KERRANG/TERRORIZER/METAL HAMMER Albums Of Year 1996

Screaming Trees just edging out GVSB , Neurosis and Tool for me.

That should have said 1995 was bad..

Man, this is a crappy year. I think Screaming Trees get this by default. Decent Sepultura album, okay Ash and TON albums, and the COC had a great first half but forgettable second. Haven't heard the Neurosis, but I prefer their more recent mellower stuff.

Through Silver In Blood is the best Neurosis album.

But seriously, how did October Rust make the list and not Bloody Kisses in 1993?

I think that was in Metal Hammer.

Oh and no1 in Terrorizer list
http://www.rocklistmusic.co.uk/terroris.htm#'96

surprised that GvsB and Swans are in the there. vote goes to tool tho.

House Of GVSB.

i'm voting for tool because "bloody kisses" is my favorite type o album.

Ugh. What a shit year for hard rock/metal.

Seriously. Bring on 1997. That's when the Scandinavian bands really took over and revitalized things.

man this list is 9th grade all over again! Tool's Aenima changed my life, maaaan. that one's still their finest moment as far as i'm concerned.

Roots also blew me away at the time but that one hasn't aged too well. I still like "Roooooots Blooody Rooooooooooots, rhhaaaahahrrrrrr" though.

Scream Dracula Scream was a lot of fun. and i still think that Rage's Evil Empire is underrated. that's really the only disc of theirs i listen to.

in the end, however, Neurosis gets my vote. Through Silver In Blood is the best album on that list, hands down.

Whitehouse gets my vote, not much competition there.

neurosis. this is right around where i stopped listening to more metal than anything else. haven't heard that whitehouse album.

Tool by a pretty long stretch. RFTC was my pick at the time

I loved Dust at the time, but I never listen to it anymore; I only go back to Even If... and Uncle Anesthesia

Also, that Korn album is probably the best thing they've done, if only for the tangible darkness and pervading sense of dread that comes with the nu-metal rawking.

Dust holds up really well actually.

Seriously. Bring on 19971993. That's when the Scandinavian bands really took over and revitalized things.

There, corrected.

There will be more to choose from next time as Terrorizer went to a top 40 I think. Kerrang however won't have many of those bands.

Social D. over Neurosis.

Yes, 1993 was when a lot of the influential Scandinavian band started off, but it wasn't until 1997 that people outside of Scandinavia and underground metal circles started to pay attention to them in a big way, probably due to the crop of amazing records that came out that year. I mean, just look at the year-end polls in the metal magazines -- they go from mostly American and British, to mostly Scandinavian.

Even in Kerrang?

I mean, does the shit in this poll look revitalized in any way at all?

It was when I stopped liking The Black Crowes, probably the worst Terrorvision album(i havent heard anything after that mind you), the weakest Soundgarden(i still like it though)
But to be honest by this time i was going off rock/metal and it was a few years later i got back into stoner rock and doom. Maybe these polls show why. The only albums I liked in these are "alternative" and not metal.

I'm sure dj martian will be along soon with a list of better metal/rock albums from 1996.

I'm just sayin' I don't think Everything Must Go was that crunchy, but I was compelled to vote for it anyway

went with neurosis although my heart said rftc.

Poll ends tonight.

get those votes in

Screaming Trees win then. Still a great album, glad it won.

Actually I'm pretty prone to Aenima even though I don't like any other Tool. It's a really inspired moment IMO. And then it ended.

Aenima is seen as their best album usually. I'm glad it, neurosis and GVSB got votes too.