I really dislike the production on Handle with Care. The guitars sounds like a muddled mess compared to Survive. Even Game Over has a better guitar sound, just the levels are really low.
@@Gregbaltzer I always had that impression, too. All instruments were drown in echo like if they recorded all together inside an hangar. Great songs, though.
As an 80's thrasher, I was lucky enough to see them almost a dozen times at L'Amour and other metal clubs in the NYC and tri-state area. Always a great time seeing them live! And yes, I'm a long haired asshole!
Shout out to Handle With Care which has some of the finest audio engineering in classic thrash. Everything sounds perfect, heavy and clear, punchy drums, clanky bass, audible vocals and chunky guitars. 🤟
Handle With Care is just hard to hear, sound’s too loud over the instruments; therefore, it’s production-wise. Game Over and Survive are very good just low levels in sound. Something Wicked sounds great, Out of Order has bad quality, Third World Genocide is an awesome album just those drums sound like shit; the title track snare drum is so pissy.
The first song I ever heard was Brainwashed. Survive is my favorite album of theirs. Handle With Care was amazing as well. Game Over and The Plague ep were great as well. Game Over proved strong material can overcome shitty production. I learned about these guys back in 1988 when I was 12.
My list (changed a little bit from yours): 1 - Handle With Care 2 - Game Over 3 - Survive 4 - Out of Order 5 - Something Wicked 6 - Third World Genocide
Glad you did this one! I found Game Over on cassette tape in 1988 in one of those bargin close out bins at those things we used to call record stores, and I thought I struck gold! Agree that they were definitely overlooked due to the bigger name bands very popular releases during that time... I guess you could say that about several thrash bands back then that had potential, but never made it big... Kids today will never know how cool it was to be young during that time, and grow into metal in late 70s and 80s...
The first 3 albums are all equally brilliant . As a young teenager in 1988 I remember going to buy Survive , spending every last cent I had saved . Good memories
Spot on ranked IMO! I’m 50 and these guys still have a big presence in most of my playlists. I’ve always been a big crossover fan. Would love to see DRI albums ranked 🙏
Ah, I love Nuclear Assault. I even like «Something Wicked…» and «Out of Order». Not as good as the first three, but back in the days I didn’t care. My favourite is Handle with Care. That bass sound is perfect.
My most vivid memories of NA back in the day, are of seeing them live. None of their albums fully captures the intensity of their live performance. They always seemed on the brink of disintegrating into chaos. But never did.
My favorite Nuclear Assault albums are 1. Handle With Care 2. Game Over 3. Survive 4. Something Wicked And I never really checked the rest out. Few songs from Out Of Order and Third World Genocide but they didn't do it for me. But Nuclear Assault isn't really my go to band either that I actively listen to, but 2 first albums are still killing it!
yeah, spotify is strange, they remove albums and put them back all the time which ruins all my playlists over time. :S Great to have them back again though.
I hung with them up in Buena Park CA in 1987! For 3days. I still have a picture of me Dan liker and Anthony! Is Anthony your uncle!? He was the best as Dan liker! Anthony rode my bike and said you can't do this in NYC
Game Over was actually my first intro to Nuclear Assault and loved it. Wasn’t familiar with the 90’s albums, just the first three. Thanks for ranking Bro! Cheers! 🤘🏼
@@RuthlessMetalYT It's true this record got a bit overlooked & overshadowed by other records during these insanely strong years, especially 1986. I myself bought this one because of 'Hang the pope' (a bit weird if you think about it, for it's only a few seconds long 🤔😉), otherwise I'd probably left it behind. Glad I did buy it, but back in the day it wasn't among my favorites (like Reign, Puppets, Pleasure, etc.).
There's something about Something Wicked that makes me love it so so much. The songs are just beautiful and I love the slower tempo. That album it's such a gem.
Handle With Care was my introduction to the band, specifically “Search & Seizure” on an internet metal channel. So, I tend to hold a bias towards that as my favorite. But Game Over and Survive, are too, like you said, masterpieces of the genre. These dudes are the ones who started my love for underground thrash so I hold them in extremely high regard.
When I was 13 years old my cousin's boyfriend put in a VHS tape of a Nuclear Assault concert. I became a fan. Brain Death is still my favorite song by them.
