If any of you were in the '70s metal thread a few weeks back, hello again! This time the cutoff has been moved from 1979 to 1990, so please do not submit anything that was released before January 1, 1970 or after December 31st, 1990. Also please remember that this is for heavy metal and its sub-genres only! Brutal thrash, (Slayer, Sodom, Sepultura, etc.) death, black, and other forms of extreme metal fall out of the scope of this thread, and if what you want to submit is heavier than Metallica it probably doesn't belong here.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ONwVd4FUrT4&pp=ygUTc2NvcnBpb25zIGRhcmsgbGFkeQ%3D%3D Scorpions - Dark Lady (1975)

>>126899440 (OP)
>before January 1, 1970 or after December 31st, 1990
Metallicabros get in here

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hyl-tuKeUzU&list=PLsT9douBcx98B2IqbPvhmiqtu_S0LCQrJ&index=6&pp=iAQB8AUB Scorpions - Dynamite (1982)

It's a golden period for very heavy Heavy Metal music. Quite why so many bands that define Death Metal music had their debuts between 1979 to 1990 is an interesting topic that I've never quite got to the bottom of. Presumably the 1970s laid the ground work and the bands we were to follow and see at the Marquee and Astoria in our ex-army boots and combat trousers picked up a trend, re-shaped it and sold it back to the kidz.

This guy, Tommy Vance in the UK probably had more to do with it than Jono,

>>126899440 (OP)
Any bands that sound like Stained Class-era Priest? I really like the sound on that record in particular.

>>126899567
early Riot?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5O6h7Pk1XX4&pp=ygUPcmlvdCByb2FkIHJhY2lu

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xTQH-PBbBSg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6lgz6rhvPO8

Flotsam and Jetsam

>>126899577
Kind of but im looking more for clones or those that merge it with thrash.

Hang on a minute
> Also please remember that this is for heavy metal and its sub-genres only! Brutal thrash, (Slayer, Sodom, Sepultura, etc.) ,

Your terms of reference are fucked.
>this is for heavy metal and its sub-genres
>death, black, and other forms of extreme metal fall out of the scope of this thread

Oh well that's that fucked. Sorry.

>>126899760
Power/Thrash was awesome
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pVgZUYeayoQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C6sR0_u2LhE

>>126899730
That first song is halfway between Sabbath and Rainbow, liking it quite a bit so far! I've been meaning to check out From the Fjords for a while now but never set aside the time to do so.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VTS4V_YFBgY&pp=ygUXc2NvcnBpb25zIHZpcmdpbiBraWxsZXI%3D Scorpions - Robot Man

>>126899798
How so? This thread is for classic heavy metal, not stuff like Bathory or Death.

>>126899823
and i fucked up the title, oops
>>126899817
two words: metal. church. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vBP_mdB2RUE&pp=ygUMbWV0YWwgY2h1cmNo

>>126899823
Heavy Metal and its sub genres, but not its sub-genres. It caught me out!

>>126899837
Yeahhh, next time I do one of these I'll specify the exact sub-genres next time lol

>>126899842
Delete the thread! It's new enough and we can start again and get it right.

>>126899855
Will do!

>>126899855
Can't now, too much time elapsed. :P

>>126899880
*groan* :))))))))

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B4VrD4d7Kqk&ab_channel=JudasPriest-Topic Judas Priest - The Hellion / Electric Eye (1982)

>>126899440 (OP)
beowulf
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5oVMBOv8eNE

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wh-btSHnblQ&pp=ygUPdy5hLnMucC4gYW5pbWFs W.A.S.P. - Animal (1984)

They were Vargs favorite band until Euronymouse made fun of him for listening to them

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dGaZ7RIF4AI&pp=ygUac2NvcnBpb25zIGNhdGNoIHlvdXIgdHJhaW4%3D Scorpions - Catch Your Train (1976)

Holy Diver will always be my favorite classic metal album

>>126902432
damn good choice! title track, stand up and shout, don't talk to strangers and rainbow in the dark are all solid fucking gold, rest of the record's really good too but those four songs stick out in my head immediately as flawless.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P_vIQ8-gF3A&pp=ygUWZGlvIHN0YW5kIHVwIGFuZCBzaG91dA%3D%3D dio - stand up and shout (1983)

>>126901801
excellent

Q5
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=efFDvbM5_f4

I realize I'm breaking the rules, but the truth is that Mikkey Dee has taken the Scorpions to a whole new level which is a wild thing to happen so late in their career.

