Best Metal Albums of 1988

Queensryche
Operation: Mindcrime

4.44
3188 votes

Iron Maiden
Seventh Son Of A Seventh Son

4.37
9900 votes

Bathory
Blood Fire Death

4.35
2978 votes

Voivod
Dimension Hatröss

4.32
1266 votes

Jason Becker
Perpetual Burn

4.32
506 votes

Crimson Glory
Transcendence

4.28
807 votes

Doom (JPN)
Killing Field

4.26
34 votes

Steve Roach
Dreamtime Return

4.25
97 votes

Helloween
Keeper Of The Seven Keys Part II

4.25
1788 votes

Razor
Violent Restitution

4.23
480 votes

Doom (JPN)
Complicated Mind

4.23
48 votes

Saint
Too Late For Living

4.22
18 votes

Flotsam and Jetsam
No Place for Disgrace

4.22
777 votes

King Diamond
"Them"

4.21
1737 votes

Metallica
...And Justice For All

4.2
14672 votes

Riot
Thundersteel

4.19
388 votes

Running Wild
Port Royal

4.18
412 votes

Immolation
88 Demo

4.18
22 votes

Testament
The New Order

4.18
3882 votes

Sadus
Illusions

4.17
933 votes

Deathrow
Deception Ignored

4.17
254 votes

Sacred Warrior
Rebellion

4.17
18 votes

Dark Quarterer
The Etruscan Prophecy

4.16
38 votes

Aria (RUS)
Hero of Asphalt

4.15
26 votes

Target (BE)
Master Project Genesis

4.13
90 votes

Marty Friedman
Dragon's Kiss

4.13
248 votes

Coroner
Punishment For Decadence

4.13
1066 votes

Genocidio (BRA)
Genocidio

4.13
16 votes

Slayer
South Of Heaven

4.12
6462 votes

Anthem
Gypsy Ways

4.12
42 votes

Reagan Youth
Volume One

4.11
42 votes

Infest
Infest

4.1
30 votes

Death
Leprosy

4.1
7530 votes

Helstar
A Distant Thunder

4.1
249 votes

Forbidden
Forbidden Evil

4.07
297 votes

Vio-Lence
Eternal Nightmare

4.06
396 votes

Mekong Delta
The Music of Erich Zann

4.06
252 votes

Num Skull
Ritually Abused

4.06
124 votes

Adramelch
Irae Melanox

4.05
80 votes

X Japan
Vanishing Vision

4.04
621 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
1287 votes

Kat
Oddech Wymarłych Światów

4.01
132 votes

Napalm Death
From Enslavement to Obliteration

4.01
729 votes

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

4.01
361 votes

Godflesh
Godflesh

4.01
464 votes

Tarot
Follow Me Into Madness

4
51 votes

Hittman
Hittman

4
30 votes

Rata Blanca
Rata Blanca

4
24 votes

Sabbat (UK)
History of a Time to Come

4
200 votes

Liege Lord
Master Control

3.99
162 votes

Sacred Reich
Surf Nicaragua

3.99
210 votes

Living Colour
Vivid

3.99
323 votes

Nuclear Assault
Survive

3.98
270 votes

King's X
Out of the Silent Planet

3.97
147 votes

Scanner
Hypertrace

3.97
60 votes

Candlemass
Ancient Dreams

3.96
768 votes

Vendetta
Brain Damage

3.96
48 votes

Stone
Stone

3.96
36 votes

Barren Cross
Atomic Arena

3.95
22 votes

Danzig
Danzig

3.95
1606 votes

Rigor Mortis
Rigor Mortis

3.95
184 votes

Nurse With Wound
Soliloquy For Lilith

3.95
48 votes

Ministry
The Land of Rape and Honey

3.93
1044 votes

Treblinka
Crawling In Vomits

3.92
26 votes

Cacophony
Go Off!

