Cracking year for Thrash mate. Onlsaughts The Force is up there for uk thrash and for me it holds its own against other stuff from around the globe too. Ventor sings some belters on Pleasure To Kill but as you say Mille kills it on there, great voice and a total nasty beast of a record! Youve got the heavy hitters covered in this list for sure James. looking at it, id have to have Reign In Blood on top of the pile. They took the Devil from the murky dank teenage bedroom and dropped him straight into a street fight with that record haha! Still sounds powerful. Perfect length for a Thrash album too. Class vid James, all class records. Good to hear Bloodstock was a blast mucker! Cheers.

Killer year for thrash 🤘😝🤘

Great ranking of thrash metal albums from 1986. Those are top album Metallica, Megadeth and Slayer. Cheers mate.

Good one as usual….Hey dude have you done cannibal corpse ranking yet? Would like to hear your point! Cheers

Great ranking James! Nice to hear a little from your Bloodstock experience too, a friend of mine went and really enjoyed it too. I'd love to go next year but the tickets for the weekend are almost gone already!! I just can't commit that kind of cash so far into the future unfortunately, so it might be another year without going for me. Awesome list, I'd have The Force towards the bottom for me. I've never liked that album, the vocals are bad. A lot of these albums I need to check out like Sodom, Destruction, Nuclear Assault, Possessed and Exhumer to name a few. Can't really argue with your top 3, they're the most well known and probably the best Thrash albums from 86'. Maybe the order would be slightly different for me. Having listened to it recently, Voivod's Rrrroooaaarrrr would make my list for this year. Nice one mate! 😁🤘🏻🤘🏻

Hell Awaits is better than all of them.

Great List! I would skip tankard and replace it with "among the living"!

How was your vacation? how was the Festival? sounds like you had a great time? speaking about Beers what's the drinking age in that country and what's the Drinking age at the Festival? so a heavy band Sodom, Dark Angel darkness decends, Nucleur Assault , Destruction , Possesed , Exumer , Onslaught , Flotsam and Jetsam, Tankard, Kreator , Slayer , Megadeth - peace sells but who's buying? I heard that Dark Angel album is supposed to be very good are you sure about 12th? it's your list and i'm fine with it!!! my ranking I really don't like thrash but this is my list i'm only ranking the important albums. 7.Kreator- pleasure to kill 6. Flotsam and Jetsam - Doomsday for the deceiver 5. Dark Angel - Darkness Descends 4. Slayer - Reign in Blood 3. Did Anthrax have an album out this year? still nobody is taking their assigned spot 2. we see things the same way Megadeth - Peace sells but who's buying 1. Metalica - Master of puppets Not my favorite album of theirs but still a good album

Awesome 1986 Thrash Metal albums ranking video just got done listening to Suicidal Tendencies Self Titled debut 1983 cd

Many thanks for your rankings🤘

Great video James. I'm glad you've enjoyed and had a great time at Bloodstock festival! Some fantastic bands buddy. Xentrix and Sadus still delivering live 🤘 I have to agree with your top 3 here, it might be cliché but these are the *top* records here. Those albums made history 🙂 Slayer's Reign In Blood is a masterpiece, firing on all cylinders there. 28 minutes of pure brutal thrash metal 👊 Seen Megadeth in Tilburg about 2 months ago, they've still got it. Dave sounded great live, they've played "The Conjuring" that night. Absolute superb track 🎶

Great ranking, can't argue with most of those picks. I have a few different albums on my list but overall the lists are similar. 1. Slayer - Reign In Blood 2. Metallica - Master Of Puppets 3. Angel Dust - Into The Dark Past 4. Destruction - Eternal Devastation 5. Whiplash - Power And Pain 6. Kreator - Pleasure To Kill 7. Megadeth - Peace Sells... 8. Deathrow - Riders Of Doom 9.Onslaught - The Force 10.Exumer - Possessed By Fire 11.Nuclear Assault - Game Over 12.Possessed - Beyond The Gates 13.Voivod - Rrroooaaarrr

Great rankings. The top 2 are like an immovable object and the unstoppable force. Both are implicitly assumed to be indestructible. 1986 was a great year...🤘

1. Reign in Blood (legendary) 2. Master of Puppets (excellent) 3. Peace Sells (its only ok though) 4. The rest - not fussed about these.

Great ranking video James! As usual we disagree, but not in a bad way of course, I'd have Game Over a bit higher and throw Agent Steel and Death Row into the mix. Complete agreement on the #1 though!

Beyond the Gates is more of a death metal album to me. But it's still good. 1. Flotsam and Jetsam - Doomsday for the Deceiver 2. Metal Church - The Dark 3. Metallica - Master of Puppets 4. Megadeth - Peace Sells... But Who's Buying? 5. Slayer - Reign in Blood 6. Kreator - Pleasure to Kill 7. Sepultura - Morbid Visions 8. Destruction - Eternal Devastation 9. Sodom - Obsessed by Cruelty 10. Dark Angel - Darkness Descends 11. Whiplash - Power and Pain 12. Exumer - Possesed by Fire 13. Razor - Malicious Intent 14. Nuclear Assault - Game Over 15. Tankard - Zombie Attack 16. Sacrifice - Torment in Fire 17. Onslaught - The Force

I need to give that Onslaught album some attention I've only heard it once. Understandable ranking you have that probably isn't much different to mine

Excellent top thrash metal album ranking from 1986, James!

