My favourite albums from 1988

1. 31

   Rigor Mortis

   Rigor Mortis

   
   

   Tracklist

   1. Welcome to Your Funeral
   2. Demons ●
   3. Bodily Dismemberment
   4. Condemned to Hell
   5. Wizard of Gore
   6. Shroud of Gloom
   7. Die in Pain
   8. Vampire
   9. Re-Animator
   10. Slow Death
   11. Foaming at the Mouth
   12. Grudge Fuck

   Genres

   • Thrash metal
   • Death metal
   • Crossover thrash metal

2. 30

   A Little Man and a House and the Whole World Window

   Cardiacs

   
   

   Tracklist

   1. A Little Man and a House
   2. In a City Lining
   3. Is This the Life? ●
   4. Interlude
   5. Dive
   6. The Icing on the World
   7. The Breakfast Line
   8. Victory Egg
   9. R.E.S.
   10. The Whole World Window

   Genres

   • Progressive rock
   • Art punk

3. 29

   I'm Your Man

   Leonard Cohen

   
   

   Tracklist

   1. First We Take Manhattan
   2. Ain't No Cure for Love
   3. Everybody Knows
   4. I'm Your Man
   5. Take This Waltz ●
   6. Jazz Police
   7. I Can't Forget
   8. Tower of Song

   Genres

   • Synth-pop
   • Sophisti-pop

4. 28

   Dimension Hatröss

   Voivod

   
   

   Tracklist

   1. Experiment
   2. Tribal Convictions
   3. Chaosmöngers ●
   4. Technocratic Menipulators
   5. Macrosolutions to Megaproblems
   6. Brain Scan
   7. Psychic Vacuum
   8. Cosmic Drama

   Genres

   • Thrash metal
   • Avant-garde metal
   • Progressive metal

5. 27

   Blood Fire Death

   Bathory

   
   

   Tracklist

   1. Odens Ride Over Nordland
   2. A Fine Day to Die ●
   3. The Golden Walls of Heaven
   4. Pace 'Till Death
   5. Holocaust
   6. For All Those Who Died
   7. Dies Irae
   8. Blood Fire Death
   9. Outro

   Genres

   • Black metal
   • Viking metal

6. 26

   Suffer

   Bad Religion

   
   

   Tracklist

   1. You Are (the Government)
   2. 1000 More Fools
   3. How Much Is Enough?
   4. When?
   5. Give You Nothing
   6. Land of Competition
   7. Forbidden Beat
   8. Best for You
   9. Suffer ●
   10. Delirium of Disorder
   11. Part II (the Numbers Game)
   12. What Can You Do?
   13. Do What You Want
   14. Part IV (the Index Fossil)
   15. Pessimistic Lines

   Genres

   • Hardcore punk
   • Melodic hardcore
   • Skate punk

7. 25

   Punishment for Decadence

   Coroner

   
   

   Tracklist

   1. Intro
   2. Absorbed
   3. Masked Jackal
   4. Arc-Life
   5. Skeleton on Your Shoulder ●
   6. Sudden Fall
   7. Shadow of a Lost Dream
   8. The New Breed
   9. Voyage to Eternity
   10. Purple Haze

   Genres

   • Progressive metal
   • Technical thrash metal

8. 24

   Battalions of Fear

   Blind Guardian

   
   

   Tracklist

   1. Majesty
   2. Guardian of the Blind ●
   3. Trial by the Archon
   4. Wizard's Crown
   5. Run for the Night
   6. The Martyr
   7. Battalions of Fear
   8. By the Gates of Moria

   Genres

   • Speed metal

9. 23

   Frolic Through the Park

   Death Angel

   
   

   Tracklist

   1. 3rd Floor
   2. Road Mutants
   3. Why Do You This
   4. Bored
   5. Confused ●
   6. Guilty of Innocence
   7. Open up
   8. Shores of Sin
   9. Cold Gin
   10. Mind Rape
   11. Dehumanization
   12. Silent Killer
   13. Witches of Knave

   Genres

   • Thrash metal
   • Funk metal

10. 22

    Keeper of the Seven Keys: Part II

    Helloween

    
    

    Tracklist

    1. Invitation
    2. Eagle Fly Free
    3. You Always Walk Alone
    4. Rise and Fall
    5. Dr. Stein
    6. We Got the Right
    7. March of Time
    8. I Want out ●
    9. Keeper of the Seven Keys

    Genres

    • Power metal

11. 21

    Vivid

    Living Colour

    
    

    Tracklist

    1. Cult of Personality ●
    2. I Want to Know
    3. Middle Man
    4. Desperate People
    5. Open Letter (to a Landlord)
    6. Funny Vibe
    7. Memories Can't Wait
    8. Broken Hearts
    9. Glamour Boys
    10. What's Your Favorite Color?
    11. Which Way to America?

