Heavy Metal 1980s Albums - Page 2

Turbo keeps Judas Priest’s twin-guitar sharpness while bringing in brighter guitar-synth texture and larger hooks.

Peace Sells... but Who’s Buying? sets Dave Mustaine’s twisted riff sense against Chris Poland’s fluid guitar work.

The Dark places Metal Church’s thick riffs and rough vocal attack at the center, bringing heavy themes and tension to the front.

Master of Puppets keeps Metallica’s speed and weight while building long forms, contrasting sections and dense sequences of riffs with remarkable control.

The Ultimate Sin joins Jake E. Lee’s cutting guitar work to Ozzy Osbourne’s uneasy, melancholy vocal character inside a wide 1980s production.

Rage for Order moves Queensrÿche beyond conventional heavy metal toward a more abstract, futuristic sound.

Reign of Fear builds on speed-metal momentum and puts cutting guitars alongside Peavy Wagner’s rough vocal attack.

The second Atlantic album, cut at Bearsville with Eddie Kramer producing — and the Raven record John Gallagher is hardest on.

Produced by Chris Tsangarides. Around this record SINNER played an extensive German tour as special guests of Magnum.

Reign in Blood strips away excess and concentrates fast riffs, abrupt turns and Dave Lombardo’s violent drumming into a single point of force.

1986年発表の3作目。

5150 introduces Sammy Hagar’s powerful, open-throated voice and gives Van Halen a new sense of lift.

Inside the Electric Circus connects W.A.S.P.’s raw heavy-metal force and dangerous-showmanship image to large, direct choruses.

Trilogy places Yngwie Malmsteen’s fluid speed playing inside dramatic song movement rather than treating it as mere display.

Metal Heart preserves Accept’s hard, compact riff power while adding larger melody and more detailed arrangement.

Spreading the Disease keeps thrash-riff aggression but puts Joey Belladonna’s high, clear voice and larger melody in front.

Under Lock and Key brings technical guitar and singable chorus writing together at a high level.

Bonded by Blood is Exodus’s debut collision of punk-like momentum and hard heavy-metal riffing.

The Spectre Within layers more complex movement and a fantastical atmosphere onto Fates Warning’s traditional-heavy-metal weight.

Killing Is My Business... captures Megadeth’s raw early drive around Dave Mustaine’s sharp, twisted riff sense.

The Atlantic debut, made after the move to New York, and home to the MTV single "On And On".

The follow-up to Danger Zone, recorded with Accept guitarist Herman Frank in the line-up.

Hell Awaits keeps Slayer’s speed while moving toward more complex, uneasy song structures.

1985年発表の2作目。

Come Out and Play places brighter choruses and theatrical humor over Twisted Sister’s rough metal frame.

A studio album released by Music for Nations in 1985 as MFN 50, and by Roadrunner in Europe. This is the record most often misattributed.

The Last Command keeps W.A.S.P.’s provocative momentum while bringing larger melody and drama into the songs.

Down for the Count keeps Y&T’s blues-rooted hard-rock feel while bringing in brighter melodies and keyboard color.

Marching Out connects Yngwie Malmsteen’s classical-harmony sense and rapid phrases to a more aggressive heavy-metal attack.

Fistful of Metal is Anthrax’s raw debut, linking the steel of the NWOBHM with hardcore-bred speed.

Tooth and Nail brings Dokken’s catchy vocal melodies and virtuosic guitar into a single, natural hard-rock statement.

Night on Bröcken is Fates Warning’s debut, built on traditional metal after Iron Maiden but already adding darker storytelling and a more complex atmosphere.

Powerslave is one of the records where Iron Maiden most naturally joins fast metal, dramatic development and historical subject matter.

Defenders of the Faith packs the core vocabulary of heavy metal into an exceptionally focused record.

Metal Church is a debut that joins the weight of traditional metal to the aggression of thrash.

Ride the Lightning takes the raw speed of Metallica’s debut as a starting point and rapidly expands its structure, melody and emotional range.

The first full album after signing to CBS, opening on a passage from Carmina Burana.

The Warning is Queensrÿche’s debut, adding complex arrangement and a fantasy-lit atmosphere to the force of traditional heavy metal.

The double live album that closed the Neat years, its sleeve boasting that the record carries no overdubs.

Love at First Sting joins the aggression Scorpions had refined for years to melody in its brightest form.

SINNER's first album for Noise Records, and the start of the run that placed the band in the first wave of German metal.

1984年に出たデビュー作。

Stay Hungry brings together Twisted Sister’s streetwise energy, theatrical flair and choruses made for everyone to sing.

1984 keeps Eddie Van Halen’s guitar revolution intact while bringing keyboards to the front and widening the band’s reach.

W.A.S.P. turns Blackie Lawless’s rough vocal attack and thick riffs into a debut that makes the band’s extreme stage image work as music, too.

In Rock We Trust naturally joins Y&T’s bluesy guitar instinct to the larger choruses of 1980s hard rock.

Rising Force turns Yngwie Malmsteen’s devotion to baroque music and overwhelming guitar technique into heavy-metal momentum.

Balls to the Wall layers thick guitar riffs, Udo Dirkschneider’s rough voice and marching rhythm into a forceful Accept statement.