1985

The Wake

IQ

• Label: Sahara
• Released: 3 June 1985

• Progressive rock
• Neo-prog

1. Outer Limits
2. The Wake
3. The Magic Roundabout
4. Corners
5. Widow's Peak
6. The Thousand Days
7. Headlong

Sacred Heart

Dio

• Label: Warner Bros.
• Released: 15 August 1985

• Heavy metal
• Hard rock

1. King of Rock and Roll
2. Sacred Heart
3. Another Lie
4. Rock 'n' Roll Children
5. Hungry for Heaven
6. Like the Beat of a Heart
7. Just Another Day
8. Fallen Angels
9. Shoot Shoot

Little Creatures

Talking Heads

• Label: EMI
• Released: 10 June 1985

• New Wave
• Pop rock

1. And She Was
2. Give Me Back My Name
3. Creatures of Love
4. The Lady Don't Mind
5. Perfect World
6. Stay up Late
7. Walk It Down
8. Television Man
9. Road to Nowhere

The Spectre Within

Fates Warning

• Label: Metal Blade
• Released: October 1985

• Heavy metal
• Progressive metal

1. Traveler in Time
2. Orphan Gypsy
3. Without a Trace
4. Pirates of the Underground
5. The Apparition
6. Kyrie Eleison
7. Epitaph

Dealing with It

D.R.I.

• Label: Metal Blade
• Released: March 1985

• Hardcore punk
• Crossover thrash
• Thrash metal

1. Snap
2. I'd Rather Be Sleeping
3. Marriage
4. Yes Ma'am
5. Soup Kitchen
6. Mad Man
7. Stupid, Stupid War
8. Counter Attack
9. Couch Slouch
10. Karma
11. Nursing Home Blues
12. I Dond't Need Society
13. Give My Taxes Back
14. The Explorer
15. Reaganomics
16. How to Act
17. Shame
18. Argument Then War
19. Evil Minds
20. Busted Again
21. Equal People
22. On My Way Home
23. Bail out

Endless Pain

Kreator

• Label: Noise
• Released: October 1985

• Thrash metal
• Black metal

1. Endless Pain
2. Total Death
3. Storm of the Beast
4. Tormentor
5. Son of Evil
6. Flag of Hate
7. Cry War
8. Bonenreaker
9. Living in Fear
10. Dying Victims

Invasion of Your Privacy

Ratt

• Label: Atlantic
• Released: 30 May 1985

• Glam metal
• Heavy metal

1. You're in Love
2. Never Use Love
3. Lay It Down
4. Give It All
5. Closer to My Heart
6. Between the Eyes
7. What You Give Is What You Get
8. Got Me on the Line
9. You Should Know by Now
10. Dangerous but Worth the Risk

Power of the Night

Savatage

• Label: Atlantic
• Released: 15 April 1985

• Heavy metal

1. Power of the Night
2. Unusual
3. Warriors
4. Necrophilia
5. Washed out
6. Hard for Love
7. Fountain of Youth
8. Skull Session
9. Stuck on You
10. In the Dream

Southern Accents

Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers

• Label: MCA
• Released: 26 March 1985

• Roots rock
• Southern rock

1. Rebels
2. It Ain't Nothin' to Me
3. Don't Come Around Here No More
4. Southern Accents
5. Make It Better (Forget About Me)
6. Spike
7. Dogs on the Run
8. Mary's New Car
9. The Best of Everything

Infernal Overkill

Destruction

• Label: Steamhammer
• Released: 24 May 1985

• Thrash metal

1. Invincible Force
2. Death Trap
3. The Ritual
4. Tormentor
5. Bestial Invasion
6. Thrash Attack
7. Antichrist
8. Black Death

Walls of Jericho

Helloween

• Label: Noise
• Released: 1985

• Speed metal
• Power metal

1. Walls of Jericho
2. Ride the Sky
3. Reptile
4. Guardians
5. Phantoms of Death
6. Metal Invaders
7. Gorgar
8. Heavy Metal (Is the Law)
9. How Many Tears

