BEST METAL OF 1984 as chosen by you | Overkill Rewind

[@Herrbink]

Glad too see Celtic Frost at least got an honorable mention along with Bathory.

[@gp365y]

Venom - At War with Satan should be there too.

[@noogie3784]

@@gp365y agreed.

[@noogie3784]

I think over Judas Priest

[@MikeHunt90731]

yeah that was cool

[@C_mao]

I saw them play live, at a bar, they opened for Slayer (Hell Awaits tour)

[@TimCarter]

Armored Saint - March of the Saint Dio - The Last in Line Dokken - Tooth and Nail Fates Warning - Night on Bröcken Lita Ford - Dancin' on the Edge Iron Maiden - Powerslave Judas Priest - Defenders of the Faith Yngwie Malmsteen - Rising Force Mercyful Fate - Don't Break the Oath Metal Church - Metal Church Metallica - Ride the Lightning Queensrÿche - The Warning A great year for metal.

[@kkarx]

Armoured Saint! Killer album. Ratt Out of the cellar also forgotten.

[@ezioauditore7427]

Dokken really ? lol

[@FinalBaton]

Bro.. I had forgotten that Tooth and Nails was that year. amazing melodic metal record, deserves an honorable mention

[@policyjunkie3312]

Van Halen 1984

[@josemarceangles4128]

Wolf 'edge of the world" other mention

[@josephbenz4913]

Don't Break The Oath! Was listening to that the other day. So good...

[@KokomoJoe23]

Don’t Break The Oath in the top 5 that’s what I like to see 🤘🏼

[@thomasackerly7732]

Cody Grant Me to

[@n3Cr0ManCeD]

Kudos for including Mercyful Fate's "Don't Break The Oath". This album was, and still is sooooo under rated. I think it deserved a higher rating simply for the impact and influence it had.

[@josh-foss]

By far and away my favorite segment on Banger. I could listen to The Professor talk about classic metal for days on end. Thank you Martin and thank you Banger for this content.

[@mladennedic3880]

Well...W.A.S.P. released their first album in 1984...I would at least mention it, great album

[@societydwellingifd8080]

W.A.S.P. is still one of my fav bands and BLACKIE LAWLESS is my fav singer! 🤘🏻💀🤘🏻

[@opendagates8642]

SOCIETYDWELLIN GIFD omg so underrated I love blackie lawless

[@gwts1171]

My 2nd favorite of the year, behind "Powerslave".

[@danielmankowski922]

The W.A.S.P debut I will go as far as calling it a flawless album! All killer NO FILLER!🤘🤘

[@grilledspaghetti]

Fuck yeah, they threw the whole Mtv generation on their ear. Nothing like that had ever hit popular culture and even us kids didn't know what to think other than "this kicks ass!!!".

[@pdid3048]

I may not always agree with your opinions, but I thoroughly enjoy hearing them. I love your wealth of knowledge!

[@Gregbaltzer]

I would take the production of Defenders of the Faith, or almost any 80's album, over the shit modern metal productions now.

[@fasteddie3939]

Amen!

[@Assimilator702]

Baltzeg Dynamic Range.

[@isaacdante667]

i must be the only one that likes modern metal production over 80s production, idk the reverb in most 80s shit is always a turn off for me

[@guitarrock58]

fear not, my band is gonna release an album soon and it will NOT sound like today's shit :)

[@Gregbaltzer]

I don't know how anyone could think that the modern production used on Gene Hoglan's drums in Testament is better than his drum sound with Death or Dark Angel. I can't listen to the last Testament album because the drum sound is shit, and the whole thing sounds like it was produced on a lap top. Two of my favorite drum production albums are Cryptic Slaughter - Convicted, and The Accused - Grinning Like An Undertaker. I love the production on those albums. I would rather hear more productions like that than anything like the new Death Angel, or Testament. At least the new Sacred Reich are keeping the production old school.

