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've folded some speed metal and other occasional outliers into this list, maybe a few not-so-thrash albums by otherwise-thrash bands, since they're close enough and I wasn't going to make a separate list.

The first handful are my all-time favorite thrash albums, though the order within that section is quite flexible. The rest is self-explanatory.

I leave these lists to rot for long periods of time, so rather than updating them after every few albums I make sweeping changes every couple of years. This list was last updated August 21, 2021.

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ScreamingSteelUS | 16.05.2016

	1.	Slayer - Reign In Blood
	2.	Gama Bomb - Citizen Brain
	3.	Cross Examination - Menace II Sobriety
	4.	Slayer - Seasons In The Abyss
	5.	Metallica - Ride The Lightning
	6.	Artillery - By Inheritance
	7.	Exodus - Tempo Of The Damned
	8.	Overkill - The Years Of Decay
	9.	Metallica - Master Of Puppets
	10.	Gama Bomb - Tales From The Grave In Space
	11.	Opeth - Blackwater Park
	12.	Death Angel - The Evil Divide
	13.	Kreator - Pleasure To Kill
	14.	Kreator - Hordes Of Chaos
	15.	Kreator - Gods Of Violence
	16.	Overkill - Ironbound
	17.	Rigor Mortis - Rigor Mortis
	18.	Anthrax - Among The Living 9/10 from here on down.
	19.	Anthrax - Spreading The Disease
	20.	Artillery - Terror Squad
	21.	Black Fast - Starving Out The Light
	22.	Body Count - Born Dead
	23.	Body Count - Manslaughter
	24.	Bütcher - 666 Goats Carry My Chariot
	25.	Cross Examination - The Hung Jury
	26.	Death Angel - The Dream Calls For Blood
	27.	Death Angel - Killing Season
	28.	Death Angel - Relentless Retribution
	29.	Death Angel - The Ultra-Violence
	30.	Deathwish - Demon Preacher
	31.	Devastation - Idolatry
	32.	Flotsam And Jetsam - Doomsday For The Deceiver
	33.	Gama Bomb - Speed Between The Lines
	34.	Hatriot - Dawn Of The New Centurion
	35.	Helstar - Nosferatu
	36.	King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard - Infest The Rats' Nest
	37.	Kreator - Coma Of Souls
	38.	Kreator - Enemy Of God
	39.	Megadeth - Killing Is My Business... And Business Is Good!
	40.	Megadeth - Peace Sells... But Who's Buying?
	41.	Megadeth - Rust In Peace
	42.	Mekong Delta - The Music Of Erich Zann
	43.	Metallica - ...And Justice For All
	44.	Metallica - Kill 'Em All
	45.	Overkill - Feel The Fire
	46.	Overkill - Taking Over
	47.	Rigor Mortis - Rigor Mortis Vs. The Earth
	48.	Rigor Mortis - Slaves To The Grave
	49.	Sepultura - Schizophrenia
	50.	Slaughter - Strappado
	51.	Slayer - Show No Mercy
	52.	Suicidal Tendencies - The Art Of Rebellion
	53.	Suicidal Tendencies - How Will I Laugh Tomorrow... When I Can't Even Smile Today
	54.	Suicidal Tendencies - Lights... Camera... Revolution!
	55.	Suicidal Tendencies - Suicidal Tendencies
	56.	Testament - The Gathering
	57.	Testament - The Legacy
	58.	Testament - Practice What You Preach
	59.	Toxik - Think This
	60.	Toxik - World Circus
	61.	Vektor - Black Future
	62.	Vektor - Outer Isolation
	63.	Vektor - Terminal Redux
	64.	Znowhite - Act Of God
	65.	Abattoir - Vicious Attack 8/10 from here on down.
	66.	Abomination - Tragedy Strikes
	67.	Accu§er - The Conviction
	68.	Accu§er - Diabolic
	69.	Agent Steel - Skeptics Apocalypse
	70.	Angelus Apatrida - Cabaret De La Guillotine
	71.	Annihilator - Alice In Hell
	72.	Annihilator - Never, Neverland
	73.	Anthrax - For All Kings
	74.	Anthrax - Persistence Of Time
	75.	Anthrax - Worship Music
	76.	Artillery - Legions
	77.	Artillery - Penalty By Perception
	78.	Assassin - Breaking The Silence
	79.	Assassin - The Club
