Sodom-tier?
Oh my god, why don't people follow directions?
Do you people not read good? Why are you formatting differently than I asked?
It needs to be formatted like this:
Do you people not read good? Why are you formatting differently than I asked?
It needs to be formatted like this:
End of Glory
Crucify Your Faith
It was 3 and 3. I changed HBB's post so it was formatted correctly since his screwed up my spreadsheet in the original format he had.
Baroque
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Decent top 20, but it sucks that we are still stuck in the 80's here. There are so many quality thrash bands from the 90's alone. At least Black Future made it in. Just because an album came out first doesn't make it the best.
1) Vektor - Black Future
2) Megadeth - Rust in Peace
3) Metallica - Master of Puppets
4) Metallica - Ride the Lightning
5) Metallica - Kill Em All
6) Slayer - Reign in Blood
7) Dark Angel - Darkness Descends
8) Coroner - No More Color
9) Testament - The New Order
10) Kreator - Pleasure to Kill
11) Exodus - Bonded By Blood
12) Holy Terror - Mind Wars
13) Testament - The Legacy
14) Sepultura - Beneath the Remains
15) Vio-lence - Eternal Nightmare
16) Artillery - By Inheritance
17) Sodom - Persecution Mania
18) Morbid Saint - Spectrum of Death
19) Slayer - Show No Mercy
20) Slayer - Hell Awaits
1) Vektor - Black Future
2) Megadeth - Rust in Peace
3) Metallica - Master of Puppets
4) Metallica - Ride the Lightning
5) Metallica - Kill Em All
6) Slayer - Reign in Blood
7) Dark Angel - Darkness Descends
8) Coroner - No More Color
9) Testament - The New Order
10) Kreator - Pleasure to Kill
11) Exodus - Bonded By Blood
12) Holy Terror - Mind Wars
13) Testament - The Legacy
14) Sepultura - Beneath the Remains
15) Vio-lence - Eternal Nightmare
16) Artillery - By Inheritance
17) Sodom - Persecution Mania
18) Morbid Saint - Spectrum of Death
19) Slayer - Show No Mercy
20) Slayer - Hell Awaits
TechnicalBarbarity
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It's cool, i'll just throw Hell Awaits in there(plus move an album or two around).
1) Megadeth - Rust in Peace
2) Slayer - Reign in Blood
3) Metallica - Ride the Lightning
4) Slayer - Show No Mercy
5) Testament - The New Order
6) Testament - The Legacy
7) Sepultura - Beneath the Remains
8) Kreator - Pleasure to Kill
9) Sodom - Persecution Mania
10) Metallica - Kill Em All
11) Coroner - No More Color
12) Vektor - Black Future
13) Slayer - Hell Awaits
14) Vio-Lence - Eternal Nightmare
15) Dark Angel - Darkness Descends
16) Artillery - By Inheritance
17) Holy Terror - Mind Wars
18) Metallica - Master of Puppets
19) Morbid Saint - Spectrum of Death
20) Exodus - Bonded by Blood
But seriously man, what's up with all these annoying ass rules you keep coming up with ... "you must use brackets not periods!" Fuckin' really?
End of Glory
Crucify Your Faith
TechnicalBarbarity
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End of Glory
Crucify Your Faith
Yes. Lighten up, ofc I know it was a typo... 
Edit: reason to it was that I also thought that the rule were that we were only allowed to edit two times (which would have made use it two times) but it was that we were allowed to change the orders twice so it was a misunderstanding from my part...
Edit: reason to it was that I also thought that the rule were that we were only allowed to edit two times (which would have made use it two times) but it was that we were allowed to change the orders twice so it was a misunderstanding from my part...
Baroque
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That would be funny if you used up all your edits and it was stuck as Slayer - Ride the Lightning
HamburgerBoy
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Suffocation as Sodom-tier?
In the scheme of OSDM, I'd say the Teutonic trio is about on par the the -tion NYDM trio. That makes Florida equivalent to America, Death can be Metallica, Morbid Angel as Slayer, etc. I'm not talking about personal preference or global popularity.
Nah, there's dozens of tech-thrash albums better than Black Future. It's still a very good album, but some of the older songs (esp ones like Asteroid) are pretty generic. There are definitely quality new thrash albums out there, but none of them have the originality or songwriting skills of the best of the 80s/early 90s.
End of Glory
Crucify Your Faith
That would be funny if you used up all your edits and it was stuck as Slayer - Ride the Lightning
You got it
It's cool, i'll just throw Hell Awaits in there(plus move an album or two around).
1) Megadeth - Rust in Peace
2) Slayer - Reign in Blood
3) Metallica - Ride the Lightning
4) Slayer - Show No Mercy
5) Testament - The New Order
6) Testament - The Legacy
7) Sepultura - Beneath the Remains
8) Kreator - Pleasure to Kill
9) Sodom - Persecution Mania
10) Metallica - Kill Em All
11) Coroner - No More Color
12) Vektor - Black Future
13) Slayer - Hell Awaits
14) Vio-Lence - Eternal Nightmare
15) Dark Angel - Darkness Descends
16) Artillery - By Inheritance
17) Holy Terror - Mind Wars
18) Metallica - Master of Puppets
19) Morbid Saint - Spectrum of Death
20) Exodus - Bonded by Blood
But seriously man, what's up with all these annoying ass rules you keep coming up with ... "you must use brackets not periods!" Fuckin' really?
