Best 80s metal band?

[Deadline]

I will say Metallica(in the 80s) and Testament it was great too, but many other bands were great too at that time

 

[Monkdog]

Id have to agree with you on Metallica as one of the great bands in the 80's...back then there was a lot of great bands and is hard to say who the greatest band was of the 80's..

 

[tsorl]

Just one? Not going to happen, not in here!
This entire forum is basically one big "best 80s band" discussion you know.

Still, I'll pick Iron Maiden. Or maybe Savatage... or...

 

[Imp!]

Heh, hard choice, as I don't see bands in terms of decades... Priest in '70s, '80s, '90s, or '00s, hmm, see? Same with Sabbath...

Band that ruled the 80s...Metallica. Everything they put out in the 80s rocked.

 

[mutantllama]

its a tie between slayer, metallica, black sabbath and dio for me but there were alot of other kick ass bands

 

[T_man357]

Metallica.....Slayer.....Venom.....Exodus.. Any one of them could be the best.

 

[Death Animal]

Mötley Crue wtf

 

[carnut]

All of them....

 

[Thoth-Amon]

Slayer, Metallica, Iron Maiden, Mercyful Fate, King Diamond... shoot hard to choose.

 

[ElectricWiz]

Too many to choose, to many sub-genres. Still, if I had to choose, I'd say probably Iron Maiden, followed closely by Mercyful Fate - true the latter only made 3 albums in the 80s, but their quality is so high that they are in the running for best band.

 

[Belligerent]

KROKUS
...sweeps to knock your dick in the dirt

 

[kittybeast]

we'll each have our best and my tops are still the same today as they were then... Scorpions, Iron Maiden, Judas Priest, Megadeth, etc etc etc.

 

[The Heartbreak Kid]

DEF LEPPARD!!!

 

[poundingmetal74]

Very hard to choose. Many paved the way for metal in the 80s and changed it forever.

My vote goes to Ryche. One of the 80s bands that forever changed metal.

 

[EVERLOSTINDEADETERNITY]

Annihilator or Overkill or King Diamond but probably for me Helloween for the Walls Of Jericho EP, Keeper 1 and 2. Without those albums I wouldnt have gotten into metal as much.

 

[Wyvern]

The 80's? like in 1980-1989?

Judas Priest
Thin Lizzy
Black Sabbath
Motorhead
Metallica
Megadeth
Metal Church
Testament
Armored Saint
Deep Purple
Black Knight
Coroner
Rainbow
Rush

all NWOBHM!

etc.

NP: Battleaxe - 'Over The Top'

 

[Imp!]

Damn good list there. Who's Black Knight?

 

[Platinum Maze]

I'd probably pick Maiden because their first 7 albums were all released in the 80's. Can't think of another band that released that many during that span, with that much quality...

others for me would be Queensryche, Metallica, Loudness, King Diamond, Scorpions, and anything DIO was involved in.

 

[Wyvern]

Damn good list there. Who's Black Knight?

Astounding, underrated, overlooked Canadian band. Their only album plus bonus tracks has been reissued twice. Is one of those bands that got me so hard that I'm still cry they never make it bigger they had a male vocalist and a female vocalist with similar ranges at different times. To me is one of those bands that should be in any collection nont only in the name of rarity and compassion , but because is great metal

NP: Falconer - 'Perjury And Sanctity'

 

[mdmatt4ever]

too hard. either megadeth, metallica, slayer, ozzy, anthrax, or dio unless we count hair metal then add poison, bon jovi, ratt, motley crue, twisted sister, w.a.s.p., quiet riot, queensryche, dokken