[@jondubb35]

Great work as always from Martin! Love the debut Metal Church album. Such an underrated record.

[@efogg3]

yep! the first two songs on that album destroy everything! \m/

[@KevinOrtega1980]

Yeah I definitely agree to that, love the album

[@anthonyrivers1619]

@@KevinOrtega1980 Criminally underrated! I have the album framed and also have the t-shirt... My wife thinks they have the best band name in heavy metal! Lol

[@raykeefer378]

This was the number one album in my opinion. Every song on it kicks ass.

[@KevinOrtega1980]

Anthony Rivers I agree with you, it is so underrated that it makes me sick... I love Metal Church, even their new shit rocks! Cheers!

[@billcowan5539]

I’m glad that Mercyful Fate made the top 3. When I was 15 I had this on Vinyl and to this day it remains one of my favorites of all time. Hail to the King!!!!

[@rickycoleman8841]

Love that album and still listen to it often

[@anthonyrivers1619]

Excellent comment!

[@C_mao]

I had those first two Mercyful Fate albums on vinyl, the guitar stuff was kick-ass but i did have some problems w the falsetto (: the growls were cool, but the writing was kinda weird (: good albums tho

[@redinthesky1]

Dude... Dont Break The Oath is at least 5/5 :)

[@l30S3UX]

Hail! .... but fair comment from Popoff

[@andrasszeri4753]

If not 6 out of 5

[@rickycoleman8841]

Love that album

[@Vreth6]

@@andrasszeri4753 It's a 6 out of 5 for sure

[@AztekDeathWeasel]

Sorry man but back then it just went over everybody's head. shouldn't even be on the list.

[@kitoyobeni1]

Martin mentions Black & Blue as sounding like Ratt, but doesn't mention Out Of The Cellar, out in '84?!? HERESY!

[@kitoyobeni1]

@drummerguy 85 Invasion was released July 13, 1985. Cellar was released March 23, 1984.

[@leddygee1896]

@@kitoyobeni1 And Warren Di Martini is a killer Guitar player!!

[@kitoyobeni1]

@@leddygee1896 One of my favorites; love his lead style.

[@KowankoMusic]

RATT's debut was surely the best representation of the Sunset Strip contingent in 1984.

[@kitoyobeni1]

@SabuPtolemy Black N' Blue always came off really cheesy to me, but maybe I haven't heard the first album.

[@mrmcmcc1]

Scorpions - Love at the first sting 1984 was one of the best albums came out that year...rock you like a hurricane, big city nights, bad boys running wild, coming home...etc

[@C_mao]

great album

[@pr0_gabby656]

Agreed! And we got World Wide Live from that tour!

[@tommymelchert9052]

Jag panzer- ample destruction , a really great and forgotten album released aug 84

[@buketyurtal187]

Nice to see someone mentioning the Ample Destruction greatness,in my opinion Omen-Battle Cry and Pretty Maids-Red,Hot and Heavy are also classic albums beyond their time that should be mentioned for 1984.

[@derekobs9688]

@@buketyurtal187 100s of albums are released every year, not all of them are qualitatively worthy of a top 5, people need to understand it lol, Queenscryche-The Warning, Ratt-Out of the cellar, Queenscryche-The Warning, Wasp-S\T, Yngwie-Rising Force, Manowar-Hail to England would have been some fine mentions

[@stretchwith]

I got Ride the Lightning as a freshman at NCState. WKNC was the greatest radio station on the planet. I shared the album with a friend in Lumberton, NC. I will take credit for introducing Metallica to Lumberton, NC. :)

[@karllux-d6g]

dR Popoff, I've been into MFate since 1982, and I'm close to 56 now. So, please don't say nobody cared about it - in my country, Portugal, they were big because Antonio Sergio was playing them on National Fm. - and so did Tommy Vance across the MW waves to continental Europe. Having said this, this is a very good review. You rule in everything Metal. Thanks.

