The Metal Project: The Nineties. (Part one)

 The Metal Project is my attempt to find every metal song on Youtube that has "Metal" in the title and gather them all in one place. 

 Some people would have you believe that as soon as "Nevermind" was released everybody threw away their "Skid Row" T-shirts and donned a checked shirt. The truth is somewhat more complex than that but even so, what with Grunge, Rap and Dance music ruling the airwaves, Metal found itself pushed back into the shadows and morphing into something darker and angrier.
  Death Metal replaced Thrash as the music of choice for angry teenagers, facepainted Norwegians began setting churches alight and Saxon packed up and moved over to Germany until it was cool to like them again.
  By the middle of the decade  a new generation of "Metal" bands started cropping up in Kerrang but Nu-Metal, with it's chuggy riffs, allergy to solos and occasional outbreaks of rapping, really has no place here.
 All of which goes some way towards explaining why I've had to put the year-by-year posts on hold for a moment. In the meantime here's a slack handful of songs that prove Metal was alive and well in the dark days of the 90s.
 

Riot- Metal Soldiers (USA 1990)

Honour to: Warravens

Evenstorm - Heavy Metal Fever (Germany 1991)

(Very NWOBHM sounding)

Honour to: metallife78

First Aid - Heavy Metal Men (Russia 1992)

(If you know the 80s German outfit Bullet, this sounds a bit like them)

Honour to: SlauterXstroyes

Heaven's Gate - Metal Hymn (Germany 1992)

(Old-school chantalong stomp)

Honour to: Steel LordGreece

Savino - Metal Messiah (USA 1993)

(Christian Rock, but not bad at all)

Honour to: fretboardfiend

Darkthrone - Unholy Black Metal (Norway 1993)

Honour to: 666evilmetalhead666

And to finish, a piece of prime Aussie nastiness.

Destroyer 666 - Death Metal Winds (Howl Again) -(Australia 1995)

Honour to: drummer1735

Now compare that to the first song on this post. Bit of a contrast huh? 

That's it for now folks.
Next time we look at the second half of the Metal Dark Ages.