  | 
Limelight | 
  | 
Limelight (1980) | 
  | 
  | 
NWOBHM, Traditional Metal, Progressive Metal | 
- | 
0 | 
  | 
Savatage | 
  | 
Sirens (1983) | 
  | 
  | 
Progressive Metal, Heavy Metal | 
- | 
0 | 
  | 
Savatage | 
  | 
The Dungeons Are Calling (1984) [EP] | 
  | 
  | 
Progressive Metal, Heavy Metal | 
- | 
0 | 
  | 
Limelight | 
  | 
Ashes to Ashes (1984) | 
  | 
  | 
NWOBHM, Traditional Metal, Progressive Metal | 
- | 
0 | 
  | 
Fates Warning | 
  | 
Night On Brocken (1984) | 
  | 
  | 
Progressive Metal | 
- | 
0 | 
  | 
Queensryche | 
  | 
The Warning (1984) | 
  | 
  | 
Heavy Metal, Progressive Metal | 
- | 
0 | 
  | 
Savatage | 
  | 
Power Of The Night (1985) | 
  | 
  | 
Progressive Metal, Heavy Metal | 
- | 
0 | 
  | 
Watchtower | 
  | 
Energetic Disassembly (1985) | 
  | 
  | 
Progressive Metal, Thrash Metal | 
- | 
0 | 
  | 
Rage | 
  | 
Depraved to Black (1985) [EP] | 
  | 
  | 
Heavy Metal, Speed Metal, Power Metal, Progressive Metal, Symphonic Metal | 
- | 
0 | 
  | 
Fates Warning | 
  | 
The Spectre Within (1985) | 
  | 
  | 
Progressive Metal | 
95 | 
1 | 
  | 
Savatage | 
  | 
Fight For The Rock (1986) | 
  | 
  | 
Progressive Metal, Heavy Metal | 
- | 
0 | 
  | 
Fates Warning | 
  | 
Awaken The Guardian (1986) | 
  | 
  | 
Progressive Metal | 
- | 
0 | 
  | 
Queensryche | 
  | 
Rage for Order (1986) | 
  | 
  | 
Heavy Metal, Progressive Metal | 
- | 
0 | 
  | 
Savatage | 
  | 
Hall of the Mountain King (1987) | 
  | 
  | 
Progressive Metal, Heavy Metal | 
- | 
0 | 
  | 
Anacrusis | 
  | 
Suffering Hour (1988) | 
  | 
  | 
Progressive Metal, Thrash Metal | 
- | 
0 | 
  | 
Fates Warning | 
  | 
No Exit (1988) | 
  | 
  | 
Progressive Metal | 
70 | 
1 | 
  | 
Voivod | 
  | 
Dimension Hatross (1988) | 
  | 
  | 
Thrash Metal, Progressive Metal | 
- | 
0 | 
  | 
Queensrÿche | 
  | 
Revolution Calling PROMO (1988) [Single] | 
  | 
  | 
Progressive Metal, Heavy Metal | 
- | 
0 | 
  | 
Queensrÿche | 
  | 
Eyes of a Stranger (1988) [Single] | 
  | 
  | 
Progressive Metal, Heavy Metal | 
- | 
0 | 
  | 
Queensrÿche | 
  | 
Operation: Mindcrime (1988) | 
  | 
  | 
Heavy Metal, Progressive Metal | 
91.7 | 
3 | 
  | 
Metallica | 
  | 
...And Justice for All (1988) | 
  | 
  | 
Thrash Metal, Progressive Metal | 
82.5 | 
2 | 
  | 
Sieges Even | 
  | 
Life Cycle (1988) | 
  | 
  | 
Progressive Metal | 
- | 
0 | 
  | 
Watchtower | 
  | 
Control And Resistance (1989) | 
  | 
  | 
Progressive Metal, Thrash Metal | 
70 | 
1 | 
  | 
Queensrÿche | 
  | 
Overseeing the Operation (1989) [EP] | 
  | 
  | 
Progressive Metal, Heavy Metal | 
- | 
0 | 
  | 
Queensrÿche | 
  | 
I Don't Believe in Love (1989) [Single] | 
  | 
  | 
Progressive Metal, Heavy Metal | 
- | 
0 | 
  | 
Queensrÿche | 
  | 
Video: Mindcrime (1989) [Video] | 
  | 
  | 
Progressive Metal, Heavy Metal | 
- | 
0 | 
  | 
Dream Theater | 
  | 
When Dream and Day Unite (1989) | 
  | 
  | 
Progressive Metal | 
90 | 
2 | 
  | 
Fates Warning | 
  | 
Perfect Symmetry (1989) | 
  | 
  | 
Progressive Metal | 
- | 
0 | 
  | 
X Japan | 
  | 
紅 (1989) [Single] | 
  | 
  | 
Heavy Metal, Progressive Metal, Power Metal | 
- | 
0 | 
  | 
Voivod | 
  | 
Nothingface (1989) | 
  | 
  | 
Thrash Metal, Progressive Metal | 
- | 
0 |