[@Jim-be8sj]

I totally agree. Mercyful Fate was a very big deal. Anybody who knew anything about heavt metal was into that band at the time.

[@WillieSurvive1]

Defenders production = I agree Worth mentioning: WASP debut and Twisted Sister’s “Stay Hungry”

[@kristiankrastanov5995]

Nice to see mr. Popoff is a fan of Blind Guardian!

[@seangagnonProvidenceR.I.]

Judas Priest Defenders of the Faith, Dokken Tooth and Nail, Scorpions Love at First Sting just to name a few. Love that early 80’s stuff heck yeah 😁

[@russell2890]

1984 was a great year for metal

[@AuntieTrichome]

Russel Keith That’s the reason I didn’t vote. Too many yummie albums which made it impossible for me to pick a nr. 1 record. Happy with the list though (except for Merciful Fate: great music but yes, that voice 😣).

[@Halberstramshaberdashery]

Ty Morn Better than 1986? Not so sure about that...

[@AztekDeathWeasel]

also the title of an unmentioned classic from Van Halen.

[@danielvibez4000]

@@AztekDeathWeasel cant happen they ain't even heavy XD

[@Frip36]

'84 was classic melodic metal's last good year, to me. After that it got too hair metal, and the production too fake. 1982 was metal's best year in my opinion.

[@nicholasbenedictrobinson7841]

The W.A.S.P. debut is the biggest omission here.

[@entertherealmofchaos]

Love that LP. Still sounds amazing.

[@mikeyb8040]

was gonna say

[@KowankoMusic]

that and ACCEPT's Balls To The Wall

[@anthonyrivers1619]

@@KowankoMusic Balls to the walls is a perfect album...amazing... I have it framed next to the original album cover of love at first sting... both German, both black-and-white

[@daridane5603]

Yes WASP and also Scorpions-Love At First Sting.

[@twikirobot6897]

It's funny to see some of these albums getting nods after all these decades, when it seemed like I was the only one listening to them at the time.

[@deniswegele6130]

1:ManOwaR - Hail To England, 2:MetallicA - Ride the Lightning, 3:ManOwaR - Sign of the Hammer,4: Twisted Sister - Stay Hungry, 5:W.A.S.P. - W.A.S.P. 6.Mercyfull Fate - Don`t Break the Outh, 7.Scorpions -Love at First Sting, 8:Anthrax - Fistfull of Metal, 9: Iron Maiden - Powerslave, 10: Bathory - Bathory.

[@shaunsmith7651]

Metal Church is grossly under-rated.

[@derekobs9688]

Good one, but definitely not worthy of a top 5, for thrash it doesnt stand a chance in hell compared to RTL for 1984

[@C_mao]

I really liked their first album, (second album not as good) Merciless Onslaught ! (: I saw them play live. Those were great years for heavy metal

[@rrad70]

Gods of wrath

[@ryanvaubel7186]

Absolutely a great album. Very underrated

[@astralmass]

I love this community! And yeah all the hosts kick ass but I definitely perk up when Martin's on cuz I KNOW I'm gonna learn something.

[@roberthyatt6230]

Trouble is a classic album. You bastards are gonna pay. Genius

[@donaldwrissler9059]

Even though I'm a huge Queensryche fan nothing on the list would I want bumped. Love the Mercyful Fate inclusion. Other bands that I would include in the Honorable Mentions: Yngwie J. Malmsteen - Rising Force Warlord - Cannons of Destruction (Huge Power metal influence) Jag Panzer - Ample Destruction Cirith Ungol - King of the Dead ( Def, Vocals of acquired taste) Couple of Seattle shout outs that were great this year: Taist of Iron - Resurection ( horrible production, but great work shines through) Q5 - Steel the Light (Original Guitarist Floyd Rose)

[@l30S3UX]

Rising Force for sure! so influential!