Nuclear are of one of those bands whose debut was so good that their following albums got worse and worse, with the notable exception of "Handle with care", which is at least as good as "Survive". In my opinion they released too much stuff on the EPs (6 songs on "The Plague", plus 3 non album original tracks on the "Brain death" and "Fight to be free" singles, and "Lesbians" was omitted from the original "Game over" album) and got out of steam pretty quickly. "Out of order" was so bad because of Connelly lack of commitment, Lilker kept the more extreme stuff for Brutal Truth and Bramante had to write the bulk of the album even if he didn't write anything on the older records. Speaking of Bramante, his exit happened when Di Pietro was already in the band, NA was briefly a 5 piece with Connelly handling vocals only, then Anthony left for good.
Dude my ranking would be identical to yours! And thanks so much for bringing this great and underrated thrash metal band to light! Game Over was my first exposure to Nuclear Assault during high school in the early 90's borrowed from a friend of mine. And I also borrowed Survive and they both were on cassette jamming in my walkman. lol Good times and I cracked up on some of their songs as well. Like Lesbians and Hang The Pope.
Guess I'm partial to "Survive" as it's the album that got me into Nuclear Assault. Although I'm definitely going to re-visit "Game Over" having watched this video ☢
Metal James, I totally understand why you feel that way. Often times I remember the albums most fondly that I got into 1st. Game Over is a great record, Handle With Care I prefer slightly because it has better production. Survive is a great record too, those are the essential Nuclear Assault LP's, plus don't forget The Plauge and Braindeath EPs.
@@RuthlessMetalYT Game Over was my introduction to the band. I remember Metal Mania gave it a scathing review, said it sounded like it was recorded in a cheese factory or something. The following year I met a friend who was into a lot of thrash metal and hardcore turned me on to them, along with Suicidal Tendencies and Flotsam And Jetsam's 1st album "Doomsday For The Deciever". That was around 1987. Game Over is really raw, but has a lot of NYHC energy and a more agressive vibe as well. Their proto grindcore/HC songs like "Hang The Pope" and "Lesbians" were pure gold. I wish they did a whole album of songs in that style.
I Have To Go With Game Over #1 As The Original Guitarist For Nuclear Assault I Played Some Of Those Songs On The First Demo and There's A Special Place For That Album In My Heart! 🤘
Not a huge NA fan, "Survive" is the only one I like which I still do listen to. I can still remember being 13 watching the video for "Brainwashed" the first time.
It was the first studio album I bought too, but I was almost scared away with the hammersmith live album which was the first one I bought but it was quite a noisy recording. Cheers! 🤘
I know we can’t go back in time, but there are so many bands I wish would have just stuck to their guns instead of “changing with the times”. It wasn’t as if Thrash was over saturated like hair metal. Everyone got so afraid of the success of Nirvana and moved away from what made them great in the first place. Great job with the album rankings!! Thank you 🙏
One of my favourite covers is Defleshed playing 'Radiation Sickness'. It can be found as a bonus song on their album 'Fast Forward'. The guitar sound is just massive on that recording. Perhaps do a Defleshed albums ranking.... ? :)
I'll have to go back and listen to the first two albums. I bought 'Handle with Care' when it came out and liked it but it is not something I have listened to over the years. You mention metal being dead in 93' but for me, metal was alive and well, it had just passed it's peak in popularity by 1993. Bands were still coming out with great albums: Overkill, Sepultura, Pantera, Napalm Death, Morbid Angel, etc. Ruthless Metal guy, are you a fan of Meshuggah? Please to Meshuggah and Sepultura next. Cheers!
Yeah, but that's a different type of metal than the type that most of us liked in the 80's. For me that downtuned and dumbed down stuff from the 90's wasn't the right direction for metal and thus it's popularity dropped significantly simply because the albums weren't as good anymore. I dislike Meshuggah, They are crap in my book. So that won't happen. A Sepultura rank is coming up though... Cheers!
I was introduced to metal by my brother during this era. Metallica, Megadeth, Anthrax, Slayer, Iron Maiden, Fates Warning etc. So when he played Nuclear Assault for me and hyped them up, I assumed they were just as big as any of those bands.
My personal list: 1 Handle With Care 2 Game Over (very hard decision) 3 Survive 4 Out of Order 5 Something Wicked 6 Third World Genocide If I have to consider the EPs 1 The Plague (Between Game Over and Survive) 2 Brain Death (Between Out of Order and Something Wicked) 3 Pounder (Maybe under TWG)
I love early Running Wild but I'm not super familiar with their more recent albums but I will probably change that some day and do a rank of their albums. :) Cheers!
