20 years since the golden age of Metal

Doctor J

1988, for me the year I really discovered Metal, saw Megadeth for my first ever gig, then Slayer, then Metallica. When I look back at the quality of music released that year, it seems like the high-water mark for quality Metal music. Just check out a selection of the albums released in 1988 :pac:


Iron Maiden - Seventh Son Of A Seventh Son
Megadeth - So Far, So Good, So What
Metallica - ...And Justic For All
Slayer - South Of Heaven
Voivod - Dimension Hatross
Helloween - Keeper Of The Seven Keys Part II
Queensyche - Operation: Mindcrime
Danzig - Danzig
Nuclear Assault - Survive
Death - Leprosy
Testament - The New Order
Bathory - Blood Fire Death
Manowar - Kings Of Metal
King Diamond - Them
Violence - Eternal Nightmare
Anthrax - State Of Euphoria
AC/DC - Blow Up Your Video
Coroner - Punishment for Decadence
Death Angel - Frolic Through The Park
Forbidden - Forbidden Evil
Destruction - Eternal Devastation
Sacred Reich - Surf Nicaragua
Sanctuary - Refuge Denied


P.S. - welcome back, pacman smilie :pac:

mike65

Nostagia is a dreadful thing. Metal peaked in 1972!

Some good stuff that year (if I look past the more thrashy stuff).

Mike.

JC 2K3

Doctor J wrote: »

Metallica - Master Of Puppets

That was '86.

Doctor J

Ha ha ha, well spotted, AJFA ftw

GhostInTheRuins

Doctor J wrote: »

Iron Maiden - Seventh Son Of A Seventh Son
Megadeth - So Far, So Good, So What
Slayer - South Of Heaven
Voivod - Dimension Hatross
Helloween - Keeper Of The Seven Keys Part II
Queensyche - Operation: Mindcrime
Danzig - Danzig
Nuclear Assault - Survive
Death - Leprosy
Testament - The New Order
Bathory - Blood Fire Death
Manowar - Kings Of Metal
King Diamond - Them
Violence - Eternal Nightmare
Anthrax - State Of Euphoria
AC/DC - Blow Up Your Video
Coroner - Punishment for Decadence
Death Angel - Frolic Through The Park
Forbidden - Forbidden Evil
Destruction - Eternal Devastation
Sacred Reich - Surf Nicaragua
Sanctuary - Refuge Denied

Some seriously good albums there including some of my favourites.

Add Crimson Glory - 'Transcendence' and Ozzy's 'No Rest for the Wicked' to that list too to make it just that little bit better :pac:

Léan

Doctor J wrote: »

Megadeth - So Far, So Good, So What
Metallica - ...And Justic For All
Voivod - Dimension Hatross
Nuclear Assault - Survive
Testament - The New Order
Violence - Eternal Nightmare
Anthrax - State Of Euphoria
Coroner - Punishment for Decadence
Death Angel - Frolic Through The Park
Forbidden - Forbidden Evil
Destruction - Eternal Devastation
Sacred Reich - Surf Nicaragua

:eek:
Some seriously premium thrash there. Never realised it was all 88' before. That's pretty cool.

damonjewel

I would say this was more of a renaissance of Metal, Metals true golden period must be around the early mid seventies, but after that it mostly lost its way during the 80s until around 1987

Some cool albums there though

projectmayhem

please, we're in the golden era of metal now with such gods among men like my chemical romance and avenged sevenfold...

carchaeologist

Well "and justice for all"was the last decent metallica album before they started the slippery slide to rubbishness, and that came out in 88

Parsley

Doctor J wrote: »

Manowar - Kings Of Metal

Truly, a masterpiece. :pac:

Doctor J

****in A. Hail And Kill is a champion tune

Morf

I might add Carcass - Reek of Putrefaction

Karl Hungus

Yeah, there were one or two alrighty albums released then, I suppose. :pac:

SameDifference

there has never been a golden age of metal, because metal has always been golden.
The last year has been an awesome time for metal. Machine Head's new album has become the greatest thrash metal album since reign in blood, the Black Crusade tour hit the British Isles with all the force of a hurricane, Nightwish continue, Primordial are doing ****ing awesome, Iron Maiden are reforming, Def Leppard are going on tour with Black Stone Cherry, and Bullet For My Valentine are destroying both the UK and US charts with Scream Aim Fire.

JC 2K3

lol, Bullet for my Valentine.

(And thus, the flame war begins)

OK-Cancel-Apply

Manowar are holding a festival in Germany to mark 20 years since Kings Of Metal. Alice Cooper will be there too!:)

WECpoker

Seems like that time period was the heyday for Metal and Rock as well...

Except for a few odds and ends..most of the music I listen to is from the 70's and 80's

Dragan

Personally i don't understand the whole "Golden Age" thing.

I have yet to go a year without finding new songs, new bands, new artists that i like and can mean just as much to me as the stuff i used to listen to "back in the day".

SameDifference

Dragan wrote: »

Personally i don't understand the whole "Golden Age" thing.

I have yet to go a year without finding new songs, new bands, new artists that i like and can mean just as much to me as the stuff i used to listen to "back in the day".

Exactly my point :rolleyes:

buck65

Some of those albums bring me back alright I was in 3rd year and into metal since 85. Looking back though I think some of those albums and bands were fairly mediocre (Coroner, Voivod, Dark Angel, Ozzy, Maiden after 85, Helloween?!Manowar ) .
Metal was at it's peak though from 84 to 93. My favourite albums all came out in those years
Sadly most of the great bands broke up or released some decidedly dodgy stuff since then.
I can't really think of a band formed since then that have had the same influence... please correct me if I'm wrong.

Prezatch

There's a lot of similar thrashy stuff in that list though. I think metal has developed since then and branched out nicely. 2002 was a good year too, full of diversity, for instance:

Agalloch - The Mantle
Porcupine Tree - In Absentia (not strictly metal i suppose)
Isis - Oceanic
Nile - In There Darkened Shrines
Opeth - Deliverance
Negura Bunget - N Crugu Bradulu
Immortal - Sons of northern darkness
Mastodon - Remission
Meshuggah - Nothing
Amon Amarth - Versus The World
Decapitated - Nihility