Top 10 albums for each year of my life: Part 1

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This has been the most hardest list I have ever started. Just trying to find a comprehensive 10 countdown is hard, let alone 20! But here is the first set of years, starting from when I was born. I may have been knee high to a grasshopper, but now I realise that which classic albums were released in the following years.

1984:

1) Mercyful Fate - Don't Break the Oath
2) Iron Maiden - Powerslave
3) Metallica - Ride the Lightning
4) Bathory - Self titled
5) Celtic Frost - Morbid Tales
6) Manowar - Hail to England
7) Slayer - Haunting the Chapel EP
8. W.A.S.P - Self titled
9) Twisted Sister - Stay Hungry
10) Warlock - Burning the Witches

1985:

1) Exodus - Bonded by Blood
2) Celtic Frost - To Mega Therion
3) Slayer - Hell Awaits
4) Possessed - Seven Churches
5) Helloween - Walls of Jericho
6) S.O.D - Speak English or Die
7) Anthrax - Spreading The Disease
8. Overkill - Feel The Fire
9) Megadeth - Killing Is My Business... And Business is Good!
10) Bathory - The Return.....

1986:

1) Slayer - Reign in Blood
2) Kreator - Pleasure to Kill
3) Candlemass - Epicus Doomicus Metallicus
4) Metallica - Master of Puppets
5) Megadeth - Peace Sells.... But Who's Buying?
6) Dark Angel - Darkness Descends
7) Motörhead - Orgasmatron
8. Sodom - Obsessed by Cruelty
9) Carnivore - Self titled
10) Voivod - Rrröööaaarrr

1987:

1) King Diamond - Abigail
2) Napalm Death - Scum
3) Anthrax - Among The Living
4) Death Angel - The Ultra-Violence
5) Testament - The Legacy
6) Candlemass - Nightfall
7) Death - Scream Bloody Gore
8. Saint Vitus - Born Too Late
9) Guns 'N' Roses - Appetite For Destruction
10) Suicidal Tendencies - Join the Army

1988:

1) Queensrÿche - Operation: Mindcrime
2) Bathory - Blood Fire Death
3) Voivod - Dimension Hatross
4) Iron Maiden - Seventh Son of a Seventh Son
5) Testament - The New Order
6) Ministry - The Land of Rape and Honey
7) Napalm Death - From Enslavement to Obliteration
8. Suicidal Tendencies - How Will I Laugh Tomorrow When I Can't Even Smile Today?
9) Manowar - Kings of Metal
10) Sabbat - History of a Time to Come

1989:

1) Morbid Angel - Altars of Madness
2) Sepultura - Beneath the Remains
3) Godflesh - Streetcleaner
4) Faith No More - The Real Thing
5) Overkill - The Years of Decay
6) Annihilator - Alice in Hell
7) Obituary - Slowly We Rot
8. D.R.I - Thrash Zone
9) Metal Church - Blessing in Disguise
10) Nine Inch Nails - Pretty Hate Machine

South of Heaven by Slayer just misses out on 1988, that doesn't mean I don't like it! Part 2 coming soon. Yes, my top 10 are essentially metal and rock, but I really can't get into other genres, but you will be pleasantly surprised later.

Do you mind if I post my top 10 for each year too, below your posts??
If not, it’s all good.

Okay, cool, I'll keep my posts to top 10 albums in the eighties for this thread. I'm actually kind of in a rush right now but I did manage to put together a top 10 for the year I was born, 1985. I will do the other eighties years later when I have time...

1985:
1. SLAYER – Hell Awaits
2. BATHORY – The Return…
3. CARNIVORE – self-titled
4. THE SISTERS OF MERCY – First And Last And Always
5. KREATOR – Endless Pain
6. POSSESSED – Seven Churches
7. AMEBIX – Arise!
8. BULLDOZER – The Day of Wrath
9. THE JESUS AND MARY CHAIN – Psychocandy
10. RAZOR – Evil Invaders

Ouch, it hurts to leave Celtic Frost "TMT", Sepultura's "Bestial Devastation" EP and Killing Joke's "Night Time" out.
"Bonded By Blood" is another real classic from your list I enjoy as well.

1986-1989 will come later.

1986-1989

1986:
1. SLAYER – Reign In Blood
2. VULCANO – Bloody Vengeance
3. VOIVOD – Roooaarrrr
4. SEPULTURA – Morbid Visions
5. METALLICA – Master of Puppets
6. KREATOR – Pleasure To Kill
7. SODOM – Obsessed By Cruelty
8. RAZOR – Malicious Intent
9. IRON MAIDEN – Somewhere In Time
10. DARK ANGEL – Darkness Descends

1987:
1. BATHORY – Under the Sign of the Black Mark
2. SARCOFAGO – INRI
3. SODOM – Persecution Mania
4. MUTILATOR – Immortal Force
5. NAPALM DEATH – Scum
6. CARNIVORE – Retaliation
7. MAYHEM – Deathcrush EP
8. SLAUGHTER – Strappado
9. KREATOR – Terrible Certainty
10. DEATH – Scream Bloody Gore

1988:
1. IRON MAIDEN – Seventh Son of a Seventh Son
2. NAPALM DEATH – From Enslavement To Obliteration
3. DANZIG – self-titled
4. BATHORY – Blood Fire Death
5. NUM SKULL – Ritually Abused
6. DEATH – Leprosy
7. MORBID SAINT – Spectrum of Death
8. TORMENTOR – Anno Domini
9. SLAYER – South of Heaven
10. VOIVOD – Dimension Hatross

1989:
1. MORBID ANGEL – Altars of Madness
2. SEPULTURA – Beneath the Remains
3, AUTOPSY – Severed Survival
4. SODOM – Agent Orange
5. REPULSION - Horrified
6. DEATH IN JUNE – The Wall of Sacrifice
7. SARCOFAGO – Rotting EP
8. CARCASS – Symphonies of Sickness
9. ATHEIST – Piece of Time
10. OBITUARY – Slowly We Rot

I wonered why so much metal was being sold, then I realised this is your personal top ten.

To see how it compares to an average from 11000 album charts, CLICK HERE