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Thrash metal is heavy metal that is usually at a higher tempo with influences from punk, speed metal, and hard rock. It's been one of the most successful metal genres, with many platinum albums by the famous bands called the Big Four of Thrash metal which include Megadeth, Metallica, Anthrax, Slayer.

We all love heavy metal but when you need some speed and aggression, in your metal, you go for thrash metal. This is a place for breaking necks, not for slow stuff.

What is Thrash Metal?

Typically:

  • fast aggressive tempos, fast guitar solos, and fast drumming.
  • abrupt riff and tempo changes.
  • high mid-tones on distortion.
  • did I mention that it's fast

Submission Guidelines

  • No non-thrash. Don't post Necrophagia because they're "thrashy." Keep it to thrash and direct hybrids of thrash.
  • No image posts. Memes get you banned.
  • No teasers. No full albums. No bedroom covers. No half-assed incomplete songs for "feedback." No obnoxious self promotion.
  • Please make use of the post flairs. Not required at all, but appreciated.
  • Please post in a "Artist Name - Song Title" format.
  • If a band has been posted in the last two weeks, don't post them again. If a specific song has been posted in the last six months, don't post it again. New releases are except from this rule for a week after their release.
  • Hate speech is not okay.

The Big Four of Thrash Metal

Do not post the Big Four. We know who they are. No covers of the Big Four, either.

Top Thrash Albums Votes

Top 12 of All Time (Voted 2024)

Top 10 Contemporary Thrash Albums (Voted 2024)


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Destruction - Total Desaster (Germany, 1984)

4 Comments
2025/01/31
23:06 UTC

2

Self Inflicted - Truth of Existence

0 Comments
2025/01/31
21:28 UTC

4

REVELRY - CALLOUS

Thrashy Melodeath anyone?

1 Comment
2025/01/31
12:32 UTC

39

Fast thrash

I have been exploring the different genres of metal and came to the conclusion that thrash is my favourite. Is there some recomendations for very fast thrash song like knarrenheinz from sodom. That kind of speed. I dont mind blast beats but skanks are my favourite. Also language doesn not matter since i mosty listen to the instrumentts.

47 Comments
2025/01/31
12:29 UTC

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Guitarists, when you play thrash metal do you typically like using a thick pick thick strings, thin pick thin strings, or thick pick and thin strings?

What picks and a stirngs do you all use,

What’s your amp setup for the mids, treble and bass?

36 Comments
2025/01/31
04:16 UTC

12

Remasters vs Originals

What are some of the best remasters vs originals and what are some of the worst remasters that don’t stand up to the originals

22 Comments
2025/01/30
23:23 UTC

12

Hell Awaits

Are there any thrash metal songs that sound similar to the first part of Hell Awaits by Slayer?

Specifically 2:00 to 2:45.

7 Comments
2025/01/30
23:12 UTC

21

Inhuman Nature - Possessed to Die

4 Comments
2025/01/30
18:00 UTC

4

Black Talon - Falsifier (Scotland, 2025)

0 Comments
2025/01/30
17:05 UTC

56

Where to go with Crossover Thrash?

For as much as I love Thrash, I haven't listened to much Crossover. The bands I've listened to, which I've greatly enjoyed, are D.R.I., Municipal Waste, and S.O.D. Toxic Holocaust also has some Crossover material that I enjoy.

What are some other albums and bands to listen to to further explore this genre?

108 Comments
2025/01/29
22:15 UTC

0

Anyone know of any actually good Christian thrash metal bands?

All the bands i've heard of sound super weird like the lyrics aren't timed right or its to low and super bad quality. Like they gotta be good quality content, if your looking for a example of the stuff im saying, look at thresher or hating evil or grave forsaken. The instruments are good but the vocalist are always off and it sounds like it was recorded in someone's basement. Please help, i'm getting tired of pentagrams and not being able to where good band shirts

Edit: If you like Slayer like me but want a Christian version check out Ritual Servent, I literally thought Slayer made a Christian song.

