Very happy to be a full time member now… let’s gooooo! 🦅

Congrats Bryce on joining the Hudson Valley Squares!

This was an absurdly hard task hahaha! 1. Ride the Lightning- Metallica 2. Powerslave- Iron Maiden 3. Don't Break the Oath- Mercyful Fate 4. Defenders of the Faith- Judas Priest 5. Last in Line- Dio Close but no cigar: -Morbid Tales (Celtic Frost) -W.A.S.P (W.A.S.P) -Fist Full of Metal (Anthrax)... I'm surprised no one picked this! -Bathory (Bathory) -Haunting the Chapel (Slayer) I could go on and on! Such a great year for metal!

Bryce is a Full time member now. A heavy " plus " for the show. Congrats Bryce and Pete! Great, great panel of discussion as always.

To Pete and Bryce: Both of you have helped me get into a shit ton of music and find some music. Pete helped me get into stuff like Heart, Sweet, Van Halen and even Armored Saint. Bryce helped me get into stuff like Megadeth, Sodom, Bathory and W.A.S.P. Both helped me get into bands like Black Sabbath, Judas Priest, Iron Maiden and Motörhead. Thank you both.

So cool to see Bryce making it to the channel. He really knows his stuff!

I picked 1984 at SoT Fall Fest 😁

Awesome show as always, also super cool to hear Bryce will be on full-time! Great picks from everyone, I’ll just toss out a few that I didn’t hear anyone mention (apologies if they did and I missed it): Cloven Hoof - Cloven Hoof Sortilège - Métamorphose Griffin - Flight of the Griffin Black Death - Black Death Running Wild - Gates to Purgatory Witchfynde - Lords of Sin Blasphème - Blasphème Witchkiller - Day of the Saxons Cheers! 🤘🤘

1. Metallica - Ride the Lightning 2. Iron Maiden - Powerslave 3. Judas Priest - Defenders of the Faith 4. Voivod - War and Pain 5. Dio - The Last in Line Great EPs: Slayer - Haunting the Chapel Celtic Frost - Morbid Tales Non-Metal Classics: Prince - Purple Rain Leonard Cohen - Various Positions Husker Du - Zen Arcade The Replacements - Let It Be

Hey Bryce, I've been a fan of yours for a couple of years and it is so awesome to see now an official part of the Hudson Valley Squares. You're go such good company there. Congrats Bryce and S.O.T Rocks!!

As someone watching from Brazil, I would say that I need some blue printing of Quinnz Pinz, Steve. Yes, I do. LOL!!!😂

TNT-Knights of the New Thunder Dio-The Last in Line Europe-Wings of Tomorrow Iron Maiden -Powerslave Judas Priest-Defenders of the Faith. Great show as always!!🤘

I was 15 in 84 and I friggin was and still is a metal head. What an awesome year for Metal/ Hard rock. Just absorbed everything. Love it! Thanks for the SOT podcast. I just love it

1984 - a great year of music - my top 5: 1. Iron Maiden - Powerslave 2. Dio - The Last In Line 3. Rush - Grace Under Pressure 4. Whitesnake - Slide It In 5. Europe - Wings Of Tomorrow Other LPs from 1984, which I loved in my youth and still love until today: Queen - The Works / Scorpions - Love At First Sting / Van Halen - 1984 / Judas Priest - Defenders Of The Faith / Metallica - Ride The Lightning / Triumph - Thunder Seven / W.A.S.P. - W.A.S.P. / Metal Church - Metal Church / Survivor - Vital Signs / Queensryche - The Warning / Yngwie Malmsteen - Rising Force / Ratt - Out Of The Cellar / Deep Purple - Perfect Strangers / Mercyful Fate - Don’t Break The Oath / Twisted Sister - Stay Hungry / Prince - Purple Rain

Bryce is the man. Great addition to the show.

Was awesome to meet all you guys on Saturday! Cant wait for the next one.

