The 80s is where the game completely changed. You had Iron Maiden with Bruce, Sabbath with Dio, Ozzy Osbourne solo career, Dio solo career, Judas Priest, Metallica, Megadeth, Slayer, Anthrax, Exodus, and Testament. Plus all the hair metal bands lol
Shout at the devil era crue was as metal as any of those artists and I'd say AFD could go toe to toe with any of their albums as well, those being the only 2 bands considered Hair metal that rightly belong....Early def leppard too.
Plus, the 80's changed the game when metal became heavier and darker, with bands like Venom, Mercyful Fate, Death, Morbid Angel, Bathory, Celtic Frost, etc...
80s all the way. I think most point to late 60s/all of 70s because its the formative years, but it really gained steam almost all through the 80s. I read somewhere in the comments saying mid 80s to mid 90s, and thats probably most accurate.
@@TheeMissingLinc you know, when I was a kid, korn to me was the absolute awesome shit, but I got more into metal and punk so I left them behind and thought they sucked ass. But as I grew older, I realized I was being a pretentious little prick and respected them for what they contributed to music. Now I ask, what have you done to music that can change my mind? Your shitty little comments and your opinions are nothing. No one cares. Get over it. Korn will be forever talked about, and you? Nothing. No one will care or even know. Play music that people will listen to then come back with a valid excuse why you think a band sucks.
Honestly the 90's had so many bands and genres evolve to their prime, Death metal rose to its peak, Black Metal had gained its notoriety, the alternative scenes were bringing heavier genres into the mainstream and was a gateway for most casual music fans, Industrial metal became more stablished, Sludge and Doom metal git even bigger, Hardcore bands started to take on more metal influences and the kids who grew up with bands from the 80's started their own groups, ect. The 90's was just more fleshed out and diverse and started branching out so many different directions and experimentations that really paved the way for future music. The other decades are also great but I think looking back the 90's was definitely the most exciting.
There was a period when Metal was dead. Grunge killed metal for many years. Then hip hop took over. If you remember The 90’s only had Pantera for the longest.
Late 80s through mid 90s were great. Bathory, hellhammer, Celtic Frost, King Diamond, Mercyful Fate, and then Dissection, Satyricon, Darkthrone, Burzum, Mayhem, Nokturnal Mortum, Emperor, Gorgoroth, Etc...
@@Spaghetti_policy Although in the mainstream it was dead, bands were still putting out great records and new bands were forming in the underground that went on to make great music during that decade and into the early 2000's. I would agree Pantera was a huge commercial success in the metal scene during that time but it definitely wasn't the only thing that metal offered in that decade.
@@GreaterViewDesign I agree personally from 85 - 96 a lot of my favorite albums were released and its a nice mix of when things were fresh and new and the recordings were raw in the late 80's to the mid 90's when bands were becoming refined and tighter and studios were more experienced on how to help record a great sounding metal album
Not really it pulled it out of the Mainstream it just stagnated the genre it killed fun bands now hear me out I’m all up to listen to death trash black etc but once in a while I like to listen to crue etc unfortunately after the start of the 90s you just don’t hear fun metal like that anymore it’s all just a contest of how much more depressed a band sounds
I’d say the 80s, because that’s when metal really came into its own and became distinct. The legends like Priest and Maiden became behemoths. And also I think the 80s saw the birth of so many new subgenres. I think all of the major sub genres find their roots in the 80s. It was also a good time for hardcore punk as well. The 70s is definitely important, but I see it as like the proto-era for most of these genres. Would’ve been cool to be a part of the 80s scenes.
It's cuz most of these guys were from gay metalcore bands but every one knows that 95% of metalheads, metal listeners and metal community say the 80's are the best era. Everybody knows the best decade for metal was the 80's hands down.
80's, specifically 1983 and 1984. Pretty much all albums that came out in this biennium are either debut albums of great bands or the best albums of classic bands
What do you mean by extreme, that could be referring to multiple things. It could mean fast paced it could mean heavily distorted it could mean extreme screamo type vocals like in metalcore
@@maisumthiago8615 I think he means extreme genres like Death Metal and Black Metal. If you're talking about genres like Thrash Metal and Hair and Glam Metal, I'd say the 80s were the peak.
There's too many variables and it's all opinion. I listen to more Death Metal than Thrash these days, but I remember being in High School in the 80's. There were a lot of us listening to Maiden, Priest, Motorhead, etc... but waiting for something faster and heavier to come along. Then we got Slayer, Metallica, and all of the other great Thrash bands and as I'm sure you know Chuck S. with Death and other DM bands started in the mid 80's as well. Cool topic.
90s. there was so much unique bands like primus, tool, rammstein, korn, nine inch nails, rollins band, smashing pumpkins, deftones, all those mike patton stuff, pantera, nirvana, alice in chains very crazy, diverse and very interesting time for rock music
The 90's were dominated by rock bands.. like most of the bands you named. I agree it was definitely a great time for music.. probably my favorite. But it wasn't a great decade for metal...
There really is no right or wrong honestly. It just depends on the individual and how it touched or impacted one's life... hell I enjoy shit from 60s rock to now. If it's good its good...
@@mattiatosi8350 you're not wrong, but it's interesting to note that 7-string guitars and double kick drums - both mainstays of modern metal - were played by jazz musicians in the mid 20th century. Wild huh?
90s takes the cake imo. it’s when the diversity and experimenting of all music fusing into heavy metal really got brought into the spotlight. ever since then metal music changed for the better forever.
I agree.. 70's was proto-metal foundations 80's was the birth of true Heavy metal, and then all the sub-genre's opened up from Thrash to Hair metal. Great bands, Judas, Iron Maiden, Accept, Dokken, Motley Crue. 90's almost fucked up with grunge, but then out of all that came the birth of Extreme metal genre's like Groove metal, Death Metal, Black Metal, Industrial, Prog-Metal and then Nu-metal. 2000's had a shaky start, although I'm biased here, as I'm not a huge fan of Nu metal (I like some, but not all), but then in the late 90's Metalcore and Post Hardcore Screamo sort of stuff was on the rise which was seen as a revitalisation of the metal scene. 2010's Deathcore and Metalcore have really taken off in this era, but also has seen a lot of the 80's & 90's classic bands reform and release new albums that have been fire (Accept, and Judas really come to mind, but also Gorgoroth, Immortal & Watain). And look at one of the most watched RUclips videos of last year - Jinjer. Metal is definitely not dead! \M/
Thats true..and it depends on your age as well,i was born 1973 startet listen to Metal when i was 16..when you have favourit band you want to listen to their early stuff,Bands they listen to..so you start realy getting in to it..i never had enough time to listen to everything ..god bless the Internet,i can do it now(and anoy my Kids,Not my Parents..!!)