	80.	Assassin - Interstellar Experience
	81.	Bewitcher - Cursed Be Thy Kingdom
	82.	Biomechanical - The Empires Of The Worlds
	83.	Black Fast - Terms Of Surrender
	84.	Body Count - Body Count
	85.	Body Count - Violent Demise: The Last Days
	86.	Bulldozer - The Day Of Wrath
	87.	Bulldozer - IX
	88.	Bulldozer - Neurodeliri
	89.	Bulldozer - Unexpected Fate
	90.	Celtic Frost - To Mega Therion
	91.	Children - Hard Times Hanging At The End Of The World
	92.	Condor - Condor
	93.	Condor - Unstoppable Power
	94.	Crisix - Against The Odds
	95.	Cross Examination - The Hung Jury
	96.	Death Angel - Act III
	97.	Death Angel - The Art Of Dying
	98.	Death Angel - Humanicide
	99.	Deathhammer - Evil Power
	100.	Destruction - Eternal Devastation
	101.	Destruction - Infernal Overkill
	102.	Détente - Recognize No Authority
	103.	Evil Invaders - Feed Me Violence
	104.	Evile - Enter The Grave
	105.	Exhorder - Slaughter In The Vatican
	106.	Exmortus - Ride Forth
	107.	Exodus - Bonded By Blood
	108.	Exumer - Possessed By Fire
	109.	Flotsam And Jetsam - The End Of Chaos
	110.	Forté - Rise Above
	111.	Gama Bomb - Sea Savage
	112.	Gama Bomb - The Terror Tapes
	113.	Guillotine - Blood Money
	114.	Guillotine - Under The Guillotine
	115.	Hatriot - Heroes Of Origin
	116.	Hazzerd - Delirium
	117.	Helstar - Vampiro
	118.	Hexenhaus - The Edge Of Eternity
	119.	Holy Terror - Mind Wars
	120.	Invocator - Weave The Apocalypse
	121.	Karnivore - In The Halls Of The Wicked
	122.	King Parrot - Dead Set
	123.	Kreator - Phantom Antichrist
	124.	Kreator - Terrible Certainty
	125.	Lazarus A.D. - The Onslaught
	126.	Machine Head - The Blackening
	127.	Machine Head - Burn My Eyes
	128.	Machine Head - Unto The Locust
	129.	Megadeth - Countdown To Extinction
	130.	Megadeth - The System Has Failed
	131.	Mekong Delta - Dances Of Death (And Other Walking Shadows)
	132.	Mekong Delta - Mekong Delta
	133.	Mekong Delta - The Principle Of Doubt
	134.	Metallica - Death Magnetic
	135.	Metallica - St. Anger
	136.	Mokoma - Elävien Kirjoihin
	137.	Necronomicon - Apocalyptic Nightmare
	138.	Necronomicon - Escalation
	139.	Necronomicon - Invictus
	140.	Necronomicon - Necronomicon
	141.	Necronomicon - Revenge Of The Beast
	142.	Necronomicon - Screams
	143.	Nekromantheon - Visions Of Trismegistos
	144.	Onslaught - The Force
	145.	Onslaught - VI
	146.	Overkill - Bloodletting
	147.	Overkill - The Electric Age
	148.	Overkill - From The Underground And Below
	149.	Overkill - Horrorscope
	150.	Overkill - The Killing Kind
	151.	Overkill - Under The Influence
	152.	Overkill - The Wings Of War
	153.	Paladin - Ascension
	154.	Paradox - Collision Course
	155.	Paradox - Heresy
	156.	Possessed - Revelations Of Oblivion
	157.	Possessed - Seven Churches
	158.	Pyracanda - Two Sides Of A Coin
	159.	Razor - Evil Invaders
	160.	Realm - Endless War
	161.	Rigor Mortis - Freaks
	162.	Ringworm - The Venomous Grand Design
	163.	Sacral Rage - Beyond Celestial Echoes
	164.	Sarcófago - I.N.R.I.
	165.	Sarcófago - The Laws Of Scourge
	166.	Sepultura - Arise
	167.	Sepultura - Beneath The Remains
	168.	Sepultura - Chaos A.D.
	169.	Sepultura - Quadra
	170.	Skeleton - Skeleton
	171.	Slayer - Hell Awaits
	172.	Slayer - God Hates Us All
	173.	Slayer - World Painted Blood
	174.	Sodom - Agent Orange
	175.	Sodom - M-16
	176.	Suicidal Tendencies - Freedumb
	177.	Suicidal Tendencies - Join The Army
	178.	Suicidal Tendencies - Still Cyco After All These Years
	179.	Suicidal Tendencies - Suicidal For Life
	180.	Swashbuckle - Crewed By The Damned
	181.	Swashbuckle - Crime Always Pays...
	182.	Testament - Dark Roots Of Earth
