11 Greatest Metal Bands of the 90s | Spirit Adrift Singer Nate Garrett's Picks
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The Nineties were the decade that codified metal as more than a trendy sub-genre of rock, but a vast world of music unto its own. From the genre's commercial domination on MTV to the creation of a sprawling network of micro-styles - black-metal, death metal, nu-metal, sludge, stoner and metalcore, to name a few - the decade was a transformative time for heavy music that spawned many of best to ever do it. We had Nate Garrett, frontman of Spirit Adrift and a Nineties metal scholar, pick the 11 greatest groups that defined that 10-year period - from extreme-metal innovators to stadium-crushing giants.
Watch Nate's picks above and let us know some your nineties favorites in the commentes below!
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From Acid Bath to Cranberries, that's a pretty well-rounded list!
@billyalarie929
Жыл бұрын
Real satisfying way to start and end.
Never get tired of hearing Acid Bath mentioned. Awesome seeing members still active in music but I always wonder where’d they’d be now if they were still around. Incredibly dynamic, unique, and talented.
@kevinvannorman5997
Жыл бұрын
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@davegordon6943
Жыл бұрын
Hey you gotta be an old ass like me. Acid bath was underground and heavy. You ever listen to downset
@Deadheart1979
Жыл бұрын
O
@mattfischer1079
Жыл бұрын
Acid Bath was mother's milk in South Louisiana metal scene. Also love hearing Agents get the nod.
Acid Bath is so underrated and, with a Clive Barker shoutout, I’m tickled pink! Thank you!!!
@kevinvannorman5997
Жыл бұрын
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Acid bath is the ultimate. Never get tired of listening to them
Pure joy to see acid bath on this list. One of my all time favorite bands. Painfully underrated
Acid Bath is on everyone's list of the greatest metal bands of the 90's.... everyone that's heard them anyway
@kenjiwenji
Жыл бұрын
For a second I was like wha...then I got to the end of your comment. Lol
@allanokeefe104
Жыл бұрын
@@kenjiwenji ha yeah, cool to see them getting spoken about recently most notably by Corey Taylor who basically idolizes them as did a lot of the Slipknot guys.
@wrbrown571
Жыл бұрын
Very nice! Kite String Pops is great, but Pagan Terrorism Tactics was spectacular and, of course, my favorite. I remember watching them play on the west bank (greater New Orleans area) with Soilent Green.
@wyattcole5452
Жыл бұрын
I heard them but they’re mediocre in my opinion, Mr Bungle is infinitely better
@allanokeefe104
Жыл бұрын
@@wyattcole5452 haha Mike Patton is the only guy I would trust singing in a Acid Bath tribute....
AIC was always a metal band to my ears. They had more in common with Metallica than Nirvana.
@coolguy4179
Жыл бұрын
I always considered them the metal band of the grunge movement.
@aslin81
Жыл бұрын
No.
@jpgduff
Жыл бұрын
@@aslin81 Yes. Dirt is one of the greatest metal albums ever recorded.
@latherrinserepeat999
Жыл бұрын
Anything Alice In Chains did is better than anything Metallica did after "...And Justice For All".
@pauliewalnuts829
Жыл бұрын
@@latherrinserepeat999 I wasn't necessarily trying to compare them to Metallica. Metallica just happened to be the first metal band that came to my mind.
Great to see Solitude Aeturnus represented!!! LEGENDS!
Feels so good to see Acid Bath on this list. They are from my hometown and a lot of my friends went to school with them. The bassist of the band unfortunately died on a road that I use very often.
PRONG - Beg To Differ, Prove You Wrong, Cleansing, Rude Awakening!!! That's the 90's band for me. And they are still going strong! 🔱
@superstarthomas
Жыл бұрын
Prong is underrated Cleansing, Rude Awakening are my favs heck I even liked Scorpio Rising.
@jaysonraphaelmurdock8812
Жыл бұрын
They're awesome
@andrettski8686
Жыл бұрын
PRONG is fantastic. Not sure if we were correct, but me and my posse always labeled Prong as Industrial Metal, they just sounded like a well oiled machine, track, after track, after track. Those 4 albums you listed I consider them as masterpieces. How did those guys get so much power and sound from a trio?
@samuelwetz8378
Жыл бұрын
Love Prong!!! Their later albums are fantastic too
Spirit adrift is quickly becoming one of my favorite bands
For me it's definitely rust in peace by Megadeth. Not only from the 90's. In my opinion it's one of the best albums ever made in metal.
@Mr-mopar
Жыл бұрын
100 percent accurate…the whole band was on another level for this album.
@hectorescobar9450
5 ай бұрын
It’s up there for sure. I still think that Death albums rival it in pretty close fight. Especially ’The Sound of Perseverance’
@pain9270
5 ай бұрын
@@hectorescobar9450 agree with that! Death is amazing.
