GMD Poll: Top Ten Albums of 1982

[CiG]

RYM ALBUMS LIST
RYM EP LIST

Reminder of the rules:
- please submit at least *5* releases. But just remember, real men vote at 10.
- first place in your rankings gets 10 points, 2nd gets 9, etcetc, 10th gets 1.
- feel free to post more than 10, but only the top 10 will get points.
- feel free to post less than 10, the same scoring will apply.
- feel free not to rank your picks, in which case all ten picks will get 5.5 points.
- if you're so much of a dick that you have to post more than 10 unranked picks, only the first 10 will count. In other words, go back to the third rule.

Submit your lists by October 31st.

 

[Baroque]

The year of my birth, and a year in which EPs might have outshined full albums.

1) Metallica - No Life 'til Leather
2) Judas Priest - Screaming for Vengeance
3) Artillery - We Are The Dead
4) Motörhead - Iron Fist
Iron Maiden - The Number of the Beast
Picture - Diamond Dreamer
Scorpions - Blackout
Metal Church - Four Hymns
Loudness - Devil Soldier
Accept - Restless and Wild

 

[Slayed Necros]

1. Iron Maiden - The Number of the Beast
2. Judas Priest - Screaming For Vengeance
3. Scorpions - Blackout
4. Heavy Load - Death or Glory
5. Tank - Filth Hounds of Hades
6. Accept - Restless and Wild
7. Satan - Into the Fire
8. Mercyful Fate - Mercyful Fate
9. Manilla Road - Metal
10. Venom - Black Metal

 

[no country for old wainds]

aw yeah. this completes the 80s right? we should do a best of 80s poll sometime once it’s completed

 

[Slammed]

1. Iron Maiden - The Number of the Beast
2. Judas Priest - Screaming for Vengeance
3. Venom - Black Metal
4. Motörhead - Iron Fist
5. Witchfinder General - Death Penalty
6. Manowar - Battle Hymns
7. Accept - Restless and Wild
8. Tank - Filth Hounds of Hades
9. Heavy Load - Death or Glory
10. Diamond Head - Borrowed Time

 

[HamburgerBoy]

Prelim but probably won't change much from this:

1. Judas Priest - Screaming for Vengeance
2. Iron Maiden - The Number of the Beast
3. Scorpions - Blackout
4. Exodus - 1982 Demo
5. Accept - Restless and Wild
6. Venom - Black Metal
7. Mercyful Fate - Mercyful Fate
8. Crystal Pride - Crystal Pride
9. Legend - Death in the Nursery
10. Manowar - Battle Hymns
Legion - Legion

EDIT: Forgot Venom for some dumb reason

 

[Sirjack]

1 - Iron Maiden - Number of the Beast
2 - Judas Priest - Screaming For Vengeance
3 - Akira Takasaki - Tusk of Jaguar
4 - Loudness - Devil Soldier
5 - Talas - Sink Your Teeth Into That
6 - Motorhead - Iron Fist
7 - Twisted Sister - Under the Blade
8 - Witch Cross - Demo 82
9 - Black Sabbath - Live Evil
10 - Baron Rojo - Volumen Brutal

 

[Allfader]

1 - Manowar - Battle Hymns
2 - Scorpions - Blackout
3 - Mercyful Fate - Mercyful Fate EP
4 - Iron Maiden - TNOTB
5 - Black Sabbath - Live Evil
6 - Judas Priest - Screaming for Vengeance
7 - Twisted Sister - Under the Blade
8 - Venom - Black Metal
9 - Accept - Restless and Wild
10 - Motorhead - Iron Fist

 

[Krow]

High powered year for heavy metal. A lot of these I still regularly play. I’m not as crazy about Dickinson Maiden as most of you guys are apparently though.

1. Judas Priest - Screaming For Vengeance
2. Pagan Altar - Judgement of the Dead
3. Scorpions - Blackout
4. Venom - Black Metal
5. Motörhead - Iron Fist
6. Tank - Filth Hounds of Hades
7. Manowar - Battle Hymns
8. Heavy Load - Death or Glory
9. Riot - Restless Breed
10. Iron Maiden - Number of the Beast

HMs
Legend - Death in the Nursery
Accept - Restless and Wild
Manilla Road - Metal
The Rods - Wild Dogs
Samson - Before the Storm
Loudness - Devil Soldier


Two bands named Warning released a s/t this year... I should check them out.

 

[jimmy101]

1 Judas Priest - Screaming for Vengeance
2 Iron Maiden - The Number of the Beast
3 Diamond Head - Borrowed Time
4 Mercyful Fate - Nuns Have No Fun
5 Venom - Black Metal
6 Motorhead - Iron Fist
7 Bezerks - S/T
8 Blue Oyster Cult - Extraterrestrial Live

Struggling to find 10 albums that I've actually heard from this year. May have to give a few albums that others have posted in their lists a spin to complete the top 10. Definitely not an era of metal that I'm super familiar with.

 

[Vegard Pompey]

Two bands named Warning released a s/t this year... I should check them out.

Yeah, we all know how much you love Warning.

 

[CiG]

aw yeah. this completes the 80s right? we should do a best of 80s poll sometime once it’s completed

I'm down.

 

[Bloopy]

Fuck yeah.

 

[-CC-]

aw yeah. this completes the 80s right? we should do a best of 80s poll sometime once it’s completed

We're already overdue for a 90's one.

 

[CiG]

1. Manilla Road - Metal
2. Venom - Black Metal *
3. Mercyful Fate - Mercyful Fate
4. Pagan Altar - Pagan Altar (AKA Judgement of the Dead)
5. Witchfinder General - Death Penalty
6. Geddes Axe - Escape from New York
7. Metallica - No Life 'til Leather
8. Satan - Into the Fire
9. Iron Maiden - The Number of the Beast
10. Plasmatics - Coup d'état

Decided to include EPs and demos for this one, and will probably keep doing it going forward. Baroque is right, this is a great year for non-album releases.

*In the underground these boys were infamous for giving birth to both the term "black metal" and the sound Euronymous would shamelessly rip off, but actually most people know Venom for being the inspiration behind crimsonfloyd's prestigious award given to whatever is the most overrated album in any given situation. For this honour alone they deserve a spot.

 

[RadicalThrasher]

1. Motorhead - Iron Fist
2. Iron Maiden - The Number of the Beast
3. Scorpions - Blackout
4. Anvil - Metal on Metal
5. The Rods - Wild Dogs
6. Genocide - Too Long
7. Judas Priest - Screaming for Vengeance
8. Heavy Load - Death or Glory
9. Accept - Restless and Wild
10. Venom - Black Metal

 

[no country for old wainds]

reminder of how great this tune is.

 

[Atomic Tide]

1 / Iron Maiden - The Number of the Beast
2 / Judas Priest - Screaming for Vengeance
3 / Twisted Sister - Under the Blade
4 / Venom - Black Metal
5 / Accept - Restless and Wild
6 / Manowar - Battle Hymns
7 / Motorhead - Iron Fist
8 / Scorpions - Blackout
9 / Anvil - Metal on Metal
10 / Heavy Load - Death or Glory

 

[Somethingface]

Crystal Pride - Crystal Pride

I got this one as either 84/85 on most major sites - do you mean Silverhawk?

 

[HamburgerBoy]

Yeah, RYM treats it as a S/T, and according to Discogs it's technically untitled, either way that's what I'm referring to.