80's Thrash Metal Bands RANKED (Based ONLY on 80's Albums)
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- Опубліковано 28 тра 2024
- Today we are revisiting and expanding our ranking of classic 80's thrash metal bands, but with a twist: this time their tiers will ONLY reflect their 80's album output and not any modern records or the GODLESS thrash era that was the 90's. Will Metallica find itself back on top? Where does Megadeth fit in all of this? Will Slayer still hold strong? And what of the divisive Anthrax? All of this and more from the likes of Kreator, Sodom, Destruction, Testament, Voivod, etc.
00:00 Intro
00:15 Kreator
00:50 Flotsam & Jetsam
01:25 Testament
02:18 Annihilator
03:00 Anthrax
03:49 Dark Angel
04:30 Artillery
05:15 Exodus
06:00 Dirty Rotten Imbeciles
07:04 Sadus
07:52 Voivod
08:40 Heathen
09:07 Suicidal Tendencies
10:20 Toxik
11:07 Razor
11:58 Sepultura
12:57 Death Angel
13:55 Sacred Reich
14:34 Coroner
15:23 Overkill
16:26 Megadeth
17:54 Nuclear Assault
18:48 Vio-Lence
19:27 Tankard
20:31 Metallica
21:23 Sodom
22:03 Destruction
22:51 Xentrix
23:30 Metal Church
24:39 Slayer
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If Slayer isn't S Tier im going to lose it bro.
Update: we good fam, never doubted you for a moment
lol
Hope you’re being facetious
Phew!!
@@longshanks5531 100% serious. If he put Slayer below the top spot I would've started screaming incoherently and breaking everything in my room until my rage was depleted. It would be the only logical response.
Kreator is better!
I like this themed ranking (limit your rating based only on a certain period). 🤘
Definitely makes it easier than trying to take on multiple decades of different quality output.
@@MetalTrenches Very true. I did similar rankings of later decade output for bands that debuted in either '80s or '90s. That is interesting too. Totally agree on Coroner. Such a great band!
Being a teenager in the 80's and seeing many of these bands "Live" this is definitely one of my favorite videos you've done 🤘Great list, I don't think I would change anything. Fun fact, Sodom actually has a debut album called "In The Sign Of Evil" in 1984. Just wanted to comment on that because it wasn't included on the list. And, I actually own it on vinyl 🤘
That is technically an EP but also good yes
@@MetalTrenches Back then many bands had debuts that were 5, 6 or 7 songs. Kreator is another example with "Endless Pain" and "Flag of Hate" which I would also have included as part of their discography 🤘
Have you seen "Live" live?
I love the thrash tier lists! I’ve been wondering if you would continue the classic thrash album rankings to fourth albums?
agreed!
prong beg to differ is a perfect album in my opinion
I love these tier lists. It’s always great to find new classics that I missed growing up with thrash
That hair has grown quick man! Totally adds to your look! Freaking awesome. Great work as always, happy to be a patreon supporter. Still waiting on that Norther discography ranking, mygrain, and the band Narnia for your power metal section. Would love you forever!
Thanks for another Fantastic Ranking Video!! Great work as always!!
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Excellent and very comprehensive list! The only band I felt was left out might be Agent Steel off the top of my head. I also would not have considered Metal Church a thrash band, although I was pretty into them back in the day and even sported one of their t-shirts fairly often.
Love the tier list i agree with the majority and personally i would add Sabbat-History of a time to come (1988) and Dreamweaver(1989) and also Forbidden-Forbidden evil (1988) and of course a big miss is Flotsam and Jetsam-Doomsday for the deceiver (1986) and No place for disgrace (1988)
Coroner is one those bands that gets forgotten a lot, but damn they are killer!
Coroner are so good bro.
Also love this video idea bro!!!
Love your channel
Great Video man, I agree with your list almost perfectly, with the only exception that I would switch Flotsam and Tankard. I LOVE No Place for Disgrace and the Debut too, but I have NEVER liked Tankard.... at all. And why does everybody always forget LAÄZ Rockit? Annihilation Principle RULES! Cheers!
