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Death Aflame

voice of dissent
Feb 1, 2004
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So I have largely overlooked this genre in the past (don't ask me why) but I figure its about time I dove right in. Recommend me both the Thrash essentials and the more obscure and overlooked works.
 
Essentials:

Metallica - Kill 'Em All
Metallica - Ride The Lightning
Metallica - Master Of Puppets
Megadeth - Killing Is My Business...And Business Is Good!
Slayer - Show No Mercy
Slayer - Haunting The Chapel
Slayer - Hell Awaits
Slayer - Reign In Blood
Exodus - Bonded By Blood
Heathen - Breaking The Silence
Vio-Lence - Eternal Nightmare
Kreator - Pleasure To Kill
Sodom - In The Sign Of Evil
Sodom - Persecution Mania
Destruction - Infernal Overkill
Destruction - Eternal Devastation
Overkill - Feel The Fire
Overkill - Taking Over
Metal Church - Metal Church
Metal Church - The Dark
Exumer - Possessed By Fire
Sacrifice - Torment In Fire
Sacrifice - Forward To Termination
Sacrifice - Soldiers Of Misfortune
Razor - Evil Invaders
Razor - Violent Restitution
Voivod - War And Pain
Voivod - RRROOOAAARRR
Voivod - Killing Technology
Infernal Majesty - None Shall Defy
Sabbat (UK) - History Of A Time To Come
Sabbat (UK) - Dreamweaver
Holy Terror - Terror And Submission
Holy Terror - Mind Wars
Artillery - Fear Of Tomorrow
Artillery - Terror Squad
Artillery - By Inheritance
Toxik - World Circus

More later as I think of them and my hand gets a rest.
 
More obscure -

Detente - Recognize No Authority
Dissection (Can) - Final Genocide
Turbo - Last Warrior
Kat - 666
Cyclone - Brutal Destruction
Shah - Beware
Master (Rus) - With The Noose Around The Neck
Hydra Vein - Rather Death Than False Of Faith
Blood Feast - Kill For Pleasure
Whiplash - Power And Pain (ESSENTIAL)
Ripping Corpse - Dreaming With The Dead
Gammacide - Victim Of Science
Rigor Mortis - Rigor Mortis
etc
 
More obscure -
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Anacrusis - "Suffering Hour"
Hades - "Resisting Success"
Forbidden - "Forbidden Evil"
Hexenhaus - "A Tribute To Insanity"
Mekong Delta - "Mekong Delta", "The Music Of Erich Zann"
Original Sin - "Sin Will Find You Out"
Znowhite - "Act Of God"

And if the Swedish band Ice Age had ever released an album with several songs like this one, they´d also belong into this list. (Unfortunately, they never got beyond demo-status.)

Missing in the "essentials"-section:
Coroner - "R.I.P.", "Punishment For Decadence", "No More Color"
Flotsam & Jetsam - "Doomsday For The Deceiver", "No Place For Disgrace"
Testament - "The Legacy"
 
additional...

Heathen - Victims of Deception
Heathen - Demo 2005
Ulysses Siren - Above the Ashes
Death Angel - The Ultra Violence
Holy Moses - Reborn Dogs
Torture Squad - Pandemonium
Morbid Saint - Spectrum of Death
Destruction - The Anti-Christ
Agent Steel - Skeptics Apocalypse
Ballistic - Gone Ballistic
Holocausto - Campo de Extermínio
Bloodshedd - Eye of the Pessimist
Possessed - Seven Churches
Coroner - R.I.P.
Tankard - The Morning After
Dark Angel - Leave Scars
Intruder - Psycho Savant
Incubus - Serpent Temptation
 
Testament - The Legacy, The New Order, Low, The Gathering
Megadeth - Peace Sells, But Who's Buying?
Overkill - The Years of Decay


Dodens pretty much mentioned everything else I was going to mention.