So many good albums came out mostly Nu Metal between 2000-2003.. Only someone born then or after would say that. Back in 2000-2001 (Until after 9/11) It was still pretty late 90's... And Nu Metal was the hottest thing going. Say what you want about Nu Metal but it kept metal in the mainstream. Drowning Pool, Disturbed, Slipknot, Limp Bizkit, Korn, Linkin Park, P.O.D., Creed, Staind ect. All had mainstream success in 2000
Fear Factory is metal meets alternative? Love your videos man as I appreciate the deep dives, but can’t agree with you on that. Soul of a new Machine cannot be called alt metal
Heroin fuels the music scene; creativity and artistically it does anyway. It's always the ones who are the biggest fuck ups or junky pieces of shit that are the most amazing song writers.
@LWKGD tell that to dave mustaine , Chris Poland, the whole jazz scene and countless other legendary artists, not just in the music scene but in general
“Alternative metal” and “Nu-Metal” are very interconnected and often share the same fanbase. Before “Nu-Metal” term was invented, bands like Korn were considered to be “Alternative Metal”
Nah bro, it was always called Nu-Metal or just garbage. It was called Nu-Metal as a slang and an insult. It was different but a step backwards musically from the stuff in the 80's and nothing new under the sun. Thats why it was called Nu Metal. It was called Alternative Metal after that by the labels when they figured out that the initial audience rock and metal heads weren't buying into it. So they pitched it to the grunge and alt-rock, punk crowd who adopted it as Alt Metal. So you can tell who you are talking to with it, if they call it Nu-Metal, its a metalhead or music enthusiast in general. If Alt-Metal is used you are talking to a grunge, basic citizen, poser, or industry exec. Thats basically it.
tw19771 yeah well, it’s only your opinion. Not more than that. Not to mention that term “nu-metal” appeared in magazines only in 1997. And it is sub genre of alternative metal.
@@PeterMacLeod88 No, people were calling Nu-Metal Nu-Metal as far back as 1996.If not 1995. How do I know? Because I called Korn and Limp Bizkit that at the time and my friends used it, and everybody else to describe what they were doing. The Alt-Metal label didn't take off until the late 90's when bands that would have been thrown in the catagory were reboxed as Alt-Metal because Nu-Metal by the time 1997 hit, had no favorable reputation among metalheads, but had a sizable following among the non metal crowds. So by 1997, 1998 Nu-Metal got compartmentalized to mean "Metal with rap vocals" because the press didn't want to deal with the radioactive musical waste dump that Korn and Limp Bizkit left behind. When trying to market these other bands. Thats not opinion its a fact, and real world street experience bests google search ninja skills anyday.
Primus is actually one of the most interesting bands ever imo. You should do a whole video on them! Like everything about them is so unique and interesting: sound, vocals, music videos, the bass... les is an amazing bass player! I would love a video on this band
The thing that blows my mind most about Primus, are the incredibly slim odds that those 3 freakshow musicians somehow all managed to end up in the same band. I think most musicians that are even fractionaly so unique generally end up going their whole lives without ever playing in a band that is actually a good fit for them.
@@bushleague3472 At one point, Primus made more money on tour than Michael Jackson the same year. For music of this type that is an amazing and inspiring fact.
@@thesilverhawaiian5024 dude i remember listening to meantime back in the day and was just blown away. Like i couldnt believe what was coming out of the speakers type of sound. Thats one, number 2, these mofo were our backyard band being from nyc so i went to see them like a week after, i was entering the underground scene at that time and age.
John Stanier, Helmet‘s drummer, is still very active and successful with Battles. Helmet was one of the biggest bands in the 90‘s, had the pleasure to see them live back in the days.
Demanufacture is still one of my favorite metal albums of all time. At the time it was the heaviest shit I had ever heard and it holds up completely to today’s stuff. I honestly never knew a drummer could be that fast and precise.
I first heard Fear Factory on the Mortal Kombat soundtrack and it changed my life... Holy shit was Demanufacture heavy beyond heavy!!!!! Raymond Herrera, what a fucking banger of a drummer!
@@BeatsAndMeats Exactly the same for me, Zero Signal is still my favorite song of theirs. Come to think of it, that was a pretty good soundtrack. Type O, Napalm Death, KMFDM, GZR...good shit.
It was basically Metallica. Even in the Misfits book "This music leaves Stains" they basically cred Metallica. Before Metallica did those covers and introduced their fan base to the Misfits Jerry Only didn't give a shit about the Misfits royalties, because there was none. But then Metallica covered them and all of a sudden the royalties started pouring in. Jerry sued Glenn right after that. The Guns and Roses royalties helped. They were basically getting $0.10 for each song covered for each album sold. That's a lot of money when you're selling as many albums as Metallica and Guns and Roses. The story is longer than that but the Metallica covers basically created their popularity.
I’m 22 and I got into Danzig and fear factory and it’s opened my world to a whole spur of music that I couldn’t even begin to jot down. I whole heartedly agree that the metal that came out of those scenes during that era still holds up. all of my friends love listening to all of those bands. Ironically I think most people in my generation who listen to this kind of stuff see alt metal and nu metal as basically the same thing we just love it all and listen to it in the same vain... vein?.....vane??...whatever. But yeah Danny boy, Type O Negative, and Rollins Band, were all very formative bands for my youth and are still constantly played for me.
It's to your generation what Led Zepp, Jimi, Doors, Sabbath, Stones, Floyd, etcetcetc was to my generation. It'll happen again, the old bands are dying out, the scene is getting stale, something will grow of its ashes.
La Sexorcisto is one of my top ten favorite albums, ever. I’ve listened to it for at least twenty-five years...love it. I still listen to Helmet and Rage as well, but that White Zombie album...it just doesn’t get boring.
This was a great time to be a teenager, still into a lot of this music. Just saw ministry and primus and Phil Anselmo with the illegals play a bunch of pantera songs at Slayer’s final two shows in LA 7 weeks ago
Agreed... we were the last generation before the tech boom, like kids born just before the industrial revolution, they were laborers, workers deprived of what we consider a “childhood” and thought the generation of “boomers” to follow were spoiling their kids... but I think the discoveries made during teenage years are always super integral to how you grow as a person... everything is so defining during puberty and really impacts our sense of self through our lives 💖
@@nonameman7114 i think the reason why is that AIC is seen as the most pure example of what grunge, “should be” to music elitists, which ignores their metal elements. Personally i think the prime “grunge” example should be soundgarden but meh.
This video is literally my first 10 years of music fandom defined. I truly hope every younger person who follows this channel goes down this rabbit hole, because there is so much good stuff to be found. Still to this day I'm discovering tons of overlooked gems from this era. I cannot overstate how important MTV was for someone who lived in the woods with minimal friends, none with any sort of awareness of the underground. Headbangers Ball and 120 Minutes literally felt like the only way to find anything more than what was presented in the mainstream, and I'm truly grateful for having the desire to stay up / set the VCR and explore.
Agree. We traveled for work across country. I kept up with the pulse of music with MTV. Any music, fashion related info was found there. Before it turned into ? Reality shows etc
Joseph Reynolds Well without Dave the personality and humor isn’t what it used to be, but they do a fine job at it anyhow. If Mike was sick, he’s fine now. All of the band sounds great. The stage show is funny and violent as ever. Some rarities on the setlist too.
