Old-School Thrash

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[Sextus Loverlord]

Yes, there are plenty of albums missing from the pole.

But anyway, there are plenty of Thrashers out here and it's a pity there hasn't been a Thrash thread.

I'm personally a huge fan of that old-school guitar chugging sound. Channeled aggression is obviously mandatory and the vicious, the better. I've always liked old (Endless Pain, Pleasure to Kill) and new (Extreme Aggression, Coma of Souls) Kreator. I have to say, the 80's German Thrash was perhaps a dose of real, extreme Metal - no keyboards, no bullshit, just awesome riffing.

The era of that riff+aggression-oriented Metal is now gone forever, it's never coming back. New Exodus albums have that heavy guitar sound that totally destroys the experience for me. I know many will differ with me on this but I think Thrash is more about those awesome leads mixed with awesome partial-palm-muted rhythm guitar riffing and those noisy, heavy and finely produced sounds will never fit in.

[Lars]

Exodus for me. The fact that Baloff wanted you to not just bang your head, but to actually bang it against physical objects in his lyrics won me over. 

[Sirliftsalot48]

I voted Destruction.  If it was Persecution Mania by Sodom it would have been a closer vote.

[Sextus Loverlord]

Exodus for me. The fact that Baloff wanted you to not just bang your head, but to actually bang it against physical objects in his lyrics won me over. 

Fuck yeah, those lyrics are beyond anything bands churn out now. It's still Pleasure to Kill for me though.

Sirliftsalot48, that's what I was thinking but Agent Orange's always stood-out more for Sodom, Persecution Mania starts of strong but it's got a few tracks that sort of end up being a bit boring.

[Ulysses]

I enjoy Agent Orange the most. After all this time, it's just as fresh as it was when I first heard it. Great album.

[PhantomOTO]

Of those, Show No Mercy is my favorite, but all of those on the list are awesome and deserve credit.

My actual favorite of all time is Sabbat's History of a Time to Come.

[Ive Got The Fire]

I have to pick Kill 'Em All. Sure it's not quite as raw as some of the early Kreator and Sodom albums but it just screams 'metal'. And not just any old metal but a bright gleaming future of metal. The lyrics, the ripping solos and the sheer precision leaves everything else in its wake...and this was 1983!!!

[Heathen]

I had to vote Exodus, thats the album that got addicted to thrash 

[Zdan]

Exodus hands down. THE thrash metal album for me....the vocals of Paul Baloff, the insane riffing of Piranha - great great great!

[Pacal]

Sodom - Agent Orange for me, though it was only because you did not mention ONE brazilian band.

[Tyrant]

HOLOCAUSTO!!!!

[DeadlyBlessing]

They are all great albums but my favourite is:
Vio-Lence "Eternal nightmare".   

Angel Dust, Artillery, Deathrow, Heathen, Holy Terror, Paradox, Sabbat, Sacrifice and Vulture made killer albums too

[Mark666]

I like both "Agent Orange" and "Kill 'em all " a lot, but i have to got with Sodom on this one. It's  an amazing album

[4th Horseman]

Similar to Sirliftsalot's comment, if there was a "Persecution Mania" on that list, this would be a no contest.
So I voted for Kill 'em All.

And since we're on the subject - here's why PM is better than Agent Orange

The songs on agent orange are great, but the majority of them rely too much on their choruses while the songs in PM don't. PM is more intensive on delivering as many riffs and solos as humanly possible (and to date I have not encountered an album that has so much quantity and quality of riffs and solos on it), while Agent Orange gives more room for the vocals and is less aggressive. Well that's just my take on it anyway.

[Ive Got The Fire]

I got the feeling from the types of bands that were picked for the poll, that we were talking really old school thrash. Kind of pre-Master of Puppets 1986 thrash explosion.  So, it was interesting to see in amongst the oldies, Eternal Nightmare. A damn fine album but Vio-lence were no pioneers.   I suppose I have just answered my own question: we are talking any eighties thrash album.  In that case I would like to nominate The Ultraviolence by Death Angel.  For 1987 it still sounds pretty rough around the edges.

 Razor: Marshall Arts