A great year! Awesome picks from everyone. My top 10: 1. Celtic Frost - To Mega Therion 2. Manilla Road - Open the Gates 3. Slayer - Hell Awaits 4. Megadeth - Killing is My Business... 5. Exodus - Bonded by Blood 6. Destruction - Infernal Overkill 7. Fates Warning - The Spectre Within 8. Razor - Evil Invaders 9. Possessed - Seven Churches 10. Overkill - Feel the Fire Honourable mentions: Bathory - The Return...... Bulldozer - The Day of Wrath Trouble - The Skull Saint Vitus - Hallow’s Victim Loudness - Thunder in the East Onslaught - Power from Hell Dark Angel - We Have Arrived Nasty Savage - Nasty Savage Kreator - Endless Pain Exciter - Long Live the Loud Razor - Executioner’s Song
"I've probably gone on long enough" No way, I love to hear people talk about their passion in an articulate and well reasoned manner. Thanks for the 220 Volt tip, I'd never heard of them before. Definitely adding them to the list of road trip tunes.
10 of my top-picks of 1985 (that weren't mentioned) in no particular order: Omen - Warning Of Danger Vicious Rumors - Soldiers Of The Night Manilla Road - Open The Gates Tyrant - Legions Of The Dead Fates Warning - The Spectre Within Twisted Sister - Come Out And Play Ratt - Invasion Of Your Privacy Icon - Night Of The Crime Venom - Possessed Loudness - Thunder In The East
In 1985, I was all about the hair metal until I got into thrash in 86. My top 5vatv the time would've been: 1. Under Lock And Key 2. Invasion Of Your Privacy 3. Marching Out 4. Sacred Heart 5. The Last Command Honorable Mentions: The Right To Rock, Thunder In The East, Done With Mirrors, Midnite Dynamite, Waiting For The Roar, and the two big live albums World Wide Live and Live After Death
Damn, I love Megadeth but the debut feels a little rough round the edges. Bonded By Blood is one of my favourite thrash metal records ever, so that's my No.1
Bonded by Blood is superior indeed, but since Megadeth has always been more popular than Exodus it makes sense. Many Megadeth fans aren't exactly thrash metal experts if you know what I mean.
@@hinjurock70 I'm actually a massive Megadeth fan so I wouldn't say that- Mechanix, Rattlehead, Looking Down the Cross and the title track are all great
@@Morbidous Well, Megadeth are a far more impressive band than Exodus. Exodus played fast, restless thrash metal in 1985, nothing complex but they played it perfectly. Megadeth were a decade ahead of their time, with such technicality in their music yet at such speed. It's hard to compare them. I'd say Megadeth > Exodus but Bonded By Blood > every Megadeth album other than Rust in Peace
I have to go with Bonded by Blood by Exodus, followed by Walls of Jericho by Helloween. The title track to Accept's Metal Heart had a real killer solo, not as good as Balls to the Wall but close.
@@fun-with-acid SOD is a Satire Comedy Punk act not a Metal band . It's people like you that give bands like Gwar, Ludichrist, and Green Jell-O ( Jelly ) careers. While serious Metal bands struggled to fill smaller venues
@@fun-with-acid Your right I don't , I didn't mean to insult you on a personal level. I just am sick of Joke Punk bands being falsely categorized as Metal . Anthrax became a joke after Spreading the Disease. Wearing goofy Hawaiian print Bermuda shorts, and sounding happy not dark. Any music project involving spoiled rich kid whinge Scott Ian was destined to be a joke. Hip Hop , and Punk need to stay out of Metal . All it does is make it safe for non Metal people
I was 19 in 1985, and worked at a cemetery as a summer job, one day my co-worker turned me onto this band from Texas... Pantera. Metal Magic and Projects In The Jungle were on constant rotation that whole summer.
I think Bonded By Blood is one of the greatest thrash metal albums, it's a lesson in pure thrash metal (and violence). My favorite metal album from 1985 are The Return by Bathory. To this day, it's such an evil, raw and atmospheric album
The production brings down the enjoyment but if you listen to the most recent remaster you hear the genius of the record. Super unique style and very angry and brutal.
I'm honestly very surprised that Megadeth won this year. I love them but my vote is Seven Churches followed very very closely by Bonded by Blood. Also you did make very good points about each of the albums. 👍 can't wait for the next one
5. Yngwie Malmsteen: Marching Out 4. Loudness: Thunder In The East 3. Possessed: Seven Churches 2. Dokken: Under Lock and Key 1. Razor: Evil Invaders Honorable mention to Savatage's Power Of The Night. It's almost a really great record but has a couple flops on it. Amazing band though. (RIP Criss \m/) as well as Bathory's The Return another great record but I have to be in a particular mood to listen to it
The only problem I have with this list is that Kreator's Endless Pain wasn't even an honorable mention. Hugely influential for early Black Metal, really raw vocals from Mille, raw production, just a killer record.