I read they had a ton of issues recording it. They kept working it, replaying, re recording. It wasn't put out until they felt it was perfect. Probably explains why it's such a polished masterpiece. :)
Demanufacture...Remember when I bought the CD and when I listened to it completely...I was like: I don't like this album its quite heavier. And left it there. Then like a week or 2, listened to it again, and again. And it grew on me, their sound was so unique, that it took me by surprise. Love It !!!
oh no please no... as much as I do love 90's emo if he made that happen you would have hordes of nerds claiming what it is "real emo"... so no thank you
@@violetagardenia I remember him doing a video on MCR and talking shit about the "real emo" douches lmao, so i don't think he'll do a video on it, or if he knows enough about it to make a video on it, as much as I'd like to see it
he’s said on instagram that he can’t stand that genre nor the majority of its internet fandom, so i don’t think it’ll happen. makes me sad, but hey, we can’t fault him for having preferences 🤷🏻♂️
Sunny Day Real Estate, The Promise Ring , Mineral , Knapsack , Christie Front Drive and Jimmy Eat World *is my favorite band*. Oh the punk-emo bands (The Get Up Kids) Plus the genre influenced everything from Paramore/Fall Out Boy to Tigers Jaw to Mom Jeans. Seems to important to not do a video on.
Yeah I suggested to do a progression of emo video. Like from Sunny Day Real Estate Hum and Bright Eyes and bands like that to the monstrosity that it is today. Most people who claim to be emo today have no idea where it came from.
The "Mind is a Terrible Thing to Taste" came out in 1990 or there-a-bouts. Perhaps you are thinking about "The Land of Rape and Honey" which came out in '88. I know because I saw Ministry in '88 and '90, both times at the Cameo in Miami.
late 90's NIN & Mnason brought me to the Goth scene in my late teens. A lotta girls were into it and I lived a stone's throw from the gothiest place on Earth- Montreal. LOL Or... is/was London more Goth? So as Nu-metal emerged, I submerged into Cure, Depeche, Portishead, bauhaus, etc... I wouldn't have even know about Bauhaus if it wasn't for Goth Talk on SNL. GAWD Molly SHannon looked howt as a goth chik.
Finally 90’s alt Metal is getting the respect it deserves!! I was a little kid in the early 90s but watched a lot of mtv and loved a lot of these bands. Most of the bands mentioned including Type O Negative, white zombie, and Nine inch Nails are still some of my favorites. Beavis and Butthead Metal would not be an insult as they loved bands in the genre.
I gotta give credit to Mike Judge for forcing MTV to play shit they'd never touch and introducing SO many good and goofy and zany bands to the 90s playlist. B & B's music taste was 100% Austin, TX weirdo Mike Judge's doing.
Looking back, the Melvins Lysol is my favorite alt metal album of all time. That's just me, I love the drone. Back in 9th grade 93/94 I loved Primus the most. Friends were way into Pantera
The Cure, with the line-up of "Simon Gallup, Robert Smith, Boris Williams, Porl Thompson, Lol Tolhurst and Roger O'donnel", was probably in my opinion the greatest gathering of musicians coming together to not only make something great but to create something lasting. Truly classic.
Thanks for this video! The years and bands you covered perfectly encapsulates my late teens and early twenties, as well as the height of my days going to see shows. The first time I was old enough to drive to Hollywood and see a live show was to see Danzig. It was 1990. Their opening act was a band no one knew... called Nirvana. Oh, how the times would change. These are still some of my favorite nostalgia artists to listen to. Cheers!
Fishbone were super interesting as they came from the punk scene, and were heavily riffing on PFunk. There is a great doc about them called Everyday Sunshine.
@@I-Ren-Zero Everyday Sunshine overplayed how off the rails Kendall went. I hung out with him a bunch of times in Oakland. He is not a religious fanatic. He hangs out, drinks beer, smokes weed, and is into the punk scene. That Doc thru him under the bus. Dude is very solid
All of this shit is still on heavy rotation in my life. My husband and I have introduced it to our 17 and 6 year old boys all of their lives and we will continue to play them all on Spotify. Thank GOD for the legacy that their CD's and catalogs of great music have provided us. With all of that we never have to listen to a single shit pop song from this era. Thank you.
The early to mid 90's was and will always be the best era for metal. Hair bands were fading and pantera with vulgar display, zombie la sexorcisto, prong, biohazard, slayer sepultura, morbid angel etc. Were amazing and what inspired me to be a musician now
I know Nirvana was an are always mentioned but that whole scene with Alice in chains, pearl jam, Soundgarden, stone temple pilots was huge. No mention of Marilyn Manson when he was all over the news especially during colombine.
He could prolly do a whole video on the changing face of STP thru their 5 albums. Metallica-wannabes, true cvlt alt-rock, the Tiny soft parade, proto-nu-metal, and then the last one that I only own for reference. LOL
Siamese Dream 93' Afghan Whigs gentlemen 93' Sonic Youth dirty 92' Paw dragline 93' Sugartooth sold my fortune 94' Sunny day real estate diary 94' Some of my favorite albums from then!!
Butch Vig + Siamese Dream = unlock 100% BillCo (what we used to call Billy Corgan) - you know Billy played everything except for Jimmy's drums on that record. There are some great message board threads where Butch did an AmA style question and answer on that album and there was a ton of great stories shared
90s Alt-Metal was partially the soundtrack for my middle school years. I'm not kidding. I really listened to those bands back then & still do. Same with hair metal & early 90s gangsta rap. I wish you'd do a video on Fishbone. They're an underrated band. Happy you gave Gwar a shout out. They're from my home state Virginia.
Great trip down memory lane 👍 So many great bands. My faves were: Pantera, Fear Factory, CIV, Living Color, White Zombie- so many great bands. Good ishh.
That’s multiple different scenes there. Bouncing Souls...90s Epitaph/Fat melodic skate punk. Hot Water Music...Gainesville “beard punk.” Lawrence Arms...midwestern “orgcore.” Gaslight Anthem...modern pop punk inspired by heartland rock.
This was the peak of my teenage years, and some of my favorite all time bands and albums. If anyone out there is in for some reading on this, I conducted two interviews that seem pertinent to this era specifically: One with J., the great guitarist for White Zombie, and with Billy Gould, the bass plater for Faith No More. It's kind of all over the place, but much of the conversation is precisely about that great era. I'll put links here: machinemusic.net/2015/08/04/still-zombie-after-all-these-years-an-interview-with-jay-yuenger/ machinemusic.net/2015/04/01/the-real-thing-returneth-an-interview-with-billy-gould-of-faith-no-more/
Finn! You should do a big four of '90s alt metal rock stuff. That would be fun, James addiction and Rollins band and helmet and Primus and all that fun stuff
i have been saying the 90's had the best music scene for a long time for some of the reasons you just pointed out. so many great bands and albums out at once, it was crazy. the over all music scene was huge through those years.
People don't seem to realize that these bands, and their albums and songs are still playable. I love majority of the stuff covered in this video,. Fear Factory will always be one of my most favourite artists. By the way...the Black Album by Metallica is their sell-out album. They went all radio-friendly for that album, and ruined them forever. Many of these bands are actually classified as Industrial Metal (a personal favourite of mine). Prong, Ministry, Godflesh, Fear Factory are always in every single playlist I create.
I know Helmet's Meantime by heart on guitar and bass. Played it with my dearly departed best friend and drummer over 20 years ago from beginning to end from memory shortly before he passed. It's that ingrained. 🙂
This stuff is amazing. I was a bit young for it (10-12 in the golden years) but I still remember it happening to older siblings of friends. I found a lot of it in the late 90s and early 2000’s at the same time I found thrash. Still love it.
This is some of my favorite music. Nearly every song/band you mentioned. This is still what's on my headphones half (or more) of the time. Respect! Thanks, from another delusional old man!
