1988 - Heavy Metal! THE POLL

These lists/polls are getting harder and harder to make. There was so much heavy metal being released by the end of the 80's, it's nearly impossible to list it all. If I left anything important off, let me know.

Heavy Metal 1988
AC/DC - Blow Up Your Video
Anthrax - State of Euphoria
Anvil - Pound for Pound
Apocrypha - The Eyes Of Time
Armored Saint - Saints Will Conquer
Atrophy - Socialized Hate
Barren Cross - Atomic Arena
Bathory - Blood Fire Death
Beowülf - Lost My Head... But I'm Back on the Right Track
Blind Guardian - Battalions of Fear
Blind Illusion - The Sane Asylum
Bloodgood - Rock In a Hard Place
Bolt Thrower - In Battle There Is No Law
Bon Jovi - New Jersey
Bride - Live to Die
Britny Fox - Britny Fox
Brocas Helm - Black Death
BulletBoys - BulletBoys
Cacophony - Go Off!
Carcass - Reek of Putrefaction
Celtic Frost - Cold Lake
Cinderella - Long Cold Winter
Cloven Hoof - Dominator
Coroner - Punishment For Decadence
Crimson Glory - Transcendence
Cryptic Slaughter - Stream of Consciousness
D.R.I. - 4 of a Kind
Danzig - Danzig
Death - Leprosy
Death Angel - Frolic through the Park
Dirty Looks - Cool from the Wire
Dokken - Beast from the East
Europe - Out of This World
Exciter - Exciter
Fates Warning - No Exit
Frehley's Comet - Live+1
Frehley's Comet - Second Sighting
Forbidden - Forbidden Evil
Force 3 - Warrior of Light
Girlschool - Take a Bite
Greg Howe - Greg Howe
Guns N' Roses - GN'R Lies
Helloween - Keeper Of The Seven Keys Part 2
Helstar - A Distant Thunder
Helter Skelter - Welcome To The World Of Helter Skelter
Hobbs' Angel of Death - Hobbs' Angel of Death
House of Lords - s/t
Hydra Vein - Rather Death Than False Of Faith
Impellitteri - Stand in Line
Iron Maiden - Seventh Son of a Seventh Son
Jason Becker - Perpetual Burn
Joshua - Intense Defense
Judas Priest - Ram It Down
Killer Dwarfs- Big Deal
King Diamond - Them
King Kobra - King Kobra III
Kingdom Come - Kingdom Come
King's X - Out of the Silent Planet
Kiss - Smashes, Thrashes & Hits
KIX - Blow My Fuse
Kreator - Out Of The Dark (EP)
L.A. Guns - L.A. Guns
Lightforce - Battlezone
Lillian Axe - Lillian Axe
Living Colour - Vivid
Manilla Road - Out of the Abyss
Manowar - Kings of Metal
Marty Friedman - Dragon's Kiss
Megadeth - So Far, So Good... So What!
Mekong Delta - The Music of Erich Zann
Metallica - ...And Justice for All
Ministry - The Land of Rape and Honey
Morbid Saint - Spectrum of Death
Motörhead - No Sleep at All (live)
MX Machine - Manic Panic
Napalm Death - From Enslavement to Obliteration
Neon Cross - s/t
Nuclear Assault - Survive
Overkill - Under the Influence
Ozzy Osbourne - No Rest for the Wicked
Pantera - Power Metal
Pestilence - Malleus Maleficarum
Poison - Open Up And Say... Ahh!
Queensrÿche - Operation: Mindcrime
Quiet Riot - Quiet Riot
Racer X - Second Heat
Racer X - Extreme Volume-Live
Rage - Perfect Man
Ratt - Reach for the Sky
Raven - Nothing Exceeds Like Excess
Razor - Violent Restitution
Rigor Mortis - Rigor Mortis
Riot - Thundersteel
Running Wild - Port Royal
Running Wild - Ready for Boarding
S.A.D.O. - Dirty Fantasy
Sadus - Illusions
Saint - Too Late For Living
Saint Vitus - Mournful Cries
Sanctuary - Refuge Denied
Saxon - Destiny
Scanner - Hypertrace
Scorpions - Savage Amusement
Sieges Even - Life Cycle
Slayer - South of Heaven
Sodom - Mortal Way Of Live
Soundgarden - Fopp, Ultramega OK
Stone - Stone
Stryper - In God We Trust
Suicidal Tendencies - How Will I Laugh Tomorrow When I Can't Even Smile Today
Sword - Sweet dreams
Tankard - The Morning After
Ted Nugent - If You Can't Lick 'Em-Lick 'Em
Tempest - Eye of the Storm
Testament - The New Order
TNT - Intuition
Tormentor - Anno Domini
Toxik - World Circus
Uncle Slam - Say Uncle
Van Halen - OU812
Vengeance (Rising) - Human Sacrifice
Vicious Rumors - Digital Dictator
Vinnie Vincent Invasion - All Systems Go
Vio-lence - Eternal Nightmare
Virgin Steele - Age of Consent
Voivod - Dimension Hatröss
Warrant - Dirty Rotten Filthy Stinking Rich
Whitecross - Love on the Line (EP)
Whitecross - Hammer & Nail
Winger - Winger
Wrathchild - The Biz Suxx
X Japan - Vanishing Vision
Yngwie J. Malmsteen - Odyssey
Znöwhite - Act Of God

Arrrrgh! (tears out hair)

Though I love a lotta the stuff on that list, there was a period in my life where I probably listened to Crimson Glory's TRANSCENDENCE more than everything else up there put together. So I vote for that.