@@RuthlessMetalYT I love the old stuff, till mid of the 90th. Pile of Skulls was their last perfect record. Masquerade and Victory were average. After this.... In the 80th and early 90th true legends
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I have to agree Game Over is their best. For me, although Survive and Handle were pretty good albums, they never topped their '86/'87 blaze of glory and times moved on and, for me anyway, such as Brutal Truth were just far more interesting and faster and heavier. Saw NA here in the UK back in '87 a couple of times and they were simply untouchable back then. But their star burned out fast... but that's not always a bad thing.
Came across NA via Stormtroopers of Death with Dan L playing bass in that line up. They maybe sort of in the 2nd division of thrash bands but were excellent and ahead of there time with there slant on the environment. Was lucky to see them supporting Slayer on the South of Heaven tour in 1988 in Newport Wales. One of the best gigs I have every been to and in my top 10. Still listen to them now and was cycling along to Butt F from the plague EP while on Zwift the other day😂
Handle with Care is my personal favorite because it was my introduction to the band in 89. I listened to that cassette so much it broke on me. All of the first three records are classic though.
I agree with your rankings almost 100%... I would put 'Survive' slightly over 'Game Over', but that's nitpicking I guess. Even though it's an E.P, I would rate 'The Plague' as #1.
Such a unique sound we all thought when 'Game Over' came out. Just really disappointed that they didn't crank out more albums. When I reach for Nuclear Assault it's always from your top 3. I think I only listened to 3rd World Genocide 2-3 times, just never stuck with me, but I'll give it another spin.
This was kinda before I got in to metal and like I was like 10 and I found one of there songs and I was like HOLY SHIT because I thought it was the heaviest thing ever although it didn’t get me into fully in to metal it for sure influenced me
I learn about NA only with their release of Handle with Care. I fell immediately in love with the band. After reviewing their "earlier" stuff, I was somewhat disappointed with Survive, on the other hand I can't praise enough Game Over, which probably one of my favorite thrash albums.
Maybe you could do Helloween album rankings. I know that you maybe don't know that much about the band, but you can always search for some important informations about band, or worst and best albums
@@RuthlessMetalYT Nåja.. Det är aldrig försent att bredda sig! Började inte gilla Black Metal förän i 25-30 års åldern. Nu är jag snart 47 och börjar gilla även mjukare hård musik.
"Running through cities Not fearing their lives Never retreating before living eyes Burning in Hell is a small price to pay Now that my vengeance shall have its decay"
1987 I hung with nuclear assault for 3 days! Up in Buena Park CA, as they stayed up at the house of the guitar player of phantasm. All thanks for me knowing katon pena of Hirax phantasm! Anyhow Dan liker is the best! Even paid for my food up at the mall!
1 game over 2 handle with care 3 the plague something wicked this way comes . 4 survive 5 third world genocide 6 out of order 7 alive again. Nuclear assault great underrated thrash band. Overkill gets all the attention but I think Nuclear assault held their own against other thrash bands 🤘
I saw them in Edinburgh. Can't remember if they were opening for Slayer or Megadeth, though. Loved this band. There was some great Thrash being made before Glasnost. When everybody was shit scared of getting cancelled by nuclear bombs. There's been some great neo-thrash since Putin came into power as well. Coincidence???
Third World Genocide was a great album , despite of poor reception , I like it a lot . "Something Wicked" was great too , I learned to like it , but it was certainly their "Black Album" .
@@RuthlessMetalYT Most people I know don´t like the album , but I don´t see anything wrong with it . Maybe its not as fast as their 80's material , but by no means its "uninspired" . That's what I myself think about this record .
Gotta remember....is east coast(new york style thrash)...like overkill..and anthrax....thrash more fun to play and faster drums....along with crazy hi pitch vocals(even belladonna crazy hi pitch voice in parts
@@RuthlessMetalYT : Honestly its too bad we couldn’t get together at some point - I think the discussion & story telling would be endless !!!…… keep up the great work Love your take on things 😎🎸🎸🎸
Yup, I'd rank the albums the same lol. I do like Out of Order, but it has so much lost potential. I usually visit it after I've listened to the earlier records or sometimes I'll do a mix with some of the stronger songs.
I won't bother typing in basically the same rankings. Unfortunately when I found this band in the 90s the only albums I was able to find were Something Wicked and a used Out of Order. Good albums but definitely short changed what they were capable of after hearing Game Over, an exemplary thrasher. Business is business and if people aren't buying it you can't just pay to keep making records. Would have loved to see these guys get bigger. Let's face it though, sometimes it's nice to have a band without a bloated discography.
Those first three are incredible! It's difficult to pick one to be no.1, but I'd probably go with Survive.
Cheers!
