Yep that's why I bought Kings of Metal by Manowar . The music needless to say surpassed my expectation. Nobody sings nor ( especially ) screams anything like Eric Adams .
I am soooooo glad we didn't have Amazon back in the '80's. There was nothing like going to the record store and finding a new band to follow. Damn I miss that.
That still exists. Not as common but record shops are still around with lots of stuff in them. There's one in town where I live called the Diskery. I know it's not quite the same but it's something.
That is awesome! I am the son of the drummer from Allied Forces. His name is Peter van der Sluijs. We're both still playing the drums! He in a blues band and I am playing in a thrash metal band called Splinterbomb
Pretty sure I went to see Allied Forces in Dublin, Ireland in the mid 80s in a small venue called McGonagles. I think there were 4 or 5 bands playing that day
@@bumpyroad3251 When it comes to rap, some of that 80s and 90s stuff actually had talent. Rappers like Ice T, Run dmc, ect. Rappers nowadays are pathetic and should be boycotted.
@@bumpyroad3251 I don't think that shitty grunge had to do anything with rock. The majority of metalheads just ignored it. My opinion is that the metal scene in general especially after the mid of the 90's lost the rock'n'roll element and the result is the crap of today!!
There was an 80’s band called Steeler with only one album in ‘83. Featured a 19 year old immigrant named Yngwie Malmsteen. He left the band shortly thereafter. The vocalist was Ron Keel, of the band that bears his last name. Drummer went on to join Lion, and later on Riot in ‘86.
Great call! It had "Hot on Your Heels"! The radio show Metal Shop sampled that grinding sound at the end of Yngwie's solo as part of their intro. The album was recorded at Prairie Sun studios in Cotati CA. I recorded there a few years back and the engineer on site showed me where a young Yngwie had smacked his head open on a low hanging roof tail when he stepped outside to take a piss in the dark. He said they even had to break from recording his parts for the day while he got stitched up.
I will admit, I considered myself a metalhead back in the 80's. I was into all sorts of hard rock and heavy metal and often looked for some obscure bands. I was mostly into the Glam/Sleaze rock scene, which later became "hair" metal, but also into speed metal and even hardcore punk rock. I had friends heavily into the thrash and death metal scenes, and many who were into classic rock and early metal... I've never ever heard of any of these bands! You definitely found some obscure stuff here.
It sucks that both political parties in America were united in their hatred of metal music in the 80's - otherwise, I would probably know these bands...
@CC C Haha, if I was remotely capable of uploading it I would. There are all kinds of obscure reissues over the last few years. Why some see rerelease and others don't is beyond me. Sometimes its almost impossible to track band members down. As for the reissue. It's nothing special. Just sounds clean. You can probably find it on discogs.
Man, we had to buy albums based on the cover art back in the day. There wasn’t any internet or UA-cam. And 99% of them had this super cheesy art style. So it was pretty much a crap shoot. 🤣 Ended up with some cool albums and a bunch of stinkers.
When I was 13, I saw a picture of the cover from "One Step Into The Uncertain" by Adrian in Martin Popoff's Collector's Guide To Heavy Metal and was immediately enthralled by the underwater gun-wielding hesher and the spider squid protecting her eggs. This album has eluded me for 20 years as it's both expensive and hard to locate, but one day I will track that sucker down! Thanks for posting, as no one talks about that band EVER.
Another great 1 album band was Warlord. Deliver Us, Mrs Victoria, Penny For A Poor man are great songs and Black Mass is as heavy as it gets. And Child Of The Damned is speed metal at it’s purest.
@@StackBundle Thanks for the heads up on the other band. Was aware of several albums but most were compilation with one or two new songs. Still a great band. Will have to look for the other band’s materiel. If you search the Tube, there is a concert promo film of Warlord live. Pretty cool.