[@buketyurtal187]

Yeah Warlord exactly!! Where it all began...Hail to the mighty William J.Tsamis \m/ and Thunderchild Mark Zonder

[@ryanvaubel7186]

Metal Church should have made this list! No disrespect to those that made it but it is an excellent record

[@hi1000ish]

Ryan Vaubel the second best translation from one song to the other is easily beyond the Black into metal church (the best translation is revaluation Mother Earth into steal away the night on blizzard of ozz)

[@1mikewalsh]

Yup!

[@Lyka-clock]

The prog thrash nature of Ride the Lightning didn't click with me and I gravitated toward For whom the bell tolls. I was kinda disappointed and missed the first records style. One day I put the tape in my radio and took a walk around and it started to grow on me and I realized I was listening to the future of metal. It was so far away from anything else out there and still is one of the sickest records you could throw on.

[@StevenMazz1]

fantastic choices - Mercyful Fate definitely deserves a nod for awesome guitars

[@Moth-ManRemasters]

Steven Mazzone the bass guitar is great as well, especially on come to the sabbath

[@StevenMazz1]

@@Moth-ManRemasters You are most correct, friend :-)

[@ToastedCigar]

Nice to see that you gave recognition to Celtic Frost. Morbid Tales is one of the most important extreme metal records of all time

[@anthonyrivers1619]

Yes indeed

[@metalpractor5150]

Great review. I wonder though, what’s not ground breaking about queensryche’s NM156, before the storm, sanctuary, and roads to madness? Not weird production, just modernized metal with perfect use of technology.

[@patcowger]

Hell yeah. The Warning gets my vote!

[@TimSumm]

I dont at all get the criticism about the DOTF production . It may sound a little bit dated but far from awful surely.

[@warpig4942]

It's funny that he critiques DotF and then gives an honorable mention to that Chateaux album that sounds like it's coming out of an old See 'N Say toy.

[@chopinfanne8021]

Yeah exactly I felt like that was unwarranted, except I may be a little bias because it was one of the first metal albums I listened to. I like your profile picture btw

[@flippy7035]

Infact, i think it's one of it's strong points

[@KowankoMusic]

I think it was definitely a step down from the production standards JP had set at the time. All the reverb washes everything out and takes away a lot of the impact heard on the punchier Screaming For Vengeance (for instance). I feel exactly the same way about Scorpions' Love At First Sting (also 1984) - compared to its predecessor Blackout, it sounds watered down (even though the songs were mostly killer). A lot of great albums were spoiled by digital reverb in the 1980s

[@mikebehrend3152]

Defenders seemed like when JP became a parody of themselves

[@Preacher357]

Glad to see I am not the only one that loves Dio's Dream Evil album. It is my favorite Dio record.

[@rosanagillespie9590]

Nice list that seems pretty safe. For me, it’s Voivod- War and Pain.

[@billw5235]

War & Pain is a classic, which got more spins from me in 1984 than Ride the Lightening did.

[@michaelkoury6091]

Great list! It’s tough, there were so many metal bands during that time! Seriously the list could go on and on! Great to see metal is still alive! 🤘🤘💯

[@ilyalead4blade897]

1984 apart from 1983 is arguably the best year of heavy metal. I think at least worth mentioning are W. A. S. P. - W. A. S. P., Warlock - Burning The Witches, Manowar - Hail To England, Armored Saint - The March Of The Saint, Twisted Sister - Stay Hungry

[@jondubb35]

The thing I love about Martin’s reviews, is that he gives it straight. Doesn’t sugarcoat anything. His comments on Defenders Of The Faith and the production, are actually extremely accurate. Regardless if an album is considered classic, he’s gonna give you his full critique, whether it’s positive or not.

[@Frip36]

Are you his father?

