[Closed] Best metal album of the 80's?

Footflaps, nice one. Saw them in N.Wales in March at Buckley. Great band, got loads of their stuff.

I was there at Buckley! Also caught them at the Wulfrun Hall. They're coming to Cambridge this time, so won't have to travel so far!

British Steel Judas Priest

Blackout Scorpions

Back In Black AC/DC ( forget this pigeonholing nonsense )

Industrial metal:

Ministry - The Mind is a Terrible Thing to Taste

Iron Maiden – Powerslave
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My art teacher had the 7 inch sleeves for loads of Maiden singles on her classroom wall. Aces High was my favorite sleeve so I started with Powerslave. Maiden are a little hit and miss for me, but I have a soft spot for them.

Suicidal Tendencies – ST
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More hardcore than metal, but it influenced many and still sounds great.

Carcass – Symphonies of Sickness
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Spotted this spectacular album sleeve being proudly carried around school by a now friend of mine. It sounds as good it looks and carcass are still getting better decades later.

Slayer – Reign in Blood
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I will be moving into a detached house shortly, one of the first things I shall do is put this on and turn it up to appropriate volume 🙂

nin - pretty hate machine
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As someone else on the thread said, I'm surprised this actually sneaks into the 80s. Cracking record.

What a ggreat thread.

Can't be doing with maiden. Just boring.

Suicidal tendencies are my fave band though. Join the army is amazing.
Reign in blood is great. Carcass 80s? Jeepers. Bloody love carcass.

Spent a lot of time listening to nirvanas bleach at the time too.

I hope that's for mentioning "Def Lepard" in the context of a metal thread and not for the FACT that they are actually pop?

Def Lepard were NWOBHM and the early albums metal but Hysteria got a bit soft - so soft metal?!

Are Nirvana metal though?

Wouldn't call nirvana metal, mainly on the basis that most nirvana fans would run a mile at Carcass et al. But then I was a carcass fan and I listened to nirvana...Sod it, who cares anyway...Just shows how much variety there is in hard rock/metal.

Another vote for AC/DC BinB here. It was THE album of my youth (80's) for sure. Is it actually metal? It was then so who cares.

Classics! Mine are
Iron Maiden- Live after Death
Slayer- Reign In Blood and South of Heaven
Napalm Death- Scum was good but I think the Peel Sessions release distilled it down even further!
Ministry- Twitch is a good one, I think Land of Rape and Honey is still 80's?

If we're having a fight (seems appropriate on a metal thread)

None of them, as let's be honest here, they're all a bit shit. Honourable mentions go to:

Any ACDC track. OK, they're fine, right up until the point Brian Johnson starts "singing" and I use the phrase in the loosest possible sense of the word,

The whole cross dressing make-up, latex, death, sex, devil thing is soooo dull, which pretty much includes every single bloody metal band of the 80's

G&R just because, well, Axl really and the amazing levels of "just how big an arsehole can I actually become"

Musically dull and unimaginative tropes, such as...Ohhh let's have a bit of fretboard ****ery in the middle of this song, because no-ones' ever done that before..., and yes, Dave Mustaine, Glen Tipton, Eddie Van Halen, I'm looking at you.

Music for people that don't like music

Testament - The Legacy
Flotsam & Jetsam - Doomsday for The Deceiver
Savatage - Hall of The Mountain King

These 3 less mainstream offerings got a good amount of airtime in my youth.

ps Magnum were the first 'heavy?' band I saw live....

Music for people that don't like music

Is that just 80s metal? 70s AC/DC is awsome right?!

Before Brain "Will rent out my voice to scare dogs" Johnson... yeah, maybe.

nickc

Music for people that don't like music

Troll.

mudshark

Are Nirvana metal though?

Cleverly repackaged for a different generation. Alice in Chains were much more of a heavy metal band than nirvana ever were. Better in every way too.

Jimjam, I refer you to the honourable gentleman' earlier answer

[i]let's all have a big fight. No biting or kicking in the knackers.[/i]

Great thread Guys!!

2 albums I played over and over again:

TNT, Tell no tails..

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And

Tesla, Mechanical Ressonance

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Both Awesomnez 😀

You don't need to go beyond 1980 for the answer BUT I can't make my mind up between.
Iron Maiden
Heaven and Hell
Blizzard of Oz
British Steel

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.

Excellent choice, although Out of the Silent Planet (their first album) is better IMO.

Can I stick in guitar****yconcept-tastic Operation:Mindcrime by Queensryche (if we're going to ignore what is or isn't metal)

Oh yes - blown away by seeing this live at Hammersmith Apollo in 88/89ish

I grew up listening to 90's metal, and having a cassette player in my car has meant my cassettes now get a good airing again.

