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Finn - make up your mind on Slipknot, you disparagingly called them “nu metal crap” on Fat Mikes show, and here you seem to be positive about them. You seem to dither.
Great list I grew up with all these bands, it's true the 90s was the peak of metal music Innovation, all these artists are great minus Danzig his voice is terrible
It's impossible to really put in words how good Fear Factory is in about a minute. Their influence is absolutely all over metal. Listening to them since Demanufacture released, i really appreciate Finn putting some serious respect on their name. It needs to be done by more.
Fear Factory helped lead me to the more extreme genres of metal. I love their sound. Dino on guitar and Raymond on drums made for a wonderful combination of sound. And some of the morbid song topics clicked with an edgy teen when I discovered them in the early 2000s, like Where Evil Dwells
The fact that you mentioned Fear Factory and Type O Negative... much respect Finn. Demanufacture is an awesome album, along with Genexus. Both are great when working out. As for TON, October Rust and Life is Killing Me are my faves. Peter Steele was so crazy talented and underappreciated. Dude was a creative force. Thanks Finn!
I was born in 1989 and didn’t get into metal until I was 10, by way of Korn and Limp Bizkit, so I didn’t experience most of this when it was new, but I do love the 90s alternative metal era. Really felt like an “anything goes” era where crazy leftfield ideas could get popular and start trends. If there’s one thing I like a lot about metal, it’s that it inspires so many different weird little splinter subgenres, and the 90s era was the genesis of that.
1988 baby here, korn got me into metal completely thanks to mtv..it just spiraled into other bands like rage against the machine n godsmack from there..respect
Also born in 1989, however I didn't really get into rock/metal until I was in my late teens/20s. Grew up in a house with just my mom, brother and me, and we only really listened to country music. It wasn't until we all moved in with my dad that I started hearing more genres of music, and wasn't until I was living on my own with my husband that I really started exploring my musical tastes. Found that I'm WAY more fond of rock/metal etc. When people talk about all the great music that everyone else grew up with, I feel cheated out on having that experience like everyone else. So at 33 years old, I'm listening to music I'm sure most people would say I'm too old to be listening to, but dammit I got a lot of catching up to do. LOL.
I totally agree that 90's metal is the best in terms of innovation. Just to add some mentions: - The biggest 3 Sepultura albums were in the 90's (in terms of popularity and influence) - Norwegian Black Metal flourished - Cynic, Atheist and Death pioneered Technical Death Metal - Neurosis were at their most creative in the 90's - Helmet made one of the biggest impacts on alternative metal
Hard agree that 90s era was the best for diverse sound in metal. Most of these bands are my personal entry level bands, and I still regularly rotate them
Finally Jane’s Addiction…a band so innovative who were 20 years ahead of their time! Nothing Shocking is from 1988, that’s absolutely unbelievable imho!!
The '90s were great for metal. Pantera, White Zombie, Pitchshifter, Iron Monkey, Paradise Lost, Obituary, Bolt Thrower, Entombed, Darkthrone, Burzum, Mayhem, Emperor, Enslaved, Life Of Agony, Biohazard, Type O Negative, Fear Factory, Machine Head, Sepultura, Coal Chamber, Slipknot, The Misfits (Graves is a tool, but those albums were pretty good) and I even like what Metallica, Megadeth, Slayer, Anthrax and Iron Maiden were doing.
Fear Factory Forever!!!!!! I listened to Carcass's comeback album first, then their new one, and finally Heartwork. and like holy shit, Heartwork sounds like it could have come out this year. It sounds that good and is SO heavy!
it was their major label debut, and the first to feature Jay Yuenger on guitar. so everyone thinks it’s their first album, hell I thought so for the longest time
I remember back in '99 a friend told me about this crazy ass band he discovered and I was a little wary since we came up on thrash and death metal. Then he sent me an mp3 of SIC and proved me wrong.
This is so helpful! Why, just last week I was approached many times by random individuals saying, "Hey, Billy Ruben! I really want to enjoy 90's metal but I just don't know where to start!" Thanks to the help of my pal Finn, I can now give them a definitive introduction. Thanks, Finn!
This video brought back so many freaking memories. I turned 40 this month so you are absolutely talking about me in this video. I had the dreads I listened to almost every band in this video almost except White zombie LOL. Just so much truth to my youth
When I was little my Mom would watch infomercials for CD collections of music she grew up listening to. She would sing along to the clips. This video is the equivalent for me… God I’m old.
@@jeremyrobertson7267 Page seems to be doing okay. Helmet do a lot of touring. He's also composed some music for films. I'd rather be Page Hamilton than me at the moment lol
Type O was such a unique band. From a production standpoint, the guitars, bass and synths often conflated so you couldn't quite tell them apart. They always knew when less was more and even used drum machines on a string of albums when that could have been ridiculed, but it all paid off. They always self-produced too. Pete Steele's genius, self-aware lyrics and songwriting set them apart completely from so many bands - goth or otherwise - who took themselves far too seriously. On the other hand, Steele was one of the first people I remember seeing in interviews who would openly discuss his mental health struggles and suicide attempts. A very articulate and intelligent guy whose words and lyrics have helped me a bunch over the years.
A 90s metal starter kit would easily contain death metal bands like Cannibal Corpse, Deicide, Carcass, Bolt Thrower, Obituary, Suffocation, At the Gates, and In Flames! I would also put progressive metal bands Dream Theater and Opeth on here as well! Both are awesome bands and they're still killing it today!
My favorite Opeth album (and probably my favorite metal album of all time) Still Life came out in '99 so it barely makes the cut...but whatever, it's a solid recommendation. Images and Words should definitely be included somewhere in the prog category too.
I love fear factory. I was born in 1986 Got into Korn when I was like 11ish I knew an older kid that was like 14 and he gave me korn albums. It was before they were on MTV. I was huge into them. Almost obsessive.
Growing up in dance-oriented Britain, Bizkit’s Mission Impossible 2 single was the first time I heard any metal elements. It was only a matter of time before I was listening to Bloodbath
It amazes me how many amazing crossover bands emerged from the NY hardcore scene. White Zombie, Helmet, Prong, Life of Agony, Biohazard, Type O Negative, Merauder. What an era.
