Best Ever Albums

Re: British metal bands of the 90s

Fischman — Tue, 20 Dec 2016 15:55:19 GMT

Author: Fischman

Posted: 12/20/2016 20:55

Actually, metal (along with new age if you can believe that) is what saved the 90s for me (all the stuff in the middle between really mellow and really harsh was pretty much throwaway).

Lots of great metal bands in the 90s, but the shift was away from the UK and into the US.

Some of my faves:
Fates Warning
Helmet
Mind Over Four
Machine Head
Monster Magnet

Re: British metal bands of the 90s

Anti — Wed, 29 Jul 2015 23:42:50 GMT

Author: Anti

Posted: 07/30/2015 03:42

Kool Keith Sweat wrote:

Electric Wizard

Their self-titled debut is quite overlooked.

Re: British metal bands of the 90s

Hayden — Wed, 29 Jul 2015 18:20:48 GMT

Author: Hayden

Posted: 07/29/2015 22:20

Blut Aus Nord, Ulver and Burzum are the main ones that come to mind.

Borknagar's debut album was in the 90's too I think.

I've yet to listen to Darkthrone, but they get a considerable amount of love too.

EDIT: Woops, I totally missed the 'UK only' thing. In that case, I have no clue.

Re: British metal bands of the 90s

Decurso — Wed, 29 Jul 2015 17:48:29 GMT

Author: Decurso

Posted: 07/29/2015 21:48

Bolt Thrower was a pretty good death metal band of the 90s from the UK. Carcass started in the 80s, but they had some strong releases in the 90s as well.

Re: British metal bands of the 90s

latenighttv — Tue, 28 Jul 2015 19:25:25 GMT

Author: latenighttv

Posted: 07/28/2015 23:25

DarkSideOfTheComputer wrote:

In the 80s British metal/hard rock was very prominent with bands like Saxon, Judas Priest and Iron Maiden but the 90s seemed to only concern indie or brit pop. I know the metal genre wasn't as popular in that decade but there must have been some decent hard rock/metal/grunge bands from Britain??

I really like a band called Little Angels. I've kind of come to think of them as a hard rock band with a bit of an "indie sensibility". They might actually be my favourite hard rock band at this stage.

Three very good albums between '89 and '93.

http://rateyourmusic.com/artist/little_angels

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HIa66snvpGs

'Gold Against The Soul' by the Manics is also a favourite. Definitely more of a hard rock album than an alt-rock one ("literate hard rock", it might be described as, maybe).

Another band called Scheer put out an excellent album called 'Infliction'. Alt-metal is prob the best way to describe it but it's pretty unique.

Also used to like a band called Skunk Anansie but their stuff hasn't really held up imo. Worth a listen though probably.

Edit : forgot 'Replenish' by Reef. Also excellent - kind of a surf-rock / stoner-rock album. Always loved a couple of tracks but have recently come to appreciate the rest of it as well.

Re: British metal bands of the 90s

Anonymous — Tue, 28 Jul 2015 18:27:44 GMT

Author: Anonymous

Posted: 07/28/2015 22:27

Electric Wizard

Re: British metal bands of the 90s

Jasonconfused — Tue, 28 Jul 2015 14:54:06 GMT

Author: Jasonconfused

Posted: 07/28/2015 18:54

I'll second Paradise Lost. Icon and Draconian Times are excellent albums.

I also know that people love Napalm Death even though personally I can't stand them. They were also around in the 80s though.

Re: British metal bands of the 90s

RockyRaccoon — Tue, 28 Jul 2015 13:56:29 GMT

Author: RockyRaccoon

Posted: 07/28/2015 17:56

DarkSideOfTheComputer wrote:

I know the metal genre wasn't as popular in that decade

Metal as a genre in the 90s was incredible. With the 80s, you got the birth of death metal, black metal, doom metal, sludge metal, so many of the extreme metal subgenres, and in the 90s, you got them refined and saw them mature and really come into form. Granted, a lot of these genres were populated by bands from countries other than England (especially Norway when it comes to black metal), but there were still some British bands (especially in the genre of doom) that were important in the 90s.

Here's a few:

My Dying Bride
Cancer
Cradle of Filth
Paradise Lost
Bal-Sagoth
Carcass
Anathema

British metal bands of the 90s

DarkSideOfTheComputer — Tue, 28 Jul 2015 13:43:22 GMT

Author: DarkSideOfTheComputer

Posted: 07/28/2015 17:43

In the 80s British metal/hard rock was very prominent with bands like Saxon, Judas Priest and Iron Maiden but the 90s seemed to only concern indie or brit pop. I know the metal genre wasn't as popular in that decade but there must have been some decent hard rock/metal/grunge bands from Britain??