Agreed! I think they really hit their stride with Pleasure to Kill and Terrible Certainty but that’s a great debut and definitely one of the fastest and most intense albums of ‘85!
Great year for metal with bands like artillery, omen, iron angel, agent steel, trouble,onslaught, bathory,razor, destruction, sod, fates warning all putting out records
Savatage - Power of the Night, Anthrax-Spreading, Dokken-Lock n Key, Yngwie-Rising Force, Loudness- Thunder in the East, Ratt - Invasion, Helloween- Walls of Jericho, Icon - Night of the Crime.
Sigh ... a 4 month wait to find out my pick didn't even make the honorable mentions. Still it's good to finally see this episode air. At least I got to see my original comment when you showed the comments from the initial video scrolling by at the end lol
Megadeth' s debut album is cool but it has the worst cover of 1985 😂 Other awesome albums of 1985: Trouble - The Skull Agent Steel - Skeptics Apocalypse Overkill - Feel The Fire Kreator - Endless Pain Destruction - Infernal Overkill Manilla Road - Open The Gates
Interesting results! As to the observation that there are no 'old school' bands in this list, off the top of my head, neither Sabbath nor Priest nor Maiden nor Scorpions nor Van Halen (who am I forgetting?) released a studio album in '85, so that's probably a factor. One band that doesn't get enough love is Loudness, who released their phenomenal Thunder In The East in this year.
@@hinjurock70 I prefer Beast Over Hammersmith, though I like Live After Death. That said, either of our opinions aside, I get the feeling Live After Death would win a fan vote, or at least come close, for 1985. Just a hunch.
@@metaldams78 That was an iconic tour/album, with the set list, performance and Dickinson's crowd patter becoming folklore. It was a very exciting release at the time. Iron Maiden at the apex of their career.
Can't say I expected 3/5 for Hell Awaits, which was my vote. I do get what Martin is saying, the production isn't even close to as good as what they'd get a year later with Rick Rubin, but I feel like that production has a sense of claustrophobia. Like you're trapped in the bowels of hell. Ah well, it's always good to hear the professor's insights
@@afinecupofcoffee8476 The rating was based in part on the fact that Exodus had written some of those songs around 1981-1982. The Slayer album was written in 1984-1985. Three year difference.
Did not expect Megadeth to fare this well, but I ain’t complaining. The fastest Megadeth album, horrible production, but great songs and insane energy!
Excellent !! As a 51 year old thrash fan who was 15 in 85 i can only agree with Popoff . Anthrax's "spreading" is and was then the best release of that year. Absolute classic ! Exodus sounded rather poor and dated when it came out as we had "Ride the lightning" to compare it to which was light years ahead of anything Exodus ever wrote ! MY number 1 has to be SOD "speak english or die" When metal met punk met hardcore . United forces !!! the best album of that year by a fucking mile !!
1. Black N Blue - Without love 2. Warrior - Fighting for the earth 3. Dokken - Under lock and key 4. Sinner - Touch of sin 5. Mama‘s Boys - Power & Passion
I'd swap most of the albums mentioned in the video for any of these: Sacrilege - Behind the Realms of Madness, Manilla Road - Open the Gates, Omen - Warning of Danger, Overkill - Feel the Fire, Razor - Evil Invaders, Carnivore - Carnivore
Incredible year for Metal! My top 5 are: 5. Omen-Warningnof danger 4. Venom-Possessed (A truly underrated album imo) 3. Exodus-Bonded by Blood 2. Possessed-Seven Churches 1. Slayer-Hell Awaits
Big year for me for sure...Hell Awaits, Bonded By Blood, Seven Churches, Dealing With It, Animosity, Infernal Overkill, Metallica still had potential to be heavy, Killing Is My Business, In the Sign Of Evil...What Year. I was 16 and my Mom was truly scared of my album covers.
@@Briansgate "Sacred Heart" wasn't *terrible*...it just wasn't anything much...some really lackluster writing on this one...and I agree, "The Last In Line" and "Dream Evil" knocked this flat on it's arse! Great tour, however...
1- Wasp- the last command 2- Manilla road - open the gates 3- Razor - executioners song 4- S.O.D. - speak english or die 5- ac/dc - fly on the wall That's just my picks
1. Maiden - Live After Death 2. WASP - The Last Command 3. Savatage - Power of the Night 4. Dokken - Under Lock and Key 5.Agent Steel - Skeptics Apocalypse
1. Celtic Frost - To Mega Therion 2. Savatage - Power of The Night 3. Fates Warning - The Spectre Within 4. Exodus - Bonded In Blood 5. Megadeth - Killing Is My Business...
