My Top 5: 1. Annihilator - Alice in Hell 2. King Diamond - Conspiracy 3. Sepultura - Beneath the Remains 4. Kreator - Extreme Aggression 5. Testament - Practice What You Preach H.M. Overkill - The Years of Decay Savatage - Gutter Ballet Running Wild - Death or Glory
Doh! Sorry about that - just ramblin' can get you in trouble. I even remember sorta thinking that was wrong for a second and then just rolling through...
Sepultura - Beneath The Remains Probably the biggest Thrash Metal album ever, the pure definition of Thrash: a wide bunch of powerful riffs, high speed, angriness, political lyrics, some dark melodies and one of my favourites covers ever.
Gutter Ballet could very well be one of the earliest traces of Symphonic metal. I haven't heard the album, but the song definitely seems like it could.
@@alex_flamer That’s a neat observation. Minor niggle, but I’d maybe go with “operatic” vs “symphonic”. Even so, I’d still describe the album as progressive metal.
Two great albums, but if I had to choose it would have to be the magnificent Gutter Ballet. I actually didn't remember it came out in 1989. I'm usually pretty good with connecting years to albums and events but I definitely failed hard here. The shame is real.
LOL i was about to post those very album's. How do you have faith no more in a top 5 metal albums list over these bands. Also Running Wild Death pr Glory Rage Secrets in a weird world Lizzy Borden master of disguise Leatherwolf Steet Ready. Goes to show what sort of people are voting. That's why this show sux
Damn, yet another completely stacked year when you look at it. Absolutely brutal to try to narrow it down to 5 (I couldn’t…) but a very solid list! Here are my personal picks: 1. Voivod - Nothingface 2. Morbid Angel - Altars of Madness 3. Coroner - No More Color 4. Overkill - The Years of Decay 5. King Diamond - Conspiracy 6. Sodom - Agent Orange 7. Sepultura - Beneath the Remains 8. Carcass - Symphonies of Sickness 9. Bolt Thrower - Realm of Chaos 10. Obituary - Slowly We Rot Honourable Mentions: Fates Warning - Perfect Symmetry Pestilence - Consuming Impulse Annihilator - Alice in Hell Autopsy - Severed Survival Candlemass - Tales of Creation Kreator - Extreme Aggression DBC - Universe Metal Church - Blessing in Disguise Exodus - Fabulous Disaster Sarcófago - Rotting Black Sabbath - Headless Cross Terrorizer - World Downfall Sempiternal Deathreign - The Spooky Gloom Watchtower - Control and Resistance Testament - Practice What You Preach Nasty Savage - Penetration Point Dream Theater - When Dream and Day Unite Disciples of Power - Powertrap Sabbat - Dreamweaver Thanks Martin 🤘🤘
@@JohnDoe-bw3tz Thanks! Yeah unfortunately I guess Coroner is still pretty unknown to a lot of people. A shame that they still aren’t getting the due they deserve.
@r33mote No way, Jose! I agree that it tends to overshadow Persecution Mania (Sodom's best IMHO) which is a crying shame but to say TTV or OBC are better is just lunacy. That said, PM, AO and TTV are strong top 3 for me and it's not even close.
Being in the bay area 89 was all about Testament, Faith No More, and Exodus. Kreator and Nuclear Assault 'Handle With Care' were my other heavy rotation cassettes at the time. Godflesh 'Streetcleaner' didn't discover until the next year but that is my pick for best album of '89.
The first two were as expected and good choices. I’m disappointed my choice of Realm of Chaos didn’t even get an honorable mention. Still, a lot of awesome music there!
1. Dream Theater - When Dream And Day Unite 2. TItan Force - Titan Force 3. Oliver Magnum - Oliver Magnum 4. Coroner - No More Color 5. Toxik - Think This or Fates Warning - Perfect Symmetry Overall maybe the best year for Metal and year some of the best debut albums ever were realesed
Great list! My Top-5: 5.: Pariah - Blaze of Obscurity 4. Anthem - Hunting Time 3.: Savatage - Gutter Ballet 2.: Titan Force - Titan Force 1. Cloven Hoof - A Sultans Ransom 4 Honorable Mentions: Black Sabbath - Headless Cross Onslaught - In Search of Sanity Toxik - Think This Watchtower - Control and Resistance
Interesting year, lots of changes were around the corner. I loved(d) the Testament album, King Diamond, Badlands, Extreme's underrated debut and above all, King's X. Also, a super underappreciated shred-tastic party rock album is Howe II's High Gear.
