List so far just scanning my RYM ratings
1. Metallica - Ride the Lightning
2. Savatage - The Dungeons Are Calling
3. Iron Maiden - Powerslave
4. Dark Age - Dark Age
5. Mercyful Fate - Don't Break the Oath
6. Trouble - Psalm 9
7. Queensrÿche - The Warning
8. Metal Church - Metal Church
9. Manowar - Hail to England
10. Brocas Helm - Into Battle
Destruction - Sentence of Death
Artillery - Shellshock
Hexx - No Escape
Saint Vitus - Saint Vitus
Griffin - Flight of the Griffin
Omen - Battle Cry
W.A.S.P. - W.A.S.P.
Slayer - Haunting the Chapel
Artillery - Deeds of Darkness
Jag Panzer - Ample Destruction
Paul Chain - Detaching From Satan
Abel - Katharsis
Venom - At War With Satan
Nigro Mantia - Poetry of Subculture
ZnöWhite - All Hail to Thee
Dio - The Last in Line
Europe - Wings of Tomorrow
Black Death - Black Death
Cirith Ungol - King of the Dead
Voivod - War and Pain
Ratt - Out of the Cellar
Celtic Frost - Morbid Tales
Sortilège - Métamorphose
Kick Axe - Vices
Karian - Demo I
Judas Priest - Defenders of the Faith
Witchkiller - Day of the Saxons
Ezra - Demo 84
Sodom - Victims of Death
Armored Saint - March of the Saint
Icon - Icon
Medieval Steel - Medieval Steel
TNT - Knights of the New Thunder
Yngwie J. Malmsteen's Rising Force - Rising Force
Ruthless - Metal Without Mercy
Manowar - Sign of the Hammer
Trauma - Scratch and Scream
Tyton - Castle Donington
Future Tense - Condemned to the Gallow
Tank - Honour & Blood
HSAS - Through the Fire
Onslaught - The Slaughter
Blizzard - Demo
Crisis - Armed to the Teeth
Evil - Evil's Message
Exciter - Violence & Force
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Living Death - Vengeance of Hell
Fates Warning - Night on Bröcken
Anthrax - Fistful of Metal
Helstar - Burning Star
Stormwitch - Walpurgis Night
Saxon - Crusader
Blade Runner - Hunted
Chateaux - FirePower
Grave Digger - Heavy Metal Breakdown
Dokken - Tooth and Nail
Pantera - Projects in the Jungle
Bathory - Bathory
Cloven Hoof - Cloven Hoof
Sacred Rite - Sacred Rite
Necrophagia - Death Is Fun
Incubus - To the Devil a Daughter
Lååz Rockit - City's Gonna Burn
Messiah - Final Warning
Semen of Satan - Demo 1984
So many releases that I've completely forgotten about tbh, need to give fresh listens to a lot of those lower ones, and stuff like Aaronsrod and Avenger I don't even feel fair in ranking until I relisten.
Obviously, the best stuff from this year is fucking legendary.
