10 Greatest Rock Music Gigs Of The 1990s

10. Clash Of The Titans Tour

People tend to forget just how kind the early '90s were for the dawn of thrash metal. Though the days of thrash had started pretty much concurrently with the hair metal scene, records like Megadeth's Countdown to Extinction and Metallica's Black Album helped make the genre the household name it is today. Even when they reached the high point on Clash of the Titans, there was still a bit of change in the air.

As far as metalheads were concerned, you couldn't script a better bill here, given that Anthrax, Slayer, and Megadeth were going to share the stage on the same evening. On the other side of things, the opener was a little upstart looking to make a name for themselves called Alice in Chains, who were just coming off releasing their first record entitled Facelift.

What's even funnier looking back is how poorly Alice were originally received back in the day. Then again, would you want to hear the early sounds of grunge when you came there to see a band like Slayer thrash the place to the ground? Alice got the last laugh in the end though, becoming much bigger than thrash would ever become in some respects. Whereas other festivals at the time were trying to find the next great movement, this is the show where fans had their finger on the pulse of where music was headed.