Metalheads - best thrash albums post-1986?

[AD-Stu]

I thought this might make for an interesting discussion for all the metal fans on here, and hopefully we can help each other come across some undiscovered gems of bands as well

When people talk about the best thrash albums of all time, there are a couple of titles that you hear come up over and over again - Master of Puppets and Reign in Blood, Peace Sells..., Darkness Descends and Pleasure to Kill if they're looking a little further afield. Those albums were all released in 1986, something of a high point for the genre.

What I'm wondering is what do people think are the best thrash albums released after that?

For my money, the second and third albums by The Haunted (Made Me Do It and One Kill Wonder) are up there with the best. Great memorable riffs, aggressive, pretty much no filler and strong lyrical themes.

What does everyone else think?

 

[Fiz_The_Toaster]

Anything by Pantera really.

Cowboys of Hell is such a great album.

 

[Promethax]

...And Justice For All was '89, right?

yeah, that.

 

[Dunc2j]

Possibly Megadeths 1988 So Far, So good...So What. The sound production is a touch off but at riff level that albums insane.

 

[Nouw]

Spoiler: Without a doubt, Rust in Peace by Megadeth.

With songs like Hangar 18 and Holy...the Punishment Due, it's impossible not to mention the album in a thread like this.

 

[DrBonBon]

There's a lot of albums but I'll just throw the first ones that I thought of and haven't been mentioned yet:
- Testament's The Legacy and New Order (Skolnic's solos are phenomenal!)
- Sodom's Persecution Mania and Agent Orange
- Overkill's Taking Over, !!Fuck You!!-ep and Horrorscope and Ironbound
- Exodus with Tempo of the Damned, which is probably the best comeback album ever for a thrash band.
- Sepultura with Schizophrenia, Beneath the Remains and Arise

 

[Fappy]

Anything by Pantera really.

Cowboys of Hell is such a great album.

I used to work at Pantera Bread Co.

I mean... wait, what?

I'm going to go get some Dimmu Burger for lunch.

God dammit!

 

[AD-Stu]

Heh - I did wonder if I should include a "no subsequent albums by the Big Four" rider

Some very worthy nominations above, to be sure. Personally I've just never quite "got" Megadeth in the same way that most other fans of the genre seem to have, but regardless I've still got plenty of respect for what they've done.

Interesting that pretty much every band mentioned so far was already active in 1986, even if the albums came out later. Are there any bands that formed more recently that anyone rates?

 

[Kenbo Slice]

Spoiler: Without a doubt, Rust in Peace by Megadeth.

With songs like Hangar 18 and Holy...the Punishment Due, it's impossible not to mention the album in a thread like this.

I have to agree with you, Rust in Peace is one of, if not the best thrash album of all time.

Relevant song:

 

[BathorysGraveland]

Well I'm not too knowledgeable on thrash, but both of Demolition Hammer's albums are really good. The intense neck-breaking kind of stuff with raw-er vocals. Awesome, awesome stuff.


As for recently formed bands, Hexen is pretty damn good.

 

[Zykon TheLich_v1legacy]

This thread makes me sad. I have the cassette case from South of Heaven sitting on top of my water heater and you've just reminded me that the cassette itself is lost forever. ;_;

 

[sextus the crazy]

5 or so years after 1986, a little known album by Megadeth called Rust in Peace was released.


Okay so maybe it wasn't little known.

 

[BreakfastMan]

Rust in Peace, obviously, but also South of Heaven, Practice What You Preach, Vulgar Display of Power, Cowboys from Hell, Persistence of Time, The Years of Decay, and ...And Justice For All. All fantastic.

 

[Artemis923]

What the fuck...no Iced Earth?...

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There, fixed that problem.

 

[piinyouri]

Warbringer - Waking Into Nightmares, Worlds Torn Asunder
Aggression - Moshpirit
Bonded By Blood - Feed The Beast
Destruction - Day of Reckoning
Gama Bomb - Tales From The Grave In Space
Havok - Time Is Up
Lich King - World Gone Dead
Merciless Death - Realm of Terror
Pagan Reign - Tverd (Kinda blackened folk thrash)
Pulling Teeth - Thrash Cats
Suicidal Angels - Suicidal Angels
Overkill - Ironbound, The Electric Age
Toxic Holocaust - Conjure and Command
Sodom - War and Pieces
Holy Moses - Finished With The Dogs
Persuader - Evolution Purgatory
Pestilence - Consuming Impulse
Revocation - Chaos Forms
Morbid Saint - Spectrum of Death
Nuclear Assault - Game Over (Came out in 86, but if you don't have it you should get it.)

Bolded are must haves/listens. The rest are optional.