25 Years of Metal

Albums turning 25 in 2020

1995. JOIN US as we go through a list of albums that are turning 25 in The Year of Our Riff Lord 2020.

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Albums turning 25 in 2020

1995 in heavy metal music Albums & EPs

• 24-7 Spyz – Temporarily Disconnected

• AC/DC – Ballbreaker

• Alice in Chains – Alice in Chains

• Amorphis - Black Winter Day (EP)

• Anathema – The Silent Enigma

• Anathema - Pentecost III

• At the Gates – Slaughter of the Soul

• Ayreon – The Final Experiment

• Bad Brains – God of Love

• Bal-Sagoth – A Black Moon Broods Over Lemuria

• Behemoth – Sventevith (Storming Near the Baltic)

• Benediction - The Dreams You Dread

• Beowülf – 2 Cents

• Bestial Warlust - Blood & Valour

• Black Sabbath – Cross Purposes Live

• Black Sabbath – Forbidden

• Blind Guardian – Imaginations from the Other Side

• Bruce Dickinson – Alive in Studio A (live)

• Cancer - Black Faith

• Carcass – Swansong

• Cathedral – The Carnival Bizarre

• Clawfinger – Use Your Brain

• Comecon - Fable Frolic

• Crematory – Illusions

• Crowbar – Time Heals Nothing

• The Crown - The Burning (as Crown of Thorns)

• Cruachan – Tuatha na Gael

• Damaged - Passive Backseat Demon Engines (EP)

• Dark Tranquillity – The Gallery

• Darkthrone – Panzerfaust

• Dawn - Nær Solen Gar Niþer For Evogher

• Death – Symbolic

• Deceased - The Blueprints for Madness

• Def Leppard – Vault Greatest Hits 1980–1995

• Deftones – Adrenaline

• Deicide – Once Upon the Cross

• Deliverance – Camelot in Smithereens

• Dismember – Massive Killing Capacity

• Dissection – Storm of the Light's Bane

• Dokken – Dysfunctional

• Down – NOLA

• Dream Theater – A Change of Seasons (EP)

• Earth Crisis – Destroy the Machines

• Edguy – Savage Poetry

• Excel – Seeking Refuge

• Extreme – Waiting for the Punchline

• Faith No More – King for a Day... Fool for a Lifetime

• Fear Factory – Demanufacture

• Forced Entry – The Shore (EP)

• Fu Manchu – Daredevil

• Funeral – Tragedies

• Gamma Ray – Land of the Free

• The Gathering – Mandylion

• Ghostorm - Frozen in Fire

• Grip Inc. – The Power of Inner Strength

• Helstar – Multiples of Black

• Iced Earth – Burnt Offerings

• Illdisposed – Submit

• Immortal – Battles in the North

• Incubus – Fungus Amongus

• In Flames – Subterranean (EP)

• Iron Maiden – The X Factor

• Joe Satriani – Joe Satriani

• Kamelot – Eternity

• Kataklysm – Sorcery

• Katatonia - For Funerals to Come... (EP)

• King Diamond – The Spider's Lullabye

• Konkhra – Spit or Swallow

• Krabathor – Lies

• Kreator – Cause for Conflict

• Krisiun – Black Force Domain

• Kyuss – ...And the Circus Leaves Town

• Lacrimosa – Inferno

• Lord Belial – Kiss the Goat

• Malevolent Creation – Eternal

• Marilyn Manson – Smells Like Children (EP)

• Megadeth – Hidden Treasures (EP)

• Meshuggah – Destroy Erase Improve

• Mindrot – Dawning

• Mindrot - Forlorn (EP)

• Monster Magnet – Dopes to Infinity

• Moonspell – Wolfheart

• Morbid Angel – Domination

• Morgana Lefay – Sanctified

• Mortician - House by the Cemetery (EP)

• Mortification - Primitive Rhythm Machine

• Motörhead – Sacrifice

• Mr. Bungle – Disco Volante

• My Dying Bride – The Angel and the Dark River

• Necrophagist – Necrophagist (demo)

• Nembrionic - Psycho One Hundred

• Nevermore – Nevermore

• Night in Gales - Sylphlike (EP)

• Nightfall – Athenian Echoes

• Nothingface – Nothingface

• Novembers Doom - Amid Its Hallowed Mirth

• Oomph! – Defekt

• Opeth – Orchid

• Orphanage – Oblivion

• Ozzy Osbourne – Ozzmosis

• Paradise Lost – Draconian Times

• Powerman 5000 – The Blood-Splat Rating System

• Quiet Riot – Down to the Bone

• Rage – Black in Mind

• Rainbow – Stranger in Us All

• Rammstein – Herzeleid

• Red Hot Chili Peppers – One Hot Minute

• Running Wild – Masquerade

• Saint Vitus – Die Healing

• Samael - Rebellion (EP)

