The Thrash Metal Desk:

Celtic Frost, very much!

Anthrax, Metallica, Slayer, Megadeth the “big four” should be everyone’s starting point here each band are classic in their own right, though Megadeth are by far my personal favourite.

Nevermore – not 100% thrash but especially on the more recent albums they are quite a thrashy, band. Jeff Loomis’ guitar playing, and Warrel Dane’s vocals are the highlights here, fantastic live.. And they have a lot of time for they’re fans.

Kreator heavy, heavy German thrash.. go on give it a listen, great stuff.

Sepultura probably my all time favourite band, Beneath the Remain, Arise and Chaos Ad is what you need to be listening to imo here.

The Haunted, Arch Enemy, and Hatesphere are signature bands in the modern Swedish (melodic) thrash sound.

Lamb of God, post-thrash metalcore... Not my cuppa tea, but lot’s of people enjoy this very much.

Machine Head, the last album and the first two is what we are talking about here, groove thrash at its best... almost!

The previous almost is because of Pantera classic band, Vulgar Display is one of the albums that really got me into Metal.. And The Great Southern Trendkills saved my life/got me through high school.

Chimaira thrashy metalcore... check out the last two albums imo they just seem to be getting better.

Shadows Fall before Mastodon these were hailed as the saviours of Metal (now it’s Gojira – [aside] strange three saviours since the turn of the millennium) the latest album is a bits and pieces album of left overs, covers, and all sorts so I’d give that a miss but The War Within, and The Art of Balance are modern thrash/metalcore master piece imo.

Thrash section seems a little quiet. :(

Anthrax - Persistence of Time (1990)



One of my favourite Anthrax albums. If anyone was looking to get into Anthrax this would be the album I'd recommend. Killer riffs, addictive chorus' and memorable lyrics combine to form some intense songs. For me, this is what thrash is all about and I recommended it to all metalheads and newbies of the metal genre alike.

Sodom, Destruction and Death are lesser known?!?!?! o_O

Oh, and Death isn't thrash...

NocnikStargazer said:
Sodom, Destruction and Death are lesser known?!?!?! o_O

Oh, and Death isn't thrash...

Well, were i come from there are lots of kids running around wearing metallica t shirts claiming that they are really into thrash metal, and they dont have a clue really tbh so yes in that respect they are lesser known... want some more lesser known bands?

Protector
Sabbat
Razor
Coroner
Artillery

Tell that to some kids and they'll be like..."what?"

Well technically death are death metal, but ive always referred to them as thrash as IMO they lack the extremities as compared to other such Brutal acts.

Oh, and i checked your charts, you've never even listened to Sodom or Destruction...

and good day...

kids are [in] trouble.
u ever listen to hellhammer killswitch555? they are one of the few thrash bands who dont suck. and to be honest, haha, metallica are prob one of them too.
i agree that death are pretty thrashy. [if u care]

Ive heard of them, but not heard them :( any one got any?

bathory is [were] thrash, venom too.

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Sepultura - Schizophrenia (1987)



Chosen by squigglycircle.

I recommend some Bywar to anyone who likes thrash, they have a few albums out. :)

Morbid Saint - Spectrum of Death (1988)



It's beyond me how could they just disappear after releasing this album. Morbid Saint played extremely fast thrash metal with excellent drumming. Production is rather shitty, but who cares about production?