This is the Iworkwithmusic.com Early nineties metal collage that seems to make the biggest dent in the Heavy Metal world. The forgotten songs from the forgotten bands who made a bigger move in the metal world than all of the mainstream metal bands put together.
Annihilator – Alice in hell
Overkill – Hello From The Gutter
Slayer – Raining Blood
Testament – Souls Of Black
Exodus – Bonded By Blood
Megadeth – Symphony Of Destruction
Sepultura – Arise
Anthrax – Indians
Suicidal Tendencies – You can’t bring me down
Sorry If you were expecting Metallica or Pantera or any main stream pudwagon band. This music was not in that Genre. Not at all. Yes classified but we can all hear there is a massive difference. The guitarists are better here in these bands, the drummers are better, and the singers suck. .. it wasn’t about being a good singer. It was about having a strong message and sounding like you mean it. Some musicians took it in the direction the 11 year old fans wanted, others just kept on steaming headed forward. So you see why some sounded stupid.
This is heavy Metal. The roots of what is now called Death metal, thrash metal Or any other metal out there.
There were hundreds of other metal bands that helped make a generation of angry kids happy and pacified with something as angry as them. But hey my page is only so long and well, back in those days I was just a kid I didn’t have the money to try them all.
So this is my 90′s rock choice. Yes some of the music here is from the late eighties, but they held up through to the nineties.
I gots to disagree, none of the guitar players or drummers from those bands are better than Dime and Vinnie, some might be better than Kirk or Lars, but James is the best metal rythem guitarist of all time. So yeh I gotta disagree with you even though the bands are great and very influentual, so were the “pud” bands like Metallica and Pantera. Hell even Dave from Megadeth wanted Diamond Darrell to replace Marty at one time. But then again both Marty and Alex are a couple of sellouts who will play whatever is paying the most at the time. If they aint making anything playing metal they run to Japan and record “solo” albums of musical masterbation.
I guess I never was a Pantera fan. I don’t see why people like either one of them. Dimebag was a cool guitarist. His music sounded cool. Nothing really amazing though.
Guitar World 100 Greatest Metal Guitarists Of All Time:
01. Tony Iommi (BLACK SABBATH)
02. Kirk Hammett & James Hetfield (METALLICA)
03. Angus & Malcolm Young (AC/DC)
04. Randy Rhoads (OZZY OSBOURNE)
05. Eddie Van Halen (VAN HALEN)
06. Jimmy Page (LED ZEPPELIN)
07. Dimebag Darrell (PANTERA, DAMAGEPLAN)
08. Zakk Wylde (OZZY OSBOURNE, BLACK LABEL SOCIETY)
09. Adam Jones (TOOL)
10. Kerry King & Jeff Hanneman (SLAYER)
Most of the players you mention in your blog arent even in the top 50. If you are #7 behind Jimmy Page you must be doing something right.
LOL. Wasn’t posting for best of anything. It’s a genre of Rock that was not much talked about. Kind of like the B-rated class. Most of these bands could have been great, if they didn’t have cheesy lyrics and a stupid sounding front man. but the band as whole, worked like it was a well orchestrated band.
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Ok wait, that list is kinda nuts.
If I had to work off that specific list I would have to change a few things.
Remove Kerry king
remove James Hetfield
move Randy Rhoads to top spot
remove ac/dc all together
Adam Jones from tool. why is he even there? He played in the key of B, and did it as if there was no other key. His time signature was always 3/4 time .. that of course made every song he played sound exactly the same to me. Doodloop (rest) doodloop doodloop (rest)
The list I would select looks more like
01. Randy Rhoads
02. Zakk Wylde
03. Joe Satriani
04. Herman Li (I had to replace ac/dc with something)
05. Eddie Van Halen
06. Steve Vai
07.
08.
09. Kirk Hammett
10. Jeff Hanneman
Sorry couldn’t think to fill in the rest.
Well…..This post was about 90s metal and the list is 100 Greatest Metal Guitarists Of All Time. And how you going to give Randy the top spot when he was influenced by Iommi? If there was no Iommi there would have been no Randy. Besides Randy was 80s metal. Actually Adam Jones is a very influential 90s guitarist, he also plays in dropped D tuning, not B, and Tool has some of the most intricate time measures in music. The time signature employed on Lateralus’ first single, “Schism”, is 6.5/4 (13/8) No one else does that. Dimebag is your favorite guitar players favorite guitar player. All the bands you listed are good bands, influential bands, but none of them come close to the legacies created by Pantera or Metallica. In 10 years no one will even remember most of the bands you listed.
Well for one, this is not about the best guitarists. I am however working on my top twenty guitarists list.
I think in the first paragraph I clarify what the post is.
but about Iommi and Randy, because he influenced him does not mean he is better. and because I think Randy was better, does not mean I think Iommi was not great. I just am not as impressed.
I am sure there are many sites with that exact same list guitarists.
People tend to use other people’s opinions as if it was their own.
Sure more people played black sabbath songs on the guitar, just as more people know how to play smoke on the water. It’s simple, repetitive and anyone you play it for will know what it was.
but there were better bands and musicians. They just didn’t seem to have the same record label and promoters so they couldn’t get the attention they deserved. like the bands I listed. They never would have made any kind of top 100. No matter how complex their work was. Alex Skolnick or Marty Freedman would have blown Eddie Van Halen away even in his better day. This post is about the good ones that for one reason or another did not get the attention they deserved. So I gave them what I could.
A solute and howdo.
Kirk Hammet was in EXodus but IMHO he was not as good as Evan.
Annihilator Excellent band, but Randy Rampage with his witches scream messed up the sound.
The key that Adam Jones played in had nothing to do with how he tuned his guitar. all of the notes he played can be found on a guitar that would be tuned to E. (just one or two notes will be in a lower octave than what is available to E tuned guitar)The location that he would play carried notes that can be found in a specific chord, if you break that chord into a full list of notes you will find that that is what is called “key”. Basically if you play an c# chord, memorize where every finger sits in that chord, then play each each one of those notes separately, you will find they all sound really good together, just add a beat and you have a song, in the key of c#. Adam Jones seemed to like B. a lot.
I do have to admit I chunked Sepultura in there just because I wanted something a tad bit heavier in the mix.
Wait for my “most impressive guitarists” list it is coming pretty soon.
Sorry If you were expecting Metallica or Pantera or any main stream pudwagon band. This music was not in that Genre. Not at all. Yes classified but we can all hear there is a massive difference. The guitarists are better here in these bands, the drummers are better, and the singers suck. ..
the whole point was you were saying that the guitar players and drummers from exodus, annihilator, suicidal, anthrax, overkill,…..etc…….etc….were better musicians guitar players….drummers…..etc. than Pantera or metallica….simply not true. Overkill was a blatant Metallica ripoff band for Gods sake. Megadeth is doing techno now. Anthrax is best known for bringing RAP into metal. I dont see how you can possibly think these bands are more talented or better musically than the two biggest bands that CARRIED metal in the 90s with no major radio airplay whatsoever. None of these bands are as talented as Metallica or Pantera, Im not saying they werent good bands because Im a major Slayer, Anthrax and Sepultura fan, they were just not as talented. No way in Hell Jeff Hanneman or Kerry King can solo like Dime or Kirk. Ill give you Charlie from Anthrax and Dave from Slayer though. Those guys were monsters on the drums…Then again so is Dana Cary from Tool and Vinnie Paul from Pantera.