Axe Victims; awesome! What a gem Another Victim is. Cool tunes, amazing riffs and playing, and surprisingly, very well produced. There seems to be remaster releases of this floating around eBay, but already had an album to cd copy a friend of mine gave me and it sounds super good, so will stick with what I got. Readers...explore this album, well worth a listen front to back!
My family owned the local record store in town and my Mom ran the Heavy Metal Mail Order, so when I saw this I was skeptical. After listening, I was pleasantly surprised and agree with your assessments, nice job!
After 8 years of discovered those rare and obscure metals, i feel nostalgic to listen it back again 🤘, besides still fav bands like axemaster- deliver us from evil , Angel dust- into the dark past, assault- survival in the streets, Salem Wych- betrayer of the kings, argus- lady killer, victims- power hungry , riot- thundersteel, marshall law- hearts of thunder. damn never ends
Love obscure heavy music. Excellent content, inspired me to subscribe. Keep it up. Do some obscure Canadian metal. There’s tons. I recently saw an album by a band called Iron Gypsy featuring bassist Randy Rampage, who had a storied career with Canadian punk band D.O.A., and then later work with metal band Annihilator.
Thanks for this. I absolutely love rare 80's metal. While I will listen to them in my rotation, I have added them to my Discogs want list. You just never know what you run across in the wild. Once again, thanks for sharing your knowledge.
Some of these tunes don't sound all that bad, certainly better than some of the stuff coming out now. You could almost imagine these songs being in some obscure 1980's film as well. Yep, I was a kid of the 1980's and have very fond memories of those simpler times.
I would like to add a few more: Vamp - The Rich Don't Rock Horizon - Master Of the Game Jett Black - Night Flight Wolf - Edge Of The World Razormaid - First Cutt Czakan - State Of Confusion (2nd album coming this month lol) Raider - Darker Than Night Steelover - Glove Me High N Dry - Hands Off My Toy! Emerald - Armed For Battle
6:16 - "I'm not entirely sure what their songs are about..." *very next song* "This is just for the ladies so they won't get frustrated But I still haven't met the one I love"
Yeah, that song’s chorus is basically saying “Hey girls, I’m up for a relationship... but only a strictly platonic one - I’m not a rocker who’s an easy lovin’ sleazeball, I’m a true gentleman.”
I'm definitely going to check out Crystal Knight, Allied Forces And Axe Victims, having already glided to awesome Fortuner, but not quite as taken by storm by Adrian (non Smith). 😋 Although I am going to give the latter another chance, spurred on by your timeless praise...😇😎
My favorite single album band release from the 80's is 1984's "The Day of Retribution" by Nemesis out of Sweden . Such an amazing and classic album. Although I'm not sure how obscure the band is, as most of the members went on to form Candlemass shortly after. Anybody should check it out if you haven't heard it
Thanks. I like going through the back catalog of 80s metal. I'm sure you had to listen to a lot of ordinary stuff to find some good stuff. The recording quality seems good on these ones you've selected. The drums sound a lot better on most newer albums.
Proud released a new album (Second Act) recently... it seems to be getting decent reviews, but personally I think it's a bit boring... AOR stuff, nothing like the first album.
Cool, never heard of these. What popped in my mind immediately is Exorcist - Nightmare Theatre from 1985. It's pretty much Virgin Steele, but very different in style. No one knew it was them for a long time. Great album!
White Tiger (1986) Oliver Magnum (1989) Horizon - Master of the game (1985) Rhoads - Into The Future (1986) Kingdom - Lost in the city (1988) Stratus - Throwing Shapes (1985) Blacklist - The sign of four (1984) Valhalla (1984)
Everybody should listen to: Wolf - at the edge of the world From England awesome forgotten gem, everything is great here, flawless record with a cool artwork! Nwobhm.
Got another one: Lions Bread (single album "Damn the night", 1985). They later changed their name to Scanner but sounded very different after that I think. Different but also very good. Check out "Across the universe"!
