With The Lights Out- Music in TTL 90's
Having checked into rehab in September 1993, Kurt Cobain was a changed man.
He acknowledged his heroin problem would become a problem in the long run and was only hurting himself, his family, band mates, and fans, and his battle with depression had dragged him into dark places and came to the conclusion the only way he'd get better is if he sought help.
In the Spring of 1994, he announced he was separating from his wife Courtney, who he cited as having a "bad influence" on his music and was "draining" him both artistically and emotionally.
Nirvana's tour to promote In Utero was delayed by Cobain's entrance into rehab, and wanting to make up for lost time, himself and his band mates pledged to go out and "blow the roof off a room every night".
Their tour for "In Utero" saw them packing out stadiums worldwide, and their titular album, which was seeing dwindling sales following Cobain's rehab entrance, shot up the charts once again, and went back to number one for 9 straight weeks on Billboard.
By the end of 1994, In Utero had sold 22 million copies, Nirvana had #3 number ones on the Billboard Hot 100 and were the "biggest band in the world" according to several music publications.
In contrast, heavy metal was suffering a decline in popularity similar to the 80's hair metal craze, and saw itself constantly behind Grunge in terms of popularity.
One of the major causes of this was the disbandment of Metallica in 1993 following James Hetfield sustaining near-fatal wounds at a show in Montreal in the summer of 1992, and without a band that had both mainstream and critical success, heavy metal once again was relegated to the bowels of rock.
Anthrax were the band that many agreed would be the band to put heavy metal back on top, and a major reason they were the decade's biggest selling heavy metal outfit was their song "Only" being the theme song for Spiderman 2 (owing to director Paul Verhoeven's love of the genre)
Rock music and Superhero films seemed to go hand-in-hand, with notable examples of rock music in films being Filter's "Hey Man Nice Shot" playing over the end credits of Iron Man, Soundgarden's "Black Hole Sun" being the theme for Sam Raimi's Superman picture, and Rage Against The Machine's "Down Rodeo" scoring Daredevil's fight with Bullseye in the 1996 film.