80s, 80s was the Pentacle of Heavy Metal. Even Hair Metal bands would have one or two tracks per album that were pushing speed metal and shredding. By 1987 Metal was the most listened to music in the world and was selling out Arenas globaly and playing to hundreds of thousands of people per show! No to mention nearly every album going platinum. 80s was the first decade where bands embraced the name Metal and even to a degree saw being called "Rock" as an insult. The subculture and "Metal Uniform" of Denim and Leather was in full effect and Metal was selling big in films, TV, radios, Headbangers Ball, etc. Finally like mentioned in the video nearly every genre of Metal to various degrees was created in the 80s. (I also include a little bleed over like 77-93) If you remove the 80s then Metal fundamentaly doesn't exist. No Metallica, No Slayer, No Judas Priest or Iron Maiden, No Megadeth, No Def Leppard (Which means no Pantera by the way) it all collapses. 80s Metal is the foundation of the Genre.
@Dangerous2099 Def Leppard was part of the New Wave of British Heavy Metal with Iron Maiden, Judas Priest, and Saxon (look it up) And it's that early era that Dimebag credited for learning how to play. No Def Leppard, no Pantera.
Mid 80s’ to mid 90s’. That was when metal had the most growth to it. Sure, the tail end of the 1960s did kick off the very origins of heavy-metal, which I still respect Led Z. & Black S. for pioneering it like they had. But the true growth and development had to be from the mid-1980s to the mid 1990s.
I would say the 90s. All of the early bands and musicians were still touring and making records. Pantera at their height, all the future legends securing their place in the 90s, plus the death and black metali innovations. Mix of the past cementing the future.
The 80s and early 90s were the best for me. Basically everything from 1983/1986- 1993/1996 before Nu Metal became really big. Somewhere in between those dates is my favorite. I was not a fan of Nu Metal at all but I will say that the 2000s were a pretty good time for Metal as well. You had a lot of new bands coming out that grew up listening to the same stuff I liked and the Metal Scene definitely expanded and got a whole lot wider and more diverse.
For me it’s gonna have to be the 80’s and late 90’s and early to mid 2000’s. Metallica, slayer, Judas Priest and then you have slipknot and linkin park and then you have the metal core bands like early bring me the horizon and bullet for my valentine. Thrash, nu metal and metalcore shaped what I think of today as “metal” it’s just something about the melodic catchy guitar riffs of the metalcore/emo bands and the aggressive distorted guitars in songs like before I forget, duality and psychosocial or disasterpiece, and the heavy grittiness of linkin park in the hybrid theory era with chesters amazing vocals and the aggressive fast paced pounding of thrash which created a guideline for how to sound “metal” as a guitar player. It’s hard to choose but for me I would say that these things have been the most influential for me as a guitarist
@@JackCarver10 nah I literally just turned 20 I just like older music more than new music. Nothing wrong with newer music I just like the energy that performers from back then gave off when they were up there on stage
Don't sleep on the influence of melodic death metal on all those bands. Gothenburg was only rivalled by Florida as the most important death metal scene in the 90's.
The 80's, without a doubt. That's when it really took off. Starting with with the NWOBHM, followed by thrash metal from the Bay area, then progressing into different subgenres, spawning the guitar heroes and growing to immense popularity, until grunge made metal uncool for a while.
One of those anti-grunge guys... Grunge didn't make metal uncool. If anything, it made hair metal uncool. But at the end of the day, it's more complicated than that. Times will always change. Things become uncool because they become old, overused and watered down. Something new emerges that will be liked by younger generations, and older generations as well. Nirvana didn't kill anything. The times were changing and Nirvana just happened to become the most popular band. People who blame them are just butt hurt because their Mötley Crüe clone of a band didn't make it big. Guess what, the world moved on. Get over it. It's not 1987 anymore and it wasn't in 1991 either.
@@DanSmeed I'm not anti-grunge at all. Grunge gave us some of the best albums in rock history. But the popularity of grunge didn't just affect hair metal. It made people lose interest in metal in general. For a short period, luckily.
@@RoaldKoger Alright. But, wouldn't it be wrong to say that people lost interest in metal, considering most of the grunge bands had metal- influenced songs? But I guess it's true that pure metal was "out" for awhile.
It's hard to say any other decade when your favorite band started in the late 60's, but try look at it on a whole!!! for me it's 80's, that's when it went from hard rock into metal, the hard rock bands went heavier!! until the 80's it was just rock/hard rock, then you the birth of thrash metal too in that decade!
The 90's would like a word Judas Priest - Painkiller Megadeth - Rust in Peace Death - Symbolic, Human, ITP, TSOP Carcass - Heartwork Gorguts - Obscura Cynic - Focus Atheist - Unquestionable Presence Morbid Angel - Altars of Madness Metallica - S/T Slayer - Seasons In The Abyss Pantera - Cowboys from Hell, Far Beyond Driven, VDOP Testament - Low Alice in Chains - Dirt, Facelift Kyuss - Blues for the Red Sun, Welcome to Sky Valley Neurosis - Through Silver In Blood Meshuggah - Destroy, Erase, Improve, Chaosphere Ulver - Bergtatt, Nattens Madrigal Opeth - Morningrise, My Arms, Your Hearse, Still Life Dark Tranquillity - The Gallery In Flames - The Jester Race, Whoracle, Colony Edge of Sanity - Crimson Amon Amarth - Once Sent From The Golden Hall Devin Townsend - Ocean Machine Strapping Young Lad - City Emperor - Into The Nightside Eclipse, Anthems Dissection - The Somberlain, Storm of the Light's Bane At the Gates - Red In The Sky, Slaughter of the Soul Fear Factory - Demanufacture Blind Guardian - Nightfall in Middle Earth Nevermore - Dreaming Neon Black The Gathering - Mandylion Tiamat - Wildhoney Anathema - Judgement Down - NOLA Enslaved - Below the Lights, Eld, Frost, Blodhem Paradise Lost - Icon, Gothic Isis - The Red Sea Bathory - Hammerheart Katatonia - Brave Murder Day Entombed - Left Hand Path Soilwork - A Predators Portrait Sepultura - Roots Symphony X - Divine Wings of Tragedy Amorphis - Tales From Thousand Lakes
I was not born but hands down 80s Metallica, slayer, Megadeth, anthrax,Ozzy Osbourne, Judas Priest Ride the Lightning Master of puppets And justice for all Kill em all Reign in blood South of heaven Peace sells Among the living Bark at the moon Blizzard of ozz Screaming for vengeance All great albums I am only 12 but love to play heavy metal on drums 90s Too slipknot, Korn
I really love how old metal and new metal is appreciated in the same way, maybe some bands are oversatured nowadays but in most arts old is outdated but very rarely you see someone saying that black sabbath, metallica, iron maiden or any 70s-80s band is trash or outdated.
