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With all of this love for the shitty big 4 (not including Slayer), we must now discuss the obligatory mentions of some of the best thrash the world has ever seen. Kreator, Destruction, and Sodom hailing from Germany as well as the honorable mentions of Invocator, Holy Moses, Tankard, Assassin, and other unknown German thrash bands have demolished far more than most American bands. When Megadeth was boring me to tears with dull albums such as Rust in Peace and Metallica was losing steam, Kreator released Pleasure to Kill and Sodom had released the classic Agent Orange. As you can see these bands operate on an entirely different level to the shitty mainstream American bands, what are your favorite songs by the aforementioned bands, and if you've seen them live has their setlist matched the power of their tempos?

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Me too.

All I have is:

Sodom - Agent Orange, M-16, Sodom, Decision Day

Kreator - Extreme Aggression, Coma Of Souls, Enemy Of God

Could definitely do with expanding my knowledge of German thrash!

Absolutely. There's a lot of great German thrash, and there's no reason to stop with the big 3. I'm sure that it's been mentioned here before, but definitely check out Deathrow, Holy Moses (especially Finished With the Dogs), Living Death, Darkness, Protector, etc...

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I've been really digging the follow-up to "Finished With The Dogs" over the past couple of days - "The New Machine Of Liechtenstein", kick ass stuff. And I loved Protector's "Golem". I checked out the Deathrow album following the one you recommended, BAN, but the vocals were too silly for me. I find that vocals ruin a lot of thrash for me, I guess that's why I always gravitate towards the death/thrash end of the spectrum when I'm in the mood.

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I've been really digging the follow-up to "Finished With The Dogs" over the past couple of days - "The New Machine Of Liechtenstein", kick ass stuff. And I loved Protector's "Golem". I checked out the Deathrow album following the one you recommended, BAN, but the vocals were too silly for me. I find that vocals ruin a lot of thrash for me, I guess that's why I always gravitate towards the death/thrash end of the spectrum when I'm in the mood.

I still need to check out The New Machine of Lichtenstein. If you liked Golem, make sure to check out the rest of Protector's stuff. I have the Misanthropy EP, Urm the Mad, and The Leviathan's Desire, and they're all excellent. I'm told that A Shedding of Skin is great as well, but I haven't heard it myself.

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Lately I picked up the debut by Darkness. It sucks. I already had their third album and it sucked too, but I knew that beforehand because you can read it all over the Internet. However, their first record does get some praise here and there... I can appreciate the intentions, say, but not the results... 

It's close to early Tankard. Thin guitars.

I picked up Grinder too. They're better than Darkness, but still nothing to write home about. I'm glad to own their first two albums, though. It makes perfect sense that they toured with Blind Guardian, being label mates.

Some minor german thrash that I do like, although it borders on Speed Metal, is Angel Dust!

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Lately I picked up the debut by Darkness. It sucks. I already had their third album and it sucked too, but I knew that beforehand because you can read it all over the Internet. However, their first record does get some praise here and there... I can appreciate the intentions, say, but not the results... 

It's close to early Tankard. Thin guitars.

I picked up Grinder too. They're better than Darkness, but still nothing to write home about. I'm glad to own their first two albums, though. It makes perfect sense that they toured with Blind Guardian, being label mates.

Some minor german thrash that I do like, although it borders on Speed Metal, is Angel Dust!

 

Death Squad is pretty rough, but I dig it. Weirdly enough, it kind of reminds me of a precursor to Nifelheim, even if they aren't really black metal.

 

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