If you have to play solo piano, can you bring the grit, the angst, and the volume of grunge or metal with you? This isn’t ...

You may notice a trend on this list, and it's that a lot of the albums featured were the bands' only albums. This was the ...

What are some of the best ballads by grunge artists? It’s kind of ironic — grunge is known for being a mostly sullen style of ...

leaving fans wondering if they’d just stumbled into a secret metal album. READ MORE: The Best Grunge Album of Each Year From 1987-1996 These tunes aren’t just aggressive for the sake of it ...

Forged in Washington, grunge took heavy inspiration from DIY punk and hardcore, with groups like Black Flag providing an essential part of the scene’s inspiration. Much like their earlier punk ...

When Pearl Jam came, that was another one of those grunge Seattle bands. And that’s when I was like, ‘Oh, my God. This isn’t ending. Like, this is just gonna keep coming.’” Reflecting on the end of ...

What qualified as metal in 1995 was a grab bag for sure. After the fallout from the popularity of grunge, metal went back underground but was poised for a return led by nu metal. While not all of ...

Entering his 20s at the same time that grunge broke into the mainstream, the advent of groups like Pearl Jam disrupted the future comedian’s love of 1980s metal and hard rock. He has repeatedly ...

Even if grunge did have a cohesive sonic identity ... "My Enemy" opens the album with grinding, down-tuned riffs and a muscular groove-metal stomp. "Firesign" leavens its alt-rock lump with ...