Thrash Metal Poll For The Ages

[JSTHECONQUEROR]

I have to vote for Slayer!

[Axefiend]

Exodus, with Voivod a close second.

[JSTHECONQUEROR]

Voivod is good but I like them better as a sci-fi prog metal band!

[Thelemech]

Metallica for those first four albums. 

[Ted Sallis]

Exodus, with Voivod a close second.

I agree with you re. Exodus; I'm not really familiar with Voivod but I know a certain ex-Metallica bassist played with them for awhile.

Ted

[Jack the Stripper]

I agree with Thel. When thrash was in its infancy & prime no one was better than Metallica and if you disagree. Well...Maybe you just had to be there.

Megadeth a very close second...For consistency, they'd be favourite my though.

[Charger]

Megadeth for sure!

I think my listing would go

Megadeth
Anthrax (Joey years only ofcourse although Stomp is a good album despite Bush's "vocals")
Slayer
Metallica

All are fantastic bands though. But Metallica kinda lost their way after And Justice For All...not saying that they didn't make good music cause they did but it wasn't really thrash anymore and at times not even metal.

Actually all the bands kinda went off the rails a more or less during the 90s...(I blame grunge and the over commercialization of "metal" at the time...which forced a lot of bands to do more commercial stuff in order to compete) Megadeth less than the others though with their only weak points are Risk and Youthanasia and even the latter has one or two good songs.

[Billy Underdog]

I'm too going for the somewhat safe and boring choice of Metallica. As good as all four of them are/were (and others), the three first 'Tallica albums pretty much defined Thrash.

And i love Black Album and Load too, but yeah, not Thrash...

Actually all the bands kinda went off the rails a more or less during the 90s...(I blame grunge and the over commercialization of "metal" at the time...which forced a lot of bands to do more commercial stuff in order to compete) Megadeth less than the others though with their only weak points are Risk and Youthanasia and even the latter has one or two good songs.

Wouldn't you say Countdown To Extinction is doing pretty much what Black Album did? Taking Thrash and turning the speed down. Which was called Groove Metal when Pantera and Sepultura did the same...

[Tyr66]

Slayer .
Nothing can beat the Unholy Trinity Show No Mercy/Haunting The Chapel /Hell Awaits.

[Charger]

Wouldn't you say Countdown To Extinction is doing pretty much what Black Album did? Taking Thrash and turning the speed down. Which was called Groove Metal when Pantera and Sepultura did the same...

I can agree with that but it sure as hell ain't a weak album...and it blows Black Album out of the water in every way. Also I think Countdown and even more so Cryptic Writings (which is one of my favourite Megadeth albums) Megadeth also took a lot from 70s hard rock and early metal...

[Billy Underdog]

I can agree with that but it sure as hell ain't a weak album...

No, not in any way. But BA is the better one, though

And they too basically went back to "the Metal roots" with that one. Thrash took classic Metal and sped it up, CtE, BA and Groove Metal took it back down... The fluctuating movements of Heavy Metal History...

[JSTHECONQUEROR]

Tyr you got an awesome point for choosing Slayer! CHEERS!!!

[Tyr66]

Tyr you got an awesome point for choosing Slayer! CHEERS!!!

thanx a lot , JS !! :

[Jack the Stripper]

I can agree with that but it sure as hell ain't a weak album...

No, not in any way. But BA is the better one, though

And they too basically went back to "the Metal roots" with that one. Thrash took classic Metal and sped it up, CtE, BA and Groove Metal took it back down... The fluctuating movements of Heavy Metal History...

TBA is better but I find it hard to listen to these days where's I can still listen to CTE on the odd occasion.

Thrash was more than just classic metal sped up. There is definitely a NWOBHM and punk influence in there as well.

[Billy Underdog]

Thrash was more than just classic metal sped up. There is definitely a NWOBHM and punk influence in there as well.

Ofcourse, and in that oversimplified narrative both are part of that same progression of speeding up of what was before, after Thrash there was it's Extreme Metal sub genres. And i repeat, that's a VERY oversimplified narrative, ofcourse it's alot more complex and intertwined than that.

But what i was really trying to claim was that BA and CtE are Groove Metal, though...