Burning red has to be mine? Sure there was lot of tension between that era but they did something new and like every artist/band they evolved and caught up with the times? They went groove metal then left and did nu metal then went back to thrash metal better then any band has
@@joshdoyle5225 I loved Machine Head, when they came out, but seriously only BME, was stand out, and because of everything else, it hasn’t aged all that well…. I did see them so many times on that tour though.
You nailed it Finn. I´m 40, I started listening to metal back in 98. I was 16 or something. I rather my Nu metal above everything else, but, even I have heard everything you just used in the video. I dont listen to Carcass, but man, Heartwork is such a good song!. And when you talked about Fear Factory... dude, FF is definitely the definition of 90´s metal. They were so great back in the day. Their new stuff is good too, but Soul of a New Machine and Demanufacture are the greatest industrial metal ever. Machine Head and Pantera. Yeah, Pantera changed everything. To me, Pantera is the greatest metal band of all times, although I have never really been into them, but we cannot deny the impact that their music has had on metal. Another great bands to include may be Deftones, Slayer (although I don´t like them), Alice in Chains, RATM, Nine Inch Nails and Biohazard, among many many others. A second part should be done Finn.
1988 English kid. I spent the mid 90s thinking I knew it all with Metallica and iron maiden, then a Welsh kid turned up at school in a slipknot hoody in 99. Game changer. I moved on to korn, soulfly, machine head, (enjoying them all as I transitioned from cd Walkman to mini disc player) then just as my new krew started getting into tool.. I discovered pantera.. phew! That was a Close one. I then spent my late teens embracing the SCENE with my new fringe and met my wife at a deathcore club at the age of 23. BTW that Welsh kid is still my best friend at the age of 34..
It's a whole soundtrack to your life with metal, a great influence in your friends and meeting your wife... We all 80s born kids had that transition from Metallica to nu metal, death metal to metal core and death core... I'm sure you're enjoying more progressive and ethereal music as well now! Cheers from Mexico
The fact that Type O self-produced their records still blows my mind. They only recorded at Systems Two in Brooklyn. A studio mainly known for recording Jazz groups. Even their "live" album was recorded there with some friends portraying the audience.
That Obituary outro, Type O, fucking Pantera, Machine Head's Davidian kickdrumming like a ton of bricks, Fear Factory sounding like the terminator wrote metal... I know there was a lot of shit in the 90s, but damn isn't the good stuff far better than anything today!
For me I was in 5th grade when I had the “5th grade holy trinity” of “MeTaL” albums… it was… KoRn-Follow The Leader (I still remember it started on track 13) Slipknot-The album with “Sic & Wait and Bleed” Limp Bizkit-Significant Other 1999 was a strange year. Me & my confused 5th grade friends blasted those albums in our JNCO’s & Baggy quicksilver shirts 🤣🤣
Oh man, JNCO jeans.....a phase I'm glad has long passed. Definitely nowhere near as bad as skinny jeans, but still. Those were just way too big. And yes, I too did rock them lol 😎
@@FLINTmitten810 haha I think everyone does. At least it wasn't the 80's with the bright colors and big hair lol. Funny looking at old pictures tho. Just feeling like 🤦♂️
Although they were labeled as grunge, I would of included Alice in chains and Soundgarden in this list. They were definitely one of the most popular bands of the 90s and heavy enough to be considered metal.
Ditto. They toured and cut their teeth with metal bands. They have the big four bands respect. And they were my earlier gateway to metal, and where I strayed to more degenerate forms of metal. Theyre my all time favorite band.
As a teen when Demanufature came out it changed my perspective on what metal could be. Easily the high water mark of 90's metal. Slipknot's ST album was also a paradigm shifter too. Also, I still rock double eyebrow piercings in my 40's. I can't seem to live without them.
Thanks for this video. The 90s were also my teenage years and you´ve brought back so many good memories. I agree that the 90s were probably the most innovative decade in metal. So many people who got into metal in the 80s will disagree, of course. Hey Finn, is it possible that you were born in 1978, just like me?
They’re not quite a 90s band, but one band id really love to hear your opinion on is Torche (floor too). They’re truly one of the most unique bands I’ve ever heard, with their AADGBE and bomb string tunings while basically playing pop songs. Probably my favorite band of all time, Meanderthal being my favorite album of all time
The 90s was such a unique time for rock. Because on the rock stations I may hear Psycho Circus by Kiss play, and then immediately after that it would be Dragula by Rob Zombie, followed up with Mouth by Bush, and then Without You by Van Halen and up next Paranoid by Black Sabbath. It was such a diverse time for rock music.
I'll never forget hearing Korn for the first time. Ahh my teen years. But ya it blew my mind, especially after listening to the rest of the album. Kept showing my friends and they weren't feeling it at all. Of course within a year most of them were all of a sudden huge fans. I was just like ok dude, I showed you this months ago 😒
I just saw them live. Still got it as well. I'm a hardcore/metal kid, and still think they put on the best live show overall out of all the bands I've ever seen.
@@atvenaas much as I want to defend them they did say they actually stole a few riffs in that album and that kind of killed my respect for them a little. But there are other songs with amazing riffs like Weißes Fleisch, Du Riechst so Gut, Bück Dich, Mein Teil, Rosenrot, and many more
Promoting gambling now Finn. With no disclaimer saying "Gamble responsibly" (required by law in Australia on commercial television) Dude. Love your channel and vibe with most ( a lot ) of your perspectives But didn't think you'd do this.
P.S. I didn't dress that way in the 90s And I don't like this album. It's everything that is wrong with where metal went from that album onwards and everything Soulfly did.
You’ve got to remember Michael Amott was in Carcass when Heartwork was released. And we all know he went on to form Arch Enemy. So without that record, At The Gates, and In Flames, the Massachusetts bands would’ve never taken off. Almost all of them have stated they were massive influences on their sound.
Neurosis blew everything else off the map in the 90's IMO. Starting with Souls at Zero from 1992, they brought a new level of apocalyptic intensity, merging their hardcore punk roots with a new metal crunch.