80's albums - Metallica - ..and Justice for all
Deep Purple - Perfect Strangers
Skid Row - Skid Row
and the album, for me that set it all off - Iron maiden - Iron maiden. I'll probably get flamed here, but the Paul Di'Anno albums are far superior to the Bruce Dickenson ones

Oooooo, lots to choose from, some excellent choices guys, BUT, mine are-
[b]Magnum "Storytellers Night"[/b]
Queensryche "Operation - Mindcrime"

Stormtroopers of Death - [i]Speak English or Die[/i].
If only for The Ballad of Jimi Hendrix.

Reign in Blood!

End of thread!

Judas priest painkiller

Queensryche operation mindcrime

Faith no more the real thing.

Voivod - Killing Technology
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Celtic Frost - Into the pandemonium
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And some more Testament - Practice what you preach
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Too much choice and pretty much all my choices done above.

If I had to pick just one - Kill 'em all - if nothing else for the wonderful Anaesthesia (Pulling Teeth) and Four Horsemen.

You're all wrong apparently. It's Metal Church - The Dark, closely followed by Motley Crue - Too Fast For Love.

That's what my hair metal loving GF says anyway.

For me, AfD. Kings X is an interesting call - if you listen to them now many more recent bands sound similar. Whether they were directly influenced is hard to say.

Jethro Tull - Crest of a Knave.

The flute is a heavy, metal instrument!

This thread needs Ozzy...

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I will be back with a few more suggestions in a bit!

Blizzard of Oz is a good call. Ozzy went from singing about religion and nuclear war with Sabbath to solo stuff about werewolves and porn movies, but Blizzard is ace. Revelation into Steal Away the Night takes some beating.

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There's loads more contenders. There's just too many great albums from back in the day!

For me:

Sarcofago - INRI.

Not strictly metal but they'll do:

Napalm Death - From Enslavement to Obliteration
Terrorizer - World Downfall

Accept - Restless & Wild

good call with Danzig,S.T,Celtic Frost,S.O.D.to name a few

How about,
Diamond Head--Lightning to the nations
Twisted Sister--Stay Hungry

Nobody has mentioned Exodus - Bonded by Blood. Excellent thrash metal.
Add to that Reign in Blood and Ride the Lightening.

This just slips in as an '89 release

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'Danzig' by Danzig is a damn good shout.
Saw them supporting Metallica on the 'Justice' tour in the NEC in Sept '88.
Pure evil. That logo of theirs is so iconic too.
I think any band with a member called Chuck Biscuits deserves to win 😀

No, sorry, there is no way on this earth Magnum are a metal band, they're as Prog as it comes. I've got several tracks from "Storytellers..." on my phone that crop up fairly regularly, and I saw them four or five times back when that album came out, along with Metallica and Anthrax, and Magnum could never be considered 'Metaaaaaaaaaaaal' \m/.

Ha ha. I will give you that, more rock than metal. Good band though.
I remember some bizzare scandinavian thrash bands from the 80's
Bathory were up there with the good ones

The 80's had some great metal/rock bands. From the prog rock of Magnum and Marillion (now with Steve Hogarth/Seasons End) to Zodiac mindwarp and the Love Reaction!!

During my early teens , all of my friends developed purely ROCK (shakes fist) tendencies ,so by default I've heard most of the albums mentioned above... 😕

I'm nominating, 1984 - Van Halen.
Introduce Yourself Faith No More.
Nothing's Shoocking - Jane's Addiction

This thread needs Ozzy...

johndoh - Member
Blizzard of Oz and Diary of a Madman were both pretty special too.

Everything after that was pretty dire though.

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lots of good stuff mentioned here

On my playlist around 1988ish was:
Judas Priest - Ram it Down (painkiller was 1990 btw)
Maiden - Killers
Whitesnake '87
Metallica ride the lightening
megadeth (just to balance it) peace sells.
Danzig (aka evil-elvis)

plus some soft rock, fair bit of goth and some....er....aha.

couldn't choose between them.

Oh how could I forget, Fastway - Trick or Treat, soundtrack to my fave film. 🙂

sepultura beneath the remains was 89 - but SOD. oh man. and nuclear assault. i love game over and survive.

some serious retro listening needs to happen today. I`m slightly hungover and in no mood for work...

It's 1980 on planet rock years at the moment. All sorts of good stuff being played.

^^ I tuned in and found them playing Peter Gabriel - Games without frontiers, planet rock is ok but sometimes they miss the target and sound more like Absolute radio, bland. Now going to see what TeamRock are playing.

Venom, Black Metal or At war with satan. Loved them back then & still play them now.