Marching Out is probably my favorite of 1985. Just neoclassical perfection, and with good songwriting. Elsewhere Power of the Night is a classic, and I like the mention of Mind Over Muscle. That album is really good.
1: Night Of The Crime - Icon 2: The Last Command - W.A.S.P. 3: Dancin On The Edge - Lita Ford 4: Killing Is My Business And Business Is Good - Megadeth 5: Metal Heart - Accept
I'm not a big hair metal guy, but I love Under Lock and Key. It's kinda like "smart man's" hair metal. And with SoT, Contrarians, History in Five Songs, and Banger I almost feel like I'm stalking Martin. Haha.
My favorite: Possessed "Seven Churches". Mentions: Kix "Midnight Dynamite", Lee Aaron "Call Of The Wild", Dokken "Under Lock & Key", The Cult "Love". Thanks, Martin! I forgot about 220 V - I'm going to go dig those out now!!
I’ll tell you this and 84 would be hard to do and in this top 5 here’s mine…. 1. Celtic Frost - To Mega Therion 2. Slayer - Hell Awaits 3. Megadeth - KIMB 4. Exodus - Bonded by Blood 5. Possessed - Seven Churches
My top 5 of 1985 1.iron angel hellish crossfire is my favorite metal album from 1985 so underrated 2. Slayer hell awaits 3. Nasty savage first album 4. Tales of terror by stormwitch 5. The specter within by fates warning
This again.. Dave's singing voice is perfect.. for Megadeth. Horrible recording quality on Killing is my Business though.. blew the studio budget on partying then cobbled it together on a shoestring lol
Why? That album is hot garbage. Even Motley Crue said that that album sucked. There are only 2 good songs on the entire album (Smokin & Home Sweet Home). There was a lot of better albums released in 85 than that garbage disc. My appologies if its your favorite. If you need to listen to it more than once (and not skip to the good songs) you are trying to like it. I bought it & I tried to like it in 85 but it was nothing like their previous 2 albums. It was their image & overplay on Mtv what made this band bigger than they should have been with the release of Theater of Pain. Peace
Jaymz B , My take on the album, two worst songs are the hits. Of course they would like them as it's the tunes that made money for them but for me, the rest of the album is really good.
Armored saint - delirious nomad C.O.C. - animosity Exorcist - nightmare theater...might be 1986 Kreator - endless pain Another great album was a compilation....metal massacre vi. It had possessed, hallows eve, nasty savage, dark angel, hirax and a few more
Great to see Savatage being mentioned! Others I like: Omega - The Prophet, Blind Fury - Out of Reach and Tytan - Rough Justice as well as the debut by Anthem.
A lot of people seem to dislike Baloff’s vocals for some reason but I don’t understand it, they fit the music perfectly for me. And even if I didn’t like them, the riffing and just the guitar tone itself are fantastic!
@@erikberg5363 I think his vocal performance is amazing. The whole record is near perfect and it is probably the best thrash record ever made, at least in my humble opinion and I've been writing about this genre for over two decades.
@@RuthlessMetalYT I agree. He really does a bit of everything on there, which is maybe too much for some people. I love it because it adds more dynamics to the music
@@erikberg5363 His vocals are pretty one-dimensional, but the sheer aggression and punk rock rawness in his tone give the songs character, and the riffs, guitar solos and drumming on that album are absolutely kick-ass. I'd definitely give it a 4 out of 5.
@@hinjurock70 I wouldn’t call it one-dimensional at all. I guess he does the same things throughout the whole record but there is everything from low barks to high falsetto wails.
Bonded By Blood wins this for me. My favorite Exodus album and an all time thrash classic. RIP Paul Baloff 🤘SOD - Speak English Or Die is a very close 2nd and Slayer - Hell Awaits is 3rd. 🤘
What years would you like to see next on Overkill Rewind?
What we need is 2 videos for 1986. One specifically for thrash, one for everything else in metal that year. 86 was the year of Thrash!
Whatever hasn't been done from 2005-2015
86 ? i know it sounds fucking crazy but the following year ?
2001 best albums
89 if it hasn't been done yet!
Savatage never really gets enough love.
True sadly :( love Savatage RIP Criss ❤️
I learned of Savatage last year thanks to Sea of Tranquility
Agreed! Power of the Night is my top album of 1985, in fact I don't really like any of the top 5 picked here.
I loved Sirens, Hall of the Mountain King and The Dungeons are Calling so much.
@@petrilampela omg hall of the mountain king 😭😭😭🤘🏾🤘🏾🤘🏾
When you're starting off with Celtic Frost, you know it's going to be good.
