A Collection of my favorite thrash and speed metal albums. One album per band and in alphabetical order. List will be updated semi-regularly so remember to stop by every so often!

The ★ signifies an album that is borderline perfect. Can you find them all?

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1. Abattoir - Vicious Attack

2. Abigail (Jpn) - Sweet Baby Metal Slut

3. Accu§er - Diabolic

4. Acid - Maniac

5. ADX - Exécution

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1. Acid Reign - The Fear

2. Anacrusis - Suffering Hour

3. Annihilator - Alice In Hell

4. Anthrax - Spreading The Disease

5. Artillery - Terror Squad

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RANKING CRITERIA :

1. Originality

2. Songwriting

3. Energetically performance

1. Anacrusis - Screams And Whispers

2. Metal Church - Metal Church

3. Overkill - Feel The Fire

4. Nuclear Assault - Game Over

5. Souls At Zero - 3-D

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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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RANKING CRITERIA :

1. Originality

2. Songwriting

3. Performance

4. Historical value

1. Black Sabbath - Paranoid

2. Metallica - Ride The Lightning

3. Iron Maiden - The Number Of The Beast

4. Megadeth - Rust In Peace

5. Judas Priest - Painkiller

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1. Anacrusis - Screams And Whispers

2. Fatal Opera - The Eleventh Hour

3. Fatal Opera - Fatal Opera

4. Sacred Blade - Of The Sun + Moon

5. Legend (UK) - Death In The Nursery

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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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The more I listen to Thrash metal... and the more I like it. Some of you might think I would get bored of it at some point, or that I would run out of new releases or bands. Well no, it ain't happening. For those of you who don't know my list, basically it's a big encyclopedia of Thrash releases worth listening to, its some kind of searching tool... 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 it 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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