1996

Wiseblood

Corrosion of Conformity

• Label: Columbia
• Released: 15 October 1996

• Stoner rock
• Southern metal

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)

The Gray Race

Bad Religion

• Label: Atlantic
• Released: 27 February 1996

• Punk rock

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

To the Faithful Departed

The Cranberries

• Label: Island
• Released: 22 April 1996

• Alternative rock

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

Abducted

Hypocrisy

• Label: Nuclear Blast
• Released: 13 February 1996

• Melodic death metal

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

Velvet Darkness They Fear

Theatre of Tragedy

• Label: Massacre
• Released: 18 August 1996

• Gothic metal
• Death-doom

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

Boys for Pele

Tori Amos

• Label: Atlantic
• Released: 22 January 1996

• Baroque pop
• Alternative rock

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

Purpendicular

Deep Purple

• Label: RCA
• Released: February 1996

• Hard rock

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

Revival

Gillian Welch

• Label: Almo Sounds
• Released: 9 April 1996

• Bluegrass
• Folk
• Country

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

Paegan Terrorism Tactics

Acid Bath

• Label: Rotten Records
• Released: 12 November 1996

• Sludge metal

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

Brave Murder Day

Katatonia

• Label: Avantgarde Music
• Released: 1 August 1996

• Death-doom
• Gothic metal

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

Mi Kubbesi

Nekropsi

• Label: Ada Müzik
• Released: 1996

• Jazz-fusion
• Progressive rock

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

Evil Empire

Rage Against the Machine

• Label: Epic
• Released: 16 April 1996

• Rap metal
• Alternative metal

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

Gone Again

Patti Smith

• Label: Arista
• Released: 18 June 1996

• Art rock
• Art punk

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

Crimson

Edge of Sanity

• Label: Black Mark
• Released: 2 April 1996

• Progressive death metal
• Death death metal

1. Crimson

Elegy

Amorphis

• Label: Relapse
• Released: 14 May 1996

• Progressive metal
• Folk metal

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)

The Jester Race

In Flames

• Label: Nuclear Blast
• Released: 20 February 1996

• Melodic death metal

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

Sackcloth 'n' Ashes

16 Horsepower

• Label: A&M
• Released: 6 February 1996

• Gothic Americana

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

Sing to God

Cardiacs

• Label: Alphabet
• Released: 10 June 1996

• Art punk
• Avant-prog

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

Through Silver and Blood

Neurosis

• Label: Relapse
• Released: 2 April 1996

• Post-metal
• Sludge metal

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

None So Wile

Cryptopsy

• Label: Wrong Again
• Released: 3 July 1996

• Technical death metal

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

Louder Than Hell

Manowar

• Label: Geffen
• Released: 29 April 1996

• Heavy metal
• power metal

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

Pinkerton

Weezer

• Label: DGC
• Released: 24 September 1996

• Alternative rock
• Power pop

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

Down on the Upside

Soundgarden

• Label: A&M
• Released: 21 May 1996

• Alternative metal
• alternative rock

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

Morningrise

Opeth

• Label: Candlelight
• Released: 24 June 1996

• Progressive death metal

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

Episode

Stratovarius

• Label: Noise
• Released: 22 April 1996

• Power metal

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

Sublime

Sublime

• Label: MCA
• Released: 30 July 1996

• Reggae rock
• alternative rock

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

New Adventures in Hi-Fi

R.E.M.

• Label: Warner Bros.
• Released: 9 September 1996

• Alternative rock

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

Load

Metallica

• Label: Elektra
• Released: 4 June 1996

• Heavy metal
• hard rock

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

Murder Ballads

Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds

• Label: Mute
• Released: 5 February 1996

• Gothic rock
• alternative rock

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

Roots

Sepultura

• Label: Roadrunner
• Released: 20 February 1996

• Groove metal

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

Ænima

Tool

• Label: Volcano
• Released: 17 September 1996

• Alternative metal
• progressive metal

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