The Skull

Trouble

• Label: Combat
• Released: 15 April 1985

• Doom metal

1. Pray for the Dead
2. Fear No Evil
3. The Wish
4. Truth Is — What Is
5. Wickedness of Man
6. Gideon
7. The Skull

Night Time

Killing Joke

• Label: Polydor
• Released: 11 February 1985

• Gothic rock
• Post-punk

1. Night Time
2. Darkness Before Dawn
3. Love Like Blood
4. Kings and Queens
5. Tabazan
6. Multitudes
7. Europe
8. Eighties

Fear of Tomorrow

Artillery

• Label: Neat Records
• Released: 1985

• Thrash metal

1. Time Has Come
2. The Almighty
3. Show Your Hate
4. King, Thy Name Is Slayer
5. Out of the Sky
6. Into the Universe
7. The Eternal War
8. Fear of Tomorrow
9. Deeds of Darkness

Speak English or Die

S.O.D.

• Label: Megaforce
• Released: 30 August 1985

• Crossover thrash metal

1. March of the S.O.D.
2. Sargent D and the S.O.D.
3. Kill Yourself
4. Milano Mosh
5. Speak English or Die
6. United Forces
7. Chromatic Death
8. Pi Alpha Nu
9. Anti-Procrastination Song
10. What's That Noise
11. Freddy Krueger
12. Milk
13. Pre-Menstrual Princess Blues
14. Pussy Whipped
15. Fist Banging Mania
16. No Turning Back
17. Fuck the Middle East
18. Douche Crew
19. Hey Gordy!
20. Ballad of Jimi Hendrix
21. Diamonds and Rust (Extended Version)

On a Storyteller's Night

Magnum

• Label: Polydor
• Released: 13 May 1985

• Hard rock
• progressive rock

1. How Far Jerusalem
2. Just Like an Arrow
3. On a Storyteller's Night
4. Before First Light
5. Les Morts Dansants
6. Endless Love
7. Two Hearts
8. Steal Your Heart
9. All England's Eyes
10. The Last Dance

Misplaced Childhood

Marillion

• Label: EMI
• Released: 17 June 1985

• Progressive rock

1. Pseudo Silk Kimono
2. Kayleigh
3. Lavender
4. Bitter Suite
5. Heart of Lothian
6. Waterhole (Expresso Bongo)
7. Lords of the Backstage
8. Blind Curve
9. Childhood's End?
10. White Feather

Flip Your Wig

Hüsker Dü

• Label: SST
• Released: September 1985

• Power pop
• Punk rock

1. Flip Your Wig
2. Every Everything
3. Makes No Sense at All
4. Hate Paper Doll
5. Green Eyes
6. Divide and Conquer
7. Games
8. Find Me
9. The Baby Song
10. Flexible Flyer
11. Private Plane
12. Keep Hanging on
13. The Wit and the Wisdom
14. Don't Know Yet

Metal Heart

Accept

• Label: RCA
• Released: 25 February 1985

• Heavy metal

1. Metal Heart
2. Midnight Mover
3. Up to the Limit
4. Wrong Is Right
5. Screaming for a Love-Bite
6. Too High to Get It Right
7. Dogs on Leads
8. Teach Us to Survive
9. Living for Tonite
10. Bound to Fall

Open the Gates

Manilla Road

• Label: Black Dragon
• Released: 1985

• Heavy metal
• Power metal

1. Metalström
2. Open the Gates
3. Astronomica
4. Weavers of the Web
5. Heavy Metal to the World
6. The Fires of Mars
7. Road to Kings
8. Hour of the Dragon
9. Witches Brew

Metal Fatigue

Allan Holdsworth

• Label: Enigma
• Released: 1985

• Jazz fusion

1. Metal Fatigue
2. Home
3. Devil Take the Hindmost
4. Panic Station
5. The Un-Merry-Go-Round
6. In the Mystery

The Return ...

