1987 - Heavy Metal! THE POLL

Accuser - The Conviction
Aerosmith - Permanent Vacation
Agent Steel - Unstoppable Force
Alice Cooper - Raise Your Fist and Yell
Anthem - Bound to Break
Anthrax - Among the Living
Anthrax - I'm the Man (EP)
Anvil - Strength Of Steel
Armored Saint - Raising Fear
Artillery - Terror Squad
Black Sabbath - The Eternal Idol
Blind Guardian - Battalions of Fear
Bloodgood - Detonation
Cacophony - Speed Metal Symphony
California Metal (Barren Cross, Guadian, Neon Cross, Deliverance, Mastedon, Hero)
Candlemass - Nightfall
Carnivore - Retaliation
Celtic Frost - Into the Pandemonium
Coroner - R.I.P.
Corrosion of Conformity - Technocracy
D.R.I. - Crossover
Death - Scream Bloody Gore
Death Angel - The Ultra-Violence
Def Leppard - Hysteria
Destruction - Mad Butcher
Dio - Dream Evil
Digger - Stronger than Ever
Dokken - Back For The Attack
Excel - Split Image
Exodus- Pleasures of the Flesh
EZO - s/t
Faster Pu$$ycat - s/t
Frehley's Comet - s/t
Great White - Recovery - Live On Your Knees
Great White - Once Bitten...
Grim Reaper - Rock You To Hell
Guns N' Roses - Appetite for Destruction
Heathen - Breaking the Silence
Helix - Wild In The Streets
Helloween - Keeper Of The Seven Keys Part 1
Hirax - Not Dead Yet
Hurricane - Over the Top
Intruder - Live to Die
Impellitteri - s/t (EP)
Holy Moses - Finished with the Dog
Jerusalem - Dancing on the Head of the Serpent
John Norum - Total Control
Joe Satriani - Surfing with the Alien
Joey Tafolla - Out Of The Sun
Judas Priest - Priest...Live!
Juggernaut - Trouble Within
Kane Roberts - s/t
Keel - Keel
King Diamond - Abigail
Kiss - Crazy Nights
Kreator - Terrible Certainty
Kublai Khan - Annihilation
Lääz Rockit - Know Your Enemy
Liege Lord - Burn to my Touch
Leviticus - Setting Fire to the Earth
Living Death - Protected From Reality
Lizzy Borden - Terror Rising (EP)
Lizzy Borden - Visual Lies
Loudness - Hurricane Eyes
Tony MacAlpine - Maximum Security
Malice - License to Kill
Manowar - Fighting the World
Master - s/t
Medieval - Medieval Kills!
Mekong Delta - s/t
Mercyful Fate - The Beginning
Messiah Force - The Last Day
McAuley Schenker Group - Perfect Timing
Metallica - The $5.98 E.P.: Garage Days Re-Revisited
Mötley Crüe - Girls, Girls, Girls
Motörhead - Rock 'n' Roll
Napalm Death - Scum
Nasty Savage - Indulgence (EP)
Nuclear Assault - The Plage (EP)
Obsession - Methods of Madness
Omen - Nightmares (EP)
Onlsaught - Let there Be Rock (EP)
Ozzy Osbourne - Tribute
Overkill - Taking Over
Paradox - Product of Imagination
Possessed - The Eyes of Horror (EP)
Pretty Maids - Future World
Prong - Force Fed
Rage - Execution Guaranteed
Raven - Life's A Bi+ch
Running Wild - Under Jolly Roger
Rush - Hold Your Fire
Sacred Reich - Ignorance
Sacred Reich - Surf Nicaragua (EP)
Sacrifice - Forward to Termination
Saint Vitus - Born Too Late
Sanctuary - Refuge Denied
Savage Grace - Ride Into the Night (EP)
Savatage - Hall of the Mountain King
Seikima-II - Big Time Changes
Sepultura - Schizophrenia
Shout - It Won't Be Long
Shy - Excess All Areas
Silent Rage - Shattered Hearts
Sinner - Dangerous Charm
Sodom - Persecution Mania
Stryken - First Strike
Suicidal Tendencies - "Join The Army"
Sword - Metalized
Tank - s/t
Tankard - Chemical Invasion
Target - Mission Executed
Tempest - A Coming Storm
Testament - The Legacy
Testament - Live At Eindhoven (EP)
The Cult - Electric
The Great Kat - Worship Me or Die!
Thor - The Edge of Hell
Thunder Rider - Tales of Darkness & Light
Tigertailz - Young And Crazy
Toxik - World Circus
TNT - Tell No Tales
Trouble - Run to the Light
Twisted Sister - Love Is For Suckers
Tygers Of Pan Tang - Burning in the Shade
U.D.O. - Animal House
Venom - Calm Before the Storm
Victory - Hungry Hearts
Viper - Soldiers of Sunrise
Voivod - Killing Technology
Vow Wow - V
Warfare - Mayhem F*ckin' Mayhem
Warlock - Triumph And Agony
Watchman - Fear No Evil
W.A.S.P. - Live...In the Raw
Whiplash - Ticket to Mayhem
Whitecross - s/t
White Lion - Pride
Whitesnake - Whitesnake
Wild Dogs - Reign Of Terror
Y&T - Contagious
Zoetrope - A Life Of Crime
Zodiac Mindwarp - Tattooed Beat Messiah