[@sidneypugles2895]

Great video, altough I disagree with you a lot about defenders, don't break and powerslave, for me they are all five skulls

[@Halberstramshaberdashery]

About to watch this but off the top of the head, three metal albums in particular stand out for me in 1984. 1) Metallica - Ride the Lightning 2) Celtic Frost - Morbid Tales 3) Iron Maiden - Powerslave

[@sirkazm]

I can say I knew about Mercyful Fate. I was graduating the 8th grade at the time. I got the cassette shortly after it came out and blasted it out of my SoundDesign boom box. It must've been September 1984 and to this day I am still blasting it. I remember everyone else around me being into the break dancing craze, but not me. I got into metal the previous year thanks to Ozzy Osbourne.

[@jessehernandez5188]

What was the outro song? Sounds killer 🤘

[@gabrielbacca381]

wondering about it myself too...

[@EricWright1995]

Other honorable mentions...Piledriver-Metal Inquisition , Anthrax-Fistful of Metal, Exciter-Violence & Force, Venom-At War with Satan, Armored Saint-March of the Saint Cirith Ungol-king of the dead, Voivod-war and pain, W.A.S.P.-W.A.S.P., Running Wild-gates to purgatory, Saxon-crusader

[@Otrebor2099]

This is the year that I was born so it has a very special place in my mind. I was glad that I have already heard all of the main top 5 but what a surprise with the honorable mentions, I didnt know any of them except Celtic Frost. A long day of 80s metal is coming right away to catch up... just 35 years latter hehhehe

[@ΓιώργοςΜ-γ2ψ]

1984 was great year for metal !!!!!

[@Protometal66]

Yep, I was 17 at the time and buying every heavy metal album I could afford. So many classics from that year.

[@thecontrarians2438]

Great video again! Thanks professor Popoff! Man do 80's metal bands have the best album covers!

[@diego17th]

Dio, five out of five. You are a genius sir. That album is perfection!!!

[@presence9745]

Seen him live mid 90s he sounded amazing

[@DannyGadish]

5. The Warning - Queensryche 4. Love At First Sting - Scorpions 3. Defenders Of The Faith - Judas Priest 2. Great White - Great White 1. W.A.S.P. - W.A.S.P.

[@ΞενοφωνΒασιλοπουλος]

Manowar Hail to England , Slayer Hell Awaits , Mercyful Fate Don't break the oath , Omen Battle Cry , Metallica ride the lightning , Iron maiden powerslave , Bathory Bathory , Judas Priest Defenders of the faith, Yngwie Malmsteen rising force , Celtic Frost Morbid tales , Running Wild Gates to purgatory ,Anthrax Fist full of Metal

[@MuddyRavine]

My top 5 Black n Blue - Black n Blue, Judas Priest - Defenders, Iron Maiden - Powerslave, Loudness - Disillusion, Metallica - Ride the Lightning and just on the outside Armored Saint - March of the Saint.

[@anthonyrivers1619]

That is awesome having black n blue as number one... that album still stands the test of time! only reason it didn't do better is out of the cellar came out before it!

[@jaydoubleu3419]

powerslave tour when i was 15 was and is one of the best tours ever

[@ErinMercurial]

Love the shirt!!! Blind Guardians best album IMO...definitely my favorite! A Night at the Opera!!!!

[@leesanction2068]

Pretty underated album if you ask me. Battlefield and Wait for an Answer are kick ass songs.

[@damiankarras]

My favourite Priest album. Their most solid through and through in the 80s. The Sentinal is incredible. Would love to hear a remastered/remixed version where they fix the drums. And Heavy Duty/Defenders can go.

[@RamCruiserOverland]

Priest opened their recent Austin set with The Sentinal. I was so excited to hear it live.

[@derekobs9688]

Screaming

[@nogodsnomasters666]

This show is making me want to find my old tapes of The Metal Shop.

[@gwts1171]

My pre-viewing top 10 (instead of five): 1) Iron Maiden - Powerslave 2) WASP - WASP 3) Scorpions - Love At First Sting 4) Dokken - Tooth & Nail 5) Anthrax - Fistful Of Metal 6) Metallica - Ride The Lightning 7) Trouble - Psalm 9 8) Mercyful Fate - Don't Break The Oath 9) Sodom - In The Sign Of Evil 10) Destruction - Sentence Of Death ...and Dream Evil is also my favorite Dio album, Martin.

