Like my other genre-based lists, this exists purely for my own organizational purposes and not to provide a definitive statement about or guidebook to the thrash genre. I'm aware that there are gaps and, more importantly, things you don't agree with. If you're dying to ask why I love Gama Bomb so much and why I can't spare two minutes for Destruction, Annihilator, Tankard, etc., then please go do it somewhere else as I haven't the time to clean up after you. I will, however, accept criticism for the lack of Coroner and Voivod.

1. Slayer - Reign In Blood

2. Gama Bomb - Citizen Brain

3. Slayer - Seasons In The Abyss

4. Metallica - Ride The Lightning

5. Artillery - By Inheritance

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Less than 100 votes on MS and at the same time 9.0+ rating from me.
Ordered from the least voted, votes at the time of creating the list (or adding a band) included.
Czech bands excluded.

1. Abattoir - Vicious Attack

2. Vordven - Towards The Frozen Stream

3. Wyrd - Heathen

4. Fear Of God - Within The Veil

5. Holy Terror - Mind Wars

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This is a list of my favourite debut albums.
I'm sure there are some years that will have multiple great debut albums but I'm limiting to only putting one band per year.
The ones that I put in the list is (in my opinion) the best debut album of that year, while the rest are put in honourable mentions.

1. Black Sabbath - Black Sabbath

2. AC/DC - T.N.T.

3. Iron Maiden - Iron Maiden

4. Venom - Welcome To Hell

5. Witchfinder General - Death Penalty

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1. Acid Reign - The Fear

2. Airwolf / Victory Bells / 1989

3. Anacrusis - Suffering Hour

4. Angkor Wat / When Obscenity Becomes The Norm - Awake! / 1989

5. Annihilator - Alice In Hell

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RANKING CRITERIA :

1. Originality

2. Songwriting

3. Vigorous performance

1. Anacrusis - Screams And Whispers

2. Overkill - Feel The Fire

3. Nuclear Assault - Game Over

4. Souls At Zero - 3-D

5. Toxik - World Circus

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1. Slayer - Reign In Blood

2. Metallica - Ride The Lightning

3. Megadeth - Peace Sells... But Who's Buying?

4. Exodus - Bonded By Blood

5. Overkill - The Years Of Decay

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I'm not a big fan of Thrash, these are perhaps the only albums I enjoy listening to, and even then only rarely. So enjoy if you can.

1. Prong - Beg to Differ

2. Morbid Saint - Spectrum of Death

3. Vio-lence - Eternal Nightmare

4. Demolition Hammer - Epidemic of Violence

5. Exhorder - Slaughter in the Vatican

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Thrash Metal is, and will always be my favorite type of music. No matter how many sub-genres or idiotic names some bands give to their music style, they'll never reach the complex "simplicity" of Thrash metal. It's raw, heavy, fast, aggressive, and has a historical impact that probably no other type of heavy metal style will ever reach.

1. Venom - Welcome To Hell

2. Discharge - Hear Nothing See Nothing Say Nothing

3. Suicidal Tendencies - Suicidal Tendencies

4. Metal Church - Metal Church

5. Metallica - Ride The Lightning

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*Now remixed with some of my favorite non-metal tracks! In order by preference, although it's tough with songs... and who knows what I'm forgetting? I'm not claiming these are the downright best, just my personal favorites based on my own enjoyment of them. Song titles in parentheses. Will probably change a lot, except for the top ten, which is harder to break into.

1. Edge of Sanity - Crimson

2. Primordial - To the Nameless Dead

3. Artillery - By Inheritance

4. Agalloch - The Mantle

5. Theatre of Tragedy - Aégis

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So you're seeking some good ol' (or new) Thrash Metal and you don't know where to look? Recommendations are running low and you're tired of wandering forums aimlessly, only to find one or two albums that you've probably already heard of?...If so, my friend, then stop searching and welcome to my little sanctuary. Nowadays, most would say that I'm a complete Thrash addict, always in need of it's fix, and they would be right. In order to keep my addiction under control and share it with all of you Thrash Metal maniacs, I've created this monstrous list. You may use my precious creation as an ''Encyclopedia'' of sort, in which I stored what I consider to be the best Thrash releases of all time. From the acclaimed classics like *Exodus - Bonded By Blood* and *Kreator - Pleasure To Kill* to the more hidden jewels like *Believers - Extraction From Mortality* and *Anacrusis - Suffering Hour* or even more recent gems like *Skeletonwitch - Beyond The Permafrost* and *Vektor - Black Future*, I've got it all. I know it might look exhaustive but after many user's complaints I decided to add this guide so here are few tricks to browse this monster of a list efficiently.

1. Discharge - Hear Nothing See Nothing Say Nothing

2. Metallica - Kill 'Em All

3. Suicidal Tendencies - Suicidal Tendencies

4. Slayer - Show No Mercy

5. Dr. Know - Plug-In Jesus

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Favorite releases from 1988

1. Vio-lence - Eternal Nightmare

2. Morbid Saint - Spectrum Of Death

3. Coroner - Punishment For Decadence

4. Megadeth - So Far, So Good... So What?

5. Wargasm - Why Play Around

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