I was 16 in 1989 and just absolutely devoted to metal. It might be nostalgia talking, but it feels like there were so many great, classic albums being released. Just about everything in the main top #5 to the honorable mentions is fantastic (even if it personally took me years to warm up to death metal). Nothingface was the most wonderfully weird album (and still nothing else has ever sounded like it), while I wore out The Real Thing playing it over and over. The only omission that immediately comes to mind is Sodom's Agent Orange, which still blisters the paint right off your damn walls. What a great year for metal music.
I'm a massive FNM fanboy, all their Patton albums are 5/5 for me. I would have voted for TRT but I don't think they are 'metal' enough for this list. I voted for Godflesh - Streetcleaner. They invented the sound that Fear Factory et al copied in the 90s. I was surprised to see Sepultura make the #1 spot - I don't think they really hit their stride until Arise. I thought Morbid Angel would run away with it.
I love the psychedelia in “Alters of Madness”, which I think is the main part of why it’s always been my fav from them. I think it should have gotten #1. Though Sepultura definitely deserves to be here as well, and I agree BTR has the better album cover. Edit: also, video starts off so sad, what with the death blows to the USSR, and all the other darkness of 1989 (no wonder they chose, “Don’t Worry, Be Happy”, as Grammy record of the year), but ends so nicely. Very good honorable mentions, and cool Popoff recs. I definitely agree hard on that Carcass mention.
Great voting by the community, and I love Popoff's picks here. Major props for the Roots comment, that one is my favorite followed by Beneath the Remains, and the Badlands debut which I think has been treated unfairly as a work of music after what happened with the Gillen controversies and all that.
My #1, Coroner - No More Color Other honorable mentions: Watchtower - Control And Resistance Toxik - Think This Mekong Delta - Principles Of Doubt Paradox - Heresy Fates Warning - Perfect Symmetry
Skid Row's self titled debut album is a metal classic that deserves at least a mention. I know the more extreme styles will be favored for good reasons but Skid Row, Extreme (no pun intended), and possibly Living Color should get some praise.
Was Pornograffitii 1990? That and III Sides to Every Story are two VERY good hard rock albums. And this is coming from someone who was a total thrash head at the time.
I'm happy with the list. I really thought Altars would win in all honesty. Only others I want to mention are Severed Survival by Autopsy (a top 3 death metal album for me) Sodom's Agent Orange, Nuclear Assault's Handle with Care and one of Sam's favorites Consvming Impvlse.
Fates Warning- Perfect Symmetry Badlands- Badlands Savatage- Gutter Ballet Black Sabbath- Headless Cross King Diamond- Conspiracy Metal Church- Blessing in Disguise Annihilator- Alice In Hell Kreator- Extreme Aggression Candlemass- Tales of Creation Kings X Gretchen Goes to Nebraska Loudness- Soldier of Fortune
Haha... wow! Mordred... I had that album but must have sold or traded it back in the day. I know I did a very big and very stupid sale back in the mid 90s. Over a hundred cd's in one deal. I think I got something like $1.50 for each cd. Fool's Game was probably in there. Can't say Mordred was a huge favorite, but it sure would be nice to still have the album.
@@matsnilson7727 they are releasing a box set next month of the first 3 albums. The new album the Dark Parade is very good, listen to the song smash goes the bottle. It will be in your head all day.
GODDAMMIT! I was waiting for Pestilence to make it at least an honorable mention with "Consuming Impulse"... Not to devalue the picks chosen on the final list of course, but what a letdown.
*"Covenant"* was my very first tape from *Morbid Angel* back in 5th grade. But the moment I purchased *"Altars Of Madness"* a couple of months later, my goodness I was completely mindblown.
There's some decent selections for this list but I'm surprised Mötley Crüe's album Dr. Feelgood wasn't mentioned somewhere. That was from 1989 as well.
Yeah, I voted for it! I love many of the other albums from 1989 on this list, but I remember picking this one up as an 11 year old on cassette, wearing it out, & now all these years later relistening to it in comparison with 20 other albums released in 1989, & finding that it still sounds fucking amazing!
1 Badlands s/t 2 wasp - headless children 3 blue murder - s/t 4 savatage gutter ballet 5 Faith no more the real thing 6 d-a-d - no fuel left for the pilgrims 7 Tesla - great radio controversy 8 white Lion - big game 9 electric boys - funkometal carpet ride 10 kingdom come - in your face 11 fates warning perfect symmetry 12 Dream Theater - when Dream and day unite 13 rush - presto 14 kings x Gretchen goes to Nebraska 15 the cult - sonic temple
Honestly, there were almost too many good metal albums in 1989. I'm not even mad that the albums I would have voted for didn't make the top 5. It was also one of the best years for death metal and grindcore too, with Consuming Impulse, Symphonies of Sickness, Slowly We Rot, Realm of Chaos, World Downfall, Severed Survival and more I'm probably forgetting.