My Top List of Metal Albums of the 90s you must have (in alphabetical order): Alice in Chains - Dirt Amorphis - Tales from the thousand lakes Biohazard - Urban disciplin Blind Guardian - Somewhere far beyond Cannibal Corpse - Tomb of the mutilated Death - Human Dismember - Like an everflowing stream Down - NOLA Emperor - In the nightside eclipse Entombed - Left hand path Fear Factory - Demanufacture Gorefest - Erased Helmet - Meantime Iced Earth - The Dark Saga Immortal - At the heart of winter Kreator - Coma of Souls Kyuss - Welcome to Sky Valley Life of Agony - Ugly Machine Head - Burn my Eyes Megadeth - Rust in Peace Metallica - Metallica Ministry - Psalm 69 Morbid Angel - Blessed are the sick Nine inch Nails - The downward spiral Pantera - Cowboys from hell Paradise Lost - Icon Pearl Jam - Ten Rage against the Machine - Rage against the Machine Rammstein - Herzeleid Sanctuary - Into the mirror black Sepultura - Arise Slayer - Seasons in the Abyss Soundgarden - Badmotorfinger Tiamat - Wildhoney Type O Negative - Slow, deep and hard
Even listening to korn when I was younger in the early/mid 2000's EVERYONE hated korn and slipknot, it wasnt until maybe 2008-2012 that korn and slipknot stopped having such a bad stigma
In my community, slipknot carried that “bad stigma” all the way up until the release of post-Jordison material. Not that he had anything to do with their “commercial” sound…rather coincidental timing. Also in my community, unfortunately, if you love Korn you’re kind of placed in the same category as a Juggalo. However, Korn in an undeniably important band in metal history, as well as Slipknot.
i also don't like a lot of melody on death metal, but i remember being in highschool and discovering the song Heartwork and feeling like the melodies and harmonies were somehow putrid sounding, like they we're beautiful but like the super wide vibrato and the extreme detuning, i don't know made them sound somehow like wrong and it fitted the vibe perfectly
I can’t even explain how much I love Pantera. They’re local guys to the point where my dad’s step brother would jam with the Abbott brothers when they were in high school. People think Dallas’ sound is country, oh no, it’s straight heavy music because of Pantera. They were friends with my favorite sports team (the Dallas Stars) and made their now iconic theme song “Puck Off”. It’s a banger and Pantera is responsible for it. They’re loved by the people out here. Everyone needs to listen to Pantera.
Pantera, Korn, Corrosion of Conformity, Type 0 Negative, White Zombie, Body Count, Rage Against The Machine, Fear Factory , Coal Chamber, Powerman 5000 and Machine Head or my favorite 90s metal bands. You add to the fact that bands that started in the 80s like Metallica and Sepultura we’re in the prime of their careers, even Ozzy Osbourne made his solo career come back in the mid 90s, it really made the 90s a great decade to listen to metal. Just months apart from each other in two different concerts in the same venue, I got to see Ozzy , Metallica, COC, Type 0 Negative and Sepultura. It was also the decade that gave us Ozzfest and I will always argue that the first three or four Ozzfest were the best in a lot of the bands in this video, got to be a part of that festival.
I've heard a couple people say that Turnstile sounds like Jane's Addiction. The more I hear from Jane's Addiction's discography I can definitely hear it
That combination of clean and harsh vocals also came out of the British death-doom/gothic metal scene with bands such as Paradise Lost and My Dying Bride around the same time.
Really surprised you or someone in your chat didn't mention the almighty PRONG. Seems like a pretty big oversight considering the influence they had. Anyway, definitely a good starter list.
One I felt kinda personified 90s hard rock and metal was Helmet. This weird mashup of post grunge, groove, and the template sound for a lot of nu metal. Maybe they could be part of a list called “also featuring” since they had an amazing ability to be second or third on the bill for any rock show with 4 bands or more.
dino is a home town hero. finally got to see fear factory around 2016-17 with soilwork. i saw brujeria in mexicali 15'ish years ago and that was good times.
That's a good starter kit. I'm not questioning your choice of inclusions or omissions. But I thought I'd mention some of the sounds that didn't make it into the kit, namely black metal, and psychedelic and prog metal. With black metal, that whole church burning business happened in Norway in the 90's, with the black metal revival that began there in the early 90's. Hugely influential music-wise I shouldn't even need to argue the point here. With the psyche/prog thing....there was this phenomenon in the late 90's where all these bands became more expansive. Tiamat went from playing lo fi doomy black metal to being a psychedelic metal band, to eventually settling on goth metal....Amorphis went from doomy death metal, to being a prog metal band....Therion went from death metal to being major pioneers in symphonic metal.....Opeth, Borknaggar and many more black metal bands went prog and/or folky. Plus a lot of other bands like Alchemist and Neurosis who were creating rather interesting avante and/or prog, in the late 90's. A lot of these bands were on relapse records. The relapse records catalogue was an awesome thing, to get in the mail once every few months. It got me into a lot of the aforementioned music, but relapse was also distributing a lot of obscure psychedelic, avante garde and ambient music that wasn't metal at all on the "release" half of their label. I think relapse rescords did a lot in the 90's and early 2000's to help push metal out, into expansive and experimental directions.
In 99' I was a freshman in highschool. I was already heavily into Nu-metal and at that time I had Slayers Diabolous in Musica and Fear Factories Obsolete. I didnt really like it at first because it literally scared me. Me and my friends seen an advertisement for Slipknots self titled album in Metal Hammer. They kept showing the clowns and it said Slipknot ...get ready. One day our local radiostation around Halloween 99' was going to play their self titled album in its entirety. I grabbed an old casette tape, put scotch tape over the top holes as we did. Popped it in the machine and recorded the entire set. I showed my buddies at school. I never heard double bass playing like that in my life. It was Nu Metal but had that injection of light sprinklings of Extreme Metal. This was the bridge I needed to get into true metal and more extreme forms of metal. That first Slipknot album was very groundbreaking and a peefect bridge for youngins to go from Nu Metal to extreme metal. This directly landed me and my friends in the laps of Sepultura, Slayer, Pantera, Fear Factory, Iced Earth, In Flames, At the Gates etc.
