Here is my personnal top 50 Thrash Metal album of all time, order by my preference. (even if it's really hard to order after the top 20 )
Feel free to suggest me some I've forgot to mention,…

1.Megadeth - Rust In Peace

2.Metallica - Ride The Lightning

3.Slayer - Reign In Blood

4.Vektor - Black Future

5.Machine Head - Burn My Eyes

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1.Slayer - Reign In Blood

2.Exodus - Bonded By Blood

3.Metallica - Ride The Lightning

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

5.Overkill - The Years Of Decay

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One album per band.

1.Slayer - Reign In Blood

2.Metallica - Ride The Lightning

3.Megadeth - Rust In Peace

4.Overkill - Horrorscope

5.Testament - The New Order

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Long hair, tight jeans, tons of chicks. Thrash metal at it's finest.

1.Metallica - Ride The Lightning

2.Megadeth - Rust In Peace

3.Slayer - Reign In Blood

4.Pantera - Cowboys From Hell

5.Artillery - By Inheritance

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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…

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2.Aarni - Bathos

3.Arcturus - Aspera Hiems Symfonia

4.Diablo Swing Orchestra - The Butcher's Ballroom

5.Sadness - Ames De Marbre

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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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Metal Albums from 1985…

1.Slayer - Hell Awaits

2.Pentagram - Pentagram

3.Artillery - Fear Of Tomorrow

4.Anthrax - Spreading The Disease

5.Exodus - Bonded By Blood

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One album per band, no specific order.

1.Metal Church - Metal Church

2.Exodus - Bonded By Blood

3.Celtic Frost - To Mega Therion

4.Destruction - Infernal Overkill

5.Dark Angel - Darkness Descends

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RANKING CRITERIA :

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

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Just a top 5 of the most ingenious album covers of the 80's in the field of thrash metal...

1.Mordred - Fool's Game

2.Testament - Practice What You Preach

3.Exodus - Bonded By Blood

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

5.Metallica - Kill 'Em All

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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…

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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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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It's nearly been a year since I've started listening to metal. I've listened to many albums since then, but it took me some time to get used to some genres, band ideologies and listening…

1.Agalloch - Ashes Against The Grain

2.Suffocation - Pierced From Within

3.Immortal - At The Heart Of Winter

4.Agalloch - The Mantle

5.Edge Of Sanity - Crimson

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RANKING CRITERIA :

- Originality [ 35% of the rating ]
- Songwriting [ 35% of the rating ]
- Performance [ 30% of the rating ]

Neither popularity among fans nor commercial success (or unsuccess)…

1.Metallica - Ride The Lightning

2.Iron Maiden - The Number Of The Beast

3.Metallica - Master Of Puppets

4.Black Sabbath - Master Of Reality

5.Iron Maiden - Piece Of Mind

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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

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

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5.Metal Church - Metal Church

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