Awesome, glad you revived this series, even if some of these mid-90s years are weaker it is still interesting to see. Besides it will get better as the years goes on anyway.
Thank you for mentioning Trizna! I've listened to the album now and really enjoyed it. Reminds me of early Risk, with a sort of Japanese energy, especially with the choruses.
Yeah... 1995 was a mess if you compare it to 5-10 years prior. But, Trizna sounded really cool and I might check them out. And Sodom stuck with their roots so props to them
@@jamestorres9464 You don't think the first few Iced Earth albums would be considered at melodic thrash? I always thought they kinda straddled the line with it depending on what album it was
Great video as always! 1999 is actually a good year for thrash, we've got albums by F.K.Ü, S.O.D., Dekapitator, Sodom, Testament, Artillery and Children Of Bodom made quite a thrashy release.
Honestly I really enjoyed this episode, please keep doing these!!! I discovered some great new bands from this video. Full Speed Ahead is my favorite DRI album. Keep Thrashin \../
A couple albums that come in mind for me that I think should have been at least honorable mentions are The Blueprints for Madness by Deceased (I did see it was on the Death Metal HM list for '95 but in my mind it's a Death/Thrash release), Cybervoid by Obliveon, Life Until Deaf by Outrage and Nifelheim by Nifelheim. Overall solid list though, 1995 was probably the weakest year for Thrash so finding enough releases to compose a Top 10 I can't imagine was very easy to do. Keep up the great content!
Gehennah is a fun band I remember from the days of my youth, I'm always gonna love their release. Iron Stream is something new to me, definitely gonna check them out, appreciate the info man.
Great list. Your list shows that 95 may not be the greatest year in thrash, but it wasn't terrible. Vader's De Profundis was a great thrash/death album.
I know the 90’s were slim pickings but I’ve enjoyed these lists in a weird way more than the 80’s ones. I switched off from thrash after 93 and didn’t really plug back in till 2000, so whilst I knew of all the (vastly superior) 80’s albums list, there’s some gems in here I missed! I was listening to Ritual Carnage today and thought ‘I hope he does a list for each of the remaining years in the 90’s’! I wonder what else I missed in those threadbare years? Anyway, love your work - keep the thrash flag flying!
I wish you were around like 10 years ago when I fully got into thrash, it would have been so much easier to discover every band haha I pretty much know all of the bands in your videos and it gives me so much joy hearing someone giving praise to all these bands. Cheers!
@@RuthlessMetalYT the whole album is tripped out. They'll be FLYING and then out of nowhere, poof... elevator music interlude. I'll have to check those other groups out. Russian media doesn't really make its way out west.
Thanks for the video, seems Russia carried the torch for Thrash in the mid nineties. Thanks for the End Zone and Trizna recommendation. Two albums I'll have to track down. Love me some prog-thrash
Would have anything to add about speed metal in your future videos? Got really in to the genre from your channel (mainly just knew about couple of German bands doing it previously, and Helloween & Judas Priest obviously). Really love that sound!
Not a great year for sure. This is the best I can come up, not all strictly thrash metal... 1 Kreator - Cause For Conflict 2 Fear Factory - Demanufacture 3 Grip Inc - Power Of Inner Self 4 Voivod - Negatron 5 Sodom - Masquerade In Blood
yeah, voivod was perhaps more of a progressive metal album, they kinda lost the thrash edge in the 90's. Grip inc and fear factory are perhaps more groove than thrash. 1995 was rough. Cheers!
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Good choices, man. Your top 4 is made of albums that I respect a lot. Fear Factory's Demanufacture is one of my personal favourites. And Voivod is that kind of band that pleases me in all formations and styles. \m/ \m/
Power of Inner Strenght is to me the best thrash album put out since Arise, it has some groove influence but it's all the way thrash to me. Cause for Conflict is my fav Kreator album with Coma of Souls, it's brutal! Demanufacture is not pure thrash but what a brilliant album too. Nice selection.
@@mattmiller4821 Demanufacture is one of the most important metal albums ever made. I classify it as industrial metal. I personally think it's childish the way Ruthless looks down on all the metal he doesn't like. I think the dude needs to grow up in that area. There's tons of metal I hate, but I try not to say it's not good, or has no value, just because I don't like it.
