1988 in metal.html



This is an article about the events of heavy metal in the year 1988.

Newly formed bands

• Amon Amarth (known as Scum till 1992)
• Cadaver
• Cannibal Corpse
• Carnage
• Demolition Hammer
• Dismember
• Eyehategod
• Gamma Ray
• Mr. Big
• Nine Inch Nails
• Paradise Lost
• Pungent Stench

Albums

• AC/DC - Blow Up Your Video
• Anthrax - State of Euphoria
• Armored Saint - Saints Will Conquer
• Atrophy - Socialized Hate
• 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
• Bolt Thrower - In Battle There Is No Law
• Bon Jovi - New Jersey
• Britny Fox - Britny Fox
• BulletBoys - BulletBoys
• Cacophony - Go Off!
• Carcass - Reek of Putrefaction
• Celtic Frost - Cold Lake
• Cinderella - Long Cold Winter
• 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
• Dokken - Beast from the East
• Europe - Out of This World
• Frehley's Comet - Live+1
• Frehley's Comet - Second Sighting
• Forbidden - Forbidden Evil
• Girlschool - Take a Bite
• Guns N' Roses - GN'R Lies
• Helloween - Keeper Of The Seven Keys Part 2
• Iron Maiden - Seventh Son of a Seventh Son
• Jason Becker - Perpetual Burn
• Judas Priest - Ram It Down
• Killer Dwarfs- Big Deal
• King Diamond - "Them"
• King Kobra - King Kobra III
• Kingdom Come - Kingdom Come
• Kiss - Smashes, Thrashes & Hits
• KIX - Blow My Fuse
• L.A. Guns - L.A. Guns
• 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)
• Napalm Death - From Enslavement to Obliteration
• 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
• Rage - Perfect Man
• Ratt - Reach for the Sky
• Razor - Violent Restitution
• Rigor Mortis - Rigor Mortis
• Running Wild - Port Royal
• Running Wild - Ready for Boarding
• Sadus - Illusions
• Saint Vitus - Mournful Cries
• Saxon - Destiny
• 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 (the bands first metal release)
• Sword - Sweet dreams
• Tankard - The Morning After
• Testament - The New Order
• Tormentor - Anno Domini
• Toxik - World Circus
• Uncle Slam - Say Uncle
• Van Halen - OU812
• Vinnie Vincent Invasion - All Systems Go
• Vio-lence - Eternal Nightmare
• Virgin Steele - Age of Consent
• Voivod - Dimension Hatröss
• Warrant - Dirty Rotten Filthy Stinking Rich
• Winger - Winger
• Wrathchild - The Biz Suxx
• Yngwie J. Malmsteen - Odyssey

Events

• Living Colour's debut album Vivid peaks at #6 on the Billboard 200, due to the success of the Top 20 single "Cult of Personality". The album is certified platinum twice.
• The Monsters of Rock tour plays across the U.S. featuring Metallica, Van Halen, Scorpions, Dokken, and Kingdom Come.
• Kai Hansen leaves Helloween due to conflicts with the bands and troubles with the record company and later forms the band Gamma Ray.
• The Decline of Western Civilization II: The Metal Years is released.
• Mötley Crüe enter rehab.