10 Most Underrated Rock Albums Of The 90s

Around the same time that alternative rock started to take shape, metal was also having a bit of a renaissance of its own. Although bands like Megadeth and Metallica were already becoming some of the biggest names in hard rock, you had more interesting bands like Korn and Pantera that were focusing on grooves, leading to the nu metal genre that we know and love today. A groove might take you a long way, but Kyuss made something that could put you in a trance on Blues for the Red Sun.

For anyone trying to get into stoner rock, this is one of the first places you could go to if something like Sleep or Monster Magnet may be a little too crusty. Years before he got the idea to make Queens of the Stone Age, Josh Homme creates some of the gnarliest grooves imaginable on this album, almost like he's trying to make his own version of a Black Sabbath song.

Even though this wasn't an album that was necessarily flying off of store shelves or anything, this was always a fan favorite in the alternative scene, with even people like Dave Grohl talking up how great it was in interviews. There might be bigger records to come out of the '90s, but this is probably one of the few albums that might be more influential than it was popular.