#283 TOP 20 METAL ALBUMS OF 1985

1985. Back To The Future would become the highest grossing film of the year, the Live Aid benefit would be hosted simultaneously in 2 different venues on 2 different continents, and the Coca-Cola Company would experience a catastrophic failure with “New Coke” by (once again) failing to put its namesake ingredient from the ORIGINAL “Original Formula” back in their legendary beverage.

We are well aware that there are multiple listicles already out there featuring the “Top 20 Metal Albums of 1985” because 40 years is quite the chronological landmark. Nevertheless, we still felt compelled to construct our own list. It’s not necessarily all thrash, but it’s not all “gloves of shame” either. In short, it’s a pretty substantial sampler of the albums that WE feel represent everything great about metal in1985.

It’s time to shake off those “cobwebs” and prepare for some “extraordinary news” as well as “a story of redemption and forgiveness” regarding a previous negative review we received.

Learn about the earliest documented “fake news” regarding Elizabeth Bathory’s alleged use of “skin conditioner” and get a sneak preview of the new album from “Dick Johnson & The Ball Brothers” when you JOIN US for the TOP 20 METAL ALBUMS OF 1985.

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Show Notes:

(00:01): “Now I can hear everything…”/ #gospelband / “Dick Johnson and The Ball Brothers…OR…?” / “Like a quartet…”/ #hallelujah / #MrBlack / “Oh my goodness…”/ “Technically you have gone somewhere…”/ #cobwebs / “Well that’s another topic…I guess I’ll share…this podcast is not getting me laid…”/ #markallthetimes / “Make that a button, please…”/ #assteroid / “It was a zit…just so you know…”/ “I got a little excited and then I got disappointed…”/ #shopclass / “It’s #dickconditioner dude…that’s what Elizabeth Bathory used to do…”/ #fakenews / “Fake news before fake news was fake news…”/ “Two coffees and an apple juice coming right up…”/ ***WARNING: #listenerdiscretionisadvised *** / ***WELCOME BACK TO THE POST SNOWPOCOLYPSE EPISODE OF THE METAL NERDERY PODCAST!!!*** / #digitalbunkerpoonsound / “One and a half inches doesn’t seem like a lot…”/ “I think we got about 2 inches…”/ #drivingonice / #infrastructure / “It never gets cold enough (or hot enough)…”/ #LAFires / “Adam Carolla went on a rant…”/ #sevenyears / #notahonky / #DEI / #doesntequalintelligence / “Insurance companies are freaking out right now…”

(10:16): #thisepisodesbeeroftheepisode #DunkinSpiked #sixpercentABV / “That’s it? It’s deceptive…”/ #AmericanSpikedBeverages / ***IF YOU WANNA SKIP THE NONSENSE, GO TO #THEDOCKET *** / #MeMyselfAndIrene / “We could get #JustinTrudeau to do it, he’s unemployed now…” / #FiftyFirstState / “OMG we should call it #TheGulfOfAmerica it would be great…”/ “C’mon man…”/ #wordsaladsally / “It quit hurting after the first week…”/ “There’s a feeling you get…when you’re moving…” / #thelastload / #RussellsReflectionsMovingEdition / “Mansion…mansion…little small lakehouse…”/ #garage / #markthetimeplease / “Ohhh please…did you get all that? You’ve gotta mark ALL that…”/ “He’s out of control…”/ #itstheheadphones / #Landman / “EXACTLY like that!”/ “That’s a #JudasPriest album, dude…”/ “I always thought it was #PinkyBlinders dude I didn’t know it was #PeakyBlinders…”/ #nothingbutneck / #Bane

(21:21): “I’ve got some news…this is extraordinary news…today…is the second time…”/ #carnivore / “I don’t drink coffee either…”/ “You can still wear all the shirts you had in high school…”/ ***PATREON SHOUT OUT!!!*** / ***Go check us out and JOIN US on PATREON at patreon.com/metalnerderypodcast *** / “Does it not feel like this year is already long AF!?”/ #oftheyear / #DonaldTrumpASMR / ***GO CHECK US OUT ON THE SOCIAL MEDIA AT #METALNERDERYPODCAST ON #YOUTUBE AND #FACEBOOK AND #YOUTUBE *** GIVE US A CALL AT 980-666-8182 OR EMAIL US AT METALNERDERY@GMAIL.COM ***/ “You’ll get fucked…”/ “Oh…the #fuckbag review!?”/ #ReviewRedemption / “I’ll just take it out or leave it in, whatever…”/ “Let’s not do that…”/ #offputting #exhausting / “We only hurt the ones we love!”/ “No the #superfuckbagreview is still out there…that one was #purehate …”/ “Could have been a them…”/ #transam / “I was trying to find some filler…”/ “I think it’s on Thursday…”/ #TheFourHorsemen / #fieldtrip #Gainesberg / “Speaking of shows…”/ #EmberingEffigy #AtlantaUtilityWorks #EastPoint / “What a great name…”/ #CoathangerAbortion / “That’s a great name, dude…”/ #Amish

