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My Favorite Thrash/Speed Metal Albums

My Top 30 Favorite Thrash/Speed Metal albums in alphabetical band order

1.Agent Steel - Skeptics Apocalypse
2.Agent Steel - Unstoppable Force
3.Annihilator - Alice In Hell
4.Artillery - Fear Of Tomorrow
5.Artillery - By Inheritance

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Created by toastb on 26.12.2023



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Best Of 1988… The Year That Defined My Metal Life

While 1987 woke me up to metal and I hoovered up the likes of Iron Maiden, Metallica and Helloween’s keepers, 1988 was my metal heyday and a year that produced albums that would still dominiate my top 20 list today. Lots of power metal and plenty of Noise Records!

1.Manowar - Kings Of Metal
2.Scanner - Hypertrace
3.Helloween - Keeper Of The Seven Keys Part II
4.Candlemass - Ancient Dreams
5.Riot - ThunderSteel

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Created by billy4metal on 01.11.2023



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Hidden Title Tracks – Album Titles That Come From A Song`s Lyrics

Almost all album titles fall in one of two categories: The album shares the title with one of its songs (the title track) or, alternatively, the album title is independent from the songs (no title track).

However, there are examples of songs that have a central link to the album title without sharing the same name. In these cases, certain lyrics from the song were chosen as the album title.

This (alphabetical) list shows the names of these “hidden title tracks” and the central lyrics that gave the name to the corresponding album.

Please feel free to suggest more of your favorite metal/hard rock examples of these “hidden title tracks”.



1.40 Watt Sun - Wider Than The Sky
2.A Forest Of Stars - A Shadowplay For Yesterdays
3.Acid Bath - When The Kite String Pops
4.Agalloch - The Mantle
5.Agalloch - Ashes Against The Grain

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Created by Plattner on 06.07.2023



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THE METAL BIBLE Part II: The 80s

Welcome to what I consider the "1980s Metal Bible" or in other words, a list of records of various genres in the arrays of Metal and Hard Rock that I deem essential or at least very recommended to listeners of hard and heavy music. In this second part we conquer the mighty decade that many deem as the classic decade of Metal. This and the other parts of this journey through the decades may be a very overwhelming list. I essentially try to collect all albums in the History of Metal that strike me as worthwhile. May this be a guideline for people that seek for an entrance to a particular genre or certain bands. In no means I am saying, that this list is indisputable by any means. I consider these my personal picks for albums that should be listened to by die-hard metal fans at least once. Hopefully you can discover some new music or relate with my picks. If I missed something that you would include in such a list, please tell me in the form of a comment. Enjoy! \,,/

1.Tygers Of Pan Tang - Wild Cat
2.Krokus - Metal Rendez-Vous
3.Cirith Ungol - Frost And Fire
4.Witchfynde - Give 'Em Hell
5.Angel Witch - Angel Witch

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Created by pandrstudios on 02.06.2023



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THE METAL BIBLE

Welcome to what I consider the "Metal Bible" or in other words, a list of records of various genres in the arrays of Metal and Hard Rock that I deem essential or at least very recommended to listeners of hard and heavy music. This may be a very overwhelming list but I essentially try to collect all albums in the History of Metal that strike me as worthwhile. May this be a guideline for people that seek for an entrance to a particular genre or certain bands. In no means I am saying, that this list is indisputable by any means. I consider these my personal picks for albums that should be listened to by die-hard metal fans at least once. Hopefully you can discover some new music or relate with my picks. If I missed something that you would include in such a list, please tell me in the form of a comment. Enjoy! \,,/

1.High Tide - Sea Shanties
2.Black Sabbath - Black Sabbath
3.Led Zeppelin - Led Zeppelin
4.Sir Lord Baltimore - Kingdom Come
5.Josefus - Dead Man

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Created by pandrstudios on 31.05.2022



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Oldschool Thrash : Gems & Underrated

1.Nasty Savage - Indulgence
2.Suicidal Tendencies - How Will I Laugh Tomorrow... When I Can't Even Smile Today
3.Uncle Slam - Say Uncle
4.Annihilator - Alice In Hell
5.Tankard - Zombie Attack

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Created by Sineyar on 18.04.2022



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F3ynman's Checklist

Here are albums (ordered by subgenre) that I want to listen to, but haven't yet.
For some albums, I've heard one or two songs, but not the entire album. Therefore, these albums still await my judgement!
Recommendations are always welcome!

1.
2.Dissimulator - Lower Form Resistance
3.Job For A Cowboy - Moon Healer
4.Defect Designer - Chitin
5.Narzissus - Akt III: Erl ö sung

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Created by F3ynman2000 on 20.10.2021



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I Like Big Hits And I Can Not Lie (Part I: 20th Century)

Stuff that got me hooked in the course of the years, from my very first blurred memories as a toddler to the present day.
Lots of catchy tunes, some cheese, very few flowers.
Songs that had a big impact on me and influenced my taste in music.
Stuff to let it all hang out, songs for campfire sing-alongs and soundtracks to slit your wrists to.

1.Queen - Jazz
2.Iron Maiden - The Number Of The Beast
3.Dio - Holy Diver
4.Metallica - Ride The Lightning
5.Einstürzende Neubauten - Halber Mensch

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Created by Starvynth on 10.05.2019



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1st Wave Black Metal

1st Wave of Black Metal. Most bands here may not be considered black metal as we know it today or even in the 2nd wave, but had some sort of influence of the genre's subject matter, sound and imagery.

1.Bathory - Bathory
2.Bathory - Under The Sign Of The Black Mark
3.Bathory - Blood Fire Death
4.Blasphemy - Fallen Angel Of Doom
5.Bulldozer - The Day Of Wrath

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Created by Electric Messiah on 07.05.2019



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Thrash Til Death!

Just a list of classic thrash albums I really enjoy, since thrash has had such a good year this year. They are in no particular order.

1.Annihilator - Alice In Hell
2.Anthrax - Among The Living
3.Anthrax - Spreading The Disease
4.Artillery - By Inheritance
5.Assassin - The Upcoming Terror

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Created by mute30rp on 26.10.2016



Favourite Thrash Metal Albums

1.Demolition Hammer - Epidemic Of Violence
2.Nuclear Assault - Survive
3.Sodom - Better Off Dead
4.Voivod - Killing Technology
5.Coroner - Mental Vortex

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Created by Josantyago on 11.06.2016



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Current Top 100, 5 Years On

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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Created by musclassia on 23.03.2016



Favorite Albums From 1988

1.Vio-lence - Eternal Nightmare
2.Metallica - ...And Justice For All
3.Slayer - South Of Heaven
4.Razor - Violent Restitution
5.Morbid Saint - Spectrum Of Death

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Created by FatesOpeth on 13.02.2016



Favorite Albums Of All Time

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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Created by FatesOpeth on 16.12.2015



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Favorite Thrash Metal Albums

Full Lengths Only

1.Metallica - Ride The Lightning
2.Megadeth - Peace Sells... But Who's Buying?
3.Vio-lence - Eternal Nightmare
4.Slayer - Reign In Blood
5.Exodus - Bonded By Blood

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Created by FatesOpeth on 02.03.2015