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

Pitting 4 basic discographies up towards one another, we’ve got ranked each album from thrash’s ‘Big 4’ from worst to greatest.

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

Ranking these impartial discographies is a troublesome sufficient activity as every band possesses a substantial amount of high-value materials and we’re not simply speaking concerning the classics — every group has delivered severe high quality within the twenty first century as effectively, which firmly asserts their proper to lay declare to being within the hallowed ‘Big 4’ grouping.

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Of course, time is at all times the last word check and whereas some data that are not stone chilly classics have held up fairly properly and quite a lot 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 abandon thrash and usher in a wholly new period of arduous rock with the Black Album? So most of the group’s followers weren’t even born when that album got here out, so there’s it is arduous to take such a shift personally once you weren’t there to maintain the previous type so shut to your steel coronary heart.

Anyway, let’s get again on monitor and dive into Every Thrash ‘Big 4’ Album Ranked From Worst to Best, immediately beneath. There’s actually lots to focus on!

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

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

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

Over 175 songs! Listen/observe right here.

PLAYLIST: twenty first Century Thrash

Over 175 songs! Listen/observe right here.