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    Posted: 22 Apr 2017 at 10:51am
1988, the only time when the big four all released an album in the same year, and also just an amazing year for thrash in general. I couldn't fit everything here, so if an obscure favorite is missing feel free to list it in your reply.

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It´s between Slayer and Metallica here for me, but I have to chose Metallica. ...and Justice is such a powerful album.
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South of Heaven, ...And Justice For All and So Far, So Good...So What! all got one hell of a thrashing in my last year of high school (1989). I once kept track of what albums I listened to and how often for a statistics project. ...And Justice For All and South Of Heaven got exactly the same number of listens. So Far, So Good...So What! was third. Then came some AC/DC, Iron Maiden, Motorhead, WASP, GnR etc.

Of all those albums, South of Heaven is the one I revisit most often now, so I voted for it.
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If you'd asked me at the time I'd have probably gone for Slayer, Megadeth or Exodus but with hindsight I think Forbidden released the best album there.
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Didn't notice Fabulous Disaster there. It was actually released in January 1989.
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Originally posted by Vim Fuego Vim Fuego wrote:

Didn't notice Fabulous Disaster there. It was actually released in January 1989.

The album page says it was released in 1988 in the UK: http://www.metalmusicarchives.com/album/exodus/fabulous-disaster

I'm not sure if this is true though, as neither Wikipedia or EM says that it was released in 88. Confused
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Originally posted by Unitron Unitron wrote:

Originally posted by Vim Fuego Vim Fuego wrote:

Didn't notice Fabulous Disaster there. It was actually released in January 1989.

The album page says it was released in 1988 in the UK: http://www.metalmusicarchives.com/album/exodus/fabulous-disaster

I'm not sure if this is true though, as neither Wikipedia or EM says that it was released in 88. Confused


I just saw this line:

UK label Music for Nations (MFN 90) released the album in 1988, but in the USA, it was released in January 1989 by Combat/Relativity Records.

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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote Unitron Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 22 Apr 2017 at 9:09pm
It's hard for me to vote, as so many of these are favorites. It could have easily been Anthrax, Exodus, Slayer, Voivod, or Overkill but I went with Razor. They're a bit underrated on this site, and Violent Restitution may very well be the fastest thrash album I've ever heard.
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Just a quick look through my media player and I came up with these (all are open to correction, because I don't know if the right year has been put on them!)

Leave Scars - Dark Angel
Martha Splatterhead Returns - The Accused
The Sane Asylum - Blind Illusion
Neurodeliri - Bulldozer
Life Sucks...And Then You Die! - Cerebral Fix
Release From Agony - Destruction
Mind Wars - Holy Terror
Out Of The Dark...Into The Light - Kreator (really an EP, not an album)
The Music Of Erich Zann - Mekong Delta
Surf Nicaragua - Sacred Reich (EP not album)
Mortal Way of Live - Sodom (Live album)

Leave Scars is the only really essential album there. The Sane Asylum, Mind Wars, and possibly The Music of Erich Zann are sort of thrash fan-boy albums, where mentioning them gets you "street cred", and most of the others are worth a listen, but that's about it.
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^Yeah, Leave Scars is from 89 and Release From Agony is 87. The rest of those I either don't know or left out because they're more on the obscure end.

Here's some of my obscure favorites that I left out:
Stone - Stone
Deathwish - Demon Preacher (One of my all time favorites, underrated as hell even among thrash fans)
Assassin - Interstellar Experience
Outrage - Black Clouds
Airdash - Thank God It's Monday
Gothic Slam - Killer Instinct


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Dimension Hatross is easily my favorite from the year. But I don't consider them a thrash band in the purest sense by this point. They were well of into their scifi-avant-progmetal phase. It was a masterpiece splinter.

For pure thrash, the big four were already pretty well passe from the perspective of my young circle. I still enjoyed State of Euphoria, but aJfA had that absurd click bass drum, Slayer slowed down and seemed flat after masterwork RiB, and Megadeth was pretty much always a no-show in my collection. The pure thrash album that everybody in my clique was gushing over that year was Violence - Eternal Nightmare. 
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Originally posted by tapfret tapfret wrote:

Dimension Hatross is easily my favorite from the year. But I don't consider them a thrash band in the purest sense by this point. They were well of into their scifi-avant-progmetal phase. 

I disagree, I think Dimension Hatross and it's predecessor are both pure thrash with a sci-fi twist. Nothingface was when they lost the thrash, and didn't completely return to it until Negatron (Which I think is their best post-Hatross album personally).
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lol...you will hate my Negatron review then.
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Originally posted by tapfret tapfret wrote:

lol...you will hate my Negatron review then.

Probably, but I'm used to seeing people hate that album. I just need to finally write a positive review of it at some point. LOL
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We all have our crosses to bare. 
St. Anger is the only Metallica album I enjoyed after MoP...so...there's that.Beer
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Originally posted by tapfret tapfret wrote:

Dimension Hatross is easily my favorite from the year. But I don't consider them a thrash band in the purest sense by this point. They were well of into their scifi-avant-progmetal phase. It was a masterpiece splinter.

For pure thrash, the big four were already pretty well passe from the perspective of my young circle. I still enjoyed State of Euphoria, but aJfA had that absurd click bass drum, Slayer slowed down and seemed flat after masterwork RiB, and Megadeth was pretty much always a no-show in my collection. The pure thrash album that everybody in my clique was gushing over that year was Violence - Eternal Nightmare. 
 
Well if you´re into the more raw end of the 80s US thrash metal spectrum (artists like Slayer and Dark Angel around 1986), Eternal Nightmare is definitely a great album.
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I've only heard three of the list and of those it would be Metallica. The other two are Flotsam & Jetsam (not a patch on the first album to my ears) and Realm (okay but didn't get the hype). There is a few on the list that I'd be interested in checking out sometime though, but nothing on my priority list right now.

I'll just throw a spanner in the works here and say that the crown of 1988 belonged to power metal rather than thrash. Wink
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I own most of these but Metallica still tops the list for me on this one
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Originally posted by adg211288 adg211288 wrote:

I'll just throw a spanner in the works here and say that the crown of 1988 belonged to power metal rather than thrash. Wink

Don't you mean a Scanner? Tongue
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