Again a great year for Thrash!! Those would be my top 3 also! Tankard I just started listening to about a year ago great band! I do agree that Sodom album sounds awful, I actually have that same version on CD also! Really enjoyed this video!🤘👍

Have you heard of a band called Duskmourn?, you should check them out. The album of Shadows and flame, is an masterpiece

Somewhere in time got me in to Maiden, still my go to Maiden album 1 somewhere in time 2 Peace of mind 3 Powerslave 4 Seventh son 5 Number of the beast 6 No prayer for the Dying

Good review, The New Order my favourite

Fantastic concept and a really great video, too. Your collection from both years, however, puts mine to shame! 😂 Both years are absolutely exceptional, but I agree that '86 probably just pips it! The trio of Master of Puppets, Peace Sells, and Reign In Blood probably clinch it for me. Was great meeting you and hanging out at Bloodstock, and I look forward to the ranking videos! Cheers! 🤘

Haaaa~ wow Dio 👌 👏 😍 🤘🤘

Now… that’s what I call a haul… & worth celebrating for life.. coz they don’t happen often do they mate? Thanks for sharing all those beauties with us James. Good to see you as always sir🤘🏻

I’m glad someone who made a video like this didn’t just shit all over the Blaze era. Extremely underrated

I like the first album at number one, the second album at number 2, and the 3rd album at number three.

My top 3: The New Order, Low (criminally underrated) and The Legacy.

Fear of the dark would be much higher for me, but very interesting ranking agree with some of your other ranking like not have blaze albums last and i also have Somewhere in time first🤘

1986 by a long shot Metallica, Megadeth it was closer than what I thought Dark Angel Darkness Decends Slayer- Reign in Blood Metallica - Masters Megadeth - Peace sells 1990 was ok but it was alot closer then what I expected I have the score 1986 4 and 1990 2 Not a Thrash metal fan but this the way I see it.

While watching this I realized that my thrash collection is severely lacking, Great video man. All those albums are classics, I don't know how you could choose.

I was always under the impression that Youthanasia was held in high regard...idk, maybe not, it's my personal fav though

Love the atmosphere, and the space future sound of SIT. Also, my favorite artwork. 1. Somewhere in Time 2. Powerslave 3. The Number of the Beast 4. Piece of Mind 5. Seventh Son of a Seventh Son 6. Killers 7. Iron Maiden 8. Brave New World 9. Fear of the Dark 10. No Prayer for the Dying 11. A Matter of Life and Death 12. Dance of Death 13. The Book of Souls 14. The X Factor 15. The Final Frontier 16. Virtual XI 17. Senjustu Haven't given Senjustu many listens, so that can change. The 80s is unbeatable.

Really cool looking vinyl, is this a reissue or were they making colored vinyl in the 90's? I had this on cassette tape so I don't know.

He actually has possibly the best 6 straight lp run of all time. Rising, long live r&r, h&h, mob rules, holy diver and last in line. Two really good live albums in the mix as well.

Nice comparison of 2 fantastic years for thrash....off the top I'd lean towards 1986 but gee wiz, 1990 had some stellar releases 🙂

I would include Reason by Anarcrusis for 1990. Streets ahead progressive thrash.

86 for sure

1986 for me!

I never like to rank albums until I listen to them on different types of medium and headphones, and a really good speaker system in the car. Because my opinion changes but I agree with your top five.

Voivod "Rrröööaaah" vs. Nothingface/Angel Rat (1989/91)... i would prefer the later ones. But thrash metal in general: 1986! Cristalclear...

1985

So many good ones here for 1990: Rust in Peace, Twisted into Form, Seasons in the Abyss, Agent Orange, Extreme Aggression, Cowboys from Hell! 1986 was amazing as well: Master of Puppets, Peace Sells, Reign in Blood, Pleasure to Kill, Doomsday for the Deceiver, Possessed by Fire! Thrash is such a deep genre full of great music if you know where to look

86 vs. 90? That’s a tough one. If I could only have one I’d go with 86.

86' 👊💀👊

I'd just turned 14 at the time and all these albums meant so much to me. Really a formative time for me. How I'd order the albums now is different how I would have back then. Main movers are Badmotorfinger which probably would have been bottom but is now top and the Black album, which would have been top but is now somewhere towards the bottom. Doesn't mean I don't like it, just not as much as the others. Must revisit the Use Your Illusion albums. It's been a while since I did.

86 by a long long way. Another 1990 one you missed, Vio-lence - Oppressing The Masses.