10 90s Metal Albums That Successfully Transformed Their Band's Sound

5. Death - Human

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7j8vUbMmOwM How do you follow the 90's brilliant Spiritual Healing? You follow it up with with the insanely progressive, extreme classic Human just a year later. At least that's what this influential group did and in the process, cemented their legacy as one of the most uncompromisingly impenetrable in all of metal. From a technical point of view, Human really is among the cream of the crop in progressive metal music. The frantic interlocking riffage combined with some sensational drum pummeling help to take this one into a whole new soundscape altogether, reaching a fever pitch on several of these wicked sound shards that's not easily replicated. This evolution in musical elements highlight a band that never wishes to rest on their laurels, constantly looking for ways to expand their already established, death metal sound. The fantastic harmonized guitar melodies of 'Lack Of Comprehension' are played at finger disintegrating speeds and the buzz-saw guitar fretting on 'See Through Dreams' veers from fast speed tempos to slow moving tempos in the blink of an eye, just two examples amidst a plethora of technical achievements on this killer record. Human may be somewhat of an exhausting listen for the casual metalhead, but give this one time to seep in and its tentacle-like rhythms will grip you in a way that not many other metal albums of the 90's will. Key Tracks: Flattening Of Emotions, Together As One, Lack Of Comprehension, See Through Dreams