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Just sticking to bands that I get the impression you'd like that formed in the 90s (and inspired by your love of citation):
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boris_(band)
[ame]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Refused[/ame]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Botch_(band)
[ame]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dillinger_Escape_Plan[/ame]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sleep_(band)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Godspeed_You!_Black_Emperor
This obviously doesn't prove that the 90s produced as many great bands as, say, the 70s but the perception that it was inherently worse is more to do with the way that people in their 20s experienced music from each decade. It also glosses over the fact that many bands formed in the 80s produced their most relevant albums in the 90s (Earth, Soundgarden, Godflesh).
Look at the charts (which I can assume represents radio play to a fairly good degree) from any decade and you'll realise that radio was awful. It's only by picking through the stuff from the 70s that survived that this notion of it being inherently better (musically) than the 90s is arrived at. I'm sure that, in the same way that people often consider the 90s the nu-metal decade, there will be people who are currently 19 going "the "noughties" were just full of Crunkcore bands", which is shit.
So, in summary, the 90s weren't as bad as all that.