@@ozanmrcan weak? You kidding? A lot of Thrash Metal bands have amazing albums from that era. Melodic death metal Mostly Brutal death Metal Black Metal Groove Metal Power metal Atvangarde Metal
The 90s. There was RATM, Pantera, Alice In Chains, Soundgarden, Metallica, Megadeth, Slayer, Anthrax, Iron Maiden, Slipknot, KoRn, Meshuggah, Kyuss, Entombed, Cannibal Corpse, Death, Godsmack, Rammstein, Sevendust, Sepultura, Marilyn Manson, White Zombie, Rob Zombie, etc.
And Suffocation, Broken Hope, Unleashed, Autopsy, Immortal, Enslaved, Emperor, Marduk, Pungent Stench, At the Gates, Dying Fetus, Bloodbath, Deeds of Flesh, Dissection, Malevolent Creation, Obsessed, Grave, Morbid Angel, Brutality, Sinister, Darkthrone, Immolation, Obituary, Deicide, Hypocrisy, Dismember, Incantation, Gorguts.... and those are all legendary, game changing bands. Anyone who says anything other than the 90s literally has no idea what they're talking about
Early to mid 90’s were the shit. Seems like every other week another amazing band from nowhere, usa was rolling through my area. Just amazing underground acts grinding on the road for gas money and a dollar menu lifestyle. Discovering them in such intimate settings as we had at the time around the area made the experience all that much better.
@MARKOFTHEBLADE That's actually the thing that bothered me most They have phil commenting on all these bands but meanwhile he was the front man of one of the most influential bands ever . Felt disrespectful to me
I agree. Anything to do with metal history that doesn't mention Pantera is bogus. Anselmo appears, yes, and he could have talked about the immense importance of his own band, but he didn't. For the others not to mention Pantera is kind of ridiculous, honestly. They WERE metal in the 90s!
I agree. Where the fuck is Pantera in all of these answers? Pantera started in the 80's. I remember hearing them and thinking "Damn! This band is cool!" And then hearing them again in the 90's and thinking "Damn! This can't be the same band I heard in the 80's!" But it was! Mind blown!
I’ve always thought you could look at this in two different ways: the roots of metal or it’s penultimate point. So you could say the 70’s because of bands like Sabbath and Priest, or, in my opinion, the 80’s when you had metal divulge into tons of different genres and with bands like The Big Four and Exodus, and then you had hair metal with Motley Crue, power/heavy metal with Dio and Maiden, and death and black metal also started at that time too with Possessed, Death, Venom, and Bathory, and then of course Mercyful Fate/King Diamond. There’s just tons of great bands and albums that came out of the 80’s
I can't decide between the 80s or actually the 2010s The 80s was the outright the most important decade for metal, no matter which subgenre, that it legit blew up big in both the mainstream and the underground. Almost no metal band in the last 20 years would be here without the 80s. The most recent decade that just passed, 2010s, honestly has a lot more creativity and substance that I think anyone can sink their teeth into. Granted barely any band nowadays isn't straight up metal (metalcore, djent, whatever poppy's recent album is) but imo with such a wide variety of different spins and takes on blanket we call "metal", I believe there's something for everyone and I personally fuck with that
The most important decade was probably the 80s, but the best I would say would whatever decade you were in your late teens/early 20s. When you're in that age to go to the most shows and listen to the music and discover the most bands. God what a time. And having grown up with youtube also showing up, the ease of discovering new music was insane, I may have lost the experience of going to a record store and buying from the album look and stuff like that, but hearing recomendations from people online and being able to instantely listen to those recomendations is truly awesome.
The 80's was the best era by far. The birth of different genres & subgenres: From Metallica to Cannibal Corpse... every new band was discovered by buying/trading cassettes. Felt like a treasure inside your pocket. No cameras or phones at the shows. Just pure insanity and fun in the crowd.
King Diamond - Fatal Portrait Voivod - Rrröööaaarrr Metallica - Master Of Puppets Iron Maiden - Somewhere In Time Megadeth - Peace Sells... But Who's Buying? Queensryche - Rage For Order Fates Warning - Awaken The Guardian Flotsam & Jetsam - Doomsday For The Deceiver Candlemass - Epicus Doomicus Metallicus Omen - The Curse And that's just 1986 folks!
80's.. so easy. Sabbath's best record came out in 1980. Thrash metal shows up and says, "hey.. you can take the speed of punk and use your talent to make really cool riffs." thrash's style is easily the biggest influence on heavy music. 80s you get actual power metal bands. cross over bands.. NWOBHM hits it big.. so many subgenre's blossom and flourish. i am only 35 but am still discovering 80's bands I've never heard and thinking, "If these guys were a smaller band of this decade this is definitely the best decade for heavy music."
@@antoniop4914 most people agree with you. I think Dio breathed fresh air into the lungs of Geezer and Tony. Heaven and Hell is easily my favorite Sabbath album. The lyrics aren't cringe worthy looks at the world. The riffs are better. There is more speed. It just feels alive where older Sabbath is too slow.
@@marcusg5665 stop the madness. Trust me I love me some dio and im with the 80s when it comes to best decade for metal but no way sir does 80s sabbath beat out early 70s sabbath. The first 5 sabbath albums are masterpieces. Yeah we can debate whether those albums were actually metal or not (well at least the first two to three were more blues influenced if anything) but Vol. 4 Supernaut? Snowblind. A national acrobat on sabbath bloody sabbath, oh my god that’s some straight fucking heat man. The thrill of it all, is pure fire as well.
@@user-ll9nu8fb7j Trust me.. I know my BS opinion is not popular. And you'll never hear me say those first 5 are not influential nor monumental. I just get really bored in each song. The decade of 1980-1989 also was the birth of all of our favorite subgenres. the 70's were the people who first arrived to a new land (metal) and the 80's were their children and grandchildren. Taking what their parents taught them and then going way further and creating better civilizations. That's my analogy/metaphor.