• Savatage – Dead Winter Dead

• Savatage – Japan Live '94 (live)

• Savatage – Ghost in the Ruins – A Tribute to Criss Oliva (live)

• Sentenced – Amok

• Sentenced – Love & Death (EP)

• Septicflesh – Esoptron

• Sinister – Hate

• Six Feet Under – Haunted

• Skepticism – Stormcrowfleet

• Skid Row – Subhuman Race

• Skyclad – The Silent Whales of Lunar Sea

• Sodom – Masquerade in Blood

• Strapping Young Lad – Heavy as a Really Heavy

• Stratovarius – Fourth Dimension

• Stuck Mojo – Snappin' Necks

• Suffocation - Pierced from Within

• Summoning – Lugburz

• Summoning – Minas Morgul

• Symphony X – The Damnation Game

• Tankard – The Tankard

• Theatre of Tragedy – Theatre of Tragedy

• Therapy? – Infernal Love

• Therion - Lepaca Kliffoth

• The 3rd and the Mortal – Nightswan (EP)

• Tony MacAlpine – Evolution

• Trouble – Plastic Green Head

• Unanimated - Ancient God of Evil

• Uncle Slam – When God Dies

• Unleashed – Victory

• Steve Vai – Alien Love Secrets (EP)

• Vader – De Profundis

• Van Halen – Balance

• Vince Neil – Carved in Stone

• Vital Remains – Into Cold Darkness

• Voivod – Negatron

• W.A.S.P. – Still Not Black Enough

• Warrant – Ultraphobic

• White Zombie – Astro-Creep: 2000

• Y&T – Musically Incorrect

• Yngwie Malmsteen – Magnum Opus

ShowNotes: 25 Years of Metal

(00:00): Intro (Fear the lethal lethality of...)/A message from Nigel Nigelson/and a follow up message from Obvious Osbourne

(01:29): OFFICIAL Intro/#angerland/#foghat/#thinlizzy/QUARANTINE EDITION: Back to full power threesome configuration/#safepowerthreesomeisms/Matt has a moment of psychotic clarity/#backhandbackshadowing

(04:41): Strokey? /Albums turning 25 in 2020: released in 1995./Adam's birthday memory

(05:50): 24/7 Spyz (#heavysoulcore)/ACDC: Ballbreaker (?) and something tangentional/Being left alone with alcohol/Adam’s “Motley Crue: The Dirt” mini review

(13:33): Alice in Chains self titled album/Amorphis (#vegetablecore?)/Anathema (from Britain, like Archie)/Anathema: Hindsight

(17:45): At The Gates (Sveden)/Carrion (?): #hashprog/Bad Brains/#ballsaggeth (Bob Saget? NO!)/#oldballs to go with an #oldefaece/ symphonic black metal/ (go to metalnerdery:com/episodes)

(21:41): Behemoth (polish extreme metal)/#stormingnearballsaggeth/Beastial Warlust #itsoundsunsharable

(23:23): Black Sabbath: Cross Purposes (Live) and Forbidden (along with the Ice-T/Body Count connection)/Ice-T with Black Sabbath AND with Slayer: #hailtoIceTtheOG/Blind Guardian and Power (Prog?) Metal/ Lucifer’s Heritage: NOTE: The guitar player’s name has that Motorhead thing over the O

(27:28): The Greeter of Wal-Mart?/Bruce Dickinson/Cancer (British Thrash): Carcass, Cathedral (Carnival Bizarre): Utopian Blaster feat: Tony Iommi/#smartmetalcore/”Necrotism” song titles (break out your medical dictionaries, class)

(33:30): Too dumb to pronounce this: (#folkmetal)/Passive Backseat Demon Engines/Panzerfaust (Classy Yet Evil) /#blackmetalhospice/can’t pronounce the album cover (how do you say that?)

(37:29): Death-Symbolic/Deceased/Def Leppard (what he said…)#itisandtheydo, #hysterical, #noteven/#tickleable

(40:30): Deftones (Adrenaline)/Fear Factory (also a 1995 release)/Deicide (Once Upon The Cross)/Deliverance (Camelot and Smithereens?)/Dismember and Dissection/Dokken (Dysfunctional)

(44:00): Down (NOLA) metalnerdery:com/episodes (Down Nola Dive)/Dream Theater (Change of Seasons): BOLTH albums came out the same day (09/19/1995)/Can you imagine? (NO! shut up!)/#youstillthere? #youremakingmeangrish/Images and Words INCL A Change of Seasons (#dontdenythepowerofdreamtheater)/The Big Medley (which I enjoyed extremely bigly!)

