Every Thrash Metal 'Big 4' Album Ranked From Worst to Best

Pitting 4 traditional discographies up in opposition to one another, we now have ranked each album from thrash’s ‘Large 4’ from worst to finest.

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

Rating these unbiased discographies is a tough 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 ‘Large 4’ grouping.

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In fact, time is at all times the last word take a look at and whereas some information that are not stone chilly classics have held up fairly properly and lots of the stylistic fuss would not actually matter anymore. How, greater than 30 years later, may it in any respect be heretical for Metallica to desert thrash and usher in a completely new period of arduous rock with the Black Album? So lots 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that album got here out, so there’s it is arduous to take such a shift personally once you weren’t there to carry the outdated type so near your steel coronary heart.

Anyway, let’s get again on observe and dive into Each Thrash ‘Large 4’ Album Ranked From Worst to Greatest, immediately under. There is definitely loads to debate!

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

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