Which decade has the best Metal, 70s or 80s?

Unknown Soldier · 10-09-2010, 08:08 AM

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Originally Posted by Janszoon

Okay. But Ministry, for example, had mostly pretty weak 90s output. Like I said previously all but one of their best albums came out in the 80s. And, though I certainly haven't checked out all of Kreator's albums, the one's that are generally considered classics are from the 80s.

I`m not much of a ministry fan, but the best two for me are "The Mind is a Terrible Thing to Taste" 1989 and "Psalm 69-How to Succeed and How to Suck Eggs" 1992.

Kreator like a lot of European thrash and power metal bands, suffered some teething problems in their early discography, and so most of their stuff in the 80`s I found very hit and miss. The three best Kreator albums are "Coma of Souls" 1990, "Cause for Conflict" 1996 and "Outcast" 1997. Sure....there is a heavy Slayer influence on parts of those albums, but they are the band`s best releases IMO.

I suppose the reason that I love 90`s metal so much, is that out of all the metal genres there are, groove metal is probably my favourite and groove metal was a dominant metal genre in the 90`s. Groups like Lamb of God are carrying on that tradition in the 00`s. Also Progressive metal really expanded and took off in the 90`s as well.