Nice shirt, dude! I have that same shirt...in fact, I'm actually wearing it in my profile pic, rocking out on stage haha! I bought it when I saw Amorphis in Portland back in 2008.
I just can't believe that he rated Nothingface 4 skulls and Altars of MAdness 5 skulls. Nothingface deserves 6 out of 5 skulls. It is still ahead of time.
1. Sepultura - Beneath the Remains 2. Annihilator - Alice in Hell 3. Sodom - Agent Orange 4. Overkill - The Years of Decay 5. Testament - Practice What You Preach
Black Sabbath - Headless Cross Sepultura - Beneath the Remains Testament - Practice what you Preach Faith No More - The Real Thing Motley Crue - Dr. Feelgood Are actually the only metal albums I have listened from year 89'
As much as the Badlands debut was critically acclaimed, I stand by my opinion that it's severely underrated and flew WAY under the radar. They should have been so much bigger.
My top 5 1. W.A.S.P. - The headless children 2. Overkill - The years of Decay 3. Kreator - Extreme aggression 4. Black Sabbath - The headless cross 5. Exodus - Fabulous Disaster
Um, Conspiracy was the 4th King Diamond album, not 5th. Having said that I guarantee that Martin has forgotten more about metal than all of us watching currently know, so mad respect for the guy. Altars of Madness was a death metal master class, Hel ‘89 in general was an awesome year for metal.
If all the tracks from Alice in Hell would be on the same level as the first three (Crystal Ann, Alison Hell, WTYD) if would probably be the best metal album ever. I also LOVE King Diamond's Conspiracy. Never considered them as "power metal". Andy LaRocques' solos are just phenomenal.
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Fates Warning - Perfect Symmetry Running WIld - Death or Glory WASP - The Headless Children Voivod - Nothingface Metal Church - Blessing in Disguise Sepultura - Beneath the Remains Black Sabbath - Headless Cross Cloven Hoof - A Sultan´s Ransom Helstar - Nosferatu Lizzy Borden - Master of Disguise
good call....glad the top two are actually proper metal.....and yeah, they both deserve to be in those top spots oh man....what a time to be alive and into metal it was!!
@@jamesgwarrior1981 I guess it’s his favourite with Zetro on vocals, his #1 must be something from the Rob Dukes era of the band. Anyway, “Fabulous Disaster” is from ‘89 so that’s why it was mentioned even if it’s not his personal favourite.
@@paulburrows7908 Exactly! That stupid term came much later. I mean every rocker had hair! That's the whole point! And back in the 80's everyone had it teased up too. Who cares? The music was awesome! And none of the political correctness bullshit of today either.
D.A.D "No Fuel Left For The Pilgrims". More of a hard rock album rather than metal. An absolute classic to me. Unique sound & well written memorable songs. They had a minor hit with "Sleeping My Day Away". Well worth checking out.
Savatage -Gutter Ballet Dream Theater -When dream and day unite . Fates Warning-Perfect Symmetry Sanctuary-into the mirror Black Powermad-Absolute Power
Pestilence - Consuming Impulse deserves a mention
@@BBQcheese nah I think altars should have been 1 and consuming impulse shoulda been 2
This video deserves a thumbs down because it wasn’t in the list
My Top 5:
1. Annihilator - Alice in Hell
2. King Diamond - Conspiracy
3. Sepultura - Beneath the Remains
4. Kreator - Extreme Aggression
5. Testament - Practice What You Preach
H.M.
Overkill - The Years of Decay
Savatage - Gutter Ballet
Running Wild - Death or Glory
Totaly agreed with Annihilator debute, best one.
At vio-lence and I’m happy
“Fabulous Disaster” was Exodus’s THIRD album and second with Zetro. “Pleasures of the Flesh” was their second album.
Doh! Sorry about that - just ramblin' can get you in trouble. I even remember sorta thinking that was wrong for a second and then just rolling through...
@@MartinPopoff lol no biggie. A lot of people tend to forget Pleasures of the Flesh even though that album is also incredible.
Yeah. Stood out to me as well. Figured he just misspoke. Happens to us all.
The build up into the main riff for Sepultura's Inner Self STILL makes me want to run through a wall!
Slaves of Pain is my absolute favourite Sepultura track. Never get tired of hearing it.
