1985: Metal
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- Chart updated: 10/24/2023 02:45
- (Created: 08/31/2021 02:52).
- Chart size: 73 albums.
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HOF
[First added to this chart: 09/28/2021]
5
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HOF
[3] [First added to this chart: 09/28/2021]
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'85:f Dickinsonian
aka Riffs Need Shadows Too!
In the four corners of life are the golden mirrors
Reflecting what you are and what you are to be... – The Apparition
Very few albums can promise you an actual journey. Something on par with great science fiction or perhaps a short story by Poe. This one does. The twin talents of John Arch on vocals and Jim Matheos on guitar creates a unique and utterly novel Progressive Metal masterpiece. Whereas their debut - Night On Brocken - showcased their massive debt to Iron Maiden, The Spectre Within is where Fates Warning came into their own as confident storytellers AND songwriters. Crafting an atmosphere that could only be compared to those early albums by Mercyful Fate at this point in the 80s.
The Spectre Within also underscores the importance of guitar tone. I'd never really thought too much about guitar tone until beginning my deep dive into '70s & '80s metal a few years back. BUT, I’ve come to realize that THAT tone is half the game with of course riffs being the other half. THAT tone shades the riffs. It's the riff's shadow. AND if any album is about mischievous shadows and their eventual capture it's THIS one.
While other bands of the USPM (US Power Metal) movement may have captured the raw visceral energy and power of Maiden , no other quite captured Maiden’s world building & storytelling quite like Fates Warning does here and on its sequel Awaken The Guardian.
At this point in time, Fates Warning were more Maiden than Queensryche, and, in my particular opinion, all the better for it.
The Rating: Twisted Evil Twisted Evil Twisted Evil Twisted Evil Twisted Evil [First added to this chart: 09/28/2021]
aka Riffs Need Shadows Too!
In the four corners of life are the golden mirrors
Reflecting what you are and what you are to be... – The Apparition
Very few albums can promise you an actual journey. Something on par with great science fiction or perhaps a short story by Poe. This one does. The twin talents of John Arch on vocals and Jim Matheos on guitar creates a unique and utterly novel Progressive Metal masterpiece. Whereas their debut - Night On Brocken - showcased their massive debt to Iron Maiden, The Spectre Within is where Fates Warning came into their own as confident storytellers AND songwriters. Crafting an atmosphere that could only be compared to those early albums by Mercyful Fate at this point in the 80s.
The Spectre Within also underscores the importance of guitar tone. I'd never really thought too much about guitar tone until beginning my deep dive into '70s & '80s metal a few years back. BUT, I’ve come to realize that THAT tone is half the game with of course riffs being the other half. THAT tone shades the riffs. It's the riff's shadow. AND if any album is about mischievous shadows and their eventual capture it's THIS one.
While other bands of the USPM (US Power Metal) movement may have captured the raw visceral energy and power of Maiden , no other quite captured Maiden’s world building & storytelling quite like Fates Warning does here and on its sequel Awaken The Guardian.
At this point in time, Fates Warning were more Maiden than Queensryche, and, in my particular opinion, all the better for it.
The Rating: Twisted Evil Twisted Evil Twisted Evil Twisted Evil Twisted Evil [First added to this chart: 09/28/2021]
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Glam
[5] [First added to this chart: 09/29/2021]
[5] [First added to this chart: 09/29/2021]
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"Man have I got the guitar player for you. You like Blue Cheer and Sabbath? This guy is both wrapped into one!” – Joe Hasselvander of Pentagram
It was a match made in, well, hell to be perfectly honest. Bobby Liebling was a notorious D.C. junkie with an opiod tolerance that could rival William S. Burroughs'. Victor Griffin was a nineteen year old hillbilly from the boondocks of Tennessee where there wasn’t even a music scene. But Victor had a serious Iommi obsession and an inventive streak. On the drop B tuning that made Pentagram the kings of doom in the mid 80s, Victor humbly states…
“Yeah, that was kind of a weird discovery. I had been messing around with a drop D tuning before and kept dropping it lower. When I got down to B, I suddenly realized that when you play a fifth chord on the top two strings, it makes this octave. I’d never heard anything like it. And I don’t know of anybody who actually did anything like that before. Even Sabbath!”
