This is an article about the events of heavy metal in the year 1988.
Newly formed bands
16volt
Abramelin
Acheron
The Almighty
Amon Amarth (known as Scum until 1992) Anal Cunt Ancient Rites Asphalt Ballet Asrai Atrox Axxis Babylon A.D. Badlands Bang Tango The Big F Broken Hope Cadaver Cancer Cannibal Corpse Carbonized Carnage Circle of Dust Cold as Life Convulse Cripple Bastards Cryptopsy Deftones Depressive Age Desaster Desperado Dismember Divididos Dizzy Mizz Lizzy Electric Boys Epizod Expulsion Eyehategod Fudge Tunnel God Macabre Goreaphobia Inquisition Integrity Iron Man Kik Tracee Killing Time Kong La Renga Mägo de Oz Mother Love Bone Mr. Big Naked City Nine Inch Nails Nirvana 2002 Nitro Opera IX Paradise Lost Psychotic Waltz Pungent Stench Rhino Bucket Sacred Warrior Saigon Kick Shihad Sinister The Smashing Pumpkins Soilent Green Solitude Aeturnus Sorcerer Soziedad Alkoholika Suffocation Tad Threshold Tin Machine Unanimated Unholy Vital Remains White Skull Winter Xysma