    Genres

    • Funk metal
    • Hard rock

12. 20

    Tender Prey

    Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds

    
    

    Tracklist

    1. The Mercy Seat ●
    2. Up Jumped the Devil
    3. Deanna
    4. Watching Alice
    5. Mercy
    6. City of Refuge
    7. Slowly Goes the Night
    8. Sunday's Slave
    9. Sugar Sugar Sugar
    10. New Morning

    Genres

    • Post-punk
    • Gothic rock

13. 19

    Them

    King Diamond

    
    

    Tracklist

    1. Out from the Asylum
    2. Welcome Home ●
    3. The Invisible Guests
    4. Tea
    5. Mother's Getting Weaker
    6. Bye, Bye Misty
    7. A Broken Spell
    8. The Accusation Chair
    9. Them
    10. Twilight Symphony
    11. Coming Home

    Genres

    • Heavy metal
    • Progressive metal

14. 18

    Nothing's Shocking

    Jane's Addiction

    
    

    Tracklist

    1. Up the Beach
    2. Ocean Size
    3. Had a Dad
    4. Ted, Just Admit It ...
    5. Standing in the Shower ... Thinking
    6. Summertime Rolls
    7. Mountain Song ●
    8. Idiots Rule
    9. Jane Says
    10. Thank You Boys
    11. Pigs in Zen

    Genres

    • Alternative rock
    • Alternative metal

15. 17

    Tracy Chapman

    Tracy Chapman

    
    

    Tracklist

    1. Talkin' 'bout a Revolution
    2. Fast Car
    3. Across the Lines
    4. Behind the Wall
    5. Baby Can I Hold You
    6. Mountains o' Things ●
    7. She's Got Her Ticket
    8. Why?
    9. For My Lover
    10. If Not Now ...
    11. For You

    Genres

    • Folk rock
    • Roots rock

16. 16

    Leprosy

    Death

    
    

    Tracklist

    1. Leprosy
    2. Born Dead
    3. Forgotten Past
    4. Left to Die
    5. Pull the Plug ●
    6. Open Casket
    7. Primitive Ways
    8. Choke on It

    Genres

    • Death metal

17. 15

    Long Cold Winter

    Cinderella

    
    

    Tracklist

    1. Bad Seamstress / Fallin' Apart at the Seams
    2. Gypsy Road ●
    3. Don't Know What You Got (Till It's Gone)
    4. The Last Mile
    5. Second Wind
    6. Long Cold Winter
    7. If You Don't Like It
    8. Coming Home
    9. Fire and Ice
    10. Take Me Back

    Genres

    • Blues rock

18. 14

    Surfer Rosa

    Pixies

    
    

    Tracklist

    1. Bone Machine ●
    2. Break My Body
    3. Something Against You
    4. Broken Face
    5. Gigantic
    6. River Euphrates
    7. Where Is My Mind?
    8. Cactus
    9. Tony's Theme
    10. Oh My golly!
    11. Vamos
    12. I'm Amazed
    13. Brick Is Red

    Genres

    • Alternative rock
    • Art rock

19. 13

    Forbidden Evil

    Forbidden

    
    

    Tracklist

    1. Chalice of Blood
    2. Off the Edge
    3. Through Eyes of Glass ●
    4. Forbidden Evil
    5. March into Fire
    6. Feel No Pain
    7. As Good as Dead
    8. Follow Me

    Genres

    • Thrash metal

20. 12

    Transcendence

    Crimson Glory

    
    

    Tracklist

    1. Lady of Winter
    2. Red Sharks
    3. Painted Skies
    4. Masque of the Red Death
    5. In Dark Places
    6. Where Dragons Rule ●
    7. Lonely
    8. Burning Bridges
    9. Eternal World
    10. Tramscendence

    Genres

    • Power metal
    • Heavy metal

21. 11

    Green

    R.E.M.

