Your fav albums of the 90s?

[TRrEiTxIxRiE DTrash]

Ohhhh I completely forgot TNT's "Realised Fantasies" that ROCKS!!!!!

 

[MURAI]

good decade- some of my faves are;
deicide-1st lp
morbid angel-altars
cannibal corpse-eaten
suffocation-effigy
primus-sailing
slayer-seasons
madball-set it off
biohazard-1st l.p.
to name a few...

Yes, I love most of those releases. Just to be knit picky weren't Altars of Madness and Urban Discipline released in 89?

 

[Wheezer]

Eh, I pretty much skipped the 90s.

Me too! I got into the grunge thing a little with AIC and Soundgarden. Tool was about the only new metal I listened to. It was a very dark time for metal from my point of view.

Queensryche from the 90s? Promised Land. That was it for me. Empire never really spun my wheels.

 

[D-KOM]

Judas Priest : Painkiller
Darkthrone : The black Triology + Panzerfaust
Mayhem : De mysteriis dom Sathanas
Manowar : Kings of Metal
Naglfar : Vittra + Diabolical
Chaos feeds Life : Strike upon you MCD
Falkenbach : first two albums
Absurd : Facta Luquuntur
Emperor : in the nightside eclipse
The crown / Crown of Thorns : all abums

 

[carnut]

Also skipped BIG part of the 90's metal scene...Grunge and the overload of death metal bands bored me so much I really didn't care to find other bands that did produce good records in the 90's. Also family situation, building house, having kids, etc... took me away from the scene.
Some recordings I like alot from the 90's are Dream Theatre, Symphony X, Grip Inc, Slayer, Psychotic Waltz , ....

 

[SavaRon]

I missed a bunch of the mid-ninties also. I listened to some of the grunge stuff, but didn't get into many new bands during that period. That being said, I see many albums listed here that I like.

A few I didn't see listed:
Flotsam & Jetsam - Drift
Trouble - Manic Frustration
Dream Theater - Scenes from A Memory
Savatage - Wake Of Magellan
Anthrax - Sound Of White Noise
Loudmouth - S/T

 

[Hawk]

I did not miss the 90. There were a few excellent albums released that may stay unknown forever.

Here are my favorite albums of the 90s ordered by year. I also included the year 2000 for the effect Look at how miserably the 90s begun for me and how gloriously they ended in the year 2000!!


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1990

Anacrusis - Reason
Judas Priest - Pain Killer
Lethal - Programmed
Liege Lord - Master Control
Sanctuary - Into The Mirror Black

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1991

Anacrusis - Manic Impressions
Sepultura - Arise
Sieges Even - A Sense Of Change

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1992

Dream Theater - Images And Words
Paradise Lost - Shades Of God
Psychotic Waltz - Into The Everflow


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1993
Anacrusis - Screams And Whispers
Carcass - Heartwork
Conception - The Last Sunset
Conception - Parallel Minds
Sadist - Above The Light
Savatage - Edge Of Torns

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1994

Dream Theater - Awake
Psychotic Waltz - Mosquito
Savatage - Handfull Of Rain
Savatage - Japan Live '94


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1995

Conception - In Your Multitude
Dream Theater - Falling Into Infinity
Nevermore - Nevermore
Sieges Even - Sophisticated
Steel Prophet - The Goddess Principle
Symphony X - The Damnation Game

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1996

Arch Enemy - Black Earth
Iced Earth - The Dark Saga
Nevermore - In Memory
Nevermore - The Politics Of Ecstacy
Psychotic Waltz - Bleeding
Sadist - Tribe
Sean Malone - Cortland
Spock's Beard - Beware Of Darkness

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1997

Bozzio, Levin, Stevens - Black Light Syndrome
Bruce Dickinson - Accident Of Birth
Conception - Flow
Cosmosquad - Cosmosquad
Exodus - Another Leasson In Violence
Iced Earth - Day's Of Purgatory [3 disc euro version]
Jag Panzer - Fourth Judgement
Sadist - Crust
Saxon - Unleash The Beast
Sieges Even - Uneven
Spastic Ink - Ink Complete
Spock's Beard - The Kindness Of Strangers
Steel Prophet - Into The Void
Symphony X - The Divine Wings Of Tragedy
Tiles - Fence The Clear
Whitesnake - Starkers In Tokyo

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1998

Children Of Bodom - Something Wild
Cradle Of Filth - Cruelty And The Beast
Destiny's End - Breathe Deep The Dark
Dream Theater - Live At Nighttown Rotterdam
Jag Panzer - The Age Of Mastery
Liquid Tension Experiment - Liquid Tension Experiment
Shadow Gallery - Tytanny
Symphony X - Twilight In Olympus
Witchery - Restless & Dead

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1999

A.C.T - Today's Report
Arch Enemy - Burning Bridges
Arch Enemy - Burning japan Live
Ark - Ark
Children Of Bodom - Hatebreeder
Dream Theater - Metropolis Pt2 - Scenes From A Memory
Iced Earth - Alive In Athens
Kamelot - The Fourth Legacy
Liquid Tension Experiment - Liquid Tension Experiment 2
Nevermore - Dreaming Neon Black
Soilwork - Steelbath Suicide
Steel Prophet - Dark Hallucinations
Testament - The Gathering
Tiles - Presents Of Mind

