
Skid Row - Slave to the Grind
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FORMAT: CD REALEASE DATE: 10.06.1991 RECORD COMPANY: Atlantic Records 10.0
METALFAN RATING: 9.1
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Maybe you remember, or maybe your big brothers, uncles or aunts or neighbours told you that in 1990, when decadent Western music invaded our local radio waves, Skid Row was on top of this wave, with the unparalleled ballad I Remember... |
Anacrusis - Manic Impressions
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FORMAT: CD REALEASE DATE: 16.05.1991 RECORD COMPANY: Metal Blade Records 10.0
METALFAN RATING: 9.0
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Manic Impressions is one of those albums that are representative for everything related to instrumental technique in metal. At the time (1991), bands of this kind were labelled techno-thrash, but in time the word techno proved to be synonymous with... |
Samael - Worship Him
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FORMAT: CD REALEASE DATE: 01.04.1991 RECORD COMPANY: Osmose Productions 7.5
METALFAN RATING: 8.5
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It is difficult to write an album review 15 years after the release. Not only did a ton of music come out in the meantime to compare with, but the band itself has evolved in this time,... |
Metal Church - The Human Factor
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FORMAT: CD REALEASE DATE: 26.03.1991 RECORD COMPANY: Epic Records 10.0
METALFAN RATING: 9.2
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While the grunge era was in full swing, Metal Church gathered all their strength in their attempt to fight the windmills, and so they released an album that enjoyed an enthusiastic reception by the metal audiences of the time. The... |
Kane Roberts - Saints and Sinners
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FORMAT: CD REALEASE DATE: 05.03.1991 RECORD COMPANY: Geffen 7.0
METALFAN RATING: 8.7
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Being tired of working for a master, be that even Alice Cooper, the citizen Kane (or, by his real name, Robert William Athas, so you don’t believe he’s some lost brother of Julia Roberts or lost sister... |
Sabbat - Mourning Has Broken
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FORMAT: CD REALEASE DATE: 01.03.1991 RECORD COMPANY: Noise Records 9.5
METALFAN RATING: 8.6
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When the Internet was still in its “what’s that” phase, so a music-loving person would have to travel the shops, markets and the shelves of his friends for cassettes, vinyl records and tapes, I and others of my age... |
Paradise Lost - Gothic
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FORMAT: CD REALEASE DATE: 01.03.1991 RECORD COMPANY: Peaceville Records 8.0
METALFAN RATING: 8.9
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Probably many of you will see the following lines as blasphemy, but I cannot bear not telling you what’s in my heart. As a friend in need is a friend indeed, I hope you’ll find the patience... |
The Four Horsemen - Nobody Said It Was Easy
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FORMAT: CD REALEASE DATE: 01.02.1991 RECORD COMPANY: Def American 10.0
METALFAN RATING: 8.8
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Sometime around the end of the 80s, as a reaction to spandex rock that dominated the mainstream, a few bands appeared that claimed their authenticity by restoring the link to the 70s. For instance, The Cult, who, together with... |
Massacre - From Beyond
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FORMAT: CD REALEASE DATE: 01.01.1991 RECORD COMPANY: Earache Records 9.5
METALFAN RATING: 8.8
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In 1991, when sane people were concerned with stuff like the fall of the Iron Curtain or the Berlin Wall, or Queen, or the first Gulf War, the boys from Massacre cooked up a record like you rarely... |
The Obsessed - The Obsessed
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FORMAT: CD REALEASE DATE: 10.10.1990 RECORD COMPANY: Hellhound Records 10.0
METALFAN RATING: 8.9
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The Obsessed was created in the 70s, but their first studio album was recorded in 1985 and only saw the light of day in 1990, released by Hellhound Records. At a glance, The Obsessed has had a slower development over the... |
Sodom - Better Off Dead
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FORMAT: CD REALEASE DATE: 01.10.1990 RECORD COMPANY: Steamhammer 9.5
METALFAN RATING: 9.1
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And so, I sometimes get the feeling that Lemmy is the father of Uncle Tom, for they are too similar in face and mind. But this is probably another story. Better Off Dead joins the rank of albums one... |
Obituary - Cause of Death
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FORMAT: CD REALEASE DATE: 19.09.1990 RECORD COMPANY: Roadrunner 9.0
METALFAN RATING: 9.2
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Ohhh... John Tardy’s voice! Such a blessing! This album is a milestone for everything extreme metal. Undoubtedly John Tardy is currently one of the best and most original vocals in death metal (my favourite, anyway) and this... |
Judas Priest - Painkiller
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FORMAT: CD REALEASE DATE: 03.09.1990 RECORD COMPANY: Columbia Records 10.0
METALFAN RATING: 9.3
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Tired of living in the shadow of the more talented and younger Iron Maiden, but also scared by the huge success of thrash metal bands, Judas Priest gathered all their strength, possible and impossible and September 1990 came... |
Nocturnus - The Key
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FORMAT: CD REALEASE DATE: 01.08.1990 RECORD COMPANY: Earache Records 9.0
METALFAN RATING: 8.6
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Coming from Florida, the death metal paradise, Nocturnus are set apart significantly from other bands in this genre due to their avant-garde sound. Their debut release was in 1991, when they released The Key under Earache. This is a... |
Tiamat - Sumerian Cry
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FORMAT: CD REALEASE DATE: 07.06.1990 RECORD COMPANY: Century Media 7.0
METALFAN RATING: 8.6
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Hellslaughter This says it all. Lars Johan Edlund Andersson, aka Reverend Hellie, aka Notoroius PIG, aka Number 7 Picses, aka Year of The Pig was in 1990... Hellslaughter. In his semblance, symphonic black metal, dark metal... |
