My favourite albums from 1996

1. 31

   Wiseblood

   Corrosion of Conformity

   
   

   Tracklist

   1. King of the Rotten
   2. Long Whip / Big America
   3. Wiseblood ●
   4. Goodbye Windows
   5. Born Again for the Last Time
   6. Drowning in a Daydream
   7. The Snake Has No Head
   8. The Door
   9. Man or Ash
   10. Redemption City
   11. Wishbone (Some Tomorrow)
   12. Fuel
   13. Bottom Feeder (el que como abajo)

   Genres

   • Stoner rock
   • Southern metal

2. 30

   The Gray Race

   Bad Religion

   
   

   Tracklist

   1. The Gray Race
   2. Them and Us
   3. A Walk
   4. Parallel
   5. Punk Rock Song ●
   6. Empty Causes
   7. Nobody Listens
   8. Pity the Dead
   9. Spirit Shine
   10. The Streets of America
   11. Ten in 2010
   12. Victory
   13. Drunk Sincerity
   14. Come Join Us
   15. Cease

   Genres

   • Punk rock

3. 29

   To the Faithful Departed

   The Cranberries

   
   

   Tracklist

   1. Hollywood ●
   2. Salvation
   3. When You're Gone
   4. Free to Decide
   5. War Child
   6. Forever Yellow Skies
   7. The Rebels
   8. Intermission
   9. I Just Shot John Lennon
   10. Electirc Blue
   11. I'm Still Remembering
   12. Will you Remember?
   13. Joe
   14. Cordell
   15. Bosnia

   Genres

   • Alternative rock

4. 28

   Abducted

   Hypocrisy

   
   

   Tracklist

   1. The Gathering
   2. Roswell 47 ●
   3. Killing Art
   4. The Arrival of the Demons (Part 2)
   5. Buried
   6. Abducted
   7. Paradox
   8. Point of No Return
   9. When the Candle Fades
   10. Carved up
   11. Reflections
   12. Slippin' Away
   13. Drained

   Genres

   • Melodic death metal

5. 27

   Velvet Darkness They Fear

   Theatre of Tragedy

   
   

   Tracklist

   1. Velvet Darkness They Fear
   2. Fair and 'Guiling Copesmate Death
   3. Bring Forth Ye Shadow
   4. Seraphic Deviltry
   5. And When He Falleth
   6. Der Tanz der Schatten ●
   7. Black as the Devil Painteth
   8. On Whom the Moon Doth Shine
   9. The Masquerader and Phoenix

   Genres

   • Gothic metal
   • Death-doom

6. 26

   Boys for Pele

   Tori Amos

   
   

   Tracklist

   1. Beauty Queen / Horses
   2. Blood Roses
   3. Father Lucifer
   4. Professional Widow ●
   5. Mr. Zebra
   6. Marianne
   7. Caught a Lite Sneeze
   8. Muhammad My Friend
   9. Hey Jupiter
   10. Way Down
   11. Little Amsterdam
   12. Talula
   13. Nor the Red Baron
   14. Agent Orange
   15. Doughnut Song
   16. In the Springtime of His Voodoo
   17. Putting the Damage on
   18. Twinkle

   Genres

   • Baroque pop
   • Alternative rock

7. 25

   Purpendicular

   Deep Purple

   
   

   Tracklist

   1. Vavoom: Ted the Mehcanic ●
   2. Loosen My Strings
   3. Soon Forgotten
   4. Sometimes I Feel Like Screaming
   5. Cascades: I'm Not Your Lover
   6. The Aviator
   7. Rosa's Cantina
   8. A Castle Full of Rascals
   9. A Touch Away
   10. Hey Cisco
   11. Somebody Stole My Guitar
   12. The Purpendicular Waltz

   Genres

   • Hard rock

8. 24

   Revival

   Gillian Welch

   
   

   Tracklist

   1. Orphan Girl
   2. Annabelle ●
   3. Pass You by
   4. Barroom Girls
   5. One More Dollar
   6. By the Mark
   7. Paper Wings
   8. Tear My Silhouette Down
   9. Acony Bell
   10. Only One and Only

   Genres

   • Bluegrass
   • Folk
   • Country

9. 23

   Paegan Terrorism Tactics

   Acid Bath

   
   

   Tracklist

   1. Paegan Love Song
   2. Bleed Me an Ocean
   3. Graveflower ●
   4. Diäb Soulé
   5. Locust Spawning
   6. Old Skin
   7. New Death Sensation
   8. Venus Blue
   9. 13 Fingers
   10. New Corpse
   11. Dead Girl

   Genres

   • Sludge metal

10. 22

    Brave Murder Day

    Katatonia

    
    

