GMD Poll: Top Ten Albums of 1984

[The Ozzman]

pls list at least 5 thx

1) Metallica - Ride the Lightning
2) Dio - The Last in Line
2) Anthrax - Fistful of Metal
2) Metal Church - Metal Church
2) Yngwie Malmsteen - Rising Force
3) Warhead - Speedway
3) Voivod - War and Pain
4) Trouble - Psalm 9
4) Mercyful Fate - Don't Break the Oath
4) Judas Priest - Defenders of the Faith

 

[Slayed Necros]

1. Jag Panzer - Ample Destruction
2. Cirith Ungol - King of the Dead
3. Omen - Battle Cry
4. Destruction - Sentence of Death
5. Running Wild - Gates to Purgatory
6. Queensrÿche - The Warning
7. Mercyful Fate - Don't Break the Oath
8. Sortilège - Métamorphose
9. Saint Vitus - Saint Vitus
10. Metal Church - Metal Church

 

[alex76]

1. Metallica - Ride the Lightning
2. Iron Maiden - Powerslave
3. Mercyful Fate - Don't Break the Oath
4. Slayer - Haunting the Chapel (EP)
5. Scorpions - Love at First Sting
6. Sortilège - Métamorphose
7. Destruction - Sentence of Death (EP)
8. Queensrÿche - The Warning
9. Saint Vitus - Saint Vitus
10. Running Wild - Gates to Purgatory

Honorable Mentions:

Too fucking many! Might fill this in later.

 

[The Ozzman]

Surprised no one has listed Celtic Frost yet

 

[TechnicalBarbarity]

That album is a top 5 album for me mate.

dude, how many "top 5 albums" do you have?

 

[rms]

Jag Panzer - Ample Destruction
Gotham City - The Unknown -- not enough of you dudes apparently have listened to this amazing album
Helstar - Burning Star
Cirith Ungol - King of the Dead
Metallica - Ride The Lightning
Saint Vitus - S/t
Mercyful Fate - Don't Break The Oath
Running Wild - Gates of Purgatory
Tokyo Blade - Night of the Blade
Trouble - Psalm 9

Almost thurr
Brocas Helm - Into Battle

 

[Krow]

RtL is my favorite Metallica album and it won't even make the top ten in my list. I'm not sure I've ever been so burned out on a band before.

 

[The Ozzman]

RtL is my favorite Metallica album and it won't even make the top ten in my list. I'm not sure I've ever been so burned out on a band before.

Probably the only Metallica I'll never get tired of spinning other than KEA. When the 1996 thread came along I revisited Load just because and I had trouble getting through it. Could my pleb tendencies be disappearing albeit very slowly?

 

[zabu of nΩd]

1. Metallica - Ride the Lightning
2. Iron Maiden - Powerslave
3. Yngwie Malmsteen - Rising Force
4. Judas Priest - Defenders of the Faith
5. Twisted Sister - Stay Hungry
   
6. Mercyful Fate - Don't Break the Oath
7. Celtic Frost - Morbid Tales
8. Dio - The Last in Line
9. Anthrax - Fistful of Metal
10. Venom - At War With Satan

 

[Vilden]

Wow, this years was super hard, not sure at all about this. I really want Celtic Frost in there and I wouldn't mind either Dio or Medieval Steel but oh well, they have to step aside when Manowar released their two best albums in the same year...