I REALLY enjoy watching all your videos, very well done. A lot of good stuff!! I would like to see possibly future episodes covering EZO, Alex Mesi, Grim Reaper, Razormaids to name just a few cool bands for future episodes. 👍🏼
One that I found in the bargain bin back in the 80s is Saints' Anger - Danger Metal. I can only find the one album but I did find a double CD re-issue on Discogs with a bunch of demos and stuff.
Another band that made two albums is Juggernaut from Texas. I like especially the first, Baptism of Fire (1986). As a bassist, I find Scott Womack's bass lines awesome and what a sound he had! A band with a good but lonely album is Omega from UK, in 1985. Greetings from Italy!
Powerlove Creeping up on you ! Hell yeah ! I have the Dangerous Attraction CD from Lion (NOT white Lion !) I think the singer went on to front at least one other band, but the name eludes me - maybe Bad Moon or something ?? Bad Moon Rising ( OK - forced to check wikipedia) Kick Axe, Icon, Hericane Alice and heaven's Edge were just a few of my favorite more obscure 80's-type bands. There's a guy with an AWESOME UA-cam channel y'all GOTTA check out ! It's full of OUR kind of metal and it's called "Danny Waysted Official Hard n Heavy Channel". I believe he has three, maybe four channels of hard rock and metal ! You're welcome !
@@tommychapman8911 The singer, Kal Swan, was before Lion in a NWOBHM band called Tytan. They released just one album in the eighties called Rough Justice. Greetings from Italy! PS: Danny's Channel is really a cornucopia for those like us who like 80's HR/HM! Awesome!
Have an old friend that is half Spaniard. He came home from a visit to his grandparents in the mid 80s (high school years) with a Baron Rojo vinyl album. Still remember the song Bota Sucio (Dirty Boot). Thanks for the reminder - brings back memories of good times.
I have a digital copy of the re-mastered version of Breaking Point. It was supposed to have official release in 2005-ish but record comp went bust. I can't even begin to explain how much better it is than the original mix.
I swear I've seen that Axe Victim album cover before, it looks so familiar. My local record store was fantastic about being stocked with all kinds of unknown or up & coming artists. I would bet I saw that Axe Victim there in the store.
Apologies if you've already covered them (haven't looked yet), but a few great metal bands to check out are H-Bomb, Sortilege, and Angeles del Infierno. All in foreign languages, hence their lack of popularity here in the US
Crystal Knight and Randy sure had more things in common than their nationality alone. Another great Danish band in the same vein was Mirage. Unfortunately just as shortlived. Only 1 EP to my knowledge.
Does anyone remember back in the 80s when we Metal Heads would buy a heavy metal cassette tape based solely on the album art? 🤘🏻
Yep that's why I bought Kings of Metal by Manowar . The music needless to say surpassed my expectation. Nobody sings nor ( especially ) screams anything like Eric Adams .
The sole reason I bought my first Sepultura tape
@@danadane2501 That’s an awesome album! “Fighting the World” was my favorite Manowar album. BLOW YOUR SPEAKERS! 🤘🏻
@@REPVILE Hell Yeah! When I first heard their version of ogasmatron I was all in.
@@dainejir661 play it loud dont play it low Blow your Speakers that's Rock N Roll ..
I am soooooo glad we didn't have Amazon back in the '80's. There was nothing like going to the record store and finding a new band to follow. Damn I miss that.
That still exists. Not as common but record shops are still around with lots of stuff in them. There's one in town where I live called the Diskery. I know it's not quite the same but it's something.
I can't upvote this comment, since you're at 69 right now
If you're going to amazon for you're music you're doing it wrong
Yeah, word of mouth and Circus magazine were the way.
No relation to Blackie, hey man? Blackie’s really Steven Edward Duran, btw.
That is awesome! I am the son of the drummer from Allied Forces. His name is Peter van der Sluijs. We're both still playing the drums! He in a blues band and I am playing in a thrash metal band called Splinterbomb
How cool! I love that album. I'll have to check out Splinterbomb too :) Thanks for checking out the video!!