Sepultura - Beneath The Remains
Probably the biggest Thrash Metal album ever, the pure definition of Thrash: a wide bunch of powerful riffs, high speed, angriness, political lyrics, some dark melodies and one of my favourites covers ever.
Godflesh - Streetcleaner absolutely deserves an honorable mention. Like Rats, Christbait Rising and Pulp. First 3 songs and already a masterpiece.
I came here to say just that. Thanks.
Word!
Boring album 🥱🥱🥱
Absolutely. I bought it when it was released...changed my life.
Faith No More...obviously morons voting.
@Kirkhaus Britannia. You use a photo of yourself for your avatar...enough said.
Carcass - Symphony of Sickness was also released this year.
Great year for Metal
He mentioned it at the end of the video.great album👍🏻🤘🏻
The best from 1989: SAVATAGE - Gutter Ballet & W.A.S.P. - The Headless Children
That W.a.s.p. album is killer
I still listen to and love Gutter Ballet. Caught me totally off guard on HB.
Gutter Ballet could very well be one of the earliest traces of Symphonic metal. I haven't heard the album, but the song definitely seems like it could.
@@alex_flamer That’s a neat observation. Minor niggle, but I’d maybe go with “operatic” vs “symphonic”. Even so, I’d still describe the album as progressive metal.
Two great albums, but if I had to choose it would have to be the magnificent Gutter Ballet. I actually didn't remember it came out in 1989. I'm usually pretty good with connecting years to albums and events but I definitely failed hard here. The shame is real.
1. Savatage - Gutter Ballet
2. Fates Warning - Perfect Symmetry
3. Sabbath - Headless Cross
4. WASP - headless Children
5. Loudness - Soldier of Fortune
LOL i was about to post those very album's. How do you have faith no more in a top 5 metal albums list over these bands. Also Running Wild Death pr Glory
Rage Secrets in a weird world
Lizzy Borden master of disguise
Leatherwolf Steet Ready. Goes to show what sort of people are voting. That's why this show sux
@@aleksandarandonov5358 How could I forget about Leatherwolf? Spirits In the Wind is one of my all time favorite songs.
@@aleksandarandonov5358 Leatherwolf is great!
@@aleksandarandonov5358 Leatherwolf is underrated as fuck
Headless Children and Gutter Ballet should have made it. How the fuck did Faith No More Make it in????
This list made me break out ALTARS OF MADNESS for the first time in a very long while. Well done, Banger!
Nothingface is one of the most unique albums ever made, it's easily a 5/5
Absolutely. Its in it's own category.
Damn, yet another completely stacked year when you look at it. Absolutely brutal to try to narrow it down to 5 (I couldn’t…) but a very solid list! Here are my personal picks:
1. Voivod - Nothingface
2. Morbid Angel - Altars of Madness
3. Coroner - No More Color
4. Overkill - The Years of Decay
5. King Diamond - Conspiracy
6. Sodom - Agent Orange
7. Sepultura - Beneath the Remains
8. Carcass - Symphonies of Sickness
9. Bolt Thrower - Realm of Chaos
10. Obituary - Slowly We Rot
Honourable Mentions:
Fates Warning - Perfect Symmetry
Pestilence - Consuming Impulse
Annihilator - Alice in Hell
Autopsy - Severed Survival
Candlemass - Tales of Creation
Kreator - Extreme Aggression
DBC - Universe
Metal Church - Blessing in Disguise
Exodus - Fabulous Disaster
Sarcófago - Rotting
Black Sabbath - Headless Cross
Terrorizer - World Downfall
Sempiternal Deathreign - The Spooky Gloom
Watchtower - Control and Resistance
Testament - Practice What You Preach
Nasty Savage - Penetration Point
Dream Theater - When Dream and Day Unite
Disciples of Power - Powertrap
Sabbat - Dreamweaver
Thanks Martin 🤘🤘
My thoughts exactly. Not even to mention Coroner is crazy. Plus Nothingface takes my personal 89 top spot as well, so... 2 thumpsup, well done, sir.
@@JohnDoe-bw3tz Thanks! Yeah unfortunately I guess Coroner is still pretty unknown to a lot of people. A shame that they still aren’t getting the due they deserve.
You forgot Laaz Rockit "Annihilation Principle" 89
@@CBT5777 I’ve never listened to their stuff, I’ll have to have to check them out! Thanks for the recommendation 🤘🤘
@@erikberg5363 "Know Your Enemy" by Laaz Rockit is their best album. from 87. check that one out first.
i love how i get the chance to learn something new with every video Martin hosts. great list!
Good list. Glad to see Faith No More made #3. Glad Martin had a lot of my favorites on the honorable mentions.
