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The Metal Art Of Thrashing (Ordered By Years)
**WARNING: Mega-list ahead**
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…
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…
| 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 |
| + 515 more |
A List Of Great Debut Albums
A lot of bands have great debut albums. Obviously this list is just a fraction of all the great debut albums out there, but it's a start. I'll keep expanding this list continuously, so all suggestions…
| 1. | Aarni - Bathos |
| 2. | Arcturus - Aspera Hiems Symfonia |
| 3. | Diablo Swing Orchestra - The Butcher's Ballroom |
| 4. | Sadness - Ames De Marbre |
| 5. | Solefald - The Linear Scaffold |
| + 360 more |
A Quick Guide For Thrash Metal, Sex, And Tacos!
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"…
| 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 |
| + 95 more |
One-album Metal Wonders
A list of bands who have released just one album. Feel free to recommend!
Edit: If the band released their debut album between 2014-present and they haven't split, they are not viable.
Edit: If the band released their debut album between 2014-present and they haven't split, they are not viable.
| 1. | ABACABB - Survivalist |
| 2. | Abstrakt Algebra - Abstrakt Algebra |
| 3. | Abydos - The Little Boy's Heavy Mental Shadow Opera About The Inhabitants Of His Diary |
| 4. | Abyssmal Sorrow - Lament |
| 5. | Age Of Silence - Acceleration |
| + 85 more |
Best Of Us Thrash [ Without The Big Four ]
RANKING CRITERIA :
1. Originality
2. Songwriting
3. Vigorous performance
1. Originality
2. Songwriting
3. Vigorous performance
| 1. | Anacrusis - Screams And Whispers |
| 2. | Overkill - Feel The Fire |
| 3. | Nuclear Assault - Game Over |
| 4. | Wrathchild America - 3-D |
| 5. | Toxik - World Circus |
| + 203 more |
Song Puzzles: One Song In Several Parts On Different Albums
Some stories, themes or concepts are presented not just in one single song but are split in separate tracks that (often) share the same title but are distinguished by a number of the corresponding part…
| 1. | A Pregnant Light - My Game Doesn't Have A Name |
| 2. | A Pregnant Light - Broken Play |
| 3. | After Forever - Prison Of Desire |
| 4. | Agathodaimon - Higher Art Of Rebellion |
| 5. | Agathodaimon - Phoenix |
| + 334 more |
Favourites Of The 80's
My favourites of the 80's. Bitch and moan girls, or check some of these out.
| 1. | Candlemass - Epicus Doomicus Metallicus |
| 2. | Morbid Saint - Spectrum Of Death |
| 3. | Autopsy - Severed Survival |
| 4. | Sempiternal Deathreign - The Spooky Gloom |
| 5. | Bathory - Blood Fire Death |
| + 5 more |
Top 25 Albums of 1990
Updated 11/14/18
| 1. | Megadeth - Rust In Peace |
| 2. | Morbid Saint - Spectrum Of Death |
| 3. | Obituary - Cause Of Death |
| 4. | Nocturnus AD - The Key |
| 5. | Atheist - Piece Of Time |
| + 20 more |
Bands With The Longest Gap Between Two Albums
Here's a descending list of the longest gaps between two albums of a band.
I only counted gaps of at least 15 years.
I classify the bands by the gap between years because, given that many albums…
I only counted gaps of at least 15 years.
I classify the bands by the gap between years because, given that many albums…
| 1. | More - Blood & Thunder |
| 2. | More - Destructor |
| 3. | White Spirit - White Spirit |
| 4. | White Spirit - Right Or Wrong |
| 5. | Thin Lizzy - Thunder And Lightning |
| + 1053 more |
Top 400 Metal Albums Ranked Mathematically (2026 Update)
RESTRICTIONS
Each album had to meet all the following conditions in order to be eligible:
1) 10+ years old
2) Metalstorm: 200+ votes, average user score 8.0+
3) Rateyourmusic: 1000+ ratings, average…
Each album had to meet all the following conditions in order to be eligible:
1) 10+ years old
2) Metalstorm: 200+ votes, average user score 8.0+
3) Rateyourmusic: 1000+ ratings, average…
| 1. | Death - Symbolic |
| 2. | Black Sabbath - Paranoid |
| 3. | Megadeth - Rust In Peace |
| 4. | Judas Priest - Painkiller |
| 5. | Black Sabbath - Master Of Reality |
| + 395 more |
1001 Metal Albums You Must Hear Before You Die
WORK IN PROGESS! Welcome to what I consider the "1001 Metal Albums You Must Hear Before You Die" or in other words, a list of records of various genres in the arrays of Metal and Hard Rock that…
| 1. | High Tide - Sea Shanties |
| 2. | Black Sabbath - Black Sabbath |
| 3. | Led Zeppelin - Led Zeppelin |
| 4. | Sir Lord Baltimore - Kingdom Come |
| 5. | Josefus - Dead Man |
| + 1242 more |
Thrashing Fury
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 |
| + 45 more |
Albums That Quake My Existence
These albums perform twisted rituals upon my inner self
| 1. | Celtic Frost - Monotheist |
| 2. | Lurker Of Chalice - Lurker Of Chalice |
| 3. | Mr. Bungle - California |
| 4. | Godspeed You! Black Emperor - F#A#∞ [1995-1997] |
| 5. | Morbid Saint - Spectrum Of Death |
| + 5 more |
TOP STRAIGHT FORWARD IN YOUR FACE THRASH ALBUMS
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 |
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| 3. | Megadeth - Killing Is My Business... And Business Is Good! |
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| 5. | Metal Church - Metal Church |
| + 44 more |