Top 10 Thrash Albums (Christian)

Personal favorites, go!

Tourniquet: Pathogenic Ocular Dissonance
Tourniquet: PsychoSurgery
Tourniquet: Stop the Bleeding
Tourniquet: Microscopic View of a Telescopic Realm
Tourniquet: Where Moth and Rust Destroy
Deliverance: Weapons of Our Warfare
Believer: Sanity Obscure
Believer: Dimensions
Sacrament: Haunts of Violence
Mortification: Blood World 

Yes, I like Tourniquet. I might try to do a list sans Tourniquet later.

As with the non-Christian list, these are just personal favorites and in no particular order:

1.  Sacrament - Haunts of Violence
2.  Ordained Fate - The Demo Anthology
3.  Mortification - S/T 
4.  Tempest - Annihilation Of The Wicked (Demo album)
5.  Deliverance - S/T  
6.  Tourniquet - Stop The Bleeding
7.  Living Sacrifice - S/T
8.  Temple of Blood - Overlord
9.  Sacrament - Testimony of Apocalypse
10. Immortal - Dead & Buried Demo
11. Believer - Sanity Obscure

Honorable Mentions:

11.  Vengeance Rising - Human Sacrifice
12.  Hand of Fire - Nuclear Sunrise
13.  Deliverance - As Above So Below
14.  Michael Phillips - Mirrors Within Mirrors
15.  Mad Dragzter - Master Of Space & Time
16.  Adorned Graves - Out From The Depth Of The Graves
17.  Enshrouding - Time To Kill The Beast
18.  Freakings - Hell On Earth
19.  Sarcross - Kill The Beast
20.  Seventh Angel - Lament For The Weary

Only a tope 10....Your killing me Smalls!

No particular order:

Consecrator - Image of Deception
Believer - Extraction from Mortality
Sacrament - Haunts of Violence
Living Sacrifice - S/T
Jesus Freaks - Socially Unacceptable
Vengeance Rising - HS (First Mix)
Ritual Servant - Mettalum Evangelli
Detritus - Perpetual Defiance
Betrayal - The Passing
The Crucified - Pillars of Humanity

Honorable Mentions: So Many good ones

Hating Evil - Rotten Inside
Crimson Thorn demo
Deliverance - Greetings of Death
Mortal Enemy - Tame the Beast
Wickeds End - Temporal Pain
Sacrament - Testimony of the Apocalypse
Believer - Sanity Obscured
Angel Of Sodom - Divine Retribution
Immortal - Dead and Buried
Heavens Force - Aggressive Angel
Thresher - Totally Possessed (Was thrash for its time kinda) and Here I Am
Hand of Fire - Nuclear Sunsrise
Mad Dragzster - Master of Space and Time
Teramaze - Doxology (Not completely Thrash but close to Prog/thrash)
Detritus - If But One
and on and on and on........................................

Guess you can tell but I was never a Deliverance or Tourniquet fan really

mothy wrote:Guess you can tell but I was never a Deliverance or Tourniquet fan really

There’s still time to repent. Now is the day of salvation!

Pethead wrote:

mothy wrote:Guess you can tell but I was never a Deliverance or Tourniquet fan really

There’s still time to repent. Now is the day of salvation!

LOL especially with Tourniquet Ive really tried, even re bought Stop the Bleeding and Psycho Surgery and cant get more then 1 song in.

With Deliverance oddly enough my fav of there's is What a Joke but the last 2 are really growing on me as some of their best work.

1. Tourniquet - Stop The Bleeding
2. Believer - Extraction From Mortality
3. Deliverance - Weapons Of Our Warfare
4. The Crucified - s/t
5. Living Sacrifice - s/t
6. Vengeance Rising - Once Dead
7. Tourniquet - Psycho Surgery
8. Believer - Sanity Obscure
9. The Crucified - Pillars Of Humanity
10. Vengeance Rising - Destruction Comes

I could have added Tourniquet - Pathogenic Ocular Dissonance and Vengeance Rising - Human Sacrifice just as well.

Edit: Honorable mention: The Lead - Burn This Record

TQT-POD
Deliverance-Stay of Execution   
TQT-Psychosurgery
The Crucified-Pillars
Sacrament-Haunts
Living Sacrifice-S/T
Deliverance-S/T
Seventh Angel-Lament
TQT-WMARD
Deliverance-Weapons

mothy wrote:LOL especially with Tourniquet Ive really tried, even re bought Stop the Bleeding and Psycho Surgery and cant get more then 1 song in.