Sabbat - Dreamweaver is easily one of my top albums ever, and came out in '89
Yes, absolutely. A Lifetime favourite of mine, too. Great Lyrics and very technical, interesting Thrash from England.
MIA - SODOM - Agent Orange ... the best thrash album of 1989 IMO!
Agreed! Shocked it didn’t even make the top 10.
Absolute looney toons that it's not even in the discussion. But also...clearly '89 was a good year.
I agree! I played that thing over and over for weeks after getting it. Still stands up today as a classic album.
@r33mote No way, Jose! I agree that it tends to overshadow Persecution Mania (Sodom's best IMHO) which is a crying shame but to say TTV or OBC are better is just lunacy. That said, PM, AO and TTV are strong top 3 for me and it's not even close.
I love Agent Orange! and 1987 with Persecution Mania. 🤘
Voivod ??? It's about damn time they got some respect 👍
I also prefer "Arise" over BTR but definitely a fine choice for 1989's finest.
Same dude!
Being in the bay area 89 was all about Testament, Faith No More, and Exodus. Kreator and Nuclear Assault 'Handle With Care' were my other heavy rotation cassettes at the time. Godflesh 'Streetcleaner' didn't discover until the next year but that is my pick for best album of '89.
ATHEIST - PIECE OF TIME!
For fucks sake, that’s one of the best Death metal albums of all time!!!!
Love Atheist but it was a popularity contest at the end of the day and I guess people just don't know about them.
Love it but honestly I think the following albums were miles better.
Piece of Time was 1990
The first two were as expected and good choices. I’m disappointed my choice of Realm of Chaos didn’t even get an honorable mention. Still, a lot of awesome music there!
Yeah, really weird not seeing Bolt Thrower on here. Personally I really think Autopsy - Severed Survival deserves a spot too.
That Realm of Chaos isn't on here is just... sad 😥
Yeah. A couple of Earache Records releases, but the mighty Bolt Thrower was not one of them. A lot of excellent choices, nonetheless.
The Real Thing! One of my first CD's, in heavy rotation on my boombox throughout high school.
1. Dream Theater - When Dream And Day Unite
2. TItan Force - Titan Force
3. Oliver Magnum - Oliver Magnum
4. Coroner - No More Color
5. Toxik - Think This or Fates Warning - Perfect Symmetry
Overall maybe the best year for Metal and year some of the best debut albums ever were realesed
Great list!
My Top-5:
5.: Pariah - Blaze of Obscurity
4. Anthem - Hunting Time
3.: Savatage - Gutter Ballet
2.: Titan Force - Titan Force
1. Cloven Hoof - A Sultans Ransom
4 Honorable Mentions:
Black Sabbath - Headless Cross
Onslaught - In Search of Sanity
Toxik - Think This
Watchtower - Control and Resistance
Conspiracy was a huge album for me and my friends. Good call on the King’s X album. They blew my mind when I heard Over My Head for the first time.
1 Exodus - Fabulous Disaster
2 Xentrix - Shattered Existence
3 Voivod - Nothingface
4 Sodom - Agent Orange
6 Metal Church - Blessing In Disguise
I'd also add:
Toxik - Think This
Coroner - No More Color
Paradox - Heresy
Xentrix, yes!! \m/
“Surprise You’re Dead” is an amazing track!
Sepultura at #1? OHHHHH Yessssss!!! Wasn't a fan at that time but in retrospective no doubts right now. Great choice. Sad I couldn't vote.
My favorite Sepultura album….🤘
Interesting year, lots of changes were around the corner. I loved(d) the Testament album, King Diamond, Badlands, Extreme's underrated debut and above all, King's X. Also, a super underappreciated shred-tastic party rock album is Howe II's High Gear.
I was 16 in 1989 and just absolutely devoted to metal. It might be nostalgia talking, but it feels like there were so many great, classic albums being released. Just about everything in the main top #5 to the honorable mentions is fantastic (even if it personally took me years to warm up to death metal). Nothingface was the most wonderfully weird album (and still nothing else has ever sounded like it), while I wore out The Real Thing playing it over and over. The only omission that immediately comes to mind is Sodom's Agent Orange, which still blisters the paint right off your damn walls. What a great year for metal music.
Thanks for these videos and thanks to the community too! 🤘
I'm a massive FNM fanboy, all their Patton albums are 5/5 for me. I would have voted for TRT but I don't think they are 'metal' enough for this list. I voted for Godflesh - Streetcleaner. They invented the sound that Fear Factory et al copied in the 90s. I was surprised to see Sepultura make the #1 spot - I don't think they really hit their stride until Arise. I thought Morbid Angel would run away with it.
