
Die - Relentless Pain
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FORMAT: MCD REALEASE DATE: 26.08.2005 RECORD COMPANY: Autoprodus 9.0
METALFAN RATING: 8.6
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Founded last year, the band was already booked for important shows among which Ålborg Metal Festival, where they played along with big names such as Kataklysm or Entombed. For most metalheads outside Denmark, Danish death metal means something that gravitates... |
Helloween - Rabbit Don't Come Easy
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FORMAT: CD REALEASE DATE: 12.05.2003 RECORD COMPANY: Nuclear Blast Records 8.1
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Helloween - The Dark Ride
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FORMAT: CD REALEASE DATE: 05.12.2000 RECORD COMPANY: Nuclear Blast Records 8.7
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Einherjer - Norwegian Native Art
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FORMAT: CD REALEASE DATE: 11.09.2000 RECORD COMPANY: Native North 8.4
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Pain of Salvation - Entropia
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FORMAT: CD REALEASE DATE: 21.08.1997 RECORD COMPANY: Avalon Productions 9.0
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Amorphis - Elegy
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FORMAT: CD REALEASE DATE: 14.05.1996 RECORD COMPANY: Relapse Records 9.1
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Alice in Chains - Alice in Chains
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FORMAT: CD REALEASE DATE: 07.11.1995 RECORD COMPANY: Columbia Records 8.9
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Iron Maiden - The X Factor
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FORMAT: CD REALEASE DATE: 02.10.1995 RECORD COMPANY: EMI 9.5
METALFAN RATING: 8.9
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Bon Jovi - These Days
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FORMAT: CD REALEASE DATE: 27.06.1995 RECORD COMPANY: Mercury Records 8.2
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Cynic - Focus
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FORMAT: CD REALEASE DATE: 14.09.1993 RECORD COMPANY: Roadrunner 10.0
METALFAN RATING: 9.1
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I don’t think I should sing the praises to music piracy, but in some cases reality cannot be ignored. In 1993 I acquired, via the occult ways we are all familiar with, the first and in fact... |
Iggy Pop - American Caesar
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FORMAT: CD REALEASE DATE: 07.09.1993 RECORD COMPANY: Virgin Music 9.0
METALFAN RATING: 8.8
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If Iggy Pop hadn’t released Brick by Brick in 1990, his most important album in the 90s would have been American Caesar. This record brings us a different side of Iggy Pop, a side darkened by his inner turmoil,... |
Type O Negative - Bloody Kisses
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FORMAT: CD REALEASE DATE: 17.08.1993 RECORD COMPANY: Roadrunner 10.0
METALFAN RATING: 9.3
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“The Moor has done his duty, the Moor can go!” Peter Steele went away, this time for real, 6 days ago. That saying “don’t know what you’ve got till it’s gone” is pathetic, but they say you... |
Anacrusis - Screams and Whispers
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FORMAT: CD REALEASE DATE: 11.05.1993 RECORD COMPANY: Metal Blade Records 10.0
METALFAN RATING: 9.0
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Screams and Whispers is the last of the four albums released by this progressive metal band. After the superb Manic Impressions (1991), Metal Blade gave the Americans everything they needed to record their new album. So, they got producer... |
Anathema - Serenades
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FORMAT: CD REALEASE DATE: 01.02.1993 RECORD COMPANY: Peaceville Records 9.5
METALFAN RATING: 8.9
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Seen as a milestone of death-doom, Serenades is a superb journey in a universe ruled by sadness and melancholy. Recorded in the Academy studio in June and September 1992, the record was an innovation for the time and,... |
Phantom - Cyberchrist
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FORMAT: CD REALEASE DATE: 01.01.1993 RECORD COMPANY: Shout! Factory 8.5
METALFAN RATING: 8.8
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Once upon a time, there was something, and now it’s gone. There was a power metal band called like a fighter jet, a Yank F-something, 14, 15, can’t really tell. But their music sounded rather like European... |
Samael - Blood Ritual
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FORMAT: CD REALEASE DATE: 01.12.1992 RECORD COMPANY: Century Media 9.0
METALFAN RATING: 8.6
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The second album from Switzerland’s Samael was released in 1992, and is a natural continuation of their debut. Dark metal, specific to the band’s early years, is much better shaped this time, the sound, song writing and atmospheric... |
Sleep - Sleep Holy Mountain
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FORMAT: CD REALEASE DATE: 01.11.1992 RECORD COMPANY: Earache Records 10.0
METALFAN RATING: 8.9
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Perhaps to some of you the name Sleep doesn’t say much, but I think Al Cisneros and Chris Hakius should be familiar from the more recent Om and Shrinebuilder, and Matt Pike for his activity with High on Fire. If those... |