Awesome! Keep playing,!
@@MetalSchoolChannel Yep, I'll certainly be checking out Splinterbomb, as well!
Do you have a UA-cam channel, or a place we can get your music?
Pretty sure I went to see Allied Forces in Dublin, Ireland in the mid 80s in a small venue called McGonagles. I think there were 4 or 5 bands playing that day
It's a shame 80s had to end. Best times ever
Exactly, when the 90s came along so did the internet. The internet has destroyed humanity.
True
@@pointnIaugh With 90s came Grunge also which destroyed Rock and the explosion of Rap, Hip hop, R&B which turned music into degradation
@@bumpyroad3251 When it comes to rap, some of that 80s and 90s stuff actually had talent. Rappers like Ice T, Run dmc, ect. Rappers nowadays are pathetic and should be boycotted.
@@bumpyroad3251 I don't think that shitty grunge had to do anything with rock. The majority of metalheads just ignored it.
My opinion is that the metal scene in general especially after the mid of the 90's lost the rock'n'roll element and the result is the crap of today!!
There was an 80’s band called Steeler with only one album in ‘83. Featured a 19 year old immigrant named Yngwie Malmsteen. He left the band shortly thereafter.
The vocalist was Ron Keel, of the band that bears his last name. Drummer went on to join Lion, and later on Riot in ‘86.
I was just going to name them! ☹️
Indeed a great album.
Greetings from Italy!
I own the album on vinyl have had it for decade
@@garyharris2940 yeah, me too...😄since 1991, if I remember well.
Greetings from Italy!
that's awesome. i was just listening to this the other day. thought about doing a drum cover cause most people dont even know this album.
Great call! It had "Hot on Your Heels"! The radio show Metal Shop sampled that grinding sound at the end of Yngwie's solo as part of their intro. The album was recorded at Prairie Sun studios in Cotati CA. I recorded there a few years back and the engineer on site showed me where a young Yngwie had smacked his head open on a low hanging roof tail when he stepped outside to take a piss in the dark. He said they even had to break from recording his parts for the day while he got stitched up.
I will admit, I considered myself a metalhead back in the 80's. I was into all sorts of hard rock and heavy metal and often looked for some obscure bands. I was mostly into the Glam/Sleaze rock scene, which later became "hair" metal, but also into speed metal and even hardcore punk rock. I had friends heavily into the thrash and death metal scenes, and many who were into classic rock and early metal... I've never ever heard of any of these bands! You definitely found some obscure stuff here.
Reminds me of that neighborhood kid who had every heavy metal album known to man stacked on the walls in his bedroom. Good upload!
The coolest thing about these bands are the band member’s names.They all sound like they were taken from bad guys in a James Bond movie!
I like all of these bands and you can find more of these type of albums around if you just go searching !
It sucks that both political parties in America were united in their hatred of metal music in the 80's - otherwise, I would probably know these bands...
Hahahahahaha
yeah.. most of them are ze germans
@@Motorips where's Hanz Gruber's band? I bet they ripped
I’m really loving Crystal Knight’s and Adrian’s albums.
Also enjoying Allied Forces and Axe Victims 🤘
Glad Crystal Knight made the list, very underrated.
Some of these songs really rocked.
Axe Victims is really good. Can't get anymore 80's than that
YOOOOO! The Crystal Knight LP got reissued in 2016! After almost 20 years of owning a near shit copy I was cruising.
@CC C Haha, if I was remotely capable of uploading it I would.
There are all kinds of obscure reissues over the last few years. Why some see rerelease and others don't is beyond me.
Sometimes its almost impossible to track band members down.
As for the reissue. It's nothing special. Just sounds clean. You can probably find it on discogs.
The vocalist also song in Fate, and now in ureas and Third Eye. A very good vocalist.