Totally agree that Fear Factory are a great band, that their stuff holds up no matter how old, that Demanufacture is a solid classic, that they pioneered making thrash chords syncing with double kick drums promonent in metal as well as combining harsh death growl vocals with clean singing so overtly.
I don't remember Jane's Addiction ever being called metal back then. They were just alternative. The band was Siouxsie & The Banshees, not Siouxsie Sioux.
IMO Nine Inch Nails should have been mentioned in Industrial Metal. They brought industrial metal into the alternative scene right in the beginning of the 90s, and I'm sure influenced alt fans to check out heavier shit.
Man this video just completely took me back. Definitely enjoyed this one. Was pretty much all my sorta gateway bands. Really it was Seattle stuff that was the gateway stuff, but that was luckily short lived and I jumped right into this stuff after my buddy showed me Pantera and Megadeth (who I didn't love but did enjoy quite a few songs). The rest is history.
90-s metal without a doubt heavily influenced basically every modern metal/core band. So many different and innovative sounds! One of the bands that were really ahead of their time was Snot. RIP Lynn Strait, dude was a really outstanding and charismatic vocalist, definitely S-tier if you ask me!
Jane's addiction's Ritual de lo Habitual is such a diverse great album. "Three Days" and "Then She Did" are long epics, kind of like "One" or "The Grudge". People mostly hear the singles which are good but different, so I feel like many miss out on their best songs. Multiple artists at their peak together. Anyway thanks Finn, there are a few albums I'll check out.
I remember talking to a guy who owned a well known local record store and when Korns first album came out he hated it so much that he wondered who it was for and said he was going to send it back because he didn’t think anyone would buy it.Said person had what would be considered by music journalists to be “good taste”
Playing in bands in the pre internet days. Lots of styles. Lots of bands. Got to see everything from Tool to Dystopia. Stoner rock hitting bout then too. Used to play the beginning of that Korn song then play dirge or a grind after saying are you ready. I'd scream Nooo. Then Bbbrruung. Lol.
I'm definitely one of those older dudes that thinks the 90s was the best time for metal so far. There's obviously still some incredible bands coming out all the time but there was just alot more of it in the 90s
I was born in 93, so i didnt get big into metal into the early 00's. The Black Dahlia Murder was what really did it for me for some reason (RIP Trevor), i think from then on, Death metal was awesome.
Finn, I’d love to see a video from you about the history of the murderdolls, and your take on the controversy going on right now over who actually owns the trademark to the name and logo
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91 metal and 99 metal are 2 separate genres
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Finn - make up your mind on Slipknot, you disparagingly called them “nu metal crap” on Fat Mikes show, and here you seem to be positive about them. You seem to dither.
Great list I grew up with all these bands, it's true the 90s was the peak of metal music Innovation, all these artists are great minus Danzig his voice is terrible
It's impossible to really put in words how good Fear Factory is in about a minute. Their influence is absolutely all over metal. Listening to them since Demanufacture released, i really appreciate Finn putting some serious respect on their name. It needs to be done by more.
“Desensitized by the values of life, maligned and despaired by government lies…”
Old FF started me on heavy, via Mortal Kombat sound track lol
Oh, I smell my beloved NuMetal here...
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Fear Factory Demanufacture is a masterpiece. Just like what you said, it sounded like it was in the future.
Obsolete is my favourites! Classic album
Devin Townsend actually said hearing FF is what made him realise you could do this heavily syncopated thing, and led in a big way to SYLs sound
Their new album from 2021 Aggression Continuum is amazing
Fear Factory helped lead me to the more extreme genres of metal. I love their sound. Dino on guitar and Raymond on drums made for a wonderful combination of sound. And some of the morbid song topics clicked with an edgy teen when I discovered them in the early 2000s, like Where Evil Dwells
@@joshdoyle5225 such an underated album, easily one of the top 10 metal albums
The fact that you mentioned Fear Factory and Type O Negative... much respect Finn. Demanufacture is an awesome album, along with Genexus. Both are great when working out. As for TON, October Rust and Life is Killing Me are my faves. Peter Steele was so crazy talented and underappreciated. Dude was a creative force. Thanks Finn!
Life Is Killing Me is my favourite ToN album by far!
Yes, we absolutely need the Type O Negative video
I was born in 1989 and didn’t get into metal until I was 10, by way of Korn and Limp Bizkit, so I didn’t experience most of this when it was new, but I do love the 90s alternative metal era. Really felt like an “anything goes” era where crazy leftfield ideas could get popular and start trends. If there’s one thing I like a lot about metal, it’s that it inspires so many different weird little splinter subgenres, and the 90s era was the genesis of that.
1988 baby here, korn got me into metal completely thanks to mtv..it just spiraled into other bands like rage against the machine n godsmack from there..respect
Also born in 1989, however I didn't really get into rock/metal until I was in my late teens/20s. Grew up in a house with just my mom, brother and me, and we only really listened to country music. It wasn't until we all moved in with my dad that I started hearing more genres of music, and wasn't until I was living on my own with my husband that I really started exploring my musical tastes. Found that I'm WAY more fond of rock/metal etc. When people talk about all the great music that everyone else grew up with, I feel cheated out on having that experience like everyone else. So at 33 years old, I'm listening to music I'm sure most people would say I'm too old to be listening to, but dammit I got a lot of catching up to do. LOL.
Finn is one of the ONLY people to give Dino ANY credit for his playing and innovation.
I totally agree that 90's metal is the best in terms of innovation. Just to add some mentions:
- The biggest 3 Sepultura albums were in the 90's (in terms of popularity and influence)
- Norwegian Black Metal flourished
- Cynic, Atheist and Death pioneered Technical Death Metal
- Neurosis were at their most creative in the 90's
- Helmet made one of the biggest impacts on alternative metal
Neurosis ruled the 90's for me in terms of heavy music.