My Top 20 of 1984. Great year Rush - Grace Under Pressure Triumph - Thunder Seven Queensryche - The Warning Dokken - Tooth n Nail Whitesnake - Slide It In Judas Priest - Defenders of the Faith Iron Maiden - Powerslave Van Halen - 1984 Ratt - Out of the Cellar Scorpions - Love At First Sting Zebra - No Telling’ Lies Giuffria - Giuffria Dio - The Last In Line Yngwie Malmsteen’s Rising Force Y&T - In Rock We Trust TNT - Knights of the New Thunder Scandal - The Warrior Pat Benatar - Tropico Kiss - Animalize Stone Fury - Burns Like A Star

Deep Purple - Perfect Strangers Dio - The Last in Line Survivor - Vital Signs Manowar - Hail to England Metallica - Ride the Lightning HMs: Saxon - Crusader, Kiss - Animalize, W.A.S.P. -W.A.S.P., Rush - Grace Under Pressure, Lita Ford - Dancin’ on the Edge, Kerry Livgren - Time Line, Bryan Adams - Reckless, The Cars - Heartbeat City, Don Henley - Building the Perfect Beast, Honeymoon Suite - Honeymoon Suite, John Waite - No Brakes, Toto - Isolation, Fee Waybill - Read My Lips, Alan Parsons Project - Ammonia Avenue, Manowar - Sign of the Hammer, Orion the Hunter - Orion the Hunter, Van Halen - 1984.

Welcome Bryce, I also enjoy when Steve is on.

1. Ride the Lightning - Metallica 2. Powerslave - Iron Maiden 3. Defenders of the Faith - Judas Priest 4. In 3-D - "Weird Al" Yankovic 5. Fistful of Metal - Anthrax Honorables: The Last In Line - Dio Tooth and Nail - Dokken Condition Critical - Quiet Riot Out of the Cellar - Ratt Grace Under Pressure - Rush VOA - Sammy Hagar Love At First Sting - Scorpions This Is Spinal Tap - Spinal Tap The Yellow and Black Attack - Stryper Slide It In - Whitesnake

Top 5 will likely never change. 5. Iron Maiden - Powerslave 4. Dokken - Tooth and Nail 3. Deep Purple - Perfect Strangers 2. Whitesnake - Slide it in (UK Version of course😂) 1. Dio - The Last in Line. Nice to see Bryce coming on full time, he knows his stuff that lad! 👍🏻

JP- Defenders of the Faith Deep Purple- Perfect Strangers Ratt- Out of the cellar Merciful Fate- DBTO Twisted Sister- Stay Hungry H/M- Acdc- Jailbreak VH- 1984

'84 is crazy good, by far my favorite year... Here's my truckload of favorites: 1. Judas Priest- Defenders of the Faith (I've said before that this is my favorite Priest record- a shred fest from Tipton and Downing, dark atmosphere, intensity, classical inspired bits and great chord articulation. A handful of my favorite songs here as well.) 2. Metallica- Ride the Lightning (Also a top ten favorite album. To me this is the album that elevated thrash metal from a songwriting standpoint, already having been the sub-genre that stepped up on the technical side.) 3. Dokken- Tooth & Nail (One of my favorite bands, and second only in their catalogue to Back for the Attack. To me this sounds like perfected nwobhm or the ultimate version of european classic metal like 220 Volt or Heavy Load despite being American. The radio hits are already pretty good, but the deep cuts like Don't Close Your Eyes and When Heaven Comes Down are simply on another level. I like the little stylistic nuances each member adds to the table, with focus on Lynch bringing his unique phrasing element along with the shred... A bit of trivia: on the video to Just Got Lucky you can see footage of George Lynch playing guitar on an active volcano 🌋 in Hawaii. An actual f*ing volcano! Which erupted moments after they left!! Needless to say this is one of the most metal moments of all time, for anyone out there sneering at the glam thing.) 4. Ratt- Out of the Cellar (Warren DeMartini. That is all.) 5. Queensryche- The Warning (Prog metal making its way into the 80's, and it took a while for me to admit I loved this album when I was younger- presumably because odd time signatures and weird blurpy stuff like on NM were things I just wasn't used to to. It's a great example of how a record can challenge your mind, turn you outside of your comfort zone but also intrigue you and make you come back for more. Mindcrime is a masterpiece of its own, but when I'm in the mood for Queensryche I'm not satisfied until I give this whole record a turn.) *Assuming people already know the fantastic Van Halen, Scorpions, Rush, Whitesnake, Dio, Iron Maiden, Twisted Sister and Deep Purple records- might I suggest: 1. TNT- Knights of the New Thunder 2. Tokyo Blade- Night of the Blade These I felt bad for leaving out because they're a little more obscure, but as you can see the competition is a bit unfair... *Edit (more I had forgotten) 3. Autograph- Sign in Please (another personal favorite of mine) 4. Lee Aaron- Metal Queen 5. Avenger- Blood Sports (nwobhm cult classic) 6. Krokus- The Blitz 7. Quiet Riot- Condition Critical