I'm an old fart, but I was happy to hear Caleb saying 2000-2010s. I hope he's right, but the 90s man! *Morbid Angel, Deicide, Pantera, Entombed, Nirvana, Sepultura, Darkthrone, RATM, Carcass, Type O Negative, Cannibal Corpse, Korn, Machine Head, NIN, Meshuggah, At the Gates andsoonandsoonandsoon...*
I think there’s merit to picking 2000-2010 just because of LOG and A7X...they put out the most incredible albums...I think music in general took a dive after 2010
@@TV-yf9kn I’m not a fan of either tbh but these last few years in extreme metal have been some of the best ever, so many amazing underground death and black metal bands
The fact that we can talk about all these decades makes that we have acces to all these decades. In ' 85 as a 7 year old I got introduced to King diamond, Accept, Metallica and Iron maiden. 35 years later and we are having this conversation. It means that this music sticks to you. No matter what decade
'Sabbath alone makes the 70s the highlight of metal (even though they considered themselves to be more "hard rock"). Sabbath Bloody Sabbath (1973) and Sabotage (1975), back to back, the best metal albums of all time!
It's difficult. Personally, all of my favorite music came out between the years of 1995-2005. Or I should say the bands who produced the music really gained notoriety in that time. Korn, System of a Down, Primus, Slipknot, Tool, Dream Theater, Lamb of God, Opeth, Gojira...etc.. But I know that when talking about importance, the 80's is the most important.
You can see a trend, most of these guys are older and grew up listening to 80s metal bands. The really old guys say the 60s and I bet younger guys will say the early 2000s. Personally I think a lot of the 80s and 90s was trash and I wouldn't consider black Sabbath or bands like that to be what we call metal today. Right now is the best time decade of metal because we have so many great bands within reach of their audience, some of which are from the 80s
Metal and music in general is alot more diverse now then back in the days. Now there are soo many different subgenres of metal and alot more underground bands it's fascinating to listen to. So i also have to agree that this is the best metal decade. As the years go on it becomes more and more diverse. This is why i love alot of genres in music, as the decade passes, music changes soo it becomes fascinating❤️✨
I'm a 90s, early 2000s kid, so Korn is actually my favorite band of all time. I know those years also brought about a lot of crap, but Korn, Deftones, SOAD, Slipknot, early Linkin Park, all gold.
I think it has to be the 80's. That when the metal look and sound was really honed. All the albums from that era were a huge influence to what we know now as all these different metal sub-genres. Metallica, slayer, megadeth, motorhead, iron maiden, judas priest, napalm death, and the list goes on and on. To this day I still listen to the classic 80's metal albums all the time. Metal as a whole is an amazing genre and an amazing diverse community of people and ideas and thats why I will always be a metalhead.
The 90s in a way...Pantera went no 1, Metallica became legends (and nearly blew it), Slayer hit the top ten, and Carcass, Cathedral, Sepultura, Napalm Death and Entombed were all on major labels. We will never see that again.
@@redhurricane24 Load and after that. Thought those records were really flat and lifeless. They lost me for years after that. Even to an extent the Black Album too...I remember picking it up day of and being disappointed.
@@legend-rx9ik Yeah...I remember picking it up when it came out...being a little disappointed.. it still sounded like Metallica, but it was like they were going for radio...which they were...I enjoyed the mini epics they were doing...but when it came to Load, they lost me totally.
I feel like this last decade has been the best for underground metal. This is a really exciting time to be into it. That said, the classics are classic for a reason.
i'm sorry but i'll go with the 90's, the death metal development in the early 90's is awesome: Death, Morbid Angel, Atheist, Cynic, Obituary, Pestilence...But that works for many other genres too, power metal had blind guardian and gamma ray, Thrash had Pantera and Sepultura, who in my eyes made legendary abums, then Black metal and so on...
80's thrash ie Metallica, Megadeth, Slayer, Antrax, Sepultura etc.... paved the way for all metal that came after ie 90's: Pantera, Cannibal Corpse etc...ie 2000's: Slipknot, Mudvayne etc...
It's the '80s. It was metal's peak. Anyone who says the '90s is out of their fucking minds. Metal was on life support in the '90s. Metal was front page rock in the '80s. THAT'S when it went mainstream. The first metal album to go number one in the US was Metal Health in 1983.
Listening to all these guys gals just talk n stuff really makes me fucking miss the parking lots before metal shows. Can't wait to just talk fucking metal again!!!!!
Big respect for those who came before, but the best is with no doubt in my mind got to be the 90s. The band's were so unique and coming out with stuff no one believed was possible.
For my is the late 80s and middle 90s , bands like melvins , napalm death godflesh , sepultura , pantera , even the best era of black metal whit the early mayhem and darkthrone etc
Late 1960’s through the 70’s. With bands like Blue Cheer,Iron Butterfly,Cream,Jimi Hendrix,Vanilla Fudge,Grand Funk Railroad,And of course Led Zeppelin. Black Sabbath took heaviness to the next level. Was and still is a big fan of early metal from the 70’s.
