Twenty years on Pt. 2....Who shares our birthday?

Here's a list of bands that started the same year as Tapping The Ether.  I'm only including the bands who I've played on the show:

Anathema : We played stuff from "Pentecost III" quite a bit

At the Gates: Although we received both of their albums, only "Slaughter Of The Soul" got extensive airplay.

Dark Tranquility (then Septic Broiler) : To this day, "Projector" is the only DT CD in the library--it's a keeper though.

Fear Factory I only really played "Obsolete" and their cover of "Cars", because I'm a Gary Numan fan.

In Flames: Didn't recieve anything prior to "The Jester Race", didn't really get into them until "Whoracle" (which was stolen from the library--a pox on whoever did that)

Infectious Grooves: Played "Send My Your Money" and "Violent And Funky" a lot.  Otherwise they were just the discount store version of Suicidal Tendencies.

My Dying Bride:  Although they started sending us stuff from the very beginning, "Angel And The Dark River" was the album that clicked with me ("Cries Of Mankind" was a perfect bathroom break song)

Opeth:  Despite knowing about Opeth from the beginning, it wasn't until "Blackwater Park" that I finally had something to play on the air.  Thankfully they've been sending us stuff ever since.

Type O Negative: What can I say?  When they sucked, they really sucked, but when they rocked, they were amazing! Peter Steele, R.I.P.

Twenty years on...looking back.

I thought you might like to see some of the albums that were released the same year that Tapping The Ether started. The most significant is definately Iron Maiden's "No Prayer For The Dying" as it was the first metal CD the station recieved after the show started. It doesn't include every album released, but is a sample of bands who have been mainstays of the show since the beginning. Here's the list:

AC/DC - The Razor's Edge

Annihilator - Never, Neverland

Anthrax - Persistence of Time
Believer - Sanity Obscure
Black Sabbath - Tyr
Blind Guardian - Tales from the Twilight World
Bruce Dickinson - Tattooed Millionaire
Celtic Frost - Vanity/Nemesis
Death - Spiritual Healing
Death Angel - Act III
Dio - Lock up the Wolves
Extreme - Pornograffitti
Exodus - Impact is Imminent
Forbidden - Twisted into Form
Iced Earth - Iced Earth
Iron Maiden - No Prayer for the Dying
Judas Priest - Painkiller
Kreator - Coma of Souls
Yngwie J. Malmsteen - Eclipse
Megadeth - Rust In Peace
Queensrÿche - Empire
Ratt - Detonator
Reverend - World Won't Miss You
Saxon - Solid Ball of Rock
Scorpions - Crazy World
Slayer - Seasons in the Abyss
Stryper - Against the Law
Trouble - Trouble
U.D.O. -Faceless World

Entries in bold are releases that were featured quite heavily at the time of release.