Such an underrated band. Still enjoy Handle With Care a lot.
classic, Cheers! 🤘
Extremely underrated! Sux when they aren't talked about along with other thrash greats
Perfect
Game Over, Survive and Handle with Care are my personal favorites
The Classics! Cheers! 🤘
Handle With Care is the perfect Nuclear Assault record. Great songs and perfect production. Also great lyrics
Cheers! 🤘
I really dislike the production on Handle with Care. The guitars sounds like a muddled mess compared to Survive. Even Game Over has a better guitar sound, just the levels are really low.
I really don't like the Production of Handle wirh care...no bass, no guts...the Album itself is ok...
@@barryslayer6224 the album is great...just both of the guitars and bass all sound like a big jumbled mess together.
@@Gregbaltzer I always had that impression, too. All instruments were drown in echo like if they recorded all together inside an hangar. Great songs, though.
As an 80's thrasher, I was lucky enough to see them almost a dozen times at L'Amour and other metal clubs in the NYC and tri-state area. Always a great time seeing them live! And yes, I'm a long haired asshole!
Aren't we all. ;) That must have been great. Cheers!
DAMN, I never got to see them live. That tour with Testament and Savatage, WOW, what a show that would have been.
Perfect ranking, Ruthless!
We all know your Flotsam And Jetsam album ranking is soon to be announced! \m/
Hehe, some day I probably will rank their disco. Cheers!
1986 was an amazing year. That debut album is one of the best. Saw them when they supported Slayer in Edinburgh in 1988. Great band!
Damn, must have been a great show. Cheers! 🤘
Oh wow, that sounds like a killer gig to have caught, man ;
What was your 1st ever concert, & best one , if you can pick just one ...?
Ur one lucky metalhead!!!🤘
Shout out to Handle With Care which has some of the finest audio engineering in classic thrash. Everything sounds perfect, heavy and clear, punchy drums, clanky bass, audible vocals and chunky guitars. 🤟
Good stuff! Cheers! 🤘
Yep, Handle With Care is a quintessential thrash album, I consider it to be one of the main hallmarks of the whole genre.
I love those songs, but the production always sounded like a muddled mess to me. Survive had much better productions.
Handle With Care is just hard to hear, sound’s too loud over the instruments; therefore, it’s production-wise. Game Over and Survive are very good just low levels in sound. Something Wicked sounds great, Out of Order has bad quality, Third World Genocide is an awesome album just those drums sound like shit; the title track snare drum is so pissy.
The first song I ever heard was Brainwashed. Survive is my favorite album of theirs. Handle With Care was amazing as well. Game Over and The Plague ep were great as well. Game Over proved strong material can overcome shitty production. I learned about these guys back in 1988 when I was 12.
Nice, yeah Brainwashed turned a lot of people into NA fans. Cheers!
My list (changed a little bit from yours):
1 - Handle With Care
2 - Game Over
3 - Survive
4 - Out of Order
5 - Something Wicked
6 - Third World Genocide
Solid as a rock! Cheers!
Glad you did this one! I found Game Over on cassette tape in 1988 in one of those bargin close out bins at those things we used to call record stores, and I thought I struck gold! Agree that they were definitely overlooked due to the bigger name bands very popular releases during that time... I guess you could say that about several thrash bands back then that had potential, but never made it big... Kids today will never know how cool it was to be young during that time, and grow into metal in late 70s and 80s...
Yeah, you more or less had to put out your debut before 1985 to make it big in the thrash genre. :) Cheers!
IMO Their Best Album!!
The first 3 albums are all equally brilliant . As a young teenager in 1988 I remember going to buy Survive , spending every last cent I had saved . Good memories
Cheers! 🤘
I remember buying the albums and a “mutants for nukes” t-shirt
Spot on ranked IMO! I’m 50 and these guys still have a big presence in most of my playlists.
I’ve always been a big crossover fan. Would love to see DRI albums ranked 🙏
Cheers!
Game Over and Handle With Care are heavy as hell! Great video, man! STAY HEAVY!
Thanks boss, Cheers! 🤘
Ah, I love Nuclear Assault. I even like «Something Wicked…» and «Out of Order». Not as good as the first three, but back in the days I didn’t care. My favourite is Handle with Care. That bass sound is perfect.
Good stuff
My most vivid memories of NA back in the day, are of seeing them live. None of their albums fully captures the intensity of their live performance. They always seemed on the brink of disintegrating into chaos. But never did.
I bet it was great. Cheers! 🤘
I Agree With You!!
