Albums currently kicking your ass

[CiG]

The album is so much better, but then again The Holy Empire is actually my preferred Warlord album, which I'm sure is controversial.

 

[HamburgerBoy]

 

[CiG]

 

[The Ozzman]

Chris could frigging belt it, pipes of steel

The most versatile grunge era vocalist for sure.

 

[CiG]

Are you saying he was the most versatile singer of the entire 1990's?

 

[The Ozzman]

Are you saying he was the most versatile singer of the entire 1990's?

He was the most versatile of the grunge band vocalists

 

[CiG]

Huh, for some reason I never thought of Soundgarden as a grunge band.

 

[Vilden]

What?

 

[no country for old wainds]

grunge has always been a slightly dubious genre tag, seemed to be more of a 'rock band from seattle' thing than anything particularly concrete. i'm not sure the likes of nirvana, soundgarden, pearl jam, alice in chains, screaming trees, tad, mudhoney, green river, babes in toyland etc would all consider themselves part of the same movement/sub-genre/whatever, and in fact a lot of these bands refused the tag outright.

 

[dwellerINTHEdark]

 

[Baroque]

grunge has always been a slightly dubious genre tag, seemed to be more of a 'rock band from seattle' thing than anything particularly concrete. i'm not sure the likes of nirvana, soundgarden, pearl jam, alice in chains, screaming trees, tad, mudhoney, green river, babes in toyland etc would all consider themselves part of the same movement/sub-genre/whatever, and in fact a lot of these bands refused the tag outright.

I agree grunge is not a well defined term (but neither are many music subgenres). Not sure the rock band from Seattle thing fits either. Aren't STP considered grunge and they're from San Diego. Smashing Pumpkins definitely have some grunge songs and they're from Chicago. Also a lot of bands made both grunge and non grunge songs, making them hard to label.

 

[no country for old wainds]

true, i just meant a lot of seattle bands got lumped into it for no obvious reason beyond their location.

 

[I-TEND-TO-DIE]

 

[Krow]

Minimalistic desert western with a big crunchy guitar tone and full of psychedelia. Still this is very different from most things I've seen described that way. This seems much darker.

 

[CiG]

I agree grunge is not a well defined term (but neither are many music subgenres). Not sure the rock band from Seattle thing fits either. Aren't STP considered grunge and they're from San Diego. Smashing Pumpkins definitely have some grunge songs and they're from Chicago. Also a lot of bands made both grunge and non grunge songs, making them hard to label.

true, i just meant a lot of seattle bands got lumped into it for no obvious reason beyond their location.

Yeah, what @no country for old wainds said, that it seems like any band from the Seattle area from the 90's is just called grunge. It's weird.

 

[HamburgerBoy]

Surprisingly good tbh.

 

[The Ozzman]

Surprisingly good tbh.

I prefer Dark Roots of Earth. This one felt flat to me.

 

[HamburgerBoy]

Opposite for me, Dark Roots and Formation seemed totally bland and at least a bit melothrashy, this one had a proper retro style (but without getting repetitious or plagiaristic or anything). But then again, it reminded me more of Exodus than usual, and I like Exodus more than Testament.

And Canna-Business is obviously the greatest song title in their discography.

 

[The Ozzman]

Opposite for me, Dark Roots and Formation seemed totally bland and at least a bit melothrashy, this one had a proper retro style (but without getting repetitious or plagiaristic or anything). But then again, it reminded me more of Exodus than usual, and I like Exodus more than Testament.

And Canna-Business is obviously the greatest song title in their discography.

I agree with you on Formation. That hasn't aged well at all.

 

[dwellerINTHEdark]

Absurd Totenlieder