1988 in heavy metal music

none 1988 1988 heavy metal music November 2024 This is an article about the events of heavy metal in the year 1988. 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 conflict within the band and troubles with the record company. He later forms the band Gamma Ray. The Decline of Western Civilization II: The Metal Years is released. Mötley Crüe enter rehab. Billy Sheehan leaves David Lee Roth's solo band and forms Mr. Big, along with Racer X guitarist Paul Gilbert, vocalist Eric Martin and drummer Pat Torpey. Suicidal Tendencies sign to Epic Records and release their highly successful third album How Will I Laugh Tomorrow When I Can't Even Smile Today, featuring one of their famous songs "Trip at the Brain", which earned airplay on radio stations and MTV. Glacier release their four-song EP on cassette, featuring guest vocalist, Tim Lachman of fellow Portland band, Gargoyle. His younger brother, Pat Lachman, later played guitar in Halford and was lead vocalist for Damageplan with Dimebag Darrell and Vinnie Paul, both formerly of Pantera. Chuck Mosley is fired from Faith No More and is replaced by Mr. Bungle vocalist Mike Patton. Newly formed bands 20em 16volt Abramelin Acheron The Almighty Amon Amarth (known as Scum until 1992) Anal Cunt Ancient Rites Asphalt Ballet Asrai Atrox Axxis Babylon A.D. Badlands Bang Tango The Big F Bombarder Broken Hope Cadaver Cancer Cannibal Corpsehttps://www.newspapers.com/article/calgary-herald/158530340/ Cannibal Corpse stays ripe for parody Heath McCoy Calgary Herald September 22, 2007 November 6, 2024 62 Newspapers.com The death metal group from Buffalo, N.Y., which has sold over one million records worldwide since forming in 1988... Carbonized Carnage Circle of Dust Cold as Life Convulse Cripple Bastards Cryptopsy Deftones Depressive Age Desaster Desperado Dismember Divididos Dizzy Mizz Lizzy Electric Boys Epizod Expulsion Eyehategod Fudge Tunnel God Macabre Goreaphobia Inquisition Integrity Iron Man Kik Tracee Killing Time Kong La Rengahttps://www.lanacion.com.ar/espectaculos/musica/30-anos-la-renga-primer-show-nid2206036/ De Mataderos a la cima del rock nacional: viaje a los orígenes de La Renga La Nación Bruno Larocca December 31, 2018 November 6, 2024 es Mägo de Oz Mother Love Bone Mr. Big Naked City Nine Inch Nailshttps://www.newspapers.com/article/the-knoxville-news-sentinel-dont-let-th/158530285/ Don't let the brooding music fool you; Reznor's a pretty well-adjusted guy Wayne Bledsoe Knoxville News Sentinel March 10, 2006 November 6, 2024 70 Newspapers.com Reznor formed Nine Inch Nails in 1988... Nirvana 2002 Nitro Opera IX Paradise Lost Psychotic Waltz Pungent Stench Rhino Bucket Sacred Warrior Saigon Kick Sam Black Church Shihad Sinister The Smashing Pumpkins Soilent Green Solitude Aeturnus Sorcerer Soziedad Alkoholika Suffocation Tad Threshold Tin Machine Unanimated Unholy Vital Remains White Skull Winter Xysma Albums and EPs 20em AC/DC – Blow Up Your Video ADX – Exécution Publique Acid Reign – Moshkinstein (EP) Acrophet – Corrupt Minds Agony – The First Defiance Anacrusis – Suffering Hour Angel Dust – To Dust Will You Decay Anthem – Gypsy Ways Anthrax – State of Euphoria Anvil – Pound for Pound Apocalypse – Apocalypse Apocrypha – The Eyes of Time Artch – Another Return (to Church Hill) Armored Saint – Saints Will Conquer (live) Atrophy – Socialized Hate Attacker – Second Coming At War – Retaliatory Strike Barren Cross – Atomic Arena Battle Bratt – Battle Bratt Bathory – Blood Fire Death Jason Becker – Perpetual Burn Beowülf – Lost My Head... But I'm Back on the Right Track Black 'n Blue – In Heat Blind Guardian – Battalions of Fear Blind Illusion – The Sane Asylum Bloodgood – Rock in a Hard Place Bloodlust – Terminal Velocity (EP) Bolt Thrower – In Battle There Is No Law Brainfever – You (EP) Britton – Rock Hard Brocas Helm – Black Death Bullet Boys – Bullet Boys Cacophony – Go Off! Candlemass – Ancient Dreams Carcass – Reek of Putrefaction Celtic Frost – Cold Lake China – China Chyld – Conception Chrome Molly – Angst Cloven Hoof – Dominator Coroner – Punishment for Decadence Crimson Glory – Transcendence Cryptic Slaughter – Stream of Consciousness Danzig – Danzig Dark Lord – It's Nigh' Time D.C. Lacroix – Livin' by the Sword Deadly Blessing – Ascend from the Cauldron Death – Leprosy Death Angel – Frolic Through the Park Despair – History of Hate Destiny – Atomic Winter Destruction – Release from Agony Paul Di'Anno's Battlezone – Warchild (comp) Dirty Blonde – Dirty Blonde (EP) Dirty Looks – Cool from the Wire D.R.I. – 4 of a Kind Drive – Characters in Time Earthshaker – Smash Europe – Out of this World Exciter – Exciter, a.k.a. O.T.T. Fastway – On Target Fates Warning – No Exit Femme Fatale – Femme Fatale Flotsam and Jetsam – No Place for Disgrace Frehley's Comet – Live+1 (EP) Frehley's Comet – Second Sighting Marty Friedman – Dragon's Kiss Forbidden – Forbidden Evil Gargoyle – Gargoyle Genocide (Jap) – Black Sanctuary Girlschool – Take a Bite Godflesh – "Godflesh (1988)" Grinder – Dawn for the Living Gwar – Hell-O Hades – If at First You Don't Succeed... Hellion – Postcards from the Asylum (EP) Helloween – Keeper of the Seven Keys: Part II Helstar – A Distant Thunder Hexx – Quest for Sanity (EP) Hittman – Hittman Hobbs' Angel of Death – Hobbs' Angel of Death Holocross – Holocross Holy Terror – Mind Wars House of Lords – House of Lords Greg Howe – Greg Howe Hydra Vein – Rather Death Than False of Faith Impellitteri – Stand in Line Iron Maiden – Seventh Son of a Seventh Son Jailhouse – Jailhouse Jane's Addiction – Nothing's Shocking Jetboy – Feel the Shake Judas Priest – Ram It Down Killer Dwarfs – Big Deal King Diamond – Them King Kobra – King Kobra III Kingdom Come – Kingdom Come Kingpin – Welcome to Bop City King's X – Out of the Silent Planet Kiss – Smashes, Thrashes & Hits (comp) KIX – Blow My Fuse Krokus – Heart Attack Kuni – Lookin' for Action L.A. Guns – L.A. Guns Liege Lord – Master Control Lillian Axe – Lillian Axe Living Colour – Vivid Lord – The Second Coming Loudness – Jealousy (EP) M-16 – Locked and Loaded Magnum – Wings of Heaven Yngwie Malmsteen – Odyssey Manilla Road – Out of the Abyss Manowar – Kings of Metal Frank Marino & Mahogany Rush – Double Live Masi – Downtown Dreamers Meanstreak – Roadkill Megadeth – So Far, So Good... So What! Megaton (MX) - Megatón (LP)https://www.spirit-of-metal.com/es/album/Megaton/106263 Eponymous full-length album by heavy-metal band MEGATON from Torreón, México May 6, 1988 April 29, 2026 Mekong Delta – The Music of Erich Zann Meliah Rage - Kill To Survive Metal Massacre – Metal Massacre IX (Compilation, various artists) Metallica – ...And Justice for All Michael W. Smith – I 2 (EYE) Ministry – The Land of Rape and Honey Vinnie Moore – Time Odyssey Motörhead – Nö Sleep at All (live) Napalm Death – From Enslavement to Obliteration Nasty Savage – Abstract Reality (EP) Neon Cross – Neon Cross Nuclear Assault – Survive Odin – Fight for Your Life OLD – Old Lady Drivers Opprobrium – Serpent Temptation (as Incubus) Overkill – Under the Influence Ozzy Osbourne – No Rest for the Wicked Pantera – Power Metal Pariah – The Kindred Pestilence – Malleus Maleficarum Poison – Open Up & Say... Ahh! Precious Metal – That Kind of Girl Prophet – Cycle of the Moon Prowler – Prowling Death Squad (EP) Queensrÿche – Operation: Mindcrime Racer X – Extreme Volume Live Rage – Perfect Man Raven – Nothing Exceeds Like Excess Razor – Violent Restitution Realm – Endless War Rigor Mortis – Rigor Mortis Riot – Thundersteel Risk – The Daily News Rock City Angels – Young′s Man Blues David Lee Roth – Skyscraper Roxx Gang – Things Youve Never Done Before Running Wild – Port Royal Running Wild – Ready for Boarding (live) Sacred Warrior – Rebellion Sadus – Illusions Saint – Too Late for Living Saint Vitus – Mournful Cries Samael – Medieval Prophecy (EP) Sanctuary – Refuge Denied S.A. Slayer – Go for the Throat Savage Steel – Do or Die Saxon – Destiny Scanner – Hypertrace Scorpions – Savage Amusement Screamer – Target: Earth Seduce – Too Much, Ain't Enough Shok Paris – Concrete Killers Sieges Even – Life Cycle Slayer – South of Heaven Sodom – Mortal Way of Live (live) Soldier - Babylon Steel Fury – Lesser of Two Evils Stone – Stone Stryper – In God We Trust Suicidal Tendencies – How Will I Laugh Tomorrow When I Can't Even Smile Today Suicide Squad – Live It While You Can (EP) Sword – Sweet Dreams Sye – Winds of Change Tankard – The Morning After Testament – The New Order Tormentor – Anno Domini Toxik – World Circus Trust – Live – Paris By Night 220 Volt – Eye to Eye Tyrant (Ger) – Ruling the World The Unsane – Inverted Crosses (EP) V2 – V2 Van Halen – OU812 Vendetta (Ger) – Brain Damage Vengeance Rising – Human Sacrifice Vicious Rumors – Digital Dictator Victory – That's Live Vinnie Vincent Invasion – All Systems Go Vio-lence – Eternal Nightmare Virgin Steele – Age of Consent Voivod – Dimension Hatröss Vow Wow – Vibe, a.k.a. Helter Skelter VXN – The Question Warfare – A Conflict of Hatred Wargasm – Why Play Around? Wrathchild – The Biz Suxx X Japan – Vanishing Vision Zed Yago – From Over Yonder Zero Nine – Voodoo You Znöwhite – Act of God Zodiac Mindwarp – Tattooed Beat Messiah Disbandments Warlock References Heavy Metal Timeline 1987 1989 1988 Category:1980s in heavy metal music Metal