Best Thrash Metal bands

After Death Metal, Thrash Metal thread
What are the best Thrash Metal bands in Christian scene for you?

To me:
Vengeance Rising
Mekong Delta
Believer
1st Living Sacrifice
Hating Evil
Detritus

Believer
Betrayal
Boarders
The Crucified
Deliverance 
Detritus
Disaffection 
Extol (Synergy)
Grave Forsaken 
Heavens Force
Living Sacrifice (self-titled)
Mortification 
The Moshketeers 
Once Dead
Ordained Fate
Seventh Angel
Step Cousin
Sacrament 
Temple of Blood
Thresher 
Tourniquet 
Ultimatum 
Vengeance Rising
Viking (Man of Straw)

Tourniquet is my all-time favorite.

Some of my favorite thrash albums:

Believer: Sanity Obscure and Dimensions
Deliverance: Weapons of our Warfare
Grave Forsaken: The Fight Goes On
Living Sacrifice: s/t
Sacrament: Haunts of Violence 
Temple of Blood: Prepare for the Judgment of Mankind and Overlord
Tourniquet: Stop the Bleeding, Psychosurgery, Pathogenic Ocular Dissonance, a Microscopic View of a Telescopic Realm, Where Moth and Rust Destroy
Ultimatum: Puppet of Destruction and Into the Pit
Vengeance Rising: Human Sacrifice

Right now as far as thrash goes I really enjoy:

Mashiaj
Mad Dragzter

In particular I think Mashiaj is great.

Blake wrote:Right now as far as thrash goes I really enjoy:

Mashiaj
Mad Dragzter

In particular I think Mashiaj is great.

I having a hard time finding anything from Mashiaj. I was able to find a demo they were giving away on Facebook. Is there anything else released? Metal Archives shows Vomitivo to be a single. Also, I can't find a release that includes the song "Donde". Can anyone shed some light? This band sounds really good. I'd like to know more.

According to Discogs, donde is in vomitivo: https://www.discogs.com/fr/Mashiaj-Vomitivo/release/8297974
Still according to Discogs, Vomitivo was release by no so reliable Martyrdom Records but also Eirene Records, who apparently are not selling it.Maybe contacting band or doing advertissement...
Seen here but i don't know if this shop is reliable: http://metalsurvivor.net/purchase_mashiaj_vomitivo.php

Mortification
Devastation
Deliverance
Tourniquet
Vengeance
Sacrament
Believer
Living Sacrifice

To me its:

1 Vengeance rising
2 Martyr / Betrayal
4 (early) Tourniquet
5 Seventh Angel
6 Believer
7 Deliverance
8 Mortal Enemy
9 The Crucified (although mor hardcore)
10 The Lead (also more a hardcore band)
11 Ordained Fate
12 Immortal dead and buried
13 Thresher
14 Drop Dead (more death metal)
15 Mortification (only Blood World and Primitive)
16 Extol (Synergy)
17 Temple of Blood (IMO more Speed Metal)
18 Consecrator
19 Once Dead
19 Sacrament
19 Empty Tomb (more hardcore)
20 Living Sacrifice (debut album)
21 Ultimatum
22 Bloody Cross demo

Blake wrote:Right now as far as thrash goes I really enjoy:

Mashiaj
Mad Dragzter

In particular I think Mashiaj is great.

I did have a physical copy of Vomitivo and it has 7 tracks. Here is the official music video of Donde:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KI1dgB8Vc7M


And Basta ya de Callar:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tifLVrXzeAo

I don't know of anyone selling it right now. And I recently re-sold mine.

Deliverance 
Tourniquet 
Believer 
Vengeance Rising  (original lineup)
Arnion
Coracao De Heroi 
Ultimatum 
Hating Evil
FreaKings
Sword of Judgment 

My list could go on and on. Thrash is my favorite genre.

Pastèque wrote:After Death Metal, Thrash Metal thread
What are the best Thrash Metal bands in Christian scene for you?

To me:
Mekong Delta

Man I wish Mekong Delta was a Christian band! I had every album they put out through Wanderer On The Edge of Time (one of the last regular metal albums I bought). I had their live DVD, a t-shirt. I hunted it all down over years. Very philosophical, some extremely interesting sci-fi stories and some incredible albums but lyrically I never got anything Christian about them. The last album played out very negatively lyrically. Mutant Messiah has a lot allusion Christ and faith related wording but it's very negative.

"We know you're a liar
you sealed our doom
Mutant Messiah!"

Sorry for this being my first post. I've always loved the band and was excited to see them mentioned. I actually think that beyond their last two which have some negative overtones, everything else they've done through the years prior had been pretty safe.

Hi Frozen Fire,

I don't know, i'm maybe confusing with another band... I remembered their firsts works as Christian but i have not listened it since some month.