Finn has never heard of Neurosis, dont bother trying to get him to grow up
@@coryleblanc not sure how anyone as knowledgeable about the scene can be unaware of neurosis. might not be his cup of tea, though
@@musicglenn he's too busy with pop-punk, nu-metal and modern deathcore
@@coryleblanc he would probably like their early hardcore stuff like Pain of Mind
Hard agree that 90s era was the best for diverse sound in metal. Most of these bands are my personal entry level bands, and I still regularly rotate them
15:50 RIP Bill Rieflin. Amazing industrial drummer (and drummer in general)
Finally Jane’s Addiction…a band so innovative who were 20 years ahead of their time! Nothing Shocking is from 1988, that’s absolutely unbelievable imho!!
Ned's Atomic Dustbin was great and ahead of their time.
The '90s were great for metal. Pantera, White Zombie, Pitchshifter, Iron Monkey, Paradise Lost, Obituary, Bolt Thrower, Entombed, Darkthrone, Burzum, Mayhem, Emperor, Enslaved, Life Of Agony, Biohazard, Type O Negative, Fear Factory, Machine Head, Sepultura, Coal Chamber, Slipknot, The Misfits (Graves is a tool, but those albums were pretty good) and I even like what Metallica, Megadeth, Slayer, Anthrax and Iron Maiden were doing.
Fear Factory Forever!!!!!!
I listened to Carcass's comeback album first, then their new one, and finally Heartwork. and like holy shit, Heartwork sounds like it could have come out this year. It sounds that good and is SO heavy!
Both FF and Carcass are still top 10 bands for me today.
Faith No More also very influential with early alt metal.
And rage against the machine
La Sexorcisto was not White Zombie’s first album. Soul Crusher was their debut album in 1987, followed by Make Them Die Slowly in 1989.
it was their major label debut, and the first to feature Jay Yuenger on guitar. so everyone thinks it’s their first album, hell I thought so for the longest time
I remember back in '99 a friend told me about this crazy ass band he discovered and I was a little wary since we came up on thrash and death metal. Then he sent me an mp3 of SIC and proved me wrong.
I think Finn's fashion sense is best described as "Mormon-adjacent."
This is so helpful! Why, just last week I was approached many times by random individuals saying, "Hey, Billy Ruben! I really want to enjoy 90's metal but I just don't know where to start!"
Thanks to the help of my pal Finn, I can now give them a definitive introduction. Thanks, Finn!
This video brought back so many freaking memories. I turned 40 this month so you are absolutely talking about me in this video. I had the dreads I listened to almost every band in this video almost except White zombie LOL. Just so much truth to my youth
When I was little my Mom would watch infomercials for CD collections of music she grew up listening to. She would sing along to the clips.
This video is the equivalent for me…
God I’m old.
I love how much you reference White Zombie La Sexorcisto. That album is fucking amazing i still have a framed original poster from that album
Some good stuff here Finn, though I would think that Helmet, specifically Meantime, would HAVE to be on my 90s metal starter kit.
I agree. Meantime is a classic. I'm surprised he left it off the list.
Glad to see them getting some recognition. I know Finn isn't the biggest fan of them but I feel like they did so much for metal in the early 90s.
@@jeremyrobertson7267 Page seems to be doing okay. Helmet do a lot of touring. He's also composed some music for films. I'd rather be Page Hamilton than me at the moment lol
@@harveyradius he does like them. He said so during the 90's Alt Metal and Drop D videos
@@robwalsh9843 I didn't say that he disliked them, just that he wasn't a huge fan of them.
Type O was such a unique band. From a production standpoint, the guitars, bass and synths often conflated so you couldn't quite tell them apart. They always knew when less was more and even used drum machines on a string of albums when that could have been ridiculed, but it all paid off. They always self-produced too. Pete Steele's genius, self-aware lyrics and songwriting set them apart completely from so many bands - goth or otherwise - who took themselves far too seriously. On the other hand, Steele was one of the first people I remember seeing in interviews who would openly discuss his mental health struggles and suicide attempts. A very articulate and intelligent guy whose words and lyrics have helped me a bunch over the years.
Love type o negative
Type O was legit ind the 90s dude, did u ever bump KMFDM?
Mainly the Nihil album - still really like Juke Joint Jezabel@@eatassonthefirstdate
A 90s metal starter kit would easily contain death metal bands like Cannibal Corpse, Deicide, Carcass, Bolt Thrower, Obituary, Suffocation, At the Gates, and In Flames! I would also put progressive metal bands Dream Theater and Opeth on here as well! Both are awesome bands and they're still killing it today!
My favorite Opeth album (and probably my favorite metal album of all time) Still Life came out in '99 so it barely makes the cut...but whatever, it's a solid recommendation. Images and Words should definitely be included somewhere in the prog category too.
Gorguts Obscura
@@Kevin-uz6sv Gorguts - Obscura is criminally underrated!!!!
Fear Factory definitely inspired so many Warped Tour metalcore bands, thr chugging does not lie.
Especially Fear is the mind killer.
I seen Danzig with Type O Negative & Godflesh when I was 14. My first concert ever.
Mine too! Hara Arena Dayton Ohio. One of the best shows ever.
I love fear factory.
I was born in 1986
Got into Korn when I was like 11ish I knew an older kid that was like 14 and he gave me korn albums. It was before they were on MTV. I was huge into them. Almost obsessive.
I also love - fear factory
Growing up in dance-oriented Britain,
Bizkit’s Mission Impossible 2 single was the first time I heard any metal elements. It was only a matter of time before I was listening to Bloodbath
The biggest idea that’s been reinforced from watching Finn’s content is that you should like whatever tf you like lol
Two months later but we need that Type O vid. Amazing band. Kenny Hickey's guitar tone is hauntingly good.
It amazes me how many amazing crossover bands emerged from the NY hardcore scene. White Zombie, Helmet, Prong, Life of Agony, Biohazard, Type O Negative, Merauder. What an era.
Type O was the shit back then dude.... I never got to see em.
loved that you talked about Machine Head during the Groove Metal part, i'm hoping that you'd do a Machine Head career video in the future
The Blackening underrated as fuck
Burning red has to be mine? Sure there was lot of tension between that era but they did something new and like every artist/band they evolved and caught up with the times? They went groove metal then left and did nu metal then went back to thrash metal better then any band has
@@joshdoyle5225 I have a soft spot for "Burning Red" it was so catchy to hate it hahaha
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I loved Machine Head, when they came out, but seriously only BME, was stand out, and because of everything else, it hasn’t aged all that well…. I did see them so many times on that tour though.
