1990

Twisted into Form

Forbidden

• Label: Combat
• Released: 30 March 1990

• Thrash metal

1. Parting of the Ways
2. Infinite
3. Out of Body (out of Mind)
4. Step by Step
5. Twisted into Form
6. R.I.P.
7. Spiral Depression
8. Tossed Away
9. One Foot in Hell

Elizium

Fields of the Nephilim

• Label: Beggars Banquet
• Released: 24 September 1990

• Gothic rock
• Gothic metal

1. (Dead but Dreaming)
2. For Her Light
3. At the Gates of Silent Memory
4. (Paradise Regained)
5. Submission
6. Sumerland (What Dreams May Come)
7. Wail of Sumer
8. And There Will Your Heart Be Also

Trouble

Trouble

• Label: Def American
• Released: 13 February 1990

• Doom metal

1. At the End of My Daze
2. The Wolf
3. Psychotic Reaction
4. A Sinner's Fame
5. The Misery Shows (Act II)
6. R.I.P.
7. Black Shapes of Doom
8. Heaven on My Mind
9. E.N.D.
10. All Is Forgiven

By Inheritance

Artillery

• Label: Roadrunner
• Released: 29 May 1990

• Thrash metal

1. 7:00 from Tashkent
2. Khomaniac
3. Beneath the Clay (R.I.P.)
4. By Inheritance
5. Bombfood
6. Don't Believe
7. Life in Bondage
8. Equal at First
9. Razamanaz
10. Back in the Trash

Faith Hope Love

King's X

• Label: Megaforce
• Released: 23 October 1990

• Progressive metal
• Soul 'n' roll

1. We Are Finding Who We Are
2. It's Love
3. I'll Never Get Tired of You
4. Fine Art of Friendship
5. Mr. Wilson
6. Moanjam
7. Six Broken Soldiers
8. I Can't Help It
9. Talk to You
10. Everywhere I Go
11. We Were Born to Be Loved
12. Faith Hope Love
13. Legal Kill

Tales from the Twilight World

Blind Guardian

• Label: Century Media
• Released: 16 July 1990

• Power metal
• Speed metal

1. Traveler in Time
2. Welcome to Dying
3. Weird Dreams
4. Lord of the Rings
5. Goodbye My Friend
6. Lost in the Twilight Hall
7. Tommyknockers
8. Altair 4
9. The Last Candle

Into the Mirror Black

Sanctuary

• Label: Epic
• Released: 27 February 1990

• Thrash metal
• Power metal

1. Future Tense
2. Taste Revenge
3. Long Since Dark
4. Epitaph
5. Eden Lies Obscured
6. The Mirror Black
7. Seasons of Destruction
8. One More Murder
9. Communion

Violator

Depeche Mode

• Label: Mute
• Released: 19 March 1990

• synth-pop
• gothic rock

1. World in My Eyes
2. Sweetest Perfection
3. Personal Jesus
4. Halo
5. Waiting for the Night
6. Enjoy the Silence
7. Policy of Truth
8. Blue Dress
9. Clean

Shake Your Money Maker

The Black Crowes

• Label: Def American
• Released: 13 February 1990

• Blues rock
• Southern rock

1. Twice as Hard
2. Jealous Again
3. Sister Luck
4. Could I've Been So Blind
5. Seeing Things
6. Hard to Handle
7. Thick n' Thin
8. She Talks to Angels
9. Struttin' Blues
10. Stare It Coold
11. Live Too Fast Blues / Mercy, Street Moan

Heartbreak Station

Cinderella

• Label: Mercury
• Released: 20 November 1990

• Blues rock
• Hard rock

1. The More Things Change
2. Love's Got Me Doin' Time
3. Shelter Me
4. Heartbreak Station
5. Sick for the Cure
6. One for Rock and Roll
7. Dead Man's Road
8. Make Your Own Way
9. Electric Love
10. Love Gone Bad
11. Winds of Change

