InObscuria Podcast

Ep. 258: Threading The Needle - 90s Alternative Metal

Episode Summary

This week: a sister-cast episode to a series we have called the Inbetweeners where we on the bands straddling the 80s and 90s in rock n' punk n' metal. This is more specific to metal in the 90s after feeling the impact of the overwhelming shifting of sounds during the decade. Metal became a dirty word by the mid-90s as grunge and alternative took over the rock world, but a new movement in the metal genre blended all of these influences with the heavy. Thus, we give you - 90s Alternative Metal!

Episode Notes

This week: a sister-cast episode to a series we have called the Inbetweeners where we on the bands straddling the 80s and 90s in rock n' punk n' metal. This is more specific to metal in the 90s after feeling the impact of the overwhelming shifting of sounds during the decade. Metal became a dirty word by the mid-90s as grunge and alternative took over the rock world, but a new movement in the metal genre blended all of these influences with the heavy. Thus, we give you - 90s Alternative Metal!

What’s this InObscuria thing? Our podcast exhumes obscure Rock n' Punk n' Metal and puts them in one of 3 categories: the Lost, the Forgotten, or the Should Have Beens. This week we cover mostly bands that have been forgotten including some bands that we played early on in the podcast. The transition from the heavy metal 80s to the punk-edged alternative of the 90s was a time like no other, and metal bands that began during this time put it all in an industrial-strength metal blender. Hope ya dig! 

Songs this week include:

  1. Quicksand – “Thorn In My Side” from Manic Compression (1995)
  2. Fragile Porcelain Mice – “Brown Nickel” from Frostbiddin (1996)
  3. Therapy? – “Nasuea” from Nurse (1992)
  4. Corrosion Of Conformity – “Clean My Wounds” from Deliverance (1994)
  5. Prong – “Unconditional” from Prove You Wrong (1991)
  6. Fight – “I Am Alive” from A Small Deadly Space (1995)
  7. Life Of Agony – “This Time” from River Runs Red (1993)

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