Rockpedia

What happened

• — Death metal's first wave records in Tampa and Stockholm Small budgets, local studios, and two production sounds that define a genre for a decade.

Genres held to have emerged

• Old school death metal metal
• Shoegaze rock
• Sludge metal metal

A genre's date is an approximation historians argue about, unlike the events above it — the same distinction the timeline draws.

Bands formed

• Archgoat
• Body Count
• Cap'n Jazz
• Dark Tranquillity
• Entombed
• Gamma Ray
• Gorefest
• Green Day
• Helmet
• Incantation
• Last Days of Humanity
• Monster Magnet
• Nekromantix
• Oomph!
• Pavement
• Slowdive
• Suede
• Type O Negative

Bands that ended

• Cacophony
• Operation Ivy