Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds

Blind Guardian's 1998 album Nightfall in Middle-Earth is a power metal epic, retelling Tolkien's The Silmarillion with symphonic intensity

Andy Yorke stepped out of the shadow of his well-known brother with the subtle and melodic 1998 album Almost Here by Unbelievable Truth

Psychedelic and dreamy, the 1991 debut Gish by The Smashing Pumpkins give hints of hits to come while still indebted to their influences

Jesus Jones looked into the future, blending alternative rock with electronic rave and techno elements, on their 1993 release Perverse

Raymond Watts combines Ministry's industrial metal with Trent Reznor's ear for atmospherics and melody on the 1996 album Sinsation by Pig

Before their 90s hit "Runaway Train," Soul Asylum spent the 80s warping Husker Du hardcore and Replacements punk into their unique sound

The second album by Magic Dirt conjures psych and desert rock fuzz channeled through sludgy early grunge on Young And Full Of The Devil

On 1994's Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain, Pavement refined their lo-fi sound to write one of the defining albums of 1990s indie rock