This is a bit late, but Iced Earth's Burnt Offerings is a great album, even if not fully Thrash, it's still an album I listen to after countless times. Some songs are a bit more odd, but in my opinion, they have one of the greatest metal songs of the 90's with Dante's Inferno. It's just a masterpiece, and the version of Athens just gives me goosebumps everytime. Definitely great
I think one of the major reasons for Russia having quite a few decent thrash records come the mid 1990's was the fall of the Berlin Wall/USSR. Before that, it was not only hard for some bands to play but even harder to get certain albums. A bit late to the scene for obvious reasons. Also, how about a "top 10 thrash bands that only put out only demos or EP's but no full lengths" (Slaughter Lord, Horde of Torment, Etc) as an idea. I know you don't usually cover demos on this channel but it's an idea.
yeah, a lot of countries in the east wheter it's the czech republic or poland or ukraine or russia, they all put out metal albums in the 90's when most other european and western countries didn't. we'll see, maybe some day. Cheers!
Masquerade In Blood is most underrated Sodom's record. Great slower, heavy songs. I like this very massive sound, influences from hardcore punk and Motorhad style. Kreator's Cause For Conflict is also very underrated.
@@RuthlessMetalYT I discovered them during surfing through for me unknown thrash bands here on youtube and I was very surprised. Personally I don't care if they are christians, Jedi or spaghetti monster religion. Quality of music is what matters.
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With so little to choose from, I can't believe you didn't include 'Spider's Lullaby' by King Diamond... Basically a Thrash record with a Heavy Metal singer 🤷♂️
I'm not sure if I should complain that At The Gates- Slaughter of the Soul should be here. It has thrash tendencies, but it usually gets filed under the "melodic death metal" banner (which I find to be a lamer version of thrash). In my headcanon I consider Slaughter of the Soul to be a threeway crossover between hardcore, thrash and death metal. However, I respect your decision to not include it for those reasons.
Har i princip inga Thrash Metal skivor från detta år. Äger Burnt Offerings och Masquerade In Blood dock som båda är OK, och Hardrocker (texterna är fan bäst) med Gehennah som ägs på orginal vinyl SÅKLART!! Angående Scott Waters, så är han med i Metal Bibeln jag fick av min yngre bror som är kristen. Visste inte han hade en TH-cam kanal. 🤘🤘🤘
I'm surprised Solstice - Pray was not in the top 10 given what it would be up against. I think it was a good album, even if it's overshadowed by the debut. It's also very close to death metal which might lend a more fair comparison taking that into account. On that note, would a death-thrash video be out of the question? A lot of them tend to not make it into either death metal or thrash top 10's being less numerous than either but having some good gems like Thanatos, Devastation, Protector, Incubus etc
yeah, it's a bit too much of a death metal album to be on here. I have some death-thrash on these lists especially if it's leaning more towards thrash.
Belladonna's self-titled solo album would've perhaps deserved a spot on the list. People often mock that album but apart from terrible production it was pretty fine. A few very good songs that would be up there with some of the better Anthrax tracks. Even though it's not full on thrash it has some ok thrash riffs here and there and some faster thrashy drumming too, and it definitely is much better than Stomp 442, so it would've warranted at least a spot in horonable mentions. Another album I would've picked is Possession - Eternally Haunt (not the other Possession, this is a Christian band). It's a mix of thrash and death though. They pretty recently released all their previous releases, including Eternally Haunt, in a double CD set called Disentombed Manifestations.
Yeah. haven't heard that one in ages but I remembered it to be more of a heavy metal record than thrash. not sure htough since it was 20 years since I heard it. haha Cheerios!
I always considered 1995 the year metal truly died, you had magazines like Metal Hammer UK even proposing a new name for it, and with a year or two you had Lars denying Metallica were Metal and within a year of that Halford announcing Metal was dead. Imaginations From the Other Side and a bunch of classics came out in 95 though as well as Burnt Offerings as you mention. I need to check out that DRI album, I was a huge fan growing up and haven’t heard that one. Cool Russian bands to check out too!
I just hope that when Ruthless does 1996 he includes 'Great Southern Trendkill' by Pantera even tho he personally dislikes them. And did he include 'Far Beyond Driven' in 1994's Top Ten? Oh, well, Ruthless still kicks ass even if he's wrong about Pantera...
1995 was really a tough year for pure thrash metal. I ran look for some brazilian thrash metal releases of that year with some hope, but the best Dorsal Atlântica was made one year before. Others' bands too. One or two. And them, a change of style or a hiatus. With that said, I personally like groovy or industrial metal bands of the period, like Pantera, Machine Head, Fear Factory and Helmet. And also the non thrash albuns of Anthrax and Voivod, Sacred Reich or COC (even I am way more fan of 80s heavy and thrash metal). I think the 90s are an incredibly rich period for rock and metal in general if we have eyes and year opened to all styles. The grindcore and industrial scenes, for instance. But this a matter of taste, of course. Backing to thrash, did you like new Vio-Lence EP?