17 Comments
2025/01/29
21:28 UTC

25

Speed metal recs similar to early Helloween, early blind guardian, album 1-3 by Striker and first 2 albums by Skull fist

I read the rules and maybe this isn’t directly related to thrash, but I couldn’t find a speed metal subreddit, so here I am. I mostly like power metal, so anything with a similar-ish vocal style you can recommend would be appreciated

26 Comments
2025/01/29
20:46 UTC

64

Suicidal Tendencies - Freedumb (1999)

3 Comments
2025/01/29
07:36 UTC

40

¿What are your favourite underrated songs?

Mine are: Gung-Ho - Anthrax Metal Storm/Face The Slayer - Slayer Trapped Under Ice - Metallica Lebanon - Mortal Sin Total Disaster - Destruction

47 Comments
2025/01/28
19:03 UTC

7

SanFran666co.com - weekend website project - SF Bay Area Thrash & Death Metal

Built this for fun over the weekend. Still pretty rough, but I have most of the thrash and death metal shows in the San Francisco Bay Area for the next couple months listed.

Open to any suggestions or feedback

https://www.sanfran666co.com/

2 Comments
2025/01/28
18:24 UTC

4

SexMag - NAGROBEK KURTYZANY (Poland, 2021)

0 Comments
2025/01/28
17:09 UTC

19

Any bands like Sadus and Morbid Saints ( Read Description).

Hey, I was wondering if anyone has any similar bands to recommend. The problem is that when searching for fusions of Death and Thrash, all the songs I end up finding are just really fast death metal records, which I feel significantly differ from the sound of the bands I mentioned, not to mention the vocals tend to be very deep which isn’t really my thing.

What I really like in Sadus and Morbid Saint ( and I’ll throw Whiplash here too even though they aren’t death) is how technical, brutally fast, all over the place the melody tends to be and how agressive their sounds are. It really is hard to find something super fast and aggressive that isn’t super monotonous , songs like Sadus - And then you die , anything from Morbid Saint’s Spectrum of death and Whiplash’s Message in Blood are just so fun.

I’d appreciate any recommendations.

33 Comments
2025/01/28
12:35 UTC

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Opinion on rob dukes era of exodus

What do you guys think about the era when rob dukes was the vocalist in exodus? I honestly dont really like it because my favorite vocalist is steve (i know thats basic as shit) but i wanna know your opinion!!!

96 Comments
2025/01/27
21:18 UTC

0

How should I call my thrash project?

I've got some names, but I can't decide. The way I can name My project is 1: Stalinist (a way to call The commonists used to make propaganda against them) 2: Show No Mercy 3: Mustard Gas 4: concentration camp

If you have another name tell me

18 Comments
2025/01/27
19:08 UTC

6

Recomendations ??

Can You recomend me some thrash albums but underground i mean not from Metallica megadeth Slayer the Classics and most comercial you known, thanks, i speak spanish by the way

47 Comments
2025/01/27
18:21 UTC

2

Aborcja - Kazamaty (Poland, 2024)

0 Comments
2025/01/27
17:30 UTC

20

Is Sacrifice -Volume 6 Out yet?

I keep seeing online the official release date is January 24th 2025- but not seeing album for sale or on streaming services yet. Has the release date been changed?

8 Comments
2025/01/27
17:03 UTC

121

Municipal Waste - The Thrashing Of The Christ

11 Comments
2025/01/26
20:34 UTC

6

Speedfreak - Born To Be Evil

0 Comments
2025/01/26
20:33 UTC

65

Sepultura - Troops of Doom

6 Comments
2025/01/26
12:22 UTC

6

whats the song playing around the 5 minute mark in "murder in the front row"?

I KNOW I KNOW THIS SONG BUT I JUST CANT REMEMBER AND ITS DRIVING ME CRAZY

6 Comments
2025/01/26
01:10 UTC

1

Sacred Reich tour 2025

when is Sacred Reich going to announce their tours they said lots of touring in the works with some killer bands maybe will Overkill or Testament

0 Comments
2025/01/26
01:05 UTC

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Enforced Radio on Spotify is so good

It has so many of the bands I've been loving; Enforced, Power Trip, Forced Neglect, Inhuman Nature, Doomsday. Just missing some Warbringer lol

3 Comments
2025/01/25
19:29 UTC

3

Destruidor - Bloody Pentagram

1 Comment
2025/01/25
15:06 UTC

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