No-one played faster. No-one played harder. No-one played angrier or drunker. But on record, who thrashed hardest of all? Slayer? Metallica? Megadeth? We couldn’t decide, so we put it to you lot. And these are the results. Strap yourselves in, then, for the 25 greatest thrash albums… ever! 25. Tankard – Chemical Invasion (1987) Beer and thrash (unsurprisingly) make for very good bedfellows. Enter German squadron Tankard. While the Frankfurt quintet did dabble in the occasional bit of social commentary, too, their second album is largely a boozed-up celebration of the joys involved in getting completely and utterly tanked-up. But for all the lyrics like, ‘Puke! Puke! I drank too much and vomit on the chair!’ (Puke), songs like Total Addiction, Don’t Panic and the title-track are among ...
