My favourite albums from 1986

1. 31

   Tinderbox

   Siouxsie and the Banshees

   
   

   Tracklist

   1. Candyman ●
   2. The Sweetest Chill
   3. This Unrest
   4. Cities in Dust
   5. Cannons
   6. Party's Fall
   7. 92°
   8. Lands End

   Genres

   • Alternative rock

2. 30

   Orgasmatron

   Motörhead

   
   

   Tracklist

   1. Deaf Forever
   2. Nothing up My Sleeve
   3. Ain't My Crime
   4. Claw
   5. Mean Machine
   6. Built for Speed
   7. Ridin' with the Driver
   8. Doctor Rock
   9. Orgasmatron ●

   Genres

   • Heavy metal

3. 29

   Mechanical Resonance

   Tesla

   
   

   Tracklist

   1. EZ Come EZ Go
   2. Cumin' Atcha Live
   3. Gettin' Better
   4. 2 Late 4 Love
   5. Rock Me to the Top
   6. We're No Good Together
   7. Modern Day Cowboy ●
   8. Changes
   9. Little Suzi
   10. Love Me
   11. Cover Queen
   12. Before My Eyes

   Genres

   • Hard rock

4. 28

   The Ultimate Sin

   Ozzy Osbourne

   
   

   Tracklist

   1. The Ultimate Sin
   2. Secret Loser
   3. Never Know Why
   4. Thank God for the Bomb
   5. Never
   6. Lightning Strikes
   7. Killer of Giants
   8. Fool Like You
   9. Shot in the Dark ●

   Genres

   • Heavy metal
   • Glam metal

5. 27

   Crimson Glory

   Crimson Glory

   
   

   Tracklist

   1. Valhalla
   2. Dragon Lady
   3. Heart of Steel
   4. Azrael ●
   5. Mayday
   6. Queen of the Masquerade
   7. Angels of War
   8. Lost Reflection

   Genres

   • Power metal
   • Heavy metal

6. 26

   True Blue

   Madonna

   
   

   Tracklist

   1. Papa Don't Preach
   2. Open Your Heart
   3. White Heat
   4. Live to Tell
   5. Where's the Party
   6. True Blue
   7. La isla bonita ●
   8. Jimmy Jimmy
   9. Love Makes the World Go Round

   Genres

   • Pop

7. 25

   Trilogy

   Yngwie J. Malmsteen

   
   

   Tracklist

   1. You Don't Remember, I'll Never Forget
   2. Liar
   3. Queen in Love
   4. Crying
   5. Fury
   6. Fire
   7. Magic Mirror
   8. Dark Ages ●
   9. Trilogy Suite Op: 5

   Genres

   • Neoclassical metal

8. 24

   Black Celebration

   Depeche Mode

   
   

   Tracklist

   1. Black Celebration
   2. Fly on the Windscreen — Final
   3. A Question of Lust ●
   4. Sometimes
   5. It Doesn't Matter Two
   6. A Question of Time
   7. Stripped
   8. Here Is the House
   9. World Full of Nothing
   10. Dressed in Black
   11. New Dress

   Genres

   • Synth-pop
   • Industrial pop

9. 23

   Ragin', Full-on

   fIREHOSE

   
   

   Tracklist

   1. Brave Captain ●
   2. Under the Influence of Meat Puppets
   3. It Matters
   4. Chemical Wire
   5. Another Theory Shot to Shit
   6. On Your Knees
   7. Locked in
   8. The Candle and the Flame
   9. Choose Any Memory
   10. Perfect Pains
   11. This ...
   12. Caroms
   13. Relatin' Dudes to Jazz
   14. Things Could Turn Around

   Genres

   • Post-punk
   • Alternative rock

10. 22

    Doomsday for the Deceiver

    Flotsam and Jetsam

    
    

    Tracklist

    1. Hammerhead
    2. Iron Tears ●
    3. Desecrator
    4. Fade to Black
    5. Doomsday for the Deceiver
    6. Metalshock
    7. She Took an Axe
    8. U.L.S.W.
    9. Der Fuhrer
    10. Flotzilla