I hung out with them in 1988. Never met a nicer rock star than Glenn Evans. Such a gentleman
Cool. :D
My favorite Nuclear Assault albums are
1. Handle With Care
2. Game Over
3. Survive
4. Something Wicked
And I never really checked the rest out. Few songs from Out Of Order and Third World Genocide but they didn't do it for me. But Nuclear Assault isn't really my go to band either that I actively listen to, but 2 first albums are still killing it!
Cheers!
Man, glad Survive and Out of Order are back in Spotify again. Love this band
yeah, spotify is strange, they remove albums and put them back all the time which ruins all my playlists over time. :S Great to have them back again though.
Now they got taken off again 😭
The second time or more
well they not anymore
My uncle is the guitarist in this band. Just saw them play a local show. They still sound killer and John’s voice still sounds great.🤘🏼
Damn, that's cool. :)
I hung with them up in Buena Park CA in 1987! For 3days. I still have a picture of me Dan liker and Anthony! Is Anthony your uncle!? He was the best as Dan liker! Anthony rode my bike and said you can't do this in NYC
Game Over was actually my first intro to Nuclear Assault and loved it. Wasn’t familiar with the 90’s albums, just the first three. Thanks for ranking Bro! Cheers! 🤘🏼
Thank you, Cheers! 🤘
Absolutely love game over. their later albums just didn't grab me the same way. Something about the songs on that first album is special.
I agree, Cheers! 🤘
'Game Over' now playing on the original 1986 vinyl/LP. 🤟😎👍
nice, Cheers! 🤘🏻
@@RuthlessMetalYT It's true this record got a bit overlooked & overshadowed by other records during these insanely strong years, especially 1986.
I myself bought this one because of 'Hang the pope' (a bit weird if you think about it, for it's only a few seconds long 🤔😉), otherwise I'd probably left it behind.
Glad I did buy it, but back in the day it wasn't among my favorites (like Reign, Puppets, Pleasure, etc.).
There's something about Something Wicked that makes me love it so so much. The songs are just beautiful and I love the slower tempo. That album it's such a gem.
True, Cheers!
Out of Order for some reason has always been my favorite.
Cheers!
1 - Survive
2. Handle With Care
3 - Game Over
4 - Out of Order
5 - Third World Genocide
6 - Something Wicked
Cheers!
Survive is my choice! Perfect thrash álbum!
Cheers! 🤘
Some damn good times in '86...damn good times! If you didn't live in the '80's...you've never lived!!
Cheers!
Handle With Care was my introduction to the band, specifically “Search & Seizure” on an internet metal channel. So, I tend to hold a bias towards that as my favorite. But Game Over and Survive, are too, like you said, masterpieces of the genre. These dudes are the ones who started my love for underground thrash so I hold them in extremely high regard.
Good stuff, Cheers!
When I was 13 years old my cousin's boyfriend put in a VHS tape of a Nuclear Assault concert. I became a fan. Brain Death is still my favorite song by them.
good shit. Cheers!
Nuclear are of one of those bands whose debut was so good that their following albums got worse and worse, with the notable exception of "Handle with care", which is at least as good as "Survive". In my opinion they released too much stuff on the EPs (6 songs on "The Plague", plus 3 non album original tracks on the "Brain death" and "Fight to be free" singles, and "Lesbians" was omitted from the original "Game over" album) and got out of steam pretty quickly. "Out of order" was so bad because of Connelly lack of commitment, Lilker kept the more extreme stuff for Brutal Truth and Bramante had to write the bulk of the album even if he didn't write anything on the older records. Speaking of Bramante, his exit happened when Di Pietro was already in the band, NA was briefly a 5 piece with Connelly handling vocals only, then Anthony left for good.
Cheers!
I'm with you all the way on this one R.M. Honorable mention to The Plague ep which has two of my favs from these guy's, The Plague and Cross of Iron!
Good stuff! Cheers!
Dude my ranking would be identical to yours! And thanks so much for bringing this great and underrated thrash metal band to light! Game Over was my first exposure to Nuclear Assault during high school in the early 90's borrowed from a friend of mine. And I also borrowed Survive and they both were on cassette jamming in my walkman. lol Good times and I cracked up on some of their songs as well. Like Lesbians and Hang The Pope.
Thank you! Cheers!
Guess I'm partial to "Survive" as it's the album that got me into Nuclear Assault. Although I'm definitely going to re-visit "Game Over" having watched this video ☢
Do it! Cheers!