1- Black Sabbath - Headless Cross
2- Fates Warning - Perfect Symmetry
3- Helstar - Nosferatu
4- Heir Apparent - One Small Voice
5- Titan Force - Titan Force
6- Blind Guardian - Follow the Blind
7- Sacred Warrior - Master's Command
8- Lizzy Borden - Master of Disguise
9- Mystic-Force - Take Command (EP)
10- Fifth Angel - Time Will Tell
Yes! Nosferatu is amazing!
Nice to see Annihilator made the top 10, that's a great album
I love the psychedelia in “Alters of Madness”, which I think is the main part of why it’s always been my fav from them. I think it should have gotten #1. Though Sepultura definitely deserves to be here as well, and I agree BTR has the better album cover.
Edit: also, video starts off so sad, what with the death blows to the USSR, and all the other darkness of 1989 (no wonder they chose, “Don’t Worry, Be Happy”, as Grammy record of the year), but ends so nicely. Very good honorable mentions, and cool Popoff recs. I definitely agree hard on that Carcass mention.
Great voting by the community, and I love Popoff's picks here. Major props for the Roots comment, that one is my favorite followed by Beneath the Remains, and the Badlands debut which I think has been treated unfairly as a work of music after what happened with the Gillen controversies and all that.
Martin is so wholesome talking metal.
I'm glad Annihilator got a love in the honorable mentions and my choice was number 1, Beneath the Remains is a classic as is Altars of Madness!
My #1, Coroner - No More Color
Other honorable mentions:
Watchtower - Control And Resistance
Toxik - Think This
Mekong Delta - Principles Of Doubt
Paradox - Heresy
Fates Warning - Perfect Symmetry
I can't believe WASP "The Headless Children" not mentioned AT ALL !!! WOW!
Skid Row's self titled debut album is a metal classic that deserves at least a mention. I know the more extreme styles will be favored for good reasons but Skid Row, Extreme (no pun intended), and possibly Living Color should get some praise.
Was Pornograffitii 1990? That and III Sides to Every Story are two VERY good hard rock albums. And this is coming from someone who was a total thrash head at the time.
@@johnchedsey1306 funk metal with a couple acoustic ballads
I'm happy with the list. I really thought Altars would win in all honesty. Only others I want to mention are Severed Survival by Autopsy (a top 3 death metal album for me) Sodom's Agent Orange, Nuclear Assault's Handle with Care and one of Sam's favorites Consvming Impvlse.
Fates Warning- Perfect Symmetry
Badlands- Badlands
Savatage- Gutter Ballet
Black Sabbath- Headless Cross
King Diamond- Conspiracy
Metal Church- Blessing in Disguise
Annihilator- Alice In Hell
Kreator- Extreme Aggression
Candlemass- Tales of Creation
Kings X Gretchen Goes to Nebraska
Loudness- Soldier of Fortune
Laaz Rockit "Annihilation Principle"
I guess I was the only one listening to Mordred in 1989, Fool's Game was an amazing album
Haha... wow! Mordred... I had that album but must have sold or traded it back in the day. I know I did a very big and very stupid sale back in the mid 90s. Over a hundred cd's in one deal. I think I got something like $1.50 for each cd. Fool's Game was probably in there. Can't say Mordred was a huge favorite, but it sure would be nice to still have the album.
@@matsnilson7727 they are releasing a box set next month of the first 3 albums. The new album the Dark Parade is very good, listen to the song smash goes the bottle. It will be in your head all day.
@@chetgreblowski7811 Cool. Thanks man! I'll look into it.
I had that album, but I think they got better on their second album.
@@johnchedsey1306 I agree
Cloven Hoof, King Diamond, Kreator, Metal Church, Obituary, Overkill
Great list! I especially enjoyed the honourable mentions👍🏻
The song "From Out Of Nowhere" on Faith No More's Epic album should have been mentioned. Behind "Epic" it is by far the best song on the album.
I agree that is a great song, maybe the best on that album. A really good album top to bottom.
Happy to see The Real Thing. Love Faith No More. Also of course awesome to see albums like Beneath The Remains and Years Of Decay mentioned👌🏻
For me #1 Blessing in Disguise. It is a genuine classic, best of the twilight of eighties heavy metal. I loved it then and now and forever 🖤
Martin, you are awesome bro. Love your reviews.
GODDAMMIT! I was waiting for Pestilence to make it at least an honorable mention with "Consuming Impulse"... Not to devalue the picks chosen on the final list of course, but what a letdown.
