Top 10 for 1992

TheBigBlack's Rock Top 10

Roger Waters
Amused To Death

Rock | Album | 7 September 1992

Rage Against The Machine
Rage Against The Machine

Alternative Rock | Album | 6 November 1992

Mike Oldfield
Tubular Bells II

Progressive Rock | Album | 31 August 1992

Izzy Stradlin And The Ju Ju Hounds
Izzy Stradlin And The Ju Ju Hounds

Hard Rock | Album | 13 October 1992

'Izzy Stradlin And The Ju Ju Hounds' is the debut solo album by Izzy Stradlin, released after his departure from Guns n' Roses. It is his only album under the Ju Ju Hounds moniker.

Ministry
Psalm 69 (The Way To Succeed & The Way To Suck Eggs)

Metal (Industrial) | Album | 14 July 1992

'Psalm 69 (The Way To Succeed And The Way To Suck Eggs)' is the fifth studio album by Ministry. It was produced by frontman Al Jourgensen and bassist Paul Barker, and was recorded from March 1991 to May 1992 in Chicago, Illinois and Lake Geneva, Wisconsin. The album's title, initially intended to be The Tapes Of Wrath, ended up being derived from Aleister Crowley's The Book Of Lies. 'Psalm 69' features elements of speed metal, rockabilly, and psychobilly, with lyrics exploring social, political, and religious topics.

R.E.M.
Automatic For The People

Alternative Rock | Album | 7 October 1992

Screaming Trees
Sweet Oblivion

Grunge Rock | Album | 8 September 1992

'Sweet Oblivion' is the sixth studio album by Screaming Trees. It quickly became the band's best-selling record, and was the closest they ever came to achieving mainstream success, selling in excess of 300,000 copies. Around the time of the recording of the album, the band's original drummer Mark Pickerel left to pursue other musical interests, and was replaced with Barrett Martin.

Faith No More
Angel Dust

Alternative Rock | Album | 8 July 1992

Stone Temple Pilots
Core

Alternative Rock | Album | 29 September 1992

Alice In Chains
Dirt

Grunge Rock | Album | 29 September 1992

'Dirt' is the second studio album by Alice in Chains. Peaking at No. 6 on the Billboard 200 chart, the album received critical acclaim. It has since been certified quintuple platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA), making it the band's highest selling album to date. It was the band's last album recorded with all four original members, as bassist Mike Starr was fired in January 1993 during the tour to support the album.

TheBigBlack's Rock Honourable Mentions

Alice In Chains
Sap

Grunge Rock | E.P. | 4 February 1992

'Sap' is the second studio E.P. by Alice In Chains. It is mostly acoustic and marks the first time that guitarist Jerry Cantrell sings lead vocals in an Alice In Chains release. The E.P. was produced by Alice In Chains and Rick Parashar and features guest vocals by Ann Wilson of the band Heart, Chris Cornell of Soundgarden and Mark Arm of Mudhoney. On January 14, 1994, it was certified gold by the RIAA for the sale of more than 500,000 copies.

Nirvana
Incesticide

Grunge Rock | Compilation Album | 15 December 1992

'Incesticide' is a compilation album by Nirvana. It consists of non-album singles, b-sides, demos, outtakes, cover versions, and radio broadcast recordings. It eventually reached number 39 on the Billboard 200.

Various Artists
Singles (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)

-Various- | Album | 30 June 1992

Tool
Opiate

Alternative Rock | E.P. | 10 March 1992

TheBigBlack's Metal Top 10

Immortal
Diabolical Fullmoon Mysticism

Black Metal | Album | 1 July 1992

Danzig
Danzig III, How The Gods Kill

Metal | Album | 14 July 1992

Pantera
Vulgar Display Of Power

Groove Metal | Album | 25 February 1992

Megadeth
Countdown To Extinction

Thrash Metal | Album | 14 July 1992

Darkthrone
A Blaze In The Northern Sky

Black Metal | Album | 26 February 1992

Burzum
Burzum [Darkness]

Black Metal | Album | ?? March 1992

Appreciation of art is a very personal thing, and by extension what is even considered art at all will vary between individuals. Music of course is a form of art, and a lot of art is extreme because it is often created not to purge emotion - but to incite it. The second wave of black metal introduced a new abrasive style of metal, that even today is a difficult listen for the uninitiated, and the first Burzum album led the charge of this new metal style. The music isn't an easy pill to swallow, and in 1992 even seasoned metalheads used to listening to Exodus and Slayer may have found the vocals and lo-fi production of this one-man-band to border on the side of too extreme. The riffs are deliberately cyclic and repetitive, taking an almost hypnotic form, and along with the grating treble-heavy production the album grinds on the nerves as each note is played. The tortured vocals are still to this day like no other human voice ever recorded, as they leap from the songs more as wrath-like banshee cries than vocals. All of this comes together to bring a coldness and agony to metal that had never been heard before, and decades later is still relatively unmatched.