 | Blood Fire Death by Bathory
Buy new: £10.09 / Used from: £8.70 Blackthrash with balls, aggression and musical imagination. Black metal starts here!
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 | Master Of Puppets by Metallica
Buy new: £6.98 / Used from: £5.50 An obvious choice, but with good reason. Great songwriting, great riffs, great record. The pinnacle of thrash metal.
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![The Glorious Burden [With Book] [Limited Edition Digi Pack]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/61X6HERZCPL._SL75_.jpg) | The Glorious Burden [With Book] [Limited Edition Digi Pack] by Iced Earth
Buy new: £15.99 / Used from: £5.98 Note to all power metal bands: you're supposed to still be HEAVY, like Iced Earth...
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 | Altars of Madness: Remastered by Morbid Angel
Buy new: £10.15 / Used from: £8.98 This one's got more flair and originality than ANY of its contemporaries, or its followers. Groundbreaking death metal.
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 | Blessed Black Wings by High On Fire
Buy new: £9.98 / Used from: £8.46 Crushingly heavy, wonderfully written, intricate, epic, PROPER metal. Fast, slow - who cares? High On Fire do it best in the 21st Century.
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 | The Blackening by Machine Head
Buy new: £7.98 / Used from: £6.33 Machine Head finally get it right. Listen up, Trivium etc., THIS is how thrash metal should sound. This one's so heavy and labyrinthine it puts the pretenders to shame.
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 | A Matter of Life and Death by Iron Maiden
Buy new: £2.93 / Used from: £2.50 Iron Maiden were always great, but they were always tied to the 1980s "metal fans are idiots" cliche. Well, now the true merit of metal has been validated by the masters.
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 | Agent Orange by Sodom
Buy used from: £16.95 It was difficult to pick one out from the German scene, but 'Agent Orange' has everything a thrash fan could ask for. And to think that silly 'Black Album' came out the same year, eh?
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 | Hell Awaits by Slayer
Buy new: £9.98 / Used from: £9.30 Darker than 'Reign...', this one was where Slayer really turned into the nastiest, fastest thrash band around. Oodles of attitude!
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 | Beneath the Remains by Sepultura
Buy new: £5.37 / Used from: £4.60 My favourite Sepultura. This is where they grew up proper, and released a f*cking VICIOUS record.
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 | Horrified by Repulsion
Buy new: £10.61 / Used from: £6.29 This record, bar none, is the best grindcore album ever. It captures the vibe perfectly. (And yes, it is better than 'Scum'. Just listen to it, man!)
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 | Persistence of Time by Anthrax
Buy new: £8.98 / Used from: £3.45 Hands down the best Anthrax album. Serious and progressive in places, but always bearing the stamp of 'Thrax - drink beer, mosh, headbang like an idiot. Metal is FUN too, y'know.
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 | Dimension Hatross by Voivod
Buy used from: £7.50 This has all the chaotic vibes of great thrash, as well as all the experimentation in its potential. Essential for prog-metalheads.
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 | Remission by Mastodon
Buy new: £18.49 / Used from: £19.99 Crunchy, epic, aggressive and extreme - Mastodon got it all spot on herein, and they haven't faltered since either.
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 | Rust in Peace: Remastered & Expanded by Megadeth
Buy new: £4.52 / Used from: £3.95 Probably the high water mark of Megadeth's career, 'Rust In Peace' is essential for metal fans. Complex yet accessible, and it threw down the guitar solo gauntlet with some seriously inspired fretwork
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 | Ultra-Violence by Death Angel
Buy used from: £36.95 Rough around the edges, but you can feel the enthusiasm bursting out of this one. 'The Ultra-Violence' is the distilled essence of thrash metal
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 | Vulgar Display of Power by Pantera
Buy new: £4.40 / Used from: £3.49 Pantera were the one band keeping metal afloat in the nineties. It's not trad metal, sure, but it f*cking slays.
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 | Ignorance by Sacred Reich
Buy used from: £98.76 Maybe the most underrated thrash band ever. This deserves so much more recognition these days.
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 | Malleus Maleficarum/Demos by Pestilence
Buy new: £10.99 A brutal, straightfaced, extremely well-written and interesting thrash/early death metal record.
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 | Terrifyer: +Dvda by Pig Destroyer
Buy used from: £6.26 When all else fails, extreme metal always has the ability to smash people's faces in repeatedly for half an hour.
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 | Come My Fanatics by Electric Wizard
Buy new: £8.88 / Used from: £8.47 You think you can downtune pretty far, eh? Well, not THIS far. This is probably the slowest, heaviest, rawest and nastiest album I own. Wizard are gods.
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 | Sound of Perseverance by Death
Buy new: £10.45 / Used from: £5.91 Not the most celebrated Death album, but definitely the most musically advanced. Schuldiner was the best guitarist in extreme metal. RIP
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 | Terria by Devin Townsend
Buy new: £5.71 / Used from: £5.33 If you're gonna do the epic-prog-metal thing, listen to this first. Yes, that's right. You've been pre-empted.
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 | Bonded By Blood by Exodus
Buy new: £7.98 In the same mold as the true classics of thrash. It's fast, it's heavy, it's fun and it's violent. Why don't metal bands sound like they're enjoying themselves anymore?
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 | Extreme Aggression by Kreator
Buy used from: £22.17 Another German classic. Kreator were exemplary musicians when this one came out. Tight, sharp and furious - a sister album to 'Agent Orange' maybe?
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