Spiritual Healing

Death

• Label: Combat
• Released: 16 February 1990

• Death metal
• Technical death metal

1. Living Monstrosity
2. Altering the Future
3. Defensive Personalities
4. Within the Mind
5. Spiritual Healing
6. Low Life
7. Genetic Reconstruction
8. Killing Spree

Hammerheart

Bathory

• Label: Noise
• Released: 16 April 1990

• Viking metal

1. Shores in Flames
2. Valhalla
3. Baptised in Fire and Ice
4. Father to Son
5. Song to Hall up High
6. Home to Once Brave
7. One Rode to Asa Bay
8. Outro

Last Decade Dead Century

Warrior Soul

• Label: Geffen
• Released: 17 April 1990

• Alternative metal
• Hard rock

1. I See the Ruins
2. We Cry out
3. The Losers
4. Downtown
5. Trippin' on Ecstasy
6. Four More Years
7. Superpower Dreamland
8. Charlie's out of Prison
9. Blown Away
10. Lullaby
11. n Conclusion

Bossanova

Pixies

• Label: 4AD
• Released: 13 August 1990

• Alternative rock
• Space rock

1. Cecilia Ann
2. Rock Music
3. Velouria
4. Allison
5. Is She Weird
6. Ana
7. All Over the World
8. Dig for Fire
9. Down to the Well
10. The Happening
11. Blown Away
12. Hang Wire
13. Stormy Weather
14. Havalina

Against the Grain

Bad Religion

• Label: Epitaph
• Released: 23 November 1990

• Hardcore punk

1. Modern Man
2. Turn on the Light
3. Get off
4. Blenderhead
5. The Positive Aspect of Negative Thinking
6. Anesthesia
7. Flat Earth Society
8. Faith Alone
9. Entropy
10. Against the Grain
11. Operation Rescue
12. 21st Century (Digital Boy)
13. Misery and Famine
14. Unacceptable
15. Quality or Quantity
16. Walk Away

Social Distortion

Social Distortion

• Label: Epic
• Released: 27 March 1990

• Punk rock
• Rockabilly

1. So Far Away
2. Let It Be Me
3. Story of My Life
4. Sick Boys
5. Ring of Fire
6. Ball and Chain
7. I Coulda Been Me
8. She's a Knockout
9. A Place in My Heart
10. Drug Train

Tortured Existence

Demolition Hammer

• Label: Century Media
• Released: 27 August 1990

• Thrash metal

1. .44 Caliber Brain Surgery
2. Neanderthal
3. Gelid Remains
4. Crippling Velocity
5. Infectious Hospital Waste
6. Hydrophobia
7. Paracidal Epitaph
8. Mercenery Aggression

Ritual de lo Habitual

Jane's Addiction

• Label: Warner Bros.
• Released: 21 August 1990

• Alternative rock
• Alternative metal

1. Stop!
2. No One's Leaving
3. Obvious
4. Been Caught Stealing
5. Three Days
6. Then She Did ...
7. Of Course
8. Classic Girl

Ragged Glory

Neil Young and Crazy Horse

• Label: Reprise
• Released: 10 September 1990

• Garage rock

1. Country Home
2. White Line
3. Fuckin' up
4. Over and ver
5. Love to Burn
6. Farmer John
7. Mansion on the Hill
8. Days That Used to Be
9. Love and Only Love
10. Mother Earth (Natural Anthem)

Frizzle Fry

Primus

• Label: Caroline
• Released: 7 February 1990

• Funk metal
• Alternative metal

1. To Defy the Laws if Tradition
2. Groundhog's Day
3. Too Many Puppies
4. Mr. Knowitall
5. Frizzle Fry
6. John the Fisherman
7. You Can't Kill Michael Malloy
8. The Toys Go Winding Down
9. Pudding Time
10. Sathington Willoughby
11. Spegetti Western
12. Harold of the Rocks
13. To Defy

Coma of Souls

Kreator

• Label: Noise
• Released: 6 November 1990

• Thrash metal

1. When the Sun Burns Red
2. Coma of Souls
3. People of the Lie
4. World Beyond
5. Terror Zone
6. Agents of Brutality
7. Material World Paranoia
8. Twisted Urges
9. Hidden Dictator
10. Mental Slavery

