Thrash Metal Essential Albums w/ Blake Ibanez from Power Trip | Lock Horns 

Glad to hear the Power Trip guys have been busy working on new music, whatever shape or form it turns out to be. Long live Power Trip, my favorite memory of Hellfest 2019.

Nightmare Logic is an ESSENTIAL modern thrash album no doubt!

Reign in Blood had a locked groove on the vinyl as well. That's why the ending to Raining Blood is so abrupt. What happens is the original vinyl record drops into a "locked groove" which infinitely loops that thunder/rain segment. Another reason I agree Reign In Blood is on another level artistically.

Demolition Hammer - Epidemic of Violence deserves the award for 2nd heaviest and most aggressive thrash album (next to reign of course)

Gary Holts Guitar sound is really unique. He definitely has his own sound and you know when you hear it....

love this show bigtime. the table and laptop cant replace the board and lisa tho. just a little too easy, but really love this show so thanks :)

Saw the Cro-Mags in 1989 ish, Best Wishes tour. Jannus Landing St Pete, FL I was a skate punk, GBH, Suicidal, Circle Jerks, etc. My buddy played Trapped Under Ice. My hair grew 3 sizes that night.

ANNIHILATOR'S "Alice In Hell" should be on that board somewhere!!

To me Hell Awaits will always be the slayer album that was different then all the others and really captured the sound that I loved.

Razor's Violent Restitution is my personal favorite thrash record of all time and is severely underrated. But I'm glad it got mentioned here even if it isn't up higher

The level of my attachment to Powertrip is that I listen to them 2+ hrs, every single fucking day. No one can fill Riley's shoes. But I to listen to Powertrip till my last breath. Rest in Power Brother❤️🧡💚

Forbidden - Twisted into Form and Forbidden Evil are the most underrated albums ever. That's fuckin essential..

Fun fact about Devastation, when DEATH did their first tour through Texas, Devastation opened up for them. And for the first few shows Deva was putting on a kickass live performance moving around headbanging and what not, but DEATH would stand still like statues. So, their band manager said "Hey yall gotta get more into it, Devastation is outperforming you guys and getting the crowd going" so because of Devastation, DEATH started to move around more and pump the crowd up.

Best Thrash albums are from the big 4: St. Anger Metallica, Risk and Super Collider Megadeth, Sound of White Noise Anthrax and Diablolus in Musica Slayer. Very best legendary, phenomenal and most of all, UNFORGETTABLE albums that you wanna forget but can't. Thank me later.

How can you list essential Thrash (or metal in general) albums and not include Anthrax? I love handle with care and beneath the remains, but more than Among, Disease or even Persistance?. I don't think so... The oversight is a little hard to forgive

KREATOR endless pain. What a cool record. 1985. German teenagers giving it a hell of a go with no clue or experience in the studio to reference. I would say it had a big influence upon certain metal genre's that were to come up in Europe much later, but I dont often hear this album referenced as an early influence. I'm the first to admit I could be wrong, I'm not an expert and dont hold any degree's in any field of study. Check it out and see if it holds water.

So excited to hear that there may be some new Power Trip material. But, massive love for Blake on this. Get him back on in the future, knowledgeable, intelligent and pretty funny too.

Dark Angel - Darkness Descends, Forbidden - Twisted into Form, Anthrax - Fistful of Metal, and Exodus - Bonded by Blood

Kill em all = early essential. Master = Legend

One of my fave is Xentrix from England. Probably not essential (but definitively "others"), goddamn they were great. Also Sabbat from England. Just have to give em some love

Megadeth - Rust in Peace is legend status. No discussion

Thanx guys, that was fun! \../

Vio-Lence- Eternal Nightmare Absolutely essential!

Nice Wraith hat!!!!! Got to catch them in my hometown of Green Bay WI. So amazing!!!

1:55:40 Testament wasn't doing well? Their two previous records were The Gathering and The Formation of Damnation, two of their most acclaimed records. Dark Roots Of Earth didn't get the same response as those two

Iron Age. Legendary Texas band!

