Top Ten Lists - 1995

BNR

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1. Kong Push Comes To Shove
2. Grip Inc. Power Of Inner Strength
3. The Gathering Mandylion
4. Coroner Coroner
5. Kyuss And The Circus Leaves Town
6. Zeni Geva Freedom Bondage
7. Moonspell Wolfheart
8. Geezer Plastic Planet
9. MonumentuM In Absentia Christi
10. Therion Lepaca Kliffoth

1. Fear Factory Demanufacture
2. Death Symbolic
3. Moonspell Wolfheart
4. Anthrax Stomp 442
5. Blind Guardian Imaginations From The Other Side
6. Savatage Dead Winter Dead
7. Dream Theater A Change Of Seasons
8. Iced Earth Burnt Offerings
9. Paradise Lost Draconian Times
10. Gamma Ray Land Of The Free

My favorite band of the 90's, and a band that apparently no one has ever heard of, finally get a Best-Of-Year vote. Two excellent bands, Coroner and Kyuss, close their careers on high notes.

Diversity in metal is now more apparent, as prog metal, traditional metal, and near-death metal are all well represented.