VertThe term Alternative Metal is used as a very loose categorization, but is usually used to describe artists playing a style of rock music which is considered a unique approach to Grunge music, but still play heavy metal. Many bands categorized as "alternative metal" are equally influenced by alternative rock and heavy metal.
Heavy metal is not an essential component of the music, but it was very different from the thrash underground of the 1980s. Initially alternative metal appealed mainly to alternative rock fans since virtually all 80s alt-metal bands had their roots in the American Rock underground scene.
Alt-metal bands commonly emerged from hardcore punk (Corrosion of Conformity), post-punk/noise rock such as Big Black[/artists], Fugazi and Sonic Youth along with others such as Helmet and White Zombie, grunge (Alice in Chains, Soundgarden), industrial (Ministry, Vardis, Nine Inch Nails). These bands never formed a distinct movement or scene; rather they were bound by their incorporation of traditional metal influences and openness to experimenting with the form, usually by way of their eclectic influences and uncommon approaches.
For example, Jane's Addiction utilized performance art and a bohemian aesthetic, Corrosion of Conformity, The Melvins and the now defunct grunge band Soundgarden had a fondness for subverting '70s metal, and Faith No More, along with Living Colour, injected funk and hip hop into their brand of alternative metal,[2] while Primus incorporates an obscure Residents-esque touch in their form of the genre.
Must Have Albums
Alice Donut-The Untidy Suicides of Your Degenerate Children
Alice in Chains-Alice in Chains
Alice in Chains-Dirt
Alice in Chains-Facelift
Atomship-The Crash Of '47
Bad Brains-I Against I
Bad Brains-Quickness
Biohazard-Urban Discipline
Breaking Benjamin-Phobia
Breaking Benjamin-Saturate
Buckethead-Decoding The Tomb Of Bansheebot
Candlebox-Candlebox
CKY-Infiltrate, Destroy, Rebuild
Deftones-Adrenaline
Deftones-Around the Fur
Deftones-Saturday Night Wrist
Deftones-White Pony
Dir en grey-UROBOROS
Disturbed-Ten Thousand Fists
Dog Fashion Disco-Adultery
Dog Fashion Disco-Committed to a Bright Future
Earthtone 9-arc'tan'gent
Exotic Animal Petting Zoo-I Have Made My Bed In Darkness
Fair to Midland-Fables From a Mayfly: What I Tell You Three Times is True
Faith No More-Album of the Year
Faith No More-Angel Dust
Faith No More-King for a day-fool for a lifetime
Faith No More-The Real Thing
Fantômas-The Director's Cut
Fishbone-The Reality of My Surroundings
Fishbone-Truth And Soul
Fudge Tunnel-Hate Songs in E Minor
Galactic Cowboys-Space In Your Face
Handsome-Handsome
Head Control System-Murder Nature
Helmet-Aftertaste
Helmet-Betty
Helmet-Meantime
Helmet-Strap It On
Jane's Addiction-Nothing's Shocking
Jane's Addiction-Ritual de lo Habitual
Jerry Cantrell-Degradation Trip
Jucifer-L'Autrichienne
Karnivool-Themata
Katatonia-The Great Cold Distance
Korn-Korn
Last Crack-Burning Time
Life of Agony-River Runs Red
Living Colour-Time's Up
Living Colour-Vivid
Made Out of Babies-The Ruiner
Made Out of Babies-Trophy
Maj Karma-Ukkonen
Marilyn Manson-Antichrist Superstar
Mattias Eklundh-The Road Less Traveled
Maximum the Hormone-BuiikiKaesu
Melvins-Stoner Witch
Monster Magnet-Dopes to Infinity
Mr. Bungle-Mr. Bungle
Mudvayne-LD.50
Nothingface-An Audio Guide to Everyday Atrocity
Nothingface-Skeletons
Nothingface-Violence
Phlebotomized-Skycontact
Primus-Brown Album
Primus-Frizzle Fry
Primus-Pork Soda
Primus-Sailing the Seas of Cheese
Primus-Tales From the Punchbowl
Project 86-...And the Rest Will Follow
Project 86-Drawing Black Lines
Project 86-Songs to Burn Your Bridges By
Project 86-Truthless Heroes
Prong-Beg To Differ
Rage Against the Machine-Evil Empire
Rage Against the Machine-Rage Against the Machine
Rage Against the Machine-Renegades
