I’d avoided this record because of the production and sound for a long time, but I think I was misguided because the style of this record is unique and kind of great. If you’re mostly here for album art ogling you’re shit outta luck. Album art displayed is smaller in size because I’ve formatted this list to fit on mobile devices easier. In fact if you just want to look over every technical thrash metal release (with lots of mislabeled progressive thrash too) you can visit an old completionist list HERE. So, don’t think that I’m overlooking those demos as historically important. Without innovative demos from bands like Watchtower, Annihilator, Sadus, Hellwitch and Realm technical thrash metal wouldn’t have been a thing. This list more or less celebrates both the history of this sub-genre delineated musical innovation and influences, but also argues for it’s validity and importance over the last 30+ years of heavy metal. But there is a cosmos worth of Coroner, Watchtower and Voivod influenced music available to the sub-genre sensitive and the more you discover the more vital the distinction between pedestrian thrash and technical wizardry becomes. Technical thrash metal might initially seem like an odd distinction to make, especially if you’re not interested in much more than “the big four” and their inspirational variations. Here I present the 50 most essential technical thrash metal releases in chronological order.
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