Bathory

• Label: Black Mark
• Released: 27 May 1985

• Black metal

1. Revelation of Doom
2. Total Destruction
3. Born for Burning
4. The Wind of Mayhem
5. Bestial Lust (Bitch)
6. Possessed
7. The Rite of Darkness
8. Reap of Evil
9. Son of the Damned
10. Sadist (Tormentor)
11. The Return of the Darkness and Evil
12. Outro

Hell Awaits

Slayer

• Label: Metal Blade
• Released: 16 September 1985

• Thrash metal

1. Hell Awaits
2. Kill Again
3. At Dawn They Sleep
4. Praise of Death
5. Necrophiliac
6. Crypts of Eternity
7. Hardening of the Arteries

Fables of Reconstruction

R.E.M.

• Label: I.R.S.
• Released: 10 June 1985

• Folk rock
• Alternative rock

1. Feeling Gravity's Pull
2. Maps and Legends
3. Driver 8
4. Life and How to Live It
5. Old Man Kensey
6. Can't Get From Here
7. Green Grow the Rushes
8. Kohoutek
9. Auctioneer (Another Engine)
10. Good Advice
11. Wendell Gee

Hounds of Love

Kate Bush

• Label: EMI
• Released: 16 September 1985

• art pop
• progressive rock

1. Running up That Hill (A Deal with God)
2. Houdns of Love
3. The Big Sky
4. Mother Stands for Comfort
5. Cloudbusting
6. And Dream of Sheep
7. Under Ice
8. Waking the Witch
9. Watching You without Me
10. Jig of Life
11. Hello Earth
12. The Morning Fog

Spreading the Disease

Anthrax

• Label: Megaforce
• Released: 30 October 1985

• Thrash metal

1. A.I.R.
2. Lone Justice
3. Madhouse
4. S.S.C. / Stand or Fall
5. The Enemy
6. Aftershock
7. Armed and Dangerous
8. Medusa
9. Gung-Ho

The Last Command

W.A.S.P.

• Label: Capitol
• Released: 25 October 1985

• Heavy metal
• glam metal

1. Wild Child
2. Ballcrusher
3. Fistful of Diamonds
4. Jack Action
5. Widowmaker
6. Blind in Texas
7. Cries in the Night
8. The Last Command
9. Running Wild in the STreets
10. Sex Drive

Brothers in Arms

Dire Straits

• Label: Vertigo
• Released: 13 May 1985

• Pop rock

1. So Far Away
2. Money for Nothing
3. Walk of Life
4. Your Latest Trick
5. Why Worry
6. Ride Across the River
7. The Man's Too Strong
8. One World
9. Brothers in Arms

To Mega Therion

Celtic Frost

• Label: Noise
• Released: 27 October 1985

• Death metal
• thrash metal

1. Inocence and Wrath
2. The Usurper
3. Jewel Throne
4. Dawn of Meggido
5. Eternal Summer
6. Circle of Tyrants
7. (Beyond the) North Winds
8. Fainted Eyes
9. Tears in a Prophet's Dream
10. Necromantical Screams

Seven Churches

Possessed

• Label: Combat
• Released: 4 November 1985

• Death metal
• thrash metal

1. The Exorcist
2. Pentagram
3. Burning in Hell
4. Evil Warriors
5. Seven Churches
6. Satan's Curse
7. Holy Hell
8. Twisted Minds
9. Fallen Angel
10. Death Metal

Killing Is My Busness ... and Business Is Good!

Megadeth

• Label: Combat
• Released: 12 June 1985

• Thrash metal

1. Last Rites / Loved to Deth
2. Killing Is My Business ... and Business Is Good!
3. The Skull Beneath My Skin
4. These Boots
5. Rattlehead
6. Chosen Ones
7. Looking down the Cross
8. Mechanix

Bonded by Blood

Exodus

• Label: Combat
• Released: 25 April 1985

• Thrash metal

1. Bonded in Blood
2. Exodus
3. And Then There Were None
4. A Lesson in Violence
5. Metal Command
6. Piranha
7. No Love
8. Deliver Us to Evil
9. Strike of the Beast