Ranking My 1988 Thrash Metal Releases
Ranking My 1988 Thrash Metal Releases
As the name implies, 1988 is probably the best (deepest) year for thrash metal releases outside the 1986 "Big 4" (well, big 3 that year) releases. The biggest names didn't release their best albums, but I think 1988 overall was far deeper, in no small part due to the success and acclaim thrash received from 1986. I rank the ones I know and have
2.
Bathory
- Blood Fire Death
1988 - Blackened thrash (100/10) - the best blackened thrash album ever released, and the prototype from which the subgenre (d)evolved
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3.
Coroner
- Punishment For Decadence
1988 - (10/10) - a good choice for best technical thrash album ever released, although I'd give their `No More Color` the slightest of nods over this one
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5.
Pestilence
- Malleus Maleficarum
1988 - (9.9/10) - probably the best brutal thrash/death-thrash album ever, behind Spectrum of Death for me
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6.
Vio-lence
- Eternal Nightmare
1988 - (9.8/10) - absolute ripper of intensity, love this album. Only album from theirs where the vocals don't bug me
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7.
Slayer
- South Of Heaven
1988 - (9.8/10) - huge departure from RiB, and it did take time to grow on me, but I love it now)
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------ a bit of a drop, not huge mind you, but more to the 9-9.5 area ---------
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15.
Incubus(US-LA)
- Serpent Temptation
1988
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26.
----------- a bit more of a drop here as well, down to the 8-8.5 area
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36.
------------- I gotta revisit these, been too long since I last listened to accurately rank them
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