Metal Reviews

Ok, so i've decided to make a list of my whole thrash collection, alphabetically by band name. I realise probably no one cares, but that's ok. I'm doing it because I feel like it, and if anyone is interested that's just a bonus.

The list is just proper purchases. No downloads, no burned from friends. Just actual discs purchased from stores or the net. Also, in order to prevent an impending argument, i'm omitting metallica's albums post "justice", even though I have them. Also ommitted pantera except for "cowboys"

Agent Steel - "Alienigma"
Annihilator - "Alice in Hell"
Annihilator - "Metal"
Anthrax - "Spreading the Disease"
Anthrax - "Among the Living"
Artillery - "By Inheritance"
Atrophy - "Socialized Hate"
Avenger of Blood - "Death Brigade"
Blood Tsunami - "Thrash Metal"
Bonded By Blood - "Feed The Beast" (on order from amazon)
Bywar - "Heretic Signs"
Cavalera Conspiracy - "Infekted"
D.R.I. - "Thrash Zone"
Dark Angel - "Time Does Not Heal"
Death Angel - "The Ultra-Violence"
Death Angel - "Killing Season"
Dekapitator - "The Storm Before the Calm"
Destruction - "Eternal Devastation"
Destruction - "The Antichrist"
Destruction - "Metal Discharge"
Evile - "Enter the Grave"
Exhorder - "Slaughter in the Vatican"
Exhorder - "The Law"
Exodus - "Bonded By Blood"
Exodus - "Tempo Of The Damned"
Flotsam & Jetsam - "Doomsday for the Deceiver"
Forbidden - "Twisted Into Form"
Fueled By Fire - "Spread the Fire"
Gama Bomb - "Citizen Brain" (on order from amazon)
Hatchet - "Awaiting Evil"
The Haunted - "The Haunted Made Me Do It"
Heathen - "Victims of Deception"
Hobbs' Angel of Death - "Satan's Crusade"
Hyades - "And the Worst is Yet to Come..."
Hydra Vein - "Rather Death Than False Of Faith"
Hydra Vein - "After the Dream"
Kreator - "Extreme Aggression"
Laaz Rockit - "Annihilation Principle"
Machine Head - "Burn My Eyes"
Megadeth - "Peace sells...But who's buying?"
Megadeth - "Rust in Peace"
Megadeth - "Countdown to Extinction"
Megadeth - "United Abominations"
Mekong Delta - "Lurking Fear"
Merciless Death - "Evil in the Night"
Merciless Death - "Realm of Terror"
Metal Church - "The Dark"
Metallica - "Kill 'Em All"
Metallica - "Ride the Lightning"
Metallica - "Master of Puppets"
Metallica - "...And Justice for All"
Mortal Sin - "Face of Despair"
Mortal Sin - "An Absence of Faith"
Municipal Waste - "Hazardous Mutation"
Municipal Waste - "The Art of Partying'
Nasty Savage - "Indulgence"
Nasty Savage - "Abstract Reality"
Onslaught - "The Force"
Overkill - "Horrorscope"
Overkill - "Immortalis"
Pantera - "Cowboys From Hell"
Razor - "Violent Restitution"
Rumpelstiltskin Grinder - "Buried In The Front Yard"
Sabbat (UK) - "Dreamweavers"
Sadus - "Swallowed In Black"
Sepultura - "Arise"
Sepultura - "Chaos A.D."
Short Sharp Shock - "SSS"
Skeletonwitch - "Beyond the Permafrost"
Slayer - "Reign In Blood"
Slayer - "South of Heaven"
Slayer - "Seasons in the Abyss"
Slayer - "Christ Illusion"
Sodom - "Agent Orange"
Sodom - "The Final Sign of Evil"
Soulfly - "The Dark Ages"
Suicidal Tendencies - "How Will I Laugh Tomorrow if I Can't Even Smile Today"
Testament - "The Legacy"
Testament - "The Ritual"
Testament - "The Formation of Damnation"
Toxic Holocaust - "Evil Never Dies"
Victimizer - "The Final Assault"
Vio-Lence - "Eternal Nightmare"
Violator - "Chemical Assault"
Warbringer - "War Without End"
Wargasm - "Ugly"
Xentrix - "Shattered Existence"

By my count, 87 officially purchased thrash albums.

I'm guessing if you also counted all the other metal cds I own from all the various metal genres, all combined there would only be another 80 or so. And it would be mostly traditional (lots of maiden and priest and sabbath albums) with a couple death metal albums and a few power metal albums. I dont really do any other genres.

Ummmm if you haven't ,check out:

Dark Angel - Darkness Descends
Testament - Practice What You Preach
- The New Order
Machine Head - The Blackening
Sepultura - Beneath the Remains

Thanks man, I appreciate it.

But I have a decent idea of what I still need from looking around the net.

I just haven't got all the money and time in the world (not yet anyway....)

I'm working on it, the list is in constant evolution. Your suggestions are all on my "to get" list. Along with plenty of others. Aside from the time/money issue, the other thing is finding them. It can be a serious pain in the ass for albums that have never been re-issued.

Man I thought that you were one of those guys who had like every thrash album ever. HA. But still thats a good collection, lots of albums on there that I dont have but are on my "to get list".

I counted out my thrash albums and I have exactly 150 thrash albums. My collection also contains other genres than thrash, my total number of albums is pretty high, but I know there are people on these boards with huge collections...

I have exactly two thrash albums; Ride The Lightning, and Master Of Puppets. And sometimes I think that's all I need.

