1) List only your top 15 albums ... no "bubblers" or "honorary mentions"
2) List only one (1) album per band.
Now, whether you think a band is thrash or not is totally up to you - it might be that something I post is considered a completely different genre in your opinion, but it is a personal opinion and that's all that matters here.
Also, I've divided my thrash lists into 3 distinct divisions:
- European Thrash Metal
- US Thrash Metal
- Technical/Prog Thrash Metal (is this thrash or prog? Guess that can be discussed at a later time)
As always, I've chosen these releases as how much I value them, and where they fit into the way I listen to a specific genre. Not paying attention to "is this the most famous of their releases" or not (in some cases it is, in some it's definitely not). Alright, here we go;
US THRASH METAL
1. Slayer - Reign in Blood
2. Metallica - Master of Puppets
3. Flotsam and Jetsam - Cuatro
4. Overkill - The Years of Decay
5. Testament - The Legacy
6. Megadeth - Rust in Piece
7. Death Angel - Act III
8. Exodus - Fabulous Disaster
9. Suicidal Tendencies - Lights Camera Revolution
10. Dark Angel - Time Does Not Heal
11. Anthrax - Persistence of Time
12. Mordred - In This Life
13. Whiplash - Insult to Injury
14. Nuclear Assault - Game Over
15. Vio-lence - Oppressing the Masses
EUROPEAN THRASH METAL
1. Celtic Frost - Into the Pandemonium
2. Destruction - Release from Agony
3. Kreator - Gods of Violence (yes, their 2017 album!)
4. Sabbat - Dreamweaver
5. Artillery - By Inheritance
6. Sodom - Agent Orange
7. Tankard - Chemical Invasion
8. Vendetta - Brain Damage
9. Paradox - Heresy
10. Onslaught - In Search of Sanity
11. Warrant - The Enforcer
12. Living Death - World Neurosis
13. Holy Moses - New Machine of Liechtenstein
14. Angel Dust - Into the Dark Past
15. Iron Angel - Hellish Crossfire
TECHNICAL/PROG THRASH METAL
1. Voivod - Nothingface
2. Sieges Even - A Sense of Change
3. Watchtower - Control & Resistance
4. Mekong Delta - Dances of Death and Other Walking Shadows
5. Depressive Age - Symbols for the Blue Times
6. Deathrow - Deception Ignored
7. Coroner - No More Color
8. The Last Things - Circles & Butterflies
9. Target - Master Project Genesis
10. Toxik - Think This
11. Nasty Savage - Indulgence
12. Fear of God - Within the Veil
13. Sadus - Swallowed in Black
14. Hexenhaus - Dejavoodoo
15. Unleashed Power - Quintet of Spheres