Thirty years after release, The Downward Spiral remains one of the 90s most enduring creative statements and thematic concept albums

Artistic highs and personal lows define Depeche Mode in the 90s, who balanced commercial success without sacrificing their mystique

With 1991's breakthrough Badmotorfinger, Soundgarden made heady metal for the alternative rock crowd without sacrificing volume or riffage

Always out of step with the 90s alternative rock explosion, The Black Crowes released their most confident album with 1994's Amorica

Before they became one of defining alternative bands of the 1990s, Soundgarden started in the 1980s fusing Sabbath riffs and punk chaos

What is Tokyo Anal Dynamite by The Gerogerigegege? Our ears are still ringing, trying to figure it out. Punk? Noise? Nothing? Everything?

For our 500th episode of the podcast, we've convened our biggest roundtable ever to discuss Nirvana's legendary 1991 album Nevermind

How do you follow-up one of the most iconic and successful albums of all time? If you're Nirvana, you enlist Steve Albini and make In Utero

Our guest brings unique personal insight to the band that carried the progressive rock baton into the 90s to help define alternative metal

On their fifth album This Is My Truth Tell Me Yours, the Manic Street Preachers process death and depression with radio friendly sheen

We're talking the evolution of Metal in the 1990s, from Metallica to Helmet, Ozzy to Tool, and Kyuss to Pantera

Pioneers of the Britpop sound, we revisit the 1994 sophomore album Dog Man Star by The London Suede

Van Halen started the 90s as one of the most popular rock acts in the world, but ended it unclear if the band still existed

Travel back over twenty years in their catalog and tackle the most challenging album of their career.

Tackle the sounds, politics and narcotic indulgences of Al Jourgenson and crew on their 1992 album Psalm 69