Rage Against the Machine-The Battle of Los Angeles
Red-End of Silence
Rollins Band-Weight
Sepultura-Roots
Sevendust-Animosity
Snot-Get Some
Soundgarden-Badmotorfinger
Stone Sour-Come What(ever) May
Suicidal Tendencies-The Art Of Rebellion
System of a Down-Hypnotize
System of a Down-Mezmerize
System of a Down-System of a Down
System of a Down-Toxicity
The God Machine-One Last Laugh In A Place Of Dying
Tool-10,000 Days
Tool-Ænima
Tool-Lateralus
Tool-Salival
Tool-Undertow
Various Artists-Soundtracks-Film Soundtracks 1990-94-The Crow
Voivod-Angel Rat
Waltari-Big Bang
Warrior Soul-Last Decade Dead Century
Bands You Should Know
(hed) Planet Earth - 10 Years - 32 Leaves - 7000$ - Aaron Lewis - Acroma - Adema - Alien Ant Farm - All Ends - Alter Bridge - Amatory - Amen - Apocalyptica - Art of Dying - ASG - Atomship - Audrey Horne - Bang Camaro - Blindspott - Blowsight - Body Count - Breaking Benjamin - Burn Season - Cinder - CKY - Coldseed - Dark New Day - David Draiman - Dead by April - DEATH NOTE - Depresszió - Digital Summer - Disturbed - Dog Fashion Disco - Drist - Earshot - earthtone9 - Edgewater - Egypt Central - Emigrate - Emil Bulls - Endo - Estirpe - Exilia - Fair to Midland - Faith No More - Faktion - Fantômas - Farmer Boys - Finger Eleven - Fireflight - Five.Bolt.Main - Flaw - Flyleaf - FM2000 - Fourth Dimension - From Zero - Ghost Machine - girugämesh - Godhead - Gordon - Gravity Kills - H.I.M. - Head - Head Control System - HeavensDust - Hotwire - Human Waste Project - Hypnogaja - Index Case - Infectious Grooves - JANE’S ADDICTION - JLS - Jonathan Davis - Jucifer - Karnivool - Khoma - Kittie - Kotiteollisuus - Life of Agony - Lo-Pro - Lucid - Machina - Made Out of Babies - Mammal - Marilyn Manson - Maximum The Harmone - Memento - Moray Eel - Mudvayne - Mutha’s Day Out - naio ssaion - Nega - Nothingface - One Less Reason - One Minute Silence - Opiate for the Masses - Paranoid - Passenger - Pillar - Presence - Pulse Ultra - Puya - Quicksand - Ra - Rage Against the Machine - Red - Resorte - Rev Theory - Revelation Theory - Road - Saliva - Samarah - Sara - Scars of Life - Scars on Broadway - Seven Wiser - Sevendust - Seventh Day Slumber - Shinedown - Sick Puppies - Signs of Betrayal - Sinch - Sixx:A.M. - Skillet - Skindred - SKIZOO - Skrape - Skunk D.F. - Smile Empty Soul - Snot - Sôber - Stereomud - Stone Sour - Strata - Stuck Mojo - Suburban Tribe - Sunset - System of a Down - Taproot - teNPel - The Blank Theory - The God Machine - Therapy? - This Is Menace - Thornley - Three Days Grace - Tomahawk - Tool - Tracktor Bowling - Trapt - Tripod - TRUSTcompany - Tub Ring - Ultraspank - Unjust - Vert -
Heavy metal is not an essential component of the music, but it was very different from the thrash underground of the 1980s. Initially alternative metal appealed mainly to alternative rock fans since virtually all 80s alt-metal bands had their roots in the American Rock underground scene.
Alt-metal bands commonly emerged from hardcore punk (Corrosion of Conformity), post-punk/noise rock such as Big Black[/artists], Fugazi and Sonic Youth along with others such as Helmet and White Zombie, grunge (Alice in Chains, Soundgarden), industrial (Ministry, Vardis, Nine Inch Nails). These bands never formed a distinct movement or scene; rather they were bound by their incorporation of traditional metal influences and openness to experimenting with the form, usually by way of their eclectic influences and uncommon approaches.
For example, Jane's Addiction utilized performance art and a bohemian aesthetic, Corrosion of Conformity, The Melvins and the now defunct grunge band Soundgarden had a fondness for subverting '70s metal, and Faith No More, along with Living Colour, injected funk and hip hop into their brand of alternative metal,[2] while Primus incorporates an obscure Residents-esque touch in their form of the genre.