3.92
202 votes

Infest
Slave

3.91
107 votes

Hexenhaus
A Tribute to Insanity

3.91
106 votes

Zed Yago
From Over Yonder

3.9
16 votes

Sword
Sweet Dreams

3.9
20 votes

Tankard
The Morning After

3.89
99 votes

Sieges Even
Life Cycle

3.87
110 votes

Saint Vitus
Mournful Cries

3.86
310 votes

Morbid Saint
Lock Up Your Children (Demo)

3.86
28 votes

Znowhite
Act Of God

3.85
132 votes

Vengeance Rising
Human Sacrifice

3.85
54 votes

Flames
Summon the Dead

3.85
20 votes

Blood Spill
Demo

3.83
18 votes

Deathwish
Demon Preacher

3.83
69 votes

Yngwie Malmsteen
Odyssey

3.82
336 votes

Darkthrone
A New Dimension

3.81
80 votes

Goatlord
Sodomize the Goat

3.81
24 votes

Deviated Instinct
Rock N' Roll Conformity

3.81
16 votes

Screamer (USA-WI)
Target Earth

3.79
14 votes

Nocturnus
The Science Of Horror

3.79
14 votes

Overkill
Under the Influence

3.78
862 votes

Nihilist
Premature Autopsy

3.77
28 votes

Attacker
The Second Coming

3.77
45 votes

Wargasm
Why Play Around?

3.76
21 votes

Death SS
... In Death of Steve Sylvester

3.76
60 votes

Manowar
Kings Of Metal

3.76
1215 votes

Loudness
Jealousy

3.75
36 votes

Raven
Nothing Exceeds Like Excess

3.74
50 votes

The Accused
Martha Splatterhead's Maddest Stories Ever Told

3.74
25 votes

Rage
Perfect Man

3.73
100 votes

Brocas Helm
Black Death

3.73
74 votes

Cinderella
Long Cold Winter

3.72
156 votes

Hallows Eve
Monument

3.72
32 votes

Anacrusis
Suffering Hour

3.71
308 votes

Ludichrist
Powertrip

3.71
14 votes

Mephisto
Mephisto

3.71
14 votes

Vinnie Moore
Time Odyssey

3.71
26 votes

Manilla Road
Out of the Abyss

3.7
180 votes

D.R.I.
4 of a Kind

3.69
125 votes

Impellitteri
Stand In Line

3.69
26 votes

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

3.68
7158 votes

Despair
History of Hate

3.67
30 votes

Drive
Characters in Time

3.67
18 votes

Atrophy
Socialized Hate

3.66
57 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

Aggression (CAN)
The Full Treatment

3.64
14 votes

Virgin Steele
Age Of Consent

3.64
122 votes

Protector
Golem

3.63
104 votes

Blue Oyster Cult
Imaginos

3.63
122 votes

Apocalypse
Apocalypse

3.62
17 votes

U.D.O.
Mean Machine

3.61
72 votes

Powermad
The Madness Begins

3.61
18 votes

Prong
Force Fed

3.61
59 votes

Napalm Death
The Curse

3.61
32 votes

Autopsy
Critical Madness demo

3.61
46 votes

Wehrmacht
Biermacht

3.59
27 votes

Angel Dust
To Dust You Will Decay

3.58
90 votes

Bolt Thrower
In Battle There Is No Law!

3.58
578 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

Exciter
Exciter

3.56
48 votes

Artch
Another Return

3.56
24 votes

Dead End
Shambara

3.56
18 votes

Blind Illusion
The Sane Asylum

3.55
126 votes

Assassin
Interstellar Experience

3.53
44 votes

Hobbs' Angel of Death
Hobbs' Angel of Death

3.53
33 votes

Blind Guardian
Battalions Of Fear

3.53
1551 votes

Ozzy Osbourne
No Rest For The Wicked

3.52
1030 votes

Chastain
The Voice of the Cult

3.5
39 votes

Pariah (UK1)
The Kindred

3.5
33 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

3.46
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
195 votes

Anthrax
State Of Euphoria

3.45
1780 votes

Outrage (JPN)
Black Clouds

3.42
26 votes

Dismember
Dismembered

3.42
26 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

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

Guns N' Roses
G N' R Lies

3.36
942 votes

Carcass
Reek of Putrefaction

3.36
1538 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
704 votes

Winger
Winger

3.28
129 votes

Heathen
Demo with Paul Baloff

3.25
16 votes

GWAR
Hell-O

3.24
184 votes

Viking
Do Or Die

3.21
24 votes

Ratt
Reach For The Sky

3.13
106 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
1678 votes

Killing Joke
Outside The Gate

3.02
97 votes

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