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Yeah, a Discogs editor wrote that he bought it when it first came out, early 1985 (on the original German issue). A bio online says they were signed around the time of their Dec 1st 1984 gig, so the records must've been pressed that month based on the copyright year.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.
i think ITSOE would have to be later than '85 to stop being ahead of its time.
1) Iron Maiden - Powerslave
2) Metallica - Ride the Lightning
3) Mercyful Fate - Don't Break the Oath
4) Dio - Last In Line
5) Armored Saint - March of the Saint
6) Voivod - War and Pain
7) Judas Priest - Defenders of the Faith
8) Metal Church - s/t
9) Yngwie Malmsteen - Rising Force
10) Queensryche - The Warning
I'd say the first 8 are pretty much a lock, but trying to choose the final two (with so many classics) was fucking brutal.
HM: Manowar, Bathory, Exciter, WASP. Trouble, Omen, TNT, Saxon, Loudness, etc....
seems kinda retarded to call an album with five blatantly great songs inconsistent (like... it is a bit, but i'd take that over a consistently *good* record all day long), but eh i'm more offended by the jag panzer snubs. cirith ungol are an acquired taste, panzer are objectively the most metal band in known human history and make dio, manowar and omen look like a gaggle of hairless wrist-slapping squat-thrusting sissies.
panzer are objectively the most metal band in known human history and make dio, manowar and omen look like a gaggle of hairless wrist-slapping squat-thrusting sissies.