RYM's Top 15 Metal Albums Of 1984

And here we go forward into the early years of thrash! And more…

My 5 favorite of RYM’s Top 15 of ’84
1.W.A.S.P. – W.A.S.P.
2.Iron Maiden – Powerslave
3.Metallica – Ride The Lightning
4.Omen – Battle Cry
5.Dio – The Last In Line

Other Notable Albums Not in RYM’s Top 15
17.Manowar – Hail To England
19.Pretty Maids – Red, Hot, And Heavy
20.Queensryche – The Warning
21.Dokken – Tooth And Nail
23.Manowar – Sign Of The Hammer
26.Ratt – Out Of The Cellar
28.Armored Saint – March Of The Saint
31.Bathory – Bathory
36.Exciter – Violence And Force
50.Voivod – War And Pain
56.Anthrax – Fistful Of Metal
97.Laaz Rockit – City’s Gonna Burn

RYM’s Top 15 Heavy Metal Albums Of 1984

1		Metallica Ride the Lightning
2		Iron Maiden Powerslave
3		Mercyful Fate Don’t Break the Oath
4		Judas Priest Defenders of the Faith
5		Metal Church Metal Church
6		Warlord And the Cannons of Destruction Have Begun…
7		Dio The Last in Line
8		Trouble Psalm 9
9		W.A.S.P. W.A.S.P.
10		Jag Panzer Ample Destruction
11		Saint Vitus Saint Vitus
12		Scorpions Love at First Sting
13		Spınal Tap This Is Spinal Tap
14		Omen Battle Cry
15		Cirith Ungol King of the Dead