...Top 20 Essential Thrash Metal Albums

[CF87]

Metallica-Ride The Lightning,Kill 'Em All
Slayer-Show No Mercy,Hell Awaits,South of Heaven.
Testament-The Legacy,The New Order.
Sadus-A Vision Of Misery.
Sabbat-History Of A Time To Come.
Destruction-Eternal Devastation.
Sodom-Agent Orange.

 

[SomeGuyDude]

Are these lists supposed to be quasi-objective or are we just listing our favorites?

I'd say go for objective.

I should also learn to actually enjoy thrash one of these days.

 

[CF87]

I forgot Annihilator -alice in hell on my list, classic. Annihilator on the other hand is a pretty craptacular band.

 

[Krigloch the Furious]

I need to up my thrash collection. May have to go through some of this stuff.
What's your top 5 thrash albums???

 

[TechnicalBarbarity]

I need to up my thrash collection. May have to go through some of this stuff.
What's your top 5 thrash albums???

Check out some of the albums on the bottom half of my list. I think you'll dig most of 'em. You've probably already heard most of the stuff in the top half.

 

[The Ozzman]

Why Toxik and Invocator aren't even included on these lists is beyond me

 

[HamburgerBoy]

Why Toxik and Invocator aren't even included on these lists is beyond me

Toxik is overrated, and Think This is maybe half actual thrash metal anyways. It's basically a flashy traditional/power album with Anthrax influence. The first two Invocator albums are good (Weave the Apocalypse excellent imo) but for a list of quasi-objective excellence neither really qualifies.

 

[The Ozzman]

I've only heard Weave the Apocalypse and it's fucking awesome

 

[AllShallFall]

although many will say otherwise, this is an excellent thrash album:

 

[Lateralus14]

Is Trivium even thrash? Even if they were good?

 

[The Ozzman]

although many will say otherwise, this is an excellent thrash album:

I am a Trivium fan and even I know you're fucking high as shit.

Is Trivium even thrash? Even if they were good?

Nothing but metalcore. First album from Trivium is amazing.

 

[TechnicalBarbarity]

although many will say otherwise, this is an excellent thrash album:

Offcourse people would say otherwise, because a) it's not thrash and b) it's nowhere near being excellent.

 

[CF87]

Anyone who listens to Trivium deserves to die.

 

[The Ozzman]

Says the guy who listens to Bloodbath

 

[ASD]

Says the guy who guy who.

 

[The Ozzman]

The guy who says who guy

 

[Spiderchrist]

Trivium sucks and I don't know what the fuck is going on in that album artwork.

 

[The Ozzman]

Trivium sucks

Just like your face

 

[HamburgerBoy]

Trivium definitely has some thrash stuff. On at least one blind listen I mistook one of their songs for a Testament or some knock-off (say, Stygian) tune until the autotuned chorus came in.