20 Sep Alchemy, Science & Creative Bloodshed: Metal & Rock in 1993
1993 represents for Radical Research a fecund year in the development of heavy metal, a tidal surge driven by forces of alchemy, science, and creative bloodshed. To substantiate this notion, we offer for your consideration a list of that year’s best and brightest albums. The devoted listener will find an otherworldly current that runs through these albums, a demiurgic spark that impels these works of inner- and outer-space sorcery. Listen deeply, listen wildly, and give in to 1993.
In no particular order…
Metal
Cynic, Focus
Believer, Dimensions
Supuration, The Cube
Carcass, Heartwork
Entombed, Wolverine Blues
Atheist, Elements
Mind Over Four, Half Way Down
Voivod, The Outer Limits
Anathema, Serenades
Talisman, Genesis
Obliveon, Nemesis
Memento Mori, Rhymes of Lunacy
Paradise Lost, Icon
Dismember, Indecent and Obscene
Loudblast, Sublime Dementia
Coroner, Grin
Tool, Undertow
Cathedral, The Ethereal Mirror
Anacrusis, Screams & Whispers
Thought Industry, Mods Carve the Pig: Assassins, Toads & God’s Flesh
My Dying Bride, Turn Loose the Swans
Damn the Machine, Damn the Machine
Morbid Angel, Covenant
Suffocation, Breeding the Spawn
Dissection, The Somberlain
Death, Individual Thought Patterns
Type O Negative, Bloody Kisses
Demilich, Nespithe
Morgoth, Odium
Sentenced, North From Here
Disembowelment, Transcendence into the Peripheral
Mercyful Fate, In the Shadows
Devil Doll, The Sacrilege of Fatal Arms
Beherit, Drawing Down the Moon
Darkthrone, Under a Funeral Moon
Enslaved, Hordanes Land
Gorguts, The Erosion of Sanity
Sinister, Diabolical Summoning
Old, The Musical Dimensions of Sleastak
Immortal, Pure Holocaust
Mordicus, Dances from Left
Disincarnate, Dreams of the Carrion Kind
Tiamat, Clouds
Cemetary, Godless Beauty
Mercyless, Coloured Funeral
Pestilence, Spheres
Necrophobic, The Nocturnal Silence
God Macabre, The Winterlong
Xysma, First and Magical
Burzum, Det Som Engang Var
Emperor, Emperor
Unanimated, In the Forest of the Dreaming Dead
Marduk, Those of the Unlight
Kataklysm, The Mystical Gates of Reincarnation
Edge of Sanity, The Spectral Sorrows
At the Gates, With Fear I Kiss the Burning Darkness
Pan-Thy-Monium, Khaooohs
Comecon, Converging Conspiracies
Mystifier, Goetia
Therion, Symphony Masses: Ho Drakon Ho Megan
Albino Slug, Albino Slug
Carbonized, Disharmonization
Alchemist, Jar of Kingdom
Blasphemy, Gods of War
Disharmonic Orchestra, Pleasuredome
Eucharist, A Velvet Creation
Katatonia, Dance of December Souls
Rock
Porcupine Tree, Up the Downstair
Pearl Jam, Vs.
Robert Fripp & David Sylvian, The First Day
Slowdive, Souvlaki
Catherine Wheel, Chrome
Verve, A Storm in Heaven
The Afghan Whigs, Gentlemen
The Red House Painters, The Red House Painters
Monster Magnet, Superjudge
Jellyfish, Spilt Milk
Melvins, Houdini
Smashing Pumpkins, Siamese Dream
The Posies, Frosting on the Beater
The God Machine, Scenes from the Second Storey
Sugar, Beaster
Seaweed, Four
Living Colour, Stain
Kyuss, Sky Valley
Superchunk, On the Mouth
Quicksand, Slip
Curve, Cuckoo
Swervedriver, Mezcal Head
Nudeswirl, Nudeswirl
Cranes, Forever
Bailter Space, Robot World
Nomeansno, Why Do They Call Me Mr. Happy?
Radiohead, Pablo Honey
Primus, Pork Soda
Anekdoten, Vemod
Bjork, Debut
