1987 - Heavy Metal! THE POLL

I picked Dio...but all these are good:

Agent Steel - Unstoppable Force
Anthrax - Among the Living
Armored Saint - Raising Fear
Black Sabbath - The Eternal Idol
Blind Guardian - Battalions of Fear
Bloodgood - Detonation
Cacophony - Speed Metal Symphony
Candlemass - Nightfall
Celtic Frost - Into the Pandemonium
Def Leppard - Hysteria
Dio - Dream Evil
Dokken - Back For The Attack
Frehley's Comet - s/t
Grim Reaper - Rock You To Hell
Hirax - Not Dead Yet
Impellitteri - s/t (EP)
John Norum - Total Control
Judas Priest - Priest...Live!
King Diamond - Abigail
Kiss - Crazy Nights
Liege Lord - Burn to my Touch
Lizzy Borden - Visual Lies
Tony MacAlpine - Maximum Security
Malice - License to Kill
Mercyful Fate - The Beginning
Metallica - The $5.98 E.P.: Garage Days Re-Revisited
Mötley Crüe - Girls, Girls, Girls
Obsession - Methods of Madness
Omen - Nightmares (EP)
Ozzy Osbourne - Tribute
Overkill - Taking Over
Pretty Maids - Future World
Rush - Hold Your Fire
Saint Vitus - Born Too Late
Sanctuary - Refuge Denied
Savatage - Hall of the Mountain King
Shout - It Won't Be Long
Shy - Excess All Areas
Testament - The Legacy
Testament - Live At Eindhoven (EP)
The Cult - Electric
Toxik - World Circus
TNT - Tell No Tales
Trouble - Run to the Light
U.D.O. - Animal House
Voivod - Killing Technology
Warlock - Triumph And Agony
W.A.S.P. - Live...In the Raw
White Lion - Pride
Whitesnake - Whitesnake
Wild Dogs - Reign Of Terror

I went with Sanctuary! In my opinion one of the best albums made my any band ever. I'm serious, there are few albums I enjoy as much as Refuge Denied.

of the poll choices, I picked Helloween.

Sanctuary, no contest. Not just an awesome debut, but one of the best records ever!

Trouble - Run to the Light

I know it's not commercially appealing like GNR's Appetite... but It's a great album and totally underrated.

bassman wrote:

Helloween for me

+2!!!

Troublezone wrote:

Trouble - Run to the Light

I know it's not commercially appealing like GNR's Appetite... but It's a great album and totally underrated.

I agree with both statements and also very influential band IMO, great choice, to me personally G nR made a bigger impact on me, but Trouble is a great band.

I can't lie, I was into the Guns sound like just about everyone else. I saw them in 1988 at the Coronado Theater w/UDO and Zodiac Mindwarp. I wish that I had been a bigger UDO/Accept fan than I was at the time. I remember UDO signing autographs for his new album Animal House at the local NRM in town. Anyways, the show was really loud, and my ears rang for the better part of three days (scared the hell out of me).

1. Guns - Appetite for Destruction
2. Def Leppard - Hysteria
3. Whitesnake - Whitesnake
4. Dokken - Back For the Attack
5. DIO - Dream Evil
6. Savatage - Hall of the Mountain King
7. Sanctuary - Refuge Denied

I went with Dokken from that list, but over all from 87, Death's Scream Bloody Gore is my favorite.

I voted "Fighting the World," but I really dig some of the others. I almost went with DIO.

I voted for Savatage, although I would have liked to have seen Manilla Road's "Mystification" and Running Wild's "Under Jolly Roger" included in the poll.

GNR - Appetite

some of my fave bands are on the top ten, but none of them were as solid in every single song, and sound..and I am not even a huge GNR fan but that was one heck of an album!

Another good year -could have been Dio, Dokken, GnR or Trouble, but had to ggo with Savatage.

Tough choice between Def Leppard and Guns N Roses

I went with GNR

I had to go with Manowar.

But Dio was neck in neck!

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but for me and IMO the album and band that made the biggest impact IMo was Guns n Roses.

Agreed! That's a pretty seminal album. I was 13, and those songs are still great to me.

I had an Appetite for Destruction but at the last second the Keeper of the Seven Keys intervened! But it sure was a tough one for me.