[@thgeremilrivera-thorsen9556]

SO HAPPY TO SEE MERCIFUL FATE ON THIS LIST yesyesyes!

[@Headbanger9000]

Don't Break the Oath is hands down the best Heavy/Black Metal album of all time imo. Saw King 4 times and at nearly 65 yrs old his voice is STILL amazing. Mercyful Fate is my favorite band along with King Diamond solo \m/

[@itsglen9646]

Don't Break the Oath is one of my top album covers. Holy crap, that thing is scary.

[@terrisamuels9078]

Possessed "Seven Churches", Queensryche "The Warning", and Mercyful Fate "Don't Break the Oath"

[@MetalionSOS]

I didn't know about this list so otherwise would have voted. My list anyway: 05 Omen - Battle Cry, 04 Spellbound - Breaking The Spell , 03 Witch Cross - Fit For Fight, 02 Cirith Ungol - King Of The Dead , 01 Running Wild - Gates To Purgatory .

[@RedAce93]

Albums that I'm saddened arnt shown: Armored Saint- March of The Saint Ratt- Out of The Cellar Dokken- Tooth And Nail Scorpions- Love At First Sting W.A.S.P.- Self Titled

[@thenash76]

YES! Super stoked to see love for Psalm 9. One of my favorite records ever

[@pr0_gabby656]

Thank you for mentioning that first Black N Blue album! Fantastic songs. Hold On To 18 is still one of my favorite songs of all time.

[@mikekrause3671]

my 1984 fave's : 1). Celtic frost - Morbid Tales 2). Metallica - RTL 3). Voi Vod - War and Pain 4). Iron Maiden -Powerslave 5). M. Fate - Dont break the oath

[@anthonyrivers1619]

Honorable mention: Y & T In Rock We Trust

[@pr0_gabby656]

Fantastic album. Keep On Run-in' is just a great song!

[@1970borntorun]

Y&T / Dave Meneketti has more talent in his Pinky than these shit bands these Brain-dead Metal Morons are commenting on here. WASP, Twisted Sister ??? LMAO !! What's next, a Career Retrospective of the Great Songwriter Lita Ford ?? HAHAHAHAHA !!

[@dantelombardi]

🤘12:07 Mercyful fate n' Powerslade are master piece🤘

[@filipwretner8153]

Ride the Lightning, Defenders of the Faith and Powerslave are all rather obvious choices for me

[@EliphasDesni]

I will pick Voivod - War And Pain from Canada. My top 5 for shure.

[@anthonyrivers1619]

VOIVOD! An absolute classic album cover as well

[@derekobs9688]

Yup people with absolute shit taste definitely will haha, you really do think it deserves a place over RTL for a thrash album for 1984?! Lmao, Voivod's albums before Killing tech are a joke, just some dudes having fun playing punk thrash, Killing tech onward is where legit good albums start to pop up

[@anthonyrivers1619]

@@derekobs9688 War and Pain is Canada's Welcome to Hell...influential, raw...beloved

[@derekobs9688]

@@anthonyrivers1619 It may be beloved among casual metalheads but its nowhere near a serious album haha, their stuff killing tech forward is legit good prog thrash and influential at that but war and pain and rroarrr are not even top 20 worthy by any strech from the respective years they were released, for 84 RTL is pretty much the uncontsted winner when it comes to thrash releases which was game changing both musically and lyrically, I would have included wasp s\t, ratt out of the cellar, van halen 1984, yngwie rising force among honorable mentions

[@EliphasDesni]

@@derekobs9688 Better have a shit taste than taste like shit!

[@marshallholman52]

How can this man forget Spinal Taps classic album: "Smell the Glove!" What an omission. Really!