Bathory - Hammerheart
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FORMAT: CD REALEASE DATE: 16.04.1990 RECORD COMPANY: Black Mark 9.0
METALFAN RATING: 8.8
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Bathory has managed to set the template for the northern black metal, paradigmatically foreshadowing all the forms that would later be included in the genre: from ultrafast aggressive rhythms to bombastic orchestral melodies, reflecting an abundance of subjects... |
Paradise Lost - Lost Paradise
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FORMAT: CD REALEASE DATE: 01.01.1990 RECORD COMPANY: Peaceville Records 7.0
METALFAN RATING: 8.6
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In the evolution of every band there are bad times and glorious times. How childish were Mackintosh and Nick Holmes and the others in 1990, how true and honest. A cemetery in the background, preferably 1-2 visible... |
Nine Inch Nails - Pretty Hate Machine
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FORMAT: CD REALEASE DATE: 20.10.1989 RECORD COMPANY: TVT Records 9.0
METALFAN RATING: 8.7
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Pretty Hate Machine also known as Halo 02 from Nine Inch Nails is hardly unknown to fans of industrial and other similar. Released at the end of 1989, more precisely on 20 October 1989, through the modest record company... |
Black Sabbath - Headless Cross
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FORMAT: CD REALEASE DATE: 24.04.1989 RECORD COMPANY: I.R.S. 10.0
METALFAN RATING: 8.9
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Esteemed comrades and friends, I hereby declare open the 14th studio congress of the Black Sabbath party. Laborers from the Birmingham iron and steel center have come together to bring an offering for our ears. Mystic lyrics,... |
Signal - Loud & Clear
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FORMAT: CD REALEASE DATE: 01.01.1989 RECORD COMPANY: EMI 9.5
METALFAN RATING: 8.5
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From time to time, people get surprises. Like, for instance, for Kinder eggs, the greatest surprise would be if there was nothing inside. And thus the consumer of “modern music” plays a record they have no idea... |
Running Wild - Port Royal
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FORMAT: CD REALEASE DATE: 26.09.1988 RECORD COMPANY: Noise Records 10.0
METALFAN RATING: 9.0
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One day, somewhere around the mid-90s, I heard the song Conquistadores when Mihai Pahontu, Mihai Orzan, or a boy that called himself Alex, would delight me each morning from the frequencies of Fun Radio in Bucharest. What is... |
Blind Guardian - Battalions of Fear
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FORMAT: CD REALEASE DATE: 18.05.1988 RECORD COMPANY: No Remorse Records 8.5
METALFAN RATING: 8.6
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Oh, the joy of youth... It was 1988, when the Blind one appeared on the quick metal stage, and the boys had just turned twenty. You can feel this very well on their debut album, but despite this,... |
Black Sabbath - The Eternal Idol
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FORMAT: CD REALEASE DATE: 01.11.1987 RECORD COMPANY: Vertigo Records 7.0
METALFAN RATING: 8.7
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When you look at the album cover it’s as if you’re seeing the statue with the Mosfilm studio logo, the one with a man and a woman representing the proletariat unite their hands towards a future they... |
Aerosmith - Permanent Vacation
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FORMAT: CD REALEASE DATE: 05.09.1987 RECORD COMPANY: Geffen 9.0
METALFAN RATING: 8.8
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Permanent Vacation is the ninth studio album released by the Boston rockers, the first really important record launched by Aerosmith in 10 years, more precisely since Draw the Line in 1977. While Done with Mirrors was the band’s first record after... |
Testament - The Legacy
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FORMAT: CD REALEASE DATE: 07.07.1987 RECORD COMPANY: Atlantic Records 9.5
METALFAN RATING: 8.9
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In my opinion, this is the perfect thrash metal album, the album that defines this genre. The band was initially called Legacy, but because there was already a band with the same name, the band thought about... |
Whitesnake - Whitesnake
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FORMAT: CD REALEASE DATE: 07.04.1987 RECORD COMPANY: EMI 10.0
METALFAN RATING: 8.9
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Unlike other bands that in the mid-80s were showering people catchy chords, ballads, naughty covers in the hope to get more fans, sales, women, sports cars and other such, Whitesnake had a bit of a past. A past with... |
Anthrax - Among the Living
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FORMAT: CD REALEASE DATE: 22.03.1987 RECORD COMPANY: Island Records 9.5
METALFAN RATING: 8.7
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I can never listen to this album without going mental! Or at least I cannot hear it and not do the Scott Ian Stomp (this is where Scott starts to spin with large steps, typical to the... |
Cinderella - Night Songs
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FORMAT: CD REALEASE DATE: 02.08.1986 RECORD COMPANY: Vertigo Records 8.0
METALFAN RATING: 8.9
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Cinderella’s debut album, release with a line-up that, to their credit, is still found under the same name (after the few gives and takes, though). Glam rock like it’s the mid-80s, when If you were American and... |
Candlemass - Epicus Doomicu Metallicus
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FORMAT: CD REALEASE DATE: 10.06.1986 RECORD COMPANY: Black Dragon Records 9.5
METALFAN RATING: 9.0
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There have always been disputes on what gave birth to the “epic doom metal” sub-genre: Psalm 9 of Trouble or this one. Each of them is a masterpiece in itself, but Epicus Doomicus Metalicus seems to have a little extra compared... |
Europe - The Final Countdown
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FORMAT: CD REALEASE DATE: 26.05.1986 RECORD COMPANY: CBS 10.0
METALFAN RATING: 9.3
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Whenever I think about The Final Countdown, a sweet melancholy takes over me. I was on vacation at Azuga (1987), when from another bungalow, from a wretched Russian cassette player I heard the title track of this... |