Best Metal Albums of 1986

Metallica
Master of Puppets

4.45
17944 votes

Candlemass
Epicus Doomicus Metallicus

4.38
2248 votes

Warlock
Fight For Rock

4.38
16 votes

Slayer
Reign In Blood

4.37
10318 votes

Saint
Time's End

4.3
20 votes

Megadeth
Peace Sells... But Who's Buying?

4.3
12282 votes

Vinnie Moore
Mind's Eye

4.25
144 votes

Iron Maiden
Somewhere In Time

4.24
9030 votes

Dark Angel
Darkness Descends

4.2
2028 votes

Sword
Metalized

4.2
82 votes

Kreator
Pleasure to Kill

4.19
2348 votes

Jag Panzer
Shadow Thief

4.19
16 votes

Fates Warning
Awaken the Guardian

4.18
1263 votes

Tarot
Spell of Iron

4.17
90 votes

Saint Vitus
Born Too Late

4.15
766 votes

ADX
La Terreur

4.14
14 votes

Seikima-II
End of the Century

4.13
30 votes

Queensryche
Rage For Order

4.13
1140 votes

Crimson Glory
Crimson Glory

4.13
579 votes

Dayglo Abortions
Feed Us A Fetus

4.13
20 votes

Manilla Road
The Deluge

4.11
387 votes

Flotsam and Jetsam
Doomsday for the Deceiver

4.11
927 votes

Onslaught
The Force

4.07
124 votes

Exumer
Possessed by Fire

4.04
194 votes

Sadus
Death to Posers

4.04
84 votes

Seikima-II
From Hell with Love

4.03
30 votes

The Accused
The Return of... Martha Splatterhead

4.01
34 votes

Henry Flynt
You Are My Everlovin' / Celestial Power

4.01
40 votes

Merzbow
Antimonument

4
16 votes

Kreator
Flag of Hate

3.98
286 votes

Cro-Mags
The Age of Quarrel

3.98
307 votes

Turbo
Kawaleria Szatana

3.97
108 votes

English Dogs
Forward into Battle

3.97
36 votes

Helstar
Remnants of War

3.97
192 votes

Loudness
Shadows of War

3.97
48 votes

Metal Church
The Dark

3.97
810 votes

Fifth Angel
Fifth Angel

3.97
58 votes

Sacred Blade
Of the Sun + Moon

3.96
56 votes

Destruction
Eternal Devastation

3.96
728 votes

Nuclear Assault
Game Over

3.93
313 votes

Tension
Breaking Point

3.93
21 votes

Yngwie Malmsteen
Trilogy

3.92
448 votes

Killing Joke
Brighter Than a Thousand Suns

3.92
154 votes

Nurse With Wound
Spiral Insana

3.92
31 votes

Have Mercy (Thrash)
Armageddon Descends

3.92
18 votes

Tankard
Zombie Attack

3.92
130 votes

Chastain
Ruler of the Wasteland

3.91
51 votes

Pokolgep
Totalis metal

3.9
15 votes

Mentors
Up the Dose

3.89
38 votes

Dead End
Dead Line

3.89
18 votes

King Diamond
Fatal Portrait

3.88
1113 votes

Griffin (USA-CA)
Protectors of the Lair

3.88
24 votes

Revolting Cocks
Big Sexy Land

3.87
26 votes

Kat
666

3.86
75 votes

Stryper
To Hell With The Devil

3.86
300 votes

Cryptic Slaughter
Convicted

3.85
95 votes

Omen
The Curse

3.84
64 votes

Anthem
Tightrope

3.84
32 votes

Slaughter Lord
Taste of Blood

3.82
51 votes

Sortilege
Larmes de héros

3.81
54 votes

Stormwitch
Stronger Than Heaven

3.81
48 votes

M.A.R.S.
Project: Driver

3.81
39 votes

Hirax
Hate, Fear And Power

3.8
41 votes

Nuclear Assault
Brain Death

3.8
25 votes

Post Mortem
Coroner's Office

3.8
20 votes

Coven 6669
Blessed is the Black

3.8
15 votes

Savage Grace
After The Fall From Grace

3.8
15 votes

Heir Apparent
Graceful Inheritance

3.79
129 votes

Hellwitch
Transgressive Sentience

3.79
21 votes

Lords Of The Crimson Alliance
Lords Of The Crimson Alliance

3.79
14 votes

Hexx
Under the Spell

3.78
69 votes

Angel Dust
Into The Dark Past

3.78
150 votes

Vulcano
Bloody Vengeance

3.76