"Man, some good bands here I hadn't heard of, why didn't I get into these back in high school?" 12:57 "could play their asses off, but weren't like, total ponytail material playing to the weirdo fusion people" ...aaah dangit. I rocked a ponytail *and* listened to fusion. *Including* Chick Corea Electric Band (pictured). GG
Fear Factory and Tool are two of my favourite bands. Everyone's a Tool expert to some extent so I'll talk about Fear Factory. They were a huge pioneer in many respects, but particularly the whole good-cop bad-cop thing. Edgecrusher from the FF album Obsolete was one of the two songs that originally got me into Metal, and now it's a *massive* part of my life and identity. That album Obsolete is in my top 10 all time favourite albums, it's one of those extremely rare albums you can listen to every single track start to finish and enjoy every one. Their early albums were complete game changers for Metal, but in their 31 year career they've just released album after album after album of brilliant, world class metal. Their most recent release 2015's Genexus was brilliant, so much so I went out and bought the physical album, something I can only afford to do with truly cherished music. Their album Transgression cops a lot of crap - even from Christian Olde Wolbers who I met at an instore event - but I think it's a *great* album: 54,000 Farenhieght, Transgression, Spinal Compression, Echo of My Scream, New Promise and Moment of Impact are all killer songs
I'm 42 and here in the UK myself and a small group of pals at our school were rabidly into all of these bands, where as the mainstream non-alt kids, of which there were hundreds .. they were into "tape packs" claiming they went to raves (even though they were kids and couldn't get in hahah!). We lapped it up and felt like we were into stuff other kids just didn't get. Just watched this and realised we followed it all through from the start. We also loved all the Ska Punk and Skate Punk stuff too. Happy memories of Faith No More live in London.... Also we did Donnington Monsters of Rock the year Korn played their first UK set there and I'm in the crowd down the front getting stomped on.. that was insane. My pal got hit by a flying bottle pf piss. Now I am a house DJ.
Loved the trip in the way back machine. Lots of bands I forgot about. Recently I have been loving on Northern European symphonic metal like Nightwish, Epica, Sabaton. I think you will like it. Metal has moved to Europe
Yes I remember the video welcome to the jungle that weekend my grandmother took me and my brother to the mall there was a record store in there the name of it was record bar and she bought the tape for me
A huge factor was that this was all pre-internet. I remember going to parties in 93-94 and hearing everything from the Beatles to Cypress Hill to Pantera and no-one was put off. Freaks (for want of a better word) stuck together, and all of those bands were "freak music". Once the internet became popular, people really started stratifying into smaller and more niche scenes.
The 90's were my favorite era of Metal. Type O Negative, Danzig, Pantera, Alice in Chains, Cathedral, Tool, The Obsessed, Rollins Band, White Zombie, Fear Factory, Death Metal, Black Metal, Thrash Metal, and great records from the 70's/80's giants like Sabbath, Dio, Ozzy, Venom, Pentagram, and Mercyful Fate.
My favorite alt metal albums are: Tool - Ænima Faith No More - King for a Day... Type O Negative - October Rust Deftones - White Pony Helmet - Betty Rage Against the Machine - Battle of Los Angeles Alice in Change - Dirt Soundgarden - Badmotorfinger Prong - Cleansing Stabbing Westward - Wither Blister Burn & Peel
"John the Fisherman" is such a good song. It's the perfect fusion of aggressive playing and funky beats. But let's be honest, basically all of Primus' songs have that feel. Very underated.
I'd be interested to see like a "state of the scene" video. Like, where is metal and hardcore today? What are the big trends, what's popular, who are the new players, etc. I'm unfortunately not super familiar with what's going on anymore and I think it could be an interesting video.
Me too I tend to just listen to bands that have been around for a while idc if there considered mainstream in the metal scene or not as long as there not death metal or whatever I'll give them a listen
You guys should check out the podcast called “The State of the Scene”! Not from Finn, but I think it might be along the lines of what you’re looking for
He pretty much made a video about that last week, stating that rock today is pretty much dead and bands that were formed before the 2000s pretty much still dominate the scene and headline festivals. His conclusion was its a matter of offer and demand
Helmet had great song all over their discography. Meantime is my favorite album, but songs like "Wilma's Rainbow", "Smart", "Exactly What You Wanted", and "Throwing Punches" are every bit as good.
You mean Alice In Chains, Helmet, Faith No More Soundgarden, Stone Temple Pilots, Danzig, Depeche Mode, L7, Living Color Ozzy Osbourne, Jane's Addiction, Primal Scream
Helmet- Have you ever seen a band look more like just a bunch of regular geek looking dudes play such tight, heavy music? The early stuff almost sounds industrial machine like but that's them just playing! Highly underrated.
I was obsessed with them in the 90’s-00’s, and finally got there see them in 2014, for a Betty 20 year tour! It was awesome, and I got to take my husband and bring him back to my alt teen years :)
Culturally and musically, 91-94 was an unbelievable time period. This is not just nostalgia. Everything really did feel new, authentic and fresh. I really can't think of any time period since then that we experienced anything similiar.
Your comment on the media environment is dead on. I constantly see people my age (early 40s) and even a few years younger bitching about how there’s no good music being made anymore, it’s all in the past, etc which is completely untrue. What’s changed is that now you have to make more of an effort to seek it out. Back in 1994 it was pretty much inescapable. You couldn’t turn on the radio or MTV without having something great practically thrown in your face, because for whatever reason the media were much less risk averse. Nowadays it’s almost like it’s their job to keep you away from anything that’s challenging or interesting, which is why we’re looking for it here on TH-cam or Spotify or what have you.
Back then I remember magazines being so influential and I'm happy he mentionned them. I can't tell you how many hours I spent getting hyped while flipping through Spin or Rolling Stones mags. I'd even cut out band pics and artwork from mags and stick them on my wall. I have vivid memories of two eras : Smashing Pumpkins type focused publications, and Marilyn Manson & co type publications.
I think a lot of the reason why people our age complain that there’s no good music anymore is because they don’t know *how* to seek it out. To younger people platforms like Spotify are intuitive. Meanwhile a lot of people my age (I’m 44) stick with Pandora or Sirius XM because they don’t understand how to navigate Spotify. They’re accustomed to having everything spoon fed to them.
They’re an interesting band. They were hardcore/punk /metal crossover in the 80’s, then stoner metal in the 90’s, and now bordering on sludge and southern. Great band.
I used to hang out with them in the 80's when they still lived in Raleigh. They definitely adapted, improvised, and evolved since then. Vote with a Bullet, Hell yes.
'Demanufacture' and Machine Head's 'Burn My Eyes' set the new standards for sheer guitar heaviness at that time. The quantum leap in production quality was immense, thanks to the likes of Ross Robinson and Colin Richardson. And of course, Terry Date and Pantera for leading the way.
The first two Lollapalooza tours were epic it's hard to describe unless you were there. The late 80s early 90s was great time to be a young music fan at the time it almost felt like a revolution was afoot.
I'm 46 now, and I always remember bands like Ministry, Skinny Puppy, Fear Factory, even NIN (once they released the 'Broken' EP) being referred to as 'industrial', rather than 'alt-metal.'. No matter what you call it, I loved so many of those bands, and still do. I was a huge fan of punk and thrash, and also new wave and what came to be called 'alternative' (I also remember when it was called 'college rock', LOL). Industrial combined everything I loved about all those genres, and I still listen to it today. Good video; took me right back to the day too!
SerialGothQueens I would love to see a vid on Industrial. So many great bands. Everything Skinny Puppy released was phenomenal, and I’ll include The Process in that.
Yes, Industrial was rather influential on nu-metal, and actually experiened a short "moment in the sun" in the mid to late 90s thanks largely to the success of NIN.
@@saurondp Filter is still putting out good, heavy industrial to this day. It amazes me how bands like that can have such a heavy, big ass guitar sound but still sound completely different than metal. The added electronic sounds are obviously a part of that, but even the guitar sounds entirely different regardless of how brutally heavy it is.
