What are the essential listenings for a thrash metal fan?

-Exodus(earlier)

-Artillery

-Annihilator

-Sanctuary

-Vio-Lence

-Iced Earth(eh, power shmower, they're awesome enough )

-Helstar

-Toxic Holocaust

-Gama Bomb

Or if you like your thrash a little heavier, try (yeah, includes some early death metal)

-Necrophagia

-Possesed

-Sepultura

-Sodom

-Celtic Frost

-Death

-Sadus

and Kreator

(hell, you may consider the "essential listenings" the core of thrash, but I don't know if you like the more progressive/ bands. To start, try Blind illusion, Atheist, WatchTower, Death, Cynic, and Meshuggah's first album )

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The big four: Metallica, Megadeth, Slayer, Anthrax

Metal Church's The Dark was a Thrash album

Sanctuary (lots o' Power Metal but equally Thrash Metal)

Pantera--Cowboys From Hell

Savatage--Sirens

Fates Warning--Night on Broken

Laaz Rockit

Helstar

Artillery

Hexx (first two albums)

Annihilator (Alice In Hell and Neverland)

Iced Earth

can't think of anymore right now

well.. I'm kinda goin' off of something someone else said about Meshuggah..

They can't really be considered Thrash. More of "mathematical metal".. come crazy stuff! They're amazing!

Gee.. I've got so many things runnign through my head right now I can't think of any thrash metal bands.. n i've got PLENTY.. hopefully I'll post on here later n tell ya a few I've got.

properly, given which you asked so properly, beneficial i will answer this too.... a million.Metallica 2.Slayer 3.Cliff Burton 4.fashionable music by skill of Angel Witch? - probable gorgon. no longer a fan nonetheless, TBH, as their vocals smash it for me. 5.Do you pay attention to Nuclear attack? How are they? - confident, i like them, kinda comparable in some regards as Anthrax, somewhat greater consistent, yet no longer as solid as Anthrax at their precise. 6.Suicidal dispositions 7. testomony 8.fashionable album by skill of Sodom? -Tapping the Vein 9.grasp of Puppets BQ- dying Angel, Evile, the No-Mads, Cripper, Overkill, Kreator, and many many greater. BQ2- dying Angel BQ3- Nada. Watch some television, or a movie, be lazy.

Iced Earth

Exciter

Motorhead

Suicidal Tendencies (some of it has Rob from Metallica, also)

Evile for some newish thrash.

Iced Earth

Kreator

Motorhead

Death Angel

Mastodon

Corrosion of Conformity

Pantera

Exodus

Kreator

Meshuggah

Trivium

not thrash, but great heavy bands-

Sahg

Isis

Fates Warning

Municipal Waste!

Kreator

Anthrax