Appetite for Destruction
It's from 1987, before you were born.
- Artist
- Guns N' Roses
- Genre
- Hard rock
- Released
- 1987
- Note
- best-selling debut album in the U.S.
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About
As of 2026, it's 39 years old.
Appetite for Destruction is the best-selling debut album in U.S. history and the sound of rock getting dangerous again — Guns N' Roses arrived in 1987 as a sleazy, snarling antidote to polished pop-metal, with Slash's top-hat riffs and Axl Rose's banshee wail. 'Sweet Child o' Mine,' built around a guitar warm-up exercise Slash was just goofing around with, became their signature.
'Welcome to the Jungle' and 'Paradise City' rounded out a record that felt genuinely volatile, which was precisely the appeal.
Raw, dangerous, and record-shattering, Appetite for Destruction is the debut that dragged rock back to the gutter and became the best-selling first album America had ever seen.
