What was the best year for metal during the 80s?

[IWP]

Discuss.

 

[Zephyrus]

1986

Reign in Blood
Master of Puppets
Peace Sells...But Who's Buying
Pleasure to Kill
Epicus Doomicus Metallicus

 

[V.V.V.V.V.]

1986 is the ONLY choice!

 

[IWP]

83 and 88 were good years as well.

1983:
Metallica - Kill 'Em All
Iron Maiden - Piece Of Mind

Two of my favorite metal albums.

1988:
Iron Maiden - Seventh Son Of A Seventh Son
Pantera - Power Metal
Judas Priest - Ram It Down
Slayer - South Of Heaven
Overkill - Under The Influence
Sepultura - Schizophenia
Blind Guardian - Battalions Of Fear
Helloween - Keeper Of The Seven Keys 2

 

[immo]

1985
The Return....
Open The Gates
Relentless
Seven Churches
Hell Awaits
My birthday . That was so damn metal... friday 13, almost midnight.. and the electricity at the hospital went off because of a storm(i'm not joking).

 

[cookiecutter]

1986 - Reign in Blood. I am more of 90's/00's person so I am not knowledgable about all the great releases in the 80's/

 

[MasterOLightning]

1985
The Return....
Open The Gates
Relentless
Seven Churches
Hell Awaits
My birthday . That was so damn metal... friday 13, almost midnight.. and the electricity at the hospital went off because of a storm(i'm not joking).

There was electricity in Romania in the '80s? Wow.

 

[Astrum]

Any year an Iron Maiden album came out, because every album by them released in the 80s owns.

 

[Wires & Waves]

There was electricity in Romania in the '80s? Wow.

what the fuck man

 

[Satanstoenail]

86 for sure.

 

[Dee Snarl]

86 is the obvious answer, but I had to go 84 for personal hair metal reasons....

 

[Slayed Necros]

88

 

[Hatebreeder]

Shit, I meant to vote for '88, but I accidentally clicked '87. Anyway, my reasoning:

Helloween - KotSK Pt. II (one of power metal's greatest accomplishments)
Blind Guardian - Battalions of Fear (see above)
Death - Leprosy (further proof that Death was at the forefront of DM)
Bathory - Blood Fire Death (a foreshadowing of Bathory's future viking metal and a step up from their former music)

Just off the top of my head.

 

[Saparmurat_Niyazov]

I voted for 1986 not even thinking of what was released that year. I just remember the amount of good albums coming out that year being high. Thankfully, Zephyrus did my dirty work for me.

 

[Orfanos]

Difficult poll, but my choices are...

1986

Fates Warning - Awaken the Guardian
Iron Maiden - Somewhere In Time
Metal Church - The Dark
Helstar - Remnants of War
Omen - The Curse
Heir Apparent - The Graceful Inheritance
Queensryche - Rage for Order
Crimson Glory - Crimson Glory
Accept - Russian Roullette
Cirith Ungol - One Foot In Hell

1988

Iron Maiden - Seventh Son...
Riot - Thundersteel
Crimson Glory - Transcendence
Fates Warning - No Exit
Queensryche - Operation: Mindcrime
Helstar - A Distant Thunder
Manowar - Kings of Metal
Gargoyle - Gargoyle
Apocrypha - The Forgotten Scroll
Rage - Perfect Man
Ossian - Acelsziv

 

[Hell Awaits Us All]

88

"1988:
Iron Maiden - Seventh Son Of A Seventh Son
Pantera - Power Metal
Judas Priest - Ram It Down
Slayer - South Of Heaven
Overkill - Under The Influence
Sepultura - Schizophenia
Blind Guardian - Battalions Of Fear
Helloween - Keeper Of The Seven Keys 2"

add "and justice for all" by metallica

 

[Orfanos]

Add at my 1986 list

Fifth Angel - Fifth Angel
Sortilege - Larmes d'Heros

 

[The Heartbreak Kid]

1986 - Ozzy - The Ultimate Sin

 

[PanzerKunt]

89 cause the last night ended it all.

 

[metal paddy]

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