	183.	Testament - The Formation Of Damnation
	184.	Testament - The New Order
	185.	Toxic Holocaust - Chemistry Of Consciousness
	186.	Voivod - The Wake
	187.	Wargasm - Why Play Around
	188.	Witches - The Fates
	189.	Xenoblight - Procreation
	190.	Zimmers Hole - When You Were Shouting At The Devil... We Were In League With Satan
	191.	Accu§er - Dependent Domination 7/10 from here on down.
	192.	Accu§er - Double Talk
	193.	Accu§er - The Forlorn Divide
	194.	Accu§er - Repent
	195.	Accu§er - Who Dominates Who? *whom
	196.	Acid Reign - The Fear
	197.	Acid Reign - Moshkinstein
	198.	ADX - Non Serviam
	199.	Anthrax - Fistful Of Metal
	200.	Armory (SWE) - The Search
	201.	Artillery - The Face Of Fear
	202.	Artillery - Fear Of Tomorrow
	203.	Artillery - My Blood
	204.	Assassin - The Upcoming Terror
	205.	Autonoesis - Autonoesis
	206.	Bewitched (SWE) - At The Gates Of Hell
	207.	Bewitcher - Under The Witching Cross
	208.	Black Fast - Spectre Of Ruin
	209.	Body Count - Murder 4 Hire
	210.	Bonded By Blood - Feed The Beast
	211.	Bulldozer - The Final Separation
	212.	Bulldozer - Dance Got Sick!
	213.	Byzantine - The Cicada Tree
	214.	Byzantine - To Release Is To Resolve
	215.	Cautiva - Human
	216.	Celtic Frost - Morbid Tales
	217.	Cro-Mags - The Age Of Quarrel
	218.	Cyclone Temple - I Hate Therefore I Am
	219.	Dark Angel - Darkness Descends
	220.	Dark Angel - Time Does Not Heal
	221.	Deathhammer - Chained To Hell
	222.	Dr. Living Dead! - Cosmic Conqueror
	223.	Dr. Living Dead! - Crush The Sublime Gods
	224.	D.R.I. - Crossover
	225.	Dublin Death Patrol - DDP 4 Life
	226.	Dust Bolt - Mass Confusion
	227.	Eldritch - Cracksleep
	228.	Empyrios - Zion
	229.	Ewïg Frost - No Dice
	230.	Exhorder - The Law
	231.	Exodus - Blood In, Blood Out
	232.	Extinction A.D. - Decimation Treaty
	233.	Exumer - Hostile Defiance
	234.	Exumer - The Raging Tides
	235.	Flotsam And Jetsam - The Cold
	236.	Gama Bomb - Untouchable Glory
	237.	Goatwhore - Vengeful Ascension
	238.	Hammercult - Legends Never Die
	239.	Hammercult - Steelcrusher
	240.	Havok - Conformicide
	241.	Havok - Unnatural Selection
	242.	Hellbringer - Awakened From The Abyss
	243.	Hexecutor - Beyond Any Human Conception Of Knowledge...
	244.	Hexenhaus - Awakening
	245.	Hobbs' Angel Of Death - Hobbs' Angel Of Death
	246.	Holy Moses - Queen Of Siam
	247.	Holy Moses - Redefined Mayhem
	248.	In Malice's Wake - Light Upon The Wicked
	249.	Inculter - Fatal Visions
	250.	Insanity Alert - 666-Pack
	251.	Invocator - Dying To Live
	252.	Invocator - Excursion Demise
	253.	Kreator - Outcast
	254.	Lich King - Do-Over
	255.	Megadeth - Dystopia
	256.	Megadeth - So Far, So Good... So What?
	257.	Megadeth - United Abominations
	258.	Mekong Delta - In A Mirror Darkly
	259.	Metallica - Garage Days Re-Revisited
	260.	Metallica - Lulu
	261.	Metallica - Metallica
	262.	Midnight - Rebirth By Blasphemy
	263.	Mokoma - Hengen Pitimet
	264.	Mr. Bungle - The Raging Wrath Of The Easter Bunny Demo
	265.	Murder Inc. - Umlčen Navěky
	266.	Necrodeath - The Age Of Dead Christ
	267.	Necrodeath - Black As Pitch
	268.	Necrodeath - 100% Hell
	269.	Nervosa - Downfall Of Mankind
	270.	Nuclear Assault - Game Over
	271.	Overkill - Coverkill
	272.	Overkill - Killbox 13
	273.	Overkill - ReliXIV
	274.	Overkill - White Devil Armory
	275.	Paradox - Electrify
	276.	Paradox - Pangea
	277.	Paradox - Product Of Imagination
	278.	Paradox - Tales Of The Weird
	279.	Power Trip - Manifest Decimation
	280.	Primal Rite - Dirge Of Escapism
	281.	Raider - Guardian Of The Fire
	282.	Sacred Reich - The American Way
	283.	Sacred Reich - Awakening
	284.	Sacred Reich - Surf Nicaragua