Everyone told Victor that Bobby Liebling was bad news. He was unreliable. A prima-donna. Bobby perhaps says it best himself…
“I was shooting dope like crazy then. I wasn’t smoking crack because it hadn’t been invented yet. At this point all the veins in my arms and leg were gone. [So] I went right out and started shooting dope in my neck! [Laughs] I’m a walking miracle, man. God Let me live twice. “
But after Victor heard Bobby’s 70s demos, his mind was made up. Insisting, “I don’t care – I want this guy to sing.“ And that was that. Bobby was his singer. And together they made Doom history with what I personally consider THE Blueprint of Doom. Leaden, monstrous Sabbath riffs so heavy they suck you down to the ground as Bobby’s Ozzy-like yelps and wails fight against their relentless gravitational pull. It was Sabbath stripped down to the chassis and then tripped out as the ultimate muscle car from Tarantino’s Death Trip. Drop B tuning being the engine that powered the whole damn thing and made them the kings of the strip. [First added to this chart: 09/29/2021]
It was a match made in, well, hell to be perfectly honest. Bobby Liebling was a notorious D.C. junkie with an opiod tolerance that could rival William S. Burroughs'. Victor Griffin was a nineteen year old hillbilly from the boondocks of Tennessee where there wasn’t even a music scene. But Victor had a serious Iommi obsession and an inventive streak. On the drop B tuning that made Pentagram the kings of doom in the mid 80s, Victor humbly states…
“Yeah, that was kind of a weird discovery. I had been messing around with a drop D tuning before and kept dropping it lower. When I got down to B, I suddenly realized that when you play a fifth chord on the top two strings, it makes this octave. I’d never heard anything like it. And I don’t know of anybody who actually did anything like that before. Even Sabbath!”
Everyone told Victor that Bobby Liebling was bad news. He was unreliable. A prima-donna. Bobby perhaps says it best himself…
“I was shooting dope like crazy then. I wasn’t smoking crack because it hadn’t been invented yet. At this point all the veins in my arms and leg were gone. [So] I went right out and started shooting dope in my neck! [Laughs] I’m a walking miracle, man. God Let me live twice. “
But after Victor heard Bobby’s 70s demos, his mind was made up. Insisting, “I don’t care – I want this guy to sing.“ And that was that. Bobby was his singer. And together they made Doom history with what I personally consider THE Blueprint of Doom. Leaden, monstrous Sabbath riffs so heavy they suck you down to the ground as Bobby’s Ozzy-like yelps and wails fight against their relentless gravitational pull. It was Sabbath stripped down to the chassis and then tripped out as the ultimate muscle car from Tarantino’s Death Trip. Drop B tuning being the engine that powered the whole damn thing and made them the kings of the strip. [First added to this chart: 09/29/2021]
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'85:e Better Late
The Setting: Survey says Exodus were a year or two late to the party. That by the time Bonded By Blood arrived, Thrash history had passed them by. Thrash had evolved, and Exodus were so last year's Thrash fashion. So we can just forget about them, right?
The Listen: Wrong! Riff for riff this is as good as ANY of the celebrated albums of The Big Four. Sonically and compositionally it's closest to Metallica's Kill 'Em All, but it has riffs all of its own and, if anything, is even more aggressive, fierce and primal. Besides, I'm on record for wanting MORE of that raw First Wave Of Thrash sound, and Bonded By Blood delivers that and then some.
The Verdict: Simply one of the best Thrash albums of the entire 80s. It'll easily slot in my Top Ten Metal Albums of 1985 right up there with Megadeth's Killing Is My Business.... Don't sleep on their massively underrated follow-up - Pleasures Of The Flesh - either!
The Rating: Twisted Evil Twisted Evil Twisted Evil Twisted Evil Twisted Evil [First added to this chart: 09/28/2021]
The Setting: Survey says Exodus were a year or two late to the party. That by the time Bonded By Blood arrived, Thrash history had passed them by. Thrash had evolved, and Exodus were so last year's Thrash fashion. So we can just forget about them, right?
The Listen: Wrong! Riff for riff this is as good as ANY of the celebrated albums of The Big Four. Sonically and compositionally it's closest to Metallica's Kill 'Em All, but it has riffs all of its own and, if anything, is even more aggressive, fierce and primal. Besides, I'm on record for wanting MORE of that raw First Wave Of Thrash sound, and Bonded By Blood delivers that and then some.
The Verdict: Simply one of the best Thrash albums of the entire 80s. It'll easily slot in my Top Ten Metal Albums of 1985 right up there with Megadeth's Killing Is My Business.... Don't sleep on their massively underrated follow-up - Pleasures Of The Flesh - either!
The Rating: Twisted Evil Twisted Evil Twisted Evil Twisted Evil Twisted Evil [First added to this chart: 09/28/2021]
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7
[First added to this chart: 09/30/2021]
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'85:d Hell Has No Fury Like a Scorned Dave
Aka Coke, Heroin & Hamburgers
“I was out for blood. Theirs.” - Dave Mustaine
As soon as the album starts, you can taste it. The anger. The vitriol. There’s blood on those fingers. Blood on those riffs. Most of all, it's got personality. Oodles of it. Dave "The Misfit King" Mustaine knew exactly what he wanted. He had a vision. Everything was thought out. Planned. He wanted it relatable to your misfitted metalhead, and he would be their new king. The cover got botched, but he had a plan for that as well.
