Belphegor - The Last Supper (1995)

   Belphegor debuted as a deviant black/death metal band that reminded more to the style of Impaled Nazarene and old Marduk, than to Norwegian black metal, though lately they became popular and the most influental Austrian metal band because of creating more analogy with the Norwegian style.
  The band's early period was more compromise-less, and the early '90s death metal wave also had some influence on their music. The way how they mixed black and death metal was still different from what war metal bands did, and even though the previously mentioned bands have been only into black metal, the similarity is evident. Belphegor crossed the line that Impaled Nazarene and Marduk didn't by involving some death metal themes and common switchings to deep growling vocal style. The atmosphere also had secondary role, the devastating sound took complete advantage. That's really like a tiny difference, since if it's about intensity these bands have been on the same level. The main view is endlessly sick and insane, the lyrics are covering gorgeous topics as satanism, gore and perversions. "The Last Supper" also could be taken as a further step from the atmospheric/experimental black, a herald of raw black metal, though the band lately have shown opposite tendencies.

Disastrous Murmur - Rhapsodies in Red (1992)

   Even though plenty of bands chosed to introduce limitless sickness with their music, not many succeeded on a really impressive level like Disastrous Murmur did with their debut already.
   Since Pungent Stench similar ambitions were not new in Austria, but while the precursos tried to pile up the most absurd collection of hideous things, Disastrous Murmur found it's passion in pure gore. "Rhapsodies in Red" is a masterpiece of the genre in all-round, and could be compared only to the sickness level of Pungent Stench, early Carcass, Cannibal Corpse, Autopsy and Accidental Suicide. Heavily wretched sounding vocals guiding the listener into the depths of a slaughter pit, where everything was set on for endless suffering and disgust. Simple, but very catchy themes, excellent noisy and dirty sound that's fits to the style well, and intense, diverse, often grindcore styled drumms are the main characteristics of the album. Perfection in sickness, brutality, insanity and all sort of filth.

Miasma - Changes (1992)

  Miasma belongs to the lots of forgotten bands from the early '90s extreme scene. They had only one full-lenght album, and soon they disappeared after the middle of the decade.
   "Changes" had a catchy and harsh atmoshpere by it's noisy and massive sound. It's a raw album with mostly basic themes, and these are often immature at a few songs and couldn't reach the preferred effect. The main feeling by the sound, the butally deep vocals and the often brutal death-like hammering can compense that weak point. With this comes the endlessly blasphemous concept and lyrics. "Changes" was extraordinary because of it's very noisy sound and intensity that gave such a brutal feeling to their music that was remarkable even in those thimes, when extreme metal was all around and bands rivaled with each other who can show up with a more brutal production. Compared to other bands with similar concept (like Acheron or Deicide), Miasma was fit into that imaginary competition.

Pungent Stench - For God Your Soul... For Me Your Flesh (1990)

   Even though Pungent Stench was only a death metal band, their name was often found on the side of goregrind and grindcore bands. They became widely infamous before extreme music fans very soon in the early '90s with their gory and morbid humor based music.
   On some imaginary scale which may grade bands after how disgusting topics they were into, Pungent Stench would be in the main line next to bands like Autopsy and Cannibal Corpse. This ambition impregnated even into their sounding, because the whole album sounds very putrid and gives the impression that even the vocals were recorded in some cesspool. They were not far from grindcore with their simple, catchy themes, but there was a lack of frequent grinding parts. Their approach of extremity wasn't so common, because it couldn't be taken seriously, but if it could be for some reason, it was usually very effective. Pungent Stench was very determined about to follow, or better to say: to lead in this way and kept shocking the audience with their loathsome issues.