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Mother's Milk is the fourth studio album by American alternative rock band Red Hot Chili Peppers, released on August 29, 1989 on EMI. After the death of guitarist Hillel Slovak and subseq...

Dr. Feelgood is the fifth album by the American hard rock band Mötley Crüe, released on September 1, 1989. Canadian producer Bob Rock provided the record with a lush, vibrant sound, ap...

Secrets in a Weird World is the fourth full-length album by the German heavy metal band Rage. It was released in 1989. The album was remastered by Noise/Sanctuary in 2002 with slightly al...

Pump is the tenth studio album by American hard rock band Aerosmith, released in 1989. The album was remastered and reissued in 2001. Pump was widely acclaimed by both fans and critics up...

Prime Evil is the sixth studio album by heavy metal band Venom. It is also the first in a series of three albums with former Atomkraft bassist and vocalist Tony Dolan as a band member and...

The Years of Decay is the fourth studio album by thrash metal band Overkill. It was released in 1989 on the Megaforce label, with distribution handled by Atlantic Records. The album featu...

Nothingface is the fifth album by Canadian thrash metal/progressive metal band Voivod. It was released by Mechanic/MCA Records on October 13, 1989. The album marked a change for the band,...

Hot in the Shade is a Kiss album released in 1989. It was certified Gold on December 20, 1989 by the RIAA. It is the first Kiss studio album since 1981's Music From "The Elder" to feature...

Pretty Hate Machine is the debut album by American industrial rock act Nine Inch Nails, released October 20, 1989, on TVT Records. Pretty Hate Machine is compiled of reworked tracks from ...

Follow the Blind is the second full-length album from the German metal band Blind Guardian, released in 1989. The album is more in the vein of speed metal, compared to the style that woul...

Built to Last is the thirteenth and final studio album by the Grateful Dead. It was recorded between February 1 and October 20, 1989 and originally released on October 31, 1989. The al...

Suck on This is a live album by the band Primus, released in 1989. At the time of recording, the featured lineup of bassist/vocalist Les Claypool, guitarist Larry LaLonde and drummer Tim ...

The Mind is a Terrible Thing to Taste is the fourth studio album by industrial metal band Ministry, released in 1989 through Sire/Warner Bros. Records. The music took a more hardcore, agg...

Symphonies of Sickness is the second album by the British extreme metal band Carcass. It was released through Earache Records in December 1989. The band's style progressed since Reek o...

Opeth was originally formed as a death metal band in the autumn of 1990 in Stockholm, Sweden by vocalist David Isberg. Isberg asked former Eruption band member Mikael Åkerfeldt to join th...

Ah Via Musicom is Eric Johnson's third solo album, released in February 1990. Several of the songs on the album are dedicated to fellow guitarists. Johnson revealed in an interview wit...

Frizzle Fry is the first studio album recorded by the band Primus. Suck on This, a live album, preceded its release. Released in 1990 on Caroline Records, it features the band's first ...

Danzig II: Lucifuge is the second album by Danzig. It was released in 1990 on Def American Recordings and was reissued in the USA and UK in 1998 by Def American's successor, American Reco...

Extreme II. Pornograffitti (A Funked Up Fairy Tale) is the second album released by the Boston rock band Extreme. The title is a portmanteau of pornography and graffiti. The album sold...

Eaten Back to Life is the debut album by American death metal band Cannibal Corpse. It was released on 17 August 1990 through Metal Blade Records. The album was banned in Germany (censore...

Detonator is Ratt's fifth studio album, released in August 1990. Though their previous album, Reach for the Sky, went Platinum, it met with much criticism regarding the quality of thei...

Without a Net is a recording of the Grateful Dead performing live in concert. It was released in 1990. The album is dedicated to Clifton Hanger, a name keyboardist Brent Mydland used to s...

Painkiller is a 1990 gold-certified album by British heavy metal band Judas Priest, their 12th studio album. The album was recorded at Miraval Studios, Brignoles, France in early 1990, an...

Harmony Corruption is the third album by Napalm Death. It was released in 1990 on Earache Records. The style of the album was more death metal than grindcore, featuring extremely heavy ri...

Cause of Death is a 1990 album by American death metal band Obituary. Cause of Death is considered a landmark album in the history of death metal. The artwork was done by artist Michael W...