Great meeting you guys on Saturday (and some on Sunday too)! Steve, your store (Rock Fantasy) kicks ass! Chris, Danzig 1 is awesome and Ryan, we forgot to exchange #'s. Will send you a friend invite on Facebook. And Pete, thanks again for setting all of this up. Will see you soon on The Monsters Den!

Damn! I could live in 1984's music and be happy for the rest of my days! Purple reforming was a big one, and Dio kicking out his 2nd album were high school highlights for me! Wore out those cassettes out in my '73 VW Thing! Another great show everyone. 🤘 🤘

Hey great episode!!

Thanks for mentioning Heavy Temple! Another great discovery.

Wow I have 90 percent of the albums mentioned didn’t know 1984 was such a great year .big up for the mention of first black n blue and first great white

Thanks everyone! Love HVS!

Cool episode, Bryce is a great fit, eloquent, quick-witted for his age and sense of dry humor!

Top 5 hard rock/metal albums FROM 1984 METALLICA- RIDE THE LIGHTNING JUDAS PRIEST-DEFENDERS OF THE FAITH IRON MAIDEN - POWERSLAVE DIO -LAST IN LINE QUEENSRYCHE - THE WARNING HONORABLE DEEP PURPLE -PERFECT STRANGERS RISING FORCE-YNGWIE MALMSTEEN VAN HALEN - 1984 RATT - OUT OF THE CELLAR RUSH - GRACE UNDER PRESSURE

Was super fun guys! Loved every bit of it My ranking Metallica-ride the lightning Iron maiden-powerslave Mercyful fate-dont break the oath Van Halen-1984 Deep purple-perfect strangers Honorable mentions Judas priest-defenders of faith Trouble-psalm 9 Slayer-haunting the chapel Europe-wings of tomorrow Metal church-metal church

Congrats, Bryce. 🤘 HSV is real strong again with the addition of Canz and Bryce. Good times ahead!

Great to see Bryce as a member of the Squares. Great channel and great guy.

Chris Alo, I am not too old for this stuff and I just turned 60 on 9/27!!!! Saw Testament/Exodus and Death Angel last weekend in Portland, ME this past wknd.

Solid picks everyone! Thinking back I had these on my list that I didn’t hear mentioned: Fastway All Fired Up; Rods Let Them Eat Metal; Raven Live At the Inferno; Ramones Too Tough To Die.

Loved the show!. All great picks that Bryce made. I agree with his sentiments on each album. Is he a time traveler?. lol. It's so cool that there are young Metalheads like that who appreciate the greatness of Metal in the 1980's.

Great to have Bryce join the show and immediately gives some love to early era Pantera!

So glad to hear Ryan mention Battle Cry, what a great album.

Cool new member on the squares!

Great show. Loved seeing Bryce.

​Mine: 5. Metal Church 4. Rising Force 3. Disillusion 2. Ride the Lightning 1. Don't Break the Oath

Welcome Bryce on the regular team!! 🤘😎🤘

Kudos to Bryce for bringing Helstar and Madison! Missing gems: Pretty Maids: red hot & Heavy Witchkiller: day of the saxons (EP) Obsession : Marshall law Steeler self titled ( Germany with Axel Rudy Pell) Laaz Rockit : City’s gonna burn Lee Aaron: Metal queen Ostrogoth: ecstasy and danger Fates Warning : night on Brocken Sortilège: metamorphose Stryper : the yellow and black attack Tokyo: night of the blade Vengeance self titled (holland), with Arjen Lucassen Wendy O Williams : WOW TT Quick (EP) Stormwitch : Walpurgis night Sinner : danger zone Black n blue : self titled H Bomb : attaque (France) + releases by Black lace ( unlaced) Sleeelover (glove me) Axe victim ( another victim) Killer ( shockwaves) Kick axe : vices Baron Rojo Tormentor ( goddess of love) Tyrant ( mean machine) Helix: walking on the razors edge Chateaux : fire power But my nr 1 and 2: Metal Church Anthrax : fistful of Metal

