It's the Metal Asylum "I Luv The '90s" Spectacular!

Yesterday I was sitting at home, listening to "Jump" by Kris Kross (don't ask), pondering the unforgivable nature of most '90s music. Then I switched to some good ol' Megadeth and realized that metal actually THRIVED in the '90s. Speed Metal matured, Death Metal gained a new respect, Gothenburg Metal was born, Experimental/Jazzy/Math Metal found its niche, and the Norwegian Black Metallers wreaked havoc across the land and spread their seed...

So yeah. The '90s metal scene pretty much KICKED ASS (and were also my formative metal-listening years), so of course I had to do an all '90s Metal Asylum. And it was good.

Bombs away:

1. Dissection | The Somberlain | The Somberlain (1993)
2. Darkthrone | Slottet I Det Fjerne | Transylvanian Hunger (1994)
3. Emperor | Thus Spake The Nightspirit | Anthems To The Welkin At Dusk (1997)
4. Gorgoroth | The Rite of Infernal Invocation | Under the Sign of Hell (1997)
5. Overkill | Frankenstein | Horrorscope (1991)
6. Testament | Hail Mary | Low (1994)
7. Megadeth | Five Magics | Rust in Peace (1990)
8. Coroner | Pale Sister | Mental Vortex (1991)
9. Slayer | Dead Skin Mask | Seasons In the Abyss (1990)
10. At the Gates | World of Lies | Slaughter of the Soul (1995)
11. In Flames | Scorn | Colony (1999)
12. Converge | Singles | Petitioning the Sky (1995)
13. The Dillinger Escape Plan | 4th Grade Dropout | Calculating Infinity (1999)
14. Cynic | The Eagle Nature | Focus (1993)
15. Sepultura | Roots Bloody Roots | Roots (1996)
16. Death | Altering the Future | Fate (1992)
17. Soilent Green | Emptiness Found | Sewn Mouth Secrets (1998)
18. Nile | Ramses Bringer of War | Amongst the Catacombs of Nephren-Ka (1998)
19. Brujeria | Sacrificio | The Mexecutioner! (1993)
20. Opeth | Into the Frost of Winter | Orchid (1995)
21. Eyehategod | Dixie Whiskey | Dopesick ( 1996)
22. Kyuss | 50 Million Year Trip } Blues of the Red Sun (1992)
23. Helmet | Better | Meantime (1992)

xo Jody

Switchin' things up a bit, yeah! Today's show was dedicated to the killer bands that will be playing in and around the Bay Area in the next couple weeks. A great way to get pumped for all the upcoming shows, and an even better way to check out some local and not-so-local acts you may never have heard of.

Here we go:

1. The Black Dahlia Murder | Necropolis | Deflorate (Summer Slaughter Tour, The Fillmore, SF, 7/29)
2. Whitechapel | Father of Lies | This is Exile (Summer Slaughter Tour, The Fillmore, SF, 7/29)
3. Murderlicious | Set Apart | Murderlicious (Eli's, Oakland, 7/29)
4. Nero Order | Celebration of a Wounding | The Tower (Hemlock Tavern, SF, 7/30)
5. Black Cobra | The Sapphire Falcon | Feather and Stone (El Rio, SF, 7/30)
6. Lecherous Gaze | Sold | Lecherous Gaze (El Rio, SF, 7/30)
7. Ringworm | Hellbound | Scars (924 Gilman, Berkeley, 7/30)
8. New Lows | The Horrible and the Miserable | Harvest of the Carcass (924 Gilman, Berkeley, 7/30)
9. Exhumed | As Hammer to Anvil | All Guts, No Glory (Slim's, SF, 8/4)
10. Cephalic Carnage | Ontogeny of Behavior | Anomalies (Slim's, SF, 8/4)
11. Sentinel Beast | Sentinel Beast | Depths of Death (Cafe Cocomo, SF, 8/5)
12. YOB | Doom #2 | The Illusion of Motion (924 Gilman, Berkeley, 8/6)
13. Dark Castle | Growing Slow | Spirited Migration (924 Gilman, Berkeley, 8/6)
14. Oakhelm | Of Wood and Blood | Betwixt and Between (El Rio, SF, 8/6)
15. Eyehategod | Self Medication Blues | Confederacy of Ruined Lives (Oakland Metro Operahouse, Oakland, 8/15)
16. Impaled | The Last Gasp | The Last Gasp (Oakland Metro Operahouse, Oakland, 8/15)
17. Laudanum| Wooden Horse | Coronation (Oakland Metro Operahouse, Oakland, 8/15)
18. Diamond Head | Play it Loud (BBC in Concert 1982) | Reading Rock (Elbo Room, SF, 8/17)
19. Slough Feg | Starport Blues | Atavism (Elbo Room, SF, 8/17)

xo Jody