Top 10 Thrash Metal Albums of 2024
- Jay
- Jan 3, 2025
- 2 min read
So, after watching one of the best Xmas movies of all time: Die Hard (part 2, too!), and afterwards shooting yourself in the face with some rockets its time to start thrashin'!
➓ Amnessia Eterna - Penumbra THRASH-O-METER ★★★★★★★☆☆☆ SONGWRITING ★★★★★★★★★★ THEMES* ★★★★★★☆☆☆☆ LONGEVITY ★★★★★★☆☆☆☆ PRODUCTION ★★★★★★★☆☆☆ THRASHABILITY "Penumbra is a proper record that does feel like an album - even if I don't have an inkling what they're singing about on the account of the language being Spanish!
*No idea what they sing about but it must be awesome!
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➒ Mexican Ape-Lord - Blunt Instrument THRASH-O-METER ★★★★★★★☆☆☆ SONGWRITING ★★★★★★★☆☆☆ THEMES ★★★★★☆☆☆☆☆ LONGEVITY ★★★★★★★★☆☆ PRODUCTION ★★★★☆☆☆☆☆☆ THRASHABILITY Blunt Instrument is a feel good album built on the same premises as the TV's great series Seinfeld - famously: its a TV show about nothing. |
➑ Bloodsucker - Forever Damned THRASH-O-METER ★★★★★★☆☆☆☆ SONGWRITING ★★★★★★★★★☆ THEMES ★★★★★☆☆☆☆☆ LONGEVITY ★★★★★★★★☆☆ PRODUCTION ★★★★★★★★☆☆ THRASHABILITY First album of the Netherlandian troupe gives you a proper atomic wedgie - after they've given you a beating and taken your monies. Thrash Metal with a dominating icing of Hardcore Punk, barking in the comfortable hole of Crossover. |
➐ Solitary - Embrace the Darkness THRASH-O-METER ★★★★★★★★☆☆ SONGWRITING ★★★★★★★★☆☆ THEMES ★★★★★★★★☆☆ LONGEVITY ★★★★☆☆☆☆☆☆ PRODUCTION ★★★★★★★☆☆☆ THRASHABILITY Solitary has reached new great heights with this release. Its a special kind of pleasure to see old dogs learn new tricks and show how its done. |
➏ Disarray - Religious Disease THRASH-O-METER ★★★★★★★☆☆☆ SONGWRITING ★★★★★★★☆☆☆ THEMES ★★★★★★★★☆☆ LONGEVITY ★★★★★★★★☆☆ PRODUCTION ★★★★★★★★★☆ THRASHABILITY Religious Disease has more than few splashes of Speed Metal and Punk here, and more than occasionally Disarray plain visits the Blackened Thrash Metal front. |
➎ Dead Tree Seeds - Toxic Thoughts THRASH-O-METER ★★★★★★★★☆☆ SONGWRITING ★★★★★★★★☆☆ THEMES ★★★★★★★★☆☆ LONGEVITY ★★★★★★☆☆☆☆ PRODUCTION ★★★★★★★☆☆☆ THRASHABILITY Toxic Thoughts isn't the easiest or most straightforward albums of Thrash Metal out there - but it certainly is one of the most interesting I've heard in a long while. |
➍ Darkness - Blood On Canvas THRASH-O-METER ★★★★★★★☆☆☆ SONGWRITING ★★★★★★☆☆☆☆ THEMES ★★★★★★★★☆☆ LONGEVITY ★★★★☆☆☆☆☆☆ PRODUCTION ★★★★★★★☆☆☆ THRASHABILITY Darkness' latest album is chock full of insightful compositional changes and developments atop a straightforward mosh. |
➌ Morbid Saint - Swallowed By Hell THRASH-O-METER ★★★★★★★★☆☆ SONGWRITING ★★★★★★☆☆☆☆ THEMES ★★★★★★★☆☆☆ LONGEVITY ★★★★★★★★☆☆ PRODUCTION ★★★★★★★★★☆ THRASHABILITY I don't need to tell these fellas to run with these scissors because this album is above all very old school; this kind of good sh!t happens when original bandmates come together for an anticipated reunion - and have a lot to say! |
➋ Deceased - Children of the Morgue THRASH-O-METER ★★★★★★★★☆☆ SONGWRITING ★★★★★★★☆☆☆ THEMES ★★★★★★★★★☆ LONGEVITY ★★★★★★★☆☆☆ PRODUCTION ★★★★★★★★★☆ THRASHABILITY Children of the Morgue is a flippant album. Desolate topics aplenty in ripping hops and skips will make you go "Huh? The hell did they just say?", as they already throttle forward.
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➊ Xion - Between Shadows and Gods THRASH-O-METER ★★★★★★★★★☆ SONGWRITING ★★★★★★★★☆☆ THEMES ★★★★★★★★★☆ LONGEVITY ★★★★★★☆☆☆☆ PRODUCTION ★★★★★★★★☆☆ THRASHABILITY Between the Shadows and Gods is one of the best Thrash Metal I've heard in the last... hell, years. 2024 belongs to these young fellas - game over everyone else! |
your pal,
Jay
