RANKING CRITERIA :

1. Originality

2. Songwriting

3. Vigorous performance

1.Anacrusis - Screams And Whispers

2.Overkill - Feel The Fire

3.Nuclear Assault - Game Over

4.Wrathchild America - 3-D

5.Toxik - World Circus

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1.All time & genre (including Non-Metal on MS)
2.Only studio albums & EPs
3.I DON'T modify this list. So, this list is THE FINAL edition and based on my selection on 1 April 2017. (Modified on 12 February 2022)
4.The genre is primary one.
Last modified on 1 April 2017

...NOTICE: I'm reselecting albums & EPs for "The Timeless Ver2". This will be a bit more stringently selected than "ver1".

1.Opeth - Blackwater Park

2.Emperor - Anthems To The Welkin At Dusk

3.Krallice - Diotima

4.Dissection - Storm Of The Light's Bane

5.Deathspell Omega - Kénôse

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Kinda saw another relative lists on here that state this, one bad and one inspirational, so thought I might do my own.

Alphabetic order. And don't ask why a lot of Testament stuff is there, if their albums hadn't had so much impact, Testa wouldn't be my favorite band.

1.AC/DC - Back In Black

2.Accept - Stalingrad

3.Agalloch - The Mantle

4.Amon Amarth - Versus The World

5.Anthrax - Spreading The Disease

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1.Slayer - Reign In Blood

2.Metallica - Ride The Lightning

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

4.Exodus - Bonded By Blood

5.Overkill - The Years Of Decay

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RANKING CRITERIA :

- Originality
- Songwriting
- Performance

Neither the popularity among the fans nor the commercial success (or unsuccess) of the albums were taken into account in the selection.

1.Metallica - Ride The Lightning

2.Iron Maiden - The Number Of The Beast

3.Metallica - Master Of Puppets

4.Black Sabbath - Master Of Reality

5.Iron Maiden - Piece Of Mind

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Following are the albums which are in my opinion Pure Thrash Metal and defines the art of Thrash /Speed Metal.

1.Exodus - Bonded By Blood

2.

3.Megadeth - Killing Is My Business... And Business Is Good!

4.

5.Metal Church - Metal Church

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Old and new, classic and obscure, hard rock and extreme, primal and progressive... here are 12 releases (one per month) that I have heard of on MetalStorm and elsewhere that seem to be really really good shit and that I have somehow not listened to yet

My mission, if I accept it, is to listened to all of them before the end of the year.

1.Wormphlegm - In An Excruciating Way Infested With Vermin And Violated By Executioners Who Practise Incendiarism And Desanctifying The Pious

2.Angizia - Das Schachbrett Des Trommelbuben Zacharias

3.Summoning - Stronghold

4.Marillion - Misplaced Childhood

5.Disembowelment - Transcendence Into The Peripheral

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List of my all-time favourite heavy metal albums to day. Hate it or love it.
Note: I'll put here something new with time, I hope.

1.Metallica - Ride The Lightning

2.Pantera - Vulgar Display Of Power

3.Megadeth - Rust In Peace

4.Slayer - Reign In Blood

5.Iron Maiden - Powerslave

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1.Slayer - Reign In Blood

2.Sodom - Agent Orange

3.Testament - The Legacy

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

5.Atomkraft - Queen Of Death (EP)

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Testament. Perhaps one of the most prolific, great-sounding and legendary thrash metal bands. Underrated not to go along with the Big 4 instead of the overrated Anthrax, but one can also thank the Gods that Testament didn't go down that road, for we knew for sure the fate of Big 4 bands was either selling out or failing to achieve larger than life expectations.

1.Testament - The New Order

2.Testament - The Legacy

3.Testament - Low

4.Testament - Dark Roots Of Earth

5.Testament - Practice What You Preach

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I'm not a big fan of Thrash, these are perhaps the only albums I enjoy listening to, and even then only rarely. So enjoy if you can.

1.Prong - Beg To Differ

2.Morbid Saint - Spectrum Of Death

3.Vio-lence - Eternal Nightmare

4.Demolition Hammer - Epidemic Of Violence

5.Exhorder - Slaughter In The Vatican

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Amazing albums, highly recommended (strictly my opinion, changes can be made)

1.Metallica - Master Of Puppets

2.Metallica - Ride The Lightning

3.Metallica - Kill 'Em All

4.Slayer - Seasons In The Abyss

5.W.A.S.P. - The Crimson Idol

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Thrash Metal is, and will always be my favorite type of music. No matter how many sub-genres or idiotic names some bands give to their music style, they'll never reach the complex "simplicity" of Thrash metal. It's raw, heavy, fast, aggressive, and has a historical impact that probably no other type of heavy metal style will ever reach.

1.Venom - Welcome To Hell

2.Discharge - Hear Nothing See Nothing Say Nothing

3.Suicidal Tendencies - Suicidal Tendencies

4.Metal Church - Metal Church

5.Metallica - Ride The Lightning

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1.Metallica - Ride The Lightning

2.Slayer - Reign In Blood

3.Sodom - Agent Orange

4.Exodus - Bonded By Blood

5.Anthrax - Fistful Of Metal

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One song/band, no particular order

1.Iron Maiden - Rime Of The Ancient Mariner

2.Testament - The Legacy

3.Slayer - Seasons In The Abyss

4.Metallica - Master Of Puppets

5.Annihilator - Alice In Hell

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