Have you heard of a band called Jesus Christ there a Toronto band and released just one album 1994 (maybe because of the name) I just discovered this album and not sure if it's thrash,metal, grunge it's pretty good especially the first song "Peace By Piece"
Trizna is fucking awesome! Easily my #1. Very interesting and unique band, speedy and proggy. And good job "iron flow" (i cant spell it) made it on 2 lists! Not bad for another russian band hardly anyone knows of (they do now tho) I realize these later years will probably take alot longer to make a vid for, but i think itll be worth the effort, alot more interesting and obscure stuff than the 'easy' years where we all kinda knew what to expect to see
I really love Burnt Offerings by Iced Earth, and I can't consider it thrash. It's good old heavy/power metal, and I don't think you could convince me about the contrary. :-D There is thrash influenced riffing for sure, but it's quite general in power metal.
I totally forgot one. Dementia from finland released their only album that was self titled. Its got some death but alot more prog and thrash, i mean it is roope latvala from stone on guitar after all, bout all that needs to be said lol the greatest guitarist in all of finland lol this is when he 1st started dabbling with death metal before joining waltari and later bodom
@@RuthlessMetalYT They are not really thrash. Iced Earth is more power metal mixed with some thrash and traditional metal. Their first two albums had more thrash (early Metallica) influence.
Countmeister’s Top 3-5 this year is in Reality No Thrash albums even though it should be since it’s a Thrash list. 1. Nifelheim - ST 🇸🇪 2. Absu - The Sun Of Tipareth 🇺🇸 3. Amen Corner - Jachol Ve Tehila 🇧🇷 4. Gehennah - Hardrocker 🇸🇪 5. Usurper - Diabolosis… 🇺🇸
Yeah, I excluded Nifelheim because they are a bit too much black for the list but I included Iced Earth so maybe it could have been there as well. haven't heard amen corner though.
Yeah with the rise of second wave black metal a lot of them had blackened thrash or retro thrash projects around that time, especially on Necropolis Records (and even Nocturnal Rites of all bands had one with Guillotine). Usurper are (were?) awesome
I remember some sellout reviewer from a metal magazine (probably 'Aardschok', the Dutch version of Metal Hammer) somewhere in the mid 90s ranting about thrash bands still playing 'brainless' thrash like in the 80s. And giving these bands low scores for lack of creativity. 🤨🙄
I’m gonna go ahead and say it… even though Russia isn’t very popular with some people right now, we have to admit that they have some killer metal music period. I know I enjoy it fully. Just because of politics, I won’t be prejudiced against good music at all. Cheers!
But hypnosia thrash metal band from sweden Växjö and their awsome album Extreme Hatred from 2000 is one of the few realy god metal albums from early 2000s
Yup, most metal bands were sounding the same at that point. Unfortunately I have not much to offer for 95. I went back to old school punk in 95. Pretty boring. I felt the revival came around in the early 2004. Shit started getting hard again. It's been awesome ever since.
5:10 that artwork really depicts the state of thrash metal in the mid to late 90s
Cheers!
Haha very true
My two favorites from that year: 🤘🏻
Sodom - Masquerade In Blood
D.R.I. - Full Speed Ahead
Yeah, definitely amongst the bigger releases in this rather weak year.
Awesome, glad you revived this series, even if some of these mid-90s years are weaker it is still interesting to see. Besides it will get better as the years goes on anyway.
yeah, we'll continue this slowly, i haven't decided how far it will go or how often I'll revisit the series but we'll just have to see.
Thank you for mentioning Trizna! I've listened to the album now and really enjoyed it. Reminds me of early Risk, with a sort of Japanese energy, especially with the choruses.
hehe, yeah they are kidna wild. :) Cheers!
Yeah... 1995 was a mess if you compare it to 5-10 years prior. But, Trizna sounded really cool and I might check them out. And Sodom stuck with their roots so props to them
yeah, the sodom record was badly produced though, it sounds bad but at least they are playing fast haha
I dig you but iced earth isn't thrash you didn't get it right
@@jamestorres9464 You don't think the first few Iced Earth albums would be considered at melodic thrash? I always thought they kinda straddled the line with it depending on what album it was
Great video as always! 1999 is actually a good year for thrash, we've got albums by F.K.Ü, S.O.D., Dekapitator, Sodom, Testament, Artillery and Children Of Bodom made quite a thrashy release.
thanks. Cheers!
