Controversial opinions on metal

[Satanstoenail]

Very controversial considering "late 80s" isn't a year

 

[EchoForever]

fair enough
best era for metal was late 80s DEBATE THIS

 

[Baroque]

I'd go late 80's + early 90's. Which years in the late 80's specifically?

I'd say '87 to '92

 

[MrTagoMago]

fair enough
best era for metal was late 80s DEBATE THIS

What specifically counts as late 80s? Like do you mean 1987-1989?

 

[HamburgerBoy]

85 > 84 > 86 > 89 > 88 > 87 > 83 > 82 > 81 > 80

 

[EchoForever]

What specifically counts as late 80s? Like do you mean 1987-1989?

1985-1989

or you know whatever you consider to be late 80s its not that broad of a term

 

[MrTagoMago]

1985-1989

or you know whatever you consider to be late 80s its not that broad of a term

If we go with 1985-1989 then id have to agree even though my favorite metal albums are 70s there wasnt a lot of metal back then.

 

[Elric of Melniboné]

I can't pick a particular time period to be superior over others because a lot of the bands that I like are very out of place for when their albums were released.

Cirith Ungol, for example, began releasing albums in the 1980s, but their music doesn't really sound like your usual 1980s metal because the band was around for so long before they released their first album and many of their songs are from the 1970s.

 

[CiG]

1978-1988, my favourite period for metal. But a lot of the best doom metal albums were released after that period so...

 

[MrTagoMago]

How about this. The best period for metal was 1969 - 1989

 

[Satanstoenail]

Late 80s/early 90s for me because I got into metal around 87 and rode the wave of thrash into death and it was fucking amazing.

 

[Manic Ferocity]

I can't pick a particular time period to be superior over others because a lot of the bands that I like are very out of place for when their albums were released.

Cirith Ungol, for example, began releasing albums in the 1980s, but their music doesn't really sound like your usual 1980s metal because the band was around for so long before they released their first album and many of their songs are from the 1970s.

I never realized they were that old but that makes perfect sense. I've always thought they had a more 70s heavy metal sound.

 

[Elric of Melniboné]

Oh yeah, they were formed in 1972. They have a lot of songs that date back to the 1970s, including some that haven't been officially released.

Falcon, a band which features Greg Lindstrom from Cirith Ungol, has recorded some Cirith Ungol songs that weren't ever properly recorded by the band. He left the band in 1982 but he helped write a lot of their best material.

'Atom Smasher,' 'Cirith Ungol' and 'Death of the Sun' were all songs we had written together in the mid 70's, and 'Finger of Scorn' was one of my songs that the band used with my blessing.

 

[CiG]

Which reminds me, how the Hell did From The Fjords come out in the year it did and have that sound?

 

[H.P. Lovecraft]

Which reminds me, how the Hell did From The Fjords come out in the year it did and have that sound?

 

[CiG]

HEAVY METAL MAGIC!

 

[H.P. Lovecraft]

HEAVY METAL MAGIC!

Mr. Bean is trve kvlt.

 

[CiG]

Blackadder > black metal

 

[H.P. Lovecraft]

Blackadder > black metal

At least Black Adder has riffs, am I right Hamburger Boy?

 

[CiG]

[ba dum tss]