Metallica was easily the best, most influential heavy metal band of the '80s, responsible for bringing the music back to Earth. Instead of playing the usual rock star games of metal stars of the early '80s, the band looked and talked like they were from the street. Metallica expanded the limits of th

Absurd, Agitated, Angry, Baroque, Bombast, Dark, Dramatic, Grand, In-your-face, Masculine, Metal, Monumental, Power, Primal, Repetitive, Rhythmic, Rough, Severe

A generation mourned the death of Kurt Cobain in 1994, but the mania surrounding his suicide threatened to eclipse the truncated but notable career of his band, Nirvana. Raw, angry, and phenomenally loud, Nirvana was formed in 1987 by guitarist/vocalist Cobain and bassist Krist Novoselic, two disillu

Angry, Dark, Grunge, Pathos, Profane, Rebel