I love the 80s great time for metal Some incredible releases from Metal Blade records at the time
Combat put out equally great albums as well.
I just love the album art for 80s metal bands.
The more cheesiness, the better.
Preferably coloured in with felt tips
Man, we had to buy albums based on the cover art back in the day. There wasn’t any internet or UA-cam. And 99% of them had this super cheesy art style. So it was pretty much a crap shoot. 🤣 Ended up with some cool albums and a bunch of stinkers.
cheesy? no, no, no,
The more *BADASS* , the better
These guys tear the roof off! LOVE obscure metal bands. 👍🏻
When I was 13, I saw a picture of the cover from "One Step Into The Uncertain" by Adrian in Martin Popoff's Collector's Guide To Heavy Metal and was immediately enthralled by the underwater gun-wielding hesher and the spider squid protecting her eggs. This album has eluded me for 20 years as it's both expensive and hard to locate, but one day I will track that sucker down! Thanks for posting, as no one talks about that band EVER.
So many great bands received no airplay in the 80s. These bands all sounded good. Thanks for featuring them.
True. Many of those bands that got fame and fortune weren't even that good
Underated metal It is like a whole planet next to the earth
To the channel creator: you do a fantastic job on these videos.
Thanks!
Gotta go with LA’s own Steeler, featuring Ron Keel on vocals and on guitar, the maestro himself, Yngwie J. Malmsteen
Rik Fox kicked ass on bass!!!✌💖🙏
Yes, Yngwie is a total legend... you know everyone else involved with Hear n aid was frightened of him.
Is Ron Keel the same guy associated with the band Keel?
@@pointnIaugh Yup, that’s the same guy.
@@dragonqueen6589 I thought so. They were like a one hit wonder. I believe the song was "The right to rock".
Another great 1 album band was Warlord. Deliver Us, Mrs Victoria, Penny For A Poor man are great songs and Black Mass is as heavy as it gets. And Child Of The Damned is speed metal at it’s purest.
They've actually gone on and off again, but they've released a few albums, if Metal Archives is to be trusted. Still, Warlord slaps hard.
Warlord has more than one album. Bill Tsamis also had a other band called Lordian Guard btw. Not as good in my opinion but worth checking out.
@@StackBundle
Thanks for the heads up on the other band. Was aware of several albums but most were compilation with one or two new songs. Still a great band. Will have to look for the other band’s materiel. If you search the Tube, there is a concert promo film of Warlord live. Pretty cool.
Bad ass album..... or CD which I have.
Please make a part two, I love alternative stuff like this.
Axe Victims; awesome! What a gem Another Victim is. Cool tunes, amazing riffs and playing, and surprisingly, very well produced. There seems to be remaster releases of this floating around eBay, but already had an album to cd copy a friend of mine gave me and it sounds super good, so will stick with what I got. Readers...explore this album, well worth a listen front to back!
Look up: Universe: Mission Rock. Its what Axe Victims are now. If you have a way to give Axe Victims “Hypnotise” a listen I would love that
My family owned the local record store in town and my Mom ran the Heavy Metal Mail Order, so when I saw this I was skeptical. After listening, I was pleasantly surprised and agree with your assessments, nice job!
Crystal Knight's drummer looks like Weird Al Yankovic. The singer looks like Randy Marsh if he grew more hair.
commenting, giving a thumbs up, and sharing this video with my brother to give it some more exposure.
After 8 years of discovered those rare and obscure metals, i feel nostalgic to listen it back again 🤘, besides still fav bands like axemaster- deliver us from evil , Angel dust- into the dark past, assault- survival in the streets, Salem Wych- betrayer of the kings, argus- lady killer, victims- power hungry , riot- thundersteel, marshall law- hearts of thunder. damn never ends
this is so nice... .