Some say KIMB... was rushed to market. That they should have waited. I say, "Bullshit!". It’s exactly that rushed, frenzied, "Oh fuck, I just did too much coke" that gives it its charm. By the time they got to Peace Sells, that edge had been filed down a bit.
Which brings me to another point. Just as I would I have loved me a few more Kill ‘Em Alls and Show No Mercys, I would have loved me some more KIMBs too. A complete classic that holds its own better than most give it credit for.
As Dave recounts, “There were comments good and bad about the record, but I didn’t care. All I knew was that I had stuck my flag in the ground..”
Damn straight, Dave! Damn straight!
Warning: I’m one of those people who think Megadeth’s first four albums are more exciting than Metallica’s! [First added to this chart: 09/29/2021]
Aka Coke, Heroin & Hamburgers
“I was out for blood. Theirs.” - Dave Mustaine
As soon as the album starts, you can taste it. The anger. The vitriol. There’s blood on those fingers. Blood on those riffs. Most of all, it's got personality. Oodles of it. Dave "The Misfit King" Mustaine knew exactly what he wanted. He had a vision. Everything was thought out. Planned. He wanted it relatable to your misfitted metalhead, and he would be their new king. The cover got botched, but he had a plan for that as well.
Some say KIMB... was rushed to market. That they should have waited. I say, "Bullshit!". It’s exactly that rushed, frenzied, "Oh fuck, I just did too much coke" that gives it its charm. By the time they got to Peace Sells, that edge had been filed down a bit.
Which brings me to another point. Just as I would I have loved me a few more Kill ‘Em Alls and Show No Mercys, I would have loved me some more KIMBs too. A complete classic that holds its own better than most give it credit for.
As Dave recounts, “There were comments good and bad about the record, but I didn’t care. All I knew was that I had stuck my flag in the ground..”
Damn straight, Dave! Damn straight!
Warning: I’m one of those people who think Megadeth’s first four albums are more exciting than Metallica’s! [First added to this chart: 09/29/2021]
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Power Metal
Great! [First added to this chart: 09/30/2021]
Great! [First added to this chart: 09/30/2021]
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Pray For Power [9]
Doom & sludge meets Hardcore punk at its most chaotic. You can tell these guys worship Black Flag & Black Sabbath in equal measure. Circle Jerks & Iron maiden were also influences!
Total Hardcore Punk [First added to this chart: 06/21/2022]
Doom & sludge meets Hardcore punk at its most chaotic. You can tell these guys worship Black Flag & Black Sabbath in equal measure. Circle Jerks & Iron maiden were also influences!
Total Hardcore Punk [First added to this chart: 06/21/2022]
Total albums: 73. Page 1 of 8
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1985: Metal composition
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| 1980 | 0 | 0% | |
| 1981 | 0 | 0% | |
| 1982 | 0 | 0% | |
| 1983 | 0 | 0% | |
| 1984 | 0 | 0% | |
| 1985 | 72 | 99% | |
| 1986 | 1 | 1% | |
| 1987 | 0 | 0% | |
| 1988 | 0 | 0% | |
| 1989 | 0 | 0% |
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| Razor | 2 | 3% | |
| Celtic Frost | 2 | 3% | |
| Helloween | 2 | 3% | |
| Dokken | 1 | 1% | |
| Accept | 1 | 1% | |
| Thor | 1 | 1% | |
| Onslaught | 1 | 1% | |
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37 | 51% | |
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14 | 19% | |
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8 | 11% | |
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5 | 7% | |
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2 | 3% | |
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1985: Metal chart changes
| Biggest climbers |
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| Up 1 from 11th to 10th Animosity by Corrosion Of Conformity |
1985: Metal similar charts
| Title | Source | Type | Published | Country |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Top 50 Music Albums of 1985 |  btener11 | 1985 year chart | 2012 | |
| Thrash Enough? |  elo269megv | Custom chart | 2019 | |
| Top 35 Music Albums of 1985 |  mrblond | 1985 year chart | 2021 |  |
| Top 40 Music Albums of 1985 |  badseed | 1985 year chart | 2015 | |
| 1984: Metal | Repo | Custom chart | 2023 | |
| Top 56 Music Albums of 1985 | nas062080 | 1985 year chart | 2013 | |
| Top 34 Music Albums of 1985 |  Mercury | 1985 year chart | 2023 | |
| Top Thrash Metal Albums | saltysurprise | Custom chart | 2021 | |
| Top 60 Music Albums of the 1980s |  Hermes_requite | 1980s decade chart | 2012 | |
| Top 40 Greatest Music Albums | Cronostalksmetal | Overall chart | 2021 |  |
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