I feel like mentioning Hades and their two 80's releases 'Resisting Success' and 'If at First You Don't Succeed'; Alan Tecchio had one of the best voices in thrash... 👌
Always great hearing your breakdown on things. I'm surprised you rated Overkill as high as you did.
Overkill top tier.
Forbidden with Forbidden Evil. Bay Area Thrash from '88. Very good album.
The two first Forbidden albums are bloody excellent! 👌
Great list
Keep up the good work
This was very fun, especially when for a lot of these bands its so tempting to want to include 1990. Xentrix is a personal favourite but I can understand why they scored so low. I also love Megadeth's 3rd album but agree to disagree on that one
I had the Vio-Lence Eternal Nightmare cover I ripped out of a metal mag pasted on my folder (Trapper Keeper if anyone remembers those lol ! ) at school for a few years . The teachers even questioned me if things were "OK at home?" after seeing it ! HAHAHAHA !
I also would add: Holy Moses (3 Albums in the 80s), Accuser (3 Albums in the 80s), Protector (3 Albums in the 80s), Celtic Frost (5 Albums in the 80s), Deathrow (3 Albums in the 80s), Exumer (2 Albums in the 80s), Paradox (2 Albums in the 80s), Sabbat [japanese band] (1 Album in the 80s), Sabbat [british band] (2 Albums in the 80s), Vendetta (2 Albums in the 80s), Mekong Delta (3 Albums in the 80s), Mezzrow (1 Album in the 80s)
I am kind of sad that the two best thrash bands of the 80s (in my opinion) Holy Terror and Infernal Majesty seems to be largely forgotten. Also, Pestilence’s first album ‘Mallevs Maleficarvm’ is a classic thrash album before they became death metal.
Good list. Growing up I loved this stuff but I really only listen to Megadeth, Speultura and Testament now.
Makes me wonder what they rank if 1990 was included. Rust in Peace is probably the best thrash album ever made.
@@thomashoban2430it’s definitely up there for me.
Overall, a pretty fair ranking I would say. I like Nuclear Assault a good bit more, but it is what is. I think you could (and probably should 🙂) have included the following bands who all had at least two albums released in the 80s:
Holy Terror (esp. their second and final album, Mind Wars, is top shelf - the debut is at the most borderline thrash, just like Metal Church, and decent but not great)
Whiplash
Onslaught
Sabbat (UK)
Mortal Sin
Nasty Savage
Traitor from Tankard's "Chemical Invasion" is one hell of an 80's thrash banger.
Chemical Invasion is great. Tankard have some fun albums man.
Glad to see you warmed up to Sepultura ❤
Good list. I was hoping you would have included Hallows Eve.
Great ranking! Makes my cold Canadian heart warm lol to see the Voi Vod love
I’d rank Flotsam’s 80s effort as great/fantastic tho but I get it.. its all subjective
'NO PLACE is a fuqin masterpiece
@@scottthompson4193 💯
D.RI. - Thrash Zone is 🐐ed
That album is really fun
Overkill and Megadeth it's perfection!!!!!
I dunno, chief. Only Peace Sells is S-Tier in their 80s discography. KIMB is good and SFSGSW is just ok
No way. Especially not Megadeth.
@@akarshshekhar5233 At least Megadeth started releasing good albums again.
(but I can't say the same about Metallica)
@@zerixritem1934 This wasn't a career albums tier list (and Megadeth have released a lot of stinkers throughout their career as well). Megadeth's 80s output isn't S tier by any stretch of imagination. Peace Sells barely makes it as an S Tier album. KIMB is good and SFSGSW is extremely inconsistent. This was a list based on just the albums released in the 80s. However, even if you take the entire career arc, a band which has released stinkers like Risk and Super Collider is nowhere close to perfection. Some of Megadeth's albums are perfect, but the entire discography isn't. As per Metallica, yes I like Megadeth more than Metallica overall but one has to be deaf to believe that Megadeth's 80s albums are better than Metallica's 80s albums.
