1. Slayer - Reign In Blood

2. Exodus - Bonded By Blood

3. Metallica - Ride The Lightning

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

5. Kreator - Pleasure To Kill

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This list of the best thrash albums of all time, plain and simple, no hipster crap.

1. Metallica - Ride The Lightning

2. Artillery - By Inheritance

3. Megadeth - Rust In Peace

4. Slayer - Reign In Blood

5. Anacrusis - Screams And Whispers

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And they said the germans don't have nice metal music...

1. Kreator - Pleasure to Kill

2. Kreator - Extreme Agression

3. Kreator - Coma of Souls

4. Kreator - Enemy of God

5. Kreator - Violent Revolution

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It's the baddest, the most agressive and the most pure Heavy Metal subgenre... Thrash Metal!

1. Slayer - Reign in Blood

2. Metallica - Ride the Lightning

3. Metallica - Kill 'Em All

4. Death - Leprosy

5. Anthrax - Among the Living

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1. Vader - Welcome To The Morbid Reich

2. Azarath - Blasphemers' Maledictions

3. Vital Remains - Icons Of Evil

4. Nile - Amongst the Catacombs of Nephren-Ka

5. Besatt - Black Mass

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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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1. Kreator - Coma Of Souls

2. Kreator - Extreme Aggression

3. Kreator - Phantom Antichrist

4. Kreator - Enemy Of God

5. Kreator - Terrible Certainty

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Kinda saw another relative lists on here that state this, one bad and one inspirational, so thought I might do my own.

Alphabetic order. And don't ask why a lot of Testament stuff is there, if their albums hadn't had so much impact, Testa wouldn't be my favorite band.

1. AC/DC - Back In Black

2. Accept - Stalingrad

3. Agalloch - The Mantle

4. Amon Amarth - Versus The World

5. Anthrax - Spreading The Disease

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This is the top 35 of german thrash metal albums of the old school...

1. Sodom - Agent Orange

2. Kreator - Pleasure To Kill

3. Destruction - Infernal Overkill

4. Tankard - Zombie Attack

5. Exumer - Possessed By Fire

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1. Iron Maiden - Powerslave

2. Judas Priest - Painkiller

3. Summoning - Minas Morgul

4. Windir - 1184

5. Moonsorrow - Voimasta Ja Kunniasta

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My favourite thrash records... sorry for not including famous bands like Metallica, Slayer, Megadeth etc.
But these albums are some brilliant thrash gems.

1. Kreator - Pleasure To Kill

2. Overkill - Horrorscope

3. Flotsam & Jetsam - Doomsday For The Deceiver

4. Annihilator - Alice In Hell

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Following are the albums which are in my opinion Pure Thrash Metal and defines the art of Thrash /Speed Metal.

1. Exodus - Bonded By Blood

2. Megadeth - Killing Is My Business... And Business Is Good!

3. Metal Church - Metal Church

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Some of these albums are known just when you see their album cover. They are usually iconic albums (whether positively or negatively) and one can easily identify them even if they were zoomed out tons in any place.

Please contribute to this list by suggesting albums you think have iconic covers. Comments are appreciated.

1. Morbid Angel - Altars Of Madness

2. Immortal - At The Heart Of Winter

3. Emperor - In The Nightside Eclipse

4. Mayhem - De Mysteriis Dom Sathanas

5. Metallica - Ride The Lightning

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Kreator are one of the my favourite thrash metal bands.They have a lot of masterpieces in these genre and some experimental albums in which Kreator played some fresh music.Those albums are not regarded as being very good,but I like all of them and here is the list

1. Kreator - Extreme Aggression

2. Kreator - Coma Of Souls

3. Kreator - Violent Revolution

4. Kreator - Hordes Of Chaos

5. Kreator - Enemy Of God

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Bands listed alphabetically, One album per band (With the exception of Carcass and Napalm Death who appear in the Grind and Death Metal sections). Some bands may not be pure old school (Death / Thrash, Doom Death / Death Doom and early Brutal / Technical Death Included) I have also Included some of the more extreme Thrash releases that pre-dated the genre but undoubtedly help pave the way for things to come, I included these as I wish to give a general summary of the way Death Metal began and evolved throughout the 80's and 90's.

1. Old School Death Metal (Late 80's - 90's)

2. Abhorrence - Abhorrence [EP]

3. Acrostichon - Engraved in Black

4. Adramelech - Psychostasia

5. Afflicted - Prodigal Sun

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