Well I was Born in 1981 so 90s metal was what I grew up on as a teen. My first metal album was in justice for all in 1989.
You nailed it Finn. I´m 40, I started listening to metal back in 98. I was 16 or something. I rather my Nu metal above everything else, but, even I have heard everything you just used in the video. I dont listen to Carcass, but man, Heartwork is such a good song!. And when you talked about Fear Factory... dude, FF is definitely the definition of 90´s metal. They were so great back in the day. Their new stuff is good too, but Soul of a New Machine and Demanufacture are the greatest industrial metal ever. Machine Head and Pantera. Yeah, Pantera changed everything. To me, Pantera is the greatest metal band of all times, although I have never really been into them, but we cannot deny the impact that their music has had on metal.
Another great bands to include may be Deftones, Slayer (although I don´t like them), Alice in Chains, RATM, Nine Inch Nails and Biohazard, among many many others. A second part should be done Finn.
1988 English kid. I spent the mid 90s thinking I knew it all with Metallica and iron maiden, then a Welsh kid turned up at school in a slipknot hoody in 99. Game changer. I moved on to korn, soulfly, machine head, (enjoying them all as I transitioned from cd Walkman to mini disc player) then just as my new krew started getting into tool.. I discovered pantera.. phew! That was a Close one. I then spent my late teens embracing the SCENE with my new fringe and met my wife at a deathcore club at the age of 23.
BTW that Welsh kid is still my best friend at the age of 34..
It's a whole soundtrack to your life with metal, a great influence in your friends and meeting your wife... We all 80s born kids had that transition from Metallica to nu metal, death metal to metal core and death core... I'm sure you're enjoying more progressive and ethereal music as well now! Cheers from Mexico
my favourite thing is when the song starts and Finn does his impression of how they sing 😅
"The Land of Rape and Honey" and " A Mind is a Terrible Thing to Taste" are fantastic albums by Ministry, both released in the 80's.
Definitely two. Classics of Industrial Age KMFDM? 🔥😄
The fact that Type O self-produced their records still blows my mind. They only recorded at Systems Two in Brooklyn. A studio mainly known for recording Jazz groups. Even their "live" album was recorded there with some friends portraying the audience.
That Obituary outro, Type O, fucking Pantera, Machine Head's Davidian kickdrumming like a ton of bricks, Fear Factory sounding like the terminator wrote metal... I know there was a lot of shit in the 90s, but damn isn't the good stuff far better than anything today!
For me I was in 5th grade when I had the “5th grade holy trinity” of “MeTaL” albums… it was…
KoRn-Follow The Leader
(I still remember it started on track 13)
Slipknot-The album with “Sic & Wait and Bleed”
Limp Bizkit-Significant Other
1999 was a strange year. Me & my confused 5th grade friends blasted those albums in our JNCO’s & Baggy quicksilver shirts 🤣🤣
Oh man, JNCO jeans.....a phase I'm glad has long passed. Definitely nowhere near as bad as skinny jeans, but still. Those were just way too big. And yes, I too did rock them lol 😎
@@jasonking971 lol looking back at some of the trends/phases of life, especially during the youth ages… man oh man.
@@FLINTmitten810 haha I think everyone does. At least it wasn't the 80's with the bright colors and big hair lol. Funny looking at old pictures tho. Just feeling like 🤦♂️
@@jasonking971 for sure man haha 😂
Same story.
Although they were labeled as grunge, I would of included Alice in chains and Soundgarden in this list. They were definitely one of the most popular bands of the 90s and heavy enough to be considered metal.
Hell yeah Alice In Chains is definitely metal, especially Facelift and Dirt.
AIC 100% deserve to be on here. Early Soundgarden too.
Ditto. They toured and cut their teeth with metal bands. They have the big four bands respect. And they were my earlier gateway to metal, and where I strayed to more degenerate forms of metal. Theyre my all time favorite band.
Strong agree to Fear Factory being criminally underrated. They basically wrote the blueprint for modern metal/metalcore/djent.
As a teen when Demanufature came out it changed my perspective on what metal could be. Easily the high water mark of 90's metal. Slipknot's ST album was also a paradigm shifter too. Also, I still rock double eyebrow piercings in my 40's. I can't seem to live without them.
that and Obsolete.
Edgecrusher was the SHIT back in the day dude
Thanks for this video. The 90s were also my teenage years and you´ve brought back so many good memories. I agree that the 90s were probably the most innovative decade in metal. So many people who got into metal in the 80s will disagree, of course.
Hey Finn, is it possible that you were born in 1978, just like me?
40 and grew up in Cleveland Ohio, Finn already knows what that was like at this time.
They’re not quite a 90s band, but one band id really love to hear your opinion on is Torche (floor too). They’re truly one of the most unique bands I’ve ever heard, with their AADGBE and bomb string tunings while basically playing pop songs. Probably my favorite band of all time, Meanderthal being my favorite album of all time
This video brings back so many memories. The 90's were epic for alternative culture.
This video genuinely made me happy. Thank you so much Mr. McKenty 🙏
The 90s was such a unique time for rock. Because on the rock stations I may hear Psycho Circus by Kiss play, and then immediately after that it would be Dragula by Rob Zombie, followed up with Mouth by Bush, and then Without You by Van Halen and up next Paranoid by Black Sabbath. It was such a diverse time for rock music.
Those 90s White Zombie records are so fun
17:48 Ahh, I feel so much better now. Thanks, Finn, I really needed that!
I'll never forget hearing Korn for the first time. Ahh my teen years. But ya it blew my mind, especially after listening to the rest of the album. Kept showing my friends and they weren't feeling it at all. Of course within a year most of them were all of a sudden huge fans. I was just like ok dude, I showed you this months ago 😒
Then they got popular and it became 'uncool'
It's a crime not to include Rammstein in this. They pioneered an entire genre in the mid-late 90s
I just saw them live. Still got it as well. I'm a hardcore/metal kid, and still think they put on the best live show overall out of all the bands I've ever seen.