UGH!
One of the worst ones I've ever heard
@@tborke UGH
@@AgentBeans One of my all time favourite CF moments
A great year! Awesome picks from everyone.
My top 10:
1. Celtic Frost - To Mega Therion
2. Manilla Road - Open the Gates
3. Slayer - Hell Awaits
4. Megadeth - Killing is My Business...
5. Exodus - Bonded by Blood
6. Destruction - Infernal Overkill
7. Fates Warning - The Spectre Within
8. Razor - Evil Invaders
9. Possessed - Seven Churches
10. Overkill - Feel the Fire
Honourable mentions:
Bathory - The Return......
Bulldozer - The Day of Wrath
Trouble - The Skull
Saint Vitus - Hallow’s Victim
Loudness - Thunder in the East
Onslaught - Power from Hell
Dark Angel - We Have Arrived
Nasty Savage - Nasty Savage
Kreator - Endless Pain
Exciter - Long Live the Loud
Razor - Executioner’s Song
"I've probably gone on long enough" No way, I love to hear people talk about their passion in an articulate and well reasoned manner. Thanks for the 220 Volt tip, I'd never heard of them before. Definitely adding them to the list of road trip tunes.
I could listen to Martin talk all day about albums!
Same. He's really good.
220 rules!
Couldn’t have clicked this fast enough! Been lost in a sea of Tranquility thanks🙏🏾 to you
🤘🏾✊🏿🤎🖤
10 of my top-picks of 1985 (that weren't mentioned) in no particular order:
Omen - Warning Of Danger
Vicious Rumors - Soldiers Of The Night
Manilla Road - Open The Gates
Tyrant - Legions Of The Dead
Fates Warning - The Spectre Within
Twisted Sister - Come Out And Play
Ratt - Invasion Of Your Privacy
Icon - Night Of The Crime
Venom - Possessed
Loudness - Thunder In The East
I agree about loudness.
Power of the night, under lock and key, invasion of your privacy, marching out all were in my listening.
I forgot fight to survive
agreed dude
Celtic Frost was on fire during this period!
8:20 "I don't like a few things about Megadeth and all of them are Dave Mustaine's singing" 😂
LOL!
Forget the list, I just want to hang out in Martin's room for a couple of hours checking out all of his treasures 🤘
Sacred Heart by DIO or Speak English or Die by SOD would be in my top 5 but Live After Death was a pivotal album for me.
In 1985, I was all about the hair metal until I got into thrash in 86. My top 5vatv the time would've been:
1. Under Lock And Key
2. Invasion Of Your Privacy
3. Marching Out
4. Sacred Heart
5. The Last Command
Honorable Mentions: The Right To Rock, Thunder In The East, Done With Mirrors, Midnite Dynamite, Waiting For The Roar, and the two big live albums World Wide Live and Live After Death
Aerosmith, Done With Mirrors is great. It's their Rocks 2, imo. Criminally underrated.
"Thunder in the East" by Loudness!
Love Overkill Rewind! Always exciting to see these come up on new videos
Damn, I love Megadeth but the debut feels a little rough round the edges. Bonded By Blood is one of my favourite thrash metal records ever, so that's my No.1
Just say it - it's pretty much crap. Mainly because of the terrible production, but the songs aren't that great either.
Bonded by Blood is superior indeed, but since Megadeth has always been more popular than Exodus it makes sense. Many Megadeth fans aren't exactly thrash metal experts if you know what I mean.
@@Morbidous To be honest, that kind of applies to a large number of big 4 fans.
@@hinjurock70 I'm actually a massive Megadeth fan so I wouldn't say that- Mechanix, Rattlehead, Looking Down the Cross and the title track are all great
@@Morbidous Well, Megadeth are a far more impressive band than Exodus. Exodus played fast, restless thrash metal in 1985, nothing complex but they played it perfectly. Megadeth were a decade ahead of their time, with such technicality in their music yet at such speed. It's hard to compare them. I'd say Megadeth > Exodus but Bonded By Blood > every Megadeth album other than Rust in Peace
Bonded By Blood is my #1 in this list.
I have to go with Bonded by Blood by Exodus, followed by Walls of Jericho by Helloween. The title track to Accept's Metal Heart had a real killer solo, not as good as Balls to the Wall but close.
DRI - Dealing with It Crossover Masterpiece..
SOD - Speak English or Die Crossover Masterpiece
Yes and yes.
it was a golden era for crossover. crumbsuckers was another great band to come out around that time.
I'll take the SOD album over any Anthrax album.
@@fun-with-acid Hell, I'd take the SOD album over any Exodus album.