The Accept song 'Fast as a Shark' was definitely proto

My Top 10 Thrash Metal ! 1. Metallica "Master Of Puppets" (1986) 2. Slayer "Reign In Blood" (1986) 3. Nuclear Assault "Game Over" (1986) 4. Destruction "Sentence Of Death" (1984) ep 5. Anthrax "Spreading The Disease" (1985) 6. Metal Church "The Dark" (1986) 7. VoiVod "RrrOooAaaRrr" (1986) 8. Motorhead "Motorhead" (1977) 8. Razor "Evil Invaders" (1985) 9. Megadeth "Rust In Peace" (1990) 10. Exodus "Bonded By Blood" (1985) My Non-Thrash favorites Rush - Moving Pictures (1981), Van Halen -1984 (1984) Iron Maiden - Powerslave (1984), Judas Priest - British Steel (1980) Black Sabbath - Paranoid (1970), Venom - Welcome To Hell (1981) Danzig - Danzig (1988), Wasp - Wasp (1983)

Y’all need to shown the list at the end in it’s full so it can be screenshotted

Awesome vid. Surprised no one tried to put Misfits Earth AD in proto. Modern would have benefited from Skeletonwitch too.

Mortal Sin 80's Thrash Metal from Australia

Thrash Metal after 2000: Violator - Chemical Assault, Warbringer - War Without End, Power Trip - Manifest Decimation/Nightmare Logic. Old school: Slayer, Demoliton Hammer, Sadus, Morbid Saint, Dark Angel, Exodus.

I think Testament The Gathering should be in there. Ya it was 1999.

Love the Thrash talk and judging by the length of the video so do you 🤘. For some great modern Slayer worship checkout the album Subtype Zero - The Astral Awakening

Great show as always but I really think there need to be more slots in these genres that have been around for 40 years. There’s just no way to pick only 5 essential Thrash albums before 2000, and super difficult even to narrow it down to 5 modern ones too.

I highly recommend Devastation if yall haven't heard them. Good old Texas Thrash Metal! For me though I like their album Signs of Life a little better than Idolatry, but all 3 albums from Deva are badass can't go wrong with either one

Rigor Mortis 1988 A top 10 in my book plus their comeback Slaves to the grave for modern thrash

Orion from Metallica, they opened the m72 tour with it...I had tears in my eyes...it was perfect

How did "Handle With Care" make it to the essentials but not "The Legacy" or "The New Order"? 🤔 How did "Dark Roots of the Earth" surpass "The Formation of Damnation"?? Come on guys!! Papa Dunn's early exit had it's consequences.....🤓 That Devastation album, "Idolatry", is crushing. Thank you Blake!

FUCK YEAH...!! Sending you all Metal, Love,and Peace, from the Moshpit, From over this side of the pond, Croydon, London UK...x 🤘😈🤘...x

02:08:10 True! I was lucky enough to catch them live and they were opening for Trivium back in 2018 (Bilbao). Needless to say after their show I left the venue since IDGAF about Trivium in the first place!

DARKNESS DESCENDS

Seen Power Trip back in 2017 in Indianapolis, Indiana when they opened for Exodus and Obituary

awesome

I’m glad Sam talked about how RTL and MOP are versions of the same (incredible) record because it’s always bugged me that I never see that take. It’s why RTL is my pick

D.R.I. , Crossover

Blake is also in Eternal Champion right? That band is awesome, I think they are more power metal though

Wow...throw some shade at the UK thrash scene...why not?! Well worth exploring if you haven't looked around in a while. Divine Chaos are definitely worth checking out. You didn't mention Onslaught or Acid Reign or XENTRIX for those old skool, but still going bands.

I'm super late to this,. I'm also 48 and my intro to thrash was Megadeth, Anthrax, etc, but the first one that I really connected to was Testament. They just hit me a little differently than the others.

Devastation's Idolatry is a masterpiece.

let's fuckin' go!!!!

I love Sacrifice- Solider of Misfortune. Great fn album.

Holy Terror and/or Anthrax should be on the board.

