Great classic year! My favorites:
1. Metallica - Ride the Lightning
2. Judas Priest - Defenders of the Faith
3. Iron Maiden - Powerslave
4. Mercyful Fate - Don't Break the Oath
5. Metal Church - Metal Church
6. Trouble - Psalm 9
7. Dio - Last in Line

Nice, I dont like Trouble and King Diamond's voice (although his solo career is a lot better). But I would add to the classics both Manowar and Warlord.

Written by Alex Avagianos on 27.04.2022 at 20:49

Nice, I dont like Trouble and King Diamond's voice (although his solo career is a lot better). But I would add to the classics both Manowar and Warlord.

I've never listened to those. I'll check it out!

Written by Alex Avagianos on 27.04.2022 at 20:49

Nice, I dont like Trouble and King Diamond's voice (although his solo career is a lot better).

Interesting. For me it's the other way around with KD. I find on early Mercyful Fate records his voice is more diverse and harsher, while his solo is more refined but also sounds whiny in my opinion. I guess I like the harsher vocals for the same reason why thrash or black vocals fit to their respective musical style. It's no Dio-style operatic perfection, but it fits with the aggressive riffs better

Good ranking I have just realised how great this year was!
My ranking would be this:

1. Metallica - Ride The Lightning
2. Iron Maiden - Powerslave
3. Mercyful Fate - Don't Break the Oath
4. Warlord - And The Cannons Of Destruction Have Begun...
5. Judas Priest - Defenders of the Faith
6. W.A.S.P. - W.A.S.P.
7. Dio - Last in Line
8. Metal Church - Metal Church
9. Jag Panzer - Ample Destruction
10. Scorpions - Love At First Sting

Written by F3ynman on 27.04.2022 at 19:16

Great classic year! My favorites:
1. Metallica - Ride the Lightning
2. Judas Priest - Defenders of the Faith
3. Iron Maiden - Powerslave
4. Mercyful Fate - Don't Break the Oath
5. Metal Church - Metal Church
6. Trouble - Psalm 9
7. Dio - Last in Line

Good list

Written by F3ynman on 28.04.2022 at 03:40

Written by Alex Avagianos on 27.04.2022 at 20:49

Nice, I dont like Trouble and King Diamond's voice (although his solo career is a lot better).

Interesting. For me it's the other way around with KD. I find on early Mercyful Fate records his voice is more diverse and harsher, while his solo is more refined but also sounds whiny in my opinion. I guess I like the harsher vocals for the same reason why thrash or black vocals fit to their respective musical style. It's no Dio-style operatic perfection, but it fits with the aggressive riffs better

For me I hate his vocals on both of his bands but in his solo career the compositions are much better and i like Andy Laroque a lot. Anyway the early Mercyfull Fate are considered classics I cant disagree on that but I dont like them.

Written by AndyMetalFreak on 28.04.2022 at 08:40

Good ranking I have just realised how great this year was!
My ranking would be this:

1. Metallica - Ride The Lightning
2. Iron Maiden - Powerslave
3. Mercyful Fate - Don't Break the Oath
4. Warlord - And The Cannons Of Destruction Have Begun...
5. Judas Priest - Defenders of the Faith
6. W.A.S.P. - W.A.S.P.
7. Dio - Last in Line
8. Metal Church - Metal Church
9. Jag Panzer - Ample Destruction
10. Scorpions - Love At First Sting

Yes very good selection but you are missing Manowar too hehehe

Written by Alex Avagianos on 28.04.2022 at 10:15

Yes very good selection but you are missing Manowar too hehehe

It's not a band I've really got into yet, but I've only managed to listen to a few albums of theirs. I will check out the one's you've selected, Hail To England has always been considered to be one of their best.

Written by AndyMetalFreak on 28.04.2022 at 10:42

Written by Alex Avagianos on 28.04.2022 at 10:15

Yes very good selection but you are missing Manowar too hehehe

It's not a band I've really got into yet, but I've only managed to listen to a few albums of theirs. I will check out the one's you've selected, Hail To England has always been considered to be one of their best.

You're not missing much, one of the most overrated bands ever.

Written by JoHn Doe on 28.04.2022 at 10:46


You're not missing much, one of the most overrated bands ever.

Maybe, the one I'm most familiar with is Kings Of Metal, I have given that one a go a few times in the past, and I never really got into it.

Written by JoHn Doe on 28.04.2022 at 10:46

Written by AndyMetalFreak on 28.04.2022 at 10:42

Written by Alex Avagianos on 28.04.2022 at 10:15

Yes very good selection but you are missing Manowar too hehehe

It's not a band I've really got into yet, but I've only managed to listen to a few albums of theirs. I will check out the one's you've selected, Hail To England has always been considered to be one of their best.

You're not missing much, one of the most overrated bands ever.

hehehe yes that is true, but because they were one of my first hearings as a kid I love them

Written by AndyMetalFreak on 28.04.2022 at 11:00

Written by JoHn Doe on 28.04.2022 at 10:46


You're not missing much, one of the most overrated bands ever.

Maybe, the one I'm most familiar with is Kings Of Metal, I have given that one a go a few times in the past, and I never really got into it.

They are love them or hate them I know

Morbid Tales blows the living piss out of any of these.

...At war with Satan, Zen Arcade by Husker Du, Black Flags My War & Bathorys first too

Here is how it is for me.

1. Iron Maiden Powerslave 9.4
2. Metallica Ride the lightning 9.4
3. Mercyful Fate Don't break the oath 8.5
4. Judas Priest Defenders of the faith 8.1
5. Cirith Ungol King of the dead 8.0
6. Yngwie Malmsteem Rising force 7.5
7. DIO The last in line 7.5
8. W.A.S.P. W.A.S.P. 7.5
9. Metal Church Metal Church 7.2
10. Trouble Psalm 9 7.0
11. Saxon Crusader 7.0
12. Twisted Sister Stay hungry 6.9
13. Manowar Hail to England 6.9
14. Fates Warning Night on Bröcken 6.9
15. Armored Saint March of the saint 6.9
16. Queensryche The warning 6.9