@@garnetk3751 C.O.C., Suicidal Tendencies, Adrenaline O.D., Inferno, Raw Power, Negazione, Attitude Adjustment, Cryptic Slaughter, Heresy, Impulse Manslaughter, Ludichrist, Desecration, Hate Crew, Adversity, Transgression, Intense Degree, No Fraud, Lip Cream...
Power of the Night by Savatage is incredible!!! Metal Heart by Accept is killer too!
Good list of things. But when I think of 1985, I think of S.O.D. - Scott and Charlie had two great albums that year.
Stormtroopers of death should have been on this list.
Yeah, that is still one of the most intense albums I've ever heard. It was chock full of killer riffs, too!
@@fun-with-acid SOD is a Satire Comedy Punk act not a Metal band . It's people like you that give bands like Gwar, Ludichrist, and Green Jell-O ( Jelly ) careers. While serious Metal bands struggled to fill smaller venues
@@godetonter4764 yeah right. You don't know anything about me, so now you learn that I'm into very serious metal. Cheers.
@@fun-with-acid Your right I don't , I didn't mean to insult you on a personal level. I just am sick of Joke Punk bands being falsely categorized as Metal . Anthrax became a joke after Spreading the Disease. Wearing goofy Hawaiian print Bermuda shorts, and sounding happy not dark. Any music project involving spoiled rich kid whinge Scott Ian was destined to be a joke. Hip Hop , and Punk need to stay out of Metal . All it does is make it safe for non Metal people
Thanks for this!
Not enough doom metal fans watching and voting :). Trouble - The Skull deserves at least an honorable mention.
I voted for Doom but I voted for Pentagram - Relentless instead so blame me.
@@lordtrigon1733 Well, that's a pretty awesome album too, so I can't really blame you :).
The skull is great and sadly underappreciated ;(
Trouble... The MOST underrated of all underrated bands in the history of underratedness!
Peace
It was great be 15 in 1985 and that Bonded By Blood record was absolutely ground breaking.
I was also 15 that year and bought Bonded By Blood.
I was 19 in 1985, and worked at a cemetery as a summer job, one day my co-worker turned me onto this band from Texas... Pantera. Metal Magic and Projects In The Jungle were on constant rotation that whole summer.
I love when Martin talk about albums production
Megadeth Killing is my Business is an underrated masterpiece
Chris poland is a genius...nuff said.
Yep, unfortunately many didn't realize it until the remastered version years later, it holds its own with the best of Megadeths catalog
I think Bonded By Blood is one of the greatest thrash metal albums, it's a lesson in pure thrash metal (and violence). My favorite metal album from 1985 are The Return by Bathory. To this day, it's such an evil, raw and atmospheric album
As a thrash metal album is a masterpiece. Now if you go with metal in general is too simple imo. Intro - verse - coro - repeat - solo - ending.
KILLING IS MY BUSINESS (or Bonded by Blood, that's cool too.)
Edit: I did NOT expect it to get number 1. My happiness is immeasurable.
My disappointment is immeasurable
The production brings down the enjoyment but if you listen to the most recent remaster you hear the genius of the record. Super unique style and very angry and brutal.
The Mechanix/the four horsemen is pure Dave song!
The obvious was missed. Overkill's Feel The Fire! This band deserves more love!
You had me at "Grinding grooves" 🤘
I'm honestly very surprised that Megadeth won this year. I love them but my vote is Seven Churches followed very very closely by Bonded by Blood. Also you did make very good points about each of the albums. 👍 can't wait for the next one
Possessed was my pick, too. (Helping the) invention of death metal is better than "Fuck you, James!" imo :D
Keep doing these Martin!
So good to see Celtic Frost in there. They seem too often to be a very over looked band.
Anthrax over Exodus in this category is insanity. Bonded by blood was a groundbreaking album that surpasses every Anthrax release.
5. Yngwie Malmsteen: Marching Out
4. Loudness: Thunder In The East
3. Possessed: Seven Churches
2. Dokken: Under Lock and Key
1. Razor: Evil Invaders
Honorable mention to Savatage's Power Of The Night. It's almost a really great record but has a couple flops on it. Amazing band though. (RIP Criss \m/) as well as Bathory's The Return another great record but I have to be in a particular mood to listen to it
You like Dokken and Possessed, eh? That's kind of odd.
Yeah that Yngwie album is amazing.
The only problem I have with this list is that Kreator's Endless Pain wasn't even an honorable mention. Hugely influential for early Black Metal, really raw vocals from Mille, raw production, just a killer record.
Agreed! I think they really hit their stride with Pleasure to Kill and Terrible Certainty but that’s a great debut and definitely one of the fastest and most intense albums of ‘85!