You are right sir.😊
I agree with you most of the time. Though I'd promote Exodus and Testament. What website is being used with the album ratings?
Tiermaker
Hey brother , maybe you can put in cryptic slaughter, hallows eve, raw power, assassin (German) deathrow,, stone, and sabbat(uk) and my favorite indestructible noise command. And sure I’m leaving some out. But awesome job as always. I’m a big overkill fan so I wish they were higher but none the less stellar job
I consider 90, 91 and almost 92 and 93 as the final part of the 80s, particularly in thrash.
There are so many good albums in those 4 years. Horrorscope, Coma of Souls, Rust in Peace, Never Neverland, Arise, Tapping the Vein, Better off Dead, Cracked Brain. I could go on.
currently listening to Testament's entire main discography right now, and it's been a blast. really consistent through out every record, and how Megadeth did whatever dave was doing from 94-2001 area i love how Testament keep the thrash going, but tried throwing a little death metal in it toward the late 90s/early 2000s. Demonic may be one of my favorite listens.
Demonic is pretty good, but I prefer Low and The Gathering more. Cool that you’re enjoying Testament that much. They’re awesome.
@@doomguyrox1156yea, i guess i enjoyed demonic a lot since i found out gene was on the drum kit for that record.
@@EmberMcLain87 Gene’s pretty sick in Testsment. His work in Strapping Young Lad is also awesome.
@0:50 putting early Kreator to S is a guaranteed +1... despite all the pain the rest of thrush form the states brought in :p
Used to hate the Nuclear Assault vocals then I started to really like them, Handle with Care is 10/10 thrash imo. There is a fan remastered version out there which takes care of the production issue too. Now Overkill, that's some vocals that I can stand for more than 3 seconds haha
For part 2 Stormtroopers of death
Took a bit, but I’m finally able to comment lol. Great ranking and after watching this I’m starting to realize I’ve been very nitpicky and kinda harsh towards thrash the past few months so imma try to quit that. I checked Voivod’s nothing face after watching this and I really loved it. Think I enjoyed it as much if not more than Synchro Anarchy. I’ve also been relistening to some Exodus since I just bought Bonded by Blood and Fabulous Disaster (no Pleasure’s of The Flesh though which sucks since that my favorite 😭) on CD. I have a funny story to any exodus fans. So my friend put on low rider in the car and I told him about the exodus cover. As soon as the vocals came in he described them as sounding like a squirrel so now I can’t unhear that when I listen to Souza lol.
Where did the 10 point scale rankings on the right of the albums come from? I'd love to take a deeper look
Lots of great bands. Wish you would have included Sacrifice and Ratos De Porao
Awesome
Megadeth loosing Rust In Peace, Countdown, and Youthanasia really hurts
Whoa whoa whoa man just at end of vid now and where is Sacrifice?! Torment in Fire and Forward to Termination albums are absolute 🔥
Wot no Holy Terror? Two cracking 80s albums imo. Vocals might be a bit too heavy metal for MT though.
Illusions is on par with Reign in Blood in my book. The best thing Sadus ever did (unless you count the Death to Poseurs demo which is even more savage).
i agree but maybe overkill is fantastic because taking over
And The Years of Decay
Where do you get these band album fan rankings?
Metalstorm and metal archives
For me its Metallica, Megadeth, Slayer, Kreator and Sepultura
My favorites are Voivod and Overkill. I also love their groove metal stuff, which is a genre I enjoy more. There are a few really good thrash albums, though.
As far as Metallica is concerned, Master of Puppets and Ride the Lightning are absolute classics that I have listened to many times and still sound great decades later. And Justice for All is pretty good. Kill em All is okay. But not as good as the 2 others.
What website you are using? the one that shows all the discographies and stuff
Tiermaker
@@MetalTrenches sorry i meant to ask the metal storm website but i figured it out. thanks anyways!