Without ‘90s alternative metal, there would never be a nu metal. Honestly, I have respect for most of the bands in the alternative metal genre.
You can hear Helmet riffs in a lot of nu metal bands
So we can blame alt metal for nu metal then?
In that case, i hate alt metal even more then if its responsible for nu metal lmao
Cody I guess that means that you also have to hate alternative, punk, and metal because without them alt metal would never exist
@@dekaiaverett3265 Its not that deep bro lol It was just a joke
>what killed 90s alt metal?
The year 2000 probably.
lmao I said the same thing when I saw the title
So many good albums came out mostly Nu Metal between 2000-2003.. Only someone born then or after would say that. Back in 2000-2001 (Until after 9/11) It was still pretty late 90's... And Nu Metal was the hottest thing going. Say what you want about Nu Metal but it kept metal in the mainstream. Drowning Pool, Disturbed, Slipknot, Limp Bizkit, Korn, Linkin Park, P.O.D., Creed, Staind ect. All had mainstream success in 2000
You see that Conan episode?
😂🤣
Fear Factory is metal meets alternative? Love your videos man as I appreciate the deep dives, but can’t agree with you on that. Soul of a new Machine cannot be called alt metal
Heroin was pretty good at killing off things in the music scene back then.
Yea and now it kills us off before we finish the demo!
Heroin fuels the music scene; creativity and artistically it does anyway. It's always the ones who are the biggest fuck ups or junky pieces of shit that are the most amazing song writers.
That and not wearing your fucking seatbelt.
@LWKGD tell that to dave mustaine , Chris Poland, the whole jazz scene and countless other legendary artists, not just in the music scene but in general
JezBollah 667 Jonny. Raif :(
Ministry in their '87-'93 era were one of the greatest bands that ever existed. Period.
Saw them like 5 times in that time frame. They are about to come back to Houston soon and I'll be there for that as well.
“Alternative metal” and “Nu-Metal” are very interconnected and often share the same fanbase.
Before “Nu-Metal” term was invented, bands like Korn were considered to be “Alternative Metal”
Nah bro, it was always called Nu-Metal or just garbage. It was called Nu-Metal as a slang and an insult. It was different but a step backwards musically from the stuff in the 80's and nothing new under the sun. Thats why it was called Nu Metal. It was called Alternative Metal after that by the labels when they figured out that the initial audience rock and metal heads weren't buying into it. So they pitched it to the grunge and alt-rock, punk crowd who adopted it as Alt Metal. So you can tell who you are talking to with it, if they call it Nu-Metal, its a metalhead or music enthusiast in general. If Alt-Metal is used you are talking to a grunge, basic citizen, poser, or industry exec. Thats basically it.
tw19771 you are ill
@@PeterMacLeod88 Nah just factual
tw19771 yeah well, it’s only your opinion. Not more than that.
Not to mention that term “nu-metal” appeared in magazines only in 1997. And it is sub genre of alternative metal.
@@PeterMacLeod88 No, people were calling Nu-Metal Nu-Metal as far back as 1996.If not 1995. How do I know? Because I called Korn and Limp Bizkit that at the time and my friends used it, and everybody else to describe what they were doing. The Alt-Metal label didn't take off until the late 90's when bands that would have been thrown in the catagory were reboxed as Alt-Metal because Nu-Metal by the time 1997 hit, had no favorable reputation among metalheads, but had a sizable following among the non metal crowds. So by 1997, 1998 Nu-Metal got compartmentalized to mean "Metal with rap vocals" because the press didn't want to deal with the radioactive musical waste dump that Korn and Limp Bizkit left behind. When trying to market these other bands.
Thats not opinion its a fact, and real world street experience bests google search ninja skills anyday.
I’d say Alice In Chains and early Soundgarden were important to this sound too
My top two with AIC on top
They were grunge bands. Different video.
No not really. The Seattle thing was its own thing, and Alice and Chains was more straight up metal than Alternative.
I agree.
Grunge
Primus is actually one of the most interesting bands ever imo. You should do a whole video on them! Like everything about them is so unique and interesting: sound, vocals, music videos, the bass... les is an amazing bass player! I would love a video on this band
The thing that blows my mind most about Primus, are the incredibly slim odds that those 3 freakshow musicians somehow all managed to end up in the same band. I think most musicians that are even fractionaly so unique generally end up going their whole lives without ever playing in a band that is actually a good fit for them.
@@bushleague3472 At one point, Primus made more money on tour than Michael Jackson the same year. For music of this type that is an amazing and inspiring fact.
@@BluesyVlogs The 90's were a crazy ride for music. So much different, strange shit became hugely popular.
Helmet is amazing in the meantime and betty are soo underrated
Aftertaste as well!! It’s a lot different but man, what an album
@@TimBitten ya aftertaste has some bangers too but in the meantime and betty are masterpieces even strap it on was good
@@thesilverhawaiian5024 dude i remember listening to meantime back in the day and was just blown away. Like i couldnt believe what was coming out of the speakers type of sound. Thats one, number 2, these mofo were our backyard band being from nyc so i went to see them like a week after, i was entering the underground scene at that time and age.
One of my favorites from that time
John Stanier, Helmet‘s drummer, is still very active and successful with Battles. Helmet was one of the biggest bands in the 90‘s, had the pleasure to see them live back in the days.
Demanufacture is still one of my favorite metal albums of all time. At the time it was the heaviest shit I had ever heard and it holds up completely to today’s stuff. I honestly never knew a drummer could be that fast and precise.
I first heard Fear Factory on the Mortal Kombat soundtrack and it changed my life... Holy shit was Demanufacture heavy beyond heavy!!!!! Raymond Herrera, what a fucking banger of a drummer!
Yeah demanufacture was a game changer for sure
@@BeatsAndMeats Exactly the same for me, Zero Signal is still my favorite song of theirs. Come to think of it, that was a pretty good soundtrack. Type O, Napalm Death, KMFDM, GZR...good shit.
Hell yeah, Demanufacture is, was, and will always the shit! Obsolete is awesome too, fear factory made great music in general.
@@Ataraxia462 great soundtrack even the other non metal tracks were good too
You should do a " How did the Misfits get so big?" Video.
Ps. it was nice meeting you at the show.
I second this suggestion. All I remember hearing is the bootleg tape scene of the early 80s that made them underground legends.
You too!
It was basically Metallica. Even in the Misfits book "This music leaves Stains" they basically cred Metallica. Before Metallica did those covers and introduced their fan base to the Misfits Jerry Only didn't give a shit about the Misfits royalties, because there was none. But then Metallica covered them and all of a sudden the royalties started pouring in. Jerry sued Glenn right after that. The Guns and Roses royalties helped. They were basically getting $0.10 for each song covered for each album sold. That's a lot of money when you're selling as many albums as Metallica and Guns and Roses. The story is longer than that but the Metallica covers basically created their popularity.
Right shit at the right time and Metallica
@@ThePunkRockMBA weird to think that 9 inch nails have a songwriting credit on the number 1 song in the country. Its been number 1 for months
I’m 22 and I got into Danzig and fear factory and it’s opened my world to a whole spur of music that I couldn’t even begin to jot down. I whole heartedly agree that the metal that came out of those scenes during that era still holds up. all of my friends love listening to all of those bands. Ironically I think most people in my generation who listen to this kind of stuff see alt metal and nu metal as basically the same thing we just love it all and listen to it in the same vain... vein?.....vane??...whatever. But yeah Danny boy, Type O Negative, and Rollins Band, were all very formative bands for my youth and are still constantly played for me.
