Top Five 90's Metal Albums
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- Super_Starr
I have a light day today, so I am asking what everyones top five metal albums of the 90's are. It is a tough pick and I know some of you will swear that your list is best, but here is mine.
1. Pantera: Vulgar Display of Power- I still cannot stop listening to it. I think I will listen to it forever. I don't know what that says about me, but it is true.
2. Metallica: Black Album - I know some of you are saying it sucked and its cheesy, but it's still the best cheese I have ever heard. Yes, Master of Puppets is thier BEST of all time, but that was the 80's so it doesn't count on this list.
3. Tool: Undertow - Just completely brilliantly done. I don't know how to explain it. Undertow was the best. Undertow is the album that made me go to my first small show at a dumpy theatre in the city and see a world I had never seen before. It was a religous experience. Undertow's timing was perfect too. No one sounded the way they did when it came out. I guess no one does still to this day either, including Tool since they seem to be some kind of power chording heavy metal Pink floyd thing nowadays. Don't get me wrong I still love them, I just wish we could have more like Undertow.
4. Quicksand: Slip - Slip is just sonicly perfect to me. I remember hearing it for the first time when I was a kid in my buddys car and being like dude who is this??? This is SO AWESOME. I gotta get
this! Slip is another one I still cannot stop listeng too and will probably listen to forever.5. Rage Against the Machine: Evil Empire - Simply the best bouncy rap metal at its finest and most lyrcally potent. Not to mention it is the father to all of the rap metal out nowadays.
- TheTick0
Here are my overlooked classics from that decade:
Corrosion of Conformity: Deliverance
Down: Nola
Warrior Soul: Last Decade, Dead Century
Extreme: Waiting for the Punchline (they give up the glam and hairspray and discover their inner Zepplin)
Kyuss: Blues for the Red Sun
And Metallica ..Justice (1990) trumps the black album hands down...
- TheTick0
Crap..five is too few..you bastard..here's my adendum:
Monster Magnet: Spine of God
Rage Against the Machine: S/T
Slayer: Seasons in the Abyss
Megadeth: Rust in Piece
Meshugah: Destroy Erase Improve
Alice in Chains: Dirt
Deftones: Adrenaline
Queensryche: EmpireAnd good call on Quicksand's Slip - awesome record)
- ross0
please define metal. your list confuses me. is rage metal? if they are, my father was the queen of england and my mother was a horse.
- TheTick0
Rage? Sure, they were metal. Take away Zaks' vocal delivery and you got a bunch of Sabbath riffs. Nothing more metal than Sabbath.
- jaylarson0
Nice Tick, Warrior Soul.
1. Marilyn Manson - Portrait of an American Family
2. Soulfly - Soulfly
3. Pantera - Cowboys from Hell
4. White Zombie - Astro Creep 2000
5. Ministry - Psalm 69
- Grinch0
Metallica - And Justice For All
Pantera - Great Southern Trend Kill
Testament - Practice you preach
Anthrax - State Of Euphoria
Pantera - Vulgar Display of Power
- fullerc0
was Quicksand Manic Depression a 90's Album? That was one freakin good disc!
Is HELMET metal?
- jevad0
holy shit superstar - you totally fucking nailed it!! - except for the rage album - the first one kicked ass - all others after it paled in comparison...
- arinya0
RATM is not metal.......
- arinya0
oh and how can you list Undertow but not mention Aenima?????
- jaylarson0
Nuclear Assault was kinda cool too.... Suicidal's Lights Camera Revolution...
- sherman0
what about rap metal?
- jevad0
RATM were definately 90's 'metal'
- johndiggity0
biohazard
- shilohous0
Queensryche?
lets bundle the scorps in there then
bad boys runnin wild, so you better get outta thier wee
- TheTick0
RATM is certainly metal as far as the music industry was concerned. I worked in metal radio late 80's early 90's we got plenty of promo material for them from Columbia. They're metal. What else would you classify them as? Sure, maybe rap-metal, nu-metal...you might have a hyphen in there, but the other end of that hyphen is "metal".
- shilohous0
what about post-punk
- TheTick0
Heck, RATM's "Tire Me" won a 1997 Grammy Award for Best Metal Performance. Not to say that the Grammy's know anything about metal cred, but face it man, they're metal...
- fullerc0
"Not to say that the Grammy's know anything about metal cred"
Didn't Jethro Tull beat out Janes Addiction, Iggy Pop, and Metallica for best Metal one year? None of them are even metal and just 'cause Metallica has the word "metal" in their title doesn't mean they're "metal"
- blaw0
mercyful fate's 'time', king diamond's 'voodoo', and type o negative's 'bloody kisses' all deserve a mention.