1986

Tinderbox

Siouxsie and the Banshees

• Label: Polydor
• Released: 21 April 1986

• Alternative rock

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

Orgasmatron

Motörhead

• Label: GWR
• Released: 21 July 1986

• Heavy metal

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

Mechanical Resonance

Tesla

• Label: Geffen
• Released: 8 December 1986

• Hard rock

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

The Ultimate Sin

Ozzy Osbourne

• Label: CBS
• Released: 24 January 1986

• Heavy metal
• Glam metal

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

Crimson Glory

Crimson Glory

• Label: Roadrunner
• Released: 20 October 1986

• Power metal
• Heavy metal

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

True Blue

Madonna

• Label: Warner Bros.
• Released: 30 June 1986

• Pop

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

Trilogy

Yngwie J. Malmsteen

• Label: Polydor
• Released: October 1986

• Neoclassical metal

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

Black Celebration

Depeche Mode

• Label: Mute
• Released: 17 March 1986

• Synth-pop
• Industrial pop

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

Ragin', Full-on

fIREHOSE

• Label: SST
• Released: December 1986

• Post-punk
• Alternative rock

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

Doomsday for the Deceiver

Flotsam and Jetsam

• Label: Metal Blade
• Released: 4 July 1986

• Thrash metal
• Speed metal

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

Clairvoyance

Screaming Trees

• Label: Velvetone
• Released: 13 February 1986

• Alternative rock
• Psychedelic rock

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

Game Over

Nuclear Assault

• Label: Combat
• Released: 7 October 1986

• Thrash metal
• Crossover thrash

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

Born Too Late

Saint Vitus

• Label: SST
• Released: October 1986

• Doom metal

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

Fatal Portrait

King Diamond

• Label: Roadrunner
• Released: 17 February 1986

• Heavy metal

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

I Against I

Bad Brains

• Label: SST
• Released: 21 November 1986

• Alternative metal
• Hardcore punk

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

Eternal Devastation

Destruction

• Label: SPV
• Released: 12 July 1986

• Thrash metal

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

Darkness Descends

Dark Angel

• Label: Combat
• Released: 7 November 1986

• Thrash metal

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

Night Songs

Cinderella

• Label: Mercury
• Released: 9 June 1986

• Glam metal
• Blues rock

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

Slippery When Wet

Bon Jovi

• Label: Mercury
• Released: 18 August 1986

• Glam metal
• Pop metal

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

Rage for Order

Queensrÿche

• Label: EMI
• Released: 27 June 1986

• Progressive metal
• Glam metal

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

The Dark

Metal Church

• Label: Elektra
• Released: 6 October 1986

• Thrash metal
• Heavy metal

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

Pleasure to Kill

Kreator

• Label: Noise
• Released: 1 November 1986

• Thrash metal

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

The Final Countdown

Europe

• Label: Epic
• Released: 30 May 1986

• Hard rock
• pop metal

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

Epicus Doomicus Metallicus

Candelmass

• Label: Black Dragon
• Released: 10 June 1986

• Doom metal

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

Awaken the Guardian

Fates Warning

• Label: Metal Blade
• Released: 1 June 1986

• Progressive metal

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

Licensed to Ill

Beastie Boys

• Label: Def Jam
• Released: 15 November 1986

• Rap rock
• Hip hop

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

Reign in Blood

Slayer

• Label: Def Jam
• Released: 7 October 1986

• Thrash metal

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

Lifes Rich Pageant

R.E.M.

• Label: I.R.S.
• Released: 28 July 1986

• Alternative rock

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

Somewhere in Time

Iron Maiden

• Label: EMI
• Released: 29 September 1986

• Heavy metal

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

Peace Sells ... But Who's Buying?

Megadeth

• Label: Capitol
• Released: 19 September 1986

• Thrash metal

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

Master of Puppets

Metallica

• Label: Elektra
• Released: 3 March 1986

• Thrash metal

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.