Must Have Albums
Alice Donut-The Untidy Suicides of Your Degenerate Children
Alice in Chains-Alice in Chains
Alice in Chains-Dirt
Alice in Chains-Facelift
Atomship-The Crash Of '47
Bad Brains-I Against I
Bad Brains-Quickness
Biohazard-Urban Discipline
Breaking Benjamin-Phobia
Breaking Benjamin-Saturate
Buckethead-Decoding The Tomb Of Bansheebot
Candlebox-Candlebox
CKY-Infiltrate, Destroy, Rebuild
Deftones-Adrenaline
Deftones-Around the Fur
Deftones-Saturday Night Wrist
Deftones-White Pony
Dir en grey-UROBOROS
Disturbed-Ten Thousand Fists
Dog Fashion Disco-Adultery
Dog Fashion Disco-Committed to a Bright Future
Earthtone 9-arc'tan'gent
Exotic Animal Petting Zoo-I Have Made My Bed In Darkness
Fair to Midland-Fables From a Mayfly: What I Tell You Three Times is True
Faith No More-Album of the Year
Faith No More-Angel Dust
Faith No More-King for a day-fool for a lifetime
Faith No More-The Real Thing
Fantômas-The Director's Cut
Fishbone-The Reality of My Surroundings
Fishbone-Truth And Soul
Fudge Tunnel-Hate Songs in E Minor
Galactic Cowboys-Space In Your Face
Handsome-Handsome
Head Control System-Murder Nature
Helmet-Aftertaste
Helmet-Betty
Helmet-Meantime
Helmet-Strap It On
Jane's Addiction-Nothing's Shocking
Jane's Addiction-Ritual de lo Habitual
Jerry Cantrell-Degradation Trip
Jucifer-L'Autrichienne
Karnivool-Themata
Katatonia-The Great Cold Distance
Korn-Korn
Last Crack-Burning Time
Life of Agony-River Runs Red
Living Colour-Time's Up
Living Colour-Vivid
Made Out of Babies-The Ruiner
Made Out of Babies-Trophy
Maj Karma-Ukkonen
Marilyn Manson-Antichrist Superstar
Mattias Eklundh-The Road Less Traveled
Maximum the Hormone-BuiikiKaesu
Melvins-Stoner Witch
Monster Magnet-Dopes to Infinity
Mr. Bungle-Mr. Bungle
Mudvayne-LD.50
Nothingface-An Audio Guide to Everyday Atrocity
Nothingface-Skeletons
Nothingface-Violence
Phlebotomized-Skycontact
Primus-Brown Album
Primus-Frizzle Fry
Primus-Pork Soda
Primus-Sailing the Seas of Cheese
Primus-Tales From the Punchbowl
Project 86-...And the Rest Will Follow
Project 86-Drawing Black Lines
Project 86-Songs to Burn Your Bridges By
Project 86-Truthless Heroes
Prong-Beg To Differ
Rage Against the Machine-Evil Empire
Rage Against the Machine-Rage Against the Machine
Rage Against the Machine-Renegades
Rage Against the Machine-The Battle of Los Angeles
Red-End of Silence
Rollins Band-Weight
Sepultura-Roots
Sevendust-Animosity
Snot-Get Some
Soundgarden-Badmotorfinger
Stone Sour-Come What(ever) May
Suicidal Tendencies-The Art Of Rebellion
System of a Down-Hypnotize
System of a Down-Mezmerize
System of a Down-System of a Down
System of a Down-Toxicity
The God Machine-One Last Laugh In A Place Of Dying
Tool-10,000 Days
Tool-Ænima
Tool-Lateralus
Tool-Salival
Tool-Undertow
Various Artists-Soundtracks-Film Soundtracks 1990-94-The Crow
Voivod-Angel Rat
Waltari-Big Bang
Warrior Soul-Last Decade Dead Century
Bands You Should Know
(hed) Planet Earth - 10 Years - 32 Leaves - 7000$ - Aaron Lewis - Acroma - Adema - Alien Ant Farm - All Ends - Alter Bridge - Amatory - Amen - Apocalyptica - Art of Dying - ASG - Atomship - Audrey Horne - Bang Camaro - Blindspott - Blowsight - Body Count - Breaking Benjamin - Burn Season - Cinder - CKY - Coldseed - Dark New Day - David Draiman - Dead by April - DEATH NOTE - Depresszió - Digital Summer - Disturbed - Dog Fashion Disco - Drist - Earshot - earthtone9 - Edgewater - Egypt Central - Emigrate - Emil Bulls - Endo - Estirpe - Exilia - Fair to Midland - Faith No More - Faktion - Fantômas - Farmer Boys - Finger Eleven - Fireflight - Five.Bolt.Main - Flaw - Flyleaf - FM2000 - Fourth Dimension - From Zero - Ghost Machine - girugämesh - Godhead - Gordon - Gravity Kills - H.I.M. - Head - Head Control System - HeavensDust - Hotwire - Human Waste Project - Hypnogaja - Index Case - Infectious Grooves - JANE’S ADDICTION - JLS - Jonathan Davis - Jucifer - Karnivool - Khoma - Kittie - Kotiteollisuus - Life of Agony - Lo-Pro - Lucid - Machina - Made Out of Babies - Mammal - Marilyn Manson - Maximum The Harmone - Memento - Moray Eel - Mudvayne - Mutha’s Day Out - naio ssaion - Nega - Nothingface - One Less Reason - One Minute Silence - Opiate for the Masses - Paranoid - Passenger - Pillar - Presence - Pulse Ultra - Puya - Quicksand - Ra - Rage Against the Machine - Red - Resorte - Rev Theory - Revelation Theory - Road - Saliva - Samarah - Sara - Scars of Life - Scars on Broadway - Seven Wiser - Sevendust - Seventh Day Slumber - Shinedown - Sick Puppies - Signs of Betrayal - Sinch - Sixx:A.M. - Skillet - Skindred - SKIZOO - Skrape - Skunk D.F. - Smile Empty Soul - Snot - Sôber - Stereomud - Stone Sour - Strata - Stuck Mojo - Suburban Tribe - Sunset - System of a Down - Taproot - teNPel - The Blank Theory - The God Machine - Therapy? - This Is Menace - Thornley - Three Days Grace - Tomahawk - Tool - Tracktor Bowling - Trapt - Tripod - TRUSTcompany - Tub Ring - Ultraspank - Unjust - Vert -