Martin Popoff is probably the best presenter BangerTV has. Just something about him.
He's awesome I agree.
*"Covenant"* was my very first tape from *Morbid Angel* back in 5th grade.
But the moment I purchased
*"Altars Of Madness"* a couple of months later, my goodness I was completely mindblown.
There's some decent selections for this list but I'm surprised Mötley Crüe's album Dr. Feelgood wasn't mentioned somewhere. That was from 1989 as well.
Motley actually got a lot of votes!
Yeah, I voted for it! I love many of the other albums from 1989 on this list, but I remember picking this one up as an 11 year old on cassette, wearing it out, & now all these years later relistening to it in comparison with 20 other albums released in 1989, & finding that it still sounds fucking amazing!
1. Running Wild "Death Or Glory"
2. Oliver Magnum "Oliver Magnum"
3. Sepultura "Beneath The Remains"
4. Obituary "Slowly We Rot"
5. Fifth Angel "Fifth Angel"
1 Badlands s/t
2 wasp - headless children
3 blue murder - s/t
4 savatage gutter ballet
5 Faith no more the real thing
6 d-a-d - no fuel left for the pilgrims
7 Tesla - great radio controversy
8 white Lion - big game
9 electric boys - funkometal carpet ride
10 kingdom come - in your face
11 fates warning perfect symmetry
12 Dream Theater - when Dream and day unite
13 rush - presto
14 kings x Gretchen goes to Nebraska
15 the cult - sonic temple
Blue Murder, what a gem
Honestly, there were almost too many good metal albums in 1989. I'm not even mad that the albums I would have voted for didn't make the top 5. It was also one of the best years for death metal and grindcore too, with Consuming Impulse, Symphonies of Sickness, Slowly We Rot, Realm of Chaos, World Downfall, Severed Survival and more I'm probably forgetting.
Where is Black Sabbath - Headless Cross? That is one of their top 3 albums!
*with Tony Martin
I love that album, but it was hardly cutting edge in 1989...
@@independenceltd. No, out of all of Black Sabbath’s albums. Heaven And Hell is number 1, Headless Cross is number 2, and Eternal Idol is number 3.
@@HighBestkillerROBLOX No dude, no. No matter how you defend it, no. Nothing wrong with those 3 albums, but def not their top 3
@@HighBestkillerROBLOX -_-
I had physical copies of every single one of these so, good list!
Solid choice for no.1, would have liked to see King Diamond higher though. Love Conspiracy.
Nice shirt, dude! I have that same shirt...in fact, I'm actually wearing it in my profile pic, rocking out on stage haha! I bought it when I saw Amorphis in Portland back in 2008.
I just can't believe that he rated Nothingface 4 skulls and Altars of MAdness 5 skulls. Nothingface deserves 6 out of 5 skulls. It is still ahead of time.
My top 5
1. Atheist - Piece of Mind
2. Faith No More - The Real Thing
3. Mekong Delta - Principle of Doubt
4. Black Sabbath - Headless Cross
5. Overkill - Years of Decay
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Mentions
- Annihilator - Alice…
- Sepultura - Beneath…
- Dream Theater - When…
- Sodom - Agent…
- Metal Church - Blessing…
- Destruction - Live…
- Savatage - Gutter…
- Nuclear Assault - Handle…
- Pestilence - Consuming
- King Diamond - Conspiracy
- Fates Warning - Perfect…
- Voivod - Nothing…
- Kreator - Extreme…
- Candlemass - Tale…
- Suicidal - Controlled…
Digging the Amorphis shirt 🤘🤘
I voted for Sepultura and glad to see them get #1. Them and Morbid Angel taking the top 2 spots for 89 make a lot of sense to me.
1. Sepultura - Beneath the Remains
2. Annihilator - Alice in Hell
3. Sodom - Agent Orange
4. Overkill - The Years of Decay
5. Testament - Practice What You Preach
Easy for me'
#1 Savatage - Gutter Ballet
#2 Running Wild - Death Or Glory
Great job Martin! 89 was quite a year...
That one King's X song Black Flag is like the only one I know from them, but it is SEARED into my memory somehow....
I was hoping for some love for Autopsy, but then again Mental Funeral may be better loved so I'll hold out for then.
Black Sabbath - Headless Cross
Sepultura - Beneath the Remains
Testament - Practice what you Preach
Faith No More - The Real Thing
Motley Crue - Dr. Feelgood
Are actually the only metal albums I have listened from year 89'
Coroner - No more Color
As much as the Badlands debut was critically acclaimed, I stand by my opinion that it's severely underrated and flew WAY under the radar. They should have been so much bigger.
