Collector's Guide to Heavy Metal Vol. 2: The Eighties Book. Comprised of 2,528 reviews and spanning 428 pages, this book is your 80s heavy metal review bible.
 
Only albums officially issued in the years 1980 to 1989 were eligible for review. Wholesale rewriting and re-evaluation of reviews that were in the 1997 sourcebook, The Collector’s Guide To Heavy Metal, were undertaken, with approximately half the reviews being all new, many to complete catalogues, many more, reviews of ultra-rarities. 

 To give you an idea of what’s in the thing, the letters C and G consists of 202 reviews, mostly full catalogues, covering Cacophony, Cacumen, Robert Calvert, Candlemass, Candy Roxx, Canedy, Feinstein, Bordonardo & Caudle, Cannon, Carcass, Carnage, Carrie, Carrion, Castle Blak, Celtic Frost, Centurion, Cerebus, Chainsaw, Chariot, Chasar, Chastain, David T. Chastain, Cheap Trick, Cheater, Cheetah, Chequered Past, China Sky, Chinatown, China White, Chrome Molly, Chyld, Cinderella, Cintron, Circus Of Power, Cirith Ungol, Cities, CJSS, Clientelle, Cloven Hoof, Cobra (2), Commander, Coney Hatch, Convict, The Sterling Cooke Force, Alice Cooper, Coroner, Corrosion Of Conformity, Coven, Randy Coven, Jess Cox, Craaft, Crack Jaw, The Creek, Crimson Glory, Crisis Party, Peter Criss, The Cross, Crossfire, Crucifixion, Crumbsuckers, Crying Steel, Crypt, Crysis, Crystal Knight, Culprit, The Cult, Curious George, Cutty Sark, Cyanide, Cyclone and for G, Gamma Gammacide, Gargoyle, Gaskin, GBH, Geddes Axe, Genocide, G-Force, Ghandi, Giant, Gilgamesh, Ian Gillan & Roger Glover, Gillan, The Pauline Gillan Band, Girl, Girlschool, Giuffria, Glacier, Glory Bell’s Band, Roger Glover, Goddo, Godflesh, The Godz, Gogmagog, Gotham City, Gothic Slam, Grave Digger, Gravestone, Great White, Green River, Greenway, Gregory’s Funhouse, Griffin, Grim Reaper, Grinder, Guillotine, Gunfire and Guns N’ Roses.