I'm surprised Bathory's The Return of Darkness and Evil didn't even get an honorable mention
One of my faves back then!
Great point! I'd forgotten about that. That's my favorite Bathory album from their Black Metal phase.
Great year for metal with bands like artillery, omen, iron angel, agent steel, trouble,onslaught, bathory,razor, destruction, sod, fates warning all putting out records
Destruction - “Infernal Overkill” should most definitely be on this list!!!
Great one I agree 1985 was great year for thrash
Savatage - Power of the Night, Anthrax-Spreading, Dokken-Lock n Key, Yngwie-Rising Force, Loudness- Thunder in the East, Ratt - Invasion, Helloween- Walls of Jericho, Icon - Night of the Crime.
Loudness is an excellent add to this list.
Metal will always be my go to as a listener and musician, but No Jacket Required is the best album overall of 1985.
Sigh ... a 4 month wait to find out my pick didn't even make the honorable mentions. Still it's good to finally see this episode air. At least I got to see my original comment when you showed the comments from the initial video scrolling by at the end lol
What was your pic?
@@shawnsmith8558 Overkill - Feel the Fire
Megadeth' s debut album is cool but it has the worst cover of 1985 😂
Other awesome albums of 1985:
Trouble - The Skull
Agent Steel - Skeptics Apocalypse
Overkill - Feel The Fire
Kreator - Endless Pain
Destruction - Infernal Overkill
Manilla Road - Open The Gates
Great list, I love all of those except I haven’t heard Agent Steel yet. I will have to check them out
@@erikberg5363 Thanks dude. Agent Steel is a very underrated band that deserves more attention.
@@quantisz4416 Blasting that album right now. I already love it 🤘🤘
@@erikberg5363 Yeahhhh! 👊
Manilla Road \m/!!!!!
Trouble "The Skull" would top my list
Dio- Sacred Heart was my pick. But I'm cool with these 5 getting in
Sacred Heart was a stellar album! Even SOD would have been a good top 5 pick
DIO was a ZERO!!
@@christianjackson9360 Hey, that matches your IQ
Yeah, sad times when metal's greatest singer doesn't get a mention. Great album, too. It's in my top 5 for that year, that's for sure.
Chris Oliva RIP should be more acknowledged for his incredible guitar chops in Savatage.
Power of the Night is perfect- Popoff rated it 10/10 in his book
Interesting results! As to the observation that there are no 'old school' bands in this list, off the top of my head, neither Sabbath nor Priest nor Maiden nor Scorpions nor Van Halen (who am I forgetting?) released a studio album in '85, so that's probably a factor. One band that doesn't get enough love is Loudness, who released their phenomenal Thunder In The East in this year.
What you say is correct. I’d also be willing to bet if live albums were included, Live After Death would run away with number one.
@@metaldams78 hell yeah it would
@@metaldams78
Meh. Not their best live performance.
@@hinjurock70 I prefer Beast Over Hammersmith, though I like Live After Death. That said, either of our opinions aside, I get the feeling Live After Death would win a fan vote, or at least come close, for 1985. Just a hunch.
@@metaldams78 That was an iconic tour/album, with the set list, performance and Dickinson's crowd patter becoming folklore. It was a very exciting release at the time. Iron Maiden at the apex of their career.
did Martin do a cool clap effect in the beginning?? look at him getting fancy! :D haha
@Martin Popoff ohhhh right that makes more sense b/c you were recording your audio to get it synched up. I thought it was an effect 😂😂
Can't say I expected 3/5 for Hell Awaits, which was my vote. I do get what Martin is saying, the production isn't even close to as good as what they'd get a year later with Rick Rubin, but I feel like that production has a sense of claustrophobia. Like you're trapped in the bowels of hell. Ah well, it's always good to hear the professor's insights
Hell Awaits is one of my favorite metal albums of all time - I listened to it like 3 times a day for months after I bought it.
Of the five albums, it's easily my favorite. I've never been able to get into Bonded by Blood so big oof that Hell Awaits scored even lower!
@@afinecupofcoffee8476 The rating was based in part on the fact that Exodus had written some of those songs around 1981-1982. The Slayer album was written in 1984-1985. Three year difference.
Did not expect Megadeth to fare this well, but I ain’t complaining. The fastest Megadeth album, horrible production, but great songs and insane energy!
Excellent !! As a 51 year old thrash fan who was 15 in 85 i can only agree with Popoff . Anthrax's "spreading" is and was then the best release of that year. Absolute classic ! Exodus sounded rather poor and dated when it came out as we had "Ride the lightning" to compare it to which was light years ahead of anything Exodus ever wrote ! MY number 1 has to be SOD "speak english or die" When metal met punk met hardcore . United forces !!! the best album of that year by a fucking mile !!