Metal James, I totally understand why you feel that way. Often times I remember the albums most fondly that I got into 1st. Game Over is a great record, Handle With Care I prefer slightly because it has better production. Survive is a great record too, those are the essential Nuclear Assault LP's, plus don't forget The Plauge and Braindeath EPs.
@@derrickkowalewski9239 handle with care was the first album I bought or maybe it was the hammersmith live album. I still prefer Game Over. :D
@@RuthlessMetalYT Game Over was my introduction to the band. I remember Metal Mania gave it a scathing review, said it sounded like it was recorded in a cheese factory or something. The following year I met a friend who was into a lot of thrash metal and hardcore turned me on to them, along with Suicidal Tendencies and Flotsam And Jetsam's 1st album "Doomsday For The Deciever". That was around 1987. Game Over is really raw, but has a lot of NYHC energy and a more agressive vibe as well. Their proto grindcore/HC songs like "Hang The Pope" and "Lesbians" were pure gold. I wish they did a whole album of songs in that style.
Game Over is a great album, by far my favorite from nuclear assault!
I Have To Go With Game Over #1 As The Original Guitarist For Nuclear Assault I Played Some Of Those Songs On The First Demo and There's A Special Place For That Album In My Heart! 🤘
good stuff 🤘
Not a huge NA fan, "Survive" is the only one I like which I still do listen to. I can still remember being 13 watching the video for "Brainwashed" the first time.
Solid EP. Cheers! 🤘
Great Rank 🔥🤘🔥
Handle with Care was my introduction & my Favorite Album ✌
Thanks, Cheers!
agree 100% with your ranking. Love the channel
Thanks boss! Cheers!
1. Survive
2. Game Over
3. Handle with Care
4. Out of Order
5. Something Wicked
6. Third World Genocide
Cheers
_Handle With Care_ is what got me into Nuclear Assault.
It was the first studio album I bought too, but I was almost scared away with the hammersmith live album which was the first one I bought but it was quite a noisy recording. Cheers! 🤘
Ranking Nuclear Assault 🤘🤘🤘
Awesome 🤘🤘🤘
Cheers! 🤘
I know we can’t go back in time, but there are so many bands I wish would have just stuck to their guns instead of “changing with the times”. It wasn’t as if Thrash was over saturated like hair metal. Everyone got so afraid of the success of Nirvana and moved away from what made them great in the first place. Great job with the album rankings!! Thank you 🙏
Yeah, thrash killed itself, A lot of the records that came out in the early nineties wasn't up to the right standard. Thanks! Cheers! 🤘
When I was young listed Nuclear Assault tape and watch live VHS til now still feel excites , it's through thrash history nice experience 🙂👍👍
good stuff. Cheers!
Edward J Repka. So many great album covers from this man.
True. Cheers!
Such an underrated band game over is my favourite album by them
Cheers!
My Fave Too! 🤘
I agree with this rank. Including "The Plague" with "Survive".
thank you Sir!
The first 3 are all awesome! Finally got to see them in 2017 at Obscene Extreme and met Danny -such a cool guy !
Yes amazing stuff
1. Nuclear Assault 1985 or 1986 demo tape I had as a teen,or still have somewhere.
Otherwise your ranking is accurate! But I love Something Wicked!
Thank you! Cheers!
One of my favourite covers is Defleshed playing 'Radiation Sickness'. It can be found as a bonus song on their album 'Fast Forward'. The guitar sound is just massive on that recording.
Perhaps do a Defleshed albums ranking.... ? :)
Don't think that I even heard Defleshed. :) Cheers! 🤘🏻
I'll have to go back and listen to the first two albums. I bought 'Handle with Care' when it came out and liked it but it is not something I have listened to over the years. You mention metal being dead in 93' but for me, metal was alive and well, it had just passed it's peak in popularity by 1993. Bands were still coming out with great albums: Overkill, Sepultura, Pantera, Napalm Death, Morbid Angel, etc. Ruthless Metal guy, are you a fan of Meshuggah? Please to Meshuggah and Sepultura next. Cheers!
Yeah, but that's a different type of metal than the type that most of us liked in the 80's. For me that downtuned and dumbed down stuff from the 90's wasn't the right direction for metal and thus it's popularity dropped significantly simply because the albums weren't as good anymore. I dislike Meshuggah, They are crap in my book. So that won't happen. A Sepultura rank is coming up though... Cheers!
I was introduced to metal by my brother during this era. Metallica, Megadeth, Anthrax, Slayer, Iron Maiden, Fates Warning etc. So when he played Nuclear Assault for me and hyped them up, I assumed they were just as big as any of those bands.
Good times. Cheers!
