wow surprised you dont like Slayer but like Dark Angel, have you tried Show No Mercy by Slayer?? And have you listened to Realm? If you haven't they are the best clean-vocalled thrash band imho
Wow, let's gt by numbers in here:
1) I don't really like Dark Angel, I kept DD as a reminder of not being trigger happy with purchases they are at my extreme end of the thrash spectra. It's definitively thrash but too raw for me.
2) I don't like a thrash band without good solos and King/Hanneman do not deliever for me. I had at a time (long story) "Show No Mercy", "Hunting The Chapel", "Hell Awaits" and "Reign In Blood" and I simply couldn't get into them...still can't
But I like 'Seasons In The Abyss' and 'War Ensamble'
3) I tried Realm samples when the Metal Mind reissues came out but they didn't get me either mostly because of the vocals I found them harsh, you find them clean?
Because clean for me is Megadeth, Heathen, Zeotrope, Xentrix, etc.
As an extra piece of info I'm not into German thrash (the vocals again), I have only three Kreator albums (and two which I adore are the ones most hated by fans "Outcast" and "Endorama") and only have the first three Sodom because they sound a bit like Venom in the beginning. Except for the almighty Coroner I like my thrash with clean vocals as much as possible, another exception is Abandoned but the vocals are not that harsh.
In a nutshell I'm complicated when comes to thrash but I do love the subgenre, and I'm always willing to find new bands or to
discover old bands that went under my radar in due time.