No matter what, whenever somebody starts talking about thrash you always come in and say how we dont need to listen to any other thrash than what you like. So what, you dont like thrash as much as us, why do you constantly have to tell us that? We (better yet, I) get it. For the most part I have been ignoring you when it comes to comments like these, but I shall remain silent no more. Get over yourself.

This list needs some Coroner.

Definitely needs more Tankard.

Haha! Sorry to disappoint! But I am working on it!!! Soon enough I'll be that guy....

My actual collection of CD's is probably around 500, but I was a classic rock and hard rock fan for years before metal, so it's mostly that stuff.

Oh, and in reference to tankard and coroner, again: working on it!
The only thing between me and those bands is finding the bastards! I guess they don't have the biggest fanbases in Oz.

EDIT: I was just on the website for this place called rare records about 30 minutes drive from my place that sometimes has some good thrash....it seems they've gotten in a copy of Coroner - "Mind Vortex" on CD, original german pressing. 2nd hand obviously. They want $30 Australian for it. Which is about $28 US. Is it one of their better albums? Is it worth it?

It also needs more Morbid Saint and perhaps Obscurity's Damnations Pride EP

28$ ? I didn't buy any cd by that prize...
Have you tried buying it on any online shop? Sure it will be less expensive.

Mental vertex is a great album, as all Coroner. My favs are No more color and Punishment for decadence, being Mental Vortex the third.

Good list man keep it up.

Because without me, these sorts of threads go into full blow-job mode.

I've been listening to Tankard a lot recently- I know DW talks about them often. Anyway, I just got a double cd of Chemical Invasion and Zombie Attack, which I love.

Ah, looking back I see this has already been mentioned, but I'd like to back it up anyway...

Not really sure I'd call some of these "thrash" (Burn My Eyes, Countdown To Extinction and United Abominations, for example). But good list, nonetheless.

Here are all the thrash albums I own (22 total):

Metallica - No Life 'Til Leather
Metallica - Kill'em All
Metallica - Ride The Lightning
Metallica - Master Of Puppets
Metallica - And Justice For All
Megadeth - Peace Sells... But Who's Buying?
Megadeth - Rust In Peace
Slayer - Reign In Blood
Slayer - Seasons In The Abyss
Slayer - Divine Intervention
Slayer - Christ Illusion
Sepultura - Beneath The Remains
Sepultura - Arise
Testament - The Gathering
Testament - The Formation Of Damnation
Testament - First Strike Still Deadly
Anthrax - Among The Living
Anthrax - Persistence Of Time
Anthrax - The Greater Of Two Evils
Exodus - Tempo Of The Damned
Kreator - Pleasure To Kill
Kreator - Violent Revolution

Now, here are all the "non-thrash albums by thrash bands" that I own (24 total):

Metallica - The Black Album
Metallica - Load
Metallica - ReLoad
Metallica - Garage, Inc.
Metallica - S&M
Metallica - I Disappear (single)
Metallica - St. Anger
Megadeth - Countdown To Extinction
Megadeth - Youthanasia
Megadeth - Cryptic Writings
Megadeth - The World Needs A Hero
Megadeth - The System Has Failed
Megadeth - United Abominations
Slayer - South Of Heaven
Slayer - Diabolus In Musica
Slayer - God Hates Us All
Testament - The Ritual
Testament - Low
Testament - Demonic (this is really more of a death metal album)
Anthrax - Sound Of White Noise
Anthrax - Half Of Stomp-442
Anthrax - We've Come For You All
Sepultura - Chaos AD
Sepultura - Roots

And finally, here are all the "thrashy groove metal albums" I own by bands not on either of the above lists (14 total):

Machine Head - Burn My Eyes
Machine Head - The More Things Change
Machine Head - Through The Ashes Of Empires
Machine Head - The Blackening
Pantera - Cowboys From Hell
Pantera - Vulgar Display Of Power
Pantera - Far Beyond Driven
Pantera - The Great Southern Trendkill
Pantera - Reinventing The Steel
Lamb Of God - New American Gospel
Lamb Of God - As The Palaces Burn
Lamb Of God - Ashes Of The Wake
Lamb Of God - Sacrament
Mastodon - Leviathan

This isn't thrash? What.

Honestly, with a few exceptions (Ghosts Of War and Silent Scream, for example), I think it's more of a "heavy metal" album.

Yeah, I could look for it online, but then it would incure international shipping charges.

Keep in mind that I haven't found a single coroner album anywhere I've looked so far. Not one! That makes the price seem a little bit more reasonable...

Oh, and south of heaven is *so* thrash! I agree with maybe countdown to extinction not being thrash, but south of heaven definitely.

UPDATE:

I just checked on Amazon. Coroner "Mental Vortex" is $11.98, then with shipping to Australia, it costs a total of $22.07.

So it's less than $6 cheaper, and then I have to wait like 2 - 3 weeks for it to get here from the USA.

Does that make the $28 I mentioned before seem any more reasonable?

Anyway, so I've got advice from ganesharules about which coroner is best..so..DevotedWalnut....advice on tankard please?

I'm not at all knocking the quality of South Of Heaven (it's one of Slayer's best albums IMO - in fact, I might even like it a little better than Reign In Blood). I'm just not really sure it's fast or aggressive enough to really classify as a "thrash metal" album. The songs are just too melodic and mid-tempo to really be "thrashy" IMO. Not to mention the fact that Tom sings during most of the album rather than screams. I'd lump it into the same category as Testament's Low: a groovy heavy metal album with a definite thrash influence, but not a full-on thrash metal album.