Katastrophy Wife - Amusia

If you like creative lyrics and screamin' chicks, and if you liked Babes in Toyland or Hole this would be a great "new" album for you to enjoy. Nobody screams as good as Kat Bjelland and some would argue nobody turns a phrase like her either. I love this album and I think you will too. for fans of the aforementioned bands and L7, 7 year bitch, lozen etc....

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Soundgarden - Louder Than Love

This has always been my favorite Soundgarden record. I am a fan of their later work (especially Superunknown and Badmotorfinger), but this record contains a rawness and vitality that their more polished later stuff lacks. Louder Than Love straddles the two major periods in Soundgarden's career: their earlier, less-metal sounding work (e.g. Ultramega OK and Screaming Life/Fop) and their later more-metal sounding work, epitomized by the aforementioned Superunknown and Badmotorfinger. Louder Than Love contains the elements of both of these periods.

it's the band's most unapologetically heavy disc, with Badmotorfinger a close second (I think that the production on Badmotorfinger helps it sound as heavy as it does). The production on this album is a bit murky, but it completely adds to it's charm as far as I'm concerned. When you hear the double guitars come crashing in at the beginning of "Ugly Truth" you know the 80's are pretty much over forever.

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Mad Season - Above

ABOVE aches with the pain of living in a world streaked by deception, betrayal and disgust. Lumbering rhythms occasionally rumble into Sabbathville ("X-Ray Mind" and "Lifeless Dead"). Staley nods through the sinuous confines of "Long Gone Day," coasting on a surreal Brazilian beat prodded along by Martin's vibraphone and Nalgas Sin Carne's sax solo. This hour of emotional bloodletting ends with a convoluted two-part piece: The instrumental "November Hotel" starts with a faraway tribal beat that builds up gradually as McCready's guitar eases in and unleashes a wave of effects-laden riffs that flow into a disembodied declaration of solitude called "All Alone."

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Jesus Lizaer - Liar

Arguably the greatest underground live band of the 1990s, the Jesus Lizard displayed all their virtues in perfect form on LIAR. The album blisters with a musical exactitude that can only come from within in a studio, but the lurching, slightly bluesy underpinnings of the tone make one feel as if they are present for the chaos. The Jesus Lizard had almost no chance of achieving stardom, but the laundry list of soon-to-be stars that borrowed wholesale from their sound (Kurt Cobain unabashedly among them) makes clear the sheer impact that LIAR, specifically, and the Jesus Lizard, in general, had on rock music in the 1990s.

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Screaming Trees - Sweet Oblivion

What can anyone say about this ALBUM???? Definetely one of my all times favorite, the "Sweet Oblivion" by the Screaming Trees is a Mythic composition. Grunge, alternative, progressive, mature, nostalgique, hard and above all... PURE ROCK. For me, this is the best Grunge album ever (with only one competitor the "louder than love" by the soundgarden), and for sure one of the best albums in the history of rock. Enough from me.... Enjoy!!!!!


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Lozen

Lozen are a 2 piece(drum/bass) female band from Tacoma, Wash. They are also signed to Australian Cattle God Records. These girls draw comparison to The Melvins, jesus lizard, Megazilla, Big Business, etc... I cant say enough good things about this band.

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