100 Greatest Thrash Metal Songs

Definition: -Thrash metal songs are fast and aggressive, characterised by using high speed low-register guitar riffs, overlaid with shredding-style lead work. (See "History of Thrash" below list)

Criteria: - Songs were ranked for their musical influence, impact, instrumental creativeness, and popularity within the genre of Thrash Metal.

Edited By: Brennen/Lew
List Begun 2-28-08

Link: http://digitaldreamdoor.com/pages/best_metal-thrash-songs.html

1. Master of Puppets - Metallica
2. Raining Blood - Slayer
3. Holy Wars... The Punishment Due - Megadeth
4. Ace of Spades - Motorhead
5. Seek & Destroy - Metallica
6. Angel of Death - Slayer
7. Symptom of The Universe - Black Sabbath
8. The Four Horsemen - Metallica
9. Cowboys From Hell - Pantera
10. Hangar 18 - Megadeth
11. Caught In A Mosh - Anthrax
12. Fast As A Shark - Accept
13. The Antichrist - Slayer
14. Witching Hour - Venom
15. The New Order - Testament
16. Hit The Lights - Metallica
17. Creeping Death - Metallica
18. Elimination - Overkill
19. War Ensemble - Slayer
20. Souls Of Black - Testament
21. Battery - Metallica
22. Primal Concrete Sledge - Pantera
23. Practice What You Preach - Testament
24. Indians - Anthrax
25. Painkiller - Judas Priest
26. Peace Sells - Megadeth
27. Cemetery Gates - Pantera
28. Bounded By Blood - Exodus
29. For Whom The Bell Tolls - Metallica
30. Too Late Too Late - Motorhead
31. Iron Fist - Motorhead
32. Symphony of Destruction - Megadeth
33. Lesson in Violence - Exodus
34. Hello From The Gutter - Overkill
35. The Mechanix - Megadeth
36. Tyrant - Judas Priest
37. Overkill - Motorhead
38. Madhouse - Anthrax
39. Set The World Afire - Megadeth
40. War Is My Shephard - Exodus
41. Ride The Lightning - Metallica
42. Black Magic - Slayer
43. Damage Inc. - Metallica
44. Do or Die - Testament
45. Blackened - Metallica
46. Jesus Saves - Slayer
47. Fucking Hostile - Pantera
48. Tornado of Souls - Megadeth
49. Hell Awaits - Slayer
50. Coma - Overkill
51. South Of Heaven - Slayer
52. Burnt Offerings - Testament
53. Mouth For War - Pantera
54. Good Mouring/Black Friday - Megadeth
55. My Last Words - Megadeth
56. Blood Red - Slayer
57. Black Metal - Venom
58. Escape to the Void - Sepultra
59. Metal Command - Exodus
60. Seasons In The Abyss - Slayer
61. Sodomy and Lust - Sodom
62. Overkill - Overkill
63. First Strike Is Deadly - Testament
64. Pleasure To Kill - Kreator
65. Strike Of The Beast - Exodus
66. Horrorscope - Overkill
67. Return To Serenity - Testament
68. Antichrist - Destruction
69. Piece By Piece - Slayer
70. The Toxic Waltz - Exodus
71. Crionics - Slayer
72. Dante's Inferno - Iced Earth
73. Alice In Hell - Annihilator
74. Riot Of Violence - Kreator
75. Remember The Fallen - Sodom
76. Mad Butcher - Destruction
77. And Then There Were None - Exodus
78. Beneath The Remains - Sepultura
79. Whiplash - Metallica
80. Hunter Kill - Annihilator
81. The Burning Of Sodom - Dark Angel
82. Chemical Warfare - Slayer
83. Into The Pit - Testament
84. Blood And Iron - Overkill
85. Voivod - Voivod
86. Motorbreath - Metallica
87. Infectious Hospital Waste - Demolition Hammer
88. I Am The Law - Anthrax
89. War Is Hell - Toxic Holocost
90. Possessed By Fire - Exumer
91. Calling In The Coroner - Vio-Lence
92. Pace Till Death - Bathory
93. Kill Yourself - S.O.D.
94. Masked Jackal - Coroner
95. Battalions - Metal Church
96. Death Rattle - Pantera
97. Tear It Down - D.R.I.
98. Thrash 'til Death - Destruction
99. Thrown To The Wolves - Death Angel
100. Heavy Metal Maniac - Exciter

Needs some work, IMO. Some of the newer stuff like songs from the newer Exodus and Death Angel albums don't need to be here.

Notable thrash songs that cold be added:

Heathen - Death By Hanging
Heathen - Opiate for the Masses
Exodus - Pirhana
Kreator - Flag of Hate
Sodom - Nuclear Winter
Sodom - Outbreak of Evil
Sodom - Agent Orange
Sodom - Ausgebombt
Overkill - I Hate
Overkill - Wrecking Crew
Overkiill - Rotten to the Core
Destruction - Bestial Invasion
Destruction - Curse the Gods
Destruction - Nailed to the Cross
Exhorder - Slaughter in the Vatican
Metal Church - Ton of Bricks
Metal Church - Metal Church
Anthrax - A.I.R.
Flotsam and Jetsam - No Place for Disgrace
Flotsam and Jestam - Hammerhead
Forbidden - Forbidden Evil
D.R.I. - Hooked
Slaughter - Strappado
Slaughter - Nuclear Hell
Possessed - The Exorcist
Possessed - Death Metal
Suicidal Tendencies - Trip At The Brain
Vio-Lence - Kill on Command
Razor - Evil Invaders
Razor - Cross Me Fool
Demolition Hammer - Skull Fracturing Nightmare
Morbid Saint - Assassin
Nuclear Assault - Hang the Pope
Sepultura - Troops of Doom
Sepultura - Refuse/Resist
Sepultura - Mass Hypnosis
Voivod -Tornado
Voivod - Overreaction
Watchtower - The Eldritch
Watchtower - Asylum
Watchtower - Energetic Disassembly
Toxik - World Circus
Artillery - Khomaniac
Artillery - By Inheritance
Coroner - Skeleton On Your Shoulder
Rigor Mortis - Wizard of Gore
Rigor Mortis - Demons
Sadus - Sadus Attack
Sadus - Twisted Face
Sacred Reich - Surf Nicaragua
Onslaught- Fight with the Beast
Infernal Majesty - Night Of The Living Dead
Dark Angel - Perish in Flames
Slayer - Necrophiliac
Megadeth - Wake up Dead
Aura Noir - Black Thrash Attack

Not too big on the proto-thrash metal songs being here.

Didnt expect to see Holy Wars ahead of Ace Of Spades. Awesome!

I think Painkiller can be replaced by something else, but I think most of the other proto-thrash songs can stay.

I also agree with all the picks you've provided, with my choices in bold.

Sodomy & Lust and Remember The Fallen being in this list over Agent Orange and Nuclear Winter seems really off.

"Voivod" (the song).