    Genres

    • Thrash metal
    • Speed metal

11. 21

    Clairvoyance

    Screaming Trees

    
    

    Tracklist

    1. Orange Airplane
    2. You Tell Me All These Things
    3. Standing on the Edge ●
    4. Forever
    5. Seeing and Believing
    6. I See Stars
    7. Lonely Girl
    8. Strange out There
    9. The Turning
    10. Clairvoyance

    Genres

    • Alternative rock
    • Psychedelic rock

12. 20

    Game Over

    Nuclear Assault

    
    

    Tracklist

    1. Live, Suffer, Die
    2. Sin
    3. Cold Steel
    4. Betrayal
    5. Radiation Sickness ●
    6. Hang the Pope
    7. After the Holocaust
    8. Mr. Softee Theme
    9. Stranded in Hell
    10. Nuclear War
    11. My America
    12. Vengeance
    13. Brain Death

    Genres

    • Thrash metal
    • Crossover thrash

13. 19

    Born Too Late

    Saint Vitus

    
    

    Tracklist

    1. Born Too Late ●
    2. Clear Windowpane
    3. Dying Inside
    4. H.A.A.G.
    5. The Lost Feeling
    6. The War Starter

    Genres

    • Doom metal

14. 18

    Fatal Portrait

    King Diamond

    
    

    Tracklist

    1. The Candle
    2. The Jonah ●
    3. The Portrait
    4. Dressed in White
    5. Charon
    6. Lurking in the Dark
    7. Halloween
    8. Voices from the Past
    9. Haunted

    Genres

    • Heavy metal

15. 17

    I Against I

    Bad Brains

    
    

    Tracklist

    1. Intro
    2. I Against I ●
    3. House of Suffering
    4. Re-Ignition
    5. Secret 77
    6. Let Me Help
    7. She's Calling You
    8. Sacred Love
    9. Hired Gun
    10. Return to Heaven

    Genres

    • Alternative metal
    • Hardcore punk

16. 16

    Eternal Devastation

    Destruction

    
    

    Tracklist

    1. Curse the Gods
    2. Confound Games
    3. Life Without Sense
    4. United by Hatred
    5. Eternal Ban
    6. Upcoming Devastation ●
    7. Confused Mind

    Genres

    • Thrash metal

17. 15

    Darkness Descends

    Dark Angel

    
    

    Tracklist

    1. Darkness Descends ●
    2. The Burning of Sodom
    3. Hunger of the Undead
    4. Merciless Death
    5. Death Is Certain (Life Is Not)
    6. Black Prophecies
    7. Perish in Flames

    Genres

    • Thrash metal

18. 14

    Night Songs

    Cinderella

    
    

    Tracklist

    1. Night Songs
    2. Shake Me
    3. Nobody's Fool ●
    4. Nothin' for Nothin'
    5. One Around the Ride
    6. Hell on Wheels
    7. Somebody Save Me
    8. In from the Outside
    9. Push, Push
    10. Back Home Again

    Genres

    • Glam metal
    • Blues rock

19. 13

    Slippery When Wet

    Bon Jovi

    
    

    Tracklist

    1. Let It Rock
    2. You Give Love a Bad Name
    3. Livin' on a Prayer
    4. Social Disease
    5. Wanted Dead or Alive ●
    6. Raise Your Hands
    7. Without Love
    8. I'd Die for You
    9. Never Say Goodbye
    10. Wild in the Streets

    Genres

    • Glam metal
    • Pop metal

20. 12

    Rage for Order

    Queensrÿche

    
    

    Tracklist

    1. Walk in the Shadows ●
    2. I Dream in Infrared
    3. The Whisper
    4. Gonna Get Close to You
    5. The Killing Words
    6. Surgical Strike
    7. Neue Regel
    8. Chemical Youth (We Are Rebellion)
    9. London
    10. Screaming in Digital
    11. I Will Remember

    Genres

    • Progressive metal
    • Glam metal

21. 11

    The Dark

    Metal Church

    
    

