My favourite albums from 1993

1. 30

   Elements

   Atheist

   

   

   Progressive metal | Technical death metal | Jazz fusion

   Tracks:

   1. Green
   2. Water
   3. Samba Briza
   4. Air
   5. Displacement
   6. Animal
   7. Mineral
   8. Fire
   9. Fractal Point
   10. Earth
   11. See You Again
   12. Elements ●

2. 29

   Introspection

   Greg Howe

   

   

   Jazz fusion | Progressive rock

   Tracks:

   1. Jump Start
   2. Button up ●
   3. Come and Get It
   4. In Step
   5. Desiderata
   6. No Place Like Home
   7. Direct Injection
   8. Pay as You Go

3. 28

   Pork Soda

   Primus

   

   

   Funk metal | Avant-garde metal

   Tracks:

   1. Pork Chop's Little Ditty
   2. My Name Is Mud ●
   3. Welcome to This World
   4. Bob
   5. DMV
   6. The Ol' Diamondback Sturgeon (Fisherman's Chronicles, Part 3)
   7. Nature Boy
   8. Wounded Knee
   9. Pork Soda
   10. The PRessman
   11. Mr. Krinkle
   12. The Air Is Getting Slippery
   13. Hamburger Train
   14. Pork Chop's Little Ditty
   15. Hail Santa

4. 27

   Fuzzy

   Grant Lee Buffalo

   

   

   Alternative country | Gothic americana

   Tracks:

   1. The Shining Hour
   2. Jupiter and Teardrop
   3. Fuzzy ●
   4. Wish You Well
   5. The Hook
   6. Soft Wolf Tread
   7. Stars 'n' Stripes
   8. Dizie Drug Store
   9. America Snoring
   10. Grace
   11. You Just Have to Be Crazy

5. 26

   River Runs Red

   Life of Agony

   

   

   Alternative metal | Hardcore punk

   Tracks:

   1. This Time
   2. Underground
   3. Monday
   4. River Runs Red
   5. Through and Through ●
   6. Words and Music
   7. Thursday
   8. Bad Seed
   9. My Eyes
   10. Respect
   11. Method of Groove
   12. The Stain Remains
   13. Friday

6. 25

   Earth 2

   Earth

   

   

   Drone

   Tracks:

   1. Seven Angels ●
   2. Teeth of Lions Rule the Divine
   3. Like Gold and Faceted

7. 24

   The Ethereal Mirror

   Cathedral

   

   

   Doom metal | Stoner metal

   Tracks:

   1. Violet Vortex
   2. Ride ●
   3. Enter the Worms
   4. Midnight Mountain
   5. Fountain of Innocence
   6. Grim Luxuria
   7. Jaded Entity
   8. Ashes You Leave
   9. Phantasmagoria
   10. Imprisoned in Flesh

8. 23

   Grin

   Coroner

   

   

   Progressive metal | Avant-garde metal

   Tracks:

   1. Dream Path
   2. The Lethargic Age
   3. Internal Conflicts
   4. Caveat (to the Coming)
   5. Serpent Moves ●
   6. Status: Still Thinking
   7. Theme for Silence
   8. Paralyzed, Mesmerized
   9. Grin (Nails Hurt)
   10. Host

9. 22

   Houdini

   Melvins

   

   

   Sludge metal

   Tracks:

   1. Hooch
   2. Night Goat
   3. Lizzy ●
   4. Goin' Blind
   5. Honey Bucket
   6. Hag Me
   7. Set Me Straight
   8. Sky Pop
   9. Joan of Arc
   10. Teet
   11. Copache
   12. Pearl Bomb
   13. Spread Eagle Beagle

10. 21

    Enemy of the Sun

    Neurosis

    

    

    Sludge metal | Post-metal

    Tracks:

    1. Lost
    2. Raze the Stray ●
    3. Burning Flesh in Year of Pig
    4. Cold Ascending
    5. Lexicon
    6. Enemy of the Sun
    7. The Time of the Beasts
    8. Cleanse

11. 20

    Songs of Faith and Devotion

    Depeche Mode

    

    