1. Black N Blue - Without love
2. Warrior - Fighting for the earth
3. Dokken - Under lock and key
4. Sinner - Touch of sin
5. Mama‘s Boys - Power & Passion
I'd swap most of the albums mentioned in the video for any of these: Sacrilege - Behind the Realms of Madness, Manilla Road - Open the Gates, Omen - Warning of Danger, Overkill - Feel the Fire, Razor - Evil Invaders, Carnivore - Carnivore
Its true how could he not mention manilla road?
Yes exactly finally someone with a mind that actually likes decent metal
Other mention Savage Grace - master of disguase
FUCK, I FORGOT ABOUT FEEL THE FIRE
I bought Witch Hunter on vinyl in '85!
Incredible year for Metal! My top 5 are:
5. Omen-Warningnof danger
4. Venom-Possessed (A truly underrated album imo)
3. Exodus-Bonded by Blood
2. Possessed-Seven Churches
1. Slayer-Hell Awaits
Overkill Rewind is once of my favorites! And Martin is a wisdom voice!
Big year for me for sure...Hell Awaits, Bonded By Blood, Seven Churches, Dealing With It, Animosity, Infernal Overkill, Metallica still had potential to be heavy, Killing Is My Business, In the Sign Of Evil...What Year. I was 16 and my Mom was truly scared of my album covers.
Me too, my mom too
Spreading The Disease is my favorite here. I like Gung Ho and The Enemy a lot.
Dio should be in this list. But then again: Dio should be on every best off list out there when it is about metal.
eh, their '85 album sucked. It was their '84 and '87 albums that were amazing. in my opinion.
@@Briansgate "Sacred Heart" wasn't *terrible*...it just wasn't anything much...some really lackluster writing on this one...and I agree, "The Last In Line" and "Dream Evil" knocked this flat on it's arse! Great tour, however...
1- Wasp- the last command
2- Manilla road - open the gates
3- Razor - executioners song
4- S.O.D. - speak english or die
5- ac/dc - fly on the wall
That's just my picks
Corrosion of Conformity Animosity was a great one of 1985. It’s more crossover though.
Along with Dealing With It and Speak English Or Die. I got into hardcore punk in early 1985 after seeing D.R.I. open for Slayer in LA.
Live After Death (Maiden) and Sacred Heart (Dio) for me. Okay LAD is live, but it's the notable standout among metal releases that year.
Another gem from that year. "Trouble - The Skull". Probably my favorite.
Am I the only one that thinks Dave's voice is pretty cool. It is unique, and always melodic in its intensity.
1. Maiden - Live After Death
2. WASP - The Last Command
3. Savatage - Power of the Night
4. Dokken - Under Lock and Key
5.Agent Steel - Skeptics Apocalypse
1. Celtic Frost - To Mega Therion
2. Savatage - Power of The Night
3. Fates Warning - The Spectre Within
4. Exodus - Bonded In Blood
5. Megadeth - Killing Is My Business...
Clicked for the Y&T t-shirt, stayed for the content!
1. Celtic Frost - To Mega Therion
2. Pentagram - Relentless
3. Bathory - The Return
4. Saint Vitus - Hollow's Victim
5. Possessed - Seven Churches
Hi Martin, I have a copy of Bonded By Blood released by Torrid Records in 1985. This pressing was released earlier than the Combat version.
How on earth could Ratt - Invasion of your Privacy NOT be on this list? Seriously!!! One of my all time favorite albums of any type of metal.
IKR. This is more like top 5 thrash albums of 85 lol
Marching Out is probably my favorite of 1985. Just neoclassical perfection, and with good songwriting. Elsewhere Power of the Night is a classic, and I like the mention of Mind Over Muscle. That album is really good.
Paul Baloff was a shouter, I'm a shouter, gotta love metal shouters !!
1: Night Of The Crime - Icon
2: The Last Command - W.A.S.P.
3: Dancin On The Edge - Lita Ford
4: Killing Is My Business And Business Is Good - Megadeth
5: Metal Heart - Accept
Night of the Crime ! Powerful release !
Thanks for that last mention, The good the bad and the Waysted!
I'm not a big hair metal guy, but I love Under Lock and Key. It's kinda like "smart man's" hair metal.
And with SoT, Contrarians, History in Five Songs, and Banger I almost feel like I'm stalking Martin. Haha.
Me as well. JAMIE. Lol
I fkin' love Mustaine's voice.
For me the best "Heavy Metal" album of 85 and one of the best ever made.
Warrior - Fighting for the earth.
Metal Heart...jesus what a Track #1...killer intro
Facts
Magnum's "On A Storyteller's Night" was a superb album from the year (their breakthrough commercially in the UK). The cover artwork was also class.
