Best album from 1986?

[Anom@nder Rake]

1986 was a huge year for metal. A lot of big name put out great albums but which one do you think is the best? There's so many classics from this year that I'm going to have to listen to them again before I can come up with a decision.

 

[Onder]

Deténte - Recognize No Authority

 

[HaggardBastard]

Kreator - Pleasure to Kill.

I was tempted to say Slayer's Reign in Blood, which is probably the most deserving of the title, but Pleasure to Kill is fucking violent, laying the template for a lot of mid-90s black metal (De Mysteriis Dom Sathanas anyone?). Plus, everybody and their fucking mother'll probably vote for Reign in Blood.

I also considered Darkness Descends, which, like Pleasure to Kill, also had a huge influence on a lot of black metal as it developed away from simple Hellhammer/Bathory worship.

 

[Vegard Pompey]

I don't see what's so special about 1986. My favourite album from that year is probably Voivod's Rrröööaaarrr, Master of Puppets or Somewhere in Time... I voted for other for Rrröööaaarrr.

 

[supseudonymous]

Bathory, Fates Warning, Helloween, and Saint Vitus releases are all good contenders absent from the poll.

 

[V.V.V.V.V.]

Darkness Descends, honorable mentions to Sodom and Bathory, plus others prob.

 

[Slayed Necros]

Wasn't Under the Sign of the Black Mark released in '87? I gave my vote to Sepultura's Morbid Visions.

 

[Addo_Of_Nex]

I picked Pleasure to Kill, though Darkness Descends and Epicus Doomicus Metallicus made it tough. I'm sure there are tons of other releases that I'm forgetting that I enjoy more than the aforementioned, but I rarely pay attention to specific years in which albums are released.

Edit: I also always thought that Under The Sign Of The Black Mark was an 86' release, but it was indeed released in 87' (according to MA).

 

[Zephyrus]

Tough call between Reign in Blood and Pleasure to Kill, but the former takes the cake.

 

[V.V.V.V.V.]

Wasn't Under the Sign of the Black Mark released in '87?

Hm...you're right. Weird.

 

[Thoth-Amon]

i voted MOP. RIB is as good imo but MOP seems like a fuller and more well rounded album. so it gets my vote. frankly nothing on else on this list comes close to those two.

 

[audiophileguy]

Epicus followed closely by darkness descends

 

[Mort Divine]

Candlemass obviously.

 

[The Ozzman]

This is a tough choice. Every album I have heard on this list is good.

 

[Alex78]

Fates Warning

Awaken The Guardian ftw

 

[Psychonaut]

Man. I had to go with Reign in Blood with massive props to Master of Puppets, Fatal Portrait, The Dark, One Foot in Hell, Somewhere in Time, and Pleasure to Kill. What a tough poll.

 

[Vilden]

I'm a huge fan of lots of bands with great releases 86, like Candlemass, Fates Warning, Dark Angel, Cirith Ungol, Manilla Road, etc. But I'm sorry to say, there aren't many albums out there that tops the best Iron Maiden album ever.

 

[rms]

Pleasure to Kill

 

[Belligerent]

Wow a tough poll indeed. Voted Master of Puppets tho'.

 

[ramses]

FATES WARNING- Awaken the Gaurdian to me was the best that year. And still is one of the best metal albums of all time. Great list, though. Even though thrash was around since 82/83, 1986 was the watershed year for the genre.