Good major Label Rock/Metal albums from Late 90's-2008?

Just thought of an absolute thread-winner: Catherine Wheel - Adam And Eve

Yeah Louis that's a fucking winner, great great album, top 5 or so for that year AT LEAST.

Sadly the manics dont make this list as their later stuff isnt up to much after everything must go. Same goes for Therapy?

Spiritualized,Built To Spill, Modest Mouse would make a non metal list .

how about: Hum - Downward is Heavenward

that was major label... right? definitely their best album. definitely rock music. so so so good.

I have one for every year that I just love! Which is why i brought it up.

Nirvana - Nevermind (1991)
Helmet - Meantime (1992)
The Melvins - Houdini (1993)
Korn - Korn (1994)
Faith No More - King For A Day... Fool For A Lifetime (1995)
Sepultura - Roots (1996)
[Nothing for 1997. This is a terrible year]
Hole - Celebrity Skin (1998)
Deftones - The White Pony (1999)
Queens Of The Stone Age - Rated R (2000)
Burning Brides - Fall Of The Plastic Empire (2001)
Andrew WK - I Get Wet (2002)
Blood Brothers - Burn Piano Island Burn (2003)
Say Anything - Is A Real Boy (2004)
System Of A Down - Hypnotize (2005)
My Chemical Romance - The Black Parade (2006)
Against Me! - New Wave (2007)

I take it Refused were'nt on a major :P

I realized I have an album like that for every year and just started working backwards into a list. Still have to stumble across 2008's big hard rock record tho.

Celebrity Skin > Mechanical Animals > Shape Of Punk To Come

White Pony is very nearly unfuckwithable save for Chino's attempt at rapping/talking his verses on a couple songs.

Whiney, you oughta hear the Hum record from 97 (assuming you haven't). pretty damn good.

as for 2008, it's gotta be Boris' Smile.

How about Pinkerton? I think that's at least a decent record.

Um, what major label is Boris on?

there must be something from 1997 http://rateyourmusic.com/charts/top/

Esoteric tops 2008 and thats my fave metal album this year. Portishead is my fave of 2008 so far. That will actually get in some metal lists though(scott walker did with the drift)

oh right, major. sorry. fuck.

(xp)

Hum and Weezer are indie rock tho. This thread is about HARD ROCK

definitely agree with Smile for this year (so far). (xp yeah i guess it's not on a major. damn.)

'97 was kind of a dismal year for music for me. i was just going through the rateyourmusic best-of for that year and it made me wonder what i even listened to that year. some of my favorite groups throughout the 90s released albums in '97 so crappy that i stopped listening to them completely.

Mods should prolly add the word "hard" in the title, cuz it doesn't make it clear.

I mean '97 is all about Chemical Brothers Dig Your Own Hole which is KIND of a hard rock record, but not enought for the purposes of this thread.

Torche would take 2008 easy if a major label was smart enough to have put that album out and made it glossier.

maybe mods should wipe your ass for you too

and the original post doesn't make it clear either

Deftones - Around The Fur was 1997

That album srsly blows except for "My Own Summer" tho

cloud COOOOOME!

"My Own Summer" is hella sweet

I'm gonna listen to it right now: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e9TyLtbsxmc

one of the best albums of 97 but not on a major
http://rateyourmusic.com/release/album/harvey_milk/courtesy_and_good_will_toward_men/

ZZ Top's Rhythmeen, 1996.

There are a number of 2008's discussed in Rolling Hard Rock. A few mainstream country releases this year also do double duty as hard rock records, all released on majors. Offhand, Flynnville Train and Cross Canadian Ragweed come to mind.

By the way, y'all can pre-emptively kiss my ass, because I'm gonna stick up for Disturbed's second album (Believe, 2002) and the new one. The debut and Ten Thousand Fists are kinda weak.

:O

Would Nimrod count? It ain't great, though.

totally love downward is heavenward, but yeah, I don't think that it counts.

I suppose this helps to explain why I was buying so much old jazz and electronic music around that time period.

Same here. Late 90s was a lot closer to the death of rock than the Elvis-in-the-Army -> Beatles era ever was.

http://www.galeon.com/allmusic/caratulas/a/Andrew_WK-I_Get_Wet-Frontal.jpg

I have Downward Is Heavenward too, and yeah it's pretty good. Wish Kerr would stop listing all his favourite artists and being all "now if only they were on a major label they might make this list..."

shut it oceansize fan

are Beggars Banquet a major label, come to think of it?

werent they owned by a major?

There's some sort of connection to a major with them but I can't think what it is. Probably to do with distribution. Which would also mean that McLusky would technically qualify but in practical terms it's not all that relevant

Lots of labels must have a distribution with a major but that doesn't qualify them as being on a major, it might disqualify them from being 100 % independent.

I'll give you Radiohead. Maybe QOTSA, I guess. Aside from that, this is pretty weak sauce. "Lean times," indeed.

Sepultura - Roots (1996)

Stopped reading after that. Besides, since when is Roadrunner a major?

Seriously, it's pretty hard to find a better rock album on a major than A Matter Of Life And Death.

Has anyone mentioned Damone yet? Because their last album was on Interscope, and it was great.

Besides, since when is Roadrunner a major?

Roadrunner is now a subsidiary of Warner Music Group. But at the time Roots came out, it was still an indie AFAIK.

A couple more from 1997:
The Flaming Lips - Zaireeka (Warner Bros.)
Prodigy - Fat of the Land (Maverick/Warner Bros.)

Both were covered in Kerrang actually so do count I suppose.

Shasta OTM re AWK, and I'll hold out for 'Mechanical Animals'

like-minded thread that i just remembered:

hey writer-types, do you ever get any big label rock records that are worth listening to twice?

Slim pickins on that thread, too, when you consider the time-frame imposed by this thread, and screen out the discs listed there that are, in fact, on non-major labels (and were mistakenly listed as having come from "big labels," e.g., TVOTR's discs, which are on 4AD and/or Touch and Go, neither of which is a major (please correct me if I'm mistaken)).