Nirvana (also see David Groowl (s.ps) in Foo Fighters) Pearl Jam Sound Garden Collective Soul are good 90's bands Armor for sleep Mutemath Modest Mouse SeaWolf Muse are all good alternative bands today.
They're not from the 90's, but you might want to try Molotov Jive, Mando Diao, the Arctic Monkeys, the Libertines, Babyshambles, the Wombats, or Sugarplum Fairy.
I cant really gove you an answer,but what I can give you is a way to a solution, that is you have to find the anglde that you relate to or peaks your interest. A good paper is one that people get drawn into because it reaches them ln some way.As for me WW11 to me, I think of the holocaust and the effect it had on the survivors, their families and those who stood by and did nothing until it was too late.