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Originally Posted by William_the_Bloody
S.O.D. - Speak English or Die Anthrax had a few good tracks in their later years, but Speak English or Die is a better album than anything they ever did, the perfect blend of punk and metal, which is why I'm willing to overlook that fat bigot Billy Milano on the grounds he's way better vocalist than the girlie squeals of Joey Belladonna.
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I love SOD, but the second half of that album has too much filler to have made my list.
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Annihilator - Alice in Hell Canada has a bigger reputation in the way of punk &goth with bands like D.O.A., Skinny Puppy, Front Line Assembly, Propaghandi, No Means No ect, but we have had our metal moments and Annihilators Alice in Hell is one of them....so much better than that prog metal embarrassment to my nation called Voivod.
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I honestly can't remember if I've ever listened to the whole album, but I love what I have heard, and "Alison Hell" is one of my all-time favorite thrash songs. I listened to it more times than I can count back in the day.
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DEATH ANGEL - Frolic Through The Park It's a shame that a tour bus accident essentially ended their careers, as I thought they were one of the best outside of the big 4, and I'm Bored still remains one of my all time favourite thrash metal songs.
And yeah, I'm not so hot on Voivod, either. Killing Technology and Dimension Hatross had there weirdo charms, with some fun riffs that never actually became listenable songs, but after that they're just totally boring. And their first album (haven't listened to their seccond) should be up my alley on paper, but it's too noisy and unlistenable even for a Venom and Hellhammer fan such as myself (and yes, I think it has more in common with early black metal than early thrash).
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As far as their first run, I think they got less awesome with each album.
Frolic through the Park was cool, but
Act III was just boring, despite some really great tracks. The Ultra-Violence is one of the greatest thrash albums of all time, though, and could easily have filled the 10th spot, but I was thinking more in terms of albums that ruled my world back when I was first discovering thrash.
Other contenders: Exodus'
Tempo of the Damned and
Shovel-Headed Kill Machine, Metallica's
...And Justice for All, Slayer's
Show No Mercy, Megadeth's
Peace Sells... But Who's Buying and
So Far, So Good... So What (I think I just wanted to add one more non-Big Four album, since the only other one was
Bonded by Blood), Dark Angel's
Time Does Not Heal (again, too much filler at the end), Overkill's
Taking Over and
The Years of Decay, Vio-lence's
Eternal Nightmare, Venom's
Black Metal (close enough, I guess, but I still can never think of them as thrash), Jag Panzer's
Ample Destruction, and possibly Heathen's
Breaking the Silence.
If I was including albums from my later era of thrash listening, then I would have had to make it a top 20 to include Morbid Saint, Demolition Hammer, Exhorder, Anacrusis, Destruction, Sodom, Sarco***o, Tankard, and maybe even Watchtower (whose
Control and Resistance album has recently kind of blown me away.)
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Suicidal Tendencies - Lights Camera Revolution. Hands down the best crossover thrash band of all time, they mop the floor with D.R.I., and Rocky George was a wicked guitarist.
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DRI > Suicidal Tendencies
I think I might make a second list for modern thrash albums. Any recs for new bands? I stopped having any interest in the neo-thrash bands after becoming disgusted with bands like Gamma Bomb, Fueled by Fire, Municipal Waste, etc. I like Toxic Holocaust but have never really listened to enough of them to have much of an opinion, Evile's first album was pretty ****ing awesome, Warbringer impressed my for a few months before I stopped listening to the genre in general, and I remember really digging an album by this one band whose name I can't remember. Diamond Edge or something. (Edit: Diamond Plate! That's it.)