Scott waters is a super cool guy. Thanks for mentioning his channel!! YeA in 95 I wasn't even listening to thrash. Got more into underground music.
Yeah, I interviewed Ultimatum like 20 years ago now. :) Cheers!
Lots of good bands I never knew about. Your metal knowledge is really good and always amazes me
Thanks man, Cheers!
Burnt Offerings is an awesome album from Iced Earth. They always put on a great live show.
not anymore unfortunately
Probably wouldn't think to call it thrash as the first thing that I would use to describe it but a great album nevertheless.
@@jarunia17 power thrash id say
@@plisskenationbackfromthede3657 Finally someone who speaks my language and acknowledges this album as power thrash! You made my day. Thank you.
@@shawnofeons Yeah...it's looking very uncertain. They were at the top of their game in the power metal scene though.
Honestly I really enjoyed this episode, please keep doing these!!!
I discovered some great new bands from this video. Full Speed Ahead is my favorite DRI album.
Keep Thrashin \../
Cheers!
Glad to see another thrash top 10 list. Love these videos mate!
thank you!
You made my day with burnt offerings!!!!!
Cheers!
You actually did 1995. A challenge to be sure. I’m proud of you. 😆🤘
hehe, thanks. Cheers!
A couple albums that come in mind for me that I think should have been at least honorable mentions are The Blueprints for Madness by Deceased (I did see it was on the Death Metal HM list for '95 but in my mind it's a Death/Thrash release), Cybervoid by Obliveon, Life Until Deaf by Outrage and Nifelheim by Nifelheim.
Overall solid list though, 1995 was probably the weakest year for Thrash so finding enough releases to compose a Top 10 I can't imagine was very easy to do. Keep up the great content!
Yeah, Nifelheim is a bit more bm than thrash I think. Cheers!
Gehennah is a fun band I remember from the days of my youth, I'm always gonna love their release. Iron Stream is something new to me, definitely gonna check them out, appreciate the info man.
Thanks boss, Cheers!
Wow cool your showing off the hidden gems of the 90s
Cheers!
Great list. Your list shows that 95 may not be the greatest year in thrash, but it wasn't terrible. Vader's De Profundis was a great thrash/death album.
yeah the vader album was in the top 10 death metal video. Cheers!
I know the 90’s were slim pickings but I’ve enjoyed these lists in a weird way more than the 80’s ones. I switched off from thrash after 93 and didn’t really plug back in till 2000, so whilst I knew of all the (vastly superior) 80’s albums list, there’s some gems in here I missed! I was listening to Ritual Carnage today and thought ‘I hope he does a list for each of the remaining years in the 90’s’! I wonder what else I missed in those threadbare years? Anyway, love your work - keep the thrash flag flying!
Yeah there were some rough years but there were a few gems out there if we dive deep. Cheers!
I wish you were around like 10 years ago when I fully got into thrash, it would have been so much easier to discover every band haha
I pretty much know all of the bands in your videos and it gives me so much joy hearing someone giving praise to all these bands.
Cheers!
I was around, just not on youtube. I had a website called Ruuth's Inn back then. :)
@@RuthlessMetalYT oh it was yours?! Cool I used to go there pretty regularly
@@ManuSDP Ah, cool. :) Yeah, I'm working on bringing back a website, but under the Ruthless Metal name. ruthlessmetal.blogspot.com/
thx for zhelezny potok, trizna & endzone! i appreciate that a lot!
Cheers!
Im gonna check out ultimatum it sounds awesome. I have very few favorite albums from this year
yeah thrash was kinda dead by 95
End Zone seems dope, first time hearing of them, thanks :D
Cheers!
Great video man! Thrash 'till death!
Cheers!
Tankard - The Tankard, great underrated album. This is my favourite 90's Tankard album.
Cheers!
🤘3:03 6:48 7:46 10:37 13:05 Masterpiece🤘Awesome list video🤘
Cheers!
@@RuthlessMetalYT 🤘🤘🤘🤘
Just checked out Trizna. That shit is SICK! Thanks for the heads up on them Jim! 🤘
Yeah they have their moments, but they aren't my favourite Russian thrash band, Kruiz, Zhelezny Potok and Aspid are better in my opinion.
@@RuthlessMetalYT the whole album is tripped out. They'll be FLYING and then out of nowhere, poof... elevator music interlude. I'll have to check those other groups out. Russian media doesn't really make its way out west.
hehe, yeah I'm not that interested in the elevator music parts haha but there were some progressive madness going on there in the 90's in Russia.
