1980

The Black Album

The Damned

• Label: Chiswick
• Released: 3 November 1980

• Punk rock
• Gothic rock

1. Wait for the Blackout
2. Lively Arts
3. Silly Kids Games
4. Drinking About My Baby
5. Twisted Nerve
6. Hit or Miss
7. Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde
8. Sick of This and That
9. History of the World Part 1
10. 13th Floor Vendetta
11. Therapy
12. Curtain Call

Demolition

Girlschool

• Label: Bronze
• Released: 30 June 1980

• Heavy metal
• Hard rock

1. Demolition Boys
2. Not for Sale
3. Race with the Devil
4. Take It All Away
5. Nothing to Lose
6. Breakdown
7. Midnight Ride
8. Emergency
9. Babydoll
10. Deadline

White Spirit

White Spirit

• Label: MCA
• Released: 19 September 1980

• Hard rock
• Heavy metal

1. Midnight Chaser
2. Red Skies
3. High Upon High
4. Way of the Kings
5. No Reprieve
6. Don't Be Fooled
7. Fool for the Gods

Envoy of Death

Sarcofagus

• Label: JP-Music
• Released: 1980

• Heavy metal
• Doom metal

1. Envoy of Death
2. The Deadly Game
3. Wheels of Destruction
4. Insane Rebels
5. Die to Win
6. Stolen Salvation
7. Black Contract

Colours

Eloy

• Label: Harvest
• Released: June 1980

• Space rock
• Progressive rock

1. Horizons
2. Illuminations
3. Giant
4. Impressions
5. Child Migration
6. Gallery
7. Silhouette
8. Sunset

Metal Rendez-vous

Krokus

• Label: Ariola
• Released: 30 June 1980

• Heavy metal
• Hard rock

1. Heatstrokes
2. Bedside Radio
3. Come on
4. Streamer
5. Shy Kid
6. Tokyo Nights
7. Lady Double Dealer
8. Fire
9. No Way
10. Back-Seat Rock 'n' Roll

Give 'Em Hell

Witchfynde

• Label: Rondelet
• Released: 5 February 1980

• Heavy metal

1. Ready to Roll
2. The Divine Victim
3. Leaving Nadir
4. Gettin' Heavy
5. Give 'Em Hell
6. Unto the Ages of the Ages
7. Pay Now Love Later

Bicicleta

Serú Girán

• Label: n/a
• Released: November 1980

• Jazz fusion
• Progressive rock

1. A los jóvenes de ayer
2. ¿Cuánto tiempo más llevará?
3. Canción de Alicia en el país
4. La luna del marzo
5. Mientras miro las muevas olas
6. Desarma y sangra
7. Tema de Nayla
8. Encuentro conel diablo

The Michael Schenker Group

Michael Schenker Group

• Label: Chrysalis
• Released: August 1980

• Hard rock
• Heavy metal

1. Armed and Ready
2. Cry for the Nations
3. Victim of Illusion
4. Bijou Pleasurette
5. Feels Like a Good Thing
6. Into the Arena
7. Looking out from Nowhere
8. Tales of Mystery
9. Lost Horizons

Hawks & Doves

Neil Young

• Label: Reprise
• Released: 29 October 1980

• Country rock
• Folk rock

1. Little Wing
2. The Old Homestead
3. Lost in Space
4. Captain Kennedy
5. Stayin' Power
6. Coastline
7. Union Man
8. Comin' Apart at Every Nail
9. Hawks & Doves

Closer

Joy Division

• Label: Factory
• Released: 18 July 1980

• Post-punk
• Gothic rock

1. Atrocity Exhibition
2. Isolation
3. Passover
4. Colony
5. A Means to an End
6. Heart and Soul
7. Twenty Four Hours
8. The Eternal
9. Decades

In the Flat Field

Bauhaus

• Label: 4AD
• Released: 3 November 1980

• Post-punk
• Gothic rock

1. Double Dare
2. In the Flat Field
3. A God in an Alcove
4. Dive
5. Spy in the Cab
6. Small Talk Stinks
7. St. Vitus Dance
8. Stigmata Martyr
9. Nerves

On Through the Night

Def Leppard

• Label: Vertigo
• Released: 14 March 1980

• Heavy metal

1. Rock Brigade
2. Hello America
3. Sorrow Is a Woman
4. It Could Be You
5. Satellite
6. When the Walls Came Tumbling Down
7. Wasted
8. Rocks off
9. It Don't Matter
10. Answer to the Master
11. Overture

Kaleidoscope

Siouxsie and the Banshees

• Label: Polydor
• Released: 1 August 1980

• Post-punk
• New wave

1. Happy House
2. Tenant
3. Trophy
4. Hybrid
5. Clockface
6. Lunar Central
7. Christine
8. Desert Kisses
9. Red Light
10. Paradise Place
11. Skin

Cultösaurus Erectus

Blue Öyster Cult

• Label: Columbia
• Released: June 1980

• Progessive rock
• Heavy metal

1. Black Blade
2. Monsters
3. Divine Wind
4. Deadline
5. The Marshall Plan
6. Hungry Boys
7. Fallen Angel
8. Lips in the Hills
9. Unknown Tongue

Lightning to the Nations

Diamond Head

• Label: Happy Face
• Released: 3 October 1980

• Heavy metal

1. Lightning to the Nations
2. The Prince
3. Sucking My Love
4. Am I Evil?
5. Sweet and Innocent
6. It's Electric
7. Helpless

