Best Metal Albums of 1988

Queensryche
Operation: Mindcrime

4.43
3196 votes

Iron Maiden
Seventh Son Of A Seventh Son

4.37
9921 votes

Bathory
Blood Fire Death

4.35
2994 votes

Voivod
Dimension Hatröss

4.32
1278 votes

Jason Becker
Perpetual Burn

4.32
506 votes

Crimson Glory
Transcendence

4.28
810 votes

Doom (JPN)
Killing Field

4.26
34 votes

Helloween
Keeper Of The Seven Keys Part II

4.25
1790 votes

Steve Roach
Dreamtime Return

4.25
97 votes

Razor
Violent Restitution

4.23
482 votes

Saint
Too Late For Living

4.22
18 votes

Flotsam and Jetsam
No Place for Disgrace

4.22
780 votes

King Diamond
''Them''

4.21
1746 votes

Metallica
...And Justice For All

4.2
14668 votes

Riot
Thundersteel

4.19
388 votes

Running Wild
Port Royal

4.18
627 votes

Testament
The New Order

4.18
3915 votes

Sadus
Illusions

4.17
933 votes

Immolation
88 Demo

4.17
24 votes

Deathrow
Deception Ignored

4.16
256 votes

Doom (JPN)
Complicated Mind

4.16
50 votes

Dark Quarterer
The Etruscan Prophecy

4.14
42 votes

Aria (RUS)
Hero of Asphalt

4.14
28 votes

Marty Friedman
Dragon's Kiss

4.14
250 votes

Genocidio (BRA)
Genocidio

4.13
16 votes

Coroner
Punishment For Decadence

4.12
1080 votes

Slayer
South Of Heaven

4.12
6472 votes

Anthem
Gypsy Ways

4.11
46 votes

Reagan Youth
Volume One

4.11
42 votes

Infest
Infest

4.11
33 votes

Death
Leprosy

4.1
7554 votes

Helstar
A Distant Thunder

4.1
249 votes

Target (BE)
Master Project Genesis

4.09
94 votes

Num Skull
Ritually Abused

4.07
126 votes

Sacred Warrior
Rebellion

4.07
14 votes

Forbidden
Forbidden Evil

4.07
298 votes

Vio-Lence
Eternal Nightmare

4.06
397 votes

Mekong Delta
The Music of Erich Zann

4.06
252 votes

Adramelch
Irae Melanox

4.05
80 votes

X Japan
Vanishing Vision

4.04
624 votes

Crumbsuckers
Beast on My Back

4.04
28 votes

Realm
Endless War

4.03
309 votes

Holy Terror
Mind Wars

4.03
198 votes

Pestilence
Malleus Maleficarum

4.02
1296 votes

Godflesh
Godflesh

4.01
468 votes

Napalm Death
From Enslavement to Obliteration

4.01
731 votes

Kat
Oddech Wymarłych Światów

4.01
132 votes

Suicidal Tendencies
How Will I Laugh Tomorrow If I Can't Even Smile Today?

4.01
361 votes

Tarot
Follow Me into Madness

4
51 votes

Hittman
Hittman

4
30 votes

Rata Blanca
Rata Blanca

4
24 votes

Sacred Reich
Surf Nicaragua

3.99
210 votes

Sabbat (UK)
History of a Time to Come

3.99
202 votes

Living Colour
Vivid

3.99
326 votes

Liege Lord
Master Control

3.99
252 votes

Nuclear Assault
Survive

3.98
269 votes

King's X
Out of the Silent Planet

3.97
150 votes

Candlemass
Ancient Dreams

3.97
774 votes

Scanner
Hypertrace

3.96
60 votes

Stone
Stone

3.96
36 votes

Barren Cross
Atomic Arena

3.95
22 votes

Danzig
Danzig

3.95
1610 votes

Rigor Mortis
Rigor Mortis

3.95
184 votes

Vendetta
Brain Damage

3.95
49 votes

Nurse With Wound
Soliloquy For Lilith

3.94
49 votes

Cacophony
Go Off!

3.93
202 votes

Ministry
The Land of Rape and Honey

3.92
1048 votes

Infest
Slave

3.92
108 votes

Hexenhaus
A Tribute to Insanity

3.91
106 votes

Zed Yago
From Over Yonder

3.9
16 votes

Vengeance Rising
Human Sacrifice

3.89
56 votes

Tankard
The Morning After

3.89
98 votes

Sieges Even
Life Cycle

3.87
110 votes

Treblinka
Crawling In Vomits

3.86
28 votes

Morbid Saint
Lock Up Your Children (Demo)

3.86
28 votes

Saint Vitus
Mournful Cries

3.86
314 votes

Znowhite
Act Of God

3.85
132 votes

Blood Spill
Demo

3.83
18 votes

Yngwie Malmsteen
Odyssey

3.83
340 votes

Death SS
... In Death of Steve Sylvester

3.82
93 votes

Darkthrone
A New Dimension

3.81
80 votes

Deathwish
Demon Preacher

3.81
72 votes

Attacker
The Second Coming

3.81
48 votes

Screamer (USA-WI)
Target Earth

3.81
16 votes

Deviated Instinct
Rock N' Roll Conformity

3.81
16 votes

Nocturnus
The Science Of Horror

3.79
14 votes

Overkill
Under the Influence

3.78
866 votes

Wargasm (USA-MA)
Why Play Around?