@@DScheathey actually released 2nd album in 1996. It's called Need For Speed
Also glad to see tankard finally make a top 5 appearance, was starting to think you had something against those guys.
I think they have been on these lists before, they should have. :D
Thanks for the video, seems Russia carried the torch for Thrash in the mid nineties. Thanks for the End Zone and Trizna recommendation. Two albums I'll have to track down. Love me some prog-thrash
Cheers!
Hard to believe 10 thrash metal albums came out that year.
yeah, well not many of these can be called pure thrash records though. :) Cheers!
yeeeeeeeesss!!! nice!!! please keep it on until present
Cheers! 🍻
This has made me realise that Kurt Brecht's voice is almost the exact same now as it was in 1995, it's incredible how well he's aged.
I don't think I've heard him lately. Cheers!
Lol...thats the genius of his voice. He just shouts the words. Its not singing. He definitley has one of the most unique voices
Would have anything to add about speed metal in your future videos? Got really in to the genre from your channel (mainly just knew about couple of German bands doing it previously, and Helloween & Judas Priest obviously).
Really love that sound!
not in this series, I mean there might be a few albums that has a bit of speed in them but hey. :) Cheers!
@@RuthlessMetalYT Yea, I get not in this series, but in general?
This series is great too!
we'll see what the future holds, right now I can't record shit because my pc is without audio somehow. :S
@@RuthlessMetalYT Thanks for response.
I hadn't heard of End Zone before, sounded pretty cool
Cheers!
I was listening to Gehenna "Hardrocker" just a couple weeks ago.
Fun album!
hehe, yeah it's over the top! Cheers!
I need to get back to collecting D.R.I, one of my favorite bands in general, especially in the hardcore and thrash scenes.
Cheers!
Would love to hear your iced earth rankings.
I'm too much of a noob when it comes to their disco. Cheers!
Cheer's dude \~/
Cheers!
Alternative rock and Grunge music was all the rage in the 1990s so that was one of the reasons so little Thrash music was released, such a shame.
yeah people moved on.in remarkable droves since almost nobody played thrash in 1995. Cheers!
The singer from the first band "Ultimatum" sounds like Zetro
It's the guy from No Life til metal youtube channel. :) Cheers! 🍻
Thanks for ranking. Old trash metall forever live human's arts. Can you ranking up Iced Earth's albums?
I'm not that familiar with their full discography. maybe I need to listen more to their later albums.
Invocator - Dying to live
Oddmongers - Qualms
Accuser - Taken by the throat
Reign - Exit clause
Cheers!
Not a great year for sure. This is the best I can come up, not all strictly thrash metal...
1 Kreator - Cause For Conflict
2 Fear Factory - Demanufacture
3 Grip Inc - Power Of Inner Self
4 Voivod - Negatron
5 Sodom - Masquerade In Blood
Voivod - negatron is a really underrated album 😁
yeah, voivod was perhaps more of a progressive metal album, they kinda lost the thrash edge in the 90's. Grip inc and fear factory are perhaps more groove than thrash. 1995 was rough. Cheers!
Good choices, man. Your top 4 is made of albums that I respect a lot. Fear Factory's Demanufacture is one of my personal favourites. And Voivod is that kind of band that pleases me in all formations and styles. \m/ \m/
Power of Inner Strenght is to me the best thrash album put out since Arise, it has some groove influence but it's all the way thrash to me. Cause for Conflict is my fav Kreator album with Coma of Souls, it's brutal! Demanufacture is not pure thrash but what a brilliant album too. Nice selection.
Nevermore-Nevermore
Well I hope you do few of the albums from the revival years at the very least
yes, if people continue watching these I probably will get there some day.
1. Coroner - Coroner
2. Nevermore - Nevermore
3. Obliveon - Cybervoid
4. Teramaze - Doxology
5. Fatal Opera - Fatal Opera
6. Voivod - Negatron
7. Grip Inc. - Power of Inner Strength
8. Hundred Years - s/t
9. Hobbs Angel of Death - Inhritance
10. F&J - Drift
yeah some cool albums right there. I skipped coroner since it's more of a compilation. 95 was rough. cheers!
What would you guys classify Demanufacture from Fear Factory as?
Unlistenable? ;)
@@RuthlessMetalYT dude....you're fuckin kiddin me right?
@@mattmiller4821 Demanufacture is one of the most important metal albums ever made. I classify it as industrial metal. I personally think it's childish the way Ruthless looks down on all the metal he doesn't like. I think the dude needs to grow up in that area. There's tons of metal I hate, but I try not to say it's not good, or has no value, just because I don't like it.
