The Finest Metal Album of the 90's?

monquixote

I'm inclined to say Burn My Eyes. 

Can anyone top it? 

This, Sepultura, RATM, Pantera, and Fear Factory were the early 90's for me

Drew_TNBD

monquixote

Shit didn't think of that. 

Hmm you might have me there.. 

Drew_TNBD

randomhandclaps

Drew_fx said:

Aenima

Clear winner for me.

Honourable mention for Vulgar Display Of Power.

mike_l

For me Maiden's Fear of the dark

Although all the aforementioned albums are crackers.

In my old rugby playing days I'd always listen to Sepultura's Refuse/resist and Territory and Panteras Fucking hostile and Mouth for war, before playing.

Bucket

I don't like Machine Head that much... unfamiliar with Aenima but will need to check it out. "Arise" and "Chaos AD" by Sepultura are great albums, and I love "Cowboys From Hell" too. The Black Album is an obvious one, but there's a reason for that I guess...

"Around the Fur" by Deftones, anyone? Or perhaps "Awake" by Dream Theater. We can't forget "October Rust" and "World Coming Down" by Type O Negative, or "Rust in Peace" by Megadeth.

Or "Heartwork" by Carcass... that's a stunning album, and certainly one of the most important metal albums in terms of the vast number of bands it inspired (it was among the first melodic death metal albums, and therefore is likely to have influenced many of today's modern metalcore bands, whether they know it or not).

I think my favourite is still "Ocean Machine" by Devin Townsend, but that's the best album ever so it was going to be tough to beat.

RocknRollDave

@Bucket - Agree on MH. I bought The Blackening because so many raved about it...and was bored rigid by it.


My controversial choice would be Anthrax's Sound Of White Noise.
This era of the band is usually overlooked as it's their time with John Bush fronting the band - and in my eyes they became a more serious band, doing away with the cliche trappings they had before.
Great album, maybe not "Metal" enough for the fans, though.

On a more traditional note, Slayer's high water mark for me was Seasons In The Abyss, which just about nudged into the 90's. They were never as good again.

That said, I have a huge soft spot for Down, and their debut, Nola, is their only release of that decade, so that definitely gets a worthy mention.

axisus

Stryper - to hell with the devil

 

 

 

 

I am joking you of course.

Fazer

Pantera - Vulgar Display Of Power
Prong - Cleansing
Sepultura - Roots

mike_l

RocknRollDave said:

My controversial choice would be Anthrax's Sound Of White Noise.
This era of the band is usually overlooked as it's their time with John Bush fronting the band - and in my eyes they became a more serious band, doing away with the cliche trappings they had before.
On a more traditional note, Slayer's high water mark for me was Seasons In The Abyss, which just about nudged into the 90's. They were never as good again.

That said, I have a huge soft spot for Down, and their debut, Nola, is their only release of that decade, so that definitely gets a worthy mention.

I agree with John Bush in Anthrax, better singer than Joey Belladonna.

Slayer were at a high point with SITA, which is slightly behind South of Heaven in my favourite albums of theirs.

I'd forgotten about Down too. Thanks for the reminder

Bucket

RocknRollDave said:

@Bucket - Agree on MH. I bought The Blackening because so many raved about it...and was bored rigid by it.

I agree... some good tunes but it drags on for far too long doing mostly the same thing. And that's their best album as well!

ThePrettyDamned

Pretty much agree with most suggestions on here, especially Pantera, Dream Theatre and Sepultura.  Black Album is a no brainer

I was going to say Waking the Fallen, but turns out that's 2003?! I'm getting old...

I'm going to throw a different one in that might get me flamed a bit - Korn, Follow the Leader.  Still listen to it to this day, and while it's not my chosen brand of metal to love, at the time, bands like this really inspired me to pick up a guitar, along with Hybrid Theory  (which just nudges into 2000).  Far from the finest, but definitely inspired.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jRGrNDV2mKc

monquixote

I think Burn My Eyes is a much better album than The Blackening.

PolarityMan

Good Shouts:

Burn my eye

Aenima

Around the Fur

Sepultura wise I reckon Roots beats out Arise and Chaos AD.

I'll add the following to the mix:

Filter - Short Bus

Stabbing Westward - Darkest Days

Pulkas - Greed

Earthtone9 - Arc'tan'gent

ThePrettyDamned

Slipknot from 99 was pretty good, too.  

Drew_TNBD

KoRn's Follow The Leader was a great album; so was Issues.

DiscoStu

I thought Burn My Eyes was epic when it first came out, but it didn't last the distance with me although Davidian is still a monster track.

Sepultura were my band, and it's between Arise and Chaos AD for me but Chaos AD just pips it.

RocknRollDave

I must be the only person on the planet who prefers Soulfly to Sepultura.

The mid-period ones - Prophecy to Dark Ages or so - are cracking

ChrisMusic

Deep gratitude to @Drew_fx for posting Aenima, magnificent and playing now while I'm reading all this.

Some great music here to work my way through.

Don't ask what happened to my 90s, sometimes life takes a wrong turning, or two, or...

Looks like I am going to enjoy catching up though, as long as I've not peaked too early with Aenima.

Drew_TNBD