Ugly Kid Joe - America's Least Wanted
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FORMAT: CD REALEASE DATE: 08.09.1992 RECORD COMPANY: Mercury Records 9.0
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Tiamat - Clouds
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FORMAT: CD REALEASE DATE: 01.09.1992 RECORD COMPANY: Century Media 9.0
METALFAN RATING: 9.1
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If the luck of the draw gave this album to me, it means that fate wanted me to tell you a few things from when I was younger. I don’t know how your first time was (now don’t... |
Paradise Lost - Shades of God
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FORMAT: CD REALEASE DATE: 14.07.1992 RECORD COMPANY: Music for Nations 8.5
METALFAN RATING: 9.1
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I don’t know if my colleagues who got the older Paradise Lost albums felt – as I did – how odd it is to listen to music that was made more than ten years ago after listening to and reviewing... |
Dream Theater - Images and Words
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FORMAT: CD REALEASE DATE: 07.07.1992 RECORD COMPANY: East West Records 10.0
METALFAN RATING: 9.4
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In the autumn of 1993 I was with my friends at the Posada Rock Festival in Campulung Muscel. At some point, before the shows started, background music was gently flowing out of the speakers and I heard something that not... |
Rollins Band - The End of Silence
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FORMAT: CD REALEASE DATE: 25.02.1992 RECORD COMPANY: Imago Records 10.0
METALFAN RATING: 9.0
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If you like Black Sabbath, King Crimson and The Stooges you simply cannot dislike Rollins Band. This album, The End of Silence, is the best proof for this. Combining the fury of The Stooges with dark and psychedelic riffs taken from Black Sabbath’s book, and... |
Pantera - Vulgar Display of Power
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FORMAT: CD REALEASE DATE: 25.02.1992 RECORD COMPANY: Atlantic Records 10.0
METALFAN RATING: 9.2
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I am sure that each of you (or almost each of you) who read these lines right now have heard this album at least once, as it is a classic of the genre and really needs no presentation. I... |
Convulse - World without God
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FORMAT: CD REALEASE DATE: 01.01.1992 RECORD COMPANY: Thrash 8.5
METALFAN RATING: 8.6
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Convulse is one of the most interesting name of the Finnish metal scene in the early 90s. A relatively short-lived band, between 1988 - 1994, an initiator of old school Nordic death metal, who did not, unfortunately, have the chance... |
Fates Warning - Parallels
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FORMAT: CD REALEASE DATE: 29.10.1991 RECORD COMPANY: Metal Blade Records 10.0
METALFAN RATING: 9.0
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The stories tell that progressive metal gave birth to three main bands, who decisively influenced this genre. These are Dream Theater, Queensryche and, obviously, Fates Warning (I would add without hesitation Watchtower to the list). And while Dream Theater can always brag... |
Nirvana - Nevermind
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FORMAT: CD REALEASE DATE: 24.09.1991 RECORD COMPANY: Geffen 10.0
METALFAN RATING: 8.9
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It is the early 90s. In the world, metal is living the golden age of glam rock, glittery, noisy and full of spangles, kept alive by the greed of the record labels and the musicians involve in the scene.... |
Pestilence - Testimony of the Ancients
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FORMAT: CD REALEASE DATE: 06.09.1991 RECORD COMPANY: Roadrunner 10.0
METALFAN RATING: 9.1
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When metalfan.ro was launched, my first thought was that I’m going to have the opportunity and the great pleasure to “speak to the world” about albums that are so close to my heart that they’re practically parts of my... |
Tiamat - The Astral Sleep
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FORMAT: CD REALEASE DATE: 01.09.1991 RECORD COMPANY: Century Media 7.5
METALFAN RATING: 8.7
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“The trust and the money that Century Media invested in us for this album made me realize for the first time that Tiamat could actually become an important band someday.” As Johan Edlund himself would admit in an interview,... |
Atheist - Unquestionable Presence
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FORMAT: CD REALEASE DATE: 30.08.1991 RECORD COMPANY: Metal Blade Records 10.0
METALFAN RATING: 9.1
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1991 was a golden year for rock listeners: albums such A Sense Of Change - Sieges Even, The Black Album- Metallica, Horrorscope - Overkill, Human - Death, Angel Rat - Voivod, Nevermind - Nirvana, Blood Sugar Sex Magic - Red Hot Chili Peppers, Ten - Pearl Jam... and the list goes on. But... |
Van Halen - For Unlawful Carnal Knowledge
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FORMAT: CD REALEASE DATE: 17.06.1991 RECORD COMPANY: Warner Bros 9.5
METALFAN RATING: 8.9
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I don’t usually write about old albums, I’ve only done this for the “special issues” on Samael, Paradise Lost and Tiamat. But since new interesting releases are far between these days, I am in the process of reconsidering bands I... |