It's tricky because there is so much classic thrash on here, but that genre died and was revived and then died again. If you get a taste for death metal or some of the other more contemporary extreme subgenres it'll be easier to follow current bands and see them in the future.

Here are a few modern recommendations you might like:

• Unto Others (fka "Idle Hands" ) - Mana
• Tribulation - Down Below
• Blood Incantation - Hidden History of the Human Race
• Worm - Bluenothing
• Bell Witch - Mirror Reaper
• Obsequiae - The Palms of Sorrowed Kings
• Havukruunu - Uinuos Syömein Sota