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2000

Annihilator - Criteria For A Black Widow
Ayreon - Universal Migrator Pt1 The Dream Sequencer
Ayreon - Universal Migrator Pt2 Flight Of The Universal Migrator
Blaze - Silicon Messiah
Children Of Bodom - Tokyo Warhearts
Cradle Of Filth - Midian
Destruction - All Hell Breaks Loose
Enchant - Juggling 9 Or Dropping 10
Gordian Knot - Gordian Knot
Imagica - And So It Burns...
Jacob's Dream - Jacob's Dream
Jag Panzer - Thane To The Trone
Jimmy Page And The Black Crowns - Live At The Greek
John Petrucci & Jordan Rudess - An Evening With...
Kansas - Somewere To Elsewhere
Mystic Force - Man vs Machine
Nevermore - Dead Heart In A Dead World
Overkill - Blood Letting
Soilwork - Chainheart Machine
Spiral Architect - A Sceptic's Universe
Steel Prophet - Messiah
Steve Walsh - Glossolalia
Symphony X - V: The New Mythology Suite
Under The Sun - Under The Sun
Witchery - Dead Hot And Ready

 

[Mxgonzo]

I forgot Vanden Plas and Threshold but I did not get into them until 2000

 

[Bryant]

I never got into the grunge scene, but I am glad someone mentioned Pearl Jam "Ten." The pretty much is a masterpiece. However, I found the 90's to really catch afire with the Prog scene.
First, Fates Warning with several releases in the 90's, DT with the epic I&W and Vanden Plas with "The God Thing." Symphony X debuted in the 90's as did Ark and Ayreon.
Some of the oldschool bands were still kicking like Metal Church with "The Human factor" and "Hanging in The Balance." Anthrax released :Sou8nd of White Noise." Armored Saint released "Symbol of Salvation." Black Sabbath was busy with "Cross Purposes" and "Dehumanizer" among others. Flotsam and Jetsam released "Quatro." Megadeth released "Rust in Pieces." Slayer released the epic "Seasons in the Abyss." There are countless others as well, many in my collection, but I don't feel like straining my brain.


bryant

 

[wdiv]

I never got into the grunge scene, but I am glad someone mentioned Pearl Jam "Ten." The pretty much is a masterpiece.

Oh yeah, There are definately some excellent grunge albums. The whole grunge era tends to get filtered out of the "metal" discussions, but there's some great music regardless of what it's labelled.

Pearl Jam's Ten & Vs
Mother Love Bone
AIC - Dirt, Sap, Jar of Flies
STP - Core, Purple
Soundgarden - Badmotorfinger, Superunknown
Nirvana - Nevermind & In Utero (try to look beyond the hype )
Paw - Dragline

 

[Marshall Stack]

Like a few people here I kinda missed out a big chunk of the 90's as well. Don't think I bought any new metal between 92 and 97/98 just replaced a lot of worn out 80's vinyl with cd's.
Anyway these were my favourites of the 90's purely because they were the ones that really got me interested again

Iced Earth - Something Wicked This Way Comes
Blind Guardian - Imaginations From The Other Side
Hammerfall - Legacy Of Kings
Gamma Ray - Powerplant
Nightwish - Oceanborn
Running Wild - Black Hand Inn
Stratovarious - Visions
Angra - Angels Cry
Kamelot - The Fourth Legacy
Rhapsody - Legendary Tales

 

[Fangface]

I started listening metal during the 90's so maybe that's why I have a different look at it but I think the decade is very underrated!
I don't even know where to start...

Nevermore - The Politics of Ecstasy
Judas Priest - Painkiller
Gamma Ray - Land of the Free
Psychotic Waltz - Into the Everflow
Vicious Rumors - Welcome to the Ball
The Gathering - Mandylion
Savatage - Edge of Thorns
Bathory - Twilight of the Gods
Devin Townsend - Ocean Machine
Fates Warning - Parallels
Rage - XIII
Ayreon - Into the Electric Castle
King Diamond - Voodoo
Heathen - Victims of Deception
Metal Church - The Human Factor
Blind Guardian - Somewhere Far Beyond
Slayer - Seasons in the Abyss
Strapping Young Lad - City
Morgana Lefay - Maleficium
Therion - Theli
Bruce Dickinson - Chemical Wedding
Dream Theater - Images and Words
Artillery - By Inheritance
Stygma IV - Court of Eternity
Iced Earth - Night of the Stormrider
Carcass - Heartwork
Queensryche - Empire
Black Sabbath - TYR
Kreator - Coma of Souls
Fear Factory - Demanufacture
Virgin Steele - House of Atreus
Sepultura - Arise
Grave Digger - Excalibur
Solitude Aeturnus - Through The Darkest Hour
Conception - Parallel Minds
Testament - The Gathering
Children of Bodom - Hatebreeder
Sodom - Code Red
Wasp - The Crimson Idol
Running Wild - Black Hand Inn
Anathema - Alternative 4
Tourniquet - Stop the Bleeding
Symphony X - The Divine Wings of Tragedy
Angel Dust - Bleed
Pestilence - Testimony of the Ancients
Lordian Guard - Lordian Guard
Kamelot - The Fourth Legacy
Armored Saint - Symbol of Salvation
...

