Your Favourite 10 Year Span in Metal

[CiG]

I was thinking of RYM list ideas and this one seemed interesting to tackle. I have a feeling a thread like this already exists but the search function doesn't work.

Anyways so subjectively speaking (or objectively if you wanna be that guy to try and argue it here) what's your favourite 10 year time span for metal releases? For example 1987 to 1996 (probably a good one if you're a death metal oldhead).

Feel free to namedrop important albums/EPs/demos etc to justify your span, whether it be 1 per year, or just every single favourite regardless of proportion (maybe some years within your span kinda suck etc).

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[spookyheart]

the 90s era just bout all of it honestly

 

[Slammed]

'81 - '91

 

[Slayed Necros]

85 - 95

Top 5 by year

Spoiler

1985:

Slayer - Hell Awaits
Bathory - The Return
Fates Warning - The Spectre Within
Possessed - Seven Churches
Razor - Evil Invaders

1986:

Slayer - Reign in Blood
Dark Angel - Darkness Descends
Fates Warning - Awaken the Guardian
Vulcano - Bloody Vengeance
Kreator - Pleasure to Kill

1987:

Bathory - Under the Sign of the Black Mark
Sarcofago - I.N.R.I
Infernal Majesty - None Shall Defy
Savatage - Hall of the Mountain King
Death - Scream Bloody Gore

1988:

Rigor Mortis - Rigor Mortis
Vio-Lence - Eternal Nightmare
Coroner - Punishment for Decadence
Blind Guardian - Battalions of Fear
Crimson Glory - Transcendence

1989:

Morbid Angel - Altars of Madness
Bolt Thrower - Realm of Chaos
Autopsy - Severed Survival
Pestilence - Consuming Impulse
Morgoth - Resurrection Absurd

1990:

Deicide - Deicide
Massacra - Final Holocuast
Bathory - Hammerheart
Morbid Saint - Spectrum of Death
Obliveon - From This Day Forward

1991:

Dismember - Like An Ever Flowing Stream
Autopsy - Mental Funeral
Goatlord - Reflections of the Solstice
Immolation - Dawn of Possession
Malevolent Creation - The Ten Commandments

1992:

Demigod - Slumber of Sullen Eyes
Incantation - Onward to Golgotha
Seance - Fornever Laid to Rest
Darkthrone - A Blaze in the Northern Sky
Malevolent Creation - Retribution

1993:

Rotting Christ - Thy Mighty Contract
Demilich - Nespithe
Darkthrone - Under a Funeral Moon
Sinister - Diabolical Summoning
Necrophobic - The Nocturnal Silence

1994:

Darkthrone - Transilvanian Hunger
Ancient Rites - The Diabolic Serenades
Mortuary Drape - All the Witches Dance
Gorgoroth - Pentagram
Virgin Steele - The Marriage of Heaven and Hell: Part One

1995:

Dissection - Storm of the Light's Bane
Abigor - Nachthymnen (From the Twilight Kingdom)
Virgin Steele - The Marriage of Heaven and Hell Part Two
Nåstrond - Toteslaut
Vader - De Profundis

 

[PrincessHades]

Good thread idea. It's hard to say for me. As far a historical significance goes, I give a lot of credit to the era spanning from the early 70s to early 80s. I'm including dates that are slightly out of bounds, some stuff from the late 60s to early 80s, but the progression there from what I'd consider early heavy metal to the first examples of extreme metal is pretty crazy.

Aa far as my preference goes, if I could only listen to stuff from one decade, I'd have to ignore the fact that Black Sabbath is my favorite band (it's not fair, I'd pick the 70s because I can't do without their early work), but I'd go with the early 80s to early 90s because I think that would give me the most expansive and diverse list of things I'd consider to be masterpieces.

It sucks because I love extreme metal, but I can't do without its progenitors, as well as the classic heavy metal that came out in that period.

 

[no country for old wainds]

you guys are cheating and giving 11 years here.

my heart says i have to include '84 so it needs to be '84-'93, but basically any ten year range from '83 to '98 or so is gonna be amazing.

 

[TechnicalBarbarity]

83-93

 

[PrincessHades]

you guys are cheating and giving 11 years here.

my heart says i have to include '84 so it needs to be '84-'93, but basically any ten year range from '83 to '98 or so is gonna be amazing.

With 10 years and 10 years only, I think sometime in the 80s-90s would be the safest choice, imo.

The fact that Black Sabbath, Judas Priest, Motorhead, Deep Purple, and Rainbow did so much great stuff in the 70s makes it harder, but imo, the 70s were a "quality over quantity" decade for metal as far as I've witnessed retrospectively, as someone who wasn't around then.

 

[Bloopy]

1983 - 1992 since I can count. The range where I could come up with the most great albums is probably actually 2006 - 2015 due to the explosion of doom metal, drone/doom and the more genre-straddling sorts of extreme metal that are my cup of tea etc. But the top tier of my all-time faves leans more towards '83 - '92 so I'll stick with that.

Top thirteen of '83 - '92 with a couple of metal-adjacent ones thrown in:
1. Metallica - ...And Justice for All
2. Danzig - Danzig II: Lucifuge
3. Sticky Filth - Nektar der Götter
4. Megadeth - Countdown to Extinction
5. English Dogs - Where Legend Began
6. Danzig - Danzig III: How the Gods Kill
7. Candlemass - Ancient Dreams
8. Megadeth - Rust in Peace
9. Slayer - Seasons in the Abyss
10. Dayglo Abortions - Two Dogs Fucking • Deux Chien Fourrent
11. Overkill - Horrorscope
12. Saint Vitus - V
13. Metallica - Ride the Lightning

Some greats from bands not quite making the list: Mercyful Fate - Melissa, Stratovarius - Fright Night, Suicidal Tendencies - How Will I Laugh Tomorrow & Tankard - The Morning After. Then if I expanded the list further there'd be selections from the NWOBHM thing, Cathedral, Entombed, Flotsam and Jetsam, Grave, Hermética, Morbid Angel, Nocturnus, Testament, The Accüsed, Vader, W.A.S.P., Winter and on it goes.

 

[Cronopio]

Since I'm a big fan of Europower I'd say 1995-2005 or thereabouts. So many good albums were released during that era of the second wave of power metal. Classics such as:

Stratovarius - Visions (1997)
Rhapsody of Fire - Symphony of Enchanted Lands (1998) (although I prefer Dawn of Victory)
Sonata Arctica - Ecliptica (1999)
Edguy - Theater of Salvation (1999)
Avantasia I + II (2001, 2002)

As well as albums from seasoned veterans such as Helloween (of course) and Gamma Ray (the latter were practically invincible between 1995 and 2001).

Not to mention a shitton of releases by really obscure bands that came out of nowhere and return to nowhere.