seems to change a bit every time for me, but here goes...

Slayer - Reign in Blood
Megadeth - Rust in Peace
Possessed - Seven Churches
Metallica - Ride the Lightening
Exodus - Bonded By Blood
Sepultura - Arise
Kreator - Pleasure To Kill
Détente - Recognize No Authority
Slaughter - Strappado
Testament - The Gathering
Demolition Hammer - Epidemic of Violence
Sodom - Obsessed By Cruelty
Exhorder - Slaughter In The Vatican
Overkill - The Years of Decay
The Crown - Hell is Here
Anthrax - Persistence of Time
Holy Moses - Finished With the Dogs
Coroner - R.I.P.
Nuclear Assault - Survive
Suicidal Tendencies - How Will I Laugh Tomorrow When I Can't Even Smile Today

My picks for "today"

Metallica - Ride the Lightning
Metallica - Master of Puppets
Suicidal Tendencies - How Will i Laugh...
Anthrax - Spreading the Disease
Megadeth - Peace Sells...
Megadeth - Rust in Peace
Living Sacrifice - S/T
Vengeance Rising - Once Dead
The Crucified - Pillars of Humanity
Believer - Extraction from Mortality
Slayer - Seasons in the Abyss
Overkill - Years of Decay
Overkill - Taking Over
Tourniquet - Psycho Surgery
Deliverance - Weapons of our Warfare
Coroner - Mental Vortex
Dark Angel - Leave Scars
Dark Angel - Time Does Not Heal
Flotsam and Jetsam - No Place For Disgrace
Testament - Practice What You Preach

TODAY:

1 - METALLICA - MASTER OF PUPPETS
2-20
HIRAX - NOT DEAD YET
ELDRITCH - BLOOD BREED CALLS MY NAME
POWERMAD - ABSOLUTE POWER
UNITED - BLOODIED BUT UNBOWED
DEATHRIDER - REQUIEM
OUTRAGE - BLACK CLOUDS
AGENT STEEL - UNSTOPPABLE FORCE
ABATTOIR - VICIOUS ATTACK
RISK - HELL'S ANIMALS
VIKING - MAN OF STRAW
KORROZIA METALLA - RUSSIAN VODKA
SACRED REICH - SURF NICARAGUA
MEGADETH - KILLING IS MY BUSINESS
DARK ANGEL - TIME DOES NOT HEAL
DEAD HEAD - THE FEAST BEGINS AT DAWN
MASTER - MANIAC PARTY
SHELL SHOCK - MORTAL DAYS
AT WAR - ORDERED TO KILL
ZOETROPE - AMNESTY

TOMORROW.......?

This is a list of thrash essentials I came up with recently. Not neccessarily in any order of preference:

Anthrax - Fistful of Metal
Anthrax - Spreading the Disease
Metallica - Kill 'Em All
Metallica - Ride the Lightning
Nuclear Assault - Survive
Overkill - Taking Over
Overkill - Under the Influence
Vengeance Rising - Human Sacrifice
Deliverance - s/t
Deliverance - Weapons of our Warfare
Hirax - The New Age of Terror
Powermad - The Madness Begins (EP)
Dark Angel - Leave Scars
Believer - Extraction from Mortality
Testament - Practice What You Preach
Exodus - Pleasures of the Flesh
Exodus - Fabulous Disaster
Hallows Eve - Death & Insanity
Sodom - Code Red
Sodom - M-16
Kreator - Pleasure to Kill
Kreator - Extreme Aggression
Megadeth - Peace Sells...
Megadeth - So Far, So Good...So What!
Megadeth - Rust in Peace
S.O.D. - Speak English or Die
Sacrament - Haunts of Violence
Seventh Angel - Lament for the Weary
Slayer - Show No Mercy
Voivod - Dimension Hatross
Death Angel - Frolic through the Park
Realm - Endless War
Agent Steel - Unstoppable Force

Proto-thrash metal:
Exciter - Heavy Metal Maniac
Exciter - Violence & Force
Anvil - Metal on Metal
Raven - Rock Til You Drop
Raven - Wiped Out
Raven - All for One

