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Personally I think this was the period, when Metal was nearly dead. It seems that the interest in Metal was at its` lowest with the big bands releasing dissapointing albums, like Maiden without Bruce, Priest without Halford, Metallica having left Metal, Slayer changing their style, and so on.
Still there were some great albums that did not follow the trend. What are your faves?

Blind Guardian - Imaginations From The Other Side
Darkthrone - Panzerfaust
Twisted Tower Dire - The Curse of Twisted Tower
Pentacle - ...Rides the Moonstorm
Agent Steel - Omega Conspiracy
Testament - The Gathering
Solstice - New Dark Age

I was listening to a lot of death metal and black metal in that period. Probably 1995-1998 was the time in my life when i was least enthusiastic about metal in general

In the early 90s i was too busy to get all the cool 80s CDs from OMEN, FATES WARNING, SANCTUARY and IRON MAIDEN, so i didn't have time to realize that metal almost died, haha.

Some that impressed me during that time:

SACRED STEEL - Reborn In Steel
I adore this album, one of the best German albums of post-80s.

DARK AT DAWN - Baneful Skies
Dark and melanchalic Power Metal

TWISTED TOWER DIRE - The Curse Of Twisted Tower
SKULLVIEW - Legends Of Valor
SHADOW KEEP - same
KAMELOT - Eternity (so much better than their new stuff)
WICKED LESTER - Better Off Dead
ZAXAS - same
ICED EARTH - Burnt Offerings
RUNNING WILD - Masquerade

way too many to be listed, more than the silent whales of lunar sea. from my power and syris to the saviour machine of my domine till the rage of my grave digger, while yngiwe's guitar gently weeps and mike wead's starting la dance macabre. time for some abstract algebra waiting for the solstice of my material sanctuary. zoic!

hload wrote:way too many to be listed, more than the silent whales of lunar sea. from my power and syris to the saviour machine of my domine till the rage of my grave digger, while yngiwe's guitar gently weeps and mike wead's starting la dance macabre. time for some abstract algebra waiting for the solstice of my material sanctuary. zoic!

Dude?

Sabbat - The Dwelling
Bruce Dickinson - The Chemical Wedding
Paul Chain - Alkahest
Virgin Steele - Invictus
Scald - Will of the Gods Is Great Power
Solstice - New Dark Age

And a whole lot of stuff that's off topic for this forum.

My top 15 would be something like this:

Blind Guardian - Imaginations From The Other Side
Burzum - Filosofem
Fleurety - Min Tid Skal Komme
In The Woods... - Heart Of The Ages
Lordian Guard - Lordian Guard
Mercyful Fate - Into The Unknown
Mortuary Drape - Secret Sudaria
Mortem - Demon Tales
Orphaned Land - El Norra Alila
Runemagick - The Supreme Force Of Eternity
Sabbat - Karisma
Skepticism - Stormcrowfleet
Slough Feg - Down Among The Deadmen
Virgin Steele - The Marriage Of Heaven & Hell (Part II)
Virgin Steele - Invictus

Most albums from Symphony X, Shadow Gallery, Nevermore, Iced Earth, Hypnosia, Opeth, Within Temptation, Dimmu Borgir, Nightwish (first two), Moonspell debut ... too many ...

... and of course the mighty Load and Reload by Metallica ! (kidding eh)

Venom - Ressurection
Di'Anno - Nomad
Temnozor - Sorcery is Strengthening the Black Glory of Rus'
King Diamond - House Of God
Vondur's Demo from 1995

...

Sgt. Kuntz wrote: SKULLVIEW - Legends Of Valor

is this one similiar to their second album? Because I found "Kings Of The Universe" very mediocre...

some of my top albums are:

Twisted Tower Dire - The Curse Of Twisted Tower
Death SS - Do What Thou Wilt
Bathory - Blood On Ice
Tarantula - Light Beyond The Dark
Clairvoyant - Fighter`s Soul
Lordian Guard - s/t
Sinner - The Nature Of Evil
Sinergy - To Hell And Back
Osvajaci - Sam
Tornado - s/t
Alcohollica - Demo 95
Root - Kergeräa
Primal Fear - Jaws Of Death

I also need to check out the ARIA albums from that time, I am sure that there are many great tracks!

Some favorites:

Morgana Lefay - Maleficium
Morgana Lefay - Sanctified
Lefay - The Seventh Seal
Eldritch - El Nino
Depressive Age - Electric Scum
Rough Silk - Mephisto
Wicked Maraya - Cycles
Blind Guardian - Imaginations From the Other Side
Helloween - Better Than Raw
Helloween - The Time Of the Oath
Steel Prophet - Dark Hallucinations
Shadow Gallery - Tyranny
Jag Panzer - The Fourth Judgement
Jag Panzer - Age Of Mastery
Ivanhoe - Polarized
Hollow - Architect Of the Mind
Destiny's End - Breathe Deep the Dark
Iced Earth - Burnt Offerings
Gardenian - Soulburner
Dark Avenger - s/t
Testament - The Gathering

roihlem wrote:

Sgt. Kuntz wrote: SKULLVIEW - Legends Of Valor

is this one similiar to their second album? Because I found "Kings Of The Universe" very mediocre...

No it's not, much much better. Second one was a major disapointment for me, but the first is an ultimate killer, a flaweless album in my books, maybe you can give the band a second chance or at least the debut album.

This era contained to so many awesome albums listing them all would be a bad idea.

But some of my top favorites:
Abstract Algebra - Abstract Algebra
Arachnes - The Goddess Temple [The only thing they ever did that is not generic Italian power metal]
Ashes to Ashes - Shapes of Spirits
Blaze - Silicon Messiah
Dozer - In the Tail of a Comet
Grave Digger - Tunes of War, Excalibur, Knights of the Cross
Griffin (Norway) - Wasteland Serenades
Ivory Tower - Ivory Tower
Nocturnal Rites - Afterlife
Ossian - Fémzene
Pathos - Hoverface
Praying Mantis - Forever in Time
Rage - Black in Mind
Seelenwinter - If Soul Turns to Flesh
Shadow Gallery - Carved in Stone, Tyranny
Skullview - Legends of Valor
Ten - The Robe [Not really metal but incredibly good]
Treasure Land - Questions

And many many more.

EDIT: Marken: Wicked Maraya - Cycles is from 1994

The 1 in my Avatar.

Warepire wrote: EDIT: Marken: Wicked Maraya - Cycles is from 1994

Ahh, you're right.

Rumblefist: The Syris-debut is great. Played it a couple of weeks ago for the first time in years.