This is a bit late, but Iced Earth's Burnt Offerings is a great album, even if not fully Thrash, it's still an album I listen to after countless times. Some songs are a bit more odd, but in my opinion, they have one of the greatest metal songs of the 90's with Dante's Inferno. It's just a masterpiece, and the version of Athens just gives me goosebumps everytime. Definitely great
yes, they are more of power metal albums, or dark power metal, so, but by 1995 we take what we can find. hehe
@@RuthlessMetalYT sad but true! to be honest, in the 90s it's better to focus on death metal than thrash, even though I love Thrash a lot more hahaha
yeah same here. thrash stands tall!
8| well that Trizna song is certainly different... *I need more*
hehe, they were certainly strange and very uneaven.
Love me some proggy thrash. Reminded me of some Aspid, Target, Hexenhaus songs etc :)
Yeah, Iced Earth! Dante's Inferno from Burnt Offerings is one of the most epic songs in their catalogue.
that's a good one! Cheers!
Great job on a relatively crap year for thrash!
Cheers!
I think one of the major reasons for Russia having quite a few decent thrash records come the mid 1990's was the fall of the Berlin Wall/USSR. Before that, it was not only hard for some bands to play but even harder to get certain albums. A bit late to the scene for obvious reasons. Also, how about a "top 10 thrash bands that only put out only demos or EP's but no full lengths" (Slaughter Lord, Horde of Torment, Etc) as an idea. I know you don't usually cover demos on this channel but it's an idea.
yeah, a lot of countries in the east wheter it's the czech republic or poland or ukraine or russia, they all put out metal albums in the 90's when most other european and western countries didn't. we'll see, maybe some day. Cheers!
Aria Rules.. the Russian Iron Maiden
"Burnt Offerings" it's a great album! 🍻
Cheers! 🍻
Masquerade In Blood is most underrated Sodom's record. Great slower, heavy songs. I like this very massive sound, influences from hardcore punk and Motorhad style.
Kreator's Cause For Conflict is also very underrated.
Cheers!
Do you know Sacrament?. They had two albums in 90s. Very good thrash little "slayerish".
Yes, christian thrashers!
@@RuthlessMetalYT I discovered them during surfing through for me unknown thrash bands here on youtube and I was very surprised.
Personally I don't care if they are christians, Jedi or spaghetti monster religion. Quality of music is what matters.
You need to do an Iced Earth ranking it's my favorite band along with Judas Priest and Testament
I haven't listened to most of their discography. :)
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Grip Inc. - The Power Of Inner Strength.. which had Dave Lombardo on the drums..
yeah, too much groove for this list though. :) Cheers!
With so little to choose from, I can't believe you didn't include 'Spider's Lullaby' by King Diamond... Basically a Thrash record with a Heavy Metal singer 🤷♂️
Nah, I don't consider anything from King to be thrash. it's straight up heavy metal. Cheers!
do the best black thrash albums
We'll see what the future holds. Cheers!
I'm not sure if I should complain that At The Gates- Slaughter of the Soul should be here. It has thrash tendencies, but it usually gets filed under the "melodic death metal" banner (which I find to be a lamer version of thrash). In my headcanon I consider Slaughter of the Soul to be a threeway crossover between hardcore, thrash and death metal. However, I respect your decision to not include it for those reasons.
I don't consider it to be thrash, it was in the death metal video from 1995 so. Cheers! 🍻
Har i princip inga Thrash Metal skivor från detta år. Äger Burnt Offerings och Masquerade In Blood dock som båda är OK, och Hardrocker (texterna är fan bäst) med Gehennah som ägs på orginal vinyl SÅKLART!! Angående Scott Waters, så är han med i Metal Bibeln jag fick av min yngre bror som är kristen. Visste inte han hade en TH-cam kanal. 🤘🤘🤘
jo, han har ju haft en hemsida sen 90-talet som man ofta besökt. ah, tror inte jag är bekant med metal bibeln. :)
@@RuthlessMetalYT Hehe, är nya testamentet och ett gäng hårdrocks vittnen som berättar hur tuff Jesus och gänget är..
låter bra. ;) haha Cheers!
End Zone needs more recognition. Great Album.
yeah, cool but shortlived band. Cheers! 🍻
Dark days, my friend. Dark days, indeed.
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I'm surprised Solstice - Pray was not in the top 10 given what it would be up against. I think it was a good album, even if it's overshadowed by the debut. It's also very close to death metal which might lend a more fair comparison taking that into account.
