Every Thrash Metal ‘Big 4’ Album Ranked From Worst to Best

Pitting 4 traditional discographies up in opposition to one another, we have now ranked each album from thrash’s ‘Huge 4’ from worst to greatest.

The collective studio output from Metallica, Slayer, Megadeth and Anthrax totals 49 unique albums, with Megadeth having launched essentially the most at 16.

Rating these impartial discographies is a troublesome sufficient process as every band possesses an excessive amount of high-value materials and we’re not simply speaking in regards to the classics — every group has delivered severe high quality within the twenty first century as nicely, which firmly asserts their proper to put declare to being within the hallowed ‘Huge 4’ grouping.

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In fact, time is at all times the final word check and whereas some information that are not stone chilly classics have held up fairly properly and a variety of the stylistic fuss does not actually matter anymore. How, greater than 30 years later, might it in any respect be heretical for Metallica to desert thrash and usher in a wholly new period of onerous rock with the Black Album? So lots of the group’s followers weren’t even born when that album got here out, so there’s it is onerous to take such a shift personally if you weren’t there to carry the previous fashion so near your metallic coronary heart.

Anyway, let’s get again on monitor and dive into Each Thrash ‘Huge 4’ Album Ranked From Worst to Greatest, straight beneath. There is definitely loads to debate!

NOTE: Lulu has been omitted from this rating as it’s a collaborative report.

Album descriptions by Philip Trapp, Ed Rivadavia, Jordan Blum, Ayron Rutan and Joe DiVita.

PLAYLIST: Early Thrash (The ’80s & ’90s)

Over 175 songs! Hear/observe right here.

PLAYLIST: twenty first Century Thrash

Over 175 songs! Hear/observe right here.