Poll: What Was The Best Rock & Metal Album Of 1986? – Metal Injection

Accept – Russian Roulette

AC/DC – Who Made Who

Alcatrazz – Dangerous Games

Alice Cooper – Constrictor

Angel Witch – Frontal Assault

Bad Brains – I Against I

Black Sabbath – Seventh Star

Bon Jovi – Slippery When Wet

Britny Fox – In America

Candlemass – Epicus Doomicus Metallicus

Cirith Ungol – One Foot in Hell

Crimson Glory – Crimson Glory

Cro-Mags – The Age of Quarrel

Crumbsuckers – Life of Dreams

Cryptic Slaughter – Convicted

Dark Angel – Darkness Descends

Demon – Demon

Desolation Angels – Desolation Angels

Destruction – Eternal Devastation

Europe – The Final Countdown

Exciter – Unveiling the Wicked

Exumer – Possessed by Fire

Fates Warning – Awaken the Guardian

Flotsam & Jetsam – Doomsday for the Deceiver

Girlschool – Nightmare at Maple Cross

Grave Digger – War Games

Hallows Eve – Death & Insanity

Hirax – Hate, Fear and Power

Iron Maiden – Somewhere in Time

Judas Priest – Turbo

King Diamond – Fatal Portrait

Kreator – Pleasure to Kill

Krokus – Change of Address

Lizzy Borden – Menace to Society

Loudness – Lightning Strikes

Manilla Road – The Deluge

Martyr – Darkness at Time’s Edge

Megadeth – Peace Sells… But Who’s Buying?

Mekong Delta – Mekong Delta

Messiah – Hymn To Abramelin

Metal Church – The Dark

Metallica – Master of Puppets

Mortal Sin – Mayhemic Destruction

Motörhead – Orgasmatron

Nuclear Assault – Game Over

Obsession – Scarred for Life

Omen – The Curse

Onslaught – The Force

Ozzy Osbourne – The Ultimate Sin

Phantom Lord – Evil Never Sleeps

Poison – Look What the Cat Dragged In

Possessed – Beyond the Gates

Queen – A Kind of Magic

Queensrÿche – Rage for Order

Quiet Riot – QR III

Racer X – Street Lethal

Rage – Reign of Fear

Ratt – Dancing Undercover

Raven – The Pack Is Back

Razor – Malicious Intent

David Lee Roth – Eat ’Em and Smile

Sabotage – Behind the Lines

Sacrifice – Torment in Fire

Sadus – D.T.P.

Saint Vitus – Born Too Late

Samhain – Samhain III: November-Coming-Fire

Samurai – Weapon Master

Satan – Into the Future

Joe Satriani – Not of This Earth

Savage Grace – After the Fall from Grace

Savatage – Fight for the Rock

Sepultura – Morbid Visions

Slaughter – Strappado

Slayer – Reign in Blood

Sodom – Obsessed by Cruelty

Sortilège – Larmes de Héros

Steeler – Strike Back

Stryper – To Hell with the Devil

Tankard – Zombie Attack

Tesla – Mechanical Resonance

Thor – Recruits: Wild in the Streets

Tony MacAlpine – Edge of Insanity

Trilogy – Next in Line

Triumph – The Sport of Kings

Tygers of Pan Tang – First Kill

Tyrant – Running Hot

The Accüsed – The Return of… Martha Splatterhead

Van Halen – 5150

Vardis – Vigilante

Venom – Eine Kleine Nachtmusik

Vinnie Moore – Mind’s Eye

Vinnie Vincent Invasion – Vinnie Vincent Invasion

Virgin Steele – Noble Savage

Voivod – Rrröööaaarrr

Vulcain – Big Brothers

Vulcano – Bloody Vengeance

W.A.S.P. – Inside the Electric Circus

Whiplash – Power and Pain

Yngwie Malmsteen – Trilogy