F E A T U R E

Reminiscing on 90s HuH Magazine!
5/6/2016 1:57:08 PM by Frank Hill





It's 1994. Alternative and grunge rock rules the US. Flannel is the new spandex. Hair product is exiled. Lyrically, no one wants to rock and roll all night. It's the age of spoiled kids croaking in a rocker about boredom.

By then, I've invested time and money into the metallic arts which are back underground and far from dead. I'm chasing European power metal, Bay Area thrash, melodic death and gothic doom. I'm searching bins and racks for black-something. I'm thumbing the mail order catalogs while Store Clerk Jabroni #1 asks Store Clerk Jabroni #2 "Do we carry Mortuary Drape normally?" I special order Mortuary Drape from some pothole in Cambodia with a $5 deposit that will eventually be returned to me a year later when it remains on indefinite backorder.

That little record store episode is the embodiment of metal in the 90s. The heavy stuff was hard to come by and it was even harder to find new bands outside of a handful of World Wide Web sites. There was Metal Maniacs and Metal Circus but in my rural part of the bible-belt only a couple of stores carried those. After the disenchantment of downloading 30 second .wav files online and watching MTV's SuperRock (the horrible substitute for Headbangers Ball), I decided to take a chance and spend some of my Aunt Mabel's hard earned social security money (her annual $50 birthday gift cash) on a music subscription magazine. Huh?

HuH Magazine had arrived.

Read Eric Compton's reminiscing here: [Full Column Link]


<< back >>






RANDOM ACTS OF METAL
· Bathory· Lost Horizon
· Mudvayne· Tiamat
· Dokken· Perzonal War
· Solemnity· Rebellion
· Seven Witches· Solace
· Steel Attack· Lamb of God
· Metallica· Powergod
· Late Nite Romeo· Power of Omens
· Valley's Eve· Tungsten
· Exawatt· Nicta
· SelfInflicted· Paragon
· Inner Rage of Emotion· Godiva
· Chainsnap· Morbid Angel
· Sludge!· Stryper
· Hypocrisy· Dew Scented
· Three Inches of Blood· Soil
· Superchrist· Exodus
· Freakhouse· Deep Purple
· David Shankle Group· Disarmonia Mundi
· Gamma Ray· Nova Lex
· Ministry· Juggernott
· Feinstein· Joe Lynn Turner
· Mob Rules· Killswitch Engage
· Metal Church· Tearabyte
· Slowlife· Witchburner
· Six Feet Under· Silent Force
· Negative Creeps· Overlorde
· Twisted Sister· Sonata Arctica
· Motley Crue· Image
· Ligeia· Rottweiller
· Impaled· Soilwork
· Carina Alfie· the missing:
· Crimson Moonlight· Cemetary
· Argument Soul· Kaamos
· Marduk· Severe Torture
· Bleed The Sky· Omegalord
· Meshuggah· Debris Inc.
· Kryoburn· Gizmachi
· Raintime· Biss
· Defleshed· Python
· Amorphis· God Among Insects
· Vicious Art· Subterranean Masquerade
· Unshine· Leaves Eyes
· Ritual Killer· Gaia
· Nightvision· Impaled Nazarene
· Holy Blood· Iron Maidens
· Pagan's Mind· Evergrey
· Casus Belli· Mabon
· Damnation· Thrones
· Gojira· Infliction
· Urizen· Define Divine
· Vanquished· Beecher
· Mental Care Foundation· Across Tundras
· Powerglove· Nikki Puppet
· Upwards of Endtime· Firehouse
· Boris· Moonspell
· Valhalla· Phoenix Mourning
· The Smashup· Elvenking
· Nicodemus· 8th Sin
· Dreams of Damnation· TK-421
· Abysmal Dawn· Sun Descends
· Black Crucifixion· Dawn of Azazel
· Fragments of Unbecoming· Paul Bonrud
· Amon Amarth· Psycroptic
· Skid Row· Time Requiem
· Ynis Vitrin· From the Grave
· Abominant· The Abominable Iron Sloth
· Enochian Crescent· Teeth of the Hydra
· Venom· Lordi
· Fu Manchu· Diagnose: Lebensgefahr
· With Passion· Dream Theater
· Manticore· Necrophobic
· Merciless Death· Cruachan
· White Wizzard· Gotthard
· Blut Aus Nord· Hearse
· Faith And Fire· Hellveto
· Cauldron· Pathosray
· Glenn Hughes· Orthodox
· Mortiis· Blood Haven
· Manilla Road· Puscifer
· Godhead· Iron Fire
· Luna Mortis· Wolfgate
· Winterfylleth· Suffocation