I would say: Essential Early: besides the mentioned: Anthrax Among the Living, Testament The New Order, Sodom Persecution Mania and Agent Orange Essential Modern: Evile - Enter the Grave, Suicidal Angels - Divide and Conquer, Warbringer - Waking Into Nightmares, Testament - The Formation of Damnation, Slayer - Christ Illusion

LISTENING from wales, europe.🤘

I think we need more than one album in "Legend"! It's not even fair to say that only Slayer is a legend because of Reign in Blood. With that being said, how do you not put " Kill 'em All" in early essential!? It was 1983 and it all but started "Thrash" ! No mention of Anthrax, Death Angel, and the one that honestly kinda pissed me off was Testament -The Legacy! This album should have easily been in the top 5 of early essential! All killer No filler! Thrash is supposed to be raw, fast and loud! And just so it's mentioned, Vio-lence - Eternal Nightmare is hands down one of the greatest 80's Thrash albums ever 🤘

Back in the eighties noone caredm at least in my area, where the band came from. The only quantifier for the band was its intensity.

1980-2000 1.Slayer: Reign in Blood, 2. Megadeth:Peace Sells , 3. Sepultura: Schizophrenia, 4. Sodom : Sign of Evil 5. Metallica: Master of Pups... honourable mentions Pantera, Death Angel, Kreator, Exodus,Annihilator. Fuck forgot about Testament :The Gathering

Blayne, I'm gonna need that Polish website URL!

Exodus Slayer Metallica Voivod all opened up for Venom

I honestly thought they muted Blayne in post when he was talking about Vektor.

I think Blake forgot Formation of Damnation existed.

So there is a gap and a blank screen going from 1:23:37 to 1:28:55 I'm not a subscriber but no advertisements came up. Just a blank screen with the logo. Just forward through it.

Toxic Holocaust Evil Never Dies is a fkn 10, essential record.

Dallas/Fort Worth Area here in Oak Cliff, Texas

.... just curious ...why does AGENT STEEL, the Metal band had so many former members ?

Master of Puppets is perfect!

Thrash metal is my shit and I’m also in my late 40’s, and have listened to thrash since Master dropped. Master of Puppets is my second favorite cd of all time & of course Ride the Lightning is a classic, but to me Kill Em All was their true thrashterpiece! Master & RTL both have their share of slower songs but you will not find one on Kill Em All. Give Kill Em All another chance and see if you don’t agree. Great video! 🤘🏼

Evil Invaders from Belgium They got that huge German Thrash Metal Influence

Legend : Slayer RIB, Metallica KeA; Essential: Metallica MoP, Megadeth RIP, Exodus BBB, Testament TNO, Death Angel TUV, Overkill FTF, Anthrax STD, Kreator COS, Flotsam and Jetsam : DFTD,, Slayer: SOH, Sodom: AO, Sepultura: BtR

Merci!

Dude, the guitarist from Exodus has a Mighty Boosh shirt on, fuck ya :) that makes me so happy, I sorta adore that show :P

I think Disposable Hero's has got to be the best Metallica song ever written.

Kreator is sick and up there for sure. I still consider Exodus as one of the Big 4 not Anthrax.

Sepultura - Primitive self or Inner future? :p

Riley Gale forever 🖤

When it comes to Reign in Blood, I would say it's probably in the top 5 most influential metal albums of all time. Right up there with Black Sabbath's debut and Number of the beast by Maiden. Slayer laid down the ground work for all of extreme metal. Virtually every band that came after Slayer in both the death metal genre and black metal genre has named Slayer as an influence. David Vincet from Morbid Angel, Fenriz from Darkthrone, Chuck Schindler from Death, Max Cavalera of Sepultura and many more.

I just recently discovered the album agent orange by Sodom and it's a masterpiece in my opinion.

Machine Head - The Blackening for an old band with a near perfect post 2000 thrash album

Love me some Blayne and all but obviously his wife is where it's really at. Go Blayne! Ps. Discharge is one of the most influential bands I can think of in music history in relation to their record sales. I wonder what Sam thinks. Morbid Tales is kind of the pinnacle 80s expression of a metal band playing Discharge.

