1993

Elements

Atheist

• Label: Metal Blade
• Released: 39 August 1993

• Progressive metal
• Technical death metal
• Jazz fusion

1. Green
2. Water
3. Samba Briza
4. Air
5. Displacement
6. Animal
7. Mineral
8. Fire
9. Fractal Point
10. Earth
11. See You Again
12. Elements

Introspection

Greg Howe

• Label: Shrapnel
• Released: 1993

• Jazz fusion
• Progressive rock

1. Jump Start
2. Button up
3. Come and Get It
4. In Step
5. Desiderata
6. No Place Like Home
7. Direct Injection
8. Pay as You Go

Pork Soda

Primus

• Label: Interscope
• Released: 20 April 1993

• Funk metal
• Avant-garde metal

1. Pork Chop's Little Ditty
2. My Name Is Mud
3. Welcome to This World
4. Bob
5. DMV
6. The Ol' Diamondback Sturgeon (Fisherman's Chronicles, Part 3)
7. Nature Boy
8. Wounded Knee
9. Pork Soda
10. The PRessman
11. Mr. Krinkle
12. The Air Is Getting Slippery
13. Hamburger Train
14. Pork Chop's Little Ditty
15. Hail Santa

Fuzzy

Grant Lee Buffalo

• Label: Slash
• Released: 20 April 1993

• Alternative country
• Gothic americana

1. The Shining Hour
2. Jupiter and Teardrop
3. Fuzzy
4. Wish You Well
5. The Hook
6. Soft Wolf Tread
7. Stars 'n' Stripes
8. Dizie Drug Store
9. America Snoring
10. Grace
11. You Just Have to Be Crazy

River Runs Red

Life of Agony

• Label: Roadrunner
• Released: 12 October 1993

• Alternative metal
• Hardcore punk

1. This Time
2. Underground
3. Monday
4. River Runs Red
5. Through and Through
6. Words and Music
7. Thursday
8. Bad Seed
9. My Eyes
10. Respect
11. Method of Groove
12. The Stain Remains
13. Friday

Earth 2

Earth

• Label: Sub Pop
• Released: 5 February 1993

• Drone

1. Seven Angels
2. Teeth of Lions Rule the Divine
3. Like Gold and Faceted

The Ethereal Mirror

Cathedral

• Label: Earache
• Released: 24 May 1993

• Doom metal
• Stoner metal

1. Violet Vortex
2. Ride
3. Enter the Worms
4. Midnight Mountain
5. Fountain of Innocence
6. Grim Luxuria
7. Jaded Entity
8. Ashes You Leave
9. Phantasmagoria
10. Imprisoned in Flesh

Grin

Coroner

• Label: Noise
• Released: 10 September 1993

• Progressive metal
• Avant-garde metal

1. Dream Path
2. The Lethargic Age
3. Internal Conflicts
4. Caveat (to the Coming)
5. Serpent Moves
6. Status: Still Thinking
7. Theme for Silence
8. Paralyzed, Mesmerized
9. Grin (Nails Hurt)
10. Host

Houdini

Melvins

• Label: Atlantic
• Released: 21 September 1993

• Sludge metal

1. Hooch
2. Night Goat
3. Lizzy
4. Goin' Blind
5. Honey Bucket
6. Hag Me
7. Set Me Straight
8. Sky Pop
9. Joan of Arc
10. Teet
11. Copache
12. Pearl Bomb
13. Spread Eagle Beagle

Enemy of the Sun

Neurosis

• Label: Alternative Tentacles
• Released: 17 August 1993

• Sludge metal
• Post-metal

1. Lost
2. Raze the Stray
3. Burning Flesh in Year of Pig
4. Cold Ascending
5. Lexicon
6. Enemy of the Sun
7. The Time of the Beasts
8. Cleanse

Songs of Faith and Devotion

Depeche Mode

• Label: Mute
• Released: 22 March 1993

• Alternative rock
• Synth pop

1. I Feel You
2. Walking in My Shoes
3. Condemnation
4. Mercy in You
5. Judas
6. In Your Room
7. Get Right with Me
8. Rush
9. One Caress
10. Higher Love