Hmmm I’m not seeing enough love for the 90’s. In my opinion it’s by far the best. Here’s why 1990: Megadeth - Rust in Peace Judas Priest - Painkiller Slayer - Seasons in the Abyss Entombed - Left Hand Path Bathory - Hammerheart Artillery - By Inheritance Morbid Saint - Spectrum of Death Obituary - Cause of Death 1991: Death - Human Atheist - Unquestionable Presence Sepultura - Arise Autopsy - Mental Funeral Dismember - Like an Ever Flowing Stream Carcass - Necroticism Coroner - Mental Vortex Entombed - Clandestine Suffocation - Effigy of the Forgotten Morbid Angel - Blessed Are the Sick 1992: Faith No More - Angel Dust Darkthrone - A Blaze in the Northern Sky Kyuss - Blues For the Red Sky Neurosis - Souls at Zero W.A.S.P. - The Crimson Idol Sleep - Holy Mountain Incantation - Onward to Golgotha Bolt Thrower - The IVth Crusade Demolition Hammer - Epidemic of Violence Demigod - Slumber of Sullen Eyes 1993: Death - Individual Thought Patterns Demilich - Nespithe Morbid Angel - Covenant Darkthrone - Under A Funeral Moon Disembowelment - Transcendence Into the Peripheral Carcass - Heartwork Cynic - Focus Dissection - The Somberlain Melvins - Houdini My Dying Bride - Turn Loose the Swans 1994: Kyuss - Welcome to Sky Valley Burzum - Hvis Lyset Tar Oss Emperor - In the Nightside Eclipse De Mysteriis Dom Sathanas Darkthrone - Transilvanian Hunger Tiamat- Wildhoney Acid Bath - When the Kite String Pops Bolt Thrower - ...For Victory Incantation - Mortal Throne of Nazarene Enslaved - Vikingligr veldi 1995: Death - Symbolic Ulver- Bergtatt Dissection - Storm of the Light’s Bane Blind Guardian - Imaginations From the Other Side Suffocation - Pierced From Within Paradise Lost - Draconian Times At the Gates - Slaughter of the Soul Gamma Ray - Land of the Free Darkthrone - Panzerfaust Dark Tranquility - The Gallery 1996: Burzum - Filosofem Neurosis - Through Silver in Blood Cryptopsy - None So Vile Edge of Sanity - Crimson Opeth - Morningrise Type O Negative - October Rust Katatonia - Brave Murder Day Immolation - Here in After In Flames - The Jester Race Sacramentum - Far Away From the Sun 1997: Emperor - Anthems to the Welkin at Dusk Strapping Young Lad - City Devin Townsend - Ocean Machine Electric Wizard - Come My Fanatics... Ulver - Nattens Madrigal Bruce Dickinson - Accident of Birth The Gathering - Nighttime Birds Gamma Ray - Somewhere Out in Space Esoteric - The Pernicious Enigma Symphony X - The Divine Wings of Tragedy 1998: Death - The Sound of Perseverance Gorguts - Obscura Opeth - My Arms, Your Hearse Blind Guardian - Nightfall in Middle Earth Bruce Dickinson - The Chemical Wedding Incantation - Diabolical Conquest The Chasm - Deathcult for Eternity Virgin Steele - Invictus Dawn - Slaughtersun Solstice - New Dark Age 1999: Opeth - Still Life Immortal - At the Heart of Winter Neurosis - Times of Grace Paysage D’Hiver - Paysage D’Hiver Agalloch - Pale Folklore Windir - Arntor Summoning - Stronghold Testament - The Gathering Type O Negative - World Coming Down Esoteric - Metamorphogenesis Apart from 97 and 98, every year of the decade is practically perfect and chalked full of classics throughout the whole genre. Although it definitely wasn’t the decade of the genre’s commercial peak, from an artistic standpoint no other decade is close to as complete.
Finally somebody putting some respect to Electric Wizard. That band and Sleep is what made people know more about Doom Metal but it seems alot of people forgot about EW. Such an amazing band✨
85-95. Most major subgenres have their roots there. Thrash, Speed, and classic Heavy Metal bands were huge. Power, Doom Death, Black, Grindcore, and Progressive were emerging. Hell, you could even say Djent (or proto-Djent)was around because of Meshuggah.
2000's was a most diverse decade ever for music in general, not just metal. so for me, second half of 90's and 2000's was best years for every subgenre of metal.
80's. Easily. Idk if it's my personal favorite, but you can't deny metal found its identity in the 80's. So many albums that still hold up amazingly well today were made then.
The 80s would be my simple answer, but my favorite span of ten years and the most important imo would be 83-93. Those years contain the beginning of thrash, death metal, power metal, grind and second wave black metal (and most of the first wave as well). 83-93 is the best decade of metal, hands down.
Honestly I'd say early 2000's and late 90's because you have Slipknot, Korn, System of a down, Tool, Deftones, Rammstein, Mudvayne and all these new sounding great bands and albums. But I'd also say 2010's because there are more and more bands and thanks to social media more metal fans are connecting. But also so many new genres were created with like traditional languages or instruments (Alien Weaponry : Maori Language/ The Hu: Mongolian instruments) and so much more!
The best era’s of metal were all of them. I personally see the differences more related to the production of the music and what people had to listen to it. Sound equipment was massive to me and what I listened to. I remember in 1994 when I got into the first car that had a really good custom system. It had a Kenwood receiver with crossovers that amped out to pioneer 4 ways 6x9s, Kenwood surround tweeters, and 4 JL audio 10in subs. We popped in Pantera’s Far Beyond Driven and lit the fattest joint and clam baked to our souls being destroyed by the best produced and written music I have ever witnessed. The quality of music needed that system and was the closest we could get to being live. When I was younger the systems didn’t do metal justice and to fully experience it you had to be live. I remember for about 10 years straight from when I was about 15 to about 25 I would always be building out my audio systems to rock out to the best metal. Final flash back... Sepultura Roots on mushrooms, nighttime, tailgate, blaring system, shooting stars, melting into the woods and beyond. Life changing.
I'd say the 80's. That decade started with NWOBHM and American party metal like Van Halen and ended with thrash metal at it's prime, the emergence of extreme metal and alternative metal. Not to mention glam and pop metal all through the decade if that's your thing. I love 70's metal but most of it is in the hard rock/metal gray area and so I can't really say it was the greatest decade for metal. The 90's started out strong with a lot of new innovations in the genre but by 96 metal was as dead as it's ever been and then you had nu metal at the end of the decade which was a love-it-or-hate-it sub-genre. The 2000's and 2010's were hit and miss for me outside of the awesome prog and doom sub-genres.
I’d say the 90’s since that’s when 80’s thrash bands emerged into the mainstream, there were heavy grunge groups, death metal was invented, and there was also rap metal, industrial metal, nu metal, the Second Wave of Thrash (Sepultura, Machine Head, Pantera, etc) and all sorts of other groups.
the 80s for sure...the 90s was more diverse but by the mid 90s the scene had started fracturing into sub-genres....in the 80s we were all metalheads, listening to all sub-genres without judgement (mostly) and that's when metal became metal as we know it today...
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Not the best "decade" per se, but the best 10 years in Metal history were from 1986 to 1996 in my opinion
Those years did influence, good one, I can't say more.
That’s what I was thinking lol
Yup was gonna say 87-97
I agree with this
@Swabian Salute even tho you might hate the black album but 1991 is the year that brought metal to mainstream
I love how Phil closed the case. "Oh god slayer in the 80s. The 80s"
Totally
hahhaha
Phil , Nailed it!
