Great 80's Thrash Albums

[Tituscrow]

Pick five. Nothing too mainstream allowed.

Artillery 'Terror Squad'
Anacrusis 'Suffering Hour'
I.N.C. 'Razorback'
Coroner 'R.I.P.'
Sacred Reich 'Ignorance'

I'm keen to hear about albums you thought no one but you liked back then, but in this golden age of instant worldwide communication, it turns out you weren't alone!

 

[southpaw76]

Slayer - Reign in Blood
Coroner - No More Color

...my two favorites from the '80s

 

[pgolliher]

Anthrax- Among the Living (Well known band- great early album)
S.O.D (Scott Ian from Anthrax dropping some of the best heavy riffs -more thrash than Anthrax)- used as the theme music for headbangers ball baclk in the day)

 

[Dark Barn]

Coroner - No More Color

Released in '91, one of my favorites though.

2 that I still love:

Kreator - Extreme Aggression

Voivod - Dimension Hatröss

 

[AcidFripp]

Coroner's just too good...

 

[Longhair]

In no real order...

Megadeth - Killing Is My Business, Peace Sells, and So Far So Good

Metallica - Kill em All, Ride and Masters

Coven - Blessed is the Black and Death Walks Behind You

Exodus - Bonded By Blood

Testament - The Legacy and New Order

Sepultura - Beneath the Remains & Arise

SOD - Stormtroopers of Death

Anthrax - Fistful of Metal, Spreading the Disease, Among the Living

Death Angel - Frolic Through the Park

Vio-lence - Eternal Nightmare

Forbidden - Forbidden Evil

Forced Entry, Sanctuary...

 

[Actium]

I've always liked the Sepultura album Schizophrenia.

There's some parts of it that sound like very old Sodom (In the Sign of Evil or Obsessed by Cruelty) Though I didn't hear those Sodom albums until much much later.


Only had a few metal friends in the early-mid 90s and most of them liked Metallica and Megadeth. But growing up in the bible belt many of us weren't allowed to have extreme metal albums. Guess it kinda sucked being a metal fan in the 90s because so much grunge and alternative was taking over the shelves at the record shops.

 

[ebonalley]

Somewhat mainstream but...

Exodus- Bonded by Blood
Suicidal Tendencies- Lights, Camera, Revolution
Death Angel- Act III
D.R.I.-Crossover

A little more rare:
Mordred- In This Life

 

[JMac- Wiskerface Designs]

Three of My fav's:
DRI- 4 of a kind
Suicidal Tendencies- Suicidal Tendencies
Sepultura - Beneath the Remains

 

[zachoff]

Death - Leprosy
Bolt Thrower - In Battle there is No Law (my first non-big-four metal album)

 

[pgolliher]

+1 on Forbidden
I also liked Testament- Practice What You Preach

 

[Floridabwoy]

Gorrilla Biscuits - Start Today

 

[Floridabwoy]

Agnostic Front

 

[vegas532]

Flotsam and Jetsam - No Place For Disgrace
Celtic Frost - Morbid Tales
S.O.D. - Speak English or Die!
Voivod - Killing Technology
Atheist - Piece of Time

 

[billgoodwin]

Voivod - Killing Technology
Metal Church - Metal Church
Voivod - Dimension Hatross
S.O.D. - Speak English or Die
Dead Brain Cells - DBC

 

[Tituscrow]

Voivod - Killing Technology
Metal Church - Metal Church
Voivod - Dimension Hatross
S.O.D. - Speak English or Die
Dead Brain Cells - DBC

Hallelujah! Another DBC fan!

 

[Longhair]

The best thing about thrash bands from the 80's (and early 90's) is that the music sounds just as good today as it did the first time discovering it way back when

 

[Richard G]

WARGASM - WHY PLAY AROUND
CYCLONE TEMPLE - I HATE THEREFORE I AM
BLOODCUM - DEATH BY A CLOTHES HANGER
IGNORANCE - THE CONFIDENT RAT
VIOLENCE -OPRESSING THE MASSES OR ETERNAL NIGHTMARE

 

[pgolliher]

The best thing about thrash bands from the 80's (and early 90's) is that the music sounds just as good today as it did the first time discovering it way back when

Very true! I found an old shoebox filled with of old metal/thrash cassettes. My car stereo has a tape player and I have been so stoked on all this old stuff. (Anthrax-Among the Living, Megadeth-Peace Sells, Exodus Bonded By Blood, Testament, Forbidden, Ride the Lightning) It also reminds me of a time when I was a fifteen year old kid who thought I knew it all. Now that I am 39, I could teach my old self some things about life, but that 15 year old metal head could remind my 39 year old self about what it was like to be young and fearless.

 

[ebonalley]

Not to highjack the thread, but if any of you can recommend some newer stuff that is similar to the "classic thrash" let me know (pm me or something). Death metal vocal excluded please.