(31:50): #TheDocket #DocketThirty / “It’s 2025…”/ METAL NERDERY PODCAST PRESENTS: TOP 20 HEAVY METAL ALBUMS FROM 1985!!! / “Ohhh, that was a good song!”/ “It’s not all thrash and it’s not all #glovesofshame …”/ #engaged / “We were all engaged…”/ #Number20 / “This is OUR #Top20…”/ #Pentagram (Relentless) / “Somewhere up north…close…Virginia…”/ “You’ve gotta watch the documentary…”/ #LastDaysHere / “He’s got the crazy eyes…have y’all ever heard the term #sanpaku?” #fourwhiteeyes / NOTE: Swaller? Or Squalor? / NOTE: It actually IS their first album…/ SIGN OF THE WOLF (PENTAGRAM) / THE GHOUL / “If you take out the high end, you’ve got Sabbath…”

(40:24): #Number19 / #PowerMetal / #Helloween (Walls of Jericho) / #killeropener / “According to #wikipedia…”/ “That’s the original edition…”/ STARLIGHT (“Is this a #Madonna cover?”) / #rockandrollendingintro / “Thank you…good night!”/ “Yep, that sounds like Helloween…”/ “Said nobody on the #AJFA sessions…”

(44:32): #Number18 / “Did you like #Dokken back in the day?” (Under Lock And Key) / “That was the #NightmareOnElmStreet song right?” / LIGHTNIN’ STRIKES AGAIN / “Before you cut this one out, play the solo…”/ 1:55 / #GeorgeLynchASMR / “It’s kinda like…when you’re watching porn…”/ #butterface / #popmetal / “It wasn’t glam enough…but it wasn’t aggressive…”

(48:48): #Number17 / “We know the guitar player…”/ #Possessed (Seven Churches) / “If you’ve ever read #TheLastBook of #TheGoodBook …”/ “The last one’s better…”/ #killercloser DEATH METAL / “Too much reverb…it’s ruining the riff…”/ “That’s before we knew what #deathmetal was…it was #nextlevelthrash…”/ “I don’t even think they’re close…”/ #airplanes

(53:39): #Number16 / “Next up…”/ “Ooough…”/ #CelticFrost (Return To Mega Therion) / “Oh, our house is haunted, by the way…”/ #MaryReilly / #ghoststories / “I swore I heard a dude talking into his phone…it was weird!”/ #Megatron #Transformers #LetsMakeFunOfMattASMR / “Russ, look at Matt…”/ #theheadphones / RETURN TO THE EVE (Studio Jam) / “This one’s got a good ‘Oooough’ though…” / #blech / “Whew!!! Hey Hey Hey HEY!!!”

(58:50): #Number15 / “The third #DIO record…”/ (Sacred Heart) / LIKE THE BEAT OF A HEART / #RJDASMR / “I can only hear #JackBlack doing this…”/ “His teeth, man…I’m telling you…”

(1:00:44): #Number14 / “That might have been one of the first images I beat off to that was #heavymetal …”/ #Ratt (Invasion Of Your Privacy) / LAY IT DOWN / “This is ’85 all day…”/ “Ironically, I was probably still watching #Transformers at 13…”/ WHAT YOU GIVE IS WHAT YOU GET / “This sounds like the soundtrack…” / #yeahyeah / “Can’t wait til I get home…”

(1:04:06): #Number13 / #Sepultura (Bestial Devastation) / “They are #cokelined out the wazoo…”/ BESTIAL DEVASTATION / “That’s what I was looking for…”/ NECROMANCER / “You can tell it’s the beginning of their sound…”/ “I’ll wait, I’ll talk about it later…” / “I look like Rogan…but better looking…and with a beard…and way more poor…

(1:07:32): #Number12 / #YngwieMalmsteen (Marching Out) / #JeffScottSoto / “I like stuff that doesn’t have the vocals…”/ #dungeonmetal / DISCIPLES OF HELL / “Let’s watch the video…”/ #stillshot / “When it takes off it really takes off…”/ #dontmakeitweird / “Every time I heard this guy I wanted to cut my hands off…”/ “Almost Dio…”/ #hateful

(1:11:01): #Number11 / #Overkill (Feel The Fire) / “We’ve gotta go with their #Exciter moment…over time they did a theme of Overkill songs over multiple albums…”/ “Dude he loves my burps not yours…/ OVERKILL / “Damn, 3 months ago!?” / “He STILL sounds like that!”