Started with Acid Bath and I knew he was legit, they're the best! Now gotta go check out Spirit Adrift for sure...
Love to see the acid bath love. Every metalhead should listen to them.
@kevinvannorman5997
Жыл бұрын
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This man has good taste in music. So many great bands putting out epic music during those years
Acid bath rules man thank you for that name drop
ACID BATH & SOLITUDE AETURNUS!!!? Both define my love of music as a whole. Amazing list, top to bottom.
I'm from Louisiana thank you for Acid Bath on the list. They were so good
@kevinvannorman5997
Жыл бұрын
Yes yes yes🤘🤘🤘🤘
When bro pops this off with Acid Bath you know it's gonna be a great fuckin' list! So many people I talk to have no idea about Acid Bath. Incredibly underrated band! 🤘
Much respect for mentioning ACID BATH. This guy is real cool!
Bro forgot to mention ENTOMBED and or DISMEMBER. They started a whole new style of death metal that’s blended and influenced by punk/hardcore, and their guitar tones are still heavily emulated to this day. Long live Swedish death
Nothing wrong with any of these picks, including The Cranberries. I was in my late teens to the tail end of my mid 20s during that decade and there was a lot of good heavy music during those years. Even the resurgence of Queen in the US and Canada had happened.
Great line up! Thank you for sharing less known bands! 😎🤘🔥🖤🔥👊🔥
Nate, you have great taste! Serious kudos for the Cranberries shoutout! 🤘
Dude so cool to hear acid bath gets some love ! R.i.p audie!
My top 11: Crowbar Eyehategod Soilent Green Iron Monkey Helmet Pantera Godflesh Korn Today Is The Day Life of Agony Grief
Solid list. Was thinking he was gonna say EYEHATEGOD, cause seen his tattoo. But he mentioned Acid Bath, so he seems like he went different state and styles.
What a great list man, thanks for caring and sharing
What an awesome list. With so many diverse and killer 90’s bands represented it’s no wonder Spirit Adrift’s music speaks to us!
What an awesome watch! Hadn't heard of Solitude Aeternus before watching this. Fell in love with the first listen! watched a live video where the vocalist is performing with 3 broken ribs! And what an awesome underground musical world we live in. I get to see Spirit Adrift open for one of my favorite bands on 11/18. Corrosion Of Conformity. Can't fucking wait! Would be really cool if I got to meet Nate. Seems like a genuinely real dude!
great list! Our top5: My Dying Bride Dream Theater Opeth Paradise Lost Neurosis
@shadowrunner138
Жыл бұрын
I miss the classic growly Opeth so much.
@Eric13345
Жыл бұрын
Hard to argue against Opeth or DT especially
@jaysonraphaelmurdock8812
Жыл бұрын
Paradise Lost 🤘
Good to see you had Dissection on the list.... both those first two albums are literally flawless.
Exactly correct about 'Dirt', perfect album
As soon as I seen AIC, i knew this was going to be a awesome list! And then he finished it with The Cranberries 👌 what a dude and what music taste he has! Not guna lie, hadn’t heard of 2 of the bands, but that’s what I love about lists/videos like this, finding new music and influences 😁👍🤘 Will give them Both a listen this week 🤘
Incredible list, I appreciate that you added the Cranberries. Here are my favorite 11 bands of the 90s. 1. Korn 2. Tool 3. Pantera 4. Soundgarden 5. Cranberries 6. Slipknot 7. Pearl Jam 8. Alice In Chains 9. Deftones 10. Sevendust 11. Snot
Glad to see the love for Solitude Aeturnus!
Love all the Acid Bath love lately!
Agents of Oblivion - short lived band that put out one perfect record. So good to hear them get a shout out here
Acid Bath. Yes and Agents of Oblivion gets the nod too. Nice
@kevinvannorman5997
Жыл бұрын
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You are the fucking man....just naming all these bands and actually giving insight....its just felt good brother....LOVE!!!!
agree man....amazing list....there's so many more to put on....but this list is pretty solid 🤘🏻
Great Bands ! Solitude sounds great ❤️
Glad to see Type O getting some love!
Sepultura and Fear Factory 🤘 Not on the list but should be 🤘 Much love to The Cranberries shout out 🤘
Way better list than I was expecting. I'd have to find spots for Neurosis and Fear Factory. Definitely gonna give his band a listen soon.
@motostarmx1777
Жыл бұрын
his Band is Great.
Maybe the best list I’ve ever seen
Hell yeah, acid bath jammed.
Dissection, what a great fucking choice! So underrated.
