After the awesomeness that was Spreading the Disease and Among the effing Living, Anthrax really set the bar pretty darn high. They had established a unique, heavy, and humorous thrash formula that they used to put out some of the best songs of the genre…

Anthrax's lineup had not yet solidified when they recorded their debut album, and neither had their style. Fans of the group's peak-period material are likely to find Fistful of Metal off-putting, as the band sounds more like a Judas Priest knockoff with rather silly, stereotypical heavy metal lyrics than the thrash innovators they would become…

Anthrax's first album with vocalist Joey Belladonna is a huge leap forward, featuring strongly rhythmic, pounding riffs and vocals that alternate between hardcore-type shouting and surprising amounts of melody…

Where The Great Southern Trendkill experimented with slower, moodier pieces, Reinventing the Steel finds Pantera sticking to the pulverizing basics of their sound, with the first down-tempo, nondistorted guitar part appearing on the next-to-last track, "It Makes Them Disappear," and vanishing about 15 seconds into the song…

TV has soap operas, literature has Shakespeare, and metal – well, metal has ANTHRAX, that fire-breathing, thrash-spitting, multi-headed beast of a band. In 2017, thrash metal veterans Anthrax announced that they were to tour the UK in support of not only their latest album, For All Kings but also to play their hugely popular 1987 album, Among the Living live in its entirety. The set of which can be found here on the excellent double live album, Kings Among Scotland.

Between 1988 and 1993 Peavy Wagner, Manni Schmidt & Christos Efthimiadis releaed 5 very successful RAGE albums. 25 years later, and after some overwhelming "RAGE – songs of 1988 – 1993" live concerts and the name REFUGE the band released their debut album in 2018. True Teutonic Heavy Metal for fans of Rage, Accept, Judas Priest, Metal Church, Iced Earth, Jag Panzer, Saxon.

New York’s Overkill are somewhat forgotten today, but during thrash metal’s heyday, they were one of the genre’s fastest, hardest, and hungriest. In their late 80s heyday, they were capable of whipping crowds into a mosh pit frenzy like no one else…

Thankfully, Pantera has stopped attempting to outdo each successive album in terms of start-to-finish intensity, but that doesn't mean they don't try in spots. The Great Southern Trendkill is burdened with passages in which Phil Anselmo's vocals cross the line into histrionics, making the band's trademark intensity sound dull, forced, and theatrical rather than sincere. The lyrics, which reached their apex with Vulgar Display of Power's focus on personal politics and integrity, have degenerated into half-baked rants against drugs and pop-culture media…

Grave Digger's seminal debut album Heavy Metal Breakdown was a benchmark for the German metal scene upon its release back in 1984. This remastered version includes the rare Shoot Her Down EP and liner notes from front man Chris Boltendahl. The music in this album is strongly influenced by German heavy metal band Accept and its then-vocalist Udo Dirkschneider.

Live At Woodstock '94 is a 1994 bootleg CD by American thrash rockers Metallica. This was recorded at the Woodstock '94 festival in upstate New York. It is not the complete set so you're able to listen to how bootleggers edited the performance. No label listed.

Witch Hunter is the second studio album of Grave Digger. It was released on 10 May 1985 by Noise Records. Witch Hunter is heralded as a classic in the annals of heavy metal fandom and became an instant hit upon its release back in 1985. This remastered edition of the legendary heavy metal output also scores points with the bonus tracks 'Don't Kill the Children', 'Tears of Blood' and 'Shine On'.

Megaded: A Tribute To Megadeth is a 1999 compilation that is a Megadeth tribute album. This was released by Dwell Records, a label known for their metal tribute disc and this is one of them.

Century Media and Legacy Recordings have announced the 2018 deluxe reissue of MEGADETH's classic debut album, "Killing Is My Business… And Business Is Good!", due on June 8.

FLOTSAM AND JETSAM have released a ground breaking debut album in 1986. Considered an alltime-classic in Speed and Thrash Metal, it’s always a good idea to re-issue ‘Doomsday For The Deceiver‘! It is the only album by Flotsam and Jetsam with Jason Newsted before his departure for Metallica. Limited Edition, Remastered, Digipak

EXMORTUS deliver a visceral call to arms in a maelstrom of thrashing, neo-classical, blackened death as they tear fresh wounds into their ever-pioneering discography; soaring to unprecedented heights as they mix sonic precision with raw, bloody savagery.