[@kellybarthel8060]

That came out earlier didn't it? Like 81? But yes the world tour was awesome I was a big fan of drummers #6 8, 9: it drummer #7 deserved to die.

[@sleuthentertainment5872]

1984 was the year of heavy metal, literally. Is really difficult to do a Top 10, a Top 50, even a Top 100. But I have to choose ONE album that would be DEFENDERS OF THE FAITH

[@jimtrussler9232]

Great review. Refreshing to see reviews of metal that’s not Death/doom/black metal or progressive. Great choices all around.

[@marksantucci4230]

I would say Judas Priest Defenders should be 5 skulls out of 5 certainly agree that Dio Last in line is great so is Powerslave 5 out of 5 this would be my top 5 list. 5. Metallica - Ride the Lightening 4. Dio - Last in line 3. Ratt - out of the cellar 2. Iron Maiden Power slave 1. Judas Priest - Defenders of the Faith

[@AztekDeathWeasel]

I had not seen that kick axe album cover since 84 !!! thankyou

[@massis1sp]

Cool list, but Powerslave always deserves 5 Stars🤘

[@edlimey]

Why didn't you mention the biggest selling heavy metal record of 1984, which was RATT >> Out of the Cellar.

[@sonusworld666]

They’re Glam Rock !!!!!

[@beenperv]

It isnt his picks. Just his opinions of those pick by the viewers.

[@vinniegorman8321]

Last in Line is a great album. In fact, I'm actually named after Vivian Campbell!

[@danielvibez4000]

Oh wow

[@Grayjacket11]

THE best year for heavy metal These 5 are just scratching the surface...

[@joshualind437]

Love the quick shout-out to Dio’s “Dream Evil.” Always been one of my favorites.

[@cabalofdemons]

Slayer-Haunting The Chapel

[@jpmcmullan8666]

Stormwitch Walpurgis Night is sooo kickass kinda disappointed it wasn’t here

[@marcbeil8342]

1. Dokken - Tooth and nail 2. Iron Maiden - Powerslave 3. Ratt - Out of the cellar 4. Van Halen - 1984 5. Q 5 - Steel the Light

[@Protometal66]

Bought Ride The Lightning the day it came out and thought it was fantastic. Still my favorite. And you're right, never in a million years would I have thought they would get as big as they did.

[@MartinPopoff]

You know what? It's a case of the system working. Good music being rewarded, no matter what the genre, in this case, very extreme metal.

[@jotopp1477]

Mercyful Fate despite the lack of sales certainly is 1 of the most popular Metal bands of all time. I have yet to meet a Metal fan that doesn't like Mercyful Fate. Either Manowar , or Mercyful Fate have got to be the best known underground band in the history of music.

[@ok-bb7xu]

Anyone metalhead who was 15 like me had all of these albums. Including the honorable mentions. Love it.

[@Huwclarkey87]

This year I reckon it's the hardest year to rate. Hellhammer's 'Apocalyptic Raids' normally gets forgotten as it came before Celtic Frost. This was huge for extreme metal! Also Yngwie's Rising Force set the bar for shred metal.

[@mikekrause3671]

'84 is where extreme metal really took off in my memory, so many good underground ones.

[@metalidads]

@@mikekrause3671 absolutely agree. 1984 will always be my fav year. Plus I reckon Manowar's best contribution to metal was this year in the form of 'Hail to England' and 'Sign of the hammer'.

[@Rextum]

Great albums, all of them. Priest is my favorite band, but I dont like Defenders quite as much. The A side is killer, but the B side is very uneven to me. Ride the Lightning is one of the better Metallica albums and in 1986 Thrash bands would go way past heavy metal bands, but in 1984 I feel Hetfield’s singing isn’t yet great and I would place Last in Line (my favorite Dio album), Dont Break the Oath (my second favorite Fate album) and Powerslave (my favorite Maiden album) respectively as number 3, 2 and 1. Great year, and I pretty much agree with what the people have voted for. You are smart guys and gals!