Thanks for finding these jewels
and thanks for taking the time to make the video and share it
Love obscure heavy music. Excellent content, inspired me to subscribe. Keep it up. Do some obscure Canadian metal. There’s tons. I recently saw an album by a band called Iron Gypsy featuring bassist Randy Rampage, who had a storied career with Canadian punk band D.O.A., and then later work with metal band Annihilator.
Thanks for this. I absolutely love rare 80's metal. While I will listen to them in my rotation, I have added them to my Discogs want list. You just never know what you run across in the wild. Once again, thanks for sharing your knowledge.
Hey they all can at least say they gave it a shot
Absolutely
Yoooooooo! Who would've thought a band named after me would sound so cool 😎
Some of these tunes don't sound all that bad, certainly better than some of the stuff coming out now. You could almost imagine these songs being in some obscure 1980's film as well. Yep, I was a kid of the 1980's and have very fond memories of those simpler times.
I would like to add a few more:
Vamp - The Rich Don't Rock
Horizon - Master Of the Game
Jett Black - Night Flight
Wolf - Edge Of The World
Razormaid - First Cutt
Czakan - State Of Confusion (2nd album coming this month lol)
Raider - Darker Than Night
Steelover - Glove Me
High N Dry - Hands Off My Toy!
Emerald - Armed For Battle
I have Razormaid from 1987. Truly 100% kickass metal
80s European metal act surely got heavy influence from Purple & Rainbow
Absolutely
I can hear the Iron Maiden and Randy Rhoads fingerprints everywhere.
We have many bands like this in Malaysia during the 80s, mostly only came up with 1 album then disappeared.
Search - Isabella
@@Br4m76 yes search is the most famous one, the number 1 rock / heavy metal band in malaysia since 1984.
@@ChannelBerpindah Amy was so popular here in my place back in the 90s. Peace from Indonesia. 🤟🤟
@@Br4m76 oh tetangga rupanya. Yes. The glorious days of late 80s to early 90s where malaysia was hit by tsunami of heavy metal.
Great list I’ve been rocking Crystal knight all week!
Nice! Such a fun album 🤘🏻
6:16 - "I'm not entirely sure what their songs are about..."
*very next song*
"This is just for the ladies
so they won't get frustrated
But I still haven't met the one I love"
Yeah, that song’s chorus is basically saying “Hey girls, I’m up for a relationship... but only a strictly platonic one - I’m not a rocker who’s an easy lovin’ sleazeball, I’m a true gentleman.”
You find some really good rare bands. Thanks for sharing all these.
Universe (swe), Wolf (uk), Randy (dnk), Lazzer (ger), Virtue (uk) and many many more.
It's cool to feature some good bands that have been otherwise forgotten...good stuff!
Axe Victims might be the best band name I have ever heard.
No Remorse Records reissued that Crystal Knight album in 2016. It's so good!! Great list all-around.
This channel is so great! Thanks. Perfect for the quarantine!
Hey, thanks for watching!
I'm definitely going to check out Crystal Knight, Allied Forces And Axe Victims, having already glided to awesome Fortuner, but not quite as taken by storm by Adrian (non Smith). 😋 Although I am going to give the latter another chance, spurred on by your timeless praise...😇😎
For bands like this, i love metal. metal is it!
I like to call myself an old school metalhead from way back. I've never heard of any of these bands. Bravo!
My favorite single album band release from the 80's is 1984's "The Day of Retribution" by Nemesis out of Sweden . Such an amazing and classic album. Although I'm not sure how obscure the band is, as most of the members went on to form Candlemass shortly after. Anybody should check it out if you haven't heard it
Thanks for this video! I've been a metalhead since the early 80's and I've never heard of these bands!
The riff in that song by Adrian - South Africa, has a definite similarity to Iron Maiden's Flash of the Blade.
and also the name of the guitarist, Adrian Smith.
@@Br4m76 That, too.