It's to your generation what Led Zepp, Jimi, Doors, Sabbath, Stones, Floyd, etcetcetc was to my generation. It'll happen again, the old bands are dying out, the scene is getting stale, something will grow of its ashes.
La Sexorcisto is one of my top ten favorite albums, ever. I’ve listened to it for at least twenty-five years...love it. I still listen to Helmet and Rage as well, but that White Zombie album...it just doesn’t get boring.
La Sexorcisto is a masterpiece. Its great around Halloween time too.
Rob zombie is an al jourgensen rip off.
Astro creep is even better imo
La sexorcisto is underrated IMO. Very danceable groove metal which is rare.
Astrocreep is my #1 all time favourite album to smash to.
This was a great time to be a teenager, still into a lot of this music. Just saw ministry and primus and Phil Anselmo with the illegals play a bunch of pantera songs at Slayer’s final two shows in LA 7 weeks ago
Agreed... we were the last generation before the tech boom, like kids born just before the industrial revolution, they were laborers, workers deprived of what we consider a “childhood” and thought the generation of “boomers” to follow were spoiling their kids... but I think the discoveries made during teenage years are always super integral to how you grow as a person... everything is so defining during puberty and really impacts our sense of self through our lives 💖
I saw that tour too. Best show I’ve ever seen.
Hey I saw them on slayers tour to! Back in November 2019 it was a great show
Rollins band: weight
Gwar: America must be destroyed
Rollins Band was the soundtrack for my deployment in Iraq in 05-06.
Also, Helmet, Quicksand, Failure, Buzzoven, Crowbar, Prong, etc. I could go on. The early 90's was a treasure trove of killer music.
What's the time stamp when he talks about Alice In Chains? crickets . . .
Dude legit mentions nirvana but not Alice In Chains
dr. K exactly just shows how underrated they are. It’s ironic because Layne influenced most of these peoples favorite bands.
@@nonameman7114 i think the reason why is that AIC is seen as the most pure example of what grunge, “should be” to music elitists, which ignores their metal elements. Personally i think the prime “grunge” example should be soundgarden but meh.
@@nonameman7114 he mentions nirvana only in passing.
oooh good call!! such an influential band
Crowbar mention...next vid is NOLA Sludge. Fingers crossed
Love me some Crowbar and Acid Bath. Acid Bath ain't sludge, but I grew up in new orleans when they were around.
Yeah Man- I love that southern, acid, sludge....Crowbar, Down, COC....tons of amazing riffage!
Acid Bath is literally the definition of Sludge. They were the biggest band in the movement next to EHG.
@@ScottRadkeMusic CoC is stoner rock/metal.
There's a great Vice webseries about NOLA Sludge that is actually pretty great.
If you haven't already, you should do a video on Primus. Definitely not a band for everyone, but so genius, talented and underrated.
This video is literally my first 10 years of music fandom defined. I truly hope every younger person who follows this channel goes down this rabbit hole, because there is so much good stuff to be found. Still to this day I'm discovering tons of overlooked gems from this era. I cannot overstate how important MTV was for someone who lived in the woods with minimal friends, none with any sort of awareness of the underground. Headbangers Ball and 120 Minutes literally felt like the only way to find anything more than what was presented in the mainstream, and I'm truly grateful for having the desire to stay up / set the VCR and explore.
Agree. We traveled for work across country. I kept up with the pulse of music with MTV.
Any music, fashion related info was found there.
Before it turned into ? Reality shows etc
I just saw Gwar last night. Still the most fun show you could witness.
Mattie Slave I’ve seen em twice with Brockie, three times with Bishop.
How is it without Dave? I heard mike has been sick, is he on stage?
Joseph Reynolds Well without Dave the personality and humor isn’t what it used to be, but they do a fine job at it anyhow. If Mike was sick, he’s fine now. All of the band sounds great. The stage show is funny and violent as ever. Some rarities on the setlist too.
I've seen Dave's GWAR 6 times. Fucking awesome.
Christhegopher94 great to hear, thanks a lot man.
Demanufacture is one of my all time favourite albums and the best album Fear Factory made.
I have to say Archetype was their best album.
I read they had a ton of issues recording it. They kept working it, replaying, re recording. It wasn't put out until they felt it was perfect. Probably explains why it's such a polished masterpiece. :)
Demanufacture...Remember when I bought the CD and when I listened to it completely...I was like: I don't like this album its quite heavier. And left it there. Then like a week or 2, listened to it again, and again. And it grew on me, their sound was so unique, that it took me by surprise. Love It !!!
Omg me too. They're rad.
The mix of this album is overstanding, still sounds fresh through these years
Fear Factory, NIN and Type O are still some of my favorites. So much excellent music!
The Jesus Lizard! Also please do a 90s emo video
oh no please no... as much as I do love 90's emo if he made that happen you would have hordes of nerds claiming what it is "real emo"... so no thank you
@@violetagardenia I remember him doing a video on MCR and talking shit about the "real emo" douches lmao, so i don't think he'll do a video on it, or if he knows enough about it to make a video on it, as much as I'd like to see it
he’s said on instagram that he can’t stand that genre nor the majority of its internet fandom, so i don’t think it’ll happen. makes me sad, but hey, we can’t fault him for having preferences 🤷🏻♂️
Sunny Day Real Estate, The Promise Ring , Mineral , Knapsack , Christie Front Drive and Jimmy Eat World *is my favorite band*. Oh the punk-emo bands (The Get Up Kids) Plus the genre influenced everything from Paramore/Fall Out Boy to Tigers Jaw to Mom Jeans. Seems to important to not do a video on.
Yeah I suggested to do a progression of emo video. Like from Sunny Day Real Estate Hum and Bright Eyes and bands like that to the monstrosity that it is today. Most people who claim to be emo today have no idea where it came from.
You don't like The Cure? For shame!
Yeah the slander towards them and REM was a shock
Finn about to catch that HATE like he did for not liking Mr. Jones by Counting Crows
@@USHARDY he comes of as an elitist sometimes🤣🤣
Am i not allowed to ever say i dont like something?
@@ThePunkRockMBA You are, you just happen to be wrong this time ;)
Remember when Maynard from Tool was in a Funk Metal before Tool? So weird kinda
Not as weird as Incubus being funk metal before they got big
Or his stint in Green Jelly
@@lloydchristmas6237 LITTLE PIG LITTLE PIG LET ME IN!
@@poopinfruz9771 NOT BY THE HAIR OF MY CHINNY CHIN CHIN
Green Jello wasn't funk metal, though. They were more like, what I would call, a "joke band." GWAR would also fit this category.
I hate how Fear Factory don’t get enough credit, they aren’t even my favourite band
1988 ministry (an industrial band) made an album called the mind is a terrible thing to taste great album but ministry was never an alt metal band 😂😂😂
@Charles Hall Jr.
I do love prong and Tommy victor of prong played with ministry for a few years his riffs are great
The "Mind is a Terrible Thing to Taste" came out in 1990 or there-a-bouts. Perhaps you are thinking about "The Land of Rape and Honey" which came out in '88. I know because I saw Ministry in '88 and '90, both times at the Cameo in Miami.
"Ministry went from new wave to industrial to industrial metal to industrial thrash metal." ....to cringy Antifa soy boy cuck metal.
@@solinvictus39 they're playing with slayer and primus this year. Gonna be amazing
@ⅰи∂ㄩㄅ360 like early 80s new wave too . bought thier first album for 75 cent and felt ripped off god it sucked
Bad Brains and the album Quickness laid the seeds for a lot of the heavy acts of this time period.
They were good but there were literally hundreds of bands that were out there "influencing".
Yes! That and Fugazi's "Repeater" album.
Not really but whatever.