[@rafaelcruz4176]

My top 5 5. Love At First Sting (Scorpions) 4. Out Of The Cellar (Ratt) 3. Powerslave (Iron Maiden) 2. Slide It In (Whitesnake) 1. 1984 (Van Halen) Honorable Mentions Tooth And Nail (Dokken) The Yellow And Black Attack (Stryper) Wings Of Tomorrow (Europe) Stay Hungry (Twisted Sister) Bon Jovi (Bon Jovi) Defenders Of The Faith (Judas Priest) Ride The Lightning (Metallica) Perfect Strangers (Deep Purple) The Last In Line (Dio) Rising Force (Yngwie Malmsteen)

[@bardmode9096]

Great video but just wanna get it off my chest... Albuns...

[@skylion613]

haha I noticed it too

[@SchweitzerDave]

Makes me think of David Lee Roth's assless chaps. The All Buns winner of 1984!

[@JDarkley]

Come on guys, no love for March of the Saint?

[@twikirobot6897]

First album that came to my mind.

[@gungriffen]

Armored Saint? Symbol of Salvation is their peak.

[@JDarkley]

@@gungriffen Oh, no doubt Symbol of Salvation is the best album (thought they've never put out a bad album IMO). But still, I would have liked to see March of the Saint at least get a shout out.

[@anthonyrivers1619]

Bought it in '84 on cassette

[@derekobs9688]

Not even top 10 worthy

[@juliusorgas2094]

Greetings to the staff of Bangertv... Great review albums from 1984, I hope that you will feature heavy metal albums from the year 1986 - The Thrash Metal exploded the waves and slowly the downfall of Glam Metal;1991 - Grunge Era and 1999 - Nu Metal dominates the billboard charts plus Woodstock '99. That's all thanks...

[@juliusorgas2094]

Thanks... I'll be waiting... Yehey!!!

[@SoundwaveMusic22]

Powerslave > Piece of Mind

[@samuelmagnum6047]

Somewhere In Time > all Maiden records

[@dvg4104]

No doubt!

[@sleeprclg62]

Love the Lyle's Place shout out. Spent a lot of money there at one point. They were great at bringing in import albums, special releases and great dvds too.

[@DeathNetwork360]

I am really amazed at how fast metal genres got heavier and more extreme. The same year Ride The Lightning and Powerslave came out, Possessed and Mantas were busy developing the sounds of Death Metal. Never mind Celtic Frost and Bathory were developing the sounds of extreme Black Metal.

[@zekct747]

I respect the 5 picks though no heavy metal album has EVER beaten Don't Break The Oath in my opinion. It's a flawless combination of singing, skilfulness of the guitar duo, obscure lyrics and demonic heavy atmosphere.

[@cristiano.rsmoura]

Nice t-shirt, Martin!

[@billymuellerTikTok]

my top ten would be: 1- Twisted Sister - Stay Hungry 2- Metallica - Ride The Lightning 3- Dokken - Tooth and Nail 4- Scorpions - Love at First Sting 5- Van Halen - 1984 6- Iron Maiden - Powerslave 7- Ratt - Out of the Cellar 8- Whitesnake - Slide it In 9- Dio - The Last in Line 10- Yngwie Malmsteen - Rising Force Honorable Mentions: Queensryche - The Warning, Judas Priest - Defenders of the Faith, Y&T - In Rock We Trust, Bon Jovi - Bon Jovi, Mercyful Fate - Don't Break the Oath

[@ZoSoUsAm]

Loved Defender's Of The Faith!!! Good list though,I Speed At Night was a Great Song!!! Then we have Metal Church,wow just wow!!!

[@deadguy29]

The riff alone in Desecration of Souls deserves 10 skulls

[@anthonyrivers1619]

Indeed

[@henriquespencer8644]

Please review the wings of war- Overkill