Your channel is great. Grew up on construction sites listening to this stuff and love anything 80s
The name Axe Victims makes me laugh! Sounds so traumatic........they show up on stage wearing bandages and fake blood...... lol..... killer!
Damn this is a fun trip.....not heard of any of these bands but will look around for them at the multitude of used record stores around me.
Thanks. I like going through the back catalog of 80s metal. I'm sure you had to listen to a lot of ordinary stuff to find some good stuff. The recording quality seems good on these ones you've selected. The drums sound a lot better on most newer albums.
Just finished crystal knight album. It was fantastic!!
Universe (Sweden) and Proud (also Sweden)
(Universe is probably making a new album soon though... band's restarted as Universe Infinity.)
I love Proud "Fire breaks the dawn" album, especially tracks "Echoes from the past" and "Crucified".
Oh really?? I am actually a huge fan of that Universe album. Always wondered why they didn't make more!
Proud released a new album (Second Act) recently... it seems to be getting decent reviews, but personally I think it's a bit boring... AOR stuff, nothing like the first album.
Cool, never heard of these. What popped in my mind immediately is Exorcist - Nightmare Theatre from 1985. It's pretty much Virgin Steele, but very different in style. No one knew it was them for a long time. Great album!
Tommy Scriver now that's a 80's metal name!
Crystal Knights Singer per was singing for Fate a few years later and had his share of late 80ies fame with this awesome album. Great list!
How about Gogmagog. It's mostly made of ex iron maiden and ex def leppard band members. It's epic!
White Tiger (1986)
Oliver Magnum (1989)
Horizon - Master of the game (1985)
Rhoads - Into The Future (1986)
Kingdom - Lost in the city (1988)
Stratus - Throwing Shapes (1985)
Blacklist - The sign of four (1984)
Valhalla (1984)
Hawk - released 1986 by the band Hawk. Great album, shame they never did more.
I am very glad I was young and sheltered when these bands came out
The german metalband "Brainfever" would just fit perfectly into this list
I bought Axe Victims on impulse and love that album. Haven't heard of any of the others... nice digging!
Crystal Knight sounds like it should have its own sub-genre: Fantasy Metal.
Fighting dungeons and dragons yeah 🤘
Pretty fucking awesome though
Almost verging on New Wave, but still sounds good. I'll have to check this out further.
Fantasy metal is very much a thing. Three Inches of Blood and Gloryhammer are two of my favorites.
Dio owns that genre
I didnt know any of these. Thank you!
Everybody should listen to:
Wolf - at the edge of the world
From England awesome forgotten gem, everything is great here, flawless record with a cool artwork! Nwobhm.
These album covers would be worth the price. The music sounds great, going to check them out.
Got another one: Lions Bread (single album "Damn the night", 1985). They later changed their name to Scanner but sounded very different after that I think. Different but also very good. Check out "Across the universe"!
I REALLY enjoy watching all your videos, very well done. A lot of good stuff!!
I would like to see possibly future episodes covering EZO, Alex Mesi, Grim Reaper, Razormaids to name just a few cool bands for future episodes. 👍🏼
Alex Masi?
Now I cant get "we are young and we are Weiss" outta my head.
Man, this was amazing, thanks metal school!
Anybody remember Voodoo militia from Dallas in the early 90's
Raw vocals are the best. No over polished, commercial crap! Fuck I miss the 80s!
Agony - The First Defiance ...great thrash from Sweden.
RIP Pete Lundström 🖤
This is awesome! Thanks dude!
Another real keeper from the 80’s that has stood the test of time is Fortnox
That's good, got a copy of it
I live in GA.i know those guys
@@timevans9529 I met them before they were recording the album they were playing a show in Gainesville Talked with Rick a number of times.
On the Glammier side, Rockcandy and Bang Gang were great one album bands. Both from USA.
One that I found in the bargain bin back in the 80s is Saints' Anger - Danger Metal. I can only find the one album but I did find a double CD re-issue on Discogs with a bunch of demos and stuff.