Sepultura - Schizophrenia, Celtic Frost - Into the Pandemonium, Napalm Death - Scum, Death - Scream Bloody Gore, and the always forgotten Bathory - Under the Sign of the Black Mark.


from the poll i picked King Diamond - Abigail, but Scum was probably my fave of that year & one of my all time faves.

No contest for me, I am sure Savatage is going to win this poll, but for me and IMO the album and band that made the biggest impact IMo was Guns n Roses.

Voted for Sanctuary.Great Album.I almost went with Appetitte for Destruction.

GnR

It was a toss up with Savatage,Sanctuary and Helloween but in the end I chose Helloween

Some great albums in 1987!!!!! Also the year I graduated from High School. Some great stuff not on the poll - WhiteCross's debut, Bloodgood's second CD, Joe Satirani's Srufin. But, in the end had to go with one of my favorite albums of all time, Def Leppard's Hysteria. Laugh if you must, but it is a great album!!!!!

GnR, without question. I didn't even read the rest of the list.

I love HotMK but GnR changed the face of rock and put out one of the greatest rock albums of all times.

thejokeriv wrote:

But, in the end had to go with one of my favorite albums of all time, Def Leppard's Hysteria. Laugh if you must, but it is a great album!!!!!

I'm laughing.

Some damn fine picks in that list and I'm tempted to vote for Raven's LIFE'S A BEEYOTCH simply cuz they're my boys, but in 1987 the album that got the most play from me was definitely Dokken's BACK FOR THE ATTACK.

GNR's APPETITE was also a tempting pick but to be honest I didn't catch onto them till the album started catching fire about a year later, in '88.

Appetite

Guns N' Roses - Appetite for Destruction


I chose this over Helloween and Savatage.

GNR

Hall Of The Mountain with Abigail tailgating.

Appetite For Destruction

I voted for Dokken in the Poll. I was listening to a lot of Shrednel(Shrapnel) artists at the time and Surfing came out that year:

Joe Satriani - Surfing with the Alien
Tony MacAlpine - Maximum Security
Cacophony - Speed Metal Symphony
McAuley Schenker Group - Perfect Timing
John Norum - Total Control
The Cult - Electric

I voted for Savatage.

Guns N Roses - Appetite for Destruction

Def Leppard

fresh meat in GnR AfD.
but i think there are more good left, such as Alice C. Def., Whitesnake, Motley, Twisted,

From the poll.... G-n-R

Savatage and Sanctuary were constant plays for me that year, as was alot of christian stuff.

If Warlock would of been in the poll, they would of gotten my vote. I like alot of the tunes on "T-n-A"

Helloween for me