    Tracklist

    1. Brave
    2. Murder
    3. Day ●
    4. Rainroom
    5. 12
    6. Endtime

    Genres

    • Death-doom
    • Gothic metal

11. 21

    Mi Kubbesi

    Nekropsi

    
    

    Tracklist

    1. Crying Game ●
    2. Fok
    3. Efsane
    4. Çarşı
    5. 94 Kor
    6. Derinlik
    7. Dımlı Mı
    8. Lim
    9. Hindu
    10. Çarklar
    11. Ateis
    12. Göç
    13. Kubbealtı
    14. Yollar
    15. Son
    16. 41

    Genres

    • Jazz-fusion
    • Progressive rock

12. 20

    Evil Empire

    Rage Against the Machine

    
    

    Tracklist

    1. People of the Sun
    2. Bulls on Parade ●
    3. Vietnow
    4. Snakecharmer
    5. Tire Me
    6. Down Rodeo
    7. Without a Face
    8. Wind Below
    9. Roll Right
    10. Year of the Boomerang

    Genres

    • Rap metal
    • Alternative metal

13. 19

    Gone Again

    Patti Smith

    
    

    Tracklist

    1. Gone Again
    2. Beneath the Southern Cross
    3. About a Boy
    4. My Madrigal
    5. Summer Cannibals
    6. Dead to the World
    7. Wing
    8. Ravens
    9. Wicked MEssenger
    10. Fireflies ●
    11. Farewell Reel

    Genres

    • Art rock
    • Art punk

14. 18

    Crimson

    Edge of Sanity

    
    

    Tracklist

    1. Crimson ●

    Genres

    • Progressive death metal
    • Death death metal

15. 17

    Elegy

    Amorphis

    
    

    Tracklist

    1. Better Unborn
    2. Against Windows
    3. The Orphan
    4. On Rich and Poor
    5. My Kantele
    6. Cares
    7. Song of the Troubled One
    8. Weeper on the Shore
    9. Elegy
    10. Relief
    11. My Kantele (Acoustic Reprise) ●

    Genres

    • Progressive metal
    • Folk metal

16. 16

    The Jester Race

    In Flames

    
    

    Tracklist

    1. Moonshield ●
    2. The Jester's Dance
    3. Artifacts of the Black Rain
    4. Graveland
    5. Lord Hypnos
    6. Dead Eternity
    7. The Jester Race
    8. December Flower
    9. Watfaerer
    10. Dead God in Me

    Genres

    • Melodic death metal

17. 15

    Sackcloth 'n' Ashes

    16 Horsepower

    
    

    Tracklist

    1. I Seen What I Saw
    2. Black Soul Choir ●
    3. Haw
    4. Scrawled in Sap
    5. Horse Head
    6. Ruthie Lingle
    7. Harm's Way
    8. Black Bush
    9. Heel on the Shovel
    10. American Wheeze
    11. Red Neck Reel
    12. Prison Shoe Romp
    13. Neck on the New Blade
    14. Storng Man

    Genres

    • Gothic Americana

18. 14

    Sing to God

    Cardiacs

    
    

    Tracklist

    1. Eden on the Air
    2. Eat It up Worms Hero
    3. Dog-Like Sparky
    4. Fiery Gun Hand ●
    5. Insect Hoofs on Lassie
    6. Fairy Mary Mag
    7. Bellyeye
    8. A Horses Tail
    9. Manhoo
    10. Wireless
    11. Dirty Boy
    12. Billion
    13. Odd Even
    14. Bell Stinks
    15. Bell Clinks
    16. Flap off You Beak
    17. Quiet as a Mouse
    18. Angleworm Angel
    19. Red Fire Coming out from His Gills
    20. No Gold
    21. Nurses Whispering Verses
    22. Founding

    Genres

    • Art punk
    • Avant-prog

19. 13

    Through Silver and Blood

    Neurosis

    
    

    Tracklist

    1. Through Silver and Blood
    2. Rehumanize
    3. Eye
    4. Purify
    5. Locust Star ●
    6. Strength of Fates
    7. Become the Ocean
    8. Aeon
    9. Enclosure in Flame

    Genres

    • Post-metal
    • Sludge metal

20. 12

    None So Wile

    Cryptopsy

    
    

    Tracklist

    1. Crown of Horns
    2. Slit Your Guts
    3. Graves of the Fathers
    4. Dead and Dripping
    5. Benedictine Convulsions
    6. Phobophile ●
    7. Lichmistress
    8. Orgisatic Disembowelment

    Genres

    • Technical death metal

21. 11

    Louder Than Hell

    Manowar

    
    

    Tracklist

    1. Return of the Warlord
    2. Brothers of Metal Pt. 1 ●
    3. The Gods Made Heavy Metal
    4. Courage
    5. Number 1
    6. Outlaw
    7. King
    8. Today Is a Good Day to Die
    9. My Spirit Lives on
    10. Power

