[VikingLunarLander]

Well taking the exemple of the scene from my own country there are/have been lots of excellent heavy/speed metal from the 80s and on : ADX, Sortilège, Vulcain, Satan Jokers, Blasphème being the most known abroad (at least as far as I know), with lots of others worthy (Killers, Charter, Voodoo Child, Excalibur, Titan, Attentat Rock, H-Bomb etc). Now I know that there were also such bands in Italy for exemple (although in a more sophisticated and Doom approach : Dark Quarterer, Black Hole etc). I figure this must be also the case in many others countries, with bands potentially famous and that have achieved a cult status there but that failed to get popular in the rest of the world.

So what I'm looking for are 80s bands playing classic metal from lesser known countries. By lesser known countries I'm not asking you to find bands from the most deliberately "obscure" parts of the world, but most of all countries NOT known for their trad metal scene : Spain, Greece etc.

[DEVORADOR DE PLAGAS]

Spanish scene of heavy metal was (and still is) a stinky piece of shit. Check out Barón Rojo (first 3 albums are masterpieces), Santa, Banzai debut (although I think that this is not easy to like if you're not a spaniard) and some albums of Ángeles del Infierno (e.g. Diabolicca). Most of the rest are pure crap.

This video is so fucking great:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WoKzxqhDdrs

[Stalinorgel]

Somehow, Switzerland never really had something like this. There was normal Heavy Rock like Krokus or Killers and then a quantum leap to Celtic Frost, Messiah etc.

[Mental Funeral]

Spanish cult...

Besides the mandatory bands told by DEVORADOR THE PLAGAS, check out these:

GOLIATH - Drácula (early Maiden worship)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ugL9byTnsJk

OBÚS - Pesadilla Nuclear (Motörhead tupa tupa)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u3UP9vCJZKo

CROM - King of Kings (Manowar meets Speed Metal)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ugJOo_nfP08

EVO - Animal de Ciudad (Barcelona Street Metal)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8mRKu6Zj53E

And many more... caspa rules.
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[barney]

From Spain, there were a few killer bands that have been mentioned above, and tons of shit.

I need to add these bands:

PEDRO BOTERO (their first 2 albums were great heavy metal, later the turn into a more hard rock direction): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OzX3W4gbPZE

PANZER (Traditional heavy metal): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GQV3IAZUs0Q

SOBREDOSIS (Traditional heavy metal): http://youtu.be/94I-mzt9I68

MURO (Speed metal war): http://youtu.be/lUMdvBoUnac

LEIZE(Traditional heavy metal): http://youtu.be/Z-s58b_6XYw

THOR (Traditional/Power Metal): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h3Z0QgjEbGQ

ZARPA (Great heavy metal that still alive and doing it great!): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KtL5HOqPcko
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[Final Holocaust]

LEÑO will always be the best Spanish band ever, don't doubt it for a second... debut album was really Black Sabbath fueled and with some galloping bass which had inspired Steve Harris for sure: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SoKBGszlPfk

2nd and 3rd ones were a tiny bit cheesier but still brilliant, some of their bleak and despairful tunes like "Insisto" and "Qué desilusión" are still some of the best songs ever recorded.
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[DEVORADOR DE PLAGAS]

Sorry mate but I think that LEÑO is not HEAVY enough to be considered METAL, although their debut is masterpiece, that's sure! If we talk about Leño then we have to talk about ÑU (after all, El Tren is a Ñu song). First album is a brilliant opus of proggresive (only a bit) hard rock.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KPy-gDpzni4

[VikingLunarLander]

Ahah I had no idea there was such a Spanish mafia here.

I was really interested in hearing what metal sung in Latin languages other than French sounded like. Strange but most of this Spanish stuff sounds really weird even when the music is actually killer (MURO-Telon de Acero). I know that language barrier was one reason French scene didn't get huge in the 80s but it seems to exist even within different Latin countries, not only between latin/ anglo-saxon groups.

[Mental Funeral]

[Final Holocaust]

Well, everything is so relative man! I've always considered that if their instrumental acoustic called "Se acabó" had made it onto a black metal interlude lots of elite warriors would wear Leño patches instead of Alcest ones!

If it's SPANISH HEAVY METAL what we are talking about you cannot consider yerself true enough until you have tasted the true cult of steel: Veterano, Soberano, Carlos III and Terry Centenario.
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[DEVORADOR DE PLAGAS]

CROM pronunciation is KVLT!!!!

Sure about the different flavours of latin languages, I remember when I was a teenager and heard first time Trust's Antisocial, I was totally like 'what the fuck is this ???' even if I could read some french.

[VikingLunarLander]

[Haunt In The Dark]

First listen to this intro: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lm5MVYtC8S0 and then to this one: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wiDRtEVivGo .

That's how good and influential the French scene was.