>>126903092
THIS SONG IS FUCKING AWESOME. While I thought the record it's from fell apart a bit by the end, that title track and the rest of Side A was fucking glorious

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FYX74wd6ff0&list=PLHTo__bpnlYUOUf0fE7OzXROUHrCVeNF4&index=1&pp=iAQB8AUB Queensryche - Queen of the Reich (1982-1983)

>>126903122
>I realize I'm breaking the rules
Not really. As long as submissions themselves are kept to pre-1991 I don't mind what's discussed here within reason.

Long Before I Die
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nHYqNLqyCWY

>>126899567
Early Mercyful Fate takes a lot of influence from '70s Priest, especially this album
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O8xEf298XiQ&list=RDO8xEf298XiQ&start_radio=1

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dDO-Kk9956g&pp=ygUTcmFpbmJvdyB0YXJvdCB3b21hbtIHCQnBCQGHKiGM7w%3D%3D Rainbow - Tarot Woman (1976)

>>126902432
A few days ago I heard Holy Diver in the supermarket wtf lol

>>126903338
wow, i almost never hear metal on the east coast in any store. maybe crazy train once or twice, but that's about as heavy as it goes

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tcZS4S2PT2U

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wJht6Zz4EW8&list=OLAK5uy_lOpZsH5aW3kI0fHSkLqBEXOOPkm16Jomc&index=3&pp=8AUB The Rods - Nuclear Skies (1984)

>>126899440 (OP)
NZ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MD1jpJpR_nU

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fiX_931OCog&pp=ygUZcHJldHR5IG1haWRzIGZ1dHVyZSB3b3JsZA%3D%3D Pretty Maids - Future World (1987, an early example of EUPM)

>>126899440 (OP)
Angel Witch
https://youtu.be/8oZpW3wyiWI?si=sAGfP35IkE0Qklx5

>>126903651
one of the best songs out of the nwobhm lol, fucking iconic

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RaAXahz80Pc&pp=ygUVZG9ra2VuIHRvb3RoIGFuZCBuYWls Dokken - Tooth and Nail (1984)

Love the song and video candlemass

https://youtu.be/h3LNi-aPXuc?si=gGn0UyXlKiFsSqG1

Saint Vitus
https://youtu.be/n0RM661IUKQ?si=6w8Xq_nnujARd-Fd

Tygers of Pan Tang
https://youtu.be/jqlaPtkPqgg?si=ge-nPqQUCczlCq2w

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fnzQISf8us4&pp=ygUbc2F4b24gcHJpbmNlc3Mgb2YgdGhlIG5pZ2h0 Saxon - Princess of the Night (1981)

Thin Lizzy - chinatown
https://youtu.be/wmz_jaN9sao?si=foLoBGtjmH3xhIqF

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hv4lKJ0pdTg&pp=ygUXcmlvdCBzd29yZHMgYW5kIHRlcXVpbGE%3D Riot - Swords and Tequila (1981)

>>126903829
amazing song, haven't listened to the full spellbound album in a while though

>>126903841
i'd absolutely listen to this but i'm listening to a record right now. here's a song off it! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KE1g4g-0qnI&list=PLvAyoNx6tDfPoyOaEuhKLa1h9ca8Q7h3-&index=5&ab_channel=ElManoplas Viva - What the Hell Is Going On (1981)

>>126903874
Going to check out them out like it.

What, no Diamond Head?
https://youtu.be/0cSUhkLBR2U?si=Nx2eJtKq4tXltI9e

>>126903928
The thread's still relatively new, but I appreciate you submitting them here! And bonus points for not submitting Am I Evil (as good as that song is.)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BzqEfXrsE-Y&list=OLAK5uy_m4PVJ54e_qE3uZmMRKW9SwAR0XgtlJvsA&ab_channel=MariHamada-Topic Mari Hamada - Don't Change Your Mind (1983)

>>126903928
for me, it's sucking my love. that song is basically sex in audio form.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HOpHDRgbeIo

>>126904013
fuck i forgot how killer lightning to the nations is, i should really listen to it more

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oidlKCEiS2g&ab_channel=TheHalford96 diamond head - lightning to the nations

saxon

https://youtu.be/mKlF9o2R3cI?si=w6k1qE0Mtvuiuu5p

>>126904102
classic song, the whole record's great and has a couple especially good deep cuts but the title track reigns above them all

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nDvzpPSFLi0&pp=ygURc2F4b24gZnJlZXdheSBtYWTSBwkJwQkBhyohjO8%3D saxon - freeway mad (1980)

Holocaust
https://youtu.be/3DD-hg8SziQ?si=Y3dmEhdh5iJ-qxj8

Motorhead

https://youtu.be/HN7OqFb5c4M?si=wBps1pmwF4THfVED

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_XO3QmYfdrI&pp=ygUWZGVlcCBwdXJwbGUgc3BlZWQga2luZw%3D%3D deep purple - speed king (1970)

Budgie
https://youtu.be/plkPikPwmTY?si=MyqCBhiWR95rSqNA

Blitzkrieg
https://youtu.be/Ll4Ij58497Q?si=scoxYcystYVU9hXj

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8MQyI-JTkRM&pp=ygUYanVkYXMgcHJpZXN0IGxldCB1cyBwcmV5 judas priest - let us prey / call for the priest (1977, early example of speed metal)

>>126904232
damn, not bad! i just pulled up their 1985 record " a time of changes" and i'm just about to give it a shot!

