Happy Friday, rockers! It's the final day of our countdown, and after a cracking five weeks of fun, laughter, insults, and debate, I'm here to close the show. But before we reveal our champion and shut this gig down, thrashing its way in, and scooping the silver medal, is the mighty Rust in Peace.
Rust in Peace is the fourth studio album by Megadeth, released in 1990, and upon release, the album received widespread critical acclaim. It came in at No.6 on Ranker's list of 'Top Metal Albums', The Top Tens ranked it as the greatest heavy metal album of all time, and Loudwire placed it as the second best thrash metal album ever made. The vast majority of fans and critics regard Rust in Peace as Megadeth's strongest album to date.
This album contains some of the most obscenely thrilling moments in all of recorded metal history. Rust In Peace upgraded metal's sonic vocabulary, heroically raising levels of precision, technicality and compositional suss, and kick-started the '90s with a sustained blast of immaculate, state-of-the-art savagery that continues to send shock waves through the metal world today.
If you ever doubted how colossal this album was (and still is), then consider those doubts smashed to smithereens. Rust in Peace is a true epic, a thrash metal classic, an absolute masterpiece, and well worthy of its place on this list.
Please, unleash your thoughts about this masterful album. Too high? Too low? Where does it rank for you in thrash metal's hall of fame?
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