Making Movies

Dire Straits

• Label: Vertigo
• Released: 17 October 1980

• Roots rock

1. Tunnel of Love
2. Romeo and Juliet
3. Skateaway
4. Expresso Love
5. Hand in Hand
6. Solid Rock
7. Les Boys

Killing Joke

Killing Joke

• Label: E.G.
• Released: 5 October 1980

• Post-punk
• Idustrial rock

1. Requiem
2. Wardance
3. Tomorrow's World
4. Bloodsport
5. The Wait
6. Complications
7. S.O.36
8. Primitive

Uprising

Bob Marley and the Wailers

• Label: Tuff Gong
• Released: 10 June 1980

• Reggae

1. Coming in from the Cold
2. Real Situation
3. Bad Card
4. We and Dem
5. Work
6. Zion Train
7. Pimper's Paradise
8. Could You Be Loved
9. Forever Loving Jah
10. Redemption Song

Angel Witch

Angel Witch

• Label: Bronze
• Released: December 1980

• Heavy metal

1. Angel Witch
2. Atlantis
3. White Witch
4. Confused
5. Sorcerers
6. Gorgon
7. Sweet Danger
8. Free Man
9. Angel of Death
10. Devil's Tower

Permanent Waves

Rush

• Label: Anthem
• Released: 18 January 1980

• Progressive rock

1. The Spirit of Radio
2. Freewill
3. Jacob's Ladder
4. Entre Nous
5. Different Strings
6. Natural Science

Never for Ever

Kate Bush

• Label: EMI
• Released: 8 September 1980

• Progressive pop
• Art rock

1. Babooshka
2. Delius (Song of Summer)
3. Blow Away (for Bill)
4. All We Ever Look for
5. Egypt
6. The Wedding List
7. Violin
8. The Infant Kiss
9. Night Scented Stock
10. Army Dreamers
11. Breathing

Remain in Light

Talking Heads

• Label: Sire
• Released: 8 October 1980

• New wave
• post-punk

1. Born Under Punches (The Heat Goes on)
2. Crosseyed and Painless
3. The Great Curve
4. Once in a Lifetime
5. Houses in Motion
6. Seen and Not Seen
7. Listening Wind
8. The Overload

Ready an' Willing

Whitesnake

• Label: United Artists
• Released: 23 May 1980

• Blues rock
• hard rock

1. Fool for Your Loving
2. Sweet Talker
3. Ready an' Willing
4. Carry Your Load
5. Blindman
6. Ain't Gonna Cry No More
7. Love Man
8. Black and Blue
9. She's a Woman

British Steel

Judas Priest

• Label: Columbia
• Released: 11 April 1981

• Heavy metal

1. Rapid Fire
2. Metal Gods
3. Breaking the Law
4. Grinder
5. United
6. You Don't Have to Be Old to Be Wise
7. Living After Midnight
8. The Rage
9. Steeler

Animal Magnetism

Scorpions

• Label: Harvest
• Released: 31 March 1980

• Hard rock
• heavy metal

1. Make It Real
2. Don't Make No Promises (Your Body Can't Keep)
3. Hold Me Tight
4. Twentieth Century Man
5. Lady Starlight
6. Falling in Love
7. Only a Man
8. The Zoo
9. Animl Magnetism

Bébé le Strange

Heart

• Label: Epic
• Released: 14 February 1980

• Hard rock

1. Bébé le Strange
2. Down on Me
3. Silver Wheels
4. Break
5. Rockin Heaven Down
6. Even It up
7. Strange Night
8. Raised on You
9. Pilot
10. Sweet Darlin'

Ace of Spades

Motörhead

• Label: Bronze
• Released: October 1980

• Speed metal
• heavy metal

1. Ace of Spades
2. Love Me Like a Reptile
3. Shoot You in the Back
4. Live to Win
5. Fast and Loose
6. (We Are) the Road Crew
7. Fire, Fire
8. Jailbait
9. Dance
10. Bite the Bullet
11. The Chase Is Better Than the Catch
12. The Hammer

Blizzard of Ozz

Ozzy Osbourne

• Label: Jet
• Released: 12 September 1980

• Heavy metal

1. I Don't Know
2. Crazy Train
3. Goodbye to Romance
4. Dee
5. Suiucide Solution
6. Mr. Crowley
7. No Bone Movies
8. Relevation (MOther Earth)
9. Steal Away (the Night)

Back in Black

AC/DC

• Label: Atlantic
• Released: 25 July 1980

• Hard rock
• heavy metal

1. Hells Bells
2. Shoot to Thrill
3. What Do You Do for Money Honey
4. Givin' the Dog a Bone
5. Let Me Pull My Love into You
6. Back in Black
7. You Shook Me All Night Long
8. Have a Drink on Me
9. Shake a Leg
10. Rock and Roll Ain't Noise Pollution

Heaven and Hell

Black Sabbath

• Label: Vertigo
• Released: 18 April 1980

• Heavy metal

1. Neon Knights
2. Children of the Sea
3. Lady Evil
4. Heaven and Hell
5. Wishing Well
6. Die Young
7. Walk Away
8. Lonely Is the Word

Iron Maiden

Iron Maiden

• Label: EMI
• Released: 14 April 1980

• Heavy metal

1. Prowler
2. Remember Tomorrow
3. Running Free
4. Phantom of the Opera
5. Transylvania
6. Strange World
7. Charlotte the Harlot
8. Iron Maiden