Hey all, I am new here and have started to really develop a taste for thrash.

Could anyone here reccomend some good stuff to purchase?

Thanks,
Tommy

Exodus - Bonded By Blood
Slayer - Show No Mercy
Kreator - Pleasure to Kill
Destruction - Mad Butcher/Eternal Devastation
Sodom - Persecution Mania

and countless more

Yeah man, there are too many too mention.

Also:

Kill Em All
Reign In Blood
Eternal Nightmare

ALL THE OLD DESTRUCTION

Anthrax - Among the Living
Exodus - Fabulous Disaster

Also the two heathen albums you can download for free at http://www.heathenmetal.com and also their new deom tracks. They are the dogs baws of thrash metal!!!

Im a bay area man,some of my favs,

Forbidden - Forbidden Evil
Vio-Lence - Eternal Knightmare
Testament - The Legacy
Exodus - Bonded By Blood
Metallica - Kill Em All
Death Angel - The Ultra Vio-Lence
Heathen - Victims of Deception
Lazz Rockit - Nothing Sacred

Morbid Saint - Spectrum of Death
Metallica - KEA
Slayer - Hell Awaits, RiB
Exhorder - Slaughter in the Vatican (Pantera's groove sounds very similar to them and have been accused of rippng them off but this debut by Exhorder is more thrash)
Paradox - Heresy
Dark Angel - Darkness Descends
Sarcofago - INRI
Vio-lence - Eternal Nightmare (Make sure you like the vocals as they are very hit or miss. I personally don't like them. If you like their vocals then definately get Gammacide - VIctims of Science)
Exodus - Bonded by Blood
Overkill - Feel the Fire, The Years of Decay
Demolition Hammer - Epidemic of VIolence
Death Angel - The Ultra Vilence
Destruction - Eternal Devastation
Testament - The Legacy
Posessed - Seven Churches
Kreator - Pleasure to Kill
That is just a list to get you started and I'm sure iv'e missed some out.


THe bands to go for first are Metallica, Slayer, Kreator, Destruction, Overkill, Exodus, and of course Dark Angel.

Nuclear Assault - Handle with care

Sepultura - Schizophrenia
Sepultura - Beneath the Remains

any DEMOLITION HAMMER most underrated band ever.

Here's some the most easy and popular thrash classic you can get

Metallica - Ride The Lightning, Master Of Puppets [Ride is better for me]
Anthrax - Among The Living, Spreading the Disease
Megadeth - So Far So Good So What, Rust In Peace
Slayer - Reign In Blood, South Of Heaven
Destruction - Infernal Overkill, Eternal Devastation, The Antichrist
Sodom - Persecution Mania, Agent Orange
Kreator - Pleasure To Kill, Extreme Aggression
Sepultura - Schizopherina, Arise, Beneath The Remain

but I think you should have them all right?

Okay,
here's some other shit that you need
the list is kinda huge,
but every single one is fucking classic,
The Best of the Best!

Accuser - Experimental Errors, Repent
Agent Steel - Unstoppable Force
Annihilator - Alice In Hell
Artillery - By Inheritance
Coroner - No More Color [come on guys! y'all forget this band?]
Dark Angel - Darkness Descends
Death Angel - Ultra-Violence
Demolition Hammer - Epidemic Of Violence
Exhorder - Slaughter In The Vactican
Exodus - Bonded By Blood
Exumer - Possessed By Fire
Flotsam And Jetsam - Doomsday For The Deceiver
Forbidden - Forbidden Evil
Heathen - Breaking The Silence, Victims Of Deception
Infernal Majesty - None Shall Defy
Invocator - Weave The Apocalypse
Iron Angel - Winds Of War [Very Heavy Metal-ish]
Mekong Delta - The Music Of Erich Zann
Morbid Saint - Spectrum Of Death
MX - Mental Slavery
Necrodeath - Fragments Of Insanity [Get it If you love old Sepultura]
Onslaught - The Force
Paradox - Heresy
Razor - Evil Invaders, Shotgun Justice
Stone - Stone, No Anaesthesia!
Testament - The Legacy, The New Order
Toxik - World Circus
Vio-Lence - Eternal Nightmare

Thrash 'Til Death!

Exodus - BbB
Megadeth - PSBWB
Kreator - Coma of Souls
Dark Angel - Darkness Decends
Heathen - Victims of Deception
Vio-lence - Eternal Nightmare
Laaz Rockit - Annihilation Principle
Coroner - Punishment For Decadence
Sepultura - Beneath the Remains
Forbidden - Forbidden Evil

Those have been the Thrash albums that have had the biggest impact on me.

Bloodkrishna wrote:Here's some the most easy and popular thrash classic you can get

Metallica - Ride The Lightning, Master Of Puppets [Ride is better for me]
Anthrax - Among The Living, Spreading the Disease
Megadeth - So Far So Good So What, Rust In Peace
Slayer - Reign In Blood, South Of Heaven
Destruction - Infernal Overkill, Eternal Devastation, The Antichrist
Sodom - Persecution Mania, Agent Orange
Kreator - Pleasure To Kill, Extreme Aggression
Sepultura - Schizopherina, Arise, Beneath The Remain

but I think you should have them all right?

I have the ones in bold, thanks alot for the list and thanks to everyone else. I really appreciate it.

Metal Iain wrote:Kreator - Coma of Souls

I my opinion this album is far from essential. Pretty irrelevant point but I just wanted to say.

Shit... what was the name of that band...

Err...


Fuck I've lost it.



Oh yeah!

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Gammacide.

Kthxbai.