Pastéque: That's fine. Ralph has a real interesting bend to all his lyrics. Definitely one of the most unique bands in metal history. Probably why no one knows or cares about them.

As for me, thrash is the one style that almost completely died for me in leaving my non-Christian collection behind. I went from hundreds and hundreds of albums that I absolutely adored to basically nothing. I've never heard a Christian thrash band that I thought measured up to any of my top 40 or so secular albums aside from the first three Believer albums which I already had back then and enjoyed. Christian thrash is lightyears behind the hundreds and hundreds of killer secular albums out there. I loved a ton of second and third tier thrash bands, most of whom were better than the best Christian bands for my taste. Even my favorites like Believer (Aside from the orchestral element) and Detritus had second and third tier counterparts like Sacrifice (for Believer) and Xentrix/Defiance (for Detritus) that were similar in quality and style.

Given that, what I do enjoy:

Believer (Sanity Obscure is a top album across all genres)
Some Tourniquet albums (Pathogenic is by far their pinnacle for me)
Sacrament
Detritus
The Crucified (crossover)
xLooking Forwardx (crossover)
Deliverance (the first three and Learn - the last two are ok)
Julgamento (if only this band sang in English - prefer them to all the other recent South American thrash bands - Supresion, Arnion, Disaffection, etc)
Vengeance Rising (only Human Sacrifice)

I feel like I'd enjoy FreaKings and Grave Forsaken but their albums tend to be expensive and I haven't gotten to them still. That last Mad Dragzter is pretty cool.

Wish some of the South American bands sang in English since lyrics are important to me. Mashiaj sounds excellent, Divus Kurius is pretty solid, Julgamento and Supresion are good. Little available in English at this point.

So many one off bands where they have one album and then seemingly disappeared (Advocate, Disaffection, Heaven's Force, The Moshketeers, Thresher, Valor, etc.) had solid contributions.

I feel bad for not liking most of the staple bands people like around here. I tried to get into Vengeance Rising, Seventh Angel, Ultimatum, Betrayal back when I was 95% secular and didn't really like any of them all that well. Talent levels were there but never could find myself loving what they did. Like I listed above, only the first Vengeance Rising album does much for me out of all those bands and albums.

Thanks for the props to Temple of Blood!

Mr.  Frozen Fire, have you ever heard my band?

There should be more love for IMMORTAL and WICKEDS ENDS old demos IMHO.

Temple of Blood wrote:Thanks for the props to Temple of Blood!

Mr.  Frozen Fire, have you ever heard my band?

I have. I only own Overlord. I really enjoy the instrumental portion of the album but the vocals are buried in the mix. Makes it almost like a thrash instrumental album. The lead work is great on the slower tunes but the blazing thrash songs are the best. You were on my list up top so I thought it was weird you asked. While I was editing and rearranging bands in my post I must have cut and not pasted at some point.

Been looking forward to new material from you guys!

Never heard of Immortal (used to love the secular black metal band back in the day though). I have the new Wickeds End and have seen many rave about their old material. Not a fan of the new. Too simplistic.

Frozen Fire wrote:

Temple of Blood wrote:Thanks for the props to Temple of Blood!

Mr.  Frozen Fire, have you ever heard my band?

I have. I only own Overlord. I really enjoy the instrumental portion of the album but the vocals are buried in the mix. Makes it almost like a thrash instrumental album. The lead work is great on the slower tunes but the blazing thrash songs are the best. You were on my list up top so I thought it was weird you asked. While I was editing and rearranging bands in my post I must have cut and not pasted at some point.

Been looking forward to new material from you guys!

Never heard of Immortal (used to love the secular black metal band back in the day though). I have the new Wickeds End and have seen many rave about their old material. Not a fan of the new. Too simplistic.

I also don't like that new Wickeds End stuff but their old demo was killer.  I like that thrash Immortal demo a lot more than the quasi-Black Metal band's stuff.

Thanks for checking out our stuff!  I hate that it has taken so long to release a follow-up but hopefully we will be able to start recording again soon.  Eager to get this released and finish these new songs I've been working on.  Lord willing, we shouldn't have to wait 8 years for album #4!  We have a new line-up firmly in place now.

Meliah Rage ~ Masquerade Album.

2 Christian Thrash bands I reccomend for everyone are "Aeturnus" and "Heaven´s Rage" . excellent and somewhat unknown bands .

Heaven´s Rage changed their name to "Lucid" , but I can´t find their albums anywhere to download ...

Believer: Sanity Obscure and Dimensions
Deliverance:  Deliverance and Weapons of our Warfare
Tourniquet: Stop the Bleeding

Vengeance Rising: Human Sacrifice

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