(in no particular order)

MEGADETH - "Peace Sells but who's Buying"
ARTILLERY - "Terror Squad"
DARK ANGEL - "Time Does Not Heal"
TESTAMENT - "The Legacy"
TOXIK - "World Circus"
ANNIHILATOR - "NeverNeverland"
MEGADETH - "Killing is my Business"
ANTHRAX - "Spreading the Disease"
FORBIDDEN - "Forbidden Evil"
MEGADETH - "So Far, So Good, So What?"
METALLICA - "Kill Em All"
METALLICA - "Ride the Lightning"
SLAYER - "Show No Mercy"
OVERKILL - "Taking Over"
METALLICA - "Master of Puppets"
METALLICA - "And Justice for All"
ARTILLERY - "By Inheritance"
FLOTSAM AND JETSAM - "No Place for Disgrace"
EXODUS - "Fabulous Disaster"
SEPULTURA - "Beneath the Remains"

you better add STATUE to your tomorrow list UNCLE SAXON!

If it's here today!

This is what I'll say today. Tomorrow will probably see about 15 of these change.


Dark Angel - Time Does Not Heal
Razor - Shotgun Justice
Forbidden - Twisted Into Form
Megadeth - Rust In Peace
Metallica - Master Of Puppets
Slayer - Seasons In The Abyss
Kreator - Coma Of Souls
Nuclear Assault - Survive
Sepultura - Arise
Vulture - Easier To Lie
Anthrax - Among The Living
Sodom - Agent Orange
Heathen - Victims Of Deception
Mottek - Fatal Violence
Fallen Angel - Faith Fails
Carbide - Spiral Termination
Dorsal Atlantica - Musical Guide From Stellium
United - Human Zoo
Su Ta Gar - Hortzak Estuturik
Demolition Hammer - Tortured Existence

Wow!!! There is some serious speed and aggression in this thread. :metal:

Megadeth-So Far...So Good...So What
Zoetrope-Amnesty
Overkill-Taking Over
Anthrax-Spreading The Disease
Primus-Frizzle Fry (It's thrash, dammit!)
Exodus-Bonded By Blood
Suicidal Tendencies-Lights...Camera...Revolution
Metallica-Kill Em' All
Slayer-Seasons In The Abyss
Sepultura-Chaos AD
Testament - Practice What You Preach
Megadeth-Countdown to Extinction
Zoetrope-Mind Over Splatter
Metallica-Ride The Lightning
Anthrax-Among The Living
Pantera-Cowboys from Hell (If you consider Pantera thrash)
Motorhead-Overkill
Sepultura-Roots
Exodus-Fabulous Disaster
Floatsam and Jetsam- Doomsday for the deciever

Dark Angel - Time Does Not Heal
Destruction--Release From Agony
Forbidden--Twisted Into Form
Megadeth--Rust In Peace
Overkill--Taking Over
Metallica--Master Of Puppets
Metallica--Ride The Lightning
Metal Church--The Human Factor (power thrash)
Kreator--Coma Of Souls
Nuclear Assault--Survive
Sepultura--Chaos A.D.
DRI--Thrash Zone
Anthrax--Persistence Of Time
Anthrax--Among The Living
Heathen--Breaking The Silence
Believer--Extraction From Mortality
Suicidal Tendencies--Lights, Camera...Revolution
Vengeance (Rising)--Human Sacrifice
Deliverance--Weapons Of Our Warfare
Testament--Practice What You Preach
Judas Priest--Painkiller (call it what you want...)


