Like my other genre-based lists, this exists purely for my own organizational purposes and not to provide a definitive statement about or guidebook to the thrash genre. I'm aware that there are gaps and, more importantly, things you don't agree with. If you're dying to ask why I love Gama Bomb so much and why I can't spare two minutes for Destruction, Annihilator, Tankard, etc., then please go do it somewhere else as I haven't the time to clean up after you. I will, however, accept criticism for the lack of Coroner and Voivod.

1. Slayer - Reign In Blood

2. Gama Bomb - Citizen Brain

3. Slayer - Seasons In The Abyss

4. Metallica - Ride The Lightning

5. Artillery - By Inheritance

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1. Metallica - Master Of Puppets

2. Iron Maiden - Powerslave

3. Symphony X - The Divine Wings Of Tragedy

4. Dream Theater - Images And Words

5. Metallica - Ride The Lightning

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1. Metallica - ...And Justice For All

2. Metallica - Ride the Lightning

3. Metallica - Master of Puppets

4. Metallica - Metallica

5. Metallica - Death Magnetic

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Back when I joined the site in 2011, I did a customary top 100 album list. Every year since then, when I've looked back at it it's become increasingly unrecognisable from my own tastes. Seeing bands I once listened to daily vanish from my playlists, new bands emerge as favourites, and bands even come and go in my reckonings during that time period (Iced Earth, Alcest, even Pain Of Salvation and more certainly peaked in my listening habits around 2011-12 to slowly vanish into obscurity). Now that it's just gone 5 years since I did that list, I thought I might do an updated list just to see how much my tastes have shifted. Whilst compiling the list, I pretty much worked on gut instinct, which was weird as I found myself almost disregarding albums I know I like whilst promoting albums I'm honestly undecided on - it almost seemed to veer away from album quality at times to embracing a subconscious effect the albums have had. Anyway, here it is, plus some honorable mentions that I was surprised missed out.

1. Dream Theater - Images And Words

2. Sylosis - Monolith

3. Sylosis - Edge Of The Earth

4. Agalloch - The Mantle

5. Protest The Hero - Kezia

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My personal rankings of Metallica's studio albums.

1. Metallica - Ride The Lightning

2. Metallica - Kill 'Em All

3. Metallica - Master Of Puppets

4. Metallica - ...And Justice For All

5. Metallica - Metallica

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This serves as a memory note, pretty much.

1. Insomnium - Above The Weeping World

2. Amorphis - Under The Red Cloud

3. Be'lakor - Of Breath And Bone

4. Ghost Brigade - IV - One With The Storm

5. Metallica - Ride The Lightning

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1. Megadeth - Rust in peace

2. Metallica - Ride the lightning

3. Metallica - Master of puppets

4. Slayer - Reign in blood

5. Testament - The legacy

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1. Megadeth - Rust in peace

2. Metallica - Ride the lightning

3. Slayer - Reign in blood

4. Metallica - Master of puppets

5. Testament - The legacy

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1. Metallica - ...And Justice For All

2. Megadeth - Rust in Peace

3. Metallica - Ride The Lightning

4. Metallica - Master of Puppets

5. Kreator - Hordes of Chaos

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1. Blind Guardian - A Night At The Opera

2. Sonata Arctica - Silence

3. Ayreon - The Human Equation

4. Trans-Siberian Orchestra - Night Castle

5. Avantasia - The Wicked Symphony

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1. Metallica - Ride The Lightning

2. Metallica - Metallica

3. Metallica - Master Of Puppets

4. Metallica - ...And Justice For All

5. Metallica - Death Magnetic

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1. Metallica - Ride The Lightning

2. Vio-lence - Eternal Nightmare

3. Megadeth - Rust In Peace

4. Iron Maiden - Powerslave

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

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Basically, what I consider to be the best albums in metal history, at this moment in my life (that's why it's quite a thrash-centric list).
criterias: memorable riffs/ideas/vocals, song-writing,originality,importance in metal history, diversity/conistency ratio, passion/pathos/conviction
One Album per Band.

1. Metallica - Ride the Lightning

2. Morbid Angel - Altars of Madness

3. Megadeth - Rust In Peace

4. Death - Leprosy

5. Candlemass - Epicus Doomicus Metallicus

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Simple ranking of all my favorite albums. Favorite song from the album in the notes. Sure to change/expand as I learn and explore more within metal.

1. Blind Guardian - Imaginations From The Other Side

2. Ayreon - 01011001

3. Ulcerate - The Destroyers Of All

4. Metallica - Ride The Lightning

5. Dream Theater - A Dramatic Turn Of Events

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Just a little list of intense albums from which stem some raw heavy metal...
Displayed in no strict order.
To avoid doublons, only one album/ep is shown per band ; of course these bands (*thinking of Black Sabbath, Judas Priest, Iron Maiden, Accept...*) also have other awesome albums, so I've just pinned those as a suggestion under the one I've chosen

1. Judas Priest - Sad Wings Of Destiny

2. Sortilège - Sortilège

3. Tarot - Spell Of Iron

4. Mercyful Fate - Melissa

5. Black Sabbath - Black Sabbath

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