The 2. 5 Best Thrash Metal Albums of All Time Metal Descent. Thrash is the most popular form of heavy metal. From raw sales numbers data, thrash metal sells, and continues to be popular today. This heavy and fast metal subgenre features major influences from NWOBHM and hardcore punk. Some classic bands like Sepultura and Kreator and many of the newer generation thrash bands also borrow some from death metal. There are bands like Pantera who consistently repeat these heavy and fast riffs within a song which helped to create the very popular thrash subcategory known as groove metal. Other subcategories include the heavily hardcore influenced crossover thrash, the mixed metalcore of neothrash and German palm muted Teutonic thrash. While the majority of the albums featured on this list are from the 8. Battlecross, Skeletonwitch and Lamb Of God. This was by far one of the most difficult lists we have ever had to put together. There are so many great thrash albums out there that this list could have easily been 1. Naturally that means there should be a fair amount of debate about the list and we certainly welcome some respectful candor. Because this was such a hard list to narrow down, there are a few albums that really should have made it into the top 2. Therefore we begin with 5 honorable mentions that just missed the cut. Overkill Horrorscope. Artillery By Inheritance. Flotsam and Jetsam Doomsday For The Deceiver. Sacred Reich The American Way. Anthrax Persistence Of Time2. Target Earth Voivod. This is by far one of the newer albums on the list having been released in 2. Voivods sixteenth album truly is. Target Earth seamlessly blends melodic vocals, progressive time signatures, thrash riffs and solos and amazing drumming. The album has the amazing knack for being  all over the place in a very structured way. No one really knew what this album would be like after the death of main songwriter Denis Piggy DAmour. However, Jean Yves Blacky Theriault, who hadnt written a song since 1. Daniel Chewy Mongrain, who was Piggys replacement picked up the slack without a hitch helping Target Earth to become one of the bands most critically acclaimed albums to date. Act III Death Angel. Act III, released in 1. California thrash metal veterans Death Angel. It may have been their most successful as Death Angel broke through onto MTV with the singles Seemingly Endless Time and Room with a View. The album is also notorious for being the one that put an end to the band for 1. Q5VZTkpvsfw/hqdefault.jpg' alt='Kreator Pleasure To Kill Remastered' title='Kreator Pleasure To Kill Remastered' />During the tour for the album, the band was in a bus crash which critically injured drummer Andy Galeon. It took him over a year to recover and in the meantime singer Mark Osegueda left the band causing them to dissolve. Fortunately they reunited in 2. However this album is still considered by many to be the bands very best. Infernal Overkill Destruction. This is the 1. 98. German Teutonic thrashers, Destruction. The album was heavily influenced by Venoms 1. Black Metal.   Much like their German brethren in Kreator and Sodom, the band was one of the first to infuse extreme metal into thrash. In particular, Infernal Overkill featured a steady dose of black metal influence, most notably in the vocals of Marcel Schirmer. Many consider this to be one of a few 8. Human Intro 000 02. Into The Crypts Of Rays 041 03. Visions of Mortality 419 04. Dethroned Emperor 909 05. Morbid Tales 1347 06. Procreation Of. ldre indlg Pske bningstider af Andreas 12. Vi holder Pskelukket torsdag og fredag, men lrdag, sndag og mandag har vi bent som vi plejer. Prison Tatt Records releases onesided vinyl LPs and compact discs. VWJZBIUQws/hqdefault.jpg' alt='Kreator Pleasure To Kill Remastered' title='Kreator Pleasure To Kill Remastered' />Pleasure to Kill is the second studio album by German thrash metal band Kreator, released in November 1986 by Noise Records. The lyrical themes follow those found on. Skeletonwitch and Toxic Holocaust. From here, the band released twelve more albums and are currently working on their next one. After Infernal Overkill, the band did drop much of the black metal from their sound, but have still remained one of the more extreme thrash metal bands around. Vulgar Display of Power Pantera. Panteras 1. 99. 2 album, Vulgar Display Of Power, is one of the most popular and sought after heavy metal albums of the 1. This is the album where the band really honed their signature sound and is considered the benchmark of the groove metal style. The album arguably gave the world Panteras three most well know songs, Walk, This Love and Mouth for War. This was one of the first extremely heavy albums to meet with a ton of mainstream success. It has reached 4. Billboard 2. 00 and has since hit double platinum status in the United States. For an album this heavy to be that successful at that time is saying a lot, as it came out when the popularity of heavy metal was in a steep decline due to the rise of grunge and alternative music. Vulgar Display Of Power continues to be one of the most influential metal albums ever and is consistently in many top heavy metal and thrash album lists. Alice In Hell Annihilator. Annihilator debuted their Canadian brand of thrash metal with 1. Alice In Hell.   