Summary: Continuing our countdown of Crucial Years in Metal, we arrive at 1988. A year when thrash was approaching it's zenith and grindcore and death metal were beginning their rise. The rapidly approaching reign of Earache Records was only a few years away and the tent pole bands of Carcass and Napalm Death were changing as quickly as they released records. Within a few short years we'd see the rise of Swedish Death Metal scene, black metal's second coming and the apparent decline of the whole genre. Turbulent years are on the horizon, but 1988 marked a year of beginnings and endings in the various genres and sub-genres of the metal umbrella. Blackened (6:40) Metallica - ...and Justice For All TALKSET 1 Spreading the Disease (4:07) Queensryche - Operation: Mindcrime Tribal Convictions (4:52) Voivod - Dimensional Hatross Lucid Fairytale (1:02) Napalm Death - From Enslavement to Obliteration Burnt to a Crisp (2:35) Carcass - Reek of Putrefaction Concession of Pain (2:58) Bolt Thrower - In Battle There is No Law TALKSET 2 Read Between the Lies (3:21) Slayer - South of Heaven Trial by Fire (4:14) Testament - A New Order Born Dead (3:25) Death - Leprosy For All Those Who Died (4:58) Bathory - Blood Fire Death The Missing (2:54) Ministry - Land of Rape and Honey TALKSET 3 Beyond The Wheel (4:20) Soundgarden - Ultramega OK Mother (3:26) Danzig - Danzig
