1)     Testament - Legacy

"The perfect thrash metal album i think. it contains high-pitched vocalsas well as chuck billy's signature voice, but when he was young and thrashing young! this album made him my favorite thrash metal vocalist. it contains memorable solos and magical riffs that no band has topped, creative-wise, alex skolnik really marked his territory with this one. this is the ultimate "introduction to thrash" album, i think."

2)     Watchtower - Energetic Disassembly

"The first bandto introduce jazz and progressive into metal. period. if you like technical bands, they are the fathers. if you like jazz, progressive and metal but don;t know a band that combines them the best, Watchtower is your choice. the drums and bass on this one are still ahead of their time."

3)     Dark angel - Darkness Descends

"It was supposed to come out at the same time, if not even before slayer's "reign in blood", but slayer beat them to the album pressing by some months i think. this album was supposed to be what "reign in blood" became since it came out. With Gene Hoglan on drums, one of the best drummers in metal and Don Dotty providing mean thrash vocals from hell,this album destroyed everything in its way at the time, and i think it still does with its hatred and intensity."

4)     Celtic Frost - Morbid Tales / To Mega Therion

"The band that started it all, in my opinion. Metallica were big fans of Hellhammer/Celtic Frost, as well as Venom, Mercyful Fate and The Misfits and the NWOBHM bands. But Venom was just the thrashiest out of the NWOBHM and Misfits were among the thrashiest of the hardcore/punk bands, but Celtic Frost managed to capture exactly what thrash means. Because of these two albums, bands like Obituary, Coroner, 1349, Tiamat and many others have existed along the way. They're still the most evil thrash metal albums of all time, i think, and they gave birth to black metal, death metal, thrash metal and revolutionized doom and gothic metal. Both are mandatory!!!"

5)     Annihilator - Never, Neverland

"Wow, what an album! Canadian Jeff Waters (guitars) & co. revolutionize melodic thrahs through this album. Just like on Testament's "The Legacy", all the riffs on this album will stick in your head for your whole life, these are the riffs of a genious. The drums, the bass, the guitars, the TECHNIQUE and SONG-STRUCTURES, the vocals...everyhting on this album is just perfect and a pleasure to listen to, but it can also cause metal thrashing madness. So keep your adrenaline under control, if you can! But also, it was one of the albums i seriously learned guitar from."

6)     Anthrax  - Among The Living

"I can never listen to this album without losing my shit!!! or at least doing the Scott Ian stomp. this is the most violent thrash album for me, because every second of it hits you like a copper bat across the nose cavity. THIS is how thrash drums should sound...and who would be better at handling these perfect and mean sounding drums than one of the best thrash drummers, Charlie Benante. Joey Belladona is renowned as one of the best thrash metal vocalist especially for his work on this album. The string section is pissed as a club-bouncer that got punched by some punker. The whole ensemble sounds like a rock that hits you when you push "play". This is the ultimate album for a moshpit (i think it even coined the term with the song "Caught In A Mosh"). After the first minute and a half of the album (the beginning of the title track) i'm always sweating and already exhausted. Warning: do not listen to it when you have valuable objects or people around, they shall be crushed!!!"

7)     Metal Church - Metal Church

"This album was love at first...ummm well "sight" doesn't go well with the context but-uhhh...audition! Very Evil Sounding, song-structures are amazing, vocalist David Wayne is, on the same spot with testament's Chuck Billy, my favorite thrash/speed metal vocalist (RIP) thanks to THIS treasure of an album. and especially the atmosphere it creates...very creepy, yet still pissed and bad-ass and when David Wayne starts emiting sounds...forget about it. Also one of the first thrash albums to have and instrumental song. You may think the name is corny, but the music will prove you wrong, as it did to me too."

8)     Metallica - Kill 'Em All / Ride The Lightning

"Is there really much to say about these two? In case someone reading this DOESN'T know about them, they are considered to be (especially the first one...of course) the first thrash metal albums, making Metallica the first thrahs metal band in history. The first one is very angry and fast, spawning the genre "speed metal" while the second one shows a drastic maturization. This is classic thrash metal."

