10 Greatest Final Rock Albums Of The 1980s

10. Guilty As Charged! - Culprit

Though this list won't be full of them, it will contain a few examples of albums that were a band's last, first, and only.

Is that cheating? Maybe a little bit, but it's still technically counts, so shush.

Culprit were formed in Seattle, Washington in 1981 and got a taste of success when their song Players made its way onto a compilation CD made by Shrapnel Records.

Shrapnel are probably most notable for introducing American audiences to Yngwie Malmsteen, but, alas, not much else.

Culprit's one and only studio album, Guilty as Charged!, was released in 1983 and, alas, failed to make a splash. Just two years later, the group went their separate ways, and that was the end of that.

Or was it?

Since then, the album has undergone somewhat of a renaissance, with AllMusic calling it "a lost gem of American metal from the 1980s".

The positive reception to Guilty as Charged! led to the band reforming in 2010 and recording a live version of the record in 2019. Apparently, a second album is in the works, but, for now at least, this remains their only studio release.