1998

Symphony of Enchanted Lands

Rhapsody

• Label: Limb Music
• Released: 5 October 1998

• Neoclassical metal
• Power metal

1. Epicus Furor
2. Emerald Sword
3. Wisdom of the Kings
4. Heroes of the Lost Valley
5. Eternal Glory
6. Beyond the Gates of Infinity
7. Wings of Destiny
8. The Dark Towers of Abyss
9. Riding the Winds of Eternity
10. Symphony of Enchanted Lands

Supposed Former Infatuation Junkie

Alanis Morissette

• Label: Reprise
• Released: 3 November 1998

• Alternative rock

1. Front Row
2. Baba
3. Thank U
4. Are You Still Mad
5. Sympathetic Character
6. That I Would Be Good
7. The Couch
8. Can't Not
9. UR
10. I Was Hoping
11. One
12. Would Not Come
13. Unsent
14. So Pure
15. Joining You
16. Heart of the House
17. Your Congratulations

Obsolete

Fear Factory

• Label: Roadrunner
• Released: 29 July 1998

• Industrial metal
• Groove metal

1. Shock
2. Edgecrusher
3. Smasher/Devourer
4. Securiton (Police State 2000)
5. Descent
6. Hi-Tech Hate
7. Freedom or Fire
8. Obsolete
9. Resurrection
10. Timelessness

Mercenary

Bolt Thrower

• Label: Metal Blade
• Released: 10 November 1998

• Death metal

1. Zeroed
2. Laid to Waste
3. Return from Chaos
4. Mercenary
5. To the Last ...
6. Powder Burns
7. Behind Enemy Lines
8. No Guts, No Glory
9. Sixth Chapter
10. Infiltrator

Formulas Fatal to the Flesh

Morbid Angel

• Label: Earache
• Released: 24 Fenruary 1998

• Brutal death metal

1. Heaving Earth
2. Prayer of Hatred
3. Bil Ur-Sag
4. Nothing Is Not
5. Chambers of Dis
6. Disturbance in the Great Slumber
7. Umulamahri
8. Hellspawn: The Rebirth
9. Covenant of Death
10. Hymn to a Gas Giant
11. Invocation of the Continual One
12. Ascent Through the Spheres
13. Hymnos rituales de guerra
14. Trooper

Abandon

Deep Purple

• Label: EMI
• Released: 2 June 1998

• Hard rock

1. Any Fule Kno That
2. Almost Human
3. Don't Make Me Happy
4. Seventh Heaven
5. Watching the Sky
6. Fingers to the Bone
7. Jack Ruby
8. She Was
9. Whatsername
10. '69
11. Evil Louie
12. Bludsucker

Aégis

Theatre of Tragedy

• Label: Massacre
• Released: 18 August 1998

• Gothic metal
• Doom metal

1. Cassandra
2. Lorelei
3. Angélique
4. Aœde
5. Siren
6. Venus
7. Poppæa
8. Bacchante

Chaosphere

Meshuggah

• Label: Nuclear Blast
• Released: 9 November 1998

• Progressive metal
• Groove metal

1. Concatenation
2. New Millenium Cyanide Christ
3. Corridor of Chameleons
4. Neurotica
5. The Mouth Licking What You've Bled
6. Sane
7. The Exquisite Machinery of Torture
8. Elastic

Frozen

Sentenced

• Label: Century Media
• Released: 15 July 1998

• Gothic metal
• Gothic rock

1. Kaamos
2. Farewell
3. Dead Leaves
4. For the Love I Bear
5. One with Misery
6. The Suicider
7. The Rain Comes Falling Down
8. Grave Sweet Grave
9. Burn
10. Drown Together
11. Let Go (The Last Chapter)
12. Mourn

Odd Fellows Rest

Crowbar

• Label: Spitfire
• Released: 7 July 1998

• Sludge metal

1. Intro
2. Planets Collide
3. ... and Suffer as One
4. 1000 Year Internal War
5. To Carry the Load
6. December's Spawn
7. It's All in the Gravity
8. Behind the Black Horizon
9. New Man Born
10. Scattered Pieces Lay
11. Odd Fellows Rest
12. On Frozen Ground

