sYmPHOniEs DEsTRUCTiOn OF

THE TOP 10 ALBUMS OF 1993

anThrax

SOUND OF WHITE NOISE

Exit Joey Belladonna, enter John Bush in time for the album that reinvented Anthrax as a state-of the-art 90s metal band.

carcass

HEARTWORK

The gore-fixated gods of grind streamlined their sound on their penultimate 90s record. The result was the finest British extreme metal album of the decade.

smashing PumPkins

SIAMESE DREAM

Not fitting the grunge, metal or indie brackets, Billy Corgan instead magpied from every genre to make an album to appeal to all tribes.

darkThrone

UNDER A FUNERAL MOON

The Norwegian nutters’ third album was dank, distorted and gloriously antisocial. This was black metal taken back to the garage – or the cave.

eyehaTegod

TAKE AS NEEDED FOR PAIN

Much more than just Phil Anselmo’s drug buddies, Eyehategod were the masters of fucked-up dirge metal. Take in high doses or not at all.

enTombed

WOLVERINE BLUES

Death metal got a real rock’n’roll kick courtesy of drum monster Nicke Andersson. As they said on Out Of Hand: “FUUUUUUCK!”

sePulTura

CHAOS A.D.

The Seps ditched the primeval thrashing for deep grooves and world music flourishes. Suddenly, greatness beckoned.

Tool

UNDERTOW

Metal’s most enigmatic band arrived fully formed with their complex, cerebral debut album. Then, as now, there was no one else like them.

TyPe o negaTive

BLOODY KISSES

Peter Steele ramped up the dark-hued goth-metal grandeur on Bloody Kisses. If Dracula had a favourite metal band, Type O were definitely it.

Pearl Jam

VS.

The grunge giants’ second album found them recoiling from their huge success, stoking their songs with punk rock ire.