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| Early 90's Heavy Heroes
Shortly after Hair Rock bands crashed to the ground in a fiery inferno; the view was bleak for metal bands. However, the following bands kept their foot on heavy and rode us into the next metal movements: nu-metal, metalcore, stoner rock/metal, etc. Props to these bands! | 1 | | Pantera Vulgar Display of Power
No one more than Pantera kept metal alive during the early to mid 1990's. | 2 | | Soundgarden Badmotorfinger
Although Grunge, this album was heavy as hell - same as Tad's albums. | 3 | | Alice in Chains Facelift
Similarly, this grunge album kept the heavy up front. So did Gruntruck. | 4 | | Helmet Meantime
Totally responsible for dropped D tuning and staccato, jazz-influenced metal riffing. | 5 | | Tool Opiate
Even with Opiate, Tool's brand of metal sounded unlike any others. Except maybe Quicksand (see below). | 6 | | Masters of Reality Masters of Reality
Heavier rock in 1990 - unlike any hair metal out there. Helped spawn Stoner Rock. Black Cat Bone was another similar band in this vein. | 7 | | Kyuss Blues for the Red Sun
None were denser in tone that Kyuss. Set the blueprint for all stoner rock to come, and much stoner metal as well. | 8 | | Peach Giving Birth To A Stone
One of the first alternative metal albums out there, even before Tool went alternative metal | 9 | | Prong Prove You Wrong
NYC-hardcore influenced metal that brought it hard | 10 | | Sepultura Chaos A.D.
Had never heard anything like this album before. Another blueprint for metal to come. | 11 | | Machine Head Burn My Eyes
1994 - but still brought a heaviness not seen before | 12 | | White Zombie La Sexorcisto-Devil Music Vol. 1
True devil worshiping metal/noise rock. Made the 80's satanic pretenders (e.g., Motley Crue) just that. | 13 | | Galactic Cowboys Galactic Cowboys
Texas thrash metal with harmony and alternative leanings. Heavy as hell. Love this! | 14 | | Quicksand Slip
Set the blueprint for ---> Tool? | 15 | | Ministry Psalm 69
Although industrial, influenced metal a lot! | 16 | | Ugly Kid Joe America's Least Wanted
Steeped in Black Sabbath, this band had some hard hitting tracks | 17 | | Fear Factory Fear Is the Mindkiller
An early industrial metal juggernaut | 18 | | Type O Negative Bloody Kisses
Peter Steele was a beast on the bass | 19 | | Life of Agony River Runs Red
A lesson in agony and despair | |
Senetrix666
01.17.21 | It was never bleak for metal lol death metal had a renaissance in the late 80s and early 90s. Black metal also became massive in the early 90s as well | JDubb
01.17.21 | It was bleak Dude - I lived it. I think about everyone sold back their hair metal CDs in the span of days. Trash the old, in with the new. | Dewinged
01.17.21 | I didn't, actually still got dem LPs.
I drifted to grunge for a while that's true, like everyone else, but in the background, in the solitude of my room, there was always and only hair metal. | parksungjoon
01.17.21 | 9 is underrated so props for that
13 is interesting even if im not too big on those guys | Senetrix666
01.17.21 | Also there were plenty of metal albums released before BME that were way heavier. Seems like you’re only focusing on mostly mainstream stuff here | JDubb
01.17.21 | When grunge hit, I was in my early teens. Some Metallica and MEGADETH worship continued; but absolutely none of the metal heads of my age were talking up black or death metal. That wasn’t even on our radar, at all. Call it mainstream if you want. | JDubb
01.17.21 | At the time, our view was really limited to what we could see (on mtv) and get. If it wasn’t on mtv in daylight hours, it almost didn’t exist. At that age, I was not allowed to stay up to see headbangers ball. | JasonCarne
01.17.21 | "It was bleak Dude - I lived it"...."At that age, I was not allowed to stay up to see headbangers ball"
So you "lived it" when you were...9? Metal was plenty alive in the 90's, it just existed past your bedtime. | JDubb
01.17.21 | Alright - entertain me then. Please expound upon these other non-mainstream bands (as if Pantera or Sepultura were ever mainstream) that "existed past my bedtime" and helped keep metal "alive in the 90's". Just asking for a few examples... |
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