Hey! @3:25 I love metal storm too, but the persistence of time was my first and obviously unbiased choice as the best thrash metal album that americans can ever play :p
Hey metal trenches you ever think about doing a 311 tierlist or have you ever listened to them ???
Back in the day yes
What is the site with bands albums and ratings?
Came here to ask the same question. Haha. He answered below, looks like Metal Archives and Metalstorm.
Destruction, Kreator, Sodom, and Razor is all you need! Oh and of course Slayer!
You need to call them “unaliving tendencies!” 😝
What website are you on?
Sepultura, Morbid Saint, Dark Angel🤘
Sabbat, Nasty Savage, and Viking deserve inclusion. Also, I don't usually consider Helstar thrash, but if Toxik is thrash, so is Helstar
I would consider Helstar US power metal, but that 'Nosferatu' album is SO good! 🤘
What website do you use?
Tiermaker
@@MetalTrenches I meant for looking at the albums ratings
Metal Storm
Slayer s tier nuff said just unbelievable in the 80s 🤘🇬🇧
Master and S.O.D. should be there.
What about Raven they made a lot of noise for 3 guys and how could you go wrong with a drummer named Wako wearing a hockey helmet.
Weren’t they Trad?
@@doomguyrox1156 no there mind over metal
What website is he using to show the albums and their ratings?
Tiermaker
Ah yes music I'm nostalgic for even though I was born in 2000 🥰
*unadulterated mustaine fanboy rage noises*
Among the Living, Practice What you Preach and Alison Hell. There were so many i loved
Among The Living is so good.
Top 5 80s thrash bands: Slayer, Coroner, Voivod, Sabbat and Nuclear Assault. Metallica is there too, but I don’t play those albums much anymore.
Wow
There's a thrash metal band that's also considered funk metal named Mordred and they only had like 3 albums but I only listend couple a tracks of each 2 albums there pretty good.
4 albums I mean
Bonded By Blood is the best and it took you a while to BTR by Sepultura, just different influences
VOIVOD. end of discussion.
Alice in Hell SLAPS what a record
I am just not a big 80s thrash fan. I like the master of puppets and maybe ride the lightning and thats it
Anthrax above Testament, Exodus is 80s perfection, I love ST I would have them at fantastic. I'm glad I'm not the only one who doesn't rate Death Angel. I wish I got into Coroner in the 80s, only discovered them on Mental Vortex. I do prefer 90s Overkill, but they are great. Megadeth are perfection for 80s, their filler? boots and I aint superstitious? easily get over that. Obviously Slayer and Metallica are at the top....but no Forbidden? I think they were more worthy than a few bands, even with only 1 album
KREATOR!
Great list. Not seeing Megadeth in Perfection hurts although 😢. That kind of tier lists are entertaining!
As great as Megadeth's 80s output is and it IS great, I think a lot of people view their best album to be 1990's Rust In Peace. Not being able to include that album hurts their ranking. If you include that album with the 80s albums they're Perfection level imo.
@@SuperStrik9 yep, good reasoning. We will take revenge in the 90s tier list then 😜🤟🏼
I understand it. If you included thrash bands up to 1990, Megadeth bubbles to the very top. Rust in Peace is the best thrash album of 1990 (yes it is and you know I am right) so it pulls them up hard in such a list.
@@PolkCountyWIProgressiveYou aren't right because By Inheritance also came out that year.
@@Don_Shake A butt ton of great albums came out in 1990, but Rust in Peace bubbles to the top. It is the chef’s kiss album.
I unfortunately have to put Sepultura at Fantastic only because the debut album is ok. Schizophrenia and Beneath the Remains are awesome, but Morbid Visions puts them down by one tier. If we're going overall, they'd be in Perfect easily. Happy to see Kreator at Perfect. Their 80s albums are awesome! Sodom is awesome, but the debut is ok. Their next two albums however are awesome
I personally LOVE how gnarly the debut is.
Agreed. They would belong in S tier if Arise came out in the 80s IMO.