1. Annihilator - Alice in Hell
2. Godflesh - Streetcleaner
3. Sepultura - Beneath the Remains
4. Kreator - Extreme Agression
5. Exodus - Fabulous Disaster.
IMO
My top 5
1. W.A.S.P. - The headless children
2. Overkill - The years of Decay
3. Kreator - Extreme aggression
4. Black Sabbath - The headless cross
5. Exodus - Fabulous Disaster
What a another good year for metal! So many great albums .
Great additions by yourself!
Um, Conspiracy was the 4th King Diamond album, not 5th. Having said that I guarantee that Martin has forgotten more about metal than all of us watching currently know, so mad respect for the guy. Altars of Madness was a death metal master class, Hel ‘89 in general was an awesome year for metal.
Is Pleasures of the Flesh not considered Exodus' second album (Zetro's first?) Great list, though.
It is. Someone wasn’t doing research, apparently.
@@smylex99 Guilty as charged. Just babbling... and it flew by... questioned for a millisecond...
(King Diamond - Conspiracy) Definitely my number one of 1989.
If all the tracks from Alice in Hell would be on the same level as the first three (Crystal Ann, Alison Hell, WTYD) if would probably be the best metal album ever. I also LOVE King Diamond's Conspiracy. Never considered them as "power metal". Andy LaRocques' solos are just phenomenal.
You know 1989 was great year when The Headless Children, Tales of Creation and Gutter Ballet aren't mentioned even once.
In sports, tensions had risen so high in the Bay Area in expectation of the titanic clash between the Oakland A's and the San Francisco Giants in the World Series that Earth responded with a 7.1 earthquake, causing a part of the Bay Bridge and the 880 Cypress Structure to collapse.
Oakland won in 4.
Fates Warning - Perfect Symmetry
Running WIld - Death or Glory
WASP - The Headless Children
Voivod - Nothingface
Metal Church - Blessing in Disguise
Sepultura - Beneath the Remains
Black Sabbath - Headless Cross
Cloven Hoof - A Sultan´s Ransom
Helstar - Nosferatu
Lizzy Borden - Master of Disguise
With most of metal's top tentpole acts between albums, 1989 was a year for metal's 2nd tier to shine.
I prefer the honorable mentions and Martin’s picks over the top 5
good call....glad the top two are actually proper metal.....and yeah, they both deserve to be in those top spots
oh man....what a time to be alive and into metal it was!!
BTR is my favourite Sepultura album with Inner Self as my favourite track of theirs.
Just made my day 🤘🏾 wasn’t “Pleasures of the Flesh” before?
Yes, that was from ‘87
@@erikberg5363 yeah but Martin says it’s #2 and #1 with Zetro.
@@jamesgwarrior1981 I guess it’s his favourite with Zetro on vocals, his #1 must be something from the Rob Dukes era of the band. Anyway, “Fabulous Disaster” is from ‘89 so that’s why it was mentioned even if it’s not his personal favourite.
@@erikberg5363 yeah thanks 👍🏾always good to put new facts and figures. “Pleasures” 87
“Fabulous” 89 Music nerd I am through and through 🤘🏾🥸
@@jamesgwarrior1981 Haha, welcome to the club! 🤓
I am disappointed that The Years Of Decay was not number 1.
1-Slowly We Rot, 2- The Headless Children, 3- Beneath the Remains, 4- Conspiracy, 5- Altars of Madness
Love Gretchen goes to Nebraska, good shout out badlands as well.
Skid Row's debut album for me. And yes it´s "hair metal" but I don't give a shit. I love it anyway.
No such thing as hair Metal.
@@paulburrows7908 Exactly! That stupid term came much later. I mean every rocker had hair! That's the whole point!
And back in the 80's everyone had it teased up too. Who cares? The music was awesome!
And none of the political correctness bullshit of today either.
I'm so happy Altars got in top 3, my favorite album of all time
At least Extreme Agression made the honorable mentions, though I absolutely agree with the top 2.
D.A.D "No Fuel Left For The Pilgrims". More of a hard rock album rather than metal. An absolute classic to me. Unique sound & well written memorable songs. They had a minor hit with "Sleeping My Day Away". Well worth checking out.
Will check it out!
Love this band , they're criminally underrated
Nuclear Assault - Handle With Care
Savatage -Gutter Ballet
Dream Theater -When dream and day unite .
Fates Warning-Perfect Symmetry
Sanctuary-into the mirror Black
Powermad-Absolute Power
1-conspiracy....2-sonic temple...3-headless children...4-dr feelgood...5-badlands