Cheers fellas. Here are mine: 1. The Smiths - The Smiths 2. Iron Maiden - Powerslave 3. Minutemen - Double Nickels On The Dime 4. Rush - Grace Under Pressure 5. King Crimson - Three Of A Perfect Pair

A great year indeed. I turned 20 in '84 and was fully into metal.... 1. Poweslave by Iron Maiden 2. Ride the Lightning by Metallica 3. Out of the Cellar by Ratt 4. Last in Line by Dio 5. Defenders of the Faith by Judas Priest

Finally at the end Savatage was mentioned. I was saying every list that came up, “what about Savatage?” Lol. It’s in my top 5 for 84. Couple others I don’t remember mentioned is ‘74 Jailbreak (in the US) and Fastway All Fired Up for a couple honorable mentions. 1. Powerslave 2. Don’t Break the Oath 3. The Dungeons are Calling 4. Metal Church 5. The Last in Line

1984, what a year in metal/hard rock indeed

1. Metallica - Ride the Lightning 2. Iron Maiden - Powerslave 3. Mercyful Fate - Don't break the Oath 4. Dio - The Last in Line 5. Scorpions - Love at First Sting HM: Running Wild - Gates to Purgatory

what an addition to the hudson valley squares!!!!!

Last IN LINE/8️⃣4️⃣ in my t0p 1️⃣0️⃣ in my catalog. Love it 👍💯

84 was a great year in general...the music , moves and shows that year were phenomenal

Great show and congrats Bryce on joining THVS!! :) My picks: Trouble - Psalm 9 Whitesnake - Slide it In Dio - Last in Line Celtic Frost - Morbid Tales Metallica - Ride the Lightning Powerslave is hors-concours.

Love the Madonna talk :-). Her first albums are great pop music.

My top Five are 1. Rising Force - Yngwie 2. Defenders of the Faith - Priest 3 - Warning - Queensyrche - I saw them a L''amour in Brooklyn on the Tour 4 - Disillusion - Loudness /Akira 5 - Last in Line - Dio The Triumph - Thunder Seven came out in 1984, which was a pretty good album. I saw Yngwie open for them on that Tour. Also, It's a shame that Accept didn't have an album in 1984. They would have been in my Top.

Love armored Saint. ! Good mention !

Welcome to Bryce a great addition to the team.

1- RATT - Out Of The Cellar 2- Metallica - Ride The Lightning 3- W.A.S.P. - W.A.S.P. 4- Van Halen - 1984 5- Iron Maiden - Powerslave Honorable Mentions Judas Priest - Defenders Of The Faith Twisted Sister - Stay Hungry Scorpions - Love At First Sting Deep Purple - Perfect Strangers KISS - Animalize (even though it's not in their best ones, i've listened this album alot when i was 11 in 1984) Prince - Purple Rain

Helstar's Burning Star was a great pick by Bryce! I didn't even realize that album came out in 84; I thought it was later.

Exciter, Violence and Force - 1984

Excellent show from one amazing year! Keep up the great content. INPO: Priest - Defenders of the Faith Ratt - Out of the Cellar Rush - Grace Under Pressure MF - Dont Break the Oath W.A.S.P. - W.A.S.P. HM Gary Moore - We Want Moore VH - 1984 Maiden - Powerslave

Yay!!!! I'm so excited Bryce is joining the Hudson Valley Squares! He's going to give a great perspective on these topics.

Great video Pete.....here are my top five albums from 1984: 1. Iron Maiden - Powerslave 2. Metallica - Ride the Lightning 3. Twisted Sister - Stay Hungry 4. Merciful Fate - Don't Break the Oath 5. Scorpions - Love at First Sting Honorable mentions: Whitesnake - Slide it in WASP - WASP (self titled debut) Trouble - Psalm 9 Deep Purple - Perfect Strangers Anthrax - Fistful of Metal RATT - Out of the Cellar Judas Priest - Defenders of the Faith Venom - At War with Satan

I only have two for this category. 1984, a DLR Van Halen album I actually like. And, come one, Slide It In. A no-brainer!