I didn’t get into slayer until way later, guitar heroes got me into them
The 80s is where the game completely changed. You had Iron Maiden with Bruce, Sabbath with Dio, Ozzy Osbourne solo career, Dio solo career, Judas Priest, Metallica, Megadeth, Slayer, Anthrax, Exodus, and Testament. Plus all the hair metal bands lol
Shout at the devil era crue was as metal as any of those artists and I'd say AFD could go toe to toe with any of their albums as well, those being the only 2 bands considered Hair metal that rightly belong....Early def leppard too.
And an amendment to this excellent comment would be Morbid Angel, Venom, Candlemass, Death, and Bathory.
Queensryche is the best band from the ‘80s
@@andrethethrashe - I don't disagree. They're my all time favorite as well.
Plus, the 80's changed the game when metal became heavier and darker, with bands like Venom, Mercyful Fate, Death, Morbid Angel, Bathory, Celtic Frost, etc...
I grew up with korn, lamb of god, tool but it has to be 80s, slayer to Metallica to evh to iron maiden. 80s changed it all.
80s all the way. I think most point to late 60s/all of 70s because its the formative years, but it really gained steam almost all through the 80s. I read somewhere in the comments saying mid 80s to mid 90s, and thats probably most accurate.
Korn is absolute garbage
@@TheeMissingLinc you know, when I was a kid, korn to me was the absolute awesome shit, but I got more into metal and punk so I left them behind and thought they sucked ass. But as I grew older, I realized I was being a pretentious little prick and respected them for what they contributed to music. Now I ask, what have you done to music that can change my mind? Your shitty little comments and your opinions are nothing. No one cares. Get over it. Korn will be forever talked about, and you? Nothing. No one will care or even know. Play music that people will listen to then come back with a valid excuse why you think a band sucks.
@@TheeMissingLinc korn fucking rules
@@TheeMissingLinc Korn influenced plenty of modern metal bands to be honest
70s it really started but early 80s was thrash where it conquered the music world.
Bingo
The only metal I like from the 90's was the whole stoner scene that started 5 minutes after Kyuss broke up.
@@troublemagnet1 but your profile pic is Abbath, Immortal was basically a 90s band
@Dangerous2099 "even better" lol shit
i didn't even say black/death is bad,
Honestly the 90's had so many bands and genres evolve to their prime, Death metal rose to its peak, Black Metal had gained its notoriety, the alternative scenes were bringing heavier genres into the mainstream and was a gateway for most casual music fans, Industrial metal became more stablished, Sludge and Doom metal git even bigger, Hardcore bands started to take on more metal influences and the kids who grew up with bands from the 80's started their own groups, ect. The 90's was just more fleshed out and diverse and started branching out so many different directions and experimentations that really paved the way for future music. The other decades are also great but I think looking back the 90's was definitely the most exciting.
There was a period when Metal was dead. Grunge killed metal for many years. Then hip hop took over. If you remember The 90’s only had Pantera for the longest.
Late 80s through mid 90s were great. Bathory, hellhammer, Celtic Frost, King Diamond, Mercyful Fate, and then Dissection, Satyricon, Darkthrone, Burzum, Mayhem, Nokturnal Mortum, Emperor, Gorgoroth, Etc...
@@Spaghetti_policy Although in the mainstream it was dead, bands were still putting out great records and new bands were forming in the underground that went on to make great music during that decade and into the early 2000's. I would agree Pantera was a huge commercial success in the metal scene during that time but it definitely wasn't the only thing that metal offered in that decade.
@@GreaterViewDesign I agree personally from 85 - 96 a lot of my favorite albums were released and its a nice mix of when things were fresh and new and the recordings were raw in the late 80's to the mid 90's when bands were becoming refined and tighter and studios were more experienced on how to help record a great sounding metal album
Not really it pulled it out of the Mainstream it just stagnated the genre it killed fun bands now hear me out I’m all up to listen to death trash black etc but once in a while I like to listen to crue etc unfortunately after the start of the 90s you just don’t hear fun metal like that anymore it’s all just a contest of how much more depressed a band sounds
I’d say the 80s, because that’s when metal really came into its own and became distinct. The legends like Priest and Maiden became behemoths. And also I think the 80s saw the birth of so many new subgenres. I think all of the major sub genres find their roots in the 80s. It was also a good time for hardcore punk as well. The 70s is definitely important, but I see it as like the proto-era for most of these genres. Would’ve been cool to be a part of the 80s scenes.
The 90s is when all the subgenres and numetal bull shit came out. Only thing good about the 90s was pantera and megadeth. The 70s and 80s kicked ass.
@@EPstroker okay boomer
@@michaelwells9378 not quite........I wasn't born in the 40s or 50s
@@EPstroker Boomer is a mental state now, not an age
@@michaelwells9378 your still off.......can't help it you missed the 80s.
There would be no slipknot or bands like that without PANTERA.
Good.
even korn admit it, pantera help them with the groove
@@shirohemoth1946 korn is big influence of slipknot and theyre friends too.
Also Mr. Bungle had influence on slipknot and korn...
There would never be a Korn without Mr. Bungle and faith no more
every time i see a phil anselmo interview the rest of my day turns into watching every phil interview i can’t find
I am shocked more of these people aren't like, "80s, duh."
Same
It's cuz most of these guys were from gay metalcore bands but every one knows that 95% of metalheads, metal listeners and metal community say the 80's are the best era.
Everybody knows the best decade for metal was the 80's hands down.
@@kushalamhr4516 "gay metalcore" what is this fuckin 2002?
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80's, specifically 1983 and 1984. Pretty much all albums that came out in this biennium are either debut albums of great bands or the best albums of classic bands
The 80's, no question. The birth of thrash, so many great bands came out of the 80's, 90's were good, but the 80's rule!
I literally clicked on this for this comment
If you're into extreme metal, it's probably gonna be the 90's.
What do you mean by extreme, that could be referring to multiple things. It could mean fast paced it could mean heavily distorted it could mean extreme screamo type vocals like in metalcore
No way it's the 80's
@@maisumthiago8615 Well, I'm gonna shoot myself in the head because you disagree with me
@@maisumthiago8615 I think he means extreme genres like Death Metal and Black Metal. If you're talking about genres like Thrash Metal and Hair and Glam Metal, I'd say the 80s were the peak.
