While still nowhere near the sound of classic Sabbath, "Tyr" is the closest we've been since "The Mob Rules." If nothing else, the 1990 sound of the band was unique from what other guitar driven bands were doing at the time. It's not the Pixies or Jane's Addiction or Bad Brains or Alice in Chains and it's certainly not Cannibal Corpse, each of whom released significant records that same year. What it is is a band that sounds fully in belief of the music that they're making and along with Bathory's "Hammerheart," also released in 1990, it could be argued that "Tyr" helps invent Viking Metal (for better or worse).
