Top albums of 2010 coming soon

Some time this week Andy and I will both be posting out our lists for the best albums of 2010. So come by and check them out and here are links to other music blogs that will be posting their lists in the next week or so. So check them out too.

All Metal Resource — http://allmetalresource.com/


Bring Back Glam — http://bringbackglam.squarespace.com/


Hair Metal Mansion — http://hairbangersradio.ning.com/


Hard Rock Hideout — http://hardrockhideout.com/


Heavy Metal Addiction — http://heavymetaladdiction.com


Heavy Metal Time Machine — http://metalmark.blogspot.com/


Imagine Echoes — http://www.imagineechoes.com/


Metal Excess — http://metalexcess.com/


Metal Odyssey — http://metalodyssey.wordpress.com/


The Ripple Effect — http://www.ripplemusic.blogspot.com/


Hard Rock Nights — http://hardrocknights.wordpress.com/


Layla’s Classic Rock — http://laylasclassicrock.blogspot.com/


The Metal Minute — http://rayvanhornjr.blogspot.com/

Top ten hard rock/metal albums of 1990

Kind of a strange year for hard rock and metal. Lots of hard rock/hair band releases coming out, but not a lot of good ones. Thrash was was seeing something of a split with a number of major labels bands becoming more accessible while death metal was continuing to rise as it's own entity. My list for this year has altered greatly over the years several albums have fallen a few places while others have come up in the rankings. Here you go.



10-Celtic Frost-Vanity/Nemisis
A good bounce back after Cold Lake.

9-King Diamond-The eye
This album has actually grown on me over the years.

8-Tigertailz-Bezerk
The only hard rock album to make my top ten list.

7-Judas Priest-Painkiller
People either hate it or love it. I think it was a well need burst of energy for this band.

6-Kreator-Coma of souls
Their last really good album for some time.

5-Prong-Beg to differ
They finally figured out their direction.

4-Artillery-By inheritance
They were good on the previous two outings, but they stretched out for this one.

3-Anthrax-Persistance of time
A slight change in direction helped a lot.

2-Megadeth-Rust in piece

Their best album.

1-Steve Vai-Passion and warfare
Simply amazing effort.

Top ten Misfits songs

Hallowen is the perfect time for old Misfits songs. Their whole image was suited for the holiday. The run of the original band was relatively short, but they knocked out a lot of songs. Of course when they are like a minute or so long and this simple I guess you can knock out a huge pile of songs. Here are my top ten favorite Misfits songs.

1-I turned into a martian
2-Horror Business
3-Horror Hotel
4-London Dungeon
5-Bullet
6-Vampira
7-Where eagles dare
8-20 eyes
9-Ghouls night out
10-Night of the living dead

Top ten albums to listen to for Halloween

Once upon a time I used to listen to albums on Halloween and that was probably all I could do at the time. I remember being in college or high school being excited about setting aside time to just kick back and listen to a King Diamond or Maiden album in it's entirety around Halloween. Now that I have kids things have changed for my Halloween activities. However if my week was more open and I could pick ten albums to listen leading up to and during Halloween then I would choose these. They are listed in no real order.

Black Sabbath-s/t
Cirith Ungol-King of the dead
Alice Cooper-Love it to death
Iron Maiden-The number of the beast
Grim Reaper-Fear no evil
Halloween-Don't metal with evil
Trick or treat soundtrack (Fastway)
Ozzy-Diary of a madman
Misfits-Walk among us
King Diamond-Abigail

Maybe I will listen to some of these this year if I get time.

Ten 1980's albums that I underrated

In no real order here they are.

Cinderella-Long cold winter
This came out when I was full swing into speed metal so it didn't click with me until a few years later. Then I came to see how great of an album it is.



Iron Maiden-Seventh son of a seventh son
Again I was into speed metal and when Maiden went slightly lighter I didn't take to it at first. Maybe two years later I came around.

KISS-Creatures of the night
I liked this one, but I think that because I didn't own it for a while that I never gave it all the credit that it deserved. Easily the best KISS album of the 1980's and a top ten album for 1982.

Cirith Ungol-King of the dead
Went in hoping for straight forward speed metal and I dismissed it because it wasn't that style. Actually it's a whole lot better than most of the speed metal releases of the time.

WASP-Inside the electric circus
I was into their first two releases, but this one seemed a little light to me when I first heard it. It's not as good as the two before it, but it's a better effort than I first gave it credit for.



Metal Church-s/t
The dark was my introduction to this band. Although I heard the debut it was a while before I actually bought it and got to hear it a lot. Probably at least five years until I figured out that this was the band's best effort and unfortunately the band never totally followed the style that they started here.

Sodom-In the sign of evil
It's an EP and not the best produced album of all time. Plus I was into heavier albums by the time I heard this early thrash release. Eventually I went back and relaized that Sodom were on the right track with this one.

Dio-Dream Evil
I saw the two videos and already had it in my mind that this was going to blow. It didn't make an impression on my in 1987. Like three years later while listening to it on headphones it came to me that although far from perfect, it still had a lot to offer.

Motorhead-Another perfect day
No Fast Eddie, no way! That was my reaction to this album for a long time. Eventually I heard it for the solid disc it was. It was an attempt at a slightly different direction and most of it works.

Overkill-Feel the fire

Like Metal Church, I heard the sophomore album first so I took to "Taking over" for a while. It was some time before I bought this one. When I heard it more I was overwhelmed by just how heavy it was for the time. Like Metal Church I don't think they quite followed up this sound like they should have.

Top albums of 1982

Here they are.


1)Iron Maiden-The number of the beast

2)Judas Priest-Screaming for vengeance

3)Motorhead-Iron Fist

4)Scorpions-Blackout

5)Hanoi Rocks-Oriental Beat

6)Venom-Black Metal

7)KISS-Creatures of the night

8)Twisted Sister-Under the blade

9)Raven-Wiped Out

10)Van Halen-Diver Down



Quite a year indeed as my favorite albums from Maiden, Priest, Scorpions, MSG, Tank and Venom all came out in 1982. The NWOBHM was still holding strong. KISS came back with a good one after a few clunkers. Motorhead, Venom, Raven and others were laying down the foundations for what would become speed metal.



Next week it will be my top ten for 1983.

Top ten albums of 1981

Here are my top ten albums for 1981.

1)Van Halen - Fair Warning
2)Iron Maiden- Killers
3)Ozzy- Diary of a madman
4)Black Sabbath- The Mob Rules
5)Motley Crue-Too fast for love
6)Def Leppard-High and dry
7)Rush-Moving Pictures
8)Hanoi Rocks-Bangkok Shocks, Saigon Shakes, Hanoi Rocks
9)Cirith Ungol-Frost and fire
10)Tie: Raven- Rock 'till you drop and Venom- Welcome to hell

In 1981 the NWOBHM was still going strong. Iron Maiden started to develop the style that would serve them so well for most of the decade. Several albums on my list are debuts so a good year for new bands indeed.