Follow the Leader

Korn

• Label: Immortal
• Released: 18 August 1998

• Alternative metal

1. It's on
2. Freak on a Leash
3. Got the Life
4. Dead Bodies Everywhere
5. Children of the Korn
6. B.B.K.
7. Pretty
8. All in the Family
9. Reclaim My Place
10. Justin
11. Seed
12. Cameltosis
13. My Gift to You

Soulfly

Soulfly

• Label: Roadrunner
• Released: 21 April 1998

• Alternative metal
• Groove metal

1. Eye for an Eye
2. No Hope = No Fear
3. Bleed
4. Tribe
5. Bumba
6. First Commandment
7. Bumbklaatt
8. Soulfly
9. Umbabarauma
10. Quilombo
11. Fire
12. The Song Remains Insane
13. No
14. Prejudice
15. Karmageddon

Hellbilly Deluxe

Rob Zombie

• Label: Geffen
• Released: 25 August 1998

• Industrial metal

1. Call of the Zombie
2. Superbeast
3. Dragula
4. Living Dead Girl
5. Perversion 99
6. Demonoid Phenomenon
7. Spookshow Baby
8. How to Make a Monster
9. Meet the Creeper
10. The Ballad of Resurrection Joe and Rosa Whore
11. What Lurks on Channel X?
12. Return of the Phantom Stranger
13. The Beginning of the End

Without You I'm Nothing

Placebo

• Label: Limb Music
• Released: 5 October 1998

• Gothic rock
• Glam rock

1. Pure Morning
2. Brick Shithouse
3. You Don't Care About Us
4. Ask for Answers
5. Without You I'm Nothing
6. Allergic (to Thoughts of Mother Earth)
7. The Crawl
8. Every You Every Me
9. My Sweet Prince
10. Summer's Gone
11. Scared of Girls
12. Burger Queen

Obscura

Gorguts

• Label: Olympic
• Released: 23 June 1998

• Technical death metal
• Avant-garde metal

1. Obscura
2. Earthly Love
3. The Carnal State
4. Nostalgia
5. The Art of Sombre Ecstasy
6. Clouded
7. Subtle Body
8. Rapturous Grief
9. La vie est prélude ... (La Mort Orgasme)
10. Illuminatus
11. Faceless Ones
12. Sweet Silence

Adore

The Smashing Pumpkins

• Label: Virgin
• Released: 2 June 1998

• Art rock
• Gothic rock

1. To Sheila
2. Ava Adore
3. Perfect
4. Daphne Descends
5. Once upon a Time
6. Tear
7. Crestfallen
8. Appels + Oranjes
9. Pug
10. The Tale of Dusty and Pistol Pete
11. Annie-Dog
12. Shame
13. Behold! The Night Mare
14. For Martha
15. Blank Page
16. 17

Queens of the Stone Age

Queens of the Stone Age

• Label: Roadrunner
• Released: 22 September 1998

• Stoner rock

1. Regular John
2. Avon
3. If Only
4. Walkin' on the Widewalks
5. You Would Know
6. How to Handle a Rope
7. Mexicola
8. Hispanic Impressions
9. You Can't Quit Me Baby
10. Give the Mule What He Wants
11. I Was a Teenage Hand Model

Hello Nasty

Beastie Boys

• Label: Capiol
• Released: 14 July 1998

• Hip hop
• Alternative rock

1. Super Disco Breakin'
2. The Move
3. Remote Control
4. Song for the Man
5. Just a Test
6. Body Movin'
7. Intergalactic
8. Sneakin' out the Hospital
9. Putting Shame in Your Game
10. Flowin' Prose
11. And Me
12. Three MC's and One DJ
13. The Grasshopper Unit
14. Song for Junior
15. I Don't Know
16. The Negotiation Limerick File
17. Electrify
18. Picture This
19. Unite
20. Dedication
21. Dr. Lee, PhD
22. Instant Death

System of a Down

System of a Down

• Label: American
• Released: 30 June 1998

• Alternative metal

1. Suite-Pee
2. Know
3. Sugar
4. Suggestions
5. Spiders
6. DDevil
7. Soil
8. War?
9. Mind
10. Peephole
11. CUBErt
12. Darts
13. P.L.U.C.K.