Venom
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9vxMTqRbVv0&list=PLsT9douBcx98edGaGylnZ3m9jizZ38Ipo&index=4

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cDBxiuLrfSA&pp=ygUedHdpc3RlZCBzaXN0ZXIgdW5kZXIgdGhlIGJsYWRl Twisted Sister - Under the Blade (1982)

WASP
https://youtu.be/eRfk8zn1iek?si=A-Nyagf0hdg6lvUF

>>126904476
good song but there's better off the record imo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ARygIsf92LM&pp=ygUMd2FzcCBoZWxsaW9u w.a.s.p. - hellion (1984)

Samson
https://youtu.be/3nk0SPoXpP8?si=xEQqGLRiqEZrH-kz

Girlschool
https://youtu.be/pOfz78VtPhA?si=lcKjqmsCHMWRRVk9

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5AmbpIqiHNI&list=PL5dpLCfNb-HirJDUu67TZFTtTJoMmhA8T&index=3&pp=iAQB8AUB Blitzkrieg - Armageddon (1985)

More into 70s hard rock than metal, but I'll post a few songs I like.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xkkpUEAraYA
~1977 - Cirith Ungol - Last Laugh

An old, unreleased demo from California doom metal pioneers Cirith Ungol. Although it definitely wears its 70s glam rock influences on its sleeve, it definitely hints at the music they'd eventually make.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ouClIX_Dxl8
1978 - Sorcery - Arachnid

This song isn't good, but I love it. It sounds like a bunch of late 70s nerds singing about their Dungeons and Dragons campaign in their basement. The lyrics are just fantasy madlibs - "lead our king, whose mystical forces noone dares to know."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j4x1i66FyoA
1979 - Praying Mantis - Captured City

Extremely catchy NWoBHM from a band that would later drop metal and veer more into AOR.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nspf_t41bF8
1979 - Triarchy - Save the Khan

Something that I love about early NWoBHM is that it's not just influenced by metal. The intro comes from Devo's Mongoloid; I love the weak, wobbly synth lead. I also love the lyrics; they're so much more poetic and thoughtful than most metal. I feel like this song really meant something to the guy who wrote it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zowid7KAmnM
1980 - Bleak House - Rainbow Warrior

Another example of non-metal influence. The main riff definitely borrows from The Strawbs' 1973 Down By the Sea, but they do something so new and interesting with it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VDv9le4Km3M
1980 - Race Against Time - Bedtime

Heavy and brutal NWoBHM. There are a couple versions of this song, one from 1979. This version appeared on the New Electric Warriors compilation tape, which played a big part in the spread of the NWoBHM movement. The band later evolved into Hell.

>>126904751
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RYUNwzFcEdc
1980 - Xero - Cuttin' Loose (Live)

Although the song was released on their debut in 1984, this is an absolutely insane live performance on the BBC program The Friday Rock Show in 1980.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ezw0bCuy0sM
1980 - High Treason - Saturday Night Special

Hypermelodic, super catchy NWoBHM. This song attained some notoriety in the early NWoBHM days, but has largely dropped off the map.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zL47nDBGS0g
1981 - Mistreater - Big 'A'

Small band from Cleveland that formed in the late 70s. I love that it sounds like a high school band - clearly talented but unrefined and raw.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5JuaX1MurP4
1982 - Sapphire - Let it Burn

By 1982, Sapphire's unpolished NWoBHM pub rock sound was already outdated. They only released this single and faded into obscurity.