(1:13:40): “Cracking the #Top10 now yeah?” / #Number10 / #Venom (Possessed) / “Killing the fourth wall, bro…”/ “In league with satin…”/ NOTE: This was album number 4…/ POWERDRIVE / “That’s not very evil sounding…”/ SATANACHIST (“It’s a quickie…”) / #JoinUs #SuNioj / “Sounds like #Motorhead with the bass…”/ “Is Powerdrive something that happens in Hell?”

(1:18:25): #Number9 / “This is after they moved from the punk to the hardcore…”/ #CorrosionOfConformity (Animosity) / “We DO have a #1985 episode…we’re doing a sample of albums from 1985…”/ #angina / MAD WORLD / “Probably the first #COC song I ever heard…”

(1:20:48): #Number8 / #Kreator (Endless Pain) / #WREKage was the first place I ever heard this…/ #highschoolbuddy / “What’s up with that dude?”/ TORMENTOR / “You know that’ll be 2 years this year…since that show?” / “Definite #KillEmAll influence there…”

(1:23:36): #Number7 / “I’d still say it’s metal…”/ #ACDC (Fly On The Wall) / “You’re not part of this podcast…”/ #blackdog / “You know the little FBI or CIA #informationmachines we keep in our house?” / FLY ON THE WALL #WNRD #BunkerpoonRadioNetwork / “Shoot To Thrill, Part 2…kinda…”/ “Huge upgrade from Flick Of The Switch…”/ SINK THE PINK

(1:27:50): “It’s the Top 6…”/ “Moose stain?” / #MousseStain / #Megadeth (KILLING IS MY BUSINESS…AND BUSINESS IS GOOD) / LAST RITES/LOVED TO DETH / “Those guys are women…you can’t use keyboards in metal…”/ “Get some…get some of THAT!”/ “You know that was what was on his mind…”

(1:30:51): #Number5 / “It’s gonna be the #killercloser…”/ #Anthrax (Spreading The Disease) / GUNG-HO / “I used to wonder how they played that fast…how do guitar players do that?” / “As a human, I’m a big fan of A.I.R…”/ #AnallyInducedRecreation

(1:33:10): #Number4 / “We don’t have to do that one but it’s always so much fun…”/ #Exodus (Bonded By Blood) / “The #albumcover gives me 1985 vibes almost more than the music…”/ “He does it…I think he does it in this song…”/ NOTE: He does not ‘do it’ in this song/ “I think the title track is the only one he does that on… / PIRANHA

(1:35:18): #Number3 / #Slayer (Hell Awaits) / KILL AGAIN / “I like that album cover…it LOOKS like ’85…”/ NOTE: the part in question is actually on Praise Of Death, NOT this one…/ “That almost sounds like the Angel Of Death scream…”/ “The other night I was reading the lyrics to Hell Awaits…if you read those lyrics, they’re pretty intense…”

(1:39:07): “This would have been number one…had number one never existed…”/ #Number2 / #StormtroopersOfDeath #SOD (Speak English Or Die) / SARGENT D AND THE S.O.D. / “Imagine if every #BigFour album had that sound…”/ “That is thrash…that sound you are hearing…that’s thrash!” / “We gotta hear that little thing…”/ “Last night in Osaka…” / NOT/MOMO/TAINT/THE CAMEL BOY/DIAMONDS AND RUST/ANTI-PROCRASTINATION SONG / “That’s like a progressive album…

(1:43:36): #Number1 / #IronMaiden (Live After Death) / “Even above #KISS Alive! I and Alive! II…”/ “My only #AJFABeef with this album…”/ REVELATIONS (“Alright let me see you wave your flippers in the air!!!”) / “This is where Bruce plays guitar live…the clean part is Bruce…”/ “How about a little uhhhh…”/ 22 ACACIA AVENUE / “Speak to me, Hammersmith…”/ “One of the best album covers, too…”/ THANK YOU FOR JOINING US!!! / “I don’t ever eat salad…it’s not good for gout…”/ #untilthenext #outroreel #metalnerderyASMR