I agree, but I replaced their debut with the Cavalera Conspiracy remaster, and then it's perfection for me
@@MetalTrenchesunderstandable. They definitely are fantastic! I'll give them that! But we have differing opinions when it comes to the debut. Debut albums are supposed to be really good, but others stink too. Doesn't make Morbid Visions bad. I still think that it's ok. And I'm not changing my mind. Debut albums are the beginning for bands doing music.
Death Angel is an odd band in that when i see then i dont really want them to play old songs. I'd rather hear the new stuff. They actually got better. Most bands either stay consistent if theyre lucky, or make worse albums
Lol Zuchini gonna put Sacred Reich in baaad. Nice video though man lol
Never liked Dark Angel. Some of the fastest thrash for sure, but it's not memorable to me, neither riffs nor atmosphere.
Testament borders S tier for me, so does Sepultura (both have 1 album in the 80s I'm not a fan of).
I actually like Nuclear Assault's 3rd record, but even more than the vocals the production on all of their records is abysmal.
Who is your favorite thrash vocalist?
I got too many to list, but rn I’m feeling Eric Knutson from Flotsam & Jetsam.
Not much to complain about the ranking but, to me, Flotsam and Heathen are a bit low. Was going to argue for Metal Church being too low as well but I've never considered the band full thrash...still one of my favorite bands of all time. Solid ranking, otherwise.
Slayer is the greatest thrash band of all time!!!! What more is there to say? It is what it is, lol. Thrash will forever REIGN IN BLOOD!🤘😡🩸
Reign in Blood is fantastic, but Seasons In The Abyss is the goat for me.
Damn I guess you not liking Nuclear Assault vocals is kinda like me not liking James Labrie, his voice erks me even though I enjoy those type of vocals from other vocalists
Living Death-Protected From Reality. Kinda predicts the blackthrash sound.
I feel like a lot of bands get judged by their vocals a little harshly but I do that too. Suicidal, Overkill or D.R.I. vocals to me are fine but Dave Mustaine has always rubbed me the wrong way. It's very objective. ✌️
Thank god I was worried about Metallica haha
even tho they’re basically part of megadave’s discography
man i may just love megadeth but… should’ve been S tier as well as exodus!!
Realm? Endless War is a great crossover thrash album and their second album Suiciety is excellnt progressive thrash though i cant remember if the latter was within the 80s
ANTHRAX! Slayer, close second. Metallica after that! Megadeth afyer* that. No hate but Mustaine's entire personality puts a damper on how i feel about them. Still a great band, though. 🤘🤘🤘
(edit: *AFTER)
I like Dark Angel but the vocals on We Have Arrived are pretty weak.
Technically you should include 1990 albums. A decade is 1 to 10, 11 to 20, 21 to 30 etc.That way you can include Rust in Peace 👍
I refuse that incredibly goofy way of looking at a decade. To not include 1980 in a decade called "The 80's" is preposterous. I don't want to hear the "there's no year zero" argument either. 99% of people include the initial 10 in a decade. I do agree that it would have been nice to include Rust In Peace though.
I would consider Metal Church more a heavy metal band than thrash. But they do have that amazing guitar chugging sound that thrash.
Feel like Onslaught are missing
Forbidden just based on their 2 albums (Forbidden Evil and Twisted Info Form) is better than half these bands at least. That said, I know your not into the vocal style. However, just based on riffs, song structure alone many of these bands couldn't hold a candle too them.
Russ Anderson had one of the most awesome voices in thrash...
Godzilla duh !👀
Nuclear Assault and Artillery in Okay??
Yes. And?
@@MetalTrenches And.
To me both band’s 80s output is alright. Nuclear Assault I unfortunately agree with trenches that the vocals can be grading and Artillery didn’t truly become great until By Inheritance.
@@doomguyrox1156 Artillery's debut is one of my all time favorites
Are you not counting Surf Nicaragua E.P. from Sacred Reich ? That was 80s no ?
No EP’s
The title track goes so hard