>>126899760
>One of these guys is worth sixty mil.
>The other guys are worth the first guy's pocket change

>>126904751
I appreciate you contributing all of these!
>More into 70s hard rock
You can actually submit that too, provided it has VERY clear metal elements. Smoke on the Water is about the limit for that I'd say.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J-U5H6hmw6E&pp=ygURVUZPIGRvY3RvciBkb2N0b3I%3D UFO - Doctor Doctor (1974)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IQzw1wJO8bY&pp=ygUSZGVmIGxlcHBhcmQgd2FzdGVk Def Leppard - Wasted (1980)

>>126904793
Great! I'll post a few more. I hope people enjoy this old, weird music -

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EekwSUqQNLM
1970 - Randy Holden - Keeper of My Flame

Randy Holden is the great lost metal pioneer. He played in several bands throughout the 60s, including Blue Cheer, but set out on his own in 1969. By 1970, his solo album was complete, but a series of setbacks kept it from being released. He quit music and didn't reemerge until the 90s. His music represents an unexplored strain of heaviness clearly crafted from the same stardust as Black Sabbath and Deep Purple, but going in a different direction.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LfD7ywsMqnY
1972 - Highway Robbery - Fifteen

Brutal, stupid buttrock from 1972. Definitely the heaviest song the band wrote, from their only release.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WrWNCK2dXvI
1972 - Night Sun - Living With the Dying

Very, very heavy krautrock from 1972. Much heavier and more ominous than a lot of their contemporaries.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wnS5VYSCR-I
1973 - Pentagram - Frustration

Everyone here is probably familiar with Pentagram's 80s output. They recorded hundreds of demos and live performances in the 70s, with many of the songs being rerecorded in the future. This song was rerecorded for the 1994 album Be Forewarned.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yHKhNj5MsQM
1976 - Overload - Survivor

A cover of prog rock band Homer's survivor, which isn't nearly heavy. There was a small scene of extremely heavy bands from San Antonio, Texas at the time that seemed to be several years ahead of the curve.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=84X_LO_mgEo
1976 - Ultra - Mutants

Another band from San Antonio. Very heavy Thin Lizzy influences.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dA0emzVL4VI
1978 - The Godz - Under the Table

Fun, trashy biker rock from Ohio. They had a brief flash of popularity in the late 70s, but faded into obscurity as harder and heavier bands emerged.

>>126905225
I recognize a few names in there but the only one I've listened to of these is Population II. Great, great fucking heavy psych/metal album, love how cavernous it sounds. I think my favorite off of that record was Fruit and Iceburgs (previously on a Blue Cheer album too!) though Keeper of My Flame isn't far behind.

>>126903874
Viva was Barbara Schenker's band, sister of Michael and Rudolf Schenker. She was 15 years old when she made that album.

She died too young. Anyone know how she died?

>>126905365
>She died too young. Anyone know how she died?
Not that I can find, no. It's a real shame that she died so young, she had some serious talent and it was evident on that Viva record.

>>126905225
this is really great stuff, I wish there was some kind of website that listed all the only metal bands like this

sort of related, this video on underrated rock/metal guitarists came on my youtube feed and I thought it was interesting
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-yS2NwNei_0

Scorpions: https://youtu.be/j-ibrPgtp_4
Rat Attack: https://youtu.be/Ou7QiE8CMaE
Phantom Blue: https://youtu.be/GRUu06uia8M
Trouble: https://youtu.be/vAoWuTb7wN4
Pentagram: https://youtu.be/3ckt9tkCtNs
Warbride: https://youtu.be/RqwAG1hIqe4
Huntress: https://youtu.be/Dvq6P5geaIo
Meanstreak: https://youtu.be/3NFVYkfjl6Y
Ice Age: https://youtu.be/yObN1uy_2rA

Jaded Lady: https://youtu.be/SzomUbxirJU

>>126905493
jesus christ china white live sounds like a black sabbath song! :O

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6F7oCy5Xlkc&pp=ygUVc2NvcnBpb25zIGNoaW5hIHdoaXRl scorpions - china white

Raven - pack is back
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qg_H2XouMVA

>>126905706
(you could've chosen any other raven album)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U2tuTfYqZ1Q&pp=ygUOcmF2ZW4gc3RhciB3YXI%3D raven - star war

Fastway
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QACZtKiyOIw

Killer Dwarfs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XhLVFLg1pJ0

Helloween
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KMhL9NZ0Kdw

Damien - Wolf Dreams
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ahWvro-KCc

Angeles Del Infierno
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zY8F1IpvNXg

Vow Wow
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l9a2nzAJwVY

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uNdScMq1v98&list=OLAK5uy_luQejI7xMeirGJfqNDQeFKelliauGfocw&index=2&pp=8AUB Judas Priest - The Ripper (1976)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o56ryCy-wFo&pp=ygULcmlvdCBuYXJpdGE%3D Riot - Narita (1979)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EnGWEvDXrAE&list=OLAK5uy_nUe38-sZcpAhS3TirDX-XiSmVx16wrROQ&index=9&pp=8AUB Judas Priest - Steeler (1980)