The Cure, Joy Division, and all that other stuff was my favorite kind of music from the 80s :'c
The smiths?
late 90's NIN & Mnason brought me to the Goth scene in my late teens. A lotta girls were into it and I lived a stone's throw from the gothiest place on Earth- Montreal. LOL Or... is/was London more Goth? So as Nu-metal emerged, I submerged into Cure, Depeche, Portishead, bauhaus, etc... I wouldn't have even know about Bauhaus if it wasn't for Goth Talk on SNL. GAWD Molly SHannon looked howt as a goth chik.
When you said that you loved the B-52's, I instantly gained tremendous respect for you.
You have a new subscriber, my friend!
Jane’s addiction had to have been influential enough to get more of a mention!
Neither was Alice in Chains or Pearl Jam , I dont care how hardcore you was in the 90's everyone knew the lyrics to "alive"
Finally 90’s alt Metal is getting the respect it deserves!! I was a little kid in the early 90s but watched a lot of mtv and loved a lot of these bands. Most of the bands mentioned including Type O Negative, white zombie, and Nine inch Nails are still some of my favorites. Beavis and Butthead Metal would not be an insult as they loved bands in the genre.
I gotta give credit to Mike Judge for forcing MTV to play shit they'd never touch and introducing SO many good and goofy and zany bands to the 90s playlist. B & B's music taste was 100% Austin, TX weirdo Mike Judge's doing.
I just seen gwar, ministry, rob zombie, suicidal tendencies, Primus, and slayer this year... it hasn’t gone anywhere
Not this year lol
None of them are new
Thats kinda what the vid said lol
"What killed Riot Grrl?" could be really interesting.
Transphobia and racism
id say girls not being into girl bands probably
Riot Grrrl killed itself
INFECTIOUS GROOVES!!!!!
The plague that makes your booty move...
@@IHaveTheSchwartz you want funky? You got funky.
@@rjmeza3096 Violent and Funky
UP
L Schwartz back when rob was playing impressive bass parts😉
Looking back, the Melvins Lysol is my favorite alt metal album of all time. That's just me, I love the drone. Back in 9th grade 93/94 I loved Primus the most. Friends were way into Pantera
The Cure, with the line-up of "Simon Gallup, Robert Smith, Boris Williams, Porl Thompson, Lol Tolhurst and Roger O'donnel", was probably in my opinion the greatest gathering of musicians coming together to not only make something great but to create something lasting. Truly classic.
Type o was amazing, shame Pete passed away but the older I get the longer I wait for a band to come even close to that sound, it never happens.
Thanks for this video! The years and bands you covered perfectly encapsulates my late teens and early twenties, as well as the height of my days going to see shows. The first time I was old enough to drive to Hollywood and see a live show was to see Danzig. It was 1990. Their opening act was a band no one knew... called Nirvana. Oh, how the times would change.
These are still some of my favorite nostalgia artists to listen to. Cheers!
How could you not mention fishbone when talking metal/punk/funk??
Cant mention every band
They were also 80’s.
Fishbone were super interesting as they came from the punk scene, and were heavily riffing on PFunk. There is a great doc about them called Everyday Sunshine.
The reality of my surroundings is a severly underrated album
@@I-Ren-Zero Everyday Sunshine overplayed how off the rails Kendall went. I hung out with him a bunch of times in Oakland. He is not a religious fanatic. He hangs out, drinks beer, smokes weed, and is into the punk scene. That Doc thru him under the bus. Dude is very solid
All of this shit is still on heavy rotation in my life. My husband and I have introduced it to our 17 and 6 year old boys all of their lives and we will continue to play them all on Spotify. Thank GOD for the legacy that their CD's and catalogs of great music have provided us. With all of that we never have to listen to a single shit pop song from this era. Thank you.
Finn, I just wanna say thank you for introducing me to my new favorite metal subgenre. This stuff absolutely kicks ass.
The early to mid 90's was and will always be the best era for metal. Hair bands were fading and pantera with vulgar display, zombie la sexorcisto, prong, biohazard, slayer sepultura, morbid angel etc. Were amazing and what inspired me to be a musician now
There's still a lot of bands doing it today. They just went back underground where they started. You have to look for them, but they're there.
I know Nirvana was an are always mentioned but that whole scene with Alice in chains, pearl jam, Soundgarden, stone temple pilots was huge. No mention of Marilyn Manson when he was all over the news especially during colombine.
He could prolly do a whole video on the changing face of STP thru their 5 albums. Metallica-wannabes, true cvlt alt-rock, the Tiny soft parade, proto-nu-metal, and then the last one that I only own for reference. LOL
Life of Agony was so good...
Noetic Justice still are
They are awesome live , saw them back in the day . First time i saw them was at Berkeley Square in Ca
Siamese Dream 93'
Afghan Whigs gentlemen 93'
Sonic Youth dirty 92'
Paw dragline 93'
Sugartooth sold my fortune 94'
Sunny day real estate diary 94'
Some of my favorite albums from then!!
Butch Vig + Siamese Dream = unlock 100% BillCo (what we used to call Billy Corgan) - you know Billy played everything except for Jimmy's drums on that record. There are some great message board threads where Butch did an AmA style question and answer on that album and there was a ton of great stories shared
www.gearslutz.com/board/q-a-with-butch-vig/398145-1993-smashing-pumpkins-siamese-dream.html
I'm pretty sure the same with Gish he played everything...
90s Alt-Metal was partially the soundtrack for my middle school years. I'm not kidding. I really listened to those bands back then & still do. Same with hair metal & early 90s gangsta rap. I wish you'd do a video on Fishbone. They're an underrated band. Happy you gave Gwar a shout out. They're from my home state Virginia.
Great trip down memory lane 👍
So many great bands. My faves were:
Pantera, Fear Factory, CIV, Living Color, White Zombie- so many great bands.
Good ishh.
Helmet Betty was def sick, that snare though.
I saw them support Beastie Boys - gotta love that - the drummer broke a crash cymbal he was so brutal.
Can you do a video about Gaslight Anthem, Bouncing Souls, Hot Water Music, Lawrence Arms, etc??
That’s multiple different scenes there. Bouncing Souls...90s Epitaph/Fat melodic skate punk. Hot Water Music...Gainesville “beard punk.” Lawrence Arms...midwestern “orgcore.” Gaslight Anthem...modern pop punk inspired by heartland rock.
@@stewartdowouis9218 Beardpunk, lol, i like that.
The bouncing souls is the only band outta that list that matters. However everything after anchors away was terrible.
Says, "Black album is the best metal or rock mix of all time"
Tom Scholz of Boston: "Hold my beer."
Is this a joke? Lol
Alt metal is making a quiet resurgence. KFDM just released a new album.
New album is good! the guitars are hook driven and choppy.
@@rahpathy9410 I just don't like that female singer...other than that...it sounds like they stepped out of the delorean from 1993.
This shit will always be legendary. Love that you spoke about Bio in this video.
This was the peak of my teenage years, and some of my favorite all time bands and albums. If anyone out there is in for some reading on this, I conducted two interviews that seem pertinent to this era specifically: One with J., the great guitarist for White Zombie, and with Billy Gould, the bass plater for Faith No More. It's kind of all over the place, but much of the conversation is precisely about that great era. I'll put links here:
machinemusic.net/2015/08/04/still-zombie-after-all-these-years-an-interview-with-jay-yuenger/
machinemusic.net/2015/04/01/the-real-thing-returneth-an-interview-with-billy-gould-of-faith-no-more/
👀I smoke my cigarettes behind seven eleven while listening to thrash metal. . On my grave shift..