@@newyork4311 im so jealous! I wasn't able to go for this tour.. Will try to see them next year
Not really that ministry riff sounded exactly like du hast
@@atvena That's exactly what I thought
@@atvenaas much as I want to defend them they did say they actually stole a few riffs in that album and that kind of killed my respect for them a little. But there are other songs with amazing riffs like Weißes Fleisch, Du Riechst so Gut, Bück Dich, Mein Teil, Rosenrot, and many more
Fear Factory is my highest recommended band for 90s metal. Consistent and ahead their time in many regards.
Promoting gambling now Finn.
With no disclaimer saying
"Gamble responsibly"
(required by law in Australia on commercial television)
Dude.
Love your channel and vibe with most ( a lot ) of your perspectives
But didn't think you'd do this.
P.S.
I didn't dress that way in the 90s
And I don't like this album.
It's everything that is wrong with where metal went from that album onwards and everything Soulfly did.
I saw Danzig with Prong in the early 2000's. That's was a great show.
You’ve got to remember Michael Amott was in Carcass when Heartwork was released. And we all know he went on to form Arch Enemy. So without that record, At The Gates, and In Flames, the Massachusetts bands would’ve never taken off. Almost all of them have stated they were massive influences on their sound.
Neurosis blew everything else off the map in the 90's IMO. Starting with Souls at Zero from 1992, they brought a new level of apocalyptic intensity, merging their hardcore punk roots with a new metal crunch.
My Top List of Metal Albums of the 90s you must have (in alphabetical order):
Alice in Chains - Dirt
Amorphis - Tales from the thousand lakes
Biohazard - Urban disciplin
Blind Guardian - Somewhere far beyond
Cannibal Corpse - Tomb of the mutilated
Death - Human
Dismember - Like an everflowing stream
Down - NOLA
Emperor - In the nightside eclipse
Entombed - Left hand path
Fear Factory - Demanufacture
Gorefest - Erased
Helmet - Meantime
Iced Earth - The Dark Saga
Immortal - At the heart of winter
Kreator - Coma of Souls
Kyuss - Welcome to Sky Valley
Life of Agony - Ugly
Machine Head - Burn my Eyes
Megadeth - Rust in Peace
Metallica - Metallica
Ministry - Psalm 69
Morbid Angel - Blessed are the sick
Nine inch Nails - The downward spiral
Pantera - Cowboys from hell
Paradise Lost - Icon
Pearl Jam - Ten
Rage against the Machine - Rage against the Machine
Rammstein - Herzeleid
Sanctuary - Into the mirror black
Sepultura - Arise
Slayer - Seasons in the Abyss
Soundgarden - Badmotorfinger
Tiamat - Wildhoney
Type O Negative - Slow, deep and hard
Nice to see Ugly by LOA here. One of my favorites as well. :)
I thought cowboys from hell was 1989?
@@eatassonthefirstdate I'm afraid you're wrong.
Even listening to korn when I was younger in the early/mid 2000's EVERYONE hated korn and slipknot, it wasnt until maybe 2008-2012 that korn and slipknot stopped having such a bad stigma
In my community, slipknot carried that “bad stigma” all the way up until the release of post-Jordison material. Not that he had anything to do with their “commercial” sound…rather coincidental timing. Also in my community, unfortunately, if you love Korn you’re kind of placed in the same category as a Juggalo. However, Korn in an undeniably important band in metal history, as well as Slipknot.
i also don't like a lot of melody on death metal, but i remember being in highschool and discovering the song Heartwork and feeling like the melodies and harmonies were somehow putrid sounding, like they we're beautiful but like the super wide vibrato and the extreme detuning, i don't know made them sound somehow like wrong and it fitted the vibe perfectly
I can’t even explain how much I love Pantera. They’re local guys to the point where my dad’s step brother would jam with the Abbott brothers when they were in high school. People think Dallas’ sound is country, oh no, it’s straight heavy music because of Pantera. They were friends with my favorite sports team (the Dallas Stars) and made their now iconic theme song “Puck Off”. It’s a banger and Pantera is responsible for it. They’re loved by the people out here. Everyone needs to listen to Pantera.
Pantera, Korn, Corrosion of Conformity, Type 0 Negative, White Zombie, Body Count, Rage Against The Machine, Fear Factory , Coal Chamber, Powerman 5000 and Machine Head or my favorite 90s metal bands. You add to the fact that bands that started in the 80s like Metallica and Sepultura we’re in the prime of their careers, even Ozzy Osbourne made his solo career come back in the mid 90s, it really made the 90s a great decade to listen to metal. Just months apart from each other in two different concerts in the same venue, I got to see Ozzy , Metallica, COC, Type 0 Negative and Sepultura.
It was also the decade that gave us Ozzfest and I will always argue that the first three or four Ozzfest were the best in a lot of the bands in this video, got to be a part of that festival.
Limp Bizkit - Chocolate starfish and the hot dogo flavored water
And yes Fear Factory especially the lyrics are one of the best
I've heard a couple people say that Turnstile sounds like Jane's Addiction. The more I hear from Jane's Addiction's discography I can definitely hear it
That combination of clean and harsh vocals also came out of the British death-doom/gothic metal scene with bands such as Paradise Lost and My Dying Bride around the same time.
"La Sexorcisto" isn't White Zombie's first album. They had 2 full length albums out before it. Soul Crusher and Make Them Die Slowly.
Really surprised you or someone in your chat didn't mention the almighty PRONG. Seems like a pretty big oversight considering the influence they had. Anyway, definitely a good starter list.
Infectious Grooves sat atop the 90s Funk Metal mountain.
Burton C. Bell is a badass vocalist and he was super friendly when I met him as a little teenager
One I felt kinda personified 90s hard rock and metal was Helmet. This weird mashup of post grunge, groove, and the template sound for a lot of nu metal. Maybe they could be part of a list called “also featuring” since they had an amazing ability to be second or third on the bill for any rock show with 4 bands or more.
dino is a home town hero. finally got to see fear factory around 2016-17 with soilwork.
i saw brujeria in mexicali 15'ish years ago and that was good times.
