The Official Metalsetlists.com 100 greatest metal albums of the 80s list!

[JRA]

Originally Posted by ravenheart

We counting compilations? I'm guessing not.

No.

Originally Posted by srm90

I thought World Downfall came out in 1990 for some reason. Damn I should've checked.

I'm probably going to end up expanding my list in a couple days.

Nope, 1989. Will definitely be on my list.

[kalfitegrdan]

Originally Posted by PowerMaiden

10 Slayer Seasons In The Abyss

That's 1990, dude.

[Fates Guardian]

I very much hope that Queensryche's 'Queensryche' counts. If it doesn't, that's fucking retarded.

I'll also say that this thread needs way more Fates Warning. I'll be providing you good folks with that shortly. =]

[rjturtle9]

How the fuck did I miss this thread?! I will contribute later this week.

[Maiden33]

01 Iron Maiden - Somewhere in Time (1986)
02 Iron Maiden - Powerslave (1984)
03 Iron Maiden - Piece of Mind (1983)
04 Queensryche - Operation : Mindcrime (1988)
05 Queensryche - The Warning (1984)
06 Savatage - Hall of the Mountain King (1987)
07 Whitesnake - Whitesnake (1987)
08 Black Sabbath - Heaven and Hell (1980)
09 Riot - Thundersteel (1988)
10 Anthrax - Spreading the Disease (1985)
11 Tesla - Mechanical Resonance (1986)
12 Yngwie Malmsteen - Odyssey (1988)
13 Thin Lizzy - Thunder and Lightning (1983)
14 Fates Warning - Perfect Symmetry (1989)
15 Dio - Holy Diver (1983)
16 Helloween - Keeper of the 7 Keys Part 1 (1988)
17 Blue Murder - Blue Murder (1989)
18 Crimson Glory - Crimson Glory (1986)
19 Journey - Escape (1981)
20 King's X - Gretchen Goes to Nebraska (1989)
21 Metal Church - Blessing in Disguise (1989)
22 Europe - Wings of Tomorrow (1984)
23 Magnum - On a Storyteller's Night (1985)
24 Rush - Permanent Waves (1980)
25 Y&T - Mean Streak (1983)
26 Def Leppard - Pyromania (1983)
27 Fifth Angel - Fifth Angel (1985)
28 WASP - WASP (1984)
29 Overkill - The Years of Decay (1989)
30 Grim Reaper - Rock You to Hell (1987)

[DementedX14]

Here is my top 25:

1. Faith No More - The Real Thing
2. Bathory - Blood Fire Death
3. Mercyful Fate - Don't Break The Oath
4. Metallica - Ride the Lightning
5. Iron Maiden - Somewhere in Time
6. Guns N' Roses - Appetite for Destruction
7. Iron Maiden - Seventh Son of a Seventh Son
8. Metallica - Master of Puppets
9. Megadeth - Peace Sells...But Who's Buying?
10. Iron Maiden - The Number of the Beast
11. Judas Priest - Screaming for Vengeance
12. Metallica - ...And Justice For All
13. Slayer - Reign in Blood
14. Death - Leprosy
15. Sepultura - Beneath the Remains
16. Slayer - South of Heaven
17. Iron Maiden - Powerslave
18. Danzig - Danzig
19. King Diamond - Abigail
20. Carnivore - Retaliation
21. Iron Maiden - Piece of Mind
22. Metallica - Kill 'em All
23. S.O.D. - Speak English or Die
24. Mayhem - Deathcrush
25. Carcass - Symphonies of Sickness

[John The Drummer]

I am missing so many good ones, but here we go.

1. Sepultura - Beneath The Remains
2. Pantera - Power Metal
3. Slayer - Reign in Blood
4. Black Sabbath - Heaven and Hell
5. Dio - Holy Diver
6. Judas Priest - British Steel
7. Venom - Welcome To Hell
8. Judas Priest - Screaming For Vengeance
9. Slayer - Show No Mercy
10. Mercyful Fate - Don't Break the Oath
11. Judas Priest - Defenders of the Faith
12. Iron Maiden - Powerslave
13. Rottweiller - Screams of the Innocent
14. Black Sabbath - Mob Rules
15. Bathory - Under The Sign of Hell
16. Kreator - Endless Pain
17. Rush - Moving Pictures
18. Possessed - Seven Churches
19. Celtic Frost - Morbid Tales
20. Metallica - Ride the Lightning
21. Sepultura - Schizophrenia
22. Dio - The Last In Line
23. Kreator - Pleasure to Kill
24. Exodus - Bonded By Blood
25. Metallica - Kill Em All
26. Venom - Black Metal
27. NME - Unholy Death
28. Overkill - Feel The Fire
29. Manowar - Kings of Metal
30. Saint Vitus - Hallow's Victim

[OraclesofAgony]

I was able to expand my list from 20 to 40. A lot of Slayer, Metallica, and Iron Maiden but what can I say, they dominated the decade.

If we were counting EPs I would have Haunting the Chapel high up there too.

[JRA]

Originally Posted by srm90

If we were counting EPs I would have Haunting the Chapel high up there too.

Thought about making an exception to that, but decided against it.

Also, Faith No More doesn't count.

[SomewhereInTime72]

Originally Posted by Fates Guardian

I very much hope that Queensryche's 'Queensryche' counts. If it doesn't, that's fucking retarded.

I don't see how it's fucking retarded if an EP with only 4 songs doesn't qualify for an ALBUMS list.

...Anyway, I was thinking I'd avoid the type of situation where the top of my list is just IRON MAIDEN IRON MAIDEN IRON MAIDEN but I'm realizing that with the limitations of "80s" and "metal," that is pretty much destined to be the case, so I am embracing it. Currently working on a word document I have, making sure the lower rankings on the list are nice and good.