Any year where Metallica release a new album is automatically a great year to be a thrash fan. However, extreme music’s fastest, scrappiest genre would have still thrived in 2023 even if we didn’t hear a peep from the Four Horsemen.
While Overkill kept the genre’s roots alive with the reliably blistering Scorched, cult beloveds Sylosis blasted out some of the strongest songs of their career and a host of up-and-comers, from Pest Control to Enforced, announced themselves. To celebrate the intense strength of thrash in 2023, Metal Hammer’s compiled the 10 greatest albums it procured in the last 12 months.