    Alternative rock | Synth pop

    Tracks:

    1. I Feel You ●
    2. Walking in My Shoes
    3. Condemnation
    4. Mercy in You
    5. Judas
    6. In Your Room
    7. Get Right with Me
    8. Rush
    9. One Caress
    10. Higher Love

12. 19

    Covenant

    Morbid Angel

    

    

    Death metal

    Tracks:

    1. Rapture
    2. Pain Divine
    3. World of Shit (The Promised Land)
    4. Vengeance Is Mine
    5. Lions Den
    6. Blood on My Hands
    7. Angel of Disease ●
    8. Sworn to the Black
    9. Nar Mattaru
    10. God of Emptiness

13. 18

    August and Everything After

    Counting Crows

    

    

    Alternative rock

    Tracks:

    1. Round Here
    2. Omaha
    3. Mr. Jones
    4. Perfect Blue Buildings
    5. Anna Begins ●
    6. Time and Time Again
    7. Rain King
    8. Sullivan Street
    9. Ghost Train
    10. Raining in Baltimore
    11. A Murder of One

14. 17

    Focus

    Cynic

    

    

    Progressive metal | Technical death metal

    Tracks:

    1. Veil of Maya ●
    2. Celestial Voyage
    3. The Eagle Nature
    4. Sentiment
    5. I'm but a Wave to ...
    6. Uroboric Forms
    7. Textures
    8. How Could I

15. 16

    Individual Thought Patterns

    Death

    

    

    Technical death metal | Progressive death metal

    Tracks:

    1. Overactive Imagination
    2. In Human Form
    3. Jealousy
    4. Trapped in a Corner
    5. Nothing Is Everything
    6. Mentally Blind
    7. Individual Thought Patterns
    8. Destiny
    9. Out of Touch
    10. The Philosopher ●

16. 15

    The Battle Rages on ...

    Deep Purple

    

    

    Hard rock

    Tracks:

    1. The Battle Rages on
    2. Lick It up
    3. Anya
    4. Talk About Love
    5. Time to Kill
    6. Ramshackle Man
    7. A Twist in the Tale
    8. Nasty Piece of Work ●
    9. Solitaire
    10. One Man's Meat

17. 14

    Transnational Speedway League: Anthems, Anecdotes and Undeniable Truths

    Clutch

    

    

    Stoner rock | Post-hardcore

    Tracks:

    1. A Shotgun Named Marcus
    2. El Jefe Speaks
    3. Binge and Purge ●
    4. 12 Ounce Epilogue
    5. Bacchanal
    6. Milk of Human Kindness
    7. Rats
    8. Earthworm
    9. Heirloom 13
    10. Walking in the Great Shining Path of Monster Trucks
    11. Effigy

18. 13

    Edge of Thorns

    Savatage

    

    

    Heavy metal

    Tracks:

    1. Edge of Thorns ●
    2. He Carves His Stone
    3. Lights out
    4. Skraggy's Tomb
    5. Labyrinths
    6. Follow Me
    7. Exit Music
    8. Degrees of Sanity
    9. All That I Bleed
    10. Damien
    11. Miles Away
    12. Sleep

19. 12

    Everybody Else Is Doing It, So Why Can't We?

    The Cranberries

    

    

    Alternative rock | Jangle pop

    Tracks:

    1. I Still Do
    2. Dreams
    3. Sunday ●
    4. Pretty
    5. Waltzing Back
    6. Not Sorry
    7. Linger
    8. Wanted
    9. Still Can't ...
    10. I Will Always
    11. How
    12. Put Me Down

20. 11

    Rid of Me

    PJ Harvey

    

    

    Alternative rock | Punk blues

    Tracks:

    1. Rid of Me
    2. Missed
    3. Legs
    4. Rub 'till It Bleeds
    5. Hook
    6. Man-Sized Sextet
    7. Highway 61 Revisited
    8. 50ft Queenie ●
    9. Yuri-G
    10. Man-Size
    11. Dry
    12. Me-Jane
    13. Snake
    14. Ecstasy

21. 10

    Heartwork

    Carcass

    

    