 

[MadeInNewJersey]

I honestly wouldn't know where to begin. While the '80s had a great selection of absolute essential classics, the '90s were superb for death metal, black metal, viking metal, and power metal. So many great albums...

 

[Wicked Child]

Anthrax-"Persistance of Time"
Anthrax-"Sound of White Noise"
Helloween-"Better Than Raw"
Dio-"Strange Highways"
Black Sabbath-"Tyr"
Black Sabbath-"Cross Purposes"
Testament-"The Gathering"
Children of Bodom-"Hatebreeder"
Judas Priest-"Painkiller"
Motorhead-"Sacrifice"
Megadeth-"Rust in Peace"
Megadeth-"Youthanasia"
King Diamond-"The Spider's Lullibye"
Steve Vai-Passiona nd Warfare"
Pantera-"Cowboys From Hell"
Rush-"Counterparts"
Kiss-"Revenge"
Armored Saint-"Symbol of Salvation"
Alice In Chains-"Facelift"
Alice In Chains-"Dirt"
WASP-"The Crimson Idol"
Queensryche-"Promised Land"
Running Wild-"Black Hand Inn"
Running Wild-"Pile of Skulls"
Running Wild-"Masquerade"
Sepultura-"Arise"
Ted Nugent-"Spirit of the Wild"
Jag Panzer-"Thane to the Throne"
Deep Purple-"Purpendicular"
ZZ Top-"Antenna"
Iced Earth-"Night of the Stormrider"
Iced Earth-"Burnt Offerings"
Iced Earth-"The Dark Saga"
Kreator-"Coma of Souls"
Sodom-"Agent Orange"
Overkill-"Horrorscope"
Overkill-"WFO"
Overkill-"The Killing Kind"
Obituary-"Cause of Death"
Savatage-"Edge of Thorns"
Savatage-"The Wake of Magellan"
Savatage-"Dead Winter Dead"
King's X-"Dog Man"
Symphony X-"The Devine Wings of Tragedy"
Symphony X-"Twilight in Olympus"
Slayer-"Seasons in the Abyss"


damn, i went overboard. Hey, some awesome albums came out in the 90's!

 

[Wheezer]

Armored Saint-"Symbol of Salvation"

I've seen this mentioned in most people's lists in this thread. By far the best Armored Saint disc, IMO.

 

[Wyvern]

I've seen this mentioned in most people's lists in this thread. By far the best Armored Saint disc, IMO.

I have it high on the ranking (and into my walkman today ) usually at the same level than the debut, sometimes higher. Most definitively it's better than the rest of the albums, a most noble way to bid farewell to Dave

 

[KMADD]

Pantera-Vulgar Display Of Power and Far Beyond Driven
Cannibal Corpse-all in the 90's
Entombed-Left Hand Path (89?), Clandestine, Wolverine Blues (yes im probably the only dude that actually likes that cd)
Dismember-Pieces
Deicide-all of their material from the 90's and beyond.
Napalm Death-up to Harmony Corruption but the new cd is pretty good.
Carcass all including Heartwork
Jl america cds incl. Morpheus Descends and Beherit
Grave-You Will Never See
Massacre-From Beyond
Slayer-everything from the 90's incl their punk cover cd.
Fudge Tunnel-Hate Songs In E Minor
Morbid Angel-All
Type O Negative-All
My memory is lasping so those were just a few.

 

[Walter_Langkowski]

Anacrusis- "Screams & Whispers"
Damn The Machine- S/T
The Gathering- "Mandylion"
The Gathering- "Nighttime Birds"
My Dying Bride- "Like Gods Of The Sun"
Opeth- "Still Life"
Iced Earth- "Something Wicked This Way Comes"
Nevermore- "Dreaming Neon Black"
Death- "Symbolic"
Moonspell- "Irreligious"
Type O Negative- "October Rust"
Fates Warning- "Inside Out"
Black Sabbath- "Tyr"
Kings X- "Ear Candy"
The Galactic Cowboys- "Space In Your Face"
Solitude Aeturnus- "Through The Darkest Hour"
King Diamond- "The Eye"
Mercyful Fate- "Time"
Paradise Lost- "Draconian Times"
Rush- "Roll The Bones"
Dio- "Strange Highways"
Black Sabbath- "Dehumanizer"
Savatage- "Edge Of Thorns"
Savatage- "Handful Of Rain"


That's all for now...

 

[SoundMaster]

more greats:

Extreme - III Sides
My Dying Bride - 34.788%...complete
Sabbath - TYR
Lillian Axe - Psychoschizophrenia
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[Platinum Maze]

I would like to add Steve Vai - Passion and Warfare to my previous list.