Here is my ranking of the top 25 thrash metal albums released between 1983 and 1991. For the purposes of this exercise, the term 'thrash metal' designates a group of bands that were influenced, directly or indirectly, by the New Wave of British Heavy Metal and by American hardcore punk bands. Musically, these bands are characterized by fast, tremolo picking and extensive use of the 2/4 "skank beat" and double bass pedaling. I grant that this definition does not lend itself to a precise demarcation of the genre, so some arbitrariness at the boundaries is inevitable. I have decided that, e.g., Sepultura's _Arise_ (1991) is a thrash album but Pantera's _Cowboys From Hell_ (1990) isn't, on the vague grounds that the latter album has too much "groove" to really count as thrash. Some people will object that my criteria for ranking are too indeterminate, subjective, and impressionistic to be worth anything. Those people are absolutely right. 1. Slayer, _Reign in Blood_ (1986) 2. Metallica, _Master of Puppets_ (1986) 3. Metallica, _Ride the Lightning_ (1984) 4. Megadeth, _Rust in Peace_ (1990) 5. Megadeth, _Peace Sells...But Who's Buying?_ (1986) 6. Metallica, _Kill 'Em All_ (1983) 7. Slayer, _South of Heaven_ (1988) 8. Metallica, _...And Justice for All_ (1989) 9. Slayer, _Seasons in The Abyss_ (1990) 10. Sepultura, _Arise_ (1991) 11. Megadeth, _Killing Is My Business...And Business Is Good!_ (1985) 12. Slayer, _Hell Awaits_ (1985) 13. Sepultura, _Beneath the Remains_ (1989) 14. Exodus, _Bonded by Blood_ (1985) 15. Testament, _The Legacy_ (1987) 16. Anthrax, _Among the Living_ (1987) 17. Dark Angel, _Darkness Descends_ (1986) 18. Testament, _The New Order_ (1988) 19. Megadeth, _So Far, So Good...So What!_ (1988) 20. Kreator, _Extreme Aggression_ (1989) 21. Sodom, _Agent Orange_ (1989) 22. Kreator, _Pleasure to Kill_ (1986) 23. Slayer, _Show No Mercy_ (1983) 24. Dark Angel, _Time Does Not Heal_ (1991) 25. Death Angel, _Act III_ (1990) Honorable Mentions: Anthrax, _Spreading The Disease_ (1985) Forbidden, _Twisted Into Form_ (1990)

I have to give a shout out to local Australian band Purenvy, album Redemption.

I love slayer but Legend album is Kill em All by metallica as that was the album that kicked of thrash era and made thrash big

THE HAUNTED? WARGASM? DEMOLITION HAMMER?

Whats wrong with people Metallica's Lulu should be in the legend spot.

Luke Thomas as sound engineer.

Sodom M-16 for modern!

How is Kill Em All not mentioned??? Easily the first real thrash record.

The conversation about tapes was cool. I myself just love physical media in general. I think what's really driving the return to physical is more of a practical concern though, and that's that with streaming in general, you don't own anything. Your library is dependent on the whims of the streaming service, the artists, and and their IP lawyers. And that's lead to a backlash. In music, that's been a return to physical (tapes, vinyl, and cd), while with movies it's been a return to piracy.

Where the hell is Vio-Lence???

Megadeth, Peace Sells!

"Nightmare Logic" is not only one of the best thrash albums of the 21st century, but easily one of the best heavy metal albums of the 21st century, period. Kinda wish Havok would've made the modern list simply because "Time is Up" turned me onto the modern thrash revival scene (I was, unfortunately, YEARS late to Municipal Waste and Toxic Holocaust). "Prepare for Attack" is still one of my favorite opening tracks to an album, ever. Also kinda wish one of Death Angel's 2010's-era albums would've *at least* gotten a mention. Much like how Blayne threw that modern Testament record on there to appease the old-heads while still testifying (pun kind-of intended) to the modern (post-2000) era of thrash: "Relentless Retribution" and "The Dream Calls for Blood" are fucking TERRIFIC modern thrash albums.

Ok.. I did my homework...and Iron Age doesn't really sound like Thrash to me, but then again I haven't made music as good as Power Trip either.

Destruction's infernal overkill.

I also love the idea that the UK isn't a thrash country when we literally have Re-Animator, Lawnmower Deth, Xentrix, Sabbat, Hell, Evile, Onslaught, Acid Reign, Gama Bomb.... Clearly haven't don't the research Blayne doy

🔥THRASH🔥

Atheist - Unquestionable Presence I know, it's more of a technical death metal record, but... I mention it whenever possible.

1 hour 17 minutes in and no mention of Megadeth or Testament yet? This seems more like a "look at how many obscure bands I know" kind of discussion. Side note: I freaking love Fugitive, keep up the great work Blake!

No Eternal Nightmare and no Darkness Descends should be illegal in a thrash chart

Where is VEKTOR's Terminal Redux?