Nevermind was produced by Butch Vig and mixed by Andy Wallace, who crafted the band's distorted guitars, pounding drums, rumbling bass and cathartic vocals into an album which appealed to a wide audience, and set the standard for rock music throughout the 1990s.
In the wake of its success, other Seattle bands such as Pearl Jam, Soundgarden, and Alice in Chains would go on to have hit albums as well, and other alternative rock artists were suddenly being played on the radio and courted by record labels. The album brought significant attention to the Seattle-based grunge movement which dominated throughout the majority of the 90s. Nevermind catapulted Nirvana from relative obscurity to the heights of commercial and critical success virtually overnight.
