Reading through my Terrorizer Mag - Most Important Albums of the 90's

[J.]

And I was wondering if you guys could give opinions on some of these albums that Terrorizer either listed as one of the 100 Most Important Albums of the 90's or as an "also recommended 90's album. It's split up into genres, so I'll just go genre by genre:

Death Metal:
Grave - Soulless
Incantation - Diabolical Conquest

Noise Rock:
The Jesus Lizard - Liar
Shellac - At Action Park
Earth - Earth 2

Thrash:
nothing

Industrial:
Pitch Shifter - Infotainment?

Black Metal:
Rotting Christ - Thy Mighty Contract

I'll skip hardcore, metalcore, and noisecore for obvious reasons.

Stoner, Doom, Desert:
Karma to Burn - Wild, Wonderful, Purgatory
Fu Manchu - Eatin' Dust

Atmospheric, Gothic:
Beyond Dawn - Electric Sulking Machine
Beyond Dawn - Revelry
Cranes - Forever
Fields of the Nephilim - Elizium

I'll skip crust and grind.

I'll skip heavy metal

I'll skip Calimetal (though I'm not sure what the hell this is, but apparently it includes Tool, Primus, Fear Factory, Korn, Mr. Bungle, and Slipknot)


Opinions on some of the 100 Most Important Albums from the 90's:

Caspar Brotzmann Massaker - Koksofen
Dismember - Like an Everflowing Stream

Thanks and discuss. If anyone wants to know what Terrorizer thought was the most important from a given genre, let me know and I'll try to list 'em.

 

[MajestikMøøse]

Black Metal:
Rotting Christ - Thy Mighty Contract

They seem to be missing DMDS, HLTO, Transilvanian Hunger and many other ESSENTIAL 666/10 BUY OR DIE AND DIE AGAIN IN HELL FROM ETERNAL ANAL PINEAPPLE RAPE AND SUBSEQUENT RECTAL HEMMORAGING albums.

 

[J.]

thos are all there, but I don't need opinions on them.

 

[Demilich]

Rotting Christ - Thy Mighty Contract

Welll, closest I can come on this is Varathron's His Majesty At The Swamp, a related Greek band. I've only heard it once, but it's definitely not typical derivative black metal. Warmer production, different riffs. About all I can say from one listen. I liked it, though.

 

[MajestikMøøse]

thos are all there, but I don't need opinions on them.

oh I see. Carry on.

 

[JayKeeley]

Which Terrorizer is this? The current one with James Hetfield on the cover?

 

[En Vind Av Sorg]

I have heard that rotting christ. Honestly, its not as bad as many would have you believe, but its really not very memorable. Thats all ive heard from what you listed though.

 

[J.]

Which Terrorizer is this? The current one with James Hetfield on the cover?

This is a very old issue that came out back in early 2000.

 

[JayKeeley]

Aha, because the new Terrorizer does a similar article listing the best of the best second wave Black Metal albums...including In the Woods, Fleurety, Ulver's Bergtatt, etc. But I digress....carry on! (Haven't heard a single album in that list above, except Dismember, but I've only heard that once).

 

[J.]

Nice to see the Fleurety album getting mentioned.

 

[Demilich]

Dismember - Like an Everflowing Stream

I may have next to no credibility around here, but this album is very good!

 

[lurch70]

I may have next to no credibility around here, but this album is very good!

i remember this as being one of the first DM releases with some "melody"

 

[Carbonized]

Karma to Burn - Wild, Wonderful, Purgatory

This i have, Stoner obviously but without vocals. I like it a lot though and obviously i'm terrible at describing a band so i'll give you a quoted review and a sample. It was hard for me to choose one song over another since it's quite diverse but still quite rocking.

Heavy metal has, too often, been a case of great music, shame about the singer. It's been true since the cod-poetic warblings of erstwhile-hippy cock rockers, right up to the present-day offerings of sad white boy pseudo-rappers.
So hats off to Yank rockers Karma To Burn, who had the sense, the taste and the balls (don't forget the balls) to part with their tiresome vocalist, minutes before an important London gig last year. 'Wild, Wonderful... Purgatory' is their first album in this new incarnation. And it rocks, hard.

Tracks are numbered rather than titled, in the order in which they were recorded. So '32' is the slaughterhouse groove characterised by the wildfire barbed wire guitar breaks; '25' is the slothful Sabbath grind; '30' the colossal, feral beast with all the ferocity of a Rottweiler which has been chained up and fed nothing but raw, red meat for weeks.

If there's an overall stoner-rock vibe to the proceedings, then it is tempered by Karma To Burn's discipline: not a single note is wasted, and there's no big-haired egomaniac chundering artlessly along to distract you from the hypnotic beauty of the riffs. Sniff out the testosterone, strike that match, and stand well back

http://s20.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=01KIITC9XXXEB034L4L4GBFENM

 

[Demilich]

i remember this as being one of the first DM releases with some "melody"

I was 6 years old when it was released, but it sounds good to this date!

 

[Carbonized]

Did you listen to that upload J. (or anyone else)? It seems like 90% of the time my posts go unnoticed which can be rather frustrating if i'm in an off mood.

 

[J.]

the download didn't work for some reason.

 

[NAD]

Somebody gonna type up the whole list or what? I'd like to know what they consider essential.

Pitch Shifter fucking BLOW. I'd put them in top 10 worst bands ever (although I've only heard like 2 songs). Earth is who Sunn O))) pay tribute to, but I haven't heard them.

