The Best Hard Rock and Heavy Metal Albums of 1981

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1. Escape

2. Moving Pictures

3. High ‘N’ Dry

4. Spellbound

5. Denim And Leather

6. Fire Of Unknown Origin

7. Breakin’ The Chains

8. Fair Warning

9. Future Shock

10. Repression

11. Nature Of The Beast

12. Time Tells No Lies

13. Diary Of A Madman

14. Rock Until You Drop

< Back to 1980

Journey

Rush

Def Leppard

Tygers Of Pan Tang

Saxon

Blue Öyster Cult

Dokken

Van Halen

Gillan

Trust

April Wine

Praying Mantis

Ozzy Osbourne

Raven