Metallica up-to-and-including ...And Justice is just brilliant, their 1989 show at the Houston Coliseum is to this day the best concert I've ever been to but after that, I can't stand the direction they took.
Anthrax...Spreading The Disease is a great, great album - Medusa, AIR, Lone Justice...just sick. AtL and SoE were favorites of mine in high school but I just can't get into them like I used to. I actually fell asleep during Anthrax's set at the Clash of the Titans show, it wasn't anything like seeing them at a small club in the 80s.
Megadeth - one of my all-time favorite bands and it was hard to pick between them and Slayer, Peace Sells is just brilliant - Wake Up Dead, Good Mourning, My Last Words...one of those near-perfect albums. So Far, So Good, So What doesn't get as much recognition as it should in my opinion, there are some great songs on there and Jeff Young was a monster player - in Sperry Top-Siders lmao Rust In Peace - Holy Wars is probably my all-time best metal song, to think Mustaine recorded that solo on the first take, just sick. After Rust I started losing interest in them as they had lost that aggression of the earlier albums - still some great stuff throughout their discography from here on, though.
Slayer...Had to go with Slayer as my pick, Show No Mercy and Hell Awaits are masterpieces - along with Reign In Blood and SoH - even though their later albums can't compare to these, Slayer kept plodding-along and never let-up. Hanneman is one of my biggest influences as a guitarist and his songwriting and composition was just incredible.
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