Would you consider doing a Sepultura rank em all?
I think id be intersting
That is in the plans for the future. Cheers! 🤘🏻
My personal list:
1 Handle With Care
2 Game Over (very hard decision)
3 Survive
4 Out of Order
5 Something Wicked
6 Third World Genocide
If I have to consider the EPs
1 The Plague (Between Game Over and Survive)
2 Brain Death (Between Out of Order and Something Wicked)
3 Pounder (Maybe under TWG)
Cheers!
I totally agree to this list.
Try to rank RUNNING WILD
I love early Running Wild but I'm not super familiar with their more recent albums but I will probably change that some day and do a rank of their albums. :) Cheers!
@@RuthlessMetalYT I love the old stuff, till mid of the 90th. Pile of Skulls was their last perfect record. Masquerade and Victory were average. After this....
In the 80th and early 90th true legends
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☢️🎶 One of the greatest bands ever! Handle With Care is their best album I.M.O.
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I have to agree Game Over is their best. For me, although Survive and Handle were pretty good albums, they never topped their '86/'87 blaze of glory and times moved on and, for me anyway, such as Brutal Truth were just far more interesting and faster and heavier. Saw NA here in the UK back in '87 a couple of times and they were simply untouchable back then. But their star burned out fast... but that's not always a bad thing.
Once again (Mercyful Fate) we have the same ranking. One of my all time favorite bands. Up to 89 they unleashed some good music!
absolutely, Cheers!
You should rank the albums of Death Angel.
I probably will. Cheers!
Handle With care and Survive are my favorites from these album's💀🤘//.
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Came across NA via Stormtroopers of Death with Dan L playing bass in that line up. They maybe sort of in the 2nd division of thrash bands but were excellent and ahead of there time with there slant on the environment. Was lucky to see them supporting Slayer on the South of Heaven tour in 1988 in Newport Wales. One of the best gigs I have every been to and in my top 10.
Still listen to them now and was cycling along to Butt F from the plague EP while on Zwift the other day😂
Yeah, Nuclear Assault can definitely compete with the best. Cheers!
Handle With Care🤘prod. by Randy Burns (Dark Angel, Death, Kreator, Megadeth, Possessed, Suicidal Tendencies...)
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Handle with Care is my personal favorite because it was my introduction to the band in 89. I listened to that cassette so much it broke on me. All of the first three records are classic though.
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Agree an I won the Handle with care Album back then on a college radio show that played thrash metal.can remember that like yesterday.
ah, cool. Cheers!
My old drummer was John Connolly's cousin and saw him every Thanksgiving in NY apparently.
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Crossover is my favorite type of metal so this band checked all my boxes. Game over was a life changer to me.
amazing record! Cheers!
Been waiting for this one! I agree the first 3 are probably interchangeable. But Game Over ranks # 1.
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We rank the albums in the same exact order!! 🤘🤘🤘🍻🍻🍻 80's albums are the best, love those albums especially (& their demos & all those early EPs)!!
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I agree with your rankings almost 100%... I would put 'Survive' slightly over 'Game Over', but that's nitpicking I guess. Even though it's an E.P, I would rate 'The Plague' as #1.
Yeah, they are more or less equals. Cheers!
Such a unique sound we all thought when 'Game Over' came out. Just really disappointed that they didn't crank out more albums. When I reach for Nuclear Assault it's always from your top 3. I think I only listened to 3rd World Genocide 2-3 times, just never stuck with me, but I'll give it another spin.
For sure, Cheers!
Great! I must have requested NA at least twice. Top 3 albums, spot on, yet I'd personally put handle with care number 1.
hehe, well it was time then. Cheers!
GAME OVER one of my favorite albums ever!!
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@@RuthlessMetalYT Great Channel. Me and u agree and disagree on alot. Mostly agree!!! Keep up the good work.
Thanks! I'll try. ;) Cheers!
This was kinda before I got in to metal and like I was like 10 and I found one of there songs and I was like HOLY SHIT because I thought it was the heaviest thing ever although it didn’t get me into fully in to metal it for sure influenced me
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For me it’s:
1-Survive
2-Handle with Care
3-Game over
4-the plague
5-Out of order
Haven’t heard the others.
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I learn about NA only with their release of Handle with Care. I fell immediately in love with the band. After reviewing their "earlier" stuff, I was somewhat disappointed with Survive, on the other hand I can't praise enough Game Over, which probably one of my favorite thrash albums.