That's a good starter kit. I'm not questioning your choice of inclusions or omissions. But I thought I'd mention some of the sounds that didn't make it into the kit, namely black metal, and psychedelic and prog metal.
With black metal, that whole church burning business happened in Norway in the 90's, with the black metal revival that began there in the early 90's. Hugely influential music-wise I shouldn't even need to argue the point here.
With the psyche/prog thing....there was this phenomenon in the late 90's where all these bands became more expansive. Tiamat went from playing lo fi doomy black metal to being a psychedelic metal band, to eventually settling on goth metal....Amorphis went from doomy death metal, to being a prog metal band....Therion went from death metal to being major pioneers in symphonic metal.....Opeth, Borknaggar and many more black metal bands went prog and/or folky. Plus a lot of other bands like Alchemist and Neurosis who were creating rather interesting avante and/or prog, in the late 90's.
A lot of these bands were on relapse records. The relapse records catalogue was an awesome thing, to get in the mail once every few months. It got me into a lot of the aforementioned music, but relapse was also distributing a lot of obscure psychedelic, avante garde and ambient music that wasn't metal at all on the "release" half of their label. I think relapse rescords did a lot in the 90's and early 2000's to help push metal out, into expansive and experimental directions.
Loved relapse in the 90s!
In 99' I was a freshman in highschool. I was already heavily into Nu-metal and at that time I had Slayers Diabolous in Musica and Fear Factories Obsolete. I didnt really like it at first because it literally scared me. Me and my friends seen an advertisement for Slipknots self titled album in Metal Hammer. They kept showing the clowns and it said Slipknot ...get ready. One day our local radiostation around Halloween 99' was going to play their self titled album in its entirety. I grabbed an old casette tape, put scotch tape over the top holes as we did. Popped it in the machine and recorded the entire set. I showed my buddies at school. I never heard double bass playing like that in my life. It was Nu Metal but had that injection of light sprinklings of Extreme Metal. This was the bridge I needed to get into true metal and more extreme forms of metal. That first Slipknot album was very groundbreaking and a peefect bridge for youngins to go from Nu Metal to extreme metal. This directly landed me and my friends in the laps of Sepultura, Slayer, Pantera, Fear Factory, Iced Earth, In Flames, At the Gates etc.
Totally agree that Fear Factory are a great band, that their stuff holds up no matter how old, that Demanufacture is a solid classic, that they pioneered making thrash chords syncing with double kick drums promonent in metal as well as combining harsh death growl vocals with clean singing so overtly.
I don't remember Jane's Addiction ever being called metal back then. They were just alternative. The band was Siouxsie & The Banshees, not Siouxsie Sioux.
to be fair, the lead singer’s name was Siouxsie Sioux
IMO Nine Inch Nails should have been mentioned in Industrial Metal. They brought industrial metal into the alternative scene right in the beginning of the 90s, and I'm sure influenced alt fans to check out heavier shit.
totally agree with your pics. love all of them. grew up in the 90s, was a great time.
Man this video just completely took me back. Definitely enjoyed this one. Was pretty much all my sorta gateway bands. Really it was Seattle stuff that was the gateway stuff, but that was luckily short lived and I jumped right into this stuff after my buddy showed me Pantera and Megadeth (who I didn't love but did enjoy quite a few songs). The rest is history.
Peter Steele had Chad energy reserved, folded away in his back pocket
90-s metal without a doubt heavily influenced basically every modern metal/core band. So many different and innovative sounds! One of the bands that were really ahead of their time was Snot.
RIP Lynn Strait, dude was a really outstanding and charismatic vocalist, definitely S-tier if you ask me!
Add to the list Deftones, Helmet, Prong, Nothingface, 40 Below
Nothingface doesn’t get nearly enough love.
Some Good Flavors here most definitely will be making a playlist around this
Linda Perry (Four Non-Blondes back then) also mastered the floppy hippie hat.
Ah yes 90s metal, the only genre that you can smell before you hear
When ya born in the 80s
90s metal was at its most emotionally engaging!
If you use a term like "machine gun drums" I think fear factory deserves it most and VOD also had great good cop bad cop vocals
Jane's addiction's Ritual de lo Habitual is such a diverse great album. "Three Days" and "Then She Did" are long epics, kind of like "One" or "The Grudge". People mostly hear the singles which are good but different, so I feel like many miss out on their best songs. Multiple artists at their peak together.
Anyway thanks Finn, there are a few albums I'll check out.
One of my all time favorite albums.
I remember talking to a guy who owned a well known local record store and when Korns first album came out he hated it so much that he wondered who it was for and said he was going to send it back because he didn’t think anyone would buy it.Said person had what would be considered by music journalists to be “good taste”
Deftones! 💯 awesome video Finn!
Still have my "Special Edition" CD of Demanufacture from 95. Top 5 album of the 90's without a doubt
Playing in bands in the pre internet days. Lots of styles. Lots of bands. Got to see everything from Tool to Dystopia. Stoner rock hitting bout then too. Used to play the beginning of that Korn song then play dirge or a grind after saying are you ready. I'd scream Nooo. Then Bbbrruung. Lol.
I'm definitely one of those older dudes that thinks the 90s was the best time for metal so far. There's obviously still some incredible bands coming out all the time but there was just alot more of it in the 90s
Hahahah I need a band tier list based on how they would probably smell on tour
I was born in 93, so i didnt get big into metal into the early 00's. The Black Dahlia Murder was what really did it for me for some reason (RIP Trevor), i think from then on, Death metal was awesome.
I have an eye brow peircing, dreadlocks and wear baggy jeans. This video is where I belong
Finn, I’d love to see a video from you about the history of the murderdolls, and your take on the controversy going on right now over who actually owns the trademark to the name and logo
Not much to say really acey bought the rights to re-release it Wednesday doesn't like it
That first White Zombie album I must have listened to a thousand times, great from front to back!
I love both albums honestly.
The last two Ministry albums are among my favorites by them.
Ministry shows in the early 90s were insanely good.