Top Ten Lists - 1987

1. King Diamond Abigail
2. Celtic Frost Into The Pandemonium
3. Pentagram Day Of Reckoning
4. Hades Resisting Success
5. Dream Death Journey Into Mystery
6. Mekong Delta Mekong Delta
7. Voivod Killing Technology
8. Agent Steel Unstoppable Force
9. Satan Suspended Sentence
10. Trouble Run To The Light

1. Helloween Keeper Of The Seven Keys Part I
2. Anthrax Among The Living
3. Testament The Legacy
4. Guns'n'Roses Appetite For Destruction
5. King Diamond Abigail
6. Death Scream Bloody Gore
7. Overkill Taking Over
8. Savatage In The Hall Of The Mountain King
9. Candlemass Nightfall
10. Celtic Frost Into The Pandemonium

Abigail isn't as good as its successor, Them, but nonetheless it's the best album of 1987. Mekong Delta's debut is the first of several that would eventually make my Top Ten lists, though in retrospect it isn't their best.

Somewhat of a letdown following 1986's list, but there are some seminal albums here, with Death's debut signalling the initial rise of death metal and Appetite For Destruction, one of the most popular hard rock albums of all time, showing strong as well.