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Almost makes you think it's a ballad, until the song kicks into gear as a monumentally badass, epic, trad metal song. This song is just pure epic metal fire, anthemic to the max, and anyone who can't appreciate its genius is a poseur. A song to slay the legions of false metal to.

Props to the lyric, "May your sword stay wet, like a young girl in her prime".






This song only needs one minute and nineteen seconds to make 99% of extreme metal irrelevant. Metalcore, with more than a touch of grind, combine to completely and totally wreck your **** with odd time signatures and riffs for days. If you hate this (TROLLHEART!) then you are a bitch. Straight up.






Trashy? Yes. Badass? Most definitely. The riffs are insane, and Chris Barnes still had the best guttural vocals in death metal. It's simple and straight to the point, with a second half so heavy that city blocks tremble in fear at the seismic event to come.






An atmospheric, doomy, malevolent intro leads into a mid-paced death metal assault of primitive awesomeness. As always for a song on one of these lists, the riffs are on point, but add on the wretched vocals of the incomparable John Tardy, and the foul production straight from a fetid tomb, and you have a death metal song of the most perfectly badass kind.






Soon to be renamed "Lamb of God" (perhaps you've heard of them), this band's debut is a hate**** of monumentally badass proportions, and "Goatfish" is the most badass of the lost. Less grindcorey, thrashy, and hardcorey than the rest of the tracks, this song is Pantera worship of the best kind, heavier than a truckload of illegal immigrants hoping for a new life in America. That riff has obliterated my mind ever since I first heard it, and few other songs have come close to its badassery.






I was around 14 when I first heard this song, and "Wheels of Steel" has been the riff monster that set a standard for rhythm guitar badass badassery that has never been equaled since. Cheesy and dated though the band may be, I don't give a ****, as Saxon rock harder than any band half their age. I'll wet myself at the first chord of that riff till the day I die. All hail mother****ing Saxon!






Pure thrash metal rage and hate, this was the first Megadeth song on the first Megadeth album I ever bought, and no other of their songs can **** with the sheer level of badassery on display on this track. One of the few songs that doesn't sacrifice any immediacy despite its blistering speed, "Last Rites/Loved to Deth" is thrash at its most pissed off, and also its most badass.






The **** is wrong with me? Three entries in and so far no Slayer? Just wrong. I love so many Slayer songs for so many reasons, but this is their undisputed most badass track. From the fast-as-a-virgin-orgasm opening riffs, to Tom Araya's introductory scream, to the brutal breakdown riff of badass godliness halfway through, this is one of the most amazing songs ever recorded, and I'm ashamed that it wasn't on the first entry.

SSSSSSSSSSLLLLLLLLLLAAAAAAAAAAYYYYYYYYYYEEEEEEEEEE RRRRRRRRRR!!!!!!!!!!






Everyone on Earth has heard this song more times than they can count, and for good reason: it's ****ing badass. Yeah it's meathead as ****, but who the **** cares when you have a riff that bitchin'? This song crushes your skull into the dirt unless you're a joyless mother****er without an ounce of testosterone.






Technically a black metal band, this is more of a hard rock/heavy metal song with black metal aesthetics, but as with most of the entries in this series, this is a riff monster of epic proportions. And that chorus is just monumental. I could see myself curb stomping Jesus while listening to this.

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Some Sick Powerviolence Albums I've Been Checking Out Recently

With my newfound love of grindcore has come an even newer appreciation for powerviolence. I'm still a serious PV n00b, but these albums are swiftly educating me...






I'm sure anyone with even a passing knowledge of powerviolence has heard this album, and it was probably the first for me. Pretty sure I found out about it while checking out the grindcore chart on RYM, and it ****ing blew me away. Just totally brutal, blindingly fast, with sludgy breakdowns that crush harder than 99% of doom metal bands. And that thick, abrasive, actually professional production gives them an edge over many of their lo-fi brethren.





Another band I've known about for a while, for some odd reason this is my most listened to album according to Last.FM. I mean, I've listened to it a whole lot, but I guess I must have fallen asleep one night with it on repeat. With seventeen tracks playing for five or six hours, over and over again, that'd do it I guess.

Anyways, this is yet another brutal-as-**** ****fest of speed and sludge riffs, with a bit more of a punk edge than Nails, making it a bit more fun, if a smidge less intense -- of course, if you don't like this kind of music then you probably won't be able to tell the difference. The short samples between several of the songs add some breathing room, while being pretty cool in their own right, "Repeat it after me, bitch! I come in the name of Jesus, by the power of the Holy Spirit! God Almighty, you know, ruler of Heaven, and Earth, and every God damn thing in-between!"