I'll skip Calimetal (though I'm not sure what the hell this is, but apparently it includes Tool, Primus, Fear Factory, Korn, Mr. Bungle, and Slipknot)

Gee, that's not a whole mishmash of types of music now, is it. :Smug: MESHUGGAH, IN FLAMES, AND ABBA REPLICATE THE SOUND OF SWEDEN!

 

[Carbonized]

Oh well damn, you should have said something :/ Sorry about that, i uploaded it again and hopefully it works this time for you.

http://s50.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=2FX35ZV15N2650RXFEX6WUYS2R

 

[J.]

100 Most Important Albums of the 90's by Terrorizer:

Album of the Nineties: Carcass - Necroticism

Agnostic Front - One Voice
Alice in Chains - Dirt
Amorphis - Tales From the 1000 Lakes
Anathema - Alternative 4
Arcturus - La Masquerade Infernale
At the Gates - Slaughter of the Soul
Autopsy - Mental Funeral
Avail - 4AM Friday
Brutal Truth - Need to Control
Burzum - Hvis Lyset Tar Oss
Bolt Thrower - War Master
Carspar Brotzmann Massaker - Koksofen
Carcass - Heartwork
Cathedral - Ethereal Mirror
Cradle of Filth - The Principle of Evil Made Flesh
Cynic - Focus
Darkthrone - A Blaze in the Northern Sky
Dark Tranquillity - The Gallery
Dawn - Slaughtersun (Crown of the Triarchy)
Deadguy - Fixation on a Co-Worker
Deicide - Deicide
Depeche Mode - Violator
Diamanda Galas - Plague Mass
Dismember - Like an Ever Flowing Stream
Dissection - The Somberlain
Dissection - Storm of the Light's Bane
Emperor - In the Nightside Eclipse
Emperor - Anthems to the Welkin at Dusk
Entombed - Left Hand Path
Entombed - Clandestine
Entombed - Wolverine Blues
Eyehategod - Take as Needed for Pain
Faith No More - Angel Dust
Fear Factory - Demanufature
Fugazi - Repeater
Fugazi - In on the Kill Taker
God - Possession
Godflesh - Pure
Hammerfall - Glory to the Brave
The Haunted - The Haunted
Helmet - Meantime
Immortal - Pure Holocaust
In the Woods... - Omnio
Iron Monkey - Our Problem
Jane's Addiction - Ritual De Lo Habitual
Judas Priest - Painkiller
Katatonia - Brave Murder Day
Killing Joke - Extremities, Dirt and Various Repressed Emotions
Korn - Korn
Kyuss - Blues for the Red Sun
Kyuss - Sky Valley
Machine Head - Burn My Eyes
Mayhem - De Mysteriis Dom Sathanas
Megadeth - Rust in Peace
Metallica - Metallica
Melvins - Houdini
Ministry - Psalm 69
Monster Magnet - Spine of God
Monster Magnet - Powertrip
Morbid Angel - Blessed are the Sick
Morbid Angel - Domination
Morbid Angel - Covenant
My Dying Bride - Turn Loose the Swans
Naked City - Torture Garden
Napalm Death - Harmony Corruption
Neurosis - Souls at Zero
Neurosis - Enemy of the Sun
Neurosis - Through Silver in Blood
Nile - Amongst the Catacombs of Nephren-Ka
Nine Inch Nails - Pretty Hate Machine
Nirvana - Nevermind
Obituary - Cause of Death
Opeth - Orchid
Panasonic - Vakio
Pantera - A Vulgar Display of Power
Paradise Lost - Gothic
Rage Against the Machine - Rage Against the Machine
Refused - The Shape of Punk to Come
Rollins Band - The End of Silence
Scorn - Evanescence
Sepultura - Arise
Sepultura - Chaos AD
Sick of It All - Scratch the Surface
Sigh - Hail Horror Hail
Slayer - Seasons in the Abyss
Slint - Spiderland
Soundgarden - Badmotorfinger
Strapping Young Lad - City
Suffocation - Effigy of the Forgotten
Swans - White Light From the Mouth of Infinity
Swans - The Great Annihilator
Swans - Soundtracks for the Blind
Tool - Aenima
Type O Negative - Bloody Kisses
Type O Negative - October Rust
Ulver - Themes From William Blake's The Marriage of Heaven and Hell
Vision of Disorder - Imprint
The World of Skin - Ten Songs for Another World
The Young Gods - TV Sky

I'll list the "also recommended albums later

 

[Krilons Resa]

100 Most Important Albums of the 90's by Terrorizer:


Alice in Chains - Dirt
Anathema - Alternative 4
Autopsy - Mental Funeral
Burzum - Hvis Lyset Tar Oss
Darkthrone - A Blaze in the Northern Sky
Emperor - In the Nightside Eclipse
Faith No More - Angel Dust
Immortal - Pure Holocaust
Katatonia - Brave Murder Day
Kyuss - Blues for the Red Sun
Kyuss - Sky Valley
Mayhem - De Mysteriis Dom Sathanas
Megadeth - Rust in Peace
My Dying Bride - Turn Loose the Swans
Neurosis - Souls at Zero
Neurosis - Enemy of the Sun
Neurosis - Through Silver in Blood
Nine Inch Nails - Pretty Hate Machine
Opeth - Orchid
Sepultura - Arise
Slayer - Seasons in the Abyss
Swans - White Light From the Mouth of Infinity
Swans - The Great Annihilator
Swans - Soundtracks for the Blind
Tool - Aenima

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