UPDATED! Added Malmsteen and Grave Digger

Nice to see Europe mentioned here; a good album, one of their best (if not the best)

Written by Guest on 03.02.2012 at 03:17

Nice to see Europe mentioned here; a good album, one of their best (if not the best)

for me it's a tie between Wings Of Tomorrow and the self-titled debut

Actually a pretty decent year. Ride the Lightning, Rising Force, Metal Church..... all good albums in my book

UPDATED! Added Iron Maiden and Dio. Finally getting some big names up here.

BTW, while I've got a decent list of 1984 albums that I still need to listen to, I figured I'd get some suggestions of what I should listen to next. I'm mostly interested in studio albums, but otherwise, everything is free game!

UPDATED AGAIN! This time I added Saxon and Dokken. I also made an effort to listen to the other albums listed here and I've since changed the order and most of the comments attached to them.

I would hesitate about 'Fistful Of Metal', 'Heavy Metal Breakdown', 'Crusader' and 'Sign In Please' ...

and I recommend to your attention : Judas Priest - 'Defenders Of The Faith' , W.A.S.P. - 'W.A.S.P.', Twisted Sister - 'Stay Hungry' and Mercyful Fate - 'Don't Break The Oath'

Written by Vasil de Shumen on 03.11.2012 at 09:31

I would hesitate about 'Fistful Of Metal', 'Heavy Metal Breakdown', 'Crusader' and 'Sign In Please' ...

and I recommend to your attention : Judas Priest - 'Defenders Of The Faith' , W.A.S.P. - 'W.A.S.P.', Twisted Sister - 'Stay Hungry' and Mercyful Fate - 'Don't Break The Oath'

Technically, it's a "best to worst", so I'm including everything that I've listened to that comes from that year (I should probably fix the title, huh?). Also, thanks for the recommendations. I'll be sure to put those up higher on my list.

However, I don't know what I can do about "Sign In Please." I REALLY like that album.

Written by bj_waters on 03.11.2012 at 22:03


... However, I don't know what I can do about "Sign In Please." I REALLY like that album.

Just my criteria are different from your criteria - in my opinion 'Sign In Please' isn't metal album. This is a good pop hard rock album

Written by Vasil de Shumen on 03.11.2012 at 23:45

Just my criteria are different from your criteria - in my opinion 'Sign In Please' isn't metal album. This is a good pop hard rock album

Yeah, everyone has their own strange way of drawing the lines. I mean, I would include Autograph as metal, but not AC/DC or Led Zeppelin. Weird, isn't it. (I'm not saying they're bad, they're just not metal to me.)

In fact, I started a thread here at Metal Storm showing everyone where I draw my lines. I did it mostly because I was upset with everyone else's (read: Sam Dunn's), decided to make my own, then posted it for critical analysis. You're more than welcome to give it a look and tell me where I'm wrong. As I've said before, I'm new to metal, but I feel like I need to share my theories and ideas in order to correct or strengthen them. Or whatever.

Written by bj_waters on 04.11.2012 at 03:31

Written by Vasil de Shumen on 03.11.2012 at 23:45

Just my criteria are different from your criteria - in my opinion 'Sign In Please' isn't metal album. This is a good pop hard rock album

... In fact, I started a thread here at Metal Storm showing everyone where I draw my lines. I did it mostly because I was upset with everyone else's (read: Sam Dunn's), decided to make my own, then posted it for critical analysis. You're more than welcome to give it a look and tell me where I'm wrong. As I've said before, I'm new to metal, but I feel like I need to share my theories and ideas in order to correct or strengthen them. Or whatever.

I respect your opinion, man.
I comment to your choice. Nothing more

UPDATED! Added Jag Panzer and Whitesnake.

Considering that this year marks the 30th anniversary for all of these albums, I'm going to try and add as many albums as I can to the list (as well as relistening to the ones already here). My goal is to listen to them as close to the 30th anniversary to the release date, but finding exact dates for many of these albums proved to be fairly difficult, so I'm gonna go by months. Here's what I have so far:

January: Van Halen - 1984, Loudness - Disillusion~撃剣霊化 (the Japanese version), Judas Priest - Defenders of the Faith, Whitesnake - Slide It In (which I've just added)

February: Anthrax - Fistful of Metal, Exciter - Violence and Force, Saint Vitus - Saint Vitus, Divlje Jagode - Carobnjaci, Europe - Wings of Tomorrow

March: Trouble - Psalm 9, Yngwie Malmsteen - Rising Force, Savatage - The Dungeons are Calling, Ratt - Out of the Cellar

April: Holocaust - No Man's Land, Saxon - Crusader

May: Corrosion of Conformity - Eye For an Eye, Twisted Sister - Stay Hungry, Kick Axe - Vices

June: Armored Saint - March of the Saint

July: Loudness - Disillusion -English Version-, Manowar - Hail to England, Cirith Ungol - King of the Dead, Dio - The Last in Line, Pantera - Projects in the Jungle (maybe)

August: Jag Panzer - Ample Destruction, Voivod - War and Pain, Metallica - Ride the Lightning, W.A.S.P. - W.A.S.P., Scorpions - Love at First Sting

September: Nightmare - Waiting for the Twilight, Iron Maiden - Powerslave, Mercyful Fate - Don't Break the Oath, Queensryche - The Warning, Fates Warning - Night on Brocken, Dokken - Tooth and Nail

October: Pretty Maids - Red, Hot and Heavy, Sinner -Danger Zone, Warlord - ...And the Cannons of Destruction Have Begun, Bathory - Bathory, Manowar - Sign of the Hammer, Grave Digger - Heavy Metal Breakdown

November: Omen - Battle Cry

December: Tank - Honour & Blood, Running Wild - Gates to Purgatory

Of course, this list isn't complete. I'd like to find release dates for the Brocas Helm, Helstar, Laaz Rockit, Metal Church, Stormwitch, Tokyo Blade, and Warlock albums, so if anybody knows at least what month they should go in (as well as any others), I'd greatly appreciate it. Here's to an epic year of metal!

EDIT: Formatting

Although not very metal at all and I don't know if you are a Rush fan or not but Grace Under Pressure is terrific, contrary to what other Rush fans think

Written by tea[m]ster on 02.02.2014 at 17:37

Although not very metal at all and I don't know if you are a Rush fan or not but Grace Under Pressure is terrific, contrary to what other Rush fans think

This may seem pretty arbitrary, but I wasn't going to include Rush because I don't think of them as metal. Metal Storm also has pages for Marillion and King Crimson, both of whom had albums in 1984, but I'm not counting them for this list.

I think Rush is alright. I grew up listening to Yes (obviously), Pink Floyd, and Alan Parson Project, but I didn't get around to Rush (and the rest of prog rock, really) until later. I think I've only listened to Grace Under Pressure once though, so I couldn't tell you what I thought of it.

UPDATED! Added Exciter and Trouble.

Started to work my way through that list I posted. This is going to be an interesting year.

UPDATED! Added Saint Vitus and Holocaust.

Probably not the best stuff from the year, but I'm committed to this idea.