Yeah, I think the first three + the plaque EP are their most essential albums. Cheers! 🤘
@@RuthlessMetalYT absolutely essential! Nuclear Assault 1986-89 were the shit!
Maybe you could do Helloween album rankings. I know that you maybe don't know that much about the band, but you can always search for some important informations about band, or worst and best albums
I don't listen that much to that happy power metal style, so I'm not that familiar with some of their discography. but maybe some day, we'll see.
Great video! I learn so much. Do Brutal Truth next.. Kinda Thrash if you think about it. 😈
I haven't listened much to them, a bit too aggressive for me. ;) Cheers!
@@RuthlessMetalYT Nåja.. Det är aldrig försent att bredda sig! Började inte gilla Black Metal förän i 25-30 års åldern. Nu är jag snart 47 och börjar gilla även mjukare hård musik.
"Running through cities
Not fearing their lives
Never retreating before living eyes
Burning in Hell is a small price to pay
Now that my vengeance shall have its decay"
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The first 3 records were some of my favorites back in the late 80s.
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1987 I hung with nuclear assault for 3 days! Up in Buena Park CA, as they stayed up at the house of the guitar player of phantasm. All thanks for me knowing katon pena of Hirax phantasm! Anyhow Dan liker is the best! Even paid for my food up at the mall!
nice. Cheers!
can you do Artillery next?
maybe some day. Cheers!
1 game over
2 handle with care
3 the plague
something wicked this way comes .
4 survive
5 third world genocide
6 out of order
7 alive again. Nuclear assault great underrated thrash band. Overkill gets all the attention but I think Nuclear assault held their own against other thrash bands 🤘
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I saw them in Edinburgh. Can't remember if they were opening for Slayer or Megadeth, though. Loved this band. There was some great Thrash being made before Glasnost. When everybody was shit scared of getting cancelled by nuclear bombs. There's been some great neo-thrash since Putin came into power as well. Coincidence???
Yeah, scary times. Don't know if we want to return to that though. ;) Cheers! 🤘
First three albums are masterpierces...Solid band
For sure, Cheers! 🤘
game over has one of the best cover arts in thrash, awesome band! those first 3 are classics
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one of my favorites absolutely loved there first 4 albums
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Saw them support Slayer in a club of in Birmingham UK 1988. Won't see them days again.Fkkn awesome.
Damn, must have been wild. Cheers!
@@RuthlessMetalYT yeah. Never seen stage diving like it!
@@scottkeys6212 I bet. :D
I’m pretty sure that Survive is my fav album of theirs \m/ but yes, their 80’s albums are all great!
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Third World Genocide was a great album , despite of poor reception , I like it a lot . "Something Wicked" was great too , I learned to like it , but it was certainly their "Black Album" .
I don't know if I would call it great. decent at best. :) Cheers!
@@RuthlessMetalYT Most people I know don´t like the album , but I don´t see anything wrong with it . Maybe its not as fast as their 80's material , but by no means its "uninspired" . That's what I myself think about this record .
Survive is their best album. The Great Depression is my favorite track. One of my favorite bands of all time.
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Gotta remember....is east coast(new york style thrash)...like overkill..and anthrax....thrash more fun to play and faster drums....along with crazy hi pitch vocals(even belladonna crazy hi pitch voice in parts
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Yeah! Underground band is great!
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Game over ,my favorite and the artwork is awesome 🔥🔥🔥
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GAME OVER is an absolute classic
I saw them in 87 : insane !!!!
Oof, must have been great. Cheers! 🤘🏻
@@RuthlessMetalYT : Honestly its too bad we couldn’t get together at some point - I think the discussion & story telling would be endless !!!…… keep up the great work
Love your take on things 😎🎸🎸🎸
1- survive
2- the plague
3- something wicked out of order and handle with care tied lol
4 game over
5- thirdworldgenocide
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Yup, I'd rank the albums the same lol. I do like Out of Order, but it has so much lost potential. I usually visit it after I've listened to the earlier records or sometimes I'll do a mix with some of the stronger songs.
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Great ranking...great band... cheers! 🍻
Thanks, Cheers! 🤘
I won't bother typing in basically the same rankings. Unfortunately when I found this band in the 90s the only albums I was able to find were Something Wicked and a used Out of Order. Good albums but definitely short changed what they were capable of after hearing Game Over, an exemplary thrasher. Business is business and if people aren't buying it you can't just pay to keep making records. Would have loved to see these guys get bigger. Let's face it though, sometimes it's nice to have a band without a bloated discography.
yeah, I prefer that they quit instead of trying to fit in with the trends.
I really love Something Wicked.
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