let’s all have a big fight. No biting or kicking in the knackers.

I would say Master Of Puppets but the production on all the 80’s Metallica albums is so bad it really winds me up.

I would say Number of the Beast, and I really really love Maiden but let’s be honest – it’s a bit patchy.

if not Appetite for Destruction, then what?

Round 1:

I would say Master Of Puppets but the production on all the 80’s Metallica albums is so bad it really winds me up.

You’d be wrong though becuase Ride the Lightning is better anyway

The Almighty – blood fire and love was a great album, not sure it would be the biggest or best but a good one.
Not sure I can add anything to the above.

Rainbow Rising
Heaven and Hell

AC/DC Back in Black is the boring answer I suppose.

Can I have ‘No Sleep til Hammersmith’?

If not I’ll say ‘The Real Thing’

Iron Maiden – Killers

Just for it’s album sleeve!

And some good tunes too!

Sure Rainbow Rising was in the 70’s….

Anthrax – Among the Living

or any one of South of Heaven, Reign in Blood or Seasons in the Abyss

Rainbow Rising

1976.

rusty trowel – Member

Seasons in the Abyss

1990

Master of Puppets or Seventh Son for me, but it’s a bit before my time tbh! Don’t think you get the same effect when you first hear an album so long after it came out.

Can hardly believe Reign in Blood came out in 86! Not sure I could call it a great album but the standouts are standouty.

Heaven and Hell

AC/DC Back in Black is the boring answer I suppose.

Wrong as well as boring then

How are AC/DC metal ??

They, themselves, tell you they are rock in roughly every fourth song 🙂

Ac/DC is rock not metal (well 12 bar blues really)

I would probably go for Screaming for Vengeance by priest

Edit: double post!

Ro5ey

Wrong as well as boring then

How are AC/DC metal ??

They are definitely more of a hard rock band. Angus would tell you they’re a rock and roll band. But If you can’t count their music alongside metal then you might as well rule out a lot of other bands – Maiden, Priest, Dio, GnR etc etc etc…..even Sabbath to an extent, none of them really “Metal” in the current sense of the word. Just classic rock.

Back in Black is the best Hard Rock/Heavy Metal/ Classic Rock album of the 80s.

metal? rock? nu metal? gunge? dont go there man, if its got a loud guitar its fair game.

For me its Whitesnake 1987. I dont care if you dont think its metal, get over yourselves.

Reign in Blood
So Far, So Good…So What!
Master of Puppets

Not sure I could do without those

Can hardly believe Reign in Blood came out in 86! Not sure I could call it a great album but the standouts are standouty.

see now this is a tricky one. how much does consistency count for – or how much should one amazing track carry the rest of the album?

Most influential would be Kill em All, it really kicked it up a level.

I dont suppose you can ignore any of the NWOBHM bands, Maiden, Saxon, Tygers of Pan Tang 😆 Wrathchild here so ridiculous they were brilliant.

Scorpions were hard at it as were AC/DC Judas Priest

Very hard to say what was best, how about Accept Balls to the Wall 😆 No sleep till Hammersmith is overlooked.

Wow way to many

Daily Mash nail it.

Number of the Beast,

Thanks, you juts helped me decide what will help me through 4 x 10 min FTP intervals later today. 🙂

So Far..So Good..So What!

but, but, but…. that cover of Anarchy in the UK 🙁

AfD is 62 in rolling stones all time top 500 albums.
Just saying like…

I dont suppose you can ignore any of the NWOBHM bands,

Cf. Hysteria.

How are AC/DC metal ??

In the 80’s they were very much considered a heavy metal band, i presume you weren’t old enought or into duran duran. what you pigeon hole them in 2014 is meaningless.
Anyway, Back in Black!

NIN Pretty hate machine just sneaks in at 1989.

Predictable answer: Reign in Blood

Correct answer: Darkness Descends by Dark Angel.

GnR isnt metal enough for me, more like AOR, Ride the Lighting wees all over it

I was a big fan of Megadeth’s So Far, So Good, So what?

Probably

Or

Even this

Basically, too many to choose from…

Slayer – Reign in blood
Antrhax – Spreading the disease
Metallica – Ride the lightning
Tankard – Chemical invasion

Anthrax – Spreading the Disease
Megadeth – So Far, So Good…So what! (although Wake up Dead is their best track)

I just dropped off half the LPs listed above at the local charity shop…

As for the best, a toss up between Def Leppard Hysteria or Whitesnake 1987.

In the 80’s they were very much considered a heavy metal band

+1 peoples memories are fading. Most of the albums mentioned so far, were at the time called Thrash Metal. Not Metal. Get over it.

Stevet1 – Member

NIN Pretty hate machine just sneaks in at 1989.

Hah. It could come out tomorrow and sound new, that’s ridiculous. I’d have guessed mid 90s.

Whitesnake 1987

Ha, forgot about that one! ‘Still of the Night’ blew me away when it came out.

Aide memoire:

http://rateyourmusic.com/list/warpigcat/the_top_100_heavy_metal_albums_of_the_80s__as_picked_by_the_metal_fans_of_the_world/

Lots of classics up there but I’ll add something less well known:

King’s X – Gretchen goes to Nebraska (1989), their second album.

Fantastic harmonies, musicianship and other-worldly-ness.

Rainbow Rising

just checked this out. Proper good fun!

But is it overly nerdy to say that i really, really enjoyed the drum production? Wish they’d leave more room for the drums these days. Modern metal albums invariably sacrifice everything for the guitars, leaving just some thin weedy tippy tappy nonsense. e.g. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lAihDAJX8Ow