Just a bitchin' album all around.





Yeah, no surprises yet, but Charles Bronson rule, so **** you. They're a lot more punk sounding than the more modern bands, or even the 1st wave bands, and so they're not the most brutal PV band, but they are a spastic assault of hardcore insanity. They're not pissed off about politics like the newer bands, or about how much life personally sucks like the older ones; these guys are just out to have a laugh by playing so fast that all but .1% of the population would likely scratch their heads in profound confusion as to why Charles Bronson would want to.

They're just ****ing fun. And the production sucks **** unless you've got the volume to really blow out your speakers. Then it's awesome.





These dudes are OG powerviolence, back when it was about sketchy weirdos hating life, the universe, and everything, rather than self-consciously political, social activist-wannabe punks hating the government because that's just what punks do. These bands were generally too self-destructive and tweaked out on meth to last long enough to record more than a few singles and maybe an EP or two, but for some strange reason they all seem to have at least one career-spanning compilation album.

Such is this "album", clocking in at over forty-four minutes of songs that pretty much all sound the same, making it a bit of a slog after a while, but as it's a compilation it doesn't really matter if you can listen to it as whole, does it? For as long as you can stand them Despise You will obliterate your *******. They're closer to hardcore than Nails or Magrudergrind, but probably one of the most brutal of their mid-nineties contemporaries, and still miles away from the fun of Charles Bronson. These dudes were dead serious about telling everyone else to go **** themselves.

Don't know why they have what sounds like a thirteen-year-old girl providing backing vocals, though.





Believe it or not, these guys are German. You'd never know, right? They also just might be the most intense PV band I've ever heard, even edging out Nails. And being the most brutal powerviolence band kind of makes you the most brutal band in general, doesn't it? Don't know, but it's worth looking into.

God damn is this **** fast.

I also just rec'ed this to Trollheart in the Torture Chamber thread. Mwahahahahahahahahaha!!!!!

God damn does this sound like **** on Youtube. Just like Charles Bronson. Listen to this **** somewhere else, but until then...





Following in the weirdo experimental vein of powerviolence that for some reason exists is this ****ing band, who rule. A lot. Like, totally. They combine PV with oddball sections of what I take to be post-metal (I don't give two ****s about post-metal, so I'm just guessing, but I still think I'm right). At times they use post-metal to add strange textures to their insanely fast riffs, but at others they actually delve into ambient territory.

But while many heavy music artists who incorporate experimental weirdness into music do so at the cost of intensity. Not so Bucket Full of Teeth. They're easily in the same league of brutality as Nails or Yacøpsæ, they just do other stuff too. The chainsaw guitar tone helps.

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Huh I just discovered this journal. Man you really do hate the Black album.

Anyways love Asphyx song, very crusty sounding.

Chula Vista

****ing LOVE Pantera. RIP Dime.

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Boy howdy! I'd just like to point out that I never paid money for that album. Pretty sure my roommate at military school stole it from one of our classmates, and I stole it from him. So that "review" cost me nothing.

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As much as I like coming up with something interesting, or at least something that's interesting to me, I also love wallowing in the past when it suits my whims, and thrash metal was what got me into music in the first place. Sure, I listened to god awful **** like Slipknot, Limp Bizkit, and Ozzy Osbourne beforehand, but it was thrash which truly set me on the path to musical obsession, and without it, I don't know if I would have developed that visceral need to listen to music all day every day. It was my gateway, not only into metal, but music in general, so I'm let's take a trip down self-indulgent memory lane in no particular order (I'm too drunk to rate anything). Sorry if this doesn't satisfy any thrash elitists' taste for obscure thrash, but this is the list of someone who is revisiting his past, when thrash was "new", before he became burned out from listening to the same ol' same ol', so expect some Big Four worship...






I clearly remember that it was after listening to Anthrax's Fistful of Metal (my first Anthrax album, and possibly one of the first metal albums I ever listened to) telling my mother that I was officially a metalhead (she was thrilled), but it was after first hearing this album that I realized that I was first and foremost a thrash metalhead. For weeks after, I listened to this album at least once a day every day, and often multiple times. This album ruled my life in a way that few others have in my twenty-nine years of life, and even if other Exodus albums have beaten my ass into the ground, no other will ever have the same thunderous impact on my psyche.

The riffs are abominably badass, the vocals are metal-to-the-core, and the production is perfectly in-between the self-consciously ****ty sound of black metal and the relatively sleek sound of Judas Priest and Iron Maiden.