(48:07): Earth Crisis/EdGuy (check out Victory Records)/remember Guy Man Dude?/Extreme: Waiting for The Punchline (Heavy Hidden track)

(51:01): Faith No More: King for a Day, Fool for a Lifetime/wait WHAT!?/The Uniqueness of Faith No More’s catalog/Fear Factory: Demanufacture (GO BUY THIS ALBUM!): it gets the collective Metal Nerdery “Fucking Awesome!” Award!/

(55:02): Forced Entry (EP?): pioneers of the Seattle Thrash Metal scene (HAIL!)/ Fu Manchu (Stoner metal) /#futureMetalNerderyEpisode/Kyuss (tangentional, but relevant): Ghost Storm (Frozen in Fire)

(59:36): Grip Inc:: (The Power of Inner Strength)-Dave Lombardo’s band/Helstar: Multiples of Black (multiples of black…WHAT?)/Iced Earth/Ill Disposed

(1:01:14): Immortal: Drunken Black Metal Insanity/#evilectomy/Incubus (Fungus Amongus)/In Flames (Subterranean)/Iron Maiden: The X Factor

(1:05:01): Joe Satriani (s/t): super bluesy/King Diamond (Spider’s Lullaby)/Konkhra (Spit or Swallow): album cover (did you feel dirty afterwards?)/Konkhra’s First album title: it’s S.A.D: (Sexual Affective Disorder)/#KRABATHOR

(1:09:30): Kreator: Cause for Conflict/Krisiun/Kyuss (A Metal Nerdery Favorite): Circus Leaves town/For fans of Queens of the Stone Age (QOTSA), go pick up Kyuss!!/Lachrymosa (Matt likes this)/Lord Belial: Kiss the (actual) Goat:

(1:13:16): Marilyn Manson: Smells like Children EP/Megadeth: Hidden Treasures EP/Messhugah/Mindrot/Monster Magnet: Dopes to Infinity (modern day Blue Cheer Drug Metal)

(1:16:56): Moonspell Wolf Fart?/Morbid Angel (and alcoholism)/Morgana LaFey (cool name)/Mortician and

Mortification/Motorhead/Mr: Mungle…Bungle (Circus Metal Core)

(1:19:17): My Dying Bride/Nembrionic/Nevermore/Sanc’shree/Nothingface/November’s Doom/Death Doom core/Oomph/OPETH (Orchid)/Orphanage/Ozzy Osbourne (Ozzmosis)/Paradise Lost (Draconian Times): Pause for the Ultimate Virtual Frosting Experience/(can you hear the crickets dying?)

(1:24:50): PM5K-Powerman 5000 (tangentionally related to White Zombie)/Quiet Riot (Down to the

Bone)/Rage/Ritchie Blackmore’s Rainbow (not to be confused with Ritchie Blackmore’s Renaissance

Festival Metal Core/Rammstein and a bunch of German words we can’t pronounce/WHO is bigger?

Rammstein? Or The Hoff? #biggerthanhoff

(1:29:00): Red Hot Chili Peppers: One Hot Minute/Pirate Metal (?) Running Wild/#piratemetal/#argggghhh/St: Vitus (tangentionally related to The Obsessed)

(1:32:08): Savatage aka Savatar/Savatage concert memory/Sentenced/Six Feet Under (w/ Chris Barnes from Cannibal Corpse)/#stupidmetal/Skepticism (Storm, Crow, Fleet?)/Skid Row (Subhuman Race)

(1:37:47): Skyclad/Sodom/Strapping Young Lad (Brutal Brutality)/Metal Nerdery Local Shoutout Alert of Absolute Metal Gloriousness: STUCK MOJO!! (HAIL!!ATLANTA METAL!!!)/Post Mojo show memory

(1:41:48): Suffocation: Pierced from within (!?)/Symphony X (Damnation Game)/#nowhispers/Tankard (alcohol metal core)/Theater of Tragedy

(1:45:06): Therapy? (from ANGERLAND!)/La Paca what?/Nightswan (could be interesting)/Tony MacAlpine/Trouble/Unanimated (Ancient God of Evil) Marginal Evil vs Exceptional Evil/Uncle Slam

(1:49:00): Unleashed (#burpmetalcore)/Steve Vai (Alien Love Secrets)/starting to lag/Vader/Van Halen: Balance/Vince Neil/Virgin Black (Australian Gothic Doom band

(1:55:50): Vital Remains (Death Metal)/Negatron: Voivod/W:A:S:P: (Still Not Black Enough)/Warrant (Ultraphobic): Grungy Warrant/KISS: Carnival of Souls (heavy!)

(2:01:03): White Zombie (Astro Creep 2000): Mixed from the balls!/YandT: (Musically Incorrect): What does YandT mean? (Hint: Matt’s interpretation was wrong!)/Bring on the Opus!!! Yngwie Malmsteen- Magnum Opus (#yngwiemetal)/Matt’s favorite Yngwie memory: #triology/Donuts and problems/#ballsaggeth and #krabathor/The Metal Nerdery Progressive Quarantine Sessions/

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