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Stand By Me, Cujo, Maximum overdrive, The Running Man, The Mist, The Dead Zone, Pet Cemetery., Children of the Corn..... Can't forget those King classics. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Crashdiet are great, Hardcore Superstar, Crazy Lixx etc also good.

Yep, even Slayer started out in spandex and eye liner....

No Insomnium???

Hair metal/ Glam metal First 2 Motley Crüe albums; RATT Out Of the Cellar; the Dokken, LA Guns & WASP debuts are all absolute classic. Bands like Dokken, WASP post-debut Skid Row often get thrown in with the hair metal tag for no reason other than they were alive and kicking in the 80s; were not thrash or power metal. All 3 were much heavier than that. Tesla has no place in a hair metal discussion and neither do Guns n Rose for that matter. Icon, Malice, Warrior are all other examples of strong 'metal' bands that get included in these discussions incorrectly. The 'hair metal' tag was really directed at the 2nd and 3rd generation bandwagon jumpers who flooded the labels & airwaves with no musical talent or integrity; and had a certain look that MTV pushed. They carried guitars and such but we're not metal. Shit like Poison (although the debut is cool but have a look at them for gods sake); Trixter, Tuff and too any others to mention. So statement like "universally dreadful" might be true of actual hair metal - but let's be mindful of who we characterise by hair metal and who we don't. Unfortunately everything that came before MTV turned everyone into commercial whores and was decent metal still gets thrown in with that rubbish which is not accurate or fair.; but 30 years later it's just easier to lump it ALL together. Then grunge came ( well for about 3 years before it had served its purpose and was 'done') and washed it all away.

best thrash album Running Wild gets my vote (Angelo Sasso and all...). Some seriously good albums (The Rivalry; Black Hand In; Pile of Skulls; Masquerade + the two BAN mentioned) although their last couple Shadowmaker and Resilient are horrible. Helloween were great back in their day and have had a solid last decade but I seldom reach for their stuff outside of Walls of Jericho, Keeper Pt 2 and The Dark Ride. No pink bubbles or Rabbits please. Never been able to get into Primal Fear or Gamma Ray.

best thrash album

Metallica 2015 Album As someone who was around when Metallica were new ( bought Ride the Lightening the year it came out) I can assure you Metallica were spectacular. There was virtually NOTHING like that around. They were head and shoulders above anything back then. Not anymore. However, I am expecting crap James vocals, lazy, sloppy Lars drumming and shitty half-assed 8 minute songs pieced together with insufficient editing. And awful production again. Lords of Summer is awful.

best thrash album Sabbat's debut History of a Time to Come smokes most thrash albums IMO. Best British thrash album for me. Sodom M16 a personal fav also along with Coroner "No More Color" + Overkill's Years of Decay" and " Horrorscope" and Slayer " Show No Mercy". Of the others, Master of Puppets, RUST, Ride the Lightening and Reign in Blood all stand out as the best of the best.

Megadeth - Youthanasia Love the album. It's highly commercial and all that..... A Tout Le Monde aside (which is horrible), the album is very enjoyable. Slide it alongside Carcass' Swansong album - fun, dumb, polished easy listening metal. Nothing more, nothing less.

Your 2015 anticipated new albums

Metal Songs About History God Dethroned incredible album Passiondale deals entirely with the battle of the same name (actual spelling is Passchendaele) near Ypres from WW1. Approx 900,000 lives lost in horrendous conditions where the area was hit with the heaviest rain it had experienced in 30 years.

Your 2015 anticipated new albums New Paradise Lost tops the list for me. Also hopeful for new Saturnus which they have commenced writing apparently but 2015 might be a stretch.

The Human Factor and Hanging in the Balance are both really strong too. Came right after Blessing in Disguise..

Queensryche "Operation Mindcrime" probably the one that springs to mind. Kind Diamonds albums perhaps. Savatage " Streets" and WASP "Crimson Idol" also come to mind.

Hi guys - just dropped in and stumbled across this Doom Thread. I am more into the death/doom style I guess.. Right now the 'most listended' to top 4 would be something like: Slumber - Distress in my opinion is a massive album...if only they had stayed around Rapture (Futile and Songs for the Withering) Saturnus (everything is gold by this band) Novembre Ask me next month and it might have changed.