Best Technical Thrash Metal Albums

The Top Ten
1 Alice In Hell - Annihilator

Agree, this album is a masterpiece from start to finish and deserves to be #1.
Annihilator brought more metal to the thrash sound and respectively, reduced the punk simplicity (thrash is a mix of speed metal and hardcore punk, and proportions may vary).
Alice In Hell was extremely influential - it's known that this album inspired Megadeth's Rust In Peace, which sounds very progressive/technical, too.

In fact, Alice In Hell strongly influenced all thrash bands and changed the thrash sound forever. All typical thrash bands became more technically sophisticated and their albums after Alice In Hell included relevant changes:

Anthrax - Persistence of Time (1990). Their more technical side came out - better solos and drumming, less punk and more metal.
Slayer - Seasons in the Abyss (1990). More complex guitar riffs.
Dark Angel - Time Does Not Heal (1991). More complex songs, best drumming from Gene Hoglan with this band.

Also: Testament's Souls of Black, ...more

2 Punishment for Decadence - Coroner

Masked Jackal and Arc-Lite are my favorite songs from this album.
This is my favorite Coroner album but I have to admit Mental Vortex is technically better (their best). The reason for liking more the Punishment for Decadence is: I'm a thrash person and in Mental Vortex the ratio is changed - there's more prog and less thrash.

3 Never Neverland - Annihilator

Songs - Phantasmagoria, Imperiled Eyes, The Fun Palace, Sixes and Sevens.

Metallica's Black album (1991) was initially titled Never Neverland (there's a line in Enter Sandman). But they learned about the Annihilator's thrash album with the same name (1990) and Metallica left their album with no name.

4 Outer Isolation - Vektor
5 Mental Vortex - Coroner
6 Lurking Fear - Mekong Delta
7 Rust in Peace - Megadeth
8 King of the Kill - Annihilator
9 Dead Brain Cells - Dead Brain Cells
10 Nothingface - Voivod
The Contenders
11 Terminal Redux - Vektor

God this is underraetd from charging the void to recharging the void that was a no mistake albums is reminds me of the success of rust in peace but this album didn't get the same fame so as the band

One of the best thrash albums in general. Even though it came out way after the 1980s.

12 Dimension Hatross - Voivod
13 Coroner - R.I.P.

This was the most technical of its time. Yes, Artillery, Dark Angel, and Watchtower all released albums before this, but they weren't nearly as technical. Anyway, this is a near - perfect album with the gem "Nosferatu" on it. It should really be in the top ten with Outer Isolation and Mental Vortex. Also, where's No More Color and why is King of the Kill on here? It's not thrash.

14 Black Future - Vektor
15 No More Color - Coroner
16 Voivod - Killing Technology
17 Peace Sells... but Who's Buying? - Megadeth
18 Megadeth - Endgame
19 Control and Resistance - Watchtower
20 Dystopia - Megadeth
21 For Whose Advantage? - Xentrix
22 By Inheritance - Artillery
23 Killing Technology - Voivod
24 Victims of Deception - Heathen
25 Deception Ignored - Deathrow
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