	285.	Schizophrenia - Voices
	286.	Sepultura - Machine Messiah
	287.	Sepultura - The Mediator Between The Head And Hands Must Be The Heart
	288.	Sepultura - Roots
	289.	Shakma - House Of Possession
	290.	Slayer - Christ Illusion
	291.	Slayer - Divine Intervention
	292.	Slayer - Repentless
	293.	Slayer - South Of Heaven
	294.	Sodom - Genesis XIX
	295.	Stone - Emotional Playground
	296.	Stormtroopers Of Death - Speak English Or Die
	297.	Suicidal Tendencies - Free Your Soul And Save My Mind
	298.	Suicidal Tendencies - 13
	299.	Sylosis - Cycle Of Suffering
	300.	Tankard - One Foot In The Grave
	301.	Testament - Low
	302.	Titans Eve - Chasing The Devil
	303.	Toxik - Breaking Class
	304.	Voivod - Infini
	305.	Voivod - War And Pain
	306.	Warbeast - Enter The Arena
	307.	Warbringer - Weapons Of Tomorrow
	308.	Watchtower - Concepts Of Math: Book One
	309.	Witchery - I Am Legion
	310.	Witchery - In His Infernal Majesty's Service
	311.	Accu§er - The Mastery 6/10 from here on down.
	312.	Acid Reign - Obnoxious
	313.	ADX - Exécution
	314.	Anger As Art - Ad Mortem Festinamus
	315.	Annihilator - Feast
	316.	Anthrax - State Of Euphoria
	317.	Bonded By Blood - Exiled To Earth
	318.	Cripper - Devil Reveals
	319.	Cripper - Hyëna
	320.	Dark Angel - Leave Scars
	321.	Dark Angel - We Have Arrived
	322.	Darkness - First Class Violence
	323.	Deströyer 666 - Wildfire
	324.	Destruction - Spiritual Genocide
	325.	Distillator - Summoning The Malicious
	326.	Dublin Death Patrol - Death Sentence
	327.	Dust Bolt - Trapped In Chaos
	328.	Enforced - Kill Grid
	329.	Eradicator - Slavery
	330.	Evile - Infected Nations
	331.	Flotsam And Jetsam - Drift
	332.	Flotsam And Jetsam - Flotsam And Jetsam
	333.	Flotsam And Jetsam - Ugly Noise
	334.	Goatwhore - Constricting Rage Of The Merciless
	335.	Hatchet - Dying To Exist
	336.	The Haunted - Exit Wounds
	337.	Hirax - Immortal Legacy
	338.	Hirax - Raging Violence
	339.	In The Fire - Volatile Beings
	340.	Inculcator - Void Abecedary
	341.	InnerGuilt - Slanderous Society
	342.	Invocator - Through The Flesh To The Soul
	343.	Lazarus A.D. - Black Rivers Flow
	344.	Lich King - The Omniclasm
	345.	Lich King - World Gone Dead
	346.	Living Sacrifice - Living Sacrifice
	347.	Machine Head - Bloodstone & Diamonds
	348.	Megadeth - Endgame
	349.	Megadeth - Super Collider
	350.	Megadeth - Th1rt3en
	351.	Megadeth - Youthanasia
	352.	Metal Allegiance - Volume II: Power Drunk Majesty
	353.	Metallica - Hardwired... To Self-Destruct
	354.	Metallica - Re-Load
	355.	Metalstorm - I - Saeculum Obscurum
	356.	Necrodeath - Idiosyncrasy
	357.	Necrodeath - Mater Of All Evil
	358.	Necrodeath - Phylogenesis
	359.	Necrodeath - The 7 Deadly Sins
	360.	Necrodeath - Ton(e)s Of Hate
	361.	Nervosa - Agony
	362.	Onslaught - Power From Hell
	363.	Overkill - The Grinding Wheel
	364.	Overkill - I Hear Black
	365.	Overkill - Immortalis
	366.	Overkill - Necroshine
	367.	Overkill - W.F.O.
	368.	Paradox - Riot Squad
	369.	Power Trip - Nightmare Logic
	370.	Principality Of Hell - Fire & Brimstone
	371.	Principality Of Hell - Sulfure & Bane
	372.	Pripjat - Sons Of Tschernobyl
	373.	Profane Omen - Reset
	374.	Rapture (GRE) - Paroxysm Of Hatred
	375.	Sathanas - Necrohymns
	376.	Savage Messiah - The Fateful Dark
	377.	Savage Messiah - Plague Of Conscience
	378.	Shotgun Cure - Amorphous
	379.	Slayer - Diabolus In Musica
	380.	Suicidal Angels - Bloodbath
	381.	Sylosis - Dormant Heart
	382.	Testament - Brotherhood Of The Snake
	383.	Testament - Titans Of Creation
	384.	Voivod - Infini
	385.	Voivod - Rrröööaaarrr
	386.	Voivod - War And Pain
	387.	Warbringer - Woe To The Vanquished