Is it the vocals? When I bought STB, in 1990, during the buy-everyting-if-it's-Christian phase. I abhored it...because of the vocals. The vocals were all I could hear...

Over time I came to love the record and, though they still wouldn't be my first pick, even the vocals.
To this day it is easily in my top 10 all-time, probably top 5...

Also, it's very interesting because we generally have very similar tastes...

Tourniquet - Psycho Surgery 
The Crucified - s/t
The Crucified - Pillars of Humanity
Deliverance - s/t
Deliverance - Weapons of Our Warfare
Deliverance - What A Joke 
Living Sacrifice - s/t
Believer - Extraction From Mortality 
Sacrament - Haunts of Violence 
Mortification - Blood World

crucifyd wrote:

mothy wrote:LOL especially with Tourniquet Ive really tried, even re bought Stop the Bleeding and Psycho Surgery and cant get more then 1 song in.

Is it the vocals? When I bought STB, in 1990, during the buy-everyting-if-it's-Christian phase. I abhored it...because of the vocals. The vocals were all I could hear...

Over time I came to love the record and, though they still wouldn't be my first pick, even the vocals.
To this day it is easily in my top 10 all-time, probably top 5...

Also, it's very interesting because we generally have very similar tastes...

Yeah 100% the vocals. If I could turn them into instrumental albums I would and listen non stop.

1. Tourniquet - Stop the Bleeding (LOVE the vocals)
2. Deliverance - Deliverance
3. Sacrament - Haunts of Violence
4. Seventh Angel - The Torment
5. Deliverance - Weapons of Our Warfare
6. Tourniquet - Psycho Surgery
7. Believer - Dimensions
8. Ultimatum - Puppet of Destruction
9. The Crucified - The Crucified
10. Betrayal - The Passing

based on the bands I have heard

All Vengeance Rising

Crucified: Pillars of humanity

Seventh angel: Lament from the weary

Detritus: Perpetual defiance

Believer: Sanity Obscure (bar the stupid U2 song) and Dimensions

Sacrament: Haunts of violence

Tourniquet: Pathogenic ocular dissonance and Psycho

Mortification S/T if you consider it to be a thrash album


In bands, I always look for a unique quality and sound they might bring to the table of a certain genre, therefore Deliverance's first couple of thrash albums were really good, but aside from the vocals they didn't really have a sound of their own until later- same with Living Sacrifice's debut, good but if I want to listen to Slayer, I'll do just that.

A few more I could have added…

Seventh Angel - Lament for the Weary
Seventh Angel - The Torment
Sacrament - Testimony of Apocalypse
Vengeance Rising - Destruction Comes
Mortification - s/t


I used to love Seventh Angel’s Lament for the Weary (I still do musically) but the vocals seem a bit whimper-ish to me nowadays. I think Ian Arkley knew he needed to go heavier. I like the last album they did. Maybe if he did a hybrid like Chuck Billy does, it could’ve been better.

I also love Testimony of Apocalypse, especially the vocals. But the production is muddy and not as tightly played as Haunts of Violence.

mothy wrote:

crucifyd wrote:

mothy wrote:LOL especially with Tourniquet Ive really tried, even re bought Stop the Bleeding and Psycho Surgery and cant get more then 1 song in.

Is it the vocals? When I bought STB, in 1990, during the buy-everyting-if-it's-Christian phase. I abhored it...because of the vocals. The vocals were all I could hear...

Over time I came to love the record and, though they still wouldn't be my first pick, even the vocals.
To this day it is easily in my top 10 all-time, probably top 5...

Also, it's very interesting because we generally have very similar tastes...

Yeah 100% the vocals. If I could turn them into instrumental albums I would and listen non stop.

Ted should do that! 
He has already released a instrumental version of Antiseptic Bloodbath. He could go back and remove the vocals from all albums for a limited run of “special edition” instrumental albums.

I tried again, took the dog out on a 1 hour walk and listened to Stop the Bleeding and Psycho Surgery. Between the animal rights messages of some songs and the King Diamond like delivery of the falsetto like vocals I deleted them from my phone storage. Ill sign off the board for good now in shame

I will admit PS was much better from a vocal standpoint but still didnt grab me like it seems to have with all of you guys.

@Temple of Blood. Im surprised you haven't chimed yet. I thought you would have been all over this thread.