1988 was an amazing, amazing year. Not just for metal but for life in general at that time. I graduated from high school and began college, the world was my oyster.

...now I'm old and cranky and I look back at how stupid I was about certain things and I wish I could just reach back in time and smack myself.

Easy one for me - Queensryche!!!!!!!

Sanctuary is my fave! Maiden would be second

From the voteable choices, I went with Queensryche. Mindcrime was my intro to the band and a longtime fav. However if GnR's Lies made the cut, that woulda got my fan-boy vote. Lotsa good choices though.

Helloween gets my vote !

Voted for Maiden in the poll. Racer X in the written portion.

Napalm Death - From Enslavement to Obliteration

Crimson Glory

I was torn between Iron Maiden and King's X, but I went with Iron Maiden

Went with the 'ryche with Maiden breathing down their neck. Man, that was a great year. Not sure if Cinderella wouldn't have gotten the vote if they were on it.

Fat Freddy wrote:

Arrrrgh! (tears out hair)

Though I love a lotta the stuff on that list, there was a period in my life where I probably listened to Crimson Glory's TRANSCENDENCE more than everything else up there put together. So I vote for that.

1988 was an amazing, amazing year. Not just for metal but for life in general at that time. I graduated from high school and began college, the world was my oyster.

...now I'm old and cranky and I look back at how stupid I was about certain things and I wish I could just reach back in time and smack myself.

WOW! Replace CG - T with QR - Operation MC, and this post could have come from me.

Waylon wrote:

Fat Freddy wrote:

Arrrrgh! (tears out hair)

Though I love a lotta the stuff on that list, there was a period in my life where I probably listened to Crimson Glory's TRANSCENDENCE more than everything else up there put together. So I vote for that.

1988 was an amazing, amazing year. Not just for metal but for life in general at that time. I graduated from high school and began college, the world was my oyster.

...now I'm old and cranky and I look back at how stupid I was about certain things and I wish I could just reach back in time and smack myself.

WOW! Replace CG - T with QR - Operation MC, and this post could have come from me.

Right down to the "...I wish I could just reach back in time and smack myself," even? Well, at least I'm not the only one.

It's simply impossible to choose.

Crimson Glory for me also

Fat Freddy wrote:

Waylon wrote:

Fat Freddy wrote:

Arrrrgh! (tears out hair)

Though I love a lotta the stuff on that list, there was a period in my life where I probably listened to Crimson Glory's TRANSCENDENCE more than everything else up there put together. So I vote for that.

1988 was an amazing, amazing year. Not just for metal but for life in general at that time. I graduated from high school and began college, the world was my oyster.

...now I'm old and cranky and I look back at how stupid I was about certain things and I wish I could just reach back in time and smack myself.

WOW! Replace CG - T with QR - Operation MC, and this post could have come from me.

Right down to the "...I wish I could just reach back in time and smack myself," even? Well, at least I'm not the only one.

YEP!!!!

Sanctuary

I remember having a "sanctuary" church t shirt back then and wishing it was a "sanctuary" band shirt

James B. wrote:

Sanctuary

I remember having a "sanctuary" church t shirt back then and wishing it was a "sanctuary" band shirt

Angry Jesus has his eye (and sights) on you.

I chose Queensryche. And yes, these polls are tough.

James B. wrote:

Sanctuary

I remember having a "sanctuary" church t shirt back then and wishing it was a "sanctuary" band shirt

I had one of those shirts too, and after a while I gave up trying to explain to people that it wasn't the "band"...

HOLY CRAP! I don't think I've ever been so stressed in my life. This is horrible

The obvious choice for me would have been Helloween...BUT!, I'm actually not going that route. I picked Queensryche- Operation Mindcrime. I was into Queensryche way before I even knew about Helloween and I played Operation Mindcrime almost every day when I bought it. My other choice would have been Crimson Glory.

That was tough...

O:M is the one album from that poll I don't care as much about. If I were to put all 15 in a list from favorite to least favorite, O:M would be at the bottom of the list. Not sure why, but I never could get into it like I did their EP, Warning and Rage. I thought it was weak in comparison. I don't hate it, and have grown to appreciate it over the years, but it's not a favorite.

I went with King Diamond!

Lurideath wrote:

I went with King Diamond!

that's what i chose from the poll, although that's my least favorite KD release.

ultmetal wrote:

O:M is the one album from that poll I don't care as much about. If I were to put all 15 in a list from favorite to least favorite, O:M would be at the bottom of the list. Not sure why, but I never could get into it like I did their EP, Warning and Rage. I thought it was weak in comparison. I don't hate it, and have grown to appreciate it over the years, but it's not a favorite.

I can see that if you compare it to those albums.