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.
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... 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.
Im so happy you brought the series back, I was hoping to hear you discuss about thrash metal's revitalization in the 2000's. If you get there of course!
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!
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
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.
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.
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!
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!
@@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.
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!
I forgot to ask on the last video if you'd had a chance to check out any of the newer Jag Panzer records or checked out Sinergy the band i recommended on the female metal singers video.. 🤔
I haven't sorry. ;) the audio on my pc is gone and I dont know how to fix it, but hopefully I will be able to fix it soon so I don't have to temporarily stop uploading videos.
@@RuthlessMetalYT well that sucks not having a fully functional computer.. years ago the cd player in my laptop crapped itself.. the centre piece that held cds broke.. had to wait till i could get to a computer store to see if it could be fixed. Found out it would cost a big chunk of cash.. only solution was an external drive..
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 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 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.
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 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.
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!
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
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 RU-vid kanal. 🤘🤘🤘
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!
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.
@@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.
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
@@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.
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?
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.
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
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
Iced Earth is not trash if you ask me. If they are on that list then i will ratherly choose italians Extrema - The positive pressure (of Injustice) or slovenian Interceptor - Fade