The Razors Edge is an album by AC/DC, released on September 21, 1990. The album was the only studio album to feature drummer Chris Slade, and includes such songs as "Thunderstruck" and "M...

Tales from the Twilight World is the third studio album that was released in 1990 by Blind Guardian. The cover artwork was created by Andreas Marschall, who has drawn the artwork for some...

Slaves and Masters is the thirteenth studio album by Deep Purple, and was released in 1990. This is the band's only album to feature singer Joe Lynn Turner, who joined the previous year (...

Reflections of a Shadow is the fifth full-length album by the German heavy metal band Rage. It was released in 1990. The album was remastered by Noise/Sanctuary in 2002 with slightly alte...

Strap It On is the first album by Helmet. Originally released in 1990 through Amphetamine Reptile Records, it was subsequently rereleased by Interscope in November 1991. Critics consi...

Although Yorke, O'Brien, Selway, and Colin Greenwood had left Abingdon by 1987 to attend university, the band continued to rehearse often on weekends and holidays. In 1991, when all the m...

Rage Against the Machine (often shortened to RATM) is an American metal band from Los Angeles, California, formed in 1991. The band's lineup, unchanged since its formation, consists of vo...

Ugly Bill was the first EP released by the New Jersey punk rock band The Bouncing Souls. It was recorded in 1991 at Ocean Studios. One of the songs, "P.M.R.C.", was re-released on the 200...

Time Does Not Heal is the fourth and final album by Dark Angel, which was released in 1991. When released it had a sticker reading "9 songs, 67 minutes, 246 riffs!".

The Underworld is Evildead's second album. It was released on March 4, 1991 on Steamhammer. The album was the band's last studio album before their thirteen year breakup from 1995 to 2008...

The Human Factor is the fourth album by Metal Church, released in 1991.

Why Do Birds Sing? is the Violent Femmes' fifth studio albums, released on April 30, 1991. It featured the single "American Music," which received modest airplay on modern rock radio, and...

Union is the fourteenth studio album by British progressive rock band Yes, released in 1991. It was intended as a union of Yes (Chris Squire, Trevor Rabin, Alan White, Tony Kaye) and ABWH...

Sailing the Seas of Cheese is the second studio album and major-label debut by Primus, released on May 14, 1991. It spawned three singles: "Jerry Was a Race Car Driver", "Tommy the Cat", ...

Temples of Ice is the seventh studio album by English heavy metal band Venom. It was released on Under One Flag records in 1991, and marketed and distributed by Music For Nations. The ...

Butchered at Birth is the second studio album by American death metal band Cannibal Corpse. It was released in 1991 through Metal Blade Records. The album was banned in Germany, due to...

Hey Stoopid is the 19th studio album by heavy metal singer and shock rock-musician Alice Cooper. It was released on July 2, 1991 with guest appearances from Slash (then still a member of ...

Metallica (also referred to as The Black Album) is the fifth album by the American heavy metal band Metallica, released August 12, 1991 through Elektra Records. The album features songs t...

Horrorscope (original working title - "Bare Bones") is the fifth studio album by American thrash metal band Overkill. Released in 1991 on Atlantic Records, it was their first album to fea...

Ratt & Roll 8191 is a compilation album collecting most of the biggest hits from 1983 to 1991 from the American glam-metal band Ratt. It charted at #57 and remained a consistent seller in...

Blood Sugar Sex Magik is the fifth studio album by American alternative rock band Red Hot Chili Peppers, released on September 24, 1991. Produced by Rick Rubin, it was the band's first re...

"The Fly" is the seventh song on U2's 1991 album, Achtung Baby and was released as the album's first single. Lead singer Bono described the single as "the sound of four men chopping down ...

Necroticism – Descanting the Insalubrious is the third album from the band Carcass, released in 1991 through Earache Records. This album is the first to feature guitarist Michael Amott. I...

Parallels is the sixth album by progressive metal band Fates Warning, released in 1991. It has sold over 150,000 copies due to the success of the singles "Eye to Eye", "Point of View", an...

Angel Rat is the sixth album released by the Canadian thrash metal/progressive metal band Voivod. Produced by Terry Brown of Rush fame, it was released in 1991 by Mechanic/MCA Records and...