1988

Rigor Mortis

Rigor Mortis

• Label: Capitol
• Released: 19 July 1988

• Thrash metal
• Death metal
• Crossover thrash metal

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

A Little Man and a House and the Whole World Window

Cardiacs

• Label: Alphabet
• Released: 21 March 1988

• Progressive rock
• Art punk

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

I'm Your Man

Leonard Cohen

• Label: Columbia
• Released: 2 February 1988

• Synth-pop
• Sophisti-pop

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

Dimension Hatröss

Voivod

• Label: Noise
• Released: 29 June 1988

• Thrash metal
• Avant-garde metal
• Progressive metal

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

Blood Fire Death

Bathory

• Label: Black Mark
• Released: 17 October 1988

• Black metal
• Viking metal

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

Suffer

Bad Religion

• Label: Epitaph
• Released: 8 September 1988

• Hardcore punk
• Melodic hardcore
• Skate punk

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

Punishment for Decadence

Coroner

• Label: Noise
• Released: 1 August 1988

• Progressive metal
• Technical thrash metal

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

Battalions of Fear

Blind Guardian

• Label: No Remorse
• Released: 1May 1988

• Speed metal

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

Frolic Through the Park

Death Angel

• Label: Restless
• Released: 5 July 1988

• Thrash metal
• Funk metal

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

Keeper of the Seven Keys: Part II

Helloween

• Label: Noise
• Released: 29 August 1988

• Power metal

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

Vivid

Living Colour

• Label: Epic
• Released: 2 May 1988

• Funk metal
• Hard rock

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?

Tender Prey

Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds

• Label: Mute
• Released: 19 September 1988

• Post-punk
• Gothic rock

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

Them

King Diamond

• Label: Roadrunner
• Released: 20 June 1988

• Heavy metal
• Progressive metal

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

Nothing's Shocking

Jane's Addiction

• Label: Warner Bros.
• Released: 23 August 1988

• Alternative rock
• Alternative metal

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

Tracy Chapman

Tracy Chapman

• Label: Elektra
• Released: 5 April 1988

• Folk rock
• Roots rock

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

Leprosy

Death

• Label: Combat
• Released: 12 August 1988

• Death metal

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

Long Cold Winter

Cinderella

• Label: Mercury
• Released: 5 July 1988

• Blues rock

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

Surfer Rosa

Pixies

• Label: 4AD
• Released: 21 March 1988

• Alternative rock
• Art rock

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

Forbidden Evil

Forbidden

• Label: Combat
• Released: 30 September 1988

• Thrash metal

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

Transcendence

Crimson Glory

• Label: MCA
• Released: 14 November 1988

• Power metal
• Heavy metal

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

Green

R.E.M.

• Label: Warner Bros.
• Released: 7 November 1988

• Alternative rock
• Avant-garde rock

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

No Exit

Fates Warning

• Label: Metal Blade
• Released: 23 March 1988

• Progressive metal

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

Ultramega OK

Soundgarden

• Label: SST
• Released: 31 October 1988

• Alternative metal

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

South of Heaven

Slayer

• Label: Def Jam
• Released: 5 July 1988

• Thrash metal

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

Kings of Metal

Manowar

• Label: Atlantic
• Released: 18 November 1988

• Heavy metal
• power metal

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

Out of the Silent Planet

King's X

• Label: Megaforce
• Released: 28 March 1988

• Progressive metal
• hard rock

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

The New Order

Testament

• Label: Atlantic
• Released: 5 May 1988

• Thrash metal

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)

... And Justice for All

Metallica

• Label: Elektra
• Released: 25 August 1988

• Thrash metal

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

So Far, So Good ... So What!

Megadeth

• Label: Capitol
• Released: 19 January 1988

• Thrash metal

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

Seventh Son of a Seventh Son

Iron Maiden

• Label: EMI
• Released: 11 April 1988

• Progressive metal
• heavy metal

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

Operation: Mindcrime

Queensrÿche

• Label: EMI
• Released: 3 May 1988

• Progressive metal

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