Musical groups disestablished in 1998

Weezer is an American rock band formed in Los Angeles, California, in 1992. Since 2001, the band has consisted of Rivers Cuomo (lead vocals, guitar, keyboards), Patrick Wilson (drums, backing vocals), Brian Bell (guitar, keyboards, backing vocals), and Scott Shriner (bass, keyboards, backing vocals). They have sold 10 million albums in the United States and over 35 million worldwide.

American rock band

British-Australian neoclassical darkwave band around the duo Lisa Gerrard and Brendan Perry

German R&B/pop band

American heavy metal band

American death metal band

American indie rock band

American hip hop group

American thrash metal band

German pop group

Mecano was a Spanish pop band formed in 1981 and active until 1992. Mecano became one of the most successful Spanish pop bands of all time. The band is still the best-selling Spanish band, with over 20 million records worldwide. They were considered by some to be avant-garde for their time and part of la Movida Madrileña countercultural movement. They had a brief comeback in 1998.

American rock band

American heavy metal band

American hip hop group

American alternative metal band

Refused (also known as the Refused) was a Swedish hardcore punk band originating from Umeå and formed in 1991. Refused's final lineup was composed of vocalist Dennis Lyxzén, guitarist Kristofer Steen, drummer David Sandström, and bassist Magnus Flagge. Guitarist Jon Brännström was a member from 1994, through reunions, until he was fired in 2013. Their lyrics are often of a non-conformist and politically far-left nature and were for a time associated with the straight edge subculture.

American nu metal band

British heavy metal band

American stoner/doom metal band

SWV (Sisters with Voices) is an American R&B vocal trio from New York City whose members are Cheryl "Coko" Gamble, Tamara "Taj" George, and Leanne "Lelee" Lyons. Formed in 1988 as a gospel group, SWV became one of the most successful R&B groups of the 1990s. They had a series of hits, including the Billboard Hot 100 number-one single "Weak", as well as the top-ten songs "Right Here (Human Nature Remix)", "I'm So into You", and "You're the One". The group disbanded in 1998 to pursue solo projects and reunited in 2005.

English rock band active between 1994 and 1998

Gorefest was a Dutch death metal band from Goes, Zeeland. It was founded in 1989 by Jan-Chris de Koeijer, Frank Harthoorn, Alex van Schaik and Marc Hoogendoorn.

French electronic music group

American hip hop group

American band

Kortatu was a Basque ska punk band from the Basque Autonomous Community formed in Irun in the summer of 1984.

British musical collective

American musical group; R&B boy band

American alternative rock band

Irish folk band

German musical group; death metal band

American indie rock band from Chapel Hill, North Carolina

British Britpop band

Polvo is an American indie rock band from Chapel Hill, North Carolina. The band formed in 1990 and is fronted by guitarists/vocalists Ash Bowie and Dave Brylawski, with Steve Popson playing bass guitar and Brian Quast playing drums. Eddie Watkins was the band's original drummer, but did not rejoin the band upon its reunion in 2008, after breaking up in 1998.

Assück was an American grindcore band from St. Petersburg, Florida, active from 1987 to 1998. During their existence, they released two studio albums, numerous EPs, as well as various compilation albums. The band has been described as an influential touchstone for grindcore, with their second and final album, Misery Index, being cited as one of the best and most essential records within the genre.

American post-hardcore band

American rock band

Finnish band

Swervedriver are an English alternative rock band formed in Oxford in 1989 around core members Adam Franklin and Jimmy Hartridge. Between 1989 and 1998, the band released four studio albums and numerous EPs and singles despite a considerable flux of members, managers, and record labels. By 1993 the band's lineup had settled with Franklin on vocals/guitar, Hartridge on guitar, Jez Hindmarsh on drums, and Steve George on bass. They had emerged with a heavier rock sound than their shoegaze contemporaries, and over the next five years it evolved to include elements of psychedelia, classic pop, and

American musical group

British alternative dance band

Nordman is a Swedish duo founded in 1993, that mixes folk music with rock and pop. This genre is called etnorock or folk rock in Swedish. The group consists of Håkan Hemlin, as singer and frontman, and Mats Wester, who plays the nyckelharpa, as well as serving as the main songwriter.

Finnish rock band

American band

Norwegian musical group

Ophthalamia was a Swedish black metal/doom metal band formed in Stockholm in 1989. The band released three studio albums before splitting up in 1998. Members of the band included guitarist IT (Tony Särkkä), guitarist and bassist Night (Emil Nödtveidt), drummer Bone (Ole Öhman) and vocalist Shadow (Jon Nödtveidt).

Swedish black metal band, side project of Hypocrisy

American rock band

Spanish pop rock group

Swedish musical group; doom metal band

Post-hardcore/noise band from Minnesota, active 1987–1998

American sludge/doom metal band

English indie rock band

Australian thrash metal band

American hip hop supergroup

Italian band

English/American metal band

experimental audio recording studio

US musical group

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