On that note, would a death-thrash video be out of the question? A lot of them tend to not make it into either death metal or thrash top 10's being less numerous than either but having some good gems like Thanatos, Devastation, Protector, Incubus etc
yeah, it's a bit too much of a death metal album to be on here. I have some death-thrash on these lists especially if it's leaning more towards thrash.
pls, overlooked brazilian Metal! 🇧🇷
I'm not an expert on everything. ;) hehe Check out Anthares!
Imagika debuted in 1995, wow
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Are you going to do the best death metal albums of 96?
yes, whenever my computer is fixed.
@@RuthlessMetalYT thanks dude, greetings from Mexico
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Pretty great. Two discs from Death from that era.
The specific year was not great.
Rock on !
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What about the debut self titled Nevermore? I know it’s not pure thrash but it’s probably better than anything on this list.
I didn't like that record. too modern for me. never considered them to be a thrash band even if a lot of people thought otherwise.
@@RuthlessMetalYT The second one "The Politics of Ecstasy" from 1996 is an absolute classic. Listen to it again.
Belladonna's self-titled solo album would've perhaps deserved a spot on the list. People often mock that album but apart from terrible production it was pretty fine. A few very good songs that would be up there with some of the better Anthrax tracks. Even though it's not full on thrash it has some ok thrash riffs here and there and some faster thrashy drumming too, and it definitely is much better than Stomp 442, so it would've warranted at least a spot in horonable mentions. Another album I would've picked is Possession - Eternally Haunt (not the other Possession, this is a Christian band). It's a mix of thrash and death though. They pretty recently released all their previous releases, including Eternally Haunt, in a double CD set called Disentombed Manifestations.
Yeah. haven't heard that one in ages but I remembered it to be more of a heavy metal record than thrash. not sure htough since it was 20 years since I heard it. haha Cheerios!
Damn. 1995 had some slim pickins. Not a bad list. I do enjoy Hobbs Angel of Death once in a while
yeah 95 was rough. Hobbs has always delivered but they never got the full attention they deserved.
That first bands song sounds like holy wars.. The punishment due with zetro on vocals
Ultimatum. :D Cheers!
I always considered 1995 the year metal truly died, you had magazines like Metal Hammer UK even proposing a new name for it, and with a year or two you had Lars denying Metallica were Metal and within a year of that Halford announcing Metal was dead. Imaginations From the Other Side and a bunch of classics came out in 95 though as well as Burnt Offerings as you mention. I need to check out that DRI album, I was a huge fan growing up and haven’t heard that one. Cool Russian bands to check out too!
yeah 95 was a joke, everyone tried to distance themselves from metal because of what it had come to.
Circa 1995, Metallica was not metal. They were grunge. Not even passable grunge like Soundgarden, either. So sad.
Ultimatum would be number 1 on my list. They are my favorite on this list
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You could also mention The Crown's album "The Burning" but it's much more than just a thrash record I guess, moreso melodic death.
That wasnt 1995.
@@RuthlessMetalYT Yes, the first release is from 1995 when they were called Crown Of Thorns. amazing album but absolutely NOT thrash.
“ This Is the Remastered Artwork “ - This well sell now guys ! 💰💰😎💰💰
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I love DRI - Full Speed Ahead album
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@@RuthlessMetalYT Greetings from Bolivia
R.I.P. Peter Hobbs! Also... you know it's bad when the best thrash metal of 1995 is actually not a thrash metal album...
hehe, yeah I don't know how many of these I would even label as pure thrash records 2-3 maybe. Cheers!
Hard du hört om den nya skid row sångaren? riktigt bra.
jo, svennebananen där ja, ja jag är inte så förtjust i idolsångare, men han gjorde en bra black sabbath cover på sin kanal iaf.
I just hope that when Ruthless does 1996 he includes 'Great Southern Trendkill' by Pantera even tho he personally dislikes them. And did he include 'Far Beyond Driven' in 1994's Top Ten? Oh, well, Ruthless still kicks ass even if he's wrong about Pantera...
I don't do rap. ;) Cheers!
@@RuthlessMetalYT Very funny, Ruthless, lol...
1995 was really a tough year for pure thrash metal. I ran look for some brazilian thrash metal releases of that year with some hope, but the best Dorsal Atlântica was made one year before. Others' bands too. One or two. And them, a change of style or a hiatus.
With that said, I personally like groovy or industrial metal bands of the period, like Pantera, Machine Head, Fear Factory and Helmet. And also the non thrash albuns of Anthrax and Voivod, Sacred Reich or COC (even I am way more fan of 80s heavy and thrash metal).
I think the 90s are an incredibly rich period for rock and metal in general if we have eyes and year opened to all styles. The grindcore and industrial scenes, for instance. But this a matter of taste, of course.
