Metal Time Machine: 25 Years in Reverse To The Year 1987! (Also, RYM.com's Top 100 Metal Albums Of '87)

      What do Dokken’s “Back For The Attack” and Napalm Death’s “Scum” have in common? Well… very little admittedly, but they both came out the same year. That year was 1987. One of the more underrated years in the history of metal, it was clearly one of the most important. No releases from Metallica or Iron Maiden, yet perhaps it was the birth year for a bunch of bands that spawned from thrash metal’s patriarch bands, and some of the earliest death metal albums as well. Metal in general started to be more about execution and a little less about eloquence. Sure, there was some great traditional metal to see the light of day from bands like Helloween, Trouble, and King Diamond, but we also got out and out nastiness from bands like Sarcofago. Unlike any year before, perhaps Overkill, Sodom, Tankard, Destruction, Sacred Reich and others assured that thrash was the new king of the metal subgenres.

       Here is rateyourmusic.com’s Top 100 Metal Albums Of 1987. This should lead to debate and whatnot, but album placement notwithstanding, we can’t argue that the year was not important in the development of the art of heavy metal!

1		King Diamond Abigail
2		Candlemass Nightfall
3		Anthrax Among the Living
4		Helloween Keeper of the Seven Keys Part I
5		Testament The Legacy
6		Savatage Hall of the Mountain King
7		Bathory Under the Sign of the Black MarkB
8		Manilla Road Mystification
9		Overkill Taking Over
10		Sodom Persecution Mania
11		Dark Quarterer Dark Quarterer
12		Death Angel The Ultra-Violence
13		Pentagram Day of Reckoning
14		Kreator Terrible Certainty
15		Infernäl Mäjesty None Shall Defy
16		Voivod Killing Technology
17		Sacrifice Forward to Termination
18		Sepultura Schizophrenia
19		Running Wild Under Jolly Roger
20		Holy Terror Terror and Submission
21		Agent Steel Unstoppable Force
22		Death Scream Bloody Gore
23		Coroner R.I.P.
24		Sarcófago I.N.R.I.
25		Dio Dream Evil
26		Slaughter Strappado
27		Deathrow Raging Steel
28		Artillery Terror Squad
29		Poison Into the Abyss
30		Carnivore Retaliation
31		Pretty Maids Future World
32		Warlock Triumph and Agony
33		Destruction Release From Agony
34		Celtic Frost Into the Pandemonium
35		Amebix Monolith
36		Exodus Pleasures of the Flesh
37		Vinnie Moore Mind’s Eye
38		Tony MacAlpine Maximum Security
39		Melvins Gluey Porch Treatments
40		Dokken Back for the Attack
41		Napalm Death Scum
42		Ария Герой асфальта
43		Trouble Run to the Light
44		Nasty Savage Indulgence
45		U.D.O. Animal House
46		Heathen Breaking the Silence
47		Grim Reaper Rock You to Hell
48		Mortal Sin Mayhemic Destruction
49		Dream Death Journey Into Mystery
50		Sanctuary Refuge Denied
51		Sacred Reich Ignorance
52		Mekong Delta Mekong Delta
53		No Mercy Widespread Bloodshed / Love Runs Red
54		Obsession Methods of Madness
55		Holy Moses Finished With the Dogs
56		Whiplash Ticket to Mayhem
57		Pokolgép Pokoli színjáték
58		Living Death Protected From Reality
59		Lääz Rockit Know Your Enemy
60		Tankard Chemical Invasion
61		Lizzy Borden Visual Lies
62		Tyrant Too Late to Pray
63		D.R.I. Crossover
64		Leatherwolf Leatherwolf
65		Damien Every Dog Has Its Day
66		ADX Suprématie
67		Chastain The 7th of Never
68		Shok Paris Steel and Starlight
69		Armored Saint Raising Fear
70		Violent Force Malevolent Assault of Tomorrow
71		Vendetta Go and Live… Stay and Die
72		Necrodeath Into the Macabre
73		Cacophony Speed Metal Symphony
74		Cryptic Slaughter Money Talks
75		John Norum Total Control
76		Paradox Product of Imagination
77		The Accüsed More Fun Than an Open Casket Funeral
78		Intruder Live to Die
79		Excel Split Image
80		Satan Suspended Sentence
81		Motörhead Rock ‘n’ Roll
82		Sacred Oath A Crystal Vision
83		Мастер Мастер
84		Mutilator Immortal Force
85		Liege Lord Burn to My Touch
86		Suicidal Tendencies Join the Army
87		Wehrmacht Shark Attack
88		Turbo Ostatni wojownik
89		Stormwitch The Beauty and the Beast
90		Wild Dogs Reign of Terror
91		Darkness Death Squad
92		Manowar Fighting the World
93		M.O.D. U.S.A. for M.O.D.
94		Ratos de Porão Cada Dia Mais Sujo e Agressivo
95		Malice License to Kill
96		Racer X Second Heat
97		Hades Resisting Success
98		Kat 38 Minutes of Life
99		Чёрный Кофе Переступи порог (Step Over the Threshold)
100		Apocalypse ApocalypseThrash Metal