Got a few new bands to check out now...thanks
I like a couple of these bands but my main bands in the 90s were Slayer, Sepultura, Obituary, Machinehead, Cathedral, Motorhead, Entombed, Fear Factory, Sick of it All, Biohazard, and Danzig. Danzig 4 is really good and should be counted as the last classic Danzig album. Honorable mentions would be Carcass, Rollins Band, Madball, Sacred Reich, Corrosion of Conformity, and White Zombie. I loved that first Life of Agony album and Nailbomb album too.
@shadowrunner138
Жыл бұрын
4p IS considered the last classic album.
@213davidhunter
Жыл бұрын
Check our Circle of Snakes and I Luciferri. I think they are up there with the earlier stuff.
@Gregbaltzer
Жыл бұрын
@@213davidhunter I have them. I prefer Danzig 6, which is a damn fine album.
@jaysonraphaelmurdock8812
Жыл бұрын
C.O.C.!!!
My personal 11 would be Pantera, KoRn, Fear Factory, Type O Negative, Alice In Chains, Rage Against the Machine, Nine Inch Nails, Cannibal Corpse, Deicide, Death & Crowbar. Bands that all have at least 3 classic albums from that decade(sorry Machine Head & Acid Bath 😢 2 isn’t enough 😭). Honorable mentions include Soundgarden, Helmet, Corrosion of Conformity, Dream Theater, Megadeth & Kyuss
@brettpoe3069
Жыл бұрын
Great list my man
Love nate and spirit adrift!
I'm going to talk about every band except the one on my shirt quite possibly the best thrash band ever SLAYER!!!!!!!!
Awesome run down.
Solid List
I totally dig this list. Very thoughtful indeed. Will definitely check out Acid Bath.
@mikehoncho4480
Жыл бұрын
Won't find much on KZread from them. Spotify has both their albums tho
@kevinvannorman5997
Жыл бұрын
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@kenjiwenji
Жыл бұрын
Acid Bath will not disappoint. One of the most underrated bands of all time imho.
@davegordon6943
Жыл бұрын
I can find them sometimes. Look up When The Kite String Pops
@kenjiwenji
Жыл бұрын
@@davegordon6943 you'll find both their albums on Spotify.
So glad he included Acid Bath
@kevinvannorman5997
Жыл бұрын
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Great and yet unique list with the Cranberries choice....
I haven't listened to Spjrit Adrift but have em queued to play next. Great list. Dude seems cool too. In addition to Spirit Adrit, I guess I'm gonna be checking out more from Trouble, Solitude Aeternus, and the Cranberries for the next few days.
Great list.
Great list! The curve ball was great too! Love it when metal heads expose bands they like that has nothing to do with metal. The 90’s was a good time for metal, just had to dig deep for it cuz grunge and alternative was dominating the scene. Other then the bands you mentioned, here’s some of my favs of that era: Neurosis, Sepultura, Fear Factory, Deftones, Tool, Cannibal Corpse, Carcass and Emperor.
Nice list, like it! so let's play. Death, Alice in Chains, Pantera, Sepultura, Metallica, Paradise Lost, Megadeth, Grip Inc., The Gathering, Fear Factory, Rage Against the Machine. But I'd like to add for sure Faith No More, Morbid Angel, Slayer, Gamma Ray, Kyuss, Biohazard, Type O-, Napalm Death, Tool, Spiritual Beggars, Judas Priest...
Solid list. Danzig and Type O still my top two metal bands to this day.
Great list. Solitude Aeturnus 🤘
Really glad to see dissection in this list.
Such a great diverse list ! Very surprised to see him mention dissection that was the really nice surprise for me. Well i have also found a new band to check out (Solitude Aeterus)
Sepultura, Nightwish, Dream Theater. Loved the Type O reference.
Acid Bath and AIC are the best bands of the 90s if you ask me.
great picks nate
Glade to see Acid Bath and the underrated Solitude Aeturnus on this list. I would also pick Rammstein, Crowbar, Prong, Theatre Of Tragedy, Godflesh as good 90's picks
Hey pretty good list except that you FORGOT ONE! Lol Corrosion Of Conformity Man how could anyone forget them! Undoubtedly one of the BEST Heavy Metal Band of 90s! 😎🤘
Dude what a pick!!!Acid Bath’s WTKSP is so awesome and super underrated!!!!
pretty good list :)
Nice list! I would definetely place Sepultura, Machine Head and Korn in my list...