The album was heavily influenced by Voivods mixture of progressive metal and thrash. However, Annihilator took things to the next level by adding in elements from technical death metal. This particular album is seen as one of the first technical thrash albums. It has received critical praise from most for its extremely complicated song structures and flawless guitar riffs. At the time, this album was certainly not as well understood by metal fans as it is today. Now an entire generation of bands the likes of Revocation and Wretched all have aspects of Alice In Hell in their music. Annihilator just released their fourteenth album in 2. The New Order Testament. The New Order is the second album from California thrash masters, Testament. This is the first album from the band that met with mainstream success as it featured the popular singles Trial by Fire, The Preacher and an amazing cover of Aerosmiths Nobodys Fault. The album reached number 1. Billboard 2. 00 and is Testaments longest charting album to date. Many critics and fans alike consider this to be a close second to the bands debut album The. Legacy.   The band continues to play a lot of material from The New Order during live performances as these songs are always heavily requested by the fans. Hordes Of Chaos Kreator. Released in 2. 00. Hordes of Chaos is one of the newer albums from German extreme thrash legends, Kreator. Much like the bands second album, Pleasure To Kill, the album has a much more raw and heavy sound as it was recorded in a live setting. Even though the band has been releasing albums since 1. Billboard charts in the United States debuting at 1. It was one of the bands highest rated albums amongst critics as it not only hearkened back to their 1. The album has been a major influence on current thrash acts, like Battlecross, who mix in a lot of guitar harmonization. The band has since released Phantom Antichrist in 2. Hordes Of Chaos.   Phantom was nearly as good and was extremely difficult to leave off of this list. If the band continues in this way, maybe more people will take notice and they will begin to get the respect they so richly deserve. Peace Sells But Whos Buying Megadeth. Here we have the first appearance on a Big 4 bandMetallica, Megadeth, Slayer, Anthrax  on our list and its a big one. Peace SellsBut Whos Buying may just be Megadeths most commercially popular album as it gave the world the very well known single Peace Sells. The opening bass line to this track was used for years by MTV news and it is one of the bands most requested live performances. Along with Metallicas Master of Puppets and Slayers Reign In Blood, which were all released in 1. Wikipedia. This is a list of notable events in music that took place in the year 2. Specific locationseditSpecific genreseditJanuaryeditJanuary 1 In most of Europe, copyright expired on a number of classic pop and rock and roll songs recorded in 1. Bill Haleys Rock Around the Clock, and Only You by The Platters. January 7 Welsh punk band Mclusky officially announce their disbanding via their website. Weeks later, Welsh noisecorepunk band Jarcrew disband due to their drummer becoming a Jehovahs Witness remnants of the two bands later went on to join forces and become Future of the Left. January 1. 7 Prior to missing 2 live shows, Mike Tempesta is officially no longer part of Powerman 5. January 2. 2 The Tsunami Relief concert is held at the Millennium Stadium, Cardiff, Wales the largest live music event in the UK since the Live Aid concert of 1. Performers included Madonna, Eric Clapton, Jools Holland, Manic Street Preachers, Lulu, Aled Jones, Charlotte Church, Katherine Jenkins, Feeder, Snow Patrol, Liberty X. January 2. 9 Avril Lavigne, Chantal Kreviazuk, the Barenaked Ladies, Raine Maida, and Sarah Mc. Lachlan conduct a concert in Vancouver, British Columbia, for tsunami relief. January 3. 1 Jon Levasseur leaves Cryptopsy, saying he has lost interest in Extreme Music. FebruaryeditFebruary 7 The BRIT Awards are held in London. Scissor Sisters, Keane, Franz Ferdinand, and Joss Stone are among the winners. February 1. 3 The 4. Grammy Awards are held in Staples Center, Los Angeles, California. Ray Charles become the big winner at the ceremony. Britney Spears earned her first Grammy in the category of Best Dance Recording for her hit single Toxic. February 1. 5 Sonny Mayo replaces Clint Lowery in Sevendust. February 2. 2After being silent since late 2. Blink 1. 82 announce that they will be taking an indefinite hiatus, the news comes as a big shock for fans. According to guitarist Tom De. Longe, the band will not come completely inactive. Brian Welch, guitarist of Ko. Яn, leaves the band after converting to Christianity. February 2. 