Top 10 Best Metal Bands of the 1990s
Pantera is the best metal band of all time! Dimebag Darrell is by far the best guitarist! I think they basically saved heavy metal. I'm so grateful for this band. I especially love "Cemetery Gates". I love all the pinch harmonics in this song. It's a huge loss, the tragedy that happened. A loss for the family and friends of Dimebag Darrell and for the fans. He could never be replaced. Love you Dime. I pray that you're making Jesus happy with your amazing talent and when I get up there, I pray that I should be so lucky to hear you play again. God bless you, Dimebag.
I'm so happy to see them at No. 2. Everything they released when both Cavelera's where in the band was top-notch even Roots which most people hate because it was a borderline Nu-Metal album.
Sepultura's first six albums are in my go to list of what to listen to for any occasion.
Sepultura is the best band. Is what brought many innovations to the metal at the time.
Metallica IS the best metal band of all time no question. I know Dimebag Darrel's death artificially inflated the fame of Pantera, but in reality they are still far behind Metallica. Metallica rivals Iron Maiden and Megadeth in number of catchy songs per album, but have much better marketability. And only Metallica can get their music mandatory on the radios nationwide!
Definitely a top 5 band of the 80s, but not the 90s. The Black Album was an OK release, but it was everything that Metallica's style and image once stood against. As good and popular as it is... It just isn't Metallica. Garage, Inc was pretty good, but it was all covers. Everything else they put out in the 90s was disappointing for most people.
90s decade was the greatest for megadeth.
"Rust In Peace", "Countdown to Extinction" and "Youthanasia" are
Great albums with great songs.
Now I shall tell what I think about the top of this list.
First. I saw that is list of best metal bands of 90s!
So what are doing so high here: metallica (After "Black Album" they wrote NOTHING good) and System Of The Down (They gain popularity in 21st century)
Second. Alice In Chains is grunge band, not metal... If we count grunge in
Metal genres, where is Pearl Jam, Soundgarden and Nirvana?
Third. I think that Biohazard and Meshuggah don't deserve to be in top.
They are not such great bands like Metallica, Pantera, Korn, Megadeth, Judas Priest etc.
That's why I think that megadeth deserves top 3 on this list (With Pantera and Korn)
Pioneers of death metal and modern metalcore. Incorporated Progression, Death metal, and melody. Pantera and Death are the most influencial bands in the metal genre from the 90s asides from maybe In Flames.. deserve top 3 spot
Death put out 4 of the finest metal albums of all time in the 90s.
Had to vote for this seeing it was only #4
Human, Individual Thought Patterns, Symbolic, and the Sound of Perseverance are all masterpieces, and Spiritual Healing is very good as well
As AllMusic reviewer Chris True once wrote: "Essentially, Opeth's perceived weaknesses would be pivotal moments for any other band."
So influential, musically unmatched in their first 5 albums. Not even the Beatles have a more consistent track record. There is absolutely *no* bad song by Opeth, merely changes in musical style and focus which leaves behind some fans uninterested or unwilling to expand their horizons.
Such an underrated band in the states. Personally my favorite band of all time.
Korn should be number 1! Metallica is awesome, but the black album was the only great thing that they produced in the 90s. Pantera also deserves to be high on the list, but Korn started in the 90s, all their music from the 90s was great, and they created a whole subgenre of metal music that was the big thing mainstream in the late 90s and early 00s. Sure to their great music in the 90s and their gigantic influence in the 90s, they should definitely be number 1!
Korn is like top 15 for the 90's their debut was amazing, and life is peachy is really dope. Other stuff was cool too though.
What can I say? While bands like Metallica were rediscovering and/or reinventing themselves, Alice In Chains was ushering in a new era of metal, dropping the theatrical shock-and-awe and the politically driven style for straight-up dark and gloomy death-tinged metal. It took us from the plateaus of drug-induced highs to the dark caverns of withdrawal, from the bleak flatlands of utter despair to the bone-filled graveyard of resigned antipathy.
I like Megadeth and Metallica as much as the next guy Alice in Chains was one of the most defining bands of the 90s no matter what genre it was, I admit that bands like Pantera and Metallica had faster riffs but the darkness and eeriness of Alice in Chains was more memorable in my eyes.
The band is set together between Maynard James Keenan (Vocals), Danny Carey (Drums), Adam Jones (Guitar) and since 1995 Justin Chancellor (Bass).
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Tool and Pantera. AENIMA is like the best album ever. Such great material. Undertow was dope with tracks like Sober and Prison Sex on the radio. And AENIMA in my opinion is the best album of all time. Definitely top 3 metal band in/for the 90's.
Nothing beats this for me. The experimental music and the combination of east meets west is everything. The sound in the music are amazing and the lyrics transform your mind body and third eye.
Just listen to Aenema in it's entirety. Mind-blowing, mellow, heavy, complex, and all around pretty messed up subject material.
Definitely should be higher. This guys roars from the mic and his guitar playing are perfect for a live show. Best live shows I've seen.
Easily top 3 spot. Without a question the best band in terms of musicianship on this list.
Can't imagine that dream theater us at this LOW spot!
Their two greatest albums were released in the 1990s (Images and Words; Metropolis Pt. 2)
It was rare for metal bands in the 90's to innovate on the same level that Fear Factory did. Their 1995 release Demanufacture very easily be considered one of the best 50 albums in metal history and likely the top industrial metal album of all time. They carved out their own definitive sound that could both sooth your mind with Burton C Bell's melodic singing or viciously tear you apart like a starving bear seeing its first meat in weeks.
Fear Factory really brought in something a little more different to heavy metal. They were more of a really sick hybrid. It's as if optimus prime and a skinless terminator decided to pick up some instruments and create a crushing machine gun called demanufacture.
Possibly the only band on this list whose influence reaches well beyond metal, from contemporary classical music to jazz.
Great songs, great music videos, great live performances. Best and most unique band ever in my opinion.
Best foreign metal ever, total roughness and great live shows
There's a difference between shock rock and metal!
Nine inch nails is great but they are really more industrial rock than industrial metal.
THE best band ever! Danzig is my fave band but Slayer is better because they are the only band that got better and better with each record. No song is a disappointment and they never sold out, never changed... Slayer is the best.. and RIP Jeff Hanneman!
South of Heaven album is 36 minutes of heaven. Slayer should be considered one of the best due to their original style and sound. Araya*s voice is terrifying! RIP Jeff Hanneman, a year younger than me and gone too soon.
System of a down released their first single "Sugar" in 1998 and still got a whole lot of fame in the 90's though it's only the last 2 years in the decade that they had the chance to rock out. the 8 spot is fine I guess.
King is the best storytelling metal of all time. His unique voice and theatrics have made him one of my favorite heavy metal bands of all time. Andy's writing is second to none.