Arttie

For right now -

Megadeth - Rust In Peace
Suicidal Tendencies - How Will I Laugh...
Overkill - Horrorscope
Slayer - South Of Heaven
Sacrifice - Apocalypse Inside
Evildead - both Annihilation and Underworld
Testament - The New Order
Realm - Suiciety
Coroner - any of them
Poltergeist - Behind My Mask
Paradox - Heresy
Hirax - New Age Of Terror
D.A.M. - Inside Out
Annihilator - Alice In Hell
Wrathchild America - Climbin The Walls or 3-D
Death Angel - The Ultra-Violence
Xentrix - Shattered Existence
Vio-Lence - Eternal Nightmare

and just to have something from the thrash resurgence represented

Hexen - State of Insurgency (my favorite album of last year)
Evile - Enter The Grave

Mine always changes too, but here is what I think right now:


Slayer - Reign in Blood
Slayer - Hell Awaits
Slayer - Show No Mercy
Hypnosia - Extreme Hatred
Exodus - Bonded By Blood
Kreator - Extreme Aggression
Sodom - Agent Orange
Witchburner - Blood of Witches
Piledriver - Metal Inquisition
Vio-Lence - Vio-Lence
Sacrifice - Soldiers of Misfortune
Morbid Saint - Spectrum of Death
Razor - Violent Restitution
Rigor Mortis - Rigor Mortis
Annihilator - Alice in Hell
Coroner-Punishment for Decadance
Exumer - Possessed By Fire
Gehennah - Decibel Rebel
Hobbs' Angel Of Death - Hobbs' Angel Of Death

Didn't see any Razor albums in any of the list..................

Oh, my mistake....I just notice they were listed...

I suppose that the best TRASH metal album (as the thread title suggests) would be Metallica - St. Anger

Otherwise, my personal top thrash list doesn't change every now or then which seems to be a common thing around here, so here's some that would be on my top 20 list any time:

Forbidden - Twisted into Form (my favorite album ever!)
Metallica - Master of Puppets
Sepultura - Arise
Slayer - Seasons in the Abyss
Artillery - By Inheritance
Flotsam and Jetsam - No Place for Disgrace
Testament - The New Order
Exodus - Bonded by Blood
Cyclone Temple - I Hate Therefore I Am
Dark Angel - Time Does Not Heal

It was nice to look at all your lists guys. Today i would say this ones:
DESTRUCTION:INFERNAL OVERKILL
SODOM:AGENT ORANGE
KREATOR:ENDLESS PAIN
TESTAMENT:THE LEGACY
SLAYER:SHOW NO MERCY
TANKARD:CHEMICAL INVASION
DEATHROW:RIDERS OF DOOM
LIVING DEATH:METAL REVOLUTION
ASSASSIN:THE UPCOMING TERROR
MANDATOR:INITIAL VELOCITY
WITCHBURNER:BLASPHEMIC ASSAULT
BOMBARDER.SPEED KILL
METALLICA:KILL´EM ALL
DARK ANGEL:WE HAVE ARRIVED
ANVIL BI+CH:RISE TO OFFEND
DESTRUCTOR:MAXIMUM DESTRUCTION
DARKNESS:DEATH SQUAD
NOCTURNAL:ARRIVAL OF THE CARNIVORE
MX:SIMONIACAL
EXUMER:POSSESSED BY FIRE

In no order as well (remember this is just my opinion):

Testament-Low
Testament-The New Order
Metallica-Master Of Puppets
Metallica-Ride The Lightning
Metallica-Kill 'Em All
Sepultura-Arise
Tourniquet-Microscopic View
Tourniquet-Stop The Bleeding
Ultimatum-Into The Pit
Kreator-Coma Of Souls
Anthrax-Among The Living
Anthrax-Spreading The Disease
Exodus-Fabulous Disaster
Flotsam & Jetsam-Doomsday for the Deceiver
Overkill-W.F.O.
Megadeth-Rust In Peace
Sepultura-Chaos A.D.
Suicidal Tendencies-How Will I Laugh Tomorrow When I Can't Even Smile Today
Xentrix-Shattered Existence
Defiance-Void Terra Firma

As I explore thrash/speed further, this list will change.

I see plenty of old records listed. Where are the newer releases and bands? How about kreator - violent resolution or enemy of god? hirax - new age of terror, sodom - code red? ultimatum - into the pit? testament -formation of damnation? sadus -out for blood, death angel -art of dyings? persuader - evolution purgatory? oct 31 - no survivors? some of these newer thrash albums are better than many of the old guard imo.
how about newer bands like avenger of blood? municiple waste? toxik holocaust? evile? merciless death? gamabomb? one dead?