216 votes

Holy Moses
Queen Of Siam

3.76
110 votes

Virgin Steele
Noble Savage

3.75
110 votes

Exorcist (USA-NY)
Nightmare Theatre

3.74
57 votes

Motorhead
Orgasmatron

3.73
402 votes

Racer X
Street Lethal

3.73
276 votes

Ludichrist
Immaculate Deception

3.73
20 votes

Lustmord
Paradise Disowned

3.73
20 votes

Fastway
Trick or Treat

3.7
15 votes

Crumbsuckers
Life of Dreams

3.69
27 votes

Razor
Malicious Intent

3.68
196 votes

Satan's Host
Metal from Hell

3.68
42 votes

Celtic Frost
Tragic Serenades

3.67
123 votes

Nuclear Death
Wake Me When I'm Dead

3.67
24 votes

Vinnie Vincent Invasion
Vinnie Vincent Invasion

3.67
21 votes

Cirith Ungol
One Foot in Hell

3.64
207 votes

Elixir
The Son of Odin

3.64
28 votes

At War
Ordered to Kill

3.63
19 votes

Carnivore
Carnivore

3.62
172 votes

Warlock
True As Steel

3.61
76 votes

Deathrow
Riders of Doom

3.6
86 votes

Sinner
Comin' Out Fighting

3.6
30 votes

Annihilator
Phantasmagoria

3.6
15 votes

Sodom
Obsessed By Cruelty

3.59
1326 votes

Messiah
Hymn to Abramelin

3.58
72 votes

Dio
The Dio E.P.

3.58
18 votes

Loudness
Lightning Strikes

3.57
108 votes

Helloween
Judas

3.55
56 votes

Great White
Shot in the Dark

3.55
20 votes

Exciter
Unveiling The Wicked

3.54
69 votes

Assassin
The Upcoming Terror

3.52
63 votes

Death
Mutilation

3.52
192 votes

Detente
Recognize No Authority

3.52
24 votes

Coroner
Death Cult [Demo]

3.51
98 votes

Guns N' Roses
Live Like a Suicide

3.5
117 votes

Sentinel Beast
Depths of Death

3.5
26 votes

Siren
No Place Like Home

3.5
24 votes

Bloodgood
Bloodgood

3.5
18 votes

Ratt
Dancing Undercover

3.49
140 votes

Agent Steel
Mad Locust Rising

3.48
25 votes

Hallows Eve
Death & Insanity

3.48
44 votes

Accept
Russian Roulette

3.47
372 votes

Gang Green
Another Wasted Night

3.46
28 votes

Heathen
Pray for Death

3.45
20 votes

Mefisto
Megalomania (demo)

3.43
14 votes

Sacred Reich
Draining You of Life

3.43
14 votes

Possessed
Beyond the Gates

3.42
512 votes

Paul Chain
In the Darkness

3.42
13 votes

Juggernaut (USA-TX)
Baptism Under Fire

3.41
33 votes

Accept
Kaizoku-Ban

3.41
32 votes

Bulldozer
The Final Separation

3.4
75 votes

Damien Thorne
The Sign of the Jackal

3.4
15 votes

Sepultura
Morbid Visions

3.38
1364 votes

Emerald
Armed for Battle

3.38
24 votes

Lizzy Borden
Menace To Society

3.37
38 votes

Ozzy Osbourne
The Ultimate Sin

3.36
1156 votes

Cyclone
Brutal Destruction

3.36
21 votes

Voivod
RRRÖÖÖAAARRR

3.34
598 votes

Rage
Reign of Fear

3.33
88 votes

W.A.S.P.
Inside The Electric Circus

3.32
170 votes

Ministry
Twitch

3.32
550 votes

Morbid Angel
Scream Forth Blasphemies

3.23
44 votes

Alice Cooper
Constrictor

3.22
216 votes

Death Angel
Kill as One

3.22
32 votes

Gore
Hart Gore

3.21
14 votes

Mr. Bungle
The Raging Wrath of the Easter Bunny

3.17
96 votes

Iron Angel
Winds Of War

3.17
18 votes

NME
Unholy Death

3.14
28 votes

Massacre
Chamber Of Ages (Demo)

3.14
28 votes

Twisted Sister
Come Out And Play

3.14
95 votes

Morbid Angel
Bleed for the Devil

3.14
22 votes

Grave Digger
War Games

3.13
78 votes

Keel
The Final Frontier

3.13
16 votes

Warfare
Mayhem, Fuckin' Mayhem

3.06
16 votes

Quiet Riot
Quiet Riot III

3.03
66 votes

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