Kreator
 

What's your opinion? What's your favorite album by them?

Pleasure to Kill is my favorite. It's just so fast, loud, and brutal. I love it.

Without doubt the best European thrash metal band (unless I`ve forgotten somebody else). Their sound ranks up there, with the other classic thrash acts and their incoporation of groove, industrial and gothic metal was a success as well.

Their three best albums:
Coma of Souls
Cause for Conflict
Outcast

U forgot Coroner ;) Awesome band. For me though Extreme Aggression is a huge fave and I also saw them on that tour so I am biased.

Great band, although I wouldnt put them as the best European thrash band. I'd not even have them as number 1 in Germany (that honour goes to Sodom for me). I dont particularly like their experimental albums in the middle of their career, the move away from the more aggressive thrash sound that they were famous for was a bad idea.

And I also voted for Pleasure To Kill

I never really got into thrash outside of Slayer and a handfull of other bands. I recognize their importance, understand the music, but it just never captivated me. The only album I have by them is "Pleasure to Kill", but most everyone says that's the album to get.

I haven't listened to Kreator for a long time but I remember thinking that they were the one European band that rivaled American thrash in spirit at least (I'm not an expert). Powerful band. I also remember really liking their Extreme Aggression album.

No way Sodom is better than Kreator. Even Frank Blackfire thought so when he defected to join Kreator and helped make their best record "Coma of Souls." Sodom's a great band, but I'd place Destruction's delightfully uber-raw unpolished thrash as the number two band.

Technically, they're from Switzerland so they may have a little mixed blood, hahaha. They did possess a great shredder, possibly the best of all Euro thrash bands.

I just said that. Spambot technology is so sophisticated these days.

I'd say they're the best German band, but best European band is a little too...much.

Pleasure to Kill would get my vote, one of the best thrash albums of all-time.

But for German thrash, I tend to prefer Sodom and Destruction.