1980's

From the Sunset Strip to the global stage, these bands helped define the year.

Their '80s moments in the spotlight were fleeting, but should these acts have deserved better?

Long before baggy t-shirts and oversized flannels took center stage, these five albums were waiting patiently in the wings.

See Loudwire's picks for the best metal song of each year since 1970, alongside the runner-up choices!

Year by year through metal's most influential decade.

A wild era, but these rockers weren't in it for the party.

It may have been harder to find, but those keeping the blues alive in rock in the '80s were doing it well.

Bringing you 11 metal albums from the 1980s that every vinyl collector should have in their collection and links to purchase them if you don't.

Diving into the reasons for and reactions to Genesis' jump from prog rock to pop in the 1980s!

From the fruity smells of Lip Smackers before that awkward first kiss to the school supplies that made us a little dizzy, let’s take a nostalgic whiff down memory lane.

The '80s brought us a lot of innovation and you can see the rock world shifting through each year of the decade.

Some of them are the bands' worst albums PERIOD.