The best American metal band - Manilla Road! Thank you, Ryan! Up the Hammers! 🤘🏻🔥⚔️

So many great Metal albums from 1984. One of the absolute best is Bathory-Bathory. A landmark LP for Black and Death Metal.

Nice one Bryce 😁🤟

Very good video the whitesnake album is a Masterpiece of hard rock.

Big 👍🏻to Bryce for joining the show and giving a little love to Black N Blue. My top five would be Metal Church Armored Saint Queensryche W.A.S.P. Saxon

Yeah, I agree on "Purple Rain". Loved the album & I'm not ashamed.

Twisted sister-stay hungry Whitesnake-slide it in Dokken-tooth and nail Ratt-out of the cellar Great white-great white

Mine are 1. Powerslave-Iron Maiden 2. Don't Break The Oath-Mercyful Fate 3. Warning-Queensryche 4. Morbid Tales-Celtic Frost 5. Defenders Of The Faith-Judas Priest Honorable Mention 1. Tooth & Nail-Dokken 2. Last In Line-Dio 3. March Of The Saint-Armored Saint 4. Dunfgeons Are Calling-Savatage 5. Rising Force-Yngwie Malmsteen 5. Burning The Witches-Warlock Glad to hear the King Chris Alo again!

5. Cirith Ungol- King Of The Dead 4. Judas Priest- Defenders Of The Faith 3. Metal Church 2. Mercyful Fate- Don't Break The Oath 1. Iron Maiden- Powerslave HM: Wasp, Bathory Metallica-Ride The Lightning, Deep Purple- Perfect Strangers Running Wild- Gates Of Purgatory Omen- Battle Cry RATT- Out Of The Cellar Jag Panzer- Ample Destruction Armored Saint- March Of The Saint Europe- Wings Of Destruction Trouble- Psalm 9 Celtic Frost- Morbid Tales Dokken- Tooth and Nail I could keep going. Year is stacked. Haha

A lot of fantastic albums that year.My most listened albums were: Running Wild:Gates to Purgatory - Grave Digger:Heavy metal Breakdown - Tank: Honour & Blood - Loudness:Disillusion (Japanese version) - Trust: IV...And i still like them very much...😄👍

Yngwe’s Rising Force Kick Axe - Vices Krokus - The Blitz Fastway - All Fired Up Pretty Maids - Red Hot and Heavy

Nice Bryce - WASP & Ratt are great choices!

Kudos to Bryce on becoming a member of the HVS, Hope you got thick skin, these guys (since you're minus the ladies) can be ruthless. Pretty much how my friends and I got along growing up. 🤣 Oh yeah, the video was good too!

1984 was incredible. I was 13/14 years old and just getting into hard rock and metal. Great memories. 1. Metallica-Ride the Lightning 2. Mercyful Fate-Don't Break the Oath 3. Queensryche-The Warning 4. W.A.S.P.-WASP 5. Judas Priest-Defenders of the Faith Honorable Mentions: Iron Maiden-Powerslave Dio-The Last in Line Ratt-Out of the Cellar Dokken-Tooth and Nail Van Halen-1984

Way to go Bryce! Congratulations!

This is the best panel ever. These six guys rule. Add Nick and Sydney and it would be perfection.

Back home after a GREAT weekend meeting everyone at the Fall Festival! Many great metal albums in '84 IMO: 1. Lightning 2. Defenders 3. Powerslave 4. Trouble - s/t debut (or Psalm 9) 5. Metal Church - s/t debut Bubbling under/next 5: Last In Line Don't Break the Oath Fistful of Metal Morbid Tales Haunting the Chapel

5.(A) Trouble - Psalm 9 5.(B) Mercyful Fate - Don't Break the Oath (I'm pulling a Steve Keeler) 4. Iron Maiden - Powerslave 3. Judas Priest - Defenders of the Faith 2. RATT - Out of the Cellar 1. Metallica - Ride The Lightning Non-metal 5. Howard Jones - Human's Lib 4. Madonna - Madonna 3. Survivor - Vital Signs 2. Prince - Purple Rain 1. Bryan Adams - Reckless

.... Bryce talks metal!...... Superb move!...... Youngblood !