Finn! You should do a big four of '90s alt metal rock stuff. That would be fun, James addiction and Rollins band and helmet and Primus and all that fun stuff
When can we get the "What killed my intro?" video?
i have been saying the 90's had the best music scene for a long time for some of the reasons you just pointed out. so many great bands and albums out at once, it was crazy. the over all music scene was huge through those years.
90s in general was the last Hoora for music of all genres.
I own every MP3 I know I like. 1950s - 100 songs. 1960s - 1661 songs. 1970s - 1614 songs. 1980s - 1259 songs. 1990s - 1053 songs (half Grunge). 2000s - 226 songs. 2010s - 34 songs.
Not included were 700 Heavy Metal and Thrash songs from 1969 -1992.
@@bigneiltoo Fascinating that you have those numbers...
90s were an interesting time for music for sure.
Very cool!
Let me guess, you were a kid in the 90s?
People always think that the music they grew up with was the last good music.
@@thedude4672 It's not about preference, more music was sold across the board for all genres than any other decade.
People don't seem to realize that these bands, and their albums and songs are still playable. I love majority of the stuff covered in this video,. Fear Factory will always be one of my most favourite artists. By the way...the Black Album by Metallica is their sell-out album. They went all radio-friendly for that album, and ruined them forever. Many of these bands are actually classified as Industrial Metal (a personal favourite of mine). Prong, Ministry, Godflesh, Fear Factory are always in every single playlist I create.
Shout out to Feaa Factorae!
I know Helmet's Meantime by heart on guitar and bass. Played it with my dearly departed best friend and drummer over 20 years ago from beginning to end from memory shortly before he passed. It's that ingrained. 🙂
Primus was almost a genre itself. Difficult to catalogue.
This stuff is amazing. I was a bit young for it (10-12 in the golden years) but I still remember it happening to older siblings of friends. I found a lot of it in the late 90s and early 2000’s at the same time I found thrash. Still love it.
Metal Goes To College. Love it. Discovered Descendents when I was 13 they became my favorite band, along with ALL
This is some of my favorite music. Nearly every song/band you mentioned. This is still what's on my headphones half (or more) of the time. Respect! Thanks, from another delusional old man!
Dang, take me back. Being a kid then was so freaking awesome.
Helmet is the best. So underrated and super sick live. One of my fav bands ever.
"Man, some good bands here I hadn't heard of, why didn't I get into these back in high school?"
12:57 "could play their asses off, but weren't like, total ponytail material playing to the weirdo fusion people"
...aaah dangit. I rocked a ponytail *and* listened to fusion. *Including* Chick Corea Electric Band (pictured). GG
Fear Factory and Tool are two of my favourite bands. Everyone's a Tool expert to some extent so I'll talk about Fear Factory. They were a huge pioneer in many respects, but particularly the whole good-cop bad-cop thing. Edgecrusher from the FF album Obsolete was one of the two songs that originally got me into Metal, and now it's a *massive* part of my life and identity. That album Obsolete is in my top 10 all time favourite albums, it's one of those extremely rare albums you can listen to every single track start to finish and enjoy every one. Their early albums were complete game changers for Metal, but in their 31 year career they've just released album after album after album of brilliant, world class metal. Their most recent release 2015's Genexus was brilliant, so much so I went out and bought the physical album, something I can only afford to do with truly cherished music. Their album Transgression cops a lot of crap - even from Christian Olde Wolbers who I met at an instore event - but I think it's a *great* album: 54,000 Farenhieght, Transgression, Spinal Compression, Echo of My Scream, New Promise and Moment of Impact are all killer songs
I'm 42 and here in the UK myself and a small group of pals at our school were rabidly into all of these bands, where as the mainstream non-alt kids, of which there were hundreds .. they were into "tape packs" claiming they went to raves (even though they were kids and couldn't get in hahah!). We lapped it up and felt like we were into stuff other kids just didn't get. Just watched this and realised we followed it all through from the start. We also loved all the Ska Punk and Skate Punk stuff too. Happy memories of Faith No More live in London.... Also we did Donnington Monsters of Rock the year Korn played their first UK set there and I'm in the crowd down the front getting stomped on.. that was insane. My pal got hit by a flying bottle pf piss. Now I am a house DJ.
in the 90's here in San Fransisco I was a teenager I got into tons of raves because they were shady asf drug dealing operations with music.
Demanufacture still sounds fresh today. It was really ahead of it's time in regards to metal music production.
Loved the trip in the way back machine. Lots of bands I forgot about. Recently I have been loving on Northern European symphonic metal like Nightwish, Epica, Sabaton. I think you will like it. Metal has moved to Europe
Suicidal Tendencies and Prong were also amazing during this time..
Dude. Your top 5 Is pretty great. I couldn't agree more on the bands. You chose some sophomore albums but you're right.
I called Henry Rollins an underrated musician, but damn, he made me listen to punk culture band like Black Flag...
Good video although i dont really see GNR as hair metal. They’re music sounds way more grungy and is not as cheesy
Me neither they are good old fashion rock especially appetite for destruction it was a bad ass album
They get lumped in because of their look and the time period they appeared in. Watch the Welcome to the jungle video and you'll see what i mean.
Sleaze rock.
Yes I remember the video welcome to the jungle that weekend my grandmother took me and my brother to the mall there was a record store in there the name of it was record bar and she bought the tape for me
They sounded way more AC/DC & Aerosmith than the hair metal bands did. Which is the main reason why they were superior. IMO.
92-94 was a paradise. For music and much, much, more.
During that time period Corrosion of Conformity released Blind which was an awesome alt-metal/punk album.
A huge factor was that this was all pre-internet. I remember going to parties in 93-94 and hearing everything from the Beatles to Cypress Hill to Pantera and no-one was put off. Freaks (for want of a better word) stuck together, and all of those bands were "freak music". Once the internet became popular, people really started stratifying into smaller and more niche scenes.
The 90's were my favorite era of Metal. Type O Negative, Danzig, Pantera, Alice in Chains, Cathedral, Tool, The Obsessed, Rollins Band, White Zombie, Fear Factory, Death Metal, Black Metal, Thrash Metal, and great records from the 70's/80's giants like Sabbath, Dio, Ozzy, Venom, Pentagram, and Mercyful Fate.
Thank you for mentioning Quicksand; criminally slept on band.
Elon Bust Amazing band saw them open for the Deftones way back when
They all had a following 30 years ago but tbey were never meant to break billboard charts.
My favorite alt metal albums are:
Tool - Ænima
Faith No More - King for a Day...
Type O Negative - October Rust
Deftones - White Pony
Helmet - Betty
Rage Against the Machine - Battle of Los Angeles
Alice in Change - Dirt
Soundgarden - Badmotorfinger
Prong - Cleansing
Stabbing Westward - Wither Blister Burn & Peel
Great list. Agree on most, though I go Superunkown over Badmotorfinger and maybe Angel Dust over KFAD (so hard to pick)...
"John the Fisherman" is such a good song. It's the perfect fusion of aggressive playing and funky beats. But let's be honest, basically all of Primus' songs have that feel. Very underated.
John the fisherman is such an underrated song
@@gustav2398 FRIZZLE FRY my good man.
such a banger
Fuck man i have sooo many memories with Primus and Les. I saw so many times back in the day at their shows or in festival. Great great trio.
Primus Sucks, Les is God!
I'd be interested to see like a "state of the scene" video. Like, where is metal and hardcore today? What are the big trends, what's popular, who are the new players, etc. I'm unfortunately not super familiar with what's going on anymore and I think it could be an interesting video.
Me too I tend to just listen to bands that have been around for a while idc if there considered mainstream in the metal scene or not as long as there not death metal or whatever I'll give them a listen
You guys should check out the podcast called “The State of the Scene”! Not from Finn, but I think it might be along the lines of what you’re looking for
Zacry Carmichael That would be awesome
He pretty much made a video about that last week, stating that rock today is pretty much dead and bands that were formed before the 2000s pretty much still dominate the scene and headline festivals. His conclusion was its a matter of offer and demand
Yes!