You don't have to format it that way. I'm not that much of a jerk. It just makes it WAY easier if formatting is uniform throughout. I use Excel and 'Text to Columns' is very finicky.
If someone puts the numbers in brackets, I have to do text to columns roughly 4-5 times to get everything the way I want it. If it's formatted my preferred way, I end up doing it twice.
If you were the one doing it, you'd realize what a pain it can be sometimes.
TechnicalBarbarity
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Yea fucking right.Black Future's "originality" and songwriting skills are being questioned?
That album can pound for pound stand up to some of the best thrash albums of the 80's and early 90's.
Not many albums I really care about in this list, but since we have to rank 'em all, here's my list:
1) Testament - The Legacy
2) Metallica - Ride the Lightning
3) Coroner - No More Color
4) Metallica - Master of Puppets
5) Metallica - Kill Em All
6) Exodus - Bonded by Blood
7) Sepultura - Beneath the Remains
8) Megadeth - Rust in Peace
9) Testament - The New Order
10) Dark Angel - Darkness Descends
11) Kreator - Pleasure to Kill
12) Slayer - Show No Mercy
13) Slayer - Reign in Blood
14) Slayer - Hell Awaits
15) Vektor - Black Future
16) Vio-Lence - Eternal Nightmare
17) Sodom - Persecution Mania
18) Morbid Saint - Spectrum of Death
19) Holy Terror - Mind Wars
20) Artillery - By Inheritance
1) Testament - The Legacy
2) Metallica - Ride the Lightning
3) Coroner - No More Color
4) Metallica - Master of Puppets
5) Metallica - Kill Em All
6) Exodus - Bonded by Blood
7) Sepultura - Beneath the Remains
8) Megadeth - Rust in Peace
9) Testament - The New Order
10) Dark Angel - Darkness Descends
11) Kreator - Pleasure to Kill
12) Slayer - Show No Mercy
13) Slayer - Reign in Blood
14) Slayer - Hell Awaits
15) Vektor - Black Future
16) Vio-Lence - Eternal Nightmare
17) Sodom - Persecution Mania
18) Morbid Saint - Spectrum of Death
19) Holy Terror - Mind Wars
20) Artillery - By Inheritance
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Black Future's "originality" and songwriting skills are being questioned?
That album can pound for pound stand up to some of the best thrash albums of the 80's and early 90's.
Aspid - Extravasation
Believer - Sanity Obscure, Dimensions
Coroner - No More Color, Mental Vortex
DBC - Universe
Deathrow - Deception Ignored
Destruction - Release from Agony, Cracked Brain
Obliveon - first two
Voivod - Killing Technology
Watchtower - both
That's 14 albums playing a roughly similar form of tech-thrash to Vektor easily on par with or superior to Black Future. I could hit 30 easily if I included tech-thrash bands playing a different style, like Anacrusis, Depressive Age, Despair, Invocator, Mekong Delta, Realm, etc. Many of the aforementioned explored more unusual melodies and had a more experimental approach to thrash than Vektor has ever shown. Like I said, I like Black Future on the whole quite a bit, but the riffing is still chuggier and more stock than the peak of tech/prog thrash. Honestly, I think my favorite thing about Vektor is the vocalist.
TechnicalBarbarity
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I didn't say they're the most technical or experimental .... or that they fuckin originated tech-thrash.
While BF and OI are both somewhat similar to the albums you mentioned, most of those have more in common with each other than Vektor. They clearly have their own sound.
And both of their albums are better than over half the stuff you have listed there(as awesome as most of it is), so yea they definitely deserve a spot on this list.
While BF and OI are both somewhat similar to the albums you mentioned, most of those have more in common with each other than Vektor. They clearly have their own sound.
And both of their albums are better than over half the stuff you have listed there(as awesome as most of it is), so yea they definitely deserve a spot on this list.
Baroque
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HB: I honestly like Black Future better than all of those, and I've listened to them all. Some are close though:
Aspid
Believer
Coroner
Deathrow
Obliveon
All of which were also on my top 30 list.
My comment wasn't just about tech thrash though. I said there were lots of quality thrash bands after the 80's which were just as good if not better than 80's thrash bands. Antidote - The Truth being one such album. You can also throw Havok - Time Is Up in there, Fueled by Fire, Hexen, Exmortus etc, all the newer stuff on my list in the original thread.
Aspid
Believer
Coroner
Deathrow
Obliveon
All of which were also on my top 30 list.
My comment wasn't just about tech thrash though. I said there were lots of quality thrash bands after the 80's which were just as good if not better than 80's thrash bands. Antidote - The Truth being one such album. You can also throw Havok - Time Is Up in there, Fueled by Fire, Hexen, Exmortus etc, all the newer stuff on my list in the original thread.
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