9)     Forbidden - Forbidden Evil

"This album caught my attention when someone i used to know in 8th grade (an ex-80's thrasher/now lawyer from AZ named Michael) told me that the vocalist Russ Anderson has an almost 3-octave-wide vocal-range. I knew i had to hear this and there it was, right in the first song "Chalice Of Blood" and especially towards the end of the title track, Russ instantly became one of my favorite thrahs metal vocalists. On this album, drummer Paul Bostaph (later of Slayer fame) made his debut, and i think he did a good job in 'yer, but i think Forbidden suited him perfectly! The first half of the album is godly, the second is...ok, but if you're looking for a classic thrash album that influenced many to come and not really everyone heard of, get it. do it!!"

10)  Megadeth - Rust In Peace

"Melody, two amazing guitarists, an amazing bassist, great drums, complex song-structures, political lyrics, the unique vocals of Dave Mustaine, legendary solos...oh i know what all that means! It's Megadeth's "Rust In Peace". For me (and for many others i think), this album was Megadeth's peak. It was the most mature before they went slightly grungier and more mainstream with Youthanasia. The best of their golden period i'd say. Every song on it is a classic, from the first riff, through the chorus and solo, to the very last strum. This truly got their spot up there with the "thrash big four".

11) Coroner - no more color/ mental vortex

12) OverKill - Horrorscope

13) Helstar - nosferatu

14)Anacrusis - manic impressions

15) Voivod - dimension hatross/nothingface/phobos/angel rat

16)Prong - beg to differ

17)Believer - Sanity Obscure

18)Whiplash - Insult To Injury

19) Invocator - weave the apocalypse

20) Cacophony - speed metal symphony

21)Heathen - Victims Of Deception

22) Holy Terror - Mind Wars

23) Nuclear Assault - survive

24) Morgana lefay - sanctified

25) Evildead - Annihilation of civilization

26) Sadus - illusions/swallowed in black

27) Sanctuary - refuge denied

28) Sacred Reich - the american way

29)Morbid saint - spectrum of death

30)Exhorder - The Law/Slaughter in the Vatican

31)Death Angel - Act III

32) Powermad - absolute power

33)Paradox - Heresy

34) Vendetta - go and live...stay and die

35) Pantera - cowboys from hell

36) M.O.D. - U.S.A. for M.O.D

37)Iron angel - hellish crossfire

38) Blind illusion - the sane asylum

39) Kreator - violent revolution

40) Testament - The New Order

41)Armored Saint - Symbol Of Salvation

42) Tankard - the morning after

43) Kreator - pleasure to kill/ endless pain

44) Artillery - By inheritance

45) Hexenhaus - the edge of eternity/ awakening

46) Testament - souls of black

47) Deathrow - deception ignored

48) Sodom - tapping the vein

49) Savage Grace - master of disguise / after the fall from grace

50) Slayer - reign in blood / south of heaven

51) Anthrax - spreading the disease

52) Dark angel - we have arrived

53) Sepultura - arise

54) Metallica - master of puppets

55) Celtic frost - into the pandemonium

56) Holy moses - finished with the dogs

57) Sacrosanct - truth is what is

58) Assorted heap - mind reflections

59) Hirax - Raging violence

60) Sepultura - Beneath The Remains

61) Flotsam and jetsam - no place for disgrace

62) Prong - cleansing

63) Attacker - the second coming/battle at helms deep

64) Onslaught - the force

65) Exumer - Possessed By Fire

66) D.B.C. - dead brain cells/universe

67) Devastation - signs of life

68) CyborG - The Last Thing You'll See

69) Destruction - cracked brain

70) Slayer - hell awaits

71) Seputlura - Schizophrenia

72) Sadus - elements of anger

73) Hobbs angel of death - hobbs angel of death

74) Holy terror - terror and submission

75) Sabbat - history of a time to come

76) Sepultura - Chaos A.D.

77) Vio-lence - eternal nightmare/ opressing the masses

78) Sacred Reich - Ignorance

79) Invocator - excursion demise

80) Artillery - fear of tomorrow

81) Avenger of blood - complete annihilation

82) Deathrow - life beyond

83) Tankard - zombie attack

84) Overkill - taking over

85) Mortal Sin - Face Of Despair

86) Wehrmacht - biermacht

87) Ludichrist - immaculate deception

88) Destruction - infernal overkill

89) Believer -  extraction form mortality

90) Sodom - agent orange

91) Kreator - coma of souls

92) Destruction - release from agony

93) Tankard - chemical invasion

94) Viking - do or die

95) Bitch - be my slave

96) Ripping Corpse - dreaming with the dead

97) Agent steel - unstoppable force

98) Airdash - thank god its Monday

99) Hallows Eve - tales of terror

100) Cryptic slaughter - money talks/convicted