Extreme II: Pornograffitti

Extreme

• Label: A&M
• Released: 7 August 1990

• Funk metal
• glam metal

1. Decadence Dance
2. Li'l Jack Horny
3. When I'm President
4. Get the Funk out
5. More than Words
6. Money (in god We Trust)
7. It ('s a Monster)
8. Pornograffitti
9. Suzi (Wants Her All Day What?)
10. He-Man Woman Hater
11. Song for Love
12. Hole Hearted

Left Hand Path

Entombed

• Label: Combat
• Released: 4 June 1990

• Death metal

1. Left Hand Path
2. Drowned
3. Revel in Flesh
4. When Life Has Ceased
5. Supposed to Rot
6. But Life Goes on
7. Bitter Loss
8. Morbid Devourment
9. Abnormally Deceased
10. The Truth Beyond

Seasons in the Abyss

Slayer

• Label: Def American
• Released: 9 October 1990

• Thrash metal

1. War Ensemble
2. Blood Red
3. Spirit in Black
4. Expendable Youth
5. Dead Skin Mask
6. Hallowed Point
7. Skeletons of Society
8. Temptation
9. Born of Fire
10. Seasons in the Abyss

Cowboys from Hell

Pantera

• Label: ATCO
• Released: 24 July 1990

• Groove metal
• thrash metal

1. Cowboys from Hell
2. Primal Concrete Sledge
3. Psycho Holiday
4. Heresy
5. Cemetery Gates
6. Domination
7. Shattered
8. Clash with Reality
9. Medicine Man
10. Message in Blood
11. The Sleep
12. The Art of Shredding

Facelift

Alice in Chains

• Label: Columbia
• Released: 21 August 1990

• Alternative metal
• doom metal

1. We Die Young
2. Man in the Box
3. Sea of Sorrow
4. Bleed the Freak
5. I Can't Remember
6. Love, Hate, Love
7. It Ain't Like That
8. Sunshine
9. Put You Down
10. Confusion
11. I Know Somethin (Bout You)
12. Real Thing

Souls of Black

Testament

• Label: Atlantic
• Released: 9 October 1990

• Thrash metal

1. Beginning of the End
2. Face in the Sand
3. Falling Fast
4. Souls of Black
5. Absence of Light
6. Love to Hate
7. Malpractice
8. One Man's Fate
9. The Legacy
10. Seven Days of May

Painkiller

Judas Priest

• Label: Columbia
• Released: 14 September 1990

• Heavy metal

1. Painkiller
2. Hell Patrol
3. All Guns Blazing
4. Leather Rebel
5. Metal Meltdown
6. Night Crawler
7. Between the Hammer & the Anvil
8. A Touch of Evil
9. Battle Hymn
10. One Shot at Glory

Apple

Mother Love Bone

• Label: Mercury
• Released: 19 July 1990

• Alternative rock

1. This Is the Shangrila
2. Stardog Champion
3. Holy Roller
4. Bone China
5. Come Bite the Apple
6. Stargazer
7. Heartshine
8. Captain Hi-Top
9. Man of Golden Words
10. Capricorn Sister
11. Gentle Groove
12. Mr. Danny Boy
13. Crown of Thorns

Empire

Queensrÿche

• Label: EMI
• Released: 20 August 1990

• Progressive metal
• heavy metal

1. Best I Can
2. The Thin Line
3. Jet City Woman
4. Della Brown
5. Another Rainy Night (Without You)
6. Empire
7. Resistance
8. Silent Lucidity
9. Hand on Heart
10. One and Only
11. Anybody Listening?

Rust in Peace

Megadeth

• Label: Capitol
• Released: 24 September 1990

• Thrash metal

1. Holy Wars ... Punishment Due
2. Hangar 18
3. Take No Prisoners
4. Five Magics
5. Poison Was the Cure
6. Lucretia
7. Tornado of Souls
8. Dawn Patrol
9. Rust in Peace ... Polaris