Backing to thrash, did you like new Vio-Lence EP?
yeah it was mostly groove or industrial by 95. Cheers!
Have you heard of a band called Jesus Christ there a Toronto band and released just one album 1994 (maybe because of the name) I just discovered this album and not sure if it's thrash,metal, grunge it's pretty good especially the first song "Peace By Piece"
i can't say that I have
Trizna is fucking awesome! Easily my #1. Very interesting and unique band, speedy and proggy. And good job "iron flow" (i cant spell it) made it on 2 lists! Not bad for another russian band hardly anyone knows of (they do now tho) I realize these later years will probably take alot longer to make a vid for, but i think itll be worth the effort, alot more interesting and obscure stuff than the 'easy' years where we all kinda knew what to expect to see
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I personally would’ve chosen Cause for Conflict over the Sodom album.
Yeah, the quality between them are similar I think. Cheers!
I really love Burnt Offerings by Iced Earth, and I can't consider it thrash. It's good old heavy/power metal, and I don't think you could convince me about the contrary. :-D There is thrash influenced riffing for sure, but it's quite general in power metal.
yeah, I agree, there are some hints of thrash. in 1995, you take what you can find. :) Cheers!
I totally forgot one. Dementia from finland released their only album that was self titled. Its got some death but alot more prog and thrash, i mean it is roope latvala from stone on guitar after all, bout all that needs to be said lol the greatest guitarist in all of finland lol this is when he 1st started dabbling with death metal before joining waltari and later bodom
yes, I considered it. Cheers!
Iced earth albums ranked????
maybe some day, I'm not super familiar with all of their stuff though. Cheers!
@@RuthlessMetalYT They are not really thrash. Iced Earth is more power metal mixed with some thrash and traditional metal. Their first two albums had more thrash (early Metallica) influence.
In agony rise should be in the list on 96...
Yes! It sounds like a '92 release
Countmeister’s Top 3-5 this year is in Reality No Thrash albums even though it should be since it’s a Thrash list.
1. Nifelheim - ST 🇸🇪
2. Absu - The Sun Of Tipareth 🇺🇸
3. Amen Corner - Jachol Ve Tehila 🇧🇷
4. Gehennah - Hardrocker 🇸🇪
5. Usurper - Diabolosis… 🇺🇸
If u like blackened Thrash though this should be on your list.
Yeah, I excluded Nifelheim because they are a bit too much black for the list but I included Iced Earth so maybe it could have been there as well. haven't heard amen corner though.
Yeah with the rise of second wave black metal a lot of them had blackened thrash or retro thrash projects around that time, especially on Necropolis Records (and even Nocturnal Rites of all bands had one with Guillotine). Usurper are (were?) awesome
when is the 1996 top death metal albums coming out?
I don't know, the audio on my pc is broken and I can't record the audio before I've fixed it. So I have no idea. Cheers! 🍻
Actually, I never abandoned old punk.
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Never thought there's good thrash albums in 95
yeah, there aren't that many decent ones, that's for sure. Cheers!
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The year i was born
For me it feels like yesterday. ;) haha
Difícil. Ya es el ocaso del Thrash. Pero Deceased y Dementia tienen dos títulos muy contundentes de ese árido 1995.
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Un saludo.
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I remember some sellout reviewer from a metal magazine (probably 'Aardschok', the Dutch version of Metal Hammer) somewhere in the mid 90s ranting about thrash bands still playing 'brainless' thrash like in the 80s.
And giving these bands low scores for lack of creativity. 🤨🙄
yeah, metal journalists against metal. haha
I’m gonna go ahead and say it… even though Russia isn’t very popular with some people right now, we have to admit that they have some killer metal music period. I know I enjoy it fully. Just because of politics, I won’t be prejudiced against good music at all. Cheers!
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But hypnosia thrash metal band from sweden Växjö and their awsome album Extreme Hatred from 2000 is one of the few realy god metal albums from early 2000s
yes, that album come out of nowhere. it was definitely one of those albums that got some hype around then.
Yup, most metal bands were sounding the same at that point. Unfortunately I have not much to offer for 95. I went back to old school punk in 95. Pretty boring. I felt the revival came around in the early 2004. Shit started getting hard again. It's been awesome ever since.
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Debustrol - Vyhlazeni was the best Thrash Metal album of 95 imo. Sadly it went unmentioned like many others.
yeah I haven't heard every metal album in the world you know. :) I do know of Debustrol but I haven't heard that album.
Trizna....Amen)
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