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

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

Rating these unbiased discographies is a troublesome sufficient job as every band possesses quite a lot of high-value materials and we’re not simply speaking concerning the classics — every group has delivered critical high quality within the twenty first century as properly, which firmly asserts their proper to put declare to being within the hallowed ‘Massive 4’ grouping.

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In fact, time is all the time the last word take a look at and whereas some information that are not stone chilly classics have held up fairly properly and a whole 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 desert 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 carry the previous model so near your metallic coronary heart.

Anyway, let’s get again on monitor and dive into Each Thrash ‘Massive 4’ Album Ranked From Worst to Finest, straight beneath. There is definitely quite a bit to debate!

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

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

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

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PLAYLIST: twenty first Century Thrash

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