@rferguson3
Жыл бұрын
Right on. Big Sepultura fan, mainly only a fan of the first Korn record & I’m a die hard, HUGE, Machine Head fan
I think his list is pretty solid. To me, the glaring omissions are definitely Fear Factory and Sepultura- I absolutely love both. Actually, you could pick virtually anyone in the majority of Roadrunner’s roster in the 90s, and there’s your list. Type O Negative has been my favorite band for 30 years, its great they are FINALLY getting the recognition they deserve as I see them included more and more in lists lately. I feel very fortunate to have seen them nearly 60 times, and to have gotten to hang with them on several occasions. I was devastated when Peter passed, and still am. I’m defending his choice for Metallica- I mean, they DID release the biggest selling metal album of all time in the 90s! Yeah, I agree their true heyday is in the 80s, but it’s not out of place to list them here for that reason alone. One could argue that Megadeth, Ozzy, and Slayer should be on the list for the same reason. All of that being said, a best of metal list in the 90s would be null and void without Pantera, IMO the most important metal band of the 90s.
Acid bath is awesome. Too bad no one seen em in the 90s
Nice list
Wait for number 11. Nate is a legend.
Impressive! Someone FINALLY mentions Solitude Aturnaus!!! 🤣🤘
I love Nate talking music. It's always very interesting. In a personal list there would be Neurosis, Body Count, Corrosion of Conformity, Nine Inch Nails - not everyone's definition of metal either but among the greatest too.
"Dirt is a perfect record"... perfect quote.
Blind Guardian Black Sabbath Iron Maiden Alice In Chains Soundgarden Skid Row Danzig Megadeth Ozzy Osbourne Pantera Bruce Dickinson This is in retrospect. Back then it would have looked different.
Nice Shirt … South of heaven is my alltime favorite metal record 🤘🔥🤘
Nice list! I'd throw in Corrosion Of Conformity.
@smote_his_ruin
Жыл бұрын
Blind, Deliverance and Wiseblood.. what a trifecta!
I want a tye dye South of Heaven shirt. Solid list dude!
Not only was he dead on about Danzig, but using the glorious chorus from Tired of Being Alive was genius.
@VBshredder
Жыл бұрын
I would have gone with the main riff in Long Way Back From Hell, but yeah good choice anyway! Imma have to check out this dude's band, i knew from the first 2 bands this guy was cut from similar musical cloth
@shadowrunner138
Жыл бұрын
I've noticed it's gotten trendy/common for people to fixate on the first two albums as if III wasn't just as good. Makes me wonder what the supposed qualms with III are.
@VBshredder
Жыл бұрын
@@shadowrunner138 fair point, I love 3 as well. especially that skin peeling guitar tone. I think 2 is just way more of a complete package, even if 3 tried harder. 2 sets the mood from the first note, from the cover, from reading the first lyrics, and brings the darkness. 4 I still like, then I lost em!
I like all of those!!
This guy knows his stuff, great list! I might have put Crowbar and Paradise Lost on there.
@jaysonraphaelmurdock8812
Жыл бұрын
Definitely!
Awesome list.. have to add Carcass , Heartwork album
dude has good taste.
Also the Spirit Adrift Type O negative cover of Everything Dies is Solid!
I agree with Alice in Chains and The Cranberries, both Layne Staley and Dolores O' Riordan were masters of their art, period, what remarkable voices! Much missed both. Love the AIC album Dirty, specially "Would?" what a masterpiece! Also, Metallica album Black was and is a game changer for metal.Would just add Sepultura and Korn to my list, they are my biggest influences from teenager years.
Got that sick @coolshirts42069 shirt too 🎉 Nate is a badass.
Glad to see Acid Bath getting recognition.
Great list. Some I don’t consider to be metal. But to each his own. Definitely would’ve put Sepultura at the top of the list.
Ooofff how does Megadeth not make this list? Just Rust In Peace alone blows everything out of the water in the 90s with only Death coming close for me with a few of their albums
@konnan
Жыл бұрын
Came here to say the same, although major props for Alice In Chains, you have to include Megadeth for rust in peace and countdown
@fredriksvard2603
Жыл бұрын
Redundant after mentioning Metallica, more important to make room for Death, Type O etc
@nicholasbsoumai
Жыл бұрын
@@fredriksvard2603 Actually, Megadeth should have been on here ahead of 10 other bands including Metallica. Metallica in the 90s is where it all fell apart musically. Megadeth brought out 3 bangers in 90, 92 and 94
@fredriksvard2603
Жыл бұрын
@@nicholasbsoumai No
@nicholasbsoumai
Жыл бұрын
@@fredriksvard2603 LOL okay mate
Saw Trouble a lot growing up in Chicago. What could have been. So underrated.
ACID BATH! Grabbed me! I can’t stop listening
As soon as he said acid bath I knew his list was going to be perfect
@jasonlopez7248
Жыл бұрын
What the hell? I did not say that. The Cranberries ALL THE WAY!!!!
I bought a Roadrunner VHS Compilation and borrowed a Cranberries VHS..those two back and forth for a while. World Coming Down is probably my favorite Type O album...good list all round