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TOP TEN METAL ALBUMS OF THE '80s

The '70s just ran out without leaving a forwarding address. It’s probably sitting right now in some centrally-heated airconditioned little house in the suburbs searching for its pud beneath a mound of flabby flesh. It started off so well; it finished off so dull.

March 2, 1985
Sylvie Simmons

TOP TEN METAL ALBUMS OF THE '80s

Sylvie Simmons

The '70s just ran out without leaving a forwarding address. It’s probably sitting right now in some centrally-heated airconditioned little house in the suburbs searching for its pud beneath a mound of flabby flesh. It started off so well; it finished off so dull. And metal was limp, damp, pathetic.

1980 was the year Motorhead released Ace Of Spades, Plasmatics released New Hope For The Wretched; it wasn't a bad year at all, a good start to a decade that’s seen metal come back into its own as nasty, offensive, scurrilous and fun.

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