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{{Short description|1987 studio album by Guns N' Roses}}
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{{Infobox album
| name         = Appetite for Destruction
| type         = studio
| artist       = [[Guns N' Roses]]
| cover        = GunsnRosesAppetiteforDestructionalbumcover.jpg
| border       = yes
| alt          = Skulls resembling the band members on an ornate cross on a black background. Above and below the cross are banners that read out the band name and album title.
| caption      = CD and digital cover{{efn|On the vinyl cover, the band name and album title are written sideways on the left and right.}}
| released     = {{start date|1987|7|21}}
| recorded     = January 18 – June 23, 1987
| studio       = *[[Rumbo Recorders|Rumbo]], [[Canoga Park, Los Angeles|Canoga Park]]
*Take One, [[Burbank, California|Burbank]]
*[[Record Plant]], Los Angeles
*Can Am, Los Angeles
| genre        = * [[Hard rock]]
* [[Heavy metal music|heavy metal]]
* [[glam metal]]
| length       = 53:52
| label        = [[Geffen Records|Geffen]]
| producer     = [[Mike Clink]]
| prev_title   = [[Live ?!*@ Like a Suicide]]
| prev_year    = 1986
| next_title   = [[Guns N' Roses (EP)|Guns N' Roses]]
| next_year    = 1988
| misc         = {{Singles
 | name        = Appetite for Destruction
 | type        = Studio
 | single1     = [[It's So Easy (Guns N' Roses song)|It's So Easy]]"/"[[Mr. Brownstone]]
 | single1date = June 8, 1987
 | single2     = [[Welcome to the Jungle]]
 | single2date = September 21, 1987<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.worldradiohistory.com/UK/Music-Week/1987/Music-Week-1987-09-19-I.pdf|title=Music Week|page=56}}</ref>
 | single3     = [[Sweet Child o' Mine]]
 | single3date = June 1988
 | single4     = [[Paradise City]]
 | single4date = January 1989 
 | single5     = [[Nightrain]]
 | single5date = July 1989
}}{{Extra album cover
 | header  = Alternative cover
 | type    = studio
 | cover   = Appetitefordestruction.jpg
 | border  =
 | alt     = An open-shirted woman leaning against a wooden fence after being raped by a robot which is about to be crushed by a dagger-toothed monster.
| caption  = Original cover, which was replaced shortly after release
}}
}}
'''''Appetite for Destruction''''' is the debut studio album by American [[hard rock]] band [[Guns N' Roses]], released on July 21, 1987, by [[Geffen Records]]. It initially received little mainstream attention, and it was not until the following year that ''Appetite for Destruction'' became a commercial success, after the band had toured and received significant [[airplay]] with the singles "[[Welcome to the Jungle]]", "[[Paradise City]]", and "[[Sweet Child o' Mine]]". The album went on to peak at number one on the US [[Billboard 200|''Billboard'' 200]], and it became the seventh [[List of best-selling albums in the United States|best-selling album of all time in the United States]], as well as the best-selling debut album in the country. With over 30 million copies sold, it is also one of the [[List of best-selling albums|best-selling albums]] worldwide.

Although critics were originally ambivalent toward the album, ''Appetite for Destruction'' has received retrospective acclaim and been viewed as one of the greatest albums of all time. In 2018, it was re-released as a remastered box set to similar universal acclaim.