Nothing looks more danish than Crystal Knight (yeah I’m Swedish)
Lovely video though,thanks pal!
A band i like with 2 albums is , Lion, not to be confused with whitelion.
Not 80s. But Lost Horizon was phenomenal. 2 albums and they vanished.
Another band that made two albums is Juggernaut from Texas. I like especially the first, Baptism of Fire (1986). As a bassist, I find Scott Womack's bass lines awesome and what a sound he had!
A band with a good but lonely album is Omega from UK, in 1985.
Greetings from Italy!
Powerlove Creeping up on you ! Hell yeah ! I have the Dangerous Attraction CD from Lion (NOT white Lion !) I think the singer went on to front at least one other band, but the name eludes me - maybe Bad Moon or something ?? Bad Moon Rising ( OK - forced to check wikipedia)
Kick Axe, Icon, Hericane Alice and heaven's Edge were just a few of my favorite more obscure 80's-type bands.
There's a guy with an AWESOME UA-cam channel y'all GOTTA check out ! It's full of OUR kind of metal and it's called "Danny Waysted Official Hard n Heavy Channel". I believe he has three, maybe four channels of hard rock and metal ! You're welcome !
@@tommychapman8911 The singer, Kal Swan, was before Lion in a NWOBHM band called Tytan. They released just one album in the eighties called Rough Justice.
Greetings from Italy!
PS: Danny's Channel is really a cornucopia for those like us who like 80's HR/HM! Awesome!
I like all of these bands and I love to buy them, all 80’s rock just a great sound for great music
For those who like spanish metal like baron rojo, there is goliath self titled album thats all they released. Very good stuff only found on youtube
Have an old friend that is half Spaniard. He came home from a visit to his grandparents in the mid 80s (high school years) with a Baron Rojo vinyl album. Still remember the song Bota Sucio (Dirty Boot). Thanks for the reminder - brings back memories of good times.
Good,job
crystal knight band members: singer, one of the electric guitar player, and the drummer all look like weird al yankovic
Actually, now that you mention it, a band of five Weird Al Yankovics playing '80s metal would rule.
Im glad I found this video and see alot of comments from People who understand what 80s Metal is about itl be cool to create a Facebook group
Rawness was the name of the game in our days !!!!
Thanks
I never heard any of these
It seems like Allied forces would be the best choice out of those 5 bands selected
That riff in South Africa by Adrian sounds very similar to the opening riff on Gift of Guilt from Gojira.
Thanks for the upload!
i just heard the beginning and thought the same.....
I recommend the band Tension from USA with the album Breaking Point
I have a digital copy of the re-mastered version of Breaking Point. It was supposed to have official release in 2005-ish but record comp went bust. I can't even begin to explain how much better it is than the original mix.
Yep former deuce
I swear I've seen that Axe Victim album cover before, it looks so familiar.
My local record store was fantastic about being stocked with all kinds of unknown or up & coming artists. I would bet I saw that Axe Victim there in the store.
i'll throw in one. Infernal Majesty.
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Good choice but it doesn't fit into only one album theme.
@@metalurgov4943 the theme was only one album in the 80s, they reformed in 1998 to release a second album. that was an 11 year gap
Love the Axe Victims logo.
HSAS comes to mind 🤘
Standing on top...
Top of the rock...
Apologies if you've already covered them (haven't looked yet), but a few great metal bands to check out are H-Bomb, Sortilege, and Angeles del Infierno. All in foreign languages, hence their lack of popularity here in the US
Denmark's RANDY was the single best metal ever of that era...
Crystal Knight and Randy sure had more things in common than their nationality alone.
Another great Danish band in the same vein was Mirage. Unfortunately just as shortlived. Only 1 EP to my knowledge.
Hell yeah! Randy was fucking awesome!!!
Yes! Beast in the Night rips!
Thank you for sharing the knowledge
Thanks for watching!