Covenant

Morbid Angel

• Label: Mute
• Released: 1 June 1993

• Death metal

1. Rapture
2. Pain Divine
3. World of Shit (The Promised Land)
4. Vengeance Is Mine
5. Lions Den
6. Blood on My Hands
7. Angel of Disease
8. Sworn to the Black
9. Nar Mattaru
10. God of Emptiness

August and Everything After

Counting Crows

• Label: Geffen
• Released: 14 September 1993

• Alternative rock

1. Round Here
2. Omaha
3. Mr. Jones
4. Perfect Blue Buildings
5. Anna Begins
6. Time and Time Again
7. Rain King
8. Sullivan Street
9. Ghost Train
10. Raining in Baltimore
11. A Murder of One

Focus

Cynic

• Label: Roadrunner
• Released: 14 September 1993

• Progressive metal
• Technical death metal

1. Veil of Maya
2. Celestial Voyage
3. The Eagle Nature
4. Sentiment
5. I'm but a Wave to ...
6. Uroboric Forms
7. Textures
8. How Could I

Slip

Quicksand

• Label: Polydor
• Released: 9 February 1993

• Post-hardcore
• Alternative metal

1. Fazer
2. Head to Wall
3. Dine Alone
4. Slip
5. Freezing Process
6. Lie and Wait
7. Unfulfilled
8. Can Opener
9. Omission
10. Baphomet
11. Too Official
12. Transparent

Individual Thought Patterns

Death

• Label: Relativity
• Released: 22 June 1993

• Technical death metal
• Progressive death metal

1. Overactive Imagination
2. In Human Form
3. Jealousy
4. Trapped in a Corner
5. Nothing Is Everything
6. Mentally Blind
7. Individual Thought Patterns
8. Destiny
9. Out of Touch
10. The Philosopher

The Battle Rages on ...

Deep Purple

• Label: RCA
• Released: 19 July 1993

• Hard rock

1. The Battle Rages on
2. Lick It up
3. Anya
4. Talk About Love
5. Time to Kill
6. Ramshackle Man
7. A Twist in the Tale
8. Nasty Piece of Work
9. Solitaire
10. One Man's Meat

Transnational Speedway League: Anthems, Anecdotes and Undeniable Truths

Clutch

• Label: EastWest
• Released: 17 August 1993

• Stoner rock
• Post-hardcore

1. A Shotgun Named Marcus
2. El Jefe Speaks
3. Binge and Purge
4. 12 Ounce Epilogue
5. Bacchanal
6. Milk of Human Kindness
7. Rats
8. Earthworm
9. Heirloom 13
10. Walking in the Great Shining Path of Monster Trucks
11. Effigy

Edge of Thorns

Savatage

• Label: Atlantic
• Released: 2 April 1993

• Heavy metal

1. Edge of Thorns
2. He Carves His Stone
3. Lights out
4. Skraggy's Tomb
5. Labyrinths
6. Follow Me
7. Exit Music
8. Degrees of Sanity
9. All That I Bleed
10. Damien
11. Miles Away
12. Sleep

Everybody Else Is Doing It, So Why Can't We?

The Cranberries

• Label: Island
• Released: 1 March 1993

• Alternative rock
• Jangle pop

1. I Still Do
2. Dreams
3. Sunday
4. Pretty
5. Waltzing Back
6. Not Sorry
7. Linger
8. Wanted
9. Still Can't ...
10. I Will Always
11. How
12. Put Me Down

Rid of Me

PJ Harvey

• Label: Island
• Released: 26 April 1993

• Alternative rock
• Punk blues

1. Rid of Me
2. Missed
3. Legs
4. Rub 'till It Bleeds
5. Hook
6. Man-Sized Sextet
7. Highway 61 Revisited
8. 50ft Queenie
9. Yuri-G
10. Man-Size
11. Dry
12. Me-Jane
13. Snake
14. Ecstasy

