New Thrash Metal Lists Added

Hi thrashers! Just a heads up to alert you to the fact that we've just added some new thrash-related lists under the METAL ACADEMY LISTS section in LISTS. They include the following:

Top 10 Early Thrash Metal Releases (1983-1984) : https://metal.academy/lists/single/19

Top 10 Thrash Metal Releases of 1985 : https://metal.academy/lists/single/20

Top 10 Thrash Metal Releases of 1986 : https://metal.academy/lists/single/21

Let us know what you think & feel free to post your own versions of these lists in this thread if you feel like sharing.

Cool lists, Daniel! Please do the same thing for 1987, 1988, and 1989, if you have a lot of thrash metal favorites from those years.

Yes I intend to Andi. It might take me a while to get around to it but you can expect 1987 to be delivered some time soon.

Nice lists, here's my effort for '85:

#1 Celtic Frost - To Mega Therion

#2 Possessed - Seven Churches

#3 Bathory - The Return...

#4 Anthrax - Spreading the Disease

#5 Razor - Evil Invaders

#6 S.O.D. - Speak English or Die

#7 Slayer - Hell Awaits

#8 Artillery - Fear of Tomorrow

#9 Exodus - Bonded by Blood

#10 Kreator - Endless Pain

Nice one Sonny. Both "Seven Churches" & "The Return" would have made my list but I'm saving those for the death metal & black metal lists respectively. It's also worth noting that Slaughter's "Surrender Or Die" demo would have made my list at number 5 if we'd included demos here at Metal Academy. I haven't checked out the compilation that compiles both of the Slaughter demo tapes as yet but there's potential that it could be added if it's as high a quality as "Surrender Or Die" overall.

Well '86 was possibly the high water mark for thrash. Several of my all-time favourite metal albums were released that year, so here goes:

#1 Slayer - Reign in Blood

#2 Metallica - Master of Puppets

#3 Kreator - Pleasure to Kill

#4 Whiplash - Power and Pain

#5 Destruction - Eternal Devastation

#6 Megadeth - Peace Sells...

#7 Dark Angel - Darkness Descends

#8 Onslaught - The Force

#9 Exumer - Possesed by Fire

#10 Metal Church - The Dark 

Damn, that's some fine albums right there!

I agree. Best year for thrash in my opinion.

Shit, I forgot one of my favourites from '85 - Sacrilege's awesome debut, Behind the Realms of Madness. I'd put it right up there with Bathory and Possessed.

These two lists might also interest you members of The Pit as they include a few early thrash metal releases amongst them:

Top 10 Releases Of 1983: https://metal.academy/lists/single/7

Top 10 Releases Of 1984: https://metal.academy/lists/single/8