But what truly draws me to this album is just how dated and ****ty it is. These days I would recognize this and love it ironically as much as I legitimately love it, but at fourteen I was such a n00b to all forms of music that I didn't even realize (I honestly didn't even recognize that Paul Baloff's vocals were cheesy). All I knew is that it was intense and unapologetically badass in a way that no other album I had ever heard had ever ascended/descended to. I can totally understand why this is so revered, since without the "benefit" of modern sophistication this album simply exemplifies to the Nth degree everything that is metal and macho.

And the bomb dropping intro of the title track, followed by that god damn ****ing riff still sends chills down my spine. It is pure metal personified: bitchin', brain-dead, and fun.






Back in the day I listened to Metallica's first four albums way, way, way too many times for any one of them to have made that much of an impact on me over the others. First my fav was Master of Puppets, then for the longest time it was Ride the Lightning, but now it is unquestionably Kill 'Em All. So let's go with that.

Call it a thrash album if you want, but I see this as more of an NWOBHM album that used hardcore punk to make a flying leap into what was then unknown territory. It's fast, furious, and full of young, dumb, and full of cum. Other Metallica albums might have been more accomplished, but KEA was just, like Bonded By Blood, the personification of metal. If you're not a dyed-in-the-wool metal fan, or someone who needs no brains in their metal, then this might not be a selling point to you, but as a fanboy of metal-for-metal's-sake, this is the pinnacle of metal. Straight up.

No Iron Maiden, Judas Priest, Death, etc album can come even close to bringing me that childish joy that this album does. This is one of those albums that makes me feel like that teenager who listened to nothing but metal, respected nothing but metal, and cared about nothing but metal. The sheer joy for metal exemplified by this album is a shot of pure euphoria for me.

The fact that it contains "Hit the Lights", "The Four Horsemen", "Jump in the Fire", "No Remorse", and the bonus tracks of "Blitzkrieg" and "Am I Evil?" is almost just a bonus. Almost. Cause those are the best metal songs ever recorded. **** your mother.





For the longest time this was my favorite Metallica album, and it's still my second fav. Diverse songwriting, badass thrash, complex yet approachable tunes, and beautiful melodies that pretty much no other thrash band could ever hope to tough, this album is an anomoly, not only in the genre, but in the band's back catalog.

It has the dark, lo-fi aesthetic of the debut, but matured like a fine wine. Pretty much every song on this album is a singular masterpiece of metal perfection. No other album before or since has sounded like this... this.

I'd already loved "For Whom the Bell Tolls", "Creeping Death", and "Fade to Black" (the greatest metal ballad that isn't "Hallowed By Thy Name") from the radio, but came to love "Fight Fire with Fire", "Escape", and the title track just as much (alright, maybe not quite as much).

This is an absolute masterpiece.






This was the first true thrash album I ever listened to, back when I didn't even know that thrash was a thing, and I listened to it so many times that it doesn't even make sense. I bought Load and Reload at the same time, but I'd like to think that the brutality of this album made an exceptional impression on me (can't say for sure, though, as I still thought Rob Zombie was pretty wizard at the time).

I don't love this as much as the above two albums these days though, mostly because it doesn't have any songs that quite hit as hard as "Seek and Destroy" or "For Whom the Bell Tolls", but what this album lacks in stone cold OMFG classics, it more than makes up for in consistency and, most of all, an absolutely perfect album flow (the only slight, slight, slight misstep is the almost-but-not-quite filler of "Disposable Heroes"). All in all, though, this album is a nearly perfect headbanging experience from start to finish.

The flow of this album is deceptively simple: the "welcome to the thrash fest" of "Battery", followed by the more epic title track, leading into the more mid-paced crushery of "The Thing that Should Not Be", which ends the A-side with the anti-thrash of "Welcome Home (Sanatorium)".

The B-side begins with the aforementioned quasi-mediocrity of "Disposable Heroes", which leads into the even more crushing "Leper Messiah", with the brilliant interlude of the instrumental "Orion", and ends with the sister track to "Battery", "Damage, Inc." which is a "welcome to the thrash fest" bookend to the album that is quite possibly the most appropriate and perfect closer to an album ever recorded.

Even if single tracks don't quite add up to Metallica's best tracks, the consistency of the album is mind-boggling. When I first heard the album, I just assumed that bands could do this, but I honestly don't think I've ever heard an album, metal or not, that could provide a more cohesive listening experience from start to finish.

Even if Master of Puppets isn't as diverse as Ride the Lightning, or as definitive a thrash statement as Slayer's Reign in Blood, it is quite possibly the most consistent metal album of all time. Whether or not I agree that it is the best metal album ever recorded, I won't fault anyone who claims that it is.