Heartwork

Carcass

• Label: Columbia
• Released: 18 October 1993

• Melodic death metal

1. Buried Dreams
2. Carnal Forge
3. No Love Lost
4. Heartwork
5. Embodiment
6. This Mortal Coil
7. Arbeit Macht Fleisch
8. Blind Bleeding the Blind
9. Doctrinal Expletives
10. Death Certificate

Debut

Björk

• Label: Elektra
• Released: 5 July 1993

• Art pop
• electropop

1. Human Behaviour
2. Crying
3. Venus as a Boy
4. There's More to Life Than This
5. Like Someone in Love
6. Big Time Sensuality
7. One Day
8. Aeroplane
9. Come to Me
10. Violently Happy
11. The Anchor Song

Recipe for Hate

Bad Religion

• Label: Epitaph
• Released: 4 June 1993

• Punk rock

1. Recipe for Hate
2. Keroesene
3. American Jesus
4. Portrait of Authority
5. Man with a Mission
6. All Good Soldiers
7. Watch It Die
8. Struck a Nerve
9. My Poor Friend Me
10. Lookin' in
11. Don't Pray on Me
12. Modern Day Catastrophists
13. Skyscraper

Undertow

Tool

• Label: Zoo
• Released: 6 April 1993

• Alternative metal
• progressive metal

1. Intolerance
2. Prison Sex
3. Sober
4. Bottom
5. Crawl Away
6. Swamp Song
7. Undertow
8. 4°
9. Flood
10. Disgustipated

Icon

Paradise Lost

• Label: Music for Nations
• Released: 28 September 1993

• Gothic metal
• Gothic rock

1. Embers Fire
2. Rememberance
3. Forging Sympathy
4. Joys of the Emptiness
5. Dying Freedom
6. Widow
7. Colossal Rains
8. Weeping Words
9. Poison
10. True Belief
11. Shallow Seasons
12. Christendom
13. Deus Miseratur

Siamese Dream

The Smashing Pumpkins

• Label: Virgin
• Released: 27 July 1993

• Alternative rock
• alternative metal

1. Cherub Rock
2. Quiet
3. Today
4. Hummer
5. Rocket
6. Disarm
7. Soma
8. Geek U.S.A.
9. Mayonaise
10. Spaceboy
11. Silverfuck
12. Sweet Sweet
13. Luna

In Utero

Nirvana

• Label: DGC
• Released: 21 September 1993

• Alternative rock
• noise rock

1. Serve the Servants
2. Scentless Apprentice
3. Heart-Shaped Box
4. Rape Me
5. Frances Farmer Will Have Her Revenge on Seattle
6. Dumb
7. Very Ape
8. Milk It
9. Pennyroyal Tea
10. Radio Friendly Unit Shifter
11. Tourette's
12. All Apologies

Dance of December Souls

Katatonia

• Label: No Fashion
• Released: 14 December 1993

• Death-doom
• black metal

1. Seven Dreaming Souls
2. Gateways of Bereavement
3. In Silence Enshrined
4. Without god
5. Elohim Meth
6. Velvet Thorns (of Drynwhyl)
7. Tomb of Insomnia
8. Dancing December

Chaos A.D.

Sepultura

• Label: Epic
• Released: 1 September 1993

• Groove metal
• thrash metal

1. Refuse/Resist
2. Territory
3. Slave New World
4. Amen
5. Kaiowas
6. Propaganda
7. Biotech Is Godzilla
8. Nomad
9. We Who Are Not as Others
10. Manifest
11. The Hunt
12. Clenched Fist

Vs.

Pearl Jam

• Label: Epic
• Released: 12 October 1993

• Alternative rock
• hard rock

1. Go
2. Animal
3. Daughter
4. Glorified G
5. Dissident
6. W.M.A.
7. Blood
8. Rearviewmirror
9. Rats
10. Elderly Woman Behind the Counter in a Small Town
11. Leash
12. Indifference