1-fly on the wall...2-killing is my buisness...3-hell awaits...4-last command...5-bonded by blood
Destruction, SOD, Kreator, Armored Saint, COC, Possessed
This is right before it got really good
Dude... All those bands and albums are awesome. Theres alot of other bands. Alot of talent. Thank you the 1980s..
1.Kreator - Endless Pain
2. Possessed - 7 CD
3 . Destruction
4. Sepultura - Morbid Visions
5. Halloween - EP
My favorite: Possessed "Seven Churches".
Mentions: Kix "Midnight Dynamite", Lee Aaron "Call Of The Wild", Dokken "Under Lock & Key", The Cult "Love".
Thanks, Martin! I forgot about 220 V - I'm going to go dig those out now!!
I saw Possessed open up for Kix and Dokken
Just kidding!
I’ll tell you this and 84 would be hard to do and in this top 5 here’s mine….
1. Celtic Frost - To Mega Therion
2. Slayer - Hell Awaits
3. Megadeth - KIMB
4. Exodus - Bonded by Blood
5. Possessed - Seven Churches
My top 5 of 1985
1.iron angel hellish crossfire is my favorite metal album from 1985 so underrated
2. Slayer hell awaits
3. Nasty savage first album
4. Tales of terror by stormwitch
5. The specter within by fates warning
This again.. Dave's singing voice is perfect.. for Megadeth. Horrible recording quality on Killing is my Business though.. blew the studio budget on partying then cobbled it together on a shoestring lol
The guitars are buried in the mix.
killing is my business is an amazing album. It's too bad the recording is so terrible.
To be honest, I would've included Mötley Crüe's Theatre of Pain. It's still a decent list though!
Why? That album is hot garbage. Even Motley Crue said that that album sucked. There are only 2 good songs on the entire album (Smokin & Home Sweet Home). There was a lot of better albums released in 85 than that garbage disc.
My appologies if its your favorite.
If you need to listen to it more than once (and not skip to the good songs) you are trying to like it.
I bought it & I tried to like it in 85 but it was nothing like their previous 2 albums. It was their image & overplay on Mtv what made this band bigger than they should have been with the release of Theater of Pain.
Peace
@@jaymzb.1713 after like 3 listens it really slaps though. It's mostly about the vibe dude. That album just kinda transports you back in time
@@jaymzb.1713 but yeah i wouldn't say top five. Maybe top 15
Jaymz B , My take on the album, two worst songs are the hits. Of course they would like them as it's the tunes that made money for them but for me, the rest of the album is really good.
I also agree with 220 Volt, thanks to Ruthless Metal I learned about them. They are really good, especially the first three albums
Armored saint - delirious nomad
C.O.C. - animosity
Exorcist - nightmare theater...might be 1986
Kreator - endless pain
Another great album was a compilation....metal massacre vi. It had possessed, hallows eve, nasty savage, dark angel, hirax and a few more
Oh man you convinced me that 85 was almost better than 84 !!!!
Great to see Savatage being mentioned! Others I like: Omega - The Prophet, Blind Fury - Out of Reach and Tytan - Rough Justice as well as the debut by Anthem.
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Come on man, Bonded By Blood is the ultimate metal album, anything but 5 out of 5 is blasphemy!
A lot of people seem to dislike Baloff’s vocals for some reason but I don’t understand it, they fit the music perfectly for me. And even if I didn’t like them, the riffing and just the guitar tone itself are fantastic!
@@erikberg5363 I think his vocal performance is amazing. The whole record is near perfect and it is probably the best thrash record ever made, at least in my humble opinion and I've been writing about this genre for over two decades.
@@RuthlessMetalYT I agree. He really does a bit of everything on there, which is maybe too much for some people. I love it because it adds more dynamics to the music
@@erikberg5363
His vocals are pretty one-dimensional, but the sheer aggression and punk rock rawness in his tone give the songs character, and the riffs, guitar solos and drumming on that album are absolutely kick-ass. I'd definitely give it a 4 out of 5.
@@hinjurock70 I wouldn’t call it one-dimensional at all. I guess he does the same things throughout the whole record but there is everything from low barks to high falsetto wails.
1985: When I was a big fan of Michael Jackson when I was a little kid.
I became a Metalhead by 14 in 1992. \m/😎
Chomsky loves Celtic Frost? One more reason to adore him..
I cannot wrap my head around Venom’s ‘Possessed’ not being here.
Bonded By Blood wins this for me. My favorite Exodus album and an all time thrash classic. RIP Paul Baloff 🤘SOD - Speak English Or Die is a very close 2nd and Slayer - Hell Awaits is 3rd. 🤘