3.76
23 votes

Manowar
Kings Of Metal

3.76
1221 votes

Loudness
Jealousy

3.75
24 votes

Drive
Characters in Time

3.75
18 votes

Nihilist
Premature Autopsy

3.74
29 votes

Raven
Nothing Exceeds Like Excess

3.74
50 votes

The Accused
Martha Splatterhead's Maddest Stories Ever Told

3.74
25 votes

Vinnie Moore
Time Odyssey

3.73
26 votes

Cinderella
Long Cold Winter

3.73
155 votes

Rage
Perfect Man

3.72
100 votes

Goatlord
Sodomize the Goat

3.72
27 votes

Mephisto
Mephisto

3.71
14 votes

Anacrusis
Suffering Hour

3.71
310 votes

Flames
Summon the Dead

3.71
24 votes

Hallows Eve
Monument

3.71
34 votes

Brocas Helm
Black Death

3.71
78 votes

Manilla Road
Out of the Abyss

3.7
183 votes

D.R.I.
4 of a Kind

3.7
125 votes

Impellitteri
Stand In Line

3.69
26 votes

Megadeth
So Far, So Good... So What!

3.68
7197 votes

Despair
History of Hate

3.67
30 votes

Ludichrist
Powertrip

3.67
15 votes

Atrophy
Socialized Hate

3.66
59 votes

Heretic
Breaking Point

3.66
48 votes

Grave
Sick Disgust Eternal

3.65
13 votes

Nasty Savage
Abstract Reality

3.65
60 votes

Hexx
Quest For Sanity

3.64
21 votes

Virgin Steele
Age Of Consent

3.64
122 votes

Wehrmacht
Biermacht

3.64
29 votes

Protector
Golem

3.63
104 votes

Blue Oyster Cult
Imaginos

3.63
122 votes

Aggression (CAN)
The Full Treatment

3.63
16 votes

Prong
Force Fed

3.62
59 votes

Exciter
Exciter

3.62
51 votes

Apocalypse
Apocalypse

3.62
17 votes

U.D.O.
Mean Machine

3.61
72 votes

Powermad
The Madness Begins

3.61
18 votes

Napalm Death
The Curse

3.61
32 votes

Autopsy
Critical Madness demo

3.61
46 votes

Xandril
Perfect Darkness

3.6
15 votes

Angel Dust
To Dust You Will Decay

3.58
90 votes

Bolt Thrower
In Battle There Is No Law!

3.58
584 votes

Guns N' Roses
Live from the Jungle

3.58
20 votes

Demolition Hammer
Skull Fracturing Nightmare [Demo]

3.57
42 votes

Meliah Rage
Kill to Survive

3.57
42 votes

Artch
Another Return

3.56
24 votes

Dead End
Shambara

3.56
18 votes

Blind Illusion
The Sane Asylum

3.55
128 votes

Chastain
The Voice of the Cult

3.54
39 votes

Assassin
Interstellar Experience

3.53
44 votes

Hobbs' Angel of Death
Hobbs' Angel of Death

3.53
33 votes

Ozzy Osbourne
No Rest For The Wicked

3.53
1032 votes

Blind Guardian
Battalions Of Fear

3.53
1560 votes

Pariah (UK1)
The Kindred

3.5
36 votes

Seikima-II
The Outer Mission

3.5
18 votes

Hydra Vein
Rather Death Than False of Faith

3.5
14 votes

Deadly Blessing
Ascend From The Cauldron

3.48
39 votes

Hades
If At First You Don't Succeed

3.48
22 votes

Vinnie Vincent Invasion
All Systems Go

3.48
25 votes

Mutilator
Into the Strange

3.46
24 votes

Atheist
Beyond '88 Demo

3.46
70 votes

King Diamond
The Dark Sides

3.45
66 votes

Scorpions
Savage Amusement

3.45
197 votes

Anthrax
State Of Euphoria

3.44
1780 votes

Outrage (JPN)
Black Clouds

3.43
28 votes

Dismember
Dismembered

3.43
28 votes

At War
Retaliatory Strike

3.42
13 votes

Meanstreak
Roadkill

3.42
24 votes

Bolt Thrower
The Peel Sessions

3.41
34 votes

Kreator
Out of the Dark... Into the Light

3.41
130 votes

Front Line Assembly
State of Mind

3.4
43 votes

Ripping Corpse
Splattered Remains

3.4
15 votes

Imperator
Eternal Might

3.39
18 votes

Skullflower
Birthdeath

3.38
13 votes

Cloven Hoof
Dominator

3.38
75 votes

Lita Ford
Lita

3.37
36 votes

Carcass
Reek of Putrefaction

3.37
1552 votes

Guns N' Roses
G N' R Lies

3.36
942 votes

Bulldozer
Neurodeliri

3.35
81 votes

Stryper
In God We Trust

3.32
165 votes

Sabbat
Desecration

3.31
16 votes

Mr. Bungle
Goddammit I Love America!!!$ɫ!!

3.31
77 votes

Soundgarden
Ultramega OK

3.29
707 votes

Viking
Do Or Die

3.27
26 votes

Heathen
Demo with Paul Baloff

3.25
16 votes

GWAR
Hell-O

3.22
186 votes

Ratt
Reach For The Sky

3.13
105 votes

Darkthrone
Land of Frost

3.08
86 votes

M.O.D.
Surfin' M.O.D.

3.08
20 votes

Anvil
Pound For Pound

3.07
96 votes

Judas Priest
Ram It Down

3.07
1688 votes

Killing Joke
Outside The Gate

3.03
99 votes

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