I could give a **** about technicality, but on this album Megadeth managed to turn proficiency into manic insanity in a way that no other band ever managed to duplicate in any way, shape, or ****ing form. This was the first Megadeth album I ever bought, and possibly one of the first five metal albums I ever bought in general (****, if you don't count Load and Reload then it was probably the third metal album I purchased) and as such it was HIGHLY influential to my impressionable, fourteen-year-old mind.

I can't think of another album that is this pissed off. Plenty of punk albums are angry, but that is generally because they are self-righteous, radical wannabes, but on this album, Dave Mustaine was expressing a personal grudge against his former band in a way that only an aphetamine-amped, borderline psychotic could. This album is rage and hate personified. Dude seriously needed to be medicated.

It might not have the polish and consistency of Peace Sells... But Who's Buying, or Rust in Peace, but it more than makes up for it in the pure venom. The main riff to "Last Rites/Loved to Deth" is malevolence personified, and that rhythm guitar to the title track is one of the most badass riffs of all time (I've heard Dave Mustaine's rhythm guitar described as more impressive than most bands' lead playing, and this song is the ultimate proof of that.

If you claim to be a metalhead and you can't appreciate the genius of this album, then you are a poseur. Not even joking. **** you.






Not as pissed off as their earlier work, this was quite possibly the greatest technical/progressive thrash album of all time, due to its ability to combine aggression, accessibility, and interesting songwriting. I didn't quite appreciate songs like "Hangar 18" back in the day (and I still don't particularly like "Holy Wars... The Punishment Due" ), but these days it is one of my most beloved Megadeth songs of all time, and pure thrash tunes like "Take No Prisoners" and "Five Magics" beat almost as much ass as anything in their back catalog, while making up for any slight lack off aggression with speed metal melody.

And songs like "Tornado of Souls" and "Rust In Peace... Polaris" are even catchier than 95% of their pop metal flirtations from the rest of the 90s.

It's been said by a certain member of this site that when a genre starts incorporating prog into its sound that it is in decline, but this album defies this accusation (though I generally do agree). I wouldn't call this a pure thrash album, as technicality has largely neutered the hardcore influence that made thrash so immediate in the past, but the speed metal energy makes this largely irrelevant.

A thrash/speed/prog/heavy metal milestone.






First Slayer song I ever heard was "Die By the Sword", and its evilness blew me the **** away, but immediately after that was "Angel of Death". Holy **** did that annihilate what was left of my mind. I will forever go back and forth between Reign in Blood and Hell Awaits, but both are landmarks in my thrash metal education, and Reign in Blood was the first Slayer album I ever actually listened to, and so it defined what I thought of as Slayer's sound.

This album is simply twenty-nine minutes of pure, sonic violence. Kerry King and Jeff Hanneman's guitar blitzkrieg, Tom Araya's vocal hatefest, Dave Lombardo's drum lobotomy, and THE SATAN killed whatever remained of my love for any radio metal I had previously harbored. I mean, this is Reign in Blood for Azazel's sake. This is the thrash Bible, and anything else is desperately grasping for thrash second place.

"Angel of Death" is brutality personified -- death metal or no death metal -- "Raining Blood" is The Evil, and then there's the rest of the album... just, OMG. How could anyone ever think that Killswitch Engage or Bring Me the Horizon are bringing the genre forward when such an album is so clearly overshadowing anything that they have ever done? There comes a point when progression has to make way for the admission that what is currently happening simply can not touch what has come before.

"Rancid, angel of death, flying free!!!"






I've heard Anthrax described as "the thinking man's thrash band", and while I imagine the only person who would say that probably isn't "a thinking man", I can kind of see where someone like that is coming from. They had some ideas beyond the wannabe punk bitching of bands going on about nuclear war and shallow, liberal politics, but still... come the **** on! "Medusa" and "I Am the Law" for ****'s sake!

But who the **** cares when Spreading the Disease rules so god damn much? This will be Anthrax's only entry, since I wasn't as big of a fan of their more hardcore influenced later albums, or their wannabe prog flirtations on Persistence of Time, but god damn do I love everything about this album. I only wish I'd listened more to their debut, or else that would probably feature here as well, as it is everything about the cheesy, thrash/proto-thrash movement of the early/mid-80s that I love so dearly.

Alas.

But **** it, down to business. Never again would Joey Belladonna have such free reign with his vocals, and he comes across as a tongue-in-cheek Bruce Dickinson, with all of the massive fun that that implies, and while Scott Ian's rhythm guitar is kind of in its primitive phase, it still hits plenty hard, and sets the album apart from the hopeless NWOBHM worship of so many proto-power metal bands of their era, perfectly set off by the even-then moderately brutal drumming of Charlie Benante (seriously, if the band had disbanded and Scott and Charlie had given their full attention to SOD, I think they could have been even more than the bottom rung of the Big Four).