Helmet - Meantime is 🔥
the best
William Maranci hell yes!!!!
@William Maranci
Helmet - Meantime but it's Katy Perry California Girls when?
The blueprint
Helmet had great song all over their discography. Meantime is my favorite album, but songs like "Wilma's Rainbow", "Smart", "Exactly What You Wanted", and "Throwing Punches" are every bit as good.
The CROW soundtrack the ALT-METAL sountrack
My all time favorite compilation. th-cam.com/video/ZGKTDY_CqMU/w-d-xo.html
The first soundtrack played beginning to end, much like all the music of that era.
Five bands mentioned in this video are on that soundtrack! I'd say it's at least half alt-metal
Panthers the badge
Pantera fucking autocorrect
Primus is its own genre, i think les calls it psychedelic polka
I thought it was Funk Rock due to the heavy bass guitar usage.
I call it, "Crap".
I saw them Live and they were horrible.
@@garygwin1741 And I saw them live and they were AMAZING!
@@AshelinFox Les is more!
This is why Radio X was San Andreas' best radio station.
Radio X got me into a lot of these bands.
You mean Alice In Chains, Helmet, Faith No More
Soundgarden, Stone Temple Pilots, Danzig, Depeche Mode, L7, Living Color
Ozzy Osbourne, Jane's Addiction, Primal Scream
Sr. Sacaninha 2nd best right behind K ROSE
I liked the country station
Mothaaaaah
Corrosion of Conformity was a fucking awesome band also around that time.
My mom liked deliverance and after that she got load and reload. that's how I got into rock music
I was really into Blind when it was out. Had no idea they were this amazing Hc band before that... what a whirlwind that time was
They’re still pretty awesome. Saw them last year with Eyehategod, Black Label Society, and Clutch and they put on a hell of a show!
COC, is still awesome, songs like 13 Angel's, clean my wounds,.and albatross.
If you listen carefully, they suck shit.
Helmet- Have you ever seen a band look more like just a bunch of regular geek looking dudes play such tight, heavy music? The early stuff almost sounds industrial machine like but that's them just playing! Highly underrated.
I was obsessed with them in the 90’s-00’s, and finally got there see them in 2014, for a Betty 20 year tour! It was awesome, and I got to take my husband and bring him back to my alt teen years :)
Reminds me of what Beavis and Butt-Head were saying lol
If you saw these guys on the streets you wouldn't even know they were cool
Beavis and Butthead was a huge part of what put me onto a lot of these bands.
Yep
They were the reason why Crowbar became one of my favorite bands.
Yea we watched it at your house
Dude, it's how I discovered Ministry, and their side project the Revolting Cocks.
Ween push the little daisies and make them come up and sugartooth sold my fortune!
Culturally and musically, 91-94 was an unbelievable time period. This is not just nostalgia. Everything really did feel new, authentic and fresh. I really can't think of any time period since then that we experienced anything similiar.
That was the tail end of the Golden Age of Hip Hop, too.
@@superbherb7947 yup. 90's boom bap was THE shit.
Agree 100%, but I would add '95 too. Lots of great music came out that year.
Best era ever!
I just wonder after watching this video, what was the non-alt metal of that time because I have the idea all metal of 91-94 is mentioned....
Your comment on the media environment is dead on. I constantly see people my age (early 40s) and even a few years younger bitching about how there’s no good music being made anymore, it’s all in the past, etc which is completely untrue. What’s changed is that now you have to make more of an effort to seek it out. Back in 1994 it was pretty much inescapable. You couldn’t turn on the radio or MTV without having something great practically thrown in your face, because for whatever reason the media were much less risk averse. Nowadays it’s almost like it’s their job to keep you away from anything that’s challenging or interesting, which is why we’re looking for it here on TH-cam or Spotify or what have you.
Abandon TH-cam; go to BitChute
Respect for saying that dude. I've had many an argument about this 😂
Back then I remember magazines being so influential and I'm happy he mentionned them. I can't tell you how many hours I spent getting hyped while flipping through Spin or Rolling Stones mags. I'd even cut out band pics and artwork from mags and stick them on my wall. I have vivid memories of two eras : Smashing Pumpkins type focused publications, and Marilyn Manson & co type publications.
I think a lot of the reason why people our age complain that there’s no good music anymore is because they don’t know *how* to seek it out. To younger people platforms like Spotify are intuitive. Meanwhile a lot of people my age (I’m 44) stick with Pandora or Sirius XM because they don’t understand how to navigate Spotify. They’re accustomed to having everything spoon fed to them.
Well said. Any suggestions?
A band that never seems to be talked about is Corrosion of Conformity. I mean c'mon, Clean My Wounds anybody?
They’re an interesting band. They were hardcore/punk /metal crossover in the 80’s, then stoner metal in the 90’s, and now bordering on sludge and southern. Great band.
CoC is touring right now
Corrosion has their southern groove metal niche. Great band
I used to hang out with them in the 80's when they still lived in Raleigh. They definitely adapted, improvised, and evolved since then. Vote with a Bullet, Hell yes.
james staggs Deliverance had a huge impact on me.
'Demanufacture' and Machine Head's 'Burn My Eyes' set the new standards for sheer guitar heaviness at that time. The quantum leap in production quality was immense, thanks to the likes of Ross Robinson and Colin Richardson.
And of course, Terry Date and Pantera for leading the way.
Burn my eyes was an unbelievably good album at the time. It was really amazing and it still is.
are there any non-altmetal bands of 91-94?
Some of the best ever drum sound engineering in on Burn My Eyes.
you gotta give more credit to gwar, they invented music after all.
Mort Mort Mort Bohab
GWAR sucks
@@billyaubin5360 youre just gay
What about 3 lil pigs by Green Jelly? How about some other obscure 90s songs... Detatchable Penis anyone?
I love how Melvins and Jesus Lizard are always left out of these lists ...
Especially Jesus Lizard
Did he really go into Noise Rock that much? I don’t feel that he did
@@Floral_Green Is that how you view Melvins and JL ? ´Noise core ... or rock, sorry ! Really ?
Girls Against Boys anyone?
Melvins... good shit
The first two Lollapalooza tours were epic it's hard to describe unless you were there. The late 80s early 90s was great time to be a young music fan at the time it almost felt like a revolution was afoot.
Bruce Ifer they were moments in history as important as Woodstock There and four were also great
Lucky
I'm 46 now, and I always remember bands like Ministry, Skinny Puppy, Fear Factory, even NIN (once they released the 'Broken' EP) being referred to as 'industrial', rather than 'alt-metal.'. No matter what you call it, I loved so many of those bands, and still do. I was a huge fan of punk and thrash, and also new wave and what came to be called 'alternative' (I also remember when it was called 'college rock', LOL). Industrial combined everything I loved about all those genres, and I still listen to it today. Good video; took me right back to the day too!
SerialGothQueens I would love to see a vid on Industrial. So many great bands. Everything Skinny Puppy released was phenomenal, and I’ll include The Process in that.
Yes, Industrial was rather influential on nu-metal, and actually experiened a short "moment in the sun" in the mid to late 90s thanks largely to the success of NIN.
KMFDM and lords of acid too...all of those bands you mentioned were badass
You, my friend, have great taste in music.
@@saurondp Filter is still putting out good, heavy industrial to this day. It amazes me how bands like that can have such a heavy, big ass guitar sound but still sound completely different than metal. The added electronic sounds are obviously a part of that, but even the guitar sounds entirely different regardless of how brutally heavy it is.