    Melodic death metal

    Tracks:

    1. Buried Dreams
    2. Carnal Forge ●
    3. No Love Lost
    4. Heartwork
    5. Embodiment
    6. This Mortal Coil
    7. Arbeit Macht Fleisch
    8. Blind Bleeding the Blind
    9. Doctrinal Expletives
    10. Death Certificate

22. 9

    Debut

    Björk

    

    

    Art pop | electropop

    Tracks:

    1. Human Behaviour ●
    2. Crying
    3. Venus as a Boy
    4. There's More to Life Than This
    5. Like Someone in Love
    6. Big Time Sensuality
    7. One Day
    8. Aeroplane
    9. Come to Me
    10. Violently Happy
    11. The Anchor Song

23. 8

    Recipe for Hate

    Bad Religion

    

    

    Punk rock

    Tracks:

    1. Recipe for Hate
    2. Keroesene
    3. American Jesus
    4. Portrait of Authority
    5. Man with a Mission
    6. All Good Soldiers
    7. Watch It Die
    8. Struck a Nerve ●
    9. My Poor Friend Me
    10. Lookin' in
    11. Don't Pray on Me
    12. Modern Day Catastrophists
    13. Skyscraper

24. 7

    Undertow

    Tool

    

    

    Alternative metal | progressive metal

    Tracks:

    1. Intolerance
    2. Prison Sex ●
    3. Sober
    4. Bottom
    5. Crawl Away
    6. Swamp Song
    7. Undertow
    8. 4°
    9. Flood
    10. Disgustipated

25. 6

    Icon

    Paradise Lost

    

    

    Gothic metal | Gothic rock

    Tracks:

    1. Embers Fire ●
    2. Rememberance
    3. Forging Sympathy
    4. Joys of the Emptiness
    5. Dying Freedom
    6. Widow
    7. Colossal Rains
    8. Weeping Words
    9. Poison
    10. True Belief
    11. Shallow Seasons
    12. Christendom
    13. Deus Miseratur

26. 5

    Siamese Dream

    The Smashing Pumpkins

    

    

    Alternative rock | alternative metal

    Tracks:

    1. Cherub Rock
    2. Quiet
    3. Today
    4. Hummer
    5. Rocket
    6. Disarm ●
    7. Soma
    8. Geek U.S.A.
    9. Mayonaise
    10. Spaceboy
    11. Silverfuck
    12. Sweet Sweet
    13. Luna

27. 4

    In Utero

    Nirvana

    

    

    Alternative rock | noise rock

    Tracks:

    1. Serve the Servants
    2. Scentless Apprentice
    3. Heart-Shaped Box ●
    4. Rape Me
    5. Frances Farmer Will Have Her Revenge on Seattle
    6. Dumb
    7. Very Ape
    8. Milk It
    9. Pennyroyal Tea
    10. Radio Friendly Unit Shifter
    11. Tourette's
    12. All Apologies

28. 3

    Dance of December Souls

    Katatonia

    

    

    Death-doom | black metal

    Tracks:

    1. Seven Dreaming Souls
    2. Gateways of Bereavement
    3. In Silence Enshrined ●
    4. Without god
    5. Elohim Meth
    6. Velvet Thorns (of Drynwhyl)
    7. Tomb of Insomnia
    8. Dancing December

29. 2

    Chaos A.D.

    Sepultura

    

    

    Groove metal | thrash metal

    Tracks:

    1. Refuse/Resist
    2. Territory ●
    3. Slave New World
    4. Amen
    5. Kaiowas
    6. Propaganda
    7. Biotech Is Godzilla
    8. Nomad
    9. We Who Are Not as Others
    10. Manifest
    11. The Hunt
    12. Clenched Fist

30. 1

    Vs.

    Pearl Jam

    

    

    Alternative rock | hard rock

    Tracks:

    1. Go
    2. Animal
    3. Daughter
    4. Glorified G
    5. Dissident
    6. W.M.A.
    7. Blood
    8. Rearviewmirror ●
    9. Rats
    10. Elderly Woman Behind the Counter in a Small Town
    11. Leash
    12. Indifference