You also have their debut.
Amazing album! And my non Ozzy era favorite Sabbath record (it even surpasses their debut, 13, Technical Ecstasy, Master Of Reality, and of couse Never Say Die... so it's my #5 Sabbath record). People normally adore Heaven and Hell but I love Mob Rules so much more. The only reason it didn't make #1 in my list was Killers.
Monster of an album, underrated as hell and my favorite from the band.
Monster of a thrasher! My favorite from Sodom.
That thread already exists (although it's not confined to "metal" albums):
Looking at what happened in the 90's, we could consider 1990 to be classic metal's "heroic last stand".
Mmmm not quite... The first half of the decade was still really good when it came to some classic metal releases
Yep... It was the rise of the Hammerfalls, Edguys, Avantasias, Stratovarius and Rhapsody's of the world. I mean, personally I think they're all trash, but it sure was a powerful wave of revivalism.
What do you want? I simply can't stand those bands LOL. Nevertheless I must admit it: they had the merit of being part of a really strong revivalist movement in a time when almost every 80's Power Metal band not named Blind Guardian was struggling to maintain their quality status. Credit where credit's due.
Wrong. Both rule.
Right. it ruled. Normally people who complain about that is because of this point yo accurately pointed:
... and since I always fucking hated hair metal I simply loved it (am not a Nirvana, Hole, L7, Screaming Trees, Babes In Toyland or Blind Melon fan... but I'd rather listen to 1 hour of any of these bands than 1 minute of 99,9% of 80's hair metal. Plus Pearl Jam, Alice In Chains and Soundgarden were not Grunge. Stop it. The first has always been a Rock band and the latter Heavy Alternative Rock bands.
Most classical bands already had evolved as hell during the 80's. Killers and TNOTB, British Steel and Point Of Entry, Kill'Em All, Show No Mercy, Killing Is My Business, Fistful Of Metal, Feel The Fire, InThe Sign Of Evil, Bathory, War And Pain, Bestial Devastation, Morbid Tales and Endless Pain are (respectively) really different from Somewhere In Time and Seventh Son, Ram It Down and Turbo, And Justice For All, South Of Heaven, So Far So Good So What, State Of Euphoria, The Years Of Decay, Agent Orange, Hammerheart, Nothingface, Beneath The Remains, Into The Pandemonium and Extreme Aggression just to name a few. Sometimes people get caught up in dates with zeros. There was never an identity crisis... the 90's were just another decade when new bands continued to pour from the sky but particularly it was the time when various genres in heavy music got more mixed with other genres in a ratio like it never happened before in 20 years of metal.
Once again it all started in the late 80's: Pretty Hate Machine, The Mind Is A Terrible Thing To Taste, L'eau Rouge, Gashed Senses And Crossfire. Not To mention the European veterans like Nitzer Ebb, KMFDM, Die Krupps, Laibach and Ensturzende Neubauten which are much prior to that. But yeah... those bands reaped what they sew basically during the early 90's (albums like Psalm 69, Broken, Only Heaven) that later would open up the road for Maryllin Manson and Rammstein.
Black Metal sure (the second wave). Now most big Death Metal bands that came out with full strength in the late 80's started slowly morphing into something else during the early 90's (1993 to 1995... somewhere along those years) either going prog Death Metal (Death, Pestilence), Death N' Roll (Entombed, Gorefest, Carcass), adding industrial and noise traits to their sound (Morgoth, Brutal Truth) and groove (Sepultura, Obituary, Napalm Death). I'm not saying those bands decayed... in some cases it was quite the opposite: they got even better. But by the second half of the 90's the Death Metal scene (so well outlined in its genre) was all mixed up and disintegrated as we knew it.
Although Korn brought themselves the door down with a bang with their debut, the genre only started to gain true hegemony once System Of A Down and Slipknot also released their debuts ... and the rise of the infamous Bizkit fuckheads was the last nail in the coffin. And that was in the turn of the decade (1998, 1999) and still lasted for a good amount of the 2000's. Fortunately it ended!
... and since I always fucking hated hair metal I simply loved it (am not a Nirvana, Hole, L7, Screaming Trees, Babes In Toyland or Blind Melon fan... but I'd rather listen to 1 hour of any of these bands than 1 minute of 99,9% of 80's hair metal. Plus Pearl Jam, Alice In Chains and Soundgarden were not Grunge. Stop it. The first has always been a Rock band and the latter Heavy Alternative Rock bands.
True, true... eheheheh
FOTD is bigger than NPFTD but otherwise it’s about as stripped down. A lot of the tracks are pretty straightforward — Be Quick, Here To Eternity, Chains Of Misery, Judas Be My Guide, Weekend Warrior. When they throw in extra stuff it’s more experimental than on previous Maiden albums (see: Fear Is The Key and The Apparition). The only songs on there that have the classic Maiden are the title track and Afraid To Shoot Strangers, the latter of which hints big-time at the next album. And even then no song crosses the 8 minute mark, which hearkens back to their earlier years, not to the final three ‘80s albums. It’s the final album not to have an 8+ minute epic too.
Oh yeah I agree with that. It all happened during the ‘90s, though, that was kinda my point. With all the classic bands having identity crises, people overlook how many great new acts were now on the table.