There's too many variables and it's all opinion. I listen to more Death Metal than Thrash these days, but I remember being in High School in the 80's. There were a lot of us listening to Maiden, Priest, Motorhead, etc... but waiting for something faster and heavier to come along. Then we got Slayer, Metallica, and all of the other great Thrash bands and as I'm sure you know Chuck S. with Death and other DM bands started in the mid 80's as well. Cool topic.
You can feel Phils's pain for having to choose just one decade LOL.
90s just pips it above the 80s for me. The whole Roadrunner Records output was awesome.
Lmao NOOO WAAAYY
Fucking king diamond. He'll ya
90's had grunge and nu metal, so the answer is quite clear: the 80's!
@@freakazoid4691 corporate hair metal bands were in the 80s
Don't sleep on the Gothenburg/Swedish melodic death output in the 90's
I am just appreciative of the fact that we can ask this question. I mean honestly, how many genres are able to endure for 50+ years?
90s. there was so much unique bands like primus, tool, rammstein, korn, nine inch nails, rollins band, smashing pumpkins, deftones, all those mike patton stuff, pantera, nirvana, alice in chains
very crazy, diverse and very interesting time for rock music
The 90's was definitely an era where their was no limit to music,any genre
Those bands are not heavy metal. Not even metal.
The 90's were dominated by rock bands.. like most of the bands you named. I agree it was definitely a great time for music.. probably my favorite. But it wasn't a great decade for metal...
Nine dont fit in there
Pantra was 80s and most the bands you mentioned aren't even metal
There really is no right or wrong honestly. It just depends on the individual and how it touched or impacted one's life... hell I enjoy shit from 60s rock to now. If it's good its good...
Well, if you say the 20s i think that's kinda wrong...
@@mattiatosi8350 this made me chuckle
100% agree..
@@mattiatosi8350 you're not wrong, but it's interesting to note that 7-string guitars and double kick drums - both mainstays of modern metal - were played by jazz musicians in the mid 20th century. Wild huh?
@@goodatsolitaire damned jazzists they ruined my joke
From 1990 Cowboys From Hell to 2000 Reinventing The Steel
Good years
Fucking right!
Goddamn right
Couldn’t agree more pantera is better then everyone hands down forget all the other garbage they did it all truly the greatest band of all time
@@johnmichaelsansonetti3020 couldnt have said it better my friend!
90s takes the cake imo. it’s when the diversity and experimenting of all music fusing into heavy metal really got brought into the spotlight. ever since then metal music changed for the better forever.
No such thing as a "best decade". Each decade since the late 60's was important for metal in different ways.
I agree..
70's was proto-metal foundations
80's was the birth of true Heavy metal, and then all the sub-genre's opened up from Thrash to Hair metal. Great bands, Judas, Iron Maiden, Accept, Dokken, Motley Crue.
90's almost fucked up with grunge, but then out of all that came the birth of Extreme metal genre's like Groove metal, Death Metal, Black Metal, Industrial, Prog-Metal and then Nu-metal.
2000's had a shaky start, although I'm biased here, as I'm not a huge fan of Nu metal (I like some, but not all), but then in the late 90's Metalcore and Post Hardcore Screamo sort of stuff was on the rise which was seen as a revitalisation of the metal scene.
2010's Deathcore and Metalcore have really taken off in this era, but also has seen a lot of the 80's & 90's classic bands reform and release new albums that have been fire (Accept, and Judas really come to mind, but also Gorgoroth, Immortal & Watain). And look at one of the most watched RUclips videos of last year - Jinjer.
Metal is definitely not dead! \M/
@@narcissus79 I'd say Metals foundations were laid in the mid to late 60s then the 70s was the experimental period that led to the 80s boom
yes but the best is the 80’s
@@powertrip8676 Yes, the 80s was the best decade for most music.
Thats true..and it depends on your age as well,i was born 1973 startet listen to Metal when i was 16..when you have favourit band you want to listen to their early stuff,Bands they listen to..so you start realy getting in to it..i never had enough time to listen to everything ..god bless the Internet,i can do it now(and anoy my Kids,Not my Parents..!!)
80s, 80s was the Pentacle of Heavy Metal.
Even Hair Metal bands would have one or two tracks per album that were pushing speed metal and shredding.
By 1987 Metal was the most listened to music in the world and was selling out Arenas globaly and playing to hundreds of thousands of people per show! No to mention nearly every album going platinum.
80s was the first decade where bands embraced the name Metal and even to a degree saw being called "Rock" as an insult.
The subculture and "Metal Uniform" of Denim and Leather was in full effect and Metal was selling big in films, TV, radios, Headbangers Ball, etc.
Finally like mentioned in the video nearly every genre of Metal to various degrees was created in the 80s.
(I also include a little bleed over like 77-93)
If you remove the 80s then Metal fundamentaly doesn't exist.
No Metallica, No Slayer, No Judas Priest or Iron Maiden, No Megadeth, No Def Leppard (Which means no Pantera by the way) it all collapses.
80s Metal is the foundation of the Genre.
@Dangerous2099 Def Leppard was part of the New Wave of British Heavy Metal with Iron Maiden, Judas Priest, and Saxon (look it up)
And it's that early era that Dimebag credited for learning how to play.
No Def Leppard, no Pantera.
No beatles, no def leppar, so def leppard is rock. LOGIC 100%
I agree %100.
@Dangerous2099 I Didnt care for em either, still I got mad respect for Richard Allen.
There would have been Judas Priest and Iron Maiden because they were formed in the 70s
Mid 80s’ to mid 90s’. That was when metal had the most growth to it. Sure, the tail end of the 1960s did kick off the very origins of heavy-metal, which I still respect Led Z. & Black S. for pioneering it like they had. But the true growth and development had to be from the mid-1980s to the mid 1990s.
I would say the 90s. All of the early bands and musicians were still touring and making records. Pantera at their height, all the future legends securing their place in the 90s, plus the death and black metali innovations.
Mix of the past cementing the future.
Pantera was 80s
@@Chris-yj3es Not their prime it wasn't
The 80s and early 90s were the best for me. Basically everything from 1983/1986- 1993/1996 before Nu Metal became really big. Somewhere in between those dates is my favorite. I was not a fan of Nu Metal at all but I will say that the 2000s were a pretty good time for Metal as well. You had a lot of new bands coming out that grew up listening to the same stuff I liked and the Metal Scene definitely expanded and got a whole lot wider and more diverse.
