If the first instalment of Netflix’s new horror trilogy Fear Street is to be believed, 1994 was a year of murder, mystery and malevolent forces. Here at slightly less-spooky Kerrang!, however, we know it to be a year superb albums that spans genres – from pop-punk to rave-rock to black metal – and remain classics to this day. Not that anyone knew it at the time. The cover of the June 1994 issue of punk bible Maximumrocknroll was characteristically blunt: a gun jammed in a mouth, with the tagline, ‘Some of your friends are already this fucked’. Inside, a now infamous essay by iconoclastic musician-producer Steve Albini, The Problem With Music, imagined wannabe rock stars struggling in a trench of “runny, decaying shit”, at the behest of their craven ...