NEWS
2019/07/27
1983 was a landmark year for hard rock and heavy metal. Quiet Riot became the first metal band to top the Billboard album chart in America with their Metal Health album, Van Halen and a stellar supporting cast (Ozzy Osbourne and Judas Priest among them) drew 375,000 headbangers to the ‘Heavy Metal Day’ at the U.S. festival, and ZZ Top and Def Leppard released, with Eliminator and Pyromania, two of the decade’s biggest-selling rock collections. Drilling deeper, Kerrang!’s Albums Of The Year list for ’83 provides an instructive insight into the contemporaneous state of the hard rock/heavy metal community, with LA glam newcomers Mötley Crüe and Ratt featuring in the critics’ Top 10, Ronnie James Dio being acclaimed for his solo band debut Holy Diver and Manowar and Accept drawing plaudits for...