Oh here's another I used to play to death..

No not the bike company! Giant, last of the runaways..

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Another that I just couldn't stop playing, although I just have (not played it for ohh, at least 8years)

Dokken, Tooth and Nail..

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But really, for me, there has and will always only be one Band and One Album that defines me and my love of music..

I hand to you Ratt, Invasion of Your Privacy.
Play loud, hard and even louder..

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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.

What a load of crap. Maiden, Sabbath, Priest etc practically invented metal.

My choice would be Ride the Lightning, following closely by some Maiden of some sort.

Dokken Tooth and Nail - what an album, nearly wore that cassette out at University - was on endless play....

edit - idiot me.

Default answer would be Metallica - Master of Puppets, loads of other great suggestions on here, well done on the Dnazig.

Can't believe there's no mention of Overkill - Years of Decay is a Thrash classic!

Pantera - Cowboys from Hell - Recorded in 89 but released in 1990 - damn 🙁
Megadeth - Peace Sells
Testament - Practice what you Preach
Flotsam and Jetsam - Doomsday for the Deceiver
Danzig - Danzig
Anthrax - Among the Living and State of Euphoria
Motely Crue - Dr Feelgood
Almighty - Blood, Fire and Love
Skid Row - Skid Row
Annihilator - Alice in Hell
Faith no More - The Real Thing
Mordred - Fool's Game

The 3 Best:-

1) Appetite For Destruction ---GnR's
2) Back In Black ---AC/DC
3) The Real Thing ---Faith No More

The 3 Worst:-

1) Slippery When Wet ---Bon Jovi
2) Open Up And Say Arghh ---Poison
3) Girls Girls Girls ---Motley Crue

This thread has encouraged me to fire up [i]Pantera - Vulgar Display of Power[/i]
Now that is what I'd consider metaaaaaaal! \m/ \m/

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Simples

Kill Em All

by far the greatest of all metal albums, I've owned most of those mentioned, however no-one has mentioned Septic Death yet, still got that on vinyl.

The 3 Best:-

1) Appetite For Destruction ---GnR's
2) Back In Black ---AC/DC
3) The Real Thing ---Faith No More

The 3 Worst:-

1) Slippery When Wet ---Bon Jovi
2) Open Up And Say Arghh ---Poison
3) Girls Girls Girls ---Motley Crue

I'd say there wasn't much between your top 3 and worst 3 - all pretty similar AOR style rock.

Jethro Tull - Crest of a Knave.

The flute is a heavy, metal instrument!

[b][i]SALUTE THE FLUTE! [/i][/b]

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Some epic tunes being highlighted on here!

You want to get yourself over Spotify Flash. Some great stuff being added

This thread reminded me I'd not listened to Jane's Addiction for years. Stunning stuff...

mikey74 - Member

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.

What a load of crap. Maiden, Sabbath, Priest etc practically invented metal.

I'm assuming you're just taking me out of context. Since the op didn't specify any specific sub genre or type of metal a lot of people rightly mention Back in Black as maybe the best album of the 80s. If the op had been more specific and posed the question "What's the best thrash or speed or power/black/doom/industrial/nu/death/stoner/speed metal album etc etc then I doubt many people would have mentioned it. A few people were saying, "that's not metal" but when it was released it was every bit as heavy as it's contemporaries.

Hells Bells and Back in Black are as heavy as any track on British Steel, Number of the Beast or Heaven and Hell. At the time of their release there was no distinction, it was all the same; heavy metal. Obviously Maiden, Priest and Metallica would go on to become faster and heavier and DC would get slower and bluesier. But I stand my point, AC/DC are metal. They're not thrash/speed/power/black/doom/death or what the catch all term "metal" has come to mean today but they absolutely are "heavy metal" to most.

When I think of current metal bands I think of something like Machine Head or Crowbar. DC, Maiden and Priest all seem equally quaint by comparison. I suppose the term "metal" has become more synonymous with thrash metal or death metal, making the term heavy metal a bit old hat and redundant.

This'll take you back...

http://www.rocklistmusic.co.uk/kerrang.html#1988

King's X - Out of the Silent Planet for me.

Tesla - Mechanical Resonance wowed me at the time. Appetite for Destruction, so near and yet so not quite.

I had that Ratt cover poster up in my student digs.

For me the only band I keep going back to is Motorhead and the ace of spades LP is the pinnacle for me. Primeval bass driven punk metal. I always miss the title track though as I've heard it so many times everywhere. I also loved Voivod as they were so original but still brutal.

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From 1981:

Makes some of the previous mentions look like rank amateurs! 😉

Slayer, Reign in Blood.

That's it.

That's the one.