Eight Essential Thrash Albums

Kreator - Endless Pain (Noise, 1985)

Kreator - Terrible Certainty (Noise, 1987)



Annihilator - Alice In Hell (Roadrunner, 1989)



Annihilator - Never, Neverland (Roadrunner, 1989)



Metallica - Black Album (Elektra, 1991)



Testament - The Best Of  (Atlantic, 1996)



Megadeth - Endgame (Roadrunner, 2009)



Sodom - In War And Pieces (Steamhammer, 2010)

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