Welcome Bryce! always great to have new blood 🍺🤘 This was nearly impossible but here it goes: 1- DIO: Last in Line / 2- Iron Maiden: Powerslave / 3- Judas Priest: Defenders of the Faith / 4- Scorpions: Love at First Sting / 5- Deep Purple: Perfect Strangers HM: Whitesnake: Slide It In / Triumph: Thunder Seven / Twisted Sister: Stay Hungry / Dokken: Thooth and Nail / Yngwie Malmsteen's Rising Force ...and a shitload more that I don't have space to mention... that was a great, great year! Thanks!

Top 5... Deep Purple - Perfect Strangers. Whitesnake - Slide It In. Metal Church - Metal Church. Destruction - Sentence of Death. Dio - The Last in Line. Honorable mentions... Living Death - Vengeance of Hell. Trouble - Trouble (Psalm 9). Cloven Hoof - Cloven Hoof. Stevie Ray Vaughan - Couldn't Stand the Weather. Metallica - Ride the Lightning.

1) Black Flag - My War 2) Bathory - ST 3) Metallica - Ride The Lightning 4) Mercyful Fate - Don't Break the Oath 5) Icon - ST Non hard rock picks : REM - Reckoning The Smiths - The Smiths Husker Dü - Zen Arcade Cocteau Twins - Treasure

How great to have Bryce joining Hudson Valley.

1. Maiden- Powerslave 2. Metallica- Ride The Lightning 3. Dio- The Last In Line 4. Metal Church- Metal Church 5. Judas Priest- Defenders Of The Faith 6. Mercyful Fate- Don’t Break The Oath

What a year, when Bryce mentioned Helstar I was like 'YES!', but even then.... would it even make top 10?

Steve… Caldor. Too funny. Many memories of browsing through records there. I totally forgot. Ames along with Caldor too.

Very happy to see BryceTalksMetal added to the HVS roster!

1. Minutemen - Double Nickels on the Dime 2. Y&T - In Rock We Trust 3. Metallica - Ride the Lightning 4. Husker Du - Zen Arcade 5. Ratt - Out of the Cellar

Glad to see Celtic Frost getting a lot of love in this episode (and Hellhammer, too.) They're all too often overlooked when people do their lists of favourite thrash metal albums. Such an influential band who were pioneers of extreme metal & downtuned riffs. They were leaders, not followers. "To Mega Therion" was a stone cold classic and it was relistening to "Morbid Tales" and "Emperor's Return" 20 years later which got me back into metal after a few year's hiatus.

1. Judas Priest - Defenders of The Faith 2. Iron Maiden - Powerslave 3. Queensryche - The Warning 4. Metallica - Ride The Lightning 5. Dio - The Last In Line Honorable mentions: * Rush - Grace Under Pressure * Van Halen - 1984 * Scorpions - Love at First Sting * Deep Purple - Perfect Strangers * Mercyful Fate - Don't Break The Oath * Jag Panzer - Ample Destruction * Cirith Ungol - King of The Dead * Metal Church - Metal Church * Ratt - Out of The Cellar * Dokken - Tooth and Nail * Yngwie J. Malmsteen - YJM's Rising Force * Spinal Tap - Spinal Tap * Pantera - Projects In The Jungle * Savatage - The Dungeons Are Calling * Celtic Frost - Morbid Tales * KISS - Animalize * Whitesnake - Slide It In * Saxon - Crusader * Fates Warning - Night On Brocken * AC/DC - '74 Jailbreak

The trade off lead on the title track “Powerslave” is in my opinion one of the greatest of all time!

I'm surprised nobody mentioned "Gates to Purgatory", the debut album by German speed metal band, Running Wild.

Ill be boring today. I was 21 in 1984 and loved all of these albums that year . No surprises here. 1) defenders of the faith 2) slide it in 3) powerslave 4) perfect strangers 5) stay hungry

1. Ride the Lightning 2. W.A.S.P. 3. Powerslave 4. Don't Break the Oath 5. Psalm 9 HM to Deep Purple, Hanoi Rocks, Manowar, Savatage and Saxon.

These are my top 5 in no particular order. 1. Iron Maiden - Powerslave 2. Dio - The Last In Line 3. Metallica - Ride The Lightning 4. Y&T - In Rock We Trust 5. Metal Church - Metal Church

Good on Bryce for picking some glam metal.. Huge in 1984.