For me it’s gonna have to be the 80’s and late 90’s and early to mid 2000’s. Metallica, slayer, Judas Priest and then you have slipknot and linkin park and then you have the metal core bands like early bring me the horizon and bullet for my valentine. Thrash, nu metal and metalcore shaped what I think of today as “metal” it’s just something about the melodic catchy guitar riffs of the metalcore/emo bands and the aggressive distorted guitars in songs like before I forget, duality and psychosocial or disasterpiece, and the heavy grittiness of linkin park in the hybrid theory era with chesters amazing vocals and the aggressive fast paced pounding of thrash which created a guideline for how to sound “metal” as a guitar player. It’s hard to choose but for me I would say that these things have been the most influential for me as a guitarist
let me guess. You were born 1990 + -1 ?
@@JackCarver10 nah I literally just turned 20 I just like older music more than new music. Nothing wrong with newer music I just like the energy that performers from back then gave off when they were up there on stage
@@kingzuna8007 crucial point. currently jamming to AEnima by Tool and I feel it.
@@JackCarver10 tool is a great band, I’m vibing to shortest straw by Metallica
Don't sleep on the influence of melodic death metal on all those bands. Gothenburg was only rivalled by Florida as the most important death metal scene in the 90's.
Not only is it the best decade of Metal but imo it’s the best decade of music as a whole which is the 90’s.
metal went underground during the 90s though... but yeah it got us couple of new sub genres, extreme , power and nu metal
The 80's, without a doubt. That's when it really took off. Starting with with the NWOBHM, followed by thrash metal from the Bay area, then progressing into different subgenres, spawning the guitar heroes and growing to immense popularity, until grunge made metal uncool for a while.
Alice in Chains and Soundgarden were just setting things straight again after the hair metal era was on it's last legs.
One of those anti-grunge guys... Grunge didn't make metal uncool. If anything, it made hair metal uncool.
But at the end of the day, it's more complicated than that. Times will always change. Things become uncool because they become old, overused and watered down. Something new emerges that will be liked by younger generations, and older generations as well.
Nirvana didn't kill anything. The times were changing and Nirvana just happened to become the most popular band. People who blame them are just butt hurt because their Mötley Crüe clone of a band didn't make it big. Guess what, the world moved on. Get over it. It's not 1987 anymore and it wasn't in 1991 either.
@@DanSmeed I'm not anti-grunge at all. Grunge gave us some of the best albums in rock history. But the popularity of grunge didn't just affect hair metal. It made people lose interest in metal in general. For a short period, luckily.
@@RoaldKoger Alright.
But, wouldn't it be wrong to say that people lost interest in metal, considering most of the grunge bands had metal- influenced songs? But I guess it's true that pure metal was "out" for awhile.
It's hard to say any other decade when your favorite band started in the late 60's, but try look at it on a whole!!! for me it's 80's, that's when it went from hard rock into metal, the hard rock bands went heavier!! until the 80's it was just rock/hard rock, then you the birth of thrash metal too in that decade!
80s The Decade Of The most legendary Metal Releases.
The 90's would like a word
Judas Priest - Painkiller
Megadeth - Rust in Peace
Death - Symbolic, Human, ITP, TSOP
Carcass - Heartwork
Gorguts - Obscura
Cynic - Focus
Atheist - Unquestionable Presence
Morbid Angel - Altars of Madness
Metallica - S/T
Slayer - Seasons In The Abyss
Pantera - Cowboys from Hell, Far Beyond Driven, VDOP
Testament - Low
Alice in Chains - Dirt, Facelift
Kyuss - Blues for the Red Sun, Welcome to Sky Valley
Neurosis - Through Silver In Blood
Meshuggah - Destroy, Erase, Improve, Chaosphere
Ulver - Bergtatt, Nattens Madrigal
Opeth - Morningrise, My Arms, Your Hearse, Still Life
Dark Tranquillity - The Gallery
In Flames - The Jester Race, Whoracle, Colony
Edge of Sanity - Crimson
Amon Amarth - Once Sent From The Golden Hall
Devin Townsend - Ocean Machine
Strapping Young Lad - City
Emperor - Into The Nightside Eclipse, Anthems
Dissection - The Somberlain, Storm of the Light's Bane
At the Gates - Red In The Sky, Slaughter of the Soul
Fear Factory - Demanufacture
Blind Guardian - Nightfall in Middle Earth
Nevermore - Dreaming Neon Black
The Gathering - Mandylion
Tiamat - Wildhoney
Anathema - Judgement
Down - NOLA
Enslaved - Below the Lights, Eld, Frost, Blodhem
Paradise Lost - Icon, Gothic
Isis - The Red Sea
Bathory - Hammerheart
Katatonia - Brave Murder Day
Entombed - Left Hand Path
Soilwork - A Predators Portrait
Sepultura - Roots
Symphony X - Divine Wings of Tragedy
Amorphis - Tales From Thousand Lakes
70s, 80s and 90s: 30 years of epic metal creative genius🤘
80's la era más creativa y de muchos trabajos relevantes para definir lo que es el Metal.
90's. Black metal, melodic death metal, gothic metal, groove metal, some good nu metal bands too.
lmao except for black metal all of those genres fucking suck
Loved In Flames and Fear Factory..... hated Fred and the rest of Limp Biscuit back then! Korn was cool!
Deep down we all know its the 90s. I was completely blown away by the quality, even more than the 80s.
I was not born but hands down 80s Metallica, slayer, Megadeth, anthrax,Ozzy Osbourne, Judas Priest
Ride the Lightning
Master of puppets
And justice for all
Kill em all
Reign in blood
South of heaven
Peace sells
Among the living
Bark at the moon
Blizzard of ozz
Screaming for vengeance
All great albums I am only 12 but love to play heavy metal on drums
90s Too slipknot, Korn
I really love how old metal and new metal is appreciated in the same way, maybe some bands are oversatured nowadays but in most arts old is outdated but very rarely you see someone saying that black sabbath, metallica, iron maiden or any 70s-80s band is trash or outdated.
Black Sabbath is trash but I agree with your general point
90's was soo diverse
@@mrbevelaqua8649 Yeah, if you only listen to mainstream metal then it was lame.
Metal now is alot more diverse
@@mrbevelaqua8649 90's was death metal and Pantera. That's cool.
and also weak
@@ozanmrcan weak? You kidding?
A lot of Thrash Metal bands have amazing albums from that era.
Melodic death metal
Mostly Brutal death Metal
Black Metal
Groove Metal
Power metal
Atvangarde Metal
The 90s. There was RATM, Pantera, Alice In