1980 in heavy metal music

Albums & EPs

AC/DC - Back in Black Accept - I'm a Rebel Alice Cooper - Flush the Fashion The Angels aka Angel City - Dark Room Angel Witch - Angel Witch A II Z - The Witch of Berkeley Blackfoot - Tomcattin' Black Sabbath - Heaven and Hell Blue Öyster Cult - Cultösaurus Erectus Budgie - If Swallowed Do Not Induce Vomiting EP Budgie - Power Supply Chevy - The Taker Cirith Ungol - Frost and Fire Def Leppard - On Through the Night Diamond Head - Lightning to the Nations Ethel The Frog - Ethel the Frog Fargo - No Limit Fist (UK) - Turn The Hell On Fist (Can) - Hot Spikes Gamma - Gamma 2 Gillan - Glory Road Girl - Sheer Greed Girlschool - Demolition Hellanbach - Out to Get You EP The Hunt - Back on the Hunt Iron Maiden - Iron Maiden Judas Priest - British Steel Killer (Bel) - Ready for Hell Kiss - Unmasked Krokus - Metal Rendez-vous Limelight - Limelight, aka Ashes to Ashes (1984) Magnum - Marauder Mama's Boys - Official Bootleg Manilla Road - Invasion

Frank Marino & Mahogany Rush - What's Next Michael Schenker Group - The Michael Schenker Group Molly Hatchet - Beatin' the Odds Gary Moore - G-Force Motörhead - Ace of Spades Ted Nugent - Scream Dream Ocean - Ocean; A Live + B Ozzy Osbourne - Blizzard of Ozz Plasmatics - New Hope for the Wretched Quartz - Stand Up and Fight; Quartz Live Queen - The Game Rail - Arrival The Rods - Rock Hard Rush - Permanent Waves Samson - Head On Saxon - Wheels of Steel Saxon - Strong Arm of the Law Scorpions - Animal Magnetism Shakin' Street - Shakin' Street Snow - Snow EP Thin Lizzy - Chinatown 38 Special - Rockin' into the Night Triumph - Progressions of Power Trust - Répression Tygers of Pan Tang - Wild Cat UFO - No Place to Run Van Halen - Women and Children First Vardis - 100 M.P.H. Whitesnake - Ready An' Willing Whitesnake - Live...In the Heart of the City White Spirit - White Spirit Wild Horses - The First Album Witchfynde - Give 'em Hell Witchfynde - Stagefright