    Tracklist

    1. Ton of Bricks
    2. Start the Fire
    3. Method to Your Madness
    4. Watch the Children Pray ●
    5. Over My Dead Body
    6. The Dark
    7. Psycho
    8. Line of Death
    9. Burial at Sea
    10. Western Alliance

    Genres

    • Thrash metal
    • Heavy metal

22. 10

    Pleasure to Kill

    Kreator

    
    

    Tracklist

    1. Choir of the Damned
    2. Ripping Corpse
    3. Death Is Your Saviour
    4. Pleasure to Kill ●
    5. Riot of Violence
    6. The Pestilence
    7. Carrion
    8. Command of the Blade
    9. Under the Guillotine

    Genres

    • Thrash metal

23. 9

    The Final Countdown

    Europe

    
    

    Tracklist

    1. The Final Countdown ●
    2. Rock the Night
    3. Carrie
    4. Danger on the Track
    5. Ninja
    6. Cherokee
    7. Time Has Come
    8. Heart of Stone
    9. On the Loose
    10. Love Chaser

    Genres

    • Hard rock
    • pop metal

24. 8

    Epicus Doomicus Metallicus

    Candelmass

    
    

    Tracklist

    1. Solitude ●
    2. Demon's Gate
    3. Crystal Ball
    4. Black Stone Wielder
    5. Under the Oak
    6. A Sorcerer's Pledge

    Genres

    • Doom metal

25. 7

    Awaken the Guardian

    Fates Warning

    
    

    Tracklist

    1. The Sorceress
    2. Valley of the Dolls
    3. Fata Morgana
    4. Guardian ●
    5. Prelude to Ruin
    6. Giant's Lore (Heart of Winter)
    7. Time Lond Past
    8. Exodus

    Genres

    • Progressive metal

26. 6

    Licensed to Ill

    Beastie Boys

    
    

    Tracklist

    1. Rhymin & Stealin
    2. The New Style
    3. She's Crafty
    4. Posse in Effect
    5. Slow Ride
    6. Girls
    7. Fight for Your Right
    8. No Sleep till Brooklyn
    9. Paul Revere
    10. Hold It Now, Hit It
    11. Brass Monkey ●
    12. Slow and Low
    13. Time to Get Ill

    Genres

    • Rap rock
    • Hip hop

27. 5

    Reign in Blood

    Slayer

    
    

    Tracklist

    1. Angel of Death
    2. Piece by Piece
    3. Necrophobic
    4. Altar of Sacrifice
    5. Jesus Saves
    6. Criminally Insane
    7. Reborn
    8. Epidemic
    9. Postmortem
    10. Raining Blood ●

    Genres

    • Thrash metal

28. 4

    Lifes Rich Pageant

    R.E.M.

    
    

    Tracklist

    1. Begin the Begin ●
    2. These Days
    3. Fall on Me
    4. Cuyahoga
    5. Hyena
    6. Underneath the Bunker
    7. The Flowers of Guatemala
    8. I Believe
    9. What If We Give It Away?
    10. Just a Touch
    11. Swan Swan H
    12. Superman

    Genres

    • Alternative rock

29. 3

    Somewhere in Time

    Iron Maiden

    
    

    Tracklist

    1. Caught Somewhere in Time
    2. Wasted YEars
    3. Sea of Madness
    4. Heaven Can Wait
    5. The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner ●
    6. Stranger in a Strange Land
    7. Deja-Vu
    8. Alexander the Great

    Genres

    • Heavy metal

30. 2

    Peace Sells ... But Who's Buying?

    Megadeth

    
    

    Tracklist

    1. Wake up Dead
    2. The Conjuring
    3. Peace Sells
    4. Devils Island
    5. Good Mourning / Black Friday
    6. Bad Omen
    7. I Ain't Superstitious
    8. My Last Words ●

    Genres

    • Thrash metal

31. 1

    Master of Puppets

    Metallica

    
    

    Tracklist

    1. Battery
    2. Master of Puppets
    3. The Thing That Should Not Be
    4. Welcome Home (Sanitarium) ●
    5. Disposable Heroes
    6. Leper Messiah
    7. Orion
    8. Damage, Inc.

    Genres

    • Thrash metal