But what really makes this one of my favorite thrash albums of all time is just how much fun it is. It has the headbanging quality of thrash, while having the melodic fun of melodic heavy metal. I can throw up the devil horns at the same time I am ironically singing the lyrics to "A.I.R.", "Medusa", and "Armed and Dangerous" at the top of my lungs.

Spreading the Disease may not be as consistent or well-realized as Among the Living, but it makes up for it by being one of the most god damn fun metal albums ever recorded. It's just so much god damn mother****ing fun!!!

**** anyone who says differently. Yes, that means you, WPNFire.






I was seriously debating with myself what the tenth position would be, but then I saw Metal Church on RYM, and was like, dude, **** YEAH METAL CHURCH!!! I mean, I was lukewarm toward half the tracks on this album as a teenager, but loved the others, then loved the entire album after a few years, and now I really can't think of an album that had as big an impact on me at the time (weirdly enough). And it's also an excuse to shove an obscure album into the end of this post.

But seriously, I suppose this is an odd album to post here. It's as much heavy metal and early power metal as it is thrash metal, but as far as I'm concerned it's part of the same movement, even if it's too early and divorced from the "right" influences (being from Seattle) to "benefit" from the bigger thrash movement.

Songs like "Battalions" are obviously too power metal to qualify, but "(My Favorite) Nightmare" is pure proto-thrash, which goes too far to be classified as anything else, even if it's just thrash-adjacent, and most of the rest of the album is close enough for government work.

Whatevs, though, the entire album is pure proto-thrash awesomeness. If "Hitman" and "Into the Blood" are the closest thing to filler on the album, then **** me this is a stone cold classic. Even if you don't really dig thrash, but love you some NWOBHM, then you owe it to yourself to listen to this album, and if you dig thrash, but aren't into thrash, then you should still listen to it.

It's just in that perfect sweet spot between the two movements. But if you don't dig cheesy 80s singing, then you might want to skip this. Metal Church doesn't have any hair band vocals, but... they're definitely a cheesy 80s metal band.

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Interesting her is my mine in no particular order.

Metallica Kill em All: The first thrash metal album I ever heard, and it is still my favourite today. I remember being 14 and thinking I was so hardcore listening to stuff like Raw Power and G.B.H. and than a long comes our rocker friend, and he puts in Kill em all into the cassette deck to make a point. Point made! After that I remember Kill em All would get played a lot at skate parks. Along with Reign in Blood it was a favourite amongst skaters because it was so fast.

I love it today because its straight forward thrash packed with catchy riffs with simple time signatures, none of this fancy technical progressive thrash metal bs, just good raw fun.



Metallica Ride the Lighting: I don't like it as much as Kill em All, partially because its more of a traditional metal album with the acoustic ballads and a darker tone, but nevertheless it contains my all time favourite Metallica song with For Whom The Bell Tolls



Metallica Master of Puppets: Obviously a pure metal masterpiece, like you though, I don't enjoy it as much as the first two, just because it's a bit to long and epicy for me.




Megadeth Peace Sells Whose Buying: The controversy of Megadeth's best album always comes down to Peace Sells and Rust in Peace, and although Rust seems to solidified the spot these days, I'll just say Prog metal sucks; I prefer something with catchy riffs.



Slayer Reign in Blood: I am often critical of Slayer on this forum, as I often think they relied too much on one dimensional break necking speed, which is probably why neither Angel of Death or Reigning Blood is my favourite song off the album, but rather Jesus Saves, a track that takes the time to build up. All that being said, the album is another metal masterpiece.



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.



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.



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.



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.




Toxic Holocaust - An Overdose of Death Of all the thrash revival bands I thought Toxic Holocaust was the best, this album is just pure fun.

The Batlord

I love SOD, but the second half of that album has too much filler to have made my list.


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.


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.)


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.)

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Just realized I posted the wrong Annihilator song, this is my fav.



As for new thrash recommendations couldn't tell you, Toxic Holocaust was my fav, and they had that wicked song "Bitch" that was featured in Sons of Anarchy a while back. (just realized this clip has an uhm...not so savory term)



Crossover thrash band Short Sharp Shock from Liverpool was good but I think they fizzled out. I posted this in my hardcore countdown back in 2012



Other than that you'd know better than me, I dig Warbringer's sound but have never felt that any of their songs really stands out.

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