Metal Hammer Says These Are the 40 Best Thrash Songs Released Since 1983

Metal Hammer has unveiled four lists of ten songs each which, when put together, basically amount to ‘The Best Thrash Songs of All Time, or at Least Since 1983’ (although I think you’d have a hard time arguing that thrash existed prior to 1983). I know we all love arguing over meaningless lists more than we love our own mothers, so sharing them was a no-brainer.

You can check out the lists below, as helpfully put together by The PRP. Click the linkees for explanations and Spotify playlists, assuming you’re too lazy to just make your own.

The 10 Best Thrash Songs From 1983-85

• Metallica – “Metal Militia”
• Suicidal Tendencies – “I Saw Your Mommy”
• Anthrax – “Metal Thrashing Mad”
• Slayer – “Chemical Warfare”
• Destruction – “Mad Butcher”
• Exodus – “Bondedby Blood”
• Kreator – “Tormentor”
• Overkill – “Rotten to the Core”
• Celtic Frost – “Circle of the Tyrants”
• Megadeth – “Rattlehead”

The 10 Best Thrash Songs From 1986-89

• Metallica – “Battery”
• Megadeth – “Black Friday”
• Slayer – “Angel of Death”
• Kreator – “Pleasure to Kill”
• Anthrax – “Caught in a Mosh”
• Testament – “Over the Wall”
• Sodom – “Nuclear Winter”hen
• Voivod – “Macrosolutions to Megaproblems”
• Xentrix – “No Compromise”
• Sepultura – “Mass Hypnosis”

The 10 Best Thrash Songs From 1990-99

• Megadeth – “Holy Wars… The Punishment Due”
• Slayer – “War Ensemble”
• Kreator – “People of the Lie”
• Heathen – “Hypnotized”
• Pantera – “Fucking Hostile”
• Sodom – “The Crippler”
• Machine Head – “Blood For Blood”
• Witchery – “The Reaper”
• The Haunted – “Hate Song”
• Testament – “Down for Life”

The 10 Best Thrash Songs From 2000-18

• Destruction – “The Butcher Strikes Back”
• Kreator – “Reconquering the Throne”
• Exodus – “Star Spangled Banner”
• Aura Noir – “Condor”
• Municipal Waste – “Unleash the Bastards”
• Slayer – “Cult”
• Evile – “Thrasher”
• Megadeth – “Head Crusher”
• Overkill – “Ironbound”
• Metallica – “Spit Out the Bone“