    Genres

    • Heavy metal
    • power metal

22. 10

    Pinkerton

    Weezer

    
    

    Tracklist

    1. Tired of Sex
    2. Getchoo
    3. No Other One ●
    4. Why Bother?
    5. Across the Sea
    6. The Good Life
    7. El Scorcho
    8. Pink Triangle
    9. Falling for You
    10. Butterfly

    Genres

    • Alternative rock
    • Power pop

23. 9

    Down on the Upside

    Soundgarden

    
    

    Tracklist

    1. Pretty Noose
    2. Rhinosaur
    3. Zero Chance
    4. Ty Cobb ●
    5. Blow up the Outside World
    6. Burden in My Hand
    7. Never Named
    8. Applebite
    9. Never the Machine Forever
    10. Tighter & Tighter
    11. No Attention
    12. Switch Opens
    13. Overfloater
    14. An Unkind
    15. Boot Camp

    Genres

    • Alternative metal
    • alternative rock

24. 8

    Morningrise

    Opeth

    
    

    Tracklist

    1. Advent
    2. The Night ad the Silent Water
    3. Nectar
    4. Black Rose Immortal
    5. To Bid You Farewell ●

    Genres

    • Progressive death metal

25. 7

    Episode

    Stratovarius

    
    

    Tracklist

    1. Father Time
    2. Will the Sun Rise?
    3. Eternity
    4. Episode
    5. Speed of Light
    6. Uncertainty
    7. Season of Change
    8. Stratosphere
    9. Babylon
    10. Tomorrow
    11. Night Time Eclipse
    12. Forever ●

    Genres

    • Power metal

26. 6

    Sublime

    Sublime

    
    

    Tracklist

    1. Garden Grove
    2. What I Got
    3. Wrong Way
    4. Same in the End ●
    5. April 29, 1992 (Miami)
    6. Santeria
    7. Seed
    8. Jailhouse
    9. Pawn Shop
    10. Paddle out
    11. The Battle of Johnny Butt
    12. Burritos
    13. Under My Voodoo
    14. Get Ready
    15. Caress Me down
    16. What I Got (Reprise)
    17. Doin' Time

    Genres

    • Reggae rock
    • alternative rock

27. 5

    New Adventures in Hi-Fi

    R.E.M.

    
    

    Tracklist

    1. How the West Was Wn and Where It Got Us
    2. The Wake-up Bomb
    3. New Test Leper
    4. Undertow
    5. E-Bow the Letter ●
    6. Leave
    7. Departure
    8. Bittersweet Me
    9. Be Mine
    10. Binky the Doormat
    11. Zither
    12. So Fast, So Numb
    13. Low Desert
    14. Electrolite

    Genres

    • Alternative rock

28. 4

    Load

    Metallica

    
    

    Tracklist

    1. Ain't My Bitch
    2. 2 X 4
    3. The House Jack Built
    4. Until It Sleeps
    5. King Nothing
    6. Hero of the Day
    7. Bleeding Me ●
    8. Cure
    9. Poor Twisted Me
    10. Wasting My Hate
    11. Mama Said
    12. Thorn Within
    13. Ronnie
    14. The Outlaw Torn

    Genres

    • Heavy metal
    • hard rock

29. 3

    Murder Ballads

    Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds

    
    

    Tracklist

    1. Song of Joy
    2. Stagger Lee
    3. Henry Lee ●
    4. Lovely Creature
    5. Where the Wild Roses Grow
    6. The Curse of Millhaven
    7. The Kindness of Strangers
    8. Crow Jane
    9. O'Malley's Bar
    10. Death Is Not the End

    Genres

    • Gothic rock
    • alternative rock

30. 2

    Roots

    Sepultura

    
    

    Tracklist

    1. Roots Bloody Roots
    2. Attitude
    3. Cut-Throat
    4. Ratamahatta ●
    5. Breed Apart
    6. Straighthate
    7. Spit
    8. Lookaway
    9. Dusted
    10. Born Stubborn
    11. Jasco
    12. Itsári
    13. Ambush
    14. Endangered Species
    15. Dictatorshit
    16. Canyon Jam

    Genres

    • Groove metal

31. 1

    Ænima

    Tool

    
    

    Tracklist

    1. Stinkfist
    2. Eulogy
    3. H.
    4. Useful Idiot
    5. Forty Six & 2 ●
    6. Message to Harry Manback
    7. Hooker with a Penis
    8. Intermission
    9. jimmy
    10. Die Eier von Satan
    11. Pushit
    12. Cesaro Summability
    13. Ænema
    14. (-) Ions
    15. Third Eye

    Genres

    • Alternative metal
    • progressive metal