    
    

    Tracklist

    1. Pop Song 89
    2. Get up
    3. You Are Everything
    4. Stand
    5. World Leader Pretend
    6. The Wrong Child
    7. Orange Crush ●
    8. Turn You Inside-out
    9. Hairshirt
    10. I Remember California
    11. Untitled

    Genres

    • Alternative rock
    • Avant-garde rock

22. 10

    No Exit

    Fates Warning

    
    

    Tracklist

    1. No Exit
    2. Anarchy Divine
    3. Silent Cries
    4. In a Word
    5. Shades of Heavenly Death
    6. The Ivory Gate of Dreams ●

    Genres

    • Progressive metal

23. 9

    Ultramega OK

    Soundgarden

    
    

    Tracklist

    1. Flower
    2. All Your Lies
    3. 665
    4. Beyond the Wheel ●
    5. 667
    6. Mood for Trouble
    7. Circle of Power
    8. He Didn't
    9. Smokestack Lightning
    10. Nazi Driver
    11. Head Injury
    12. Incessant Mace
    13. One Minute of Silence

    Genres

    • Alternative metal

24. 8

    South of Heaven

    Slayer

    
    

    Tracklist

    1. South of Heaven ●
    2. Silent Scream
    3. Live Undead
    4. Behind the Crooked Cross
    5. Mandatory Suicide
    6. Ghosts of War
    7. Read Between the Lies
    8. Cleanse the Soul
    9. Dissident Aggressor
    10. Spill the Blood

    Genres

    • Thrash metal

25. 7

    Kings of Metal

    Manowar

    
    

    Tracklist

    1. Wheels of Fire
    2. Kings of Metal
    3. Heart of Steel
    4. Sting of the Bumblebee
    5. The Crown and the Ring (Lament of the Kings)
    6. Kingdom Come
    7. Pleasure Slave
    8. Hail and Kill ●
    9. The Warrior's Prayer
    10. Blood of the Kings

    Genres

    • Heavy metal
    • power metal

26. 6

    Out of the Silent Planet

    King's X

    
    

    Tracklist

    1. In the New Age
    2. Goldilox
    3. Power of Love ●
    4. Wonder
    5. Sometimes
    6. King
    7. What Is This?
    8. Far, Far Away
    9. Shot of Love
    10. Visions

    Genres

    • Progressive metal
    • hard rock

27. 5

    The New Order

    Testament

    
    

    Tracklist

    1. Eerie Inhabitants
    2. The New Order
    3. Trial by Fire
    4. Into the Pit ●
    5. Hypnosis
    6. Disciples of the Watch
    7. The Preacher
    8. Nobody's Fault
    9. A Day of Reckoning
    10. Music Death (A Dirge)

    Genres

    • Thrash metal

28. 4

    ... And Justice for All

    Metallica

    
    

    Tracklist

    1. Blackened
    2. ... And Justice for All
    3. Eye of the Beholder
    4. One
    5. The Shortest Straw
    6. Harvester of Sorrow
    7. The Frayed Ends of Sanity
    8. To Live Is to Die ●
    9. Dyers Eve

    Genres

    • Thrash metal

29. 3

    So Far, So Good ... So What!

    Megadeth

    
    

    Tracklist

    1. Into the Lungs of Hell
    2. Set the World Afire
    3. Anarchy in the U.K.
    4. Mary Jane
    5. 502
    6. In My Darkest Hour ●
    7. Liar
    8. Hook in Mouth

    Genres

    • Thrash metal

30. 2

    Seventh Son of a Seventh Son

    Iron Maiden

    
    

    Tracklist

    1. Moonchild
    2. Infinite Dreams
    3. Can I Play with Madness
    4. The Evil That Men Do
    5. Seventh Son of a Seventh Son ●
    6. The Prophecy
    7. The Clairvoyant
    8. Only the Good Die Young

    Genres

    • Progressive metal
    • heavy metal

31. 1

    Operation: Mindcrime

    Queensrÿche

    
    

    Tracklist

    1. I Remember Now
    2. Anarchy-X
    3. Revolution Calling
    4. Operation: Mindcrime
    5. Speak
    6. Spreading the Disease
    7. The Mission
    8. Suite Sister Mary ●
    9. The Needle Lies
    10. Electric Requiem
    11. Breaking the Silence
    12. I Don't Believe in Love
    13. Waiting for 22
    14. My Empty Room
    15. Eyes of a Stranger

    Genres

    • Progressive metal