Your all-timer bands/musicians from the 90s and onward

Inspired by frequent talks of lost generations of music and music legacies in general. And that most of my favorite music from this period is just harder to shop for.

Maybe this is too large a chunk of time to have a coherent conversation about? Or I'm wrong and there's thousands of stuff falling through the cracks from earlier decades? I just feel like so many bands from the last 30something decades are harder to discover, don't have the same cultural footprint, never got written about enough or didn't benefit much from whatever genre clusters they belong to. Kind of sad how most of this stuff passed by me while it was happening.

It's fine to talk about famous bands and musicians who had a big impact before the 90s but I want to keep the main focus on the ones that never had any lasting stadium level fame.

Some death metal bands existed as early as 1988-89, but the genre really established itself in the 90s, so a lot of my favorite bands are of this era:

Death (their best work was done 1991-1998)
Immolation (debuted in 1991, new album coming in April)
Cannibal Corpse (debuted in 1990)
Deicide (debuted in 1990)
Incantation (debuted in 1992)
Obituary (debuted in 1989)
Entombed (debuted in 1990)
Dismember (debuted in 1991)

no Cradle of Filth?! ('91)

Motorpsycho are the band that comes to mind for me....they did have some fame in the 90s when they fit in somewhat with grunge and then later pop-punk but have otherwise gained an unfortunate reputation as one of those "best bands you've never heard of"

The 2000s had a bunch of great punk albums that mean as much to me as stuff from 1977-1980

The Marked Men - Ghosts
Jay Reatard - Blood Visions
A-Frames - S/T
Eddy Current Supression Ring - Primary Colors
Hot Snakes - Audit in Progress
Double Negative - Daydreamnation

How lost / obscure are we talking here? Otherwise the parameters might be a little too broad for me to start listing since I'm very deeply invested too many things 90s and onwards

You can talk about famous bands if you want but I just want most of it to lean towards the underrated.

The Lost Generation

This thread is older than I thought

I think the bands that had the profoundest impact on me that never got particularly famous were probably Cranes and Trance To The Sun. Because they created really distinct worlds like a great surrealist fantasy painter. Both extremely atmospheric. I like Trance To The Sun for feeling like a trip across the universe yet there's no sterility about their scifi, it's gorgeous.

Lycia
Rise And Fall Of A Decade
Emperor
Red House Painters
Rasputina
Faun Fables
Jellyfish
God Machine

Also: we have the added problem now that more than ever, something can be super famous yet totally unknown to most of the population.

I think I saw Rasputina once, opening for Einstürzende Neubauten in 1992 or 1993, but I have no memory of what they sounded like.

Summoning
These New Puritans
Bark Psychosis
Frost (Falling Satellites and Milliontown)