8 Static X fires Tripp Eisen because of his arrest for sex offenses involving a minor. MayJune Operation IvyRancid bassist Matt Freeman is diagnosed with lung cancer. May 2. Legendary blues rock group Cream reunites for four shows in Londons Royal Albert Hall. Linkin Park issues a press release demanding to end its contract with Warner Music Group, on the grounds that the label would fail to meet its fiduciary responsibility to market and promote Linkin Park due to cost cutting efforts at the company. May 6 Audioslave becomes the first American rock group to perform a free outdoor concert in Cuba. May 1. 7 Kylie Minogue is diagnosed with breast cancer. Thus she has to cancel her Showgirl The Greatest Hits Tour. May 2. 1 The Los Angeles radio station KROQ FM airs the 1. Annual Weenie Roast show with Alkaline Trio, Audioslave, Bloc Party, The Bravery, The Dead 6. Foo Fighters, Hot Hot Heat, Interpol, Jimmy Eat World, The Killers, The Mars Volta, Mtley Cre, Mx. Wwe No Mercy 2K14 Download. Px, My Chemical Romance, Queens of the Stone Age and The Transplants. May 2. 2 Tammin Sursok releases her debut and to date only album Whatever Will Be. May 2. 4 Gorillaz release their second studio album, Demon Days. May 2. 5 Carrie Underwood wins the fourth season of American Idol. June 4 Mariah Careys We Belong Together became her sixteenth chart topper on the US Billboard Hot 1. The song then spent 1. US Billboard. Hot 1. Hot R BHip Hop Songs chart. It made history when it became the first song to simultaneously occupy the number one position on nine Billboard charts the week ending August 6, 2. Hot 1. 00, Hot 1. Airplay, Hot R BHip Hop Songs, Hot R BHip Hop Airplay, Pop 1. Airplay, Top 4. 0 Mainstream, Rhythmic Airplay Chart, Hot Dance Club Songs, and Hot Ringtones. June 91. 1 Download Festival 2. Tool, Metallica and Guns N Roses headline the main stage. June 1. 2 Pink Floyd announce that they will reunite with former bassist Roger Waters, who left the band in 1. July 2 for the Live 8 London concert. This will be the first time the band played together as a quartet since The Wall tour in 1. Pink Floyd since 1. June 1. 3 Michael Jackson is found not guilty of child molestation. June 1. 4 The Backstreet Boys came back and released their fifth studio album Never Gone after a nearly 5 year hiatus. June 1. 5 Destinys Child announce they will disband upon completion of their world tour. June 1. 6 Motrhead celebrate their 3. Hammersmith Apollo, which is later released on DVD. June 1. 81. 9 Green Day films their first ever live CDDVD Bullet in a Bible at the National Bowl in Milton Keynes, England. They played to over 1. June 2. 1 Billy Corgan announces that he wants to reform his popular alternative rock group The Smashing Pumpkins, which disbanded on December 2, 2. June 2. 5 Patti Smith curates the Meltdown festival. JulyAugusteditJuly 2 Live 8benefit concerts are held around the world, as part of the Make Poverty History campaign. July 6 Lil Kim is sentenced to a year and a day in prison for lying to a federal grand jury about her knowledge of suspects in a 2. New York radio station. July 1. The Chemical Brothers release their single, The Boxer. July 2. 1 Gigantour runs through to September 1. Megadeth frontman Dave Mustaine with bands including Dream Theater, Anthrax, Fear Factory and Nevermore. August 9 Staind releases Chapter V, which becomes their third straight studio album to reach 1 on the US Billboard 2. August 1. 8 Interscope Records reports that Eminem has entered rehab for dependency on sleep medication. The rapper had canceled the European leg of the Anger Management 3 Tour two days earlier, citing exhaustion. A four year hiatus would ensue until the release of the Relapse album in 2. August 2. 4 3. 1 The UNESCO sponsored Fifth Sharq Taronalari Melodies of the East International Music Festival is held in Samarkand. August 2. Rihanna releases her debut album Music of the Sun, which debuts at number 1. US Billboard 2. 00. The album produced two singles that achieved international chart success, including first single Pon de Replay, which topped number 2 at the US Billboard Hot 1. August 2. 8 Death Row Records CEO Suge Knight is shot in the leg at an MTV Video Music Awards pre party in Miami. No one is ever charged in the shooting. SeptemberOctobereditSeptember 2. September 9 The band Scooter perform at the All State Arena in Chicago, IL, their first performance in the United States. September 1. 0 Destinys Child breaks up after the finishing of their Destiny Fulfilled. Lovin it Tour. September 2. J. D. Fortune wins Rock Star INXS, a reality TV singing contest to become the new lead vocalist of Australian rock band INXS. September 2. 7 American rock band PanicDisco released their debut album A Fever You Cant Sweat Out. Actor Drake Bell releases his debut musical album Telegraph. Dancehall artist Sean Paul releases his third album titled The Trinity. October 1 Sentenced plays their final show. October 1. 5 Media reported that Latin star Luis Miguel has released his own vintage of wine, Unico. Luis Miguel, a Cabernet Sauvignon. October 2. 1 Nightwish perform at the Hartwall Areena, later to be released as the End of an Era DVD. The following day, singer Tarja Turunen is dismissed in an open letter.