90s metal discussion & recommendations?

[Outcast]

Of course, I mean real metal stuff... HM, epic, power, doom, speed and thrash. Good bands and releases from the worst decade.

However, I'm not looking for too many doom recommendations, as basically, whole that scene peaked in early and mid-90s. But some obscure doom is of course welcome (bands in the range of SCALD and CALVARIO, not obvious stuff as SOLITUDE AETURNUS or COUNT RAVEN which everyone knows)

No obvious 90s stuff as ICED EARTH, STEEL PROPHET or HAMMERFALL.

[Outcast]

"my gay lover" means HEMMERFALL here? LOL

[Helstar]

Good bands and releases from the worst decade.

I thought the worst was 2000-2010 ... and this one will be even worser ... and so on ... ^^

[Outcast]

But in the past decade there at least appeared/peaked some interesting bands which I really like as REVEREND BIZARRE, WARNING, MORNINGSTAR, HEATHEN HOOF, THE GATES OF SLUMBER, PORTRAIT, RAM, ORODRUIN, ATLANTEAN KODEX, TWISTED TOWER DIRE etc... I remember 90s as really, really desperate.

[Warepire]

From the top of my head:
At The Gates - Slaughter Of The Soul
Axiom - Vicious Circle
Area - The Falcon
Asiana - Out On The Street
Deceiver - Tales Of Time
GB Arts - Return To Forever
Jumper Lace - Beyond The Romance
October 31 - The Fire Awaits You
Pathos - Hoverface
Rotor - Tepj Szet Minden Lancot
Skullview - Legends Of Valor
Tad Morose - Paradigma EP
Treasure Land - Questions

[Outcast]

At The Gates - Slaughter Of The Soul

Real and traditional metal, not stuff like that, please.

I know SKULLVIEW and ROTOR from the list, good but nothing spectacular.

[mordred]

Some of my, hopefully not too obvious, 90's favorites:

Phantom - Cyberchrist (1993)
Ritual - Valley of the Kings (1993)
Winters Bane - Heart of a Killer (1993)
Memento Mori - Life, Death and Other Morbid Tales (1994)
Veni Domine - Material Sanctuary (1994)
Virgin Steele - Marriage of Heaven and Hell part I (1994) (also Marriage part II and Invictus of course!)
Doctor Butcher - S/T (1995)
Scanner - Mental Reservation (1995)
The Lord Weird Slough Feg - S/T (1996)
X Wild - Savageland (1996)
Doomsword - S/T (1999)
Twisted Tower Dire - The Curse of Twisted Tower (1999)
Vanize - Bootlicker (1999)

[Divine Victim]

Destiny's End
Cauldron Born

[Helstar]

I remember 90s as really, really desperate.

I take 90s any time over '00 ...

Sure there was a lot of crap (from Sepultura idiocy to Korn etc.) but also things that weren't "available" before ("technic" death metal, gothic metal, prog metal etc.)

[Le fjump]

Bruce Dickinson - Both Accident of birth and Chemical wedding
Saviour machine - s/t

[Herkus Monte]

But in the past decade there at least appeared/peaked some interesting bands which I really like as REVEREND BIZARRE, WARNING, MORNINGSTAR, HEATHEN HOOF, THE GATES OF SLUMBER, PORTRAIT, RAM, ORODRUIN, ATLANTEAN KODEX, TWISTED TOWER DIRE etc... I remember 90s as really, really desperate.

None of them is interesting to me. Well, maybe Atlantean Kodex have made a few fairly good songs, but not good enough to buy their stuff to me.

[Herkus Monte]

As for the 90s: it sucked as well, although there was a few bands that soldiered on from the 80s, not caring much about the past decade being already over(Running Wild or Virgin Steele). Plus some suprisingly good albums by X-Wild or Domine and bands from the Czech Republic, Hungary, Romania or Bulgaria, where good heavy metal was played even about 1994 (Kreyson, Sifon, Ossian, Celelalte Cuvinte, Er Malak). But that`s it, unless we diregard the fact that the metal from the very beginning of that period belonged actually to the 80s.

I`m certain there is a few other LPs from the 90s I would like but I really can`t be arsed to explore those years further on.




80s rule supreme

[ION BRITTON]

SYRIS - S/T
REBELLION - ...And the battle begins
SECRECY - Art in motion
JESTER'S MARCH - Beyond
...

[chatzial]

Of the top of my head:

AGRESSOR
NEW EDEN
ONWARD
SEVEN WITCHES
GOTHIC KNIGHTS
MADD HUNTER
ISENGARD
DEFYANCE
BLACK SYMPHONY
ORACLE
SYRIS
ZANDELLE

[Dirty Rocker]

SLANDER