Yield

Pearl Jam

• Label: Epic
• Released: 3 February 1998

• Alternative rock
• Garage rock

1. Brain of J.
2. Faithfull
3. No Way
4. Given to Fly
5. Wishlist
6. Pilate
7. Do the Evolution
8. Red Bar
9. MFC
10. Low Light
11. In Hiding
12. Push Me, Pull Me
13. All Those Yesterdays

The Sound of Perseverance

Death

• Label: Nuclear Blast
• Released: 31 August 1998

• Progressive death metal
• Melodic death metal

1. Scavenger of Human Sorrow
2. Bite the Pain
3. Spirit Crusher
4. Story to Tell
5. Flesh and the Power It Holds
6. Voice of the Soul
7. To Forgive Is to Suffer
8. A Moment of Clarity
9. Painkiller

My Arms, Your Hearse

Opeth

• Label: Candlelight
• Released: 18 August 1998

• Progressive death metal
• Progressive metal

1. Prologue
2. April Ethereal
3. When
4. Madrigal
5. The Amen Corner
6. Demon of the Fall
7. Credence
8. Karma
9. Epilogue

The Elephant Riders

Clutch

• Label: Columbia
• Released: 14 April 1998

• Stoner rock
• blues rock

1. The Elephant Riders
2. Ship of Gold
3. Eight Times Over Miss October
4. The Soapmakers
5. The Yeti
6. Muchas Veces
7. Green Buckets
8. Wishbone
9. Crackerjack
10. The Dragonfly

Oceanborn

Nightwish

• Label: Spinefarm
• Released: 7 December 1998

• Symphonic metal

1. Stargazers
2. Gethsemane
3. Devil & the Deep Dark Ocean
4. Sacrament of Wilderness
5. Passion and the Opera
6. Swanheart
7. Moondance
8. The Riddler
9. The Pharaoh Sails to Orion
10. Walking in the Air

Americana

The Offspring

• Label: Columbia
• Released: 17 November 1998

• Punk rock

1. Welcome
2. Have You Ever
3. Staring at the Sun
4. Pretty Fly (for a White Guy)
5. The Kids Aren't Alright
6. Feelings
7. She's Got Issues
8. Walla Walla
9. The End of the Line
10. No Brakes
11. Why Don't You Get a Job
12. Americana
13. Pay the Man

Powertrip

Monster Magnet

• Label: A&M
• Released: 16 June 1998

• Stoner rock

1. Crop Circle
2. Powertrip
3. Space Lord
4. Temple of Your Dreams
5. Bummer
6. Baby Götterdämerung
7. 19 Witches
8. 3rd Eye Landslide
9. See You in Hell
10. Tractor
11. Atomic Clock
12. Goliath and the Vampires
13. Your Lies Become You

Vovin

Therion

• Label: Nuclear Blast
• Released: 4 May 1998

• Symphonic metal

1. The Rise of Sodom and Gomorrah
2. Birth of Venus Illegitima
3. Wine of Aluqah
4. Clavicula Nox
5. The Wild Hunt
6. Eye of Shiva
7. Black Sun
8. Draconian Trilogy: The Opening
9. Draconian Trilogy: Morning Star
10. Draconian Trilogy: Black Diamonds
11. Raven of Dispersion

Destiny

Stratovarius

• Label: Noise
• Released: 5 October 1998

• Power metal

1. Destiny
2. S.O.S.
3. No Turning Back
4. 4000 Rainy Nights
5. Rebel
6. Years Go by
7. Playing with Fire
8. Venus in the Morning
9. Anthem of the World

Nightfall in Middle-Earth

Blind Guardian

• Label: Century Media
• Released: 28 April 1998

• Power metal

1. War of Wrath
2. Into the Storm
3. Lammoth
4. Nightfall
5. The Minstrel
6. The Curse of Fëanor
7. Captured
8. Blood Tears
9. Mirror Mirror
10. Face the Truth
11. Noldor (Dead Winter Reigns)
12. Battle of Sudden Flame
13. Time Stands Still (at the Iron Hill)
14. The Dark Elf
15. Thorn
16. The Eldar
17. Nom the Wise
18. When Sorrow Sang
19. Out on the Water
20. The Steadfast
21. A Dark Passage
22. Final Chapter (Thus Ends ...)

The Chemical Wedding

Bruce Dickinson

• Label: Air Raid
• Released: 15 September 1998

• Heavy metal

1. King in Crimson
2. Chemical Wedding
3. The Tower
4. Killing Floor
5. Book of Thel
6. Gates of Urizen
7. Jerusalem
8. Trumpets of Jericho
9. Machine Men
10. The Alchemist