In the late 80's to the early 90's, the mainstream music scene was experiencing a change from the cheesy, glam rock bands who had technical skill but wrote horrible love songs to the angst-ridden, alternative rock bands that could barely hold a power chord with any intonation but managed to express their inner pain with such verbosity. Many music historians would have you believe that metal had died because plenty of popular music aficionados in important positions have re-written history with their ravings about the post-rock grunge scene. The supposed new, unheard of rawness from bands like Nirvana and the likes, but I beg to differ...
During this decadent era, I was a teenager with the Metal Underworld at my fingertips. In fact, between the years 1990 & 1992, it was an explosive time for that Metal Underworld. With bands like Napalm Death releasing their truly innovative and brutal Thrash album Harmony Corruption(which they later capitalized on with the new category Grindcore) and the Speed Metal/Jazz Fusion Masterpiece Unquestionable Presence from Atheist along with Death, Pestilence, etc.. . Also, let's not forget the absolutely mind-blowing release from Dream Theater, Images & Words, I would have to say that the only thing that died was the overwhelming income of superfluous cash straight to the fat execs pocket.
So, have I given you a mental picture of this great period in my life? Probably not, but who gives a sh!t...Right? I'm telling you, all of that doesn't mean squat because even though those bands that were forging ahead with what would later be considered by most metal fans to be the true groundbreaking material of it's time, there is still one band that gets overlooked. One band that had one "Major" release. That band is Ironchrist! The CD was Getting the most out of your extinction.
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