1-10
Tourniquet – Stop the bleeding
Vengeance rising – Once dead
Vengeance Rising – Human Sacrifice first mix
Martyr Demos – The passing of time or Wickenstraut
Tourniquet – Psycho Surgery
Believer - Extraction from mortality
Seventh Angel – Lament for the weary
Betrayal – The Passing
Tourniquet - Pathogenic Ocular Dissonance
The Crucified - The Crucified
 


11-20
Ordained Fate – Demo Anthology
Betrayal – renaissance by death
Deliverance – Deliverance
Believer – Sanity obscure
Deliverance – What a joke (if it was an EP)
Mortal enemy – Tame the beast within
Deliverance - Weapons of our Warfare
Immortal – Dead and buried
The Lead – The Past behind
Thresher – Here I am

mothy wrote:@Temple of Blood. Im surprised you haven't chimed yet. I thought you would have been all over this thread.

We need to say his name three times.  I'll go next:

In no particular order:
Temple of Blood - Overlord
Tourniquet - First three
Believer - Sanity Obscure
Vengeance Rising - First two
Detritus - If But For One
Sacrament - Testimony of Apocalypse
The Crucified - Pillars of Humanity
Tsavo Inc - When Lions are Hungry

Ritual Servant could make it if moving forward they diversify the sound more. I like the first album but it's kinda samey sounding.

Alright, this list isn't sans Tourniquet, but I'm only picking one per band:

Tourniquet: Pathogenic Ocular Dissonance
Deliverance: Weapons of Our Warfare
Believer: Sanity Obscure
Living Sacrifice: Living Sacrifice
Sacrament: Haunts of Violence 
Mortification: Blood World 
Betrayal: The Passing
Megadeth: United Abominations (I'm counting it!)
Vengeance Rising: Released upon the Earth
Grave Forsaken: The Fight Goes On

Honorable mentions (not including other albums by the above bands): 
Temple of Blood: Overlord
Ultimatum: Puppet of Destruction
Detritus: If but for One
Thresher: Here I Am
Angel of Sodom: Divine Retribution
Devastation: Idolatry (if it counts)
Heaven's Force: Aggressive Angel
The Crucified: The Crucified
Minier: Minier
Ritual Servant: Metallum Evangelii
FreaKings: Rise of Violence
Seventh Angel: The Torment
The Moshketeers: The Downward Spiral


Whew!

mothy wrote:I tried again, took the dog out on a 1 hour walk and listened to Stop the Bleeding and Psycho Surgery. Between the animal rights messages of some songs and the King Diamond like delivery of the falsetto like vocals I deleted them from my phone storage. Ill sign off the board for good now in shame

I will admit PS was much better from a vocal standpoint but still didnt grab me like it seems to have with all of you guys.

The animal rights stuff only bothers me with the song Antiseptic Bloodbath (I still like the album). I'm not counting Onward to Freedom since it's a bit of a different animal (pun intended). But the first two really only have Ark of Suffering and Stereotaxic Atrocities, so I don't find it overwhelming. 

Have you tried Where Moth and Rust Destroy or Microscopic View of a Telescopic Realm? I know most prefer Guy's vocals to Luke's, but I actually prefer Luke's. The albums after the first three also have a bit of a different style, so it might grab you more. I'd suggest starting with Where Moth and Rust Destroy if you haven't heard it.

1.  Vengeance Rising -- Once Dead
2.  The Crucified -- s/t  
3.  Deliverance -- Weapons of our Warfare
4.  Vengeance Rising -- Human Sacrifice
5.  Seventh Angel -- The Torment
6.  Betrayal -- Renaissance by Death
7.  Believer -- Extraction from Mortality
8.  Tourniquet -- Pathogenic Ocular Dissonance
9.  Sacrament -- Testimony of Apocalypse
10. Ultimatum -- Into the Pit

If you only want to count 1 album per band and bounce Human Sacrifice, then slide Hating Evil -- Rotten Inside into the "new" 10 slot.

Deliverance S/T
Deliverance Weapons of Our Warfare
Deathless Judgement Ignorance
Sacrament Haunts of Violence
Seventh Angel The Torment
Sacrament Testimony of Apocalypse
Deathless Enslaved
Living Sacrifice S/T
The Crucified Pillars of Humanity
Mashiaj Vomitivo

Devastation Idolatry (secular with Christin themes in lyrics). If Christian, would be near the top.
Sword of Judgement demo - see above (not sure if Christian)

Agree with you on Devastation and SoJ.