1. Iron Maiden - Powerslave
2. Queensrÿche - The Warning
3. Manowar - Sign of the Hammer
4. Manowar - Hail to England
5. Bathory - Bathory
6. Warlord - And the Cannons of Destruction Have Begun...
7. Savatage - The Dungeons Are Calling
8. Metallica - Ride the Lightning
9. Sortilège - Métamorphose
10. Omen - Battle Cry

Some worthy runner ups:
Celtic Frost - Morbid Tales
Dio - The Last in Line
Medieval Steel - Medieval Steel
Jag Panzer - Ample Destruction
Gotham City - The Unknown
Europe - Wings of Tomorrow
Nemesis - The Day of Retribution
Mercyful Fate - Don't Break the Oath
Saint Vitus - Saint Vitus

 

[Krow]

1. Cirith Ungol - King of the Dead
2. Mercyful Fate - Dont Break the Oath
3. Saint Vitus - Saint Vitus
4. Iron Maiden - Powerslave
5. Manowar - Hail to England
6. Dio - Last in Line
7. Brocas Helm - Into Battle
8. Omen - Battle Cry
9. Jag Panzer - Ample Destruction
10. Bathory - Bathory

Untouchable top 6.

 

[RadicalThrasher]

1. Valhalla - S/T EP
2. Dark Wizard - Devil's Victim EP
3. Slayer - Haunting the Chapel EP
4.Warlord - And the Cannons of Destruction have begun...
5. Omen - Battle Cry
6.Witch Cross - Fit for Fight
7. Ostrogoth - Danger and Ecstasy
8.Proud - Fire Breaks the Dawn
9.Gotham City - The Unknown ( I know who these guys are )
10. Brainfever - Capture the Night


honorable mentions:
D.R.I. - Violent Pacification
Cirith Ungol - King of the Dead
Malmsteen - Rising Force
Millennium - S/T
Armored Saint - March of the Saint
Chariot - The Warrior

Didn't include Metallica or Maiden just do to the fact that they should get more than enough votes to rank.

 

[zabu of nΩd]

Didn't include Metallica or Maiden just do to the fact that they should get more than enough votes to rank.

Yeah they're just too good - they need to be handicapped to make it fair for all the worse albums

 

[Krow]

Brocas Helm - Defender of the Crown

You're 20 years in the future, but with the correct band.

 

[Talos of Atmora]

1. Iron Maiden - Powerslave
2. Queensrÿche - The Warning
3. Metallica - Ride the Lightning
4. Sortilège - Métamorphose
5. Yngwie Malmsteen's Rising Force - Rising Force
6. Cirith Ungol - King of the Dead
7. Warlord - And the Cannons of Destruction Have Begun...
8. Omen - Battle Cry
9. Manowar - Hail to England
10. Mercyful Fate - Don't Break the Oath

The Honorable Mentions:
Jag Panzer - Ample Destruction
Brocas Helm - Into Battle
Dio - Last in Line
Saint Vitus - Saint Vitus
Celtic Frost - Morbid Tales
Running Wild - Gates to Purgatory
Helstar - Burning Star
Venom - At War With Satan
Judas Priest - Defenders of the Faith
Manowar - Sign of the Hammer

 

[rms]

You're 20 years in the future, but with the correct band.

lawl should be Into Battle haha

 

[gand1234]

1. mercyful fate - dont break the oath
2. metal church - metal church
3. metallica - ride the lightning
4. bathory - bathory
5. dio - the last in line
6. znowhite - all hail to thee
7. wasp - wasp
8. cirith ungol - king of the dead
9. samhain - initium
10. wendi o. williams - WOW

hard to pick

 

[CiG]

dude, how many "top 5 albums" do you have?

Just one, unless you start breaking it down by genre etc.

 

[HamburgerBoy]

I'm trying to find out more about this In the Sign of Evil discrepancy and I'm now pretty convinced that it was an early 1985 release. Can't believe I didn't notice this before. I'm disappointed tbh, I consider it the one redeeming gem in their entire discography and the one case they were actually ahead of the curve, but if Blasphemer really was a Chemical Warfare ripoff all along, that's sad. Victims of Death was apparently released around the same time In the Sign of Evil was alleged to on M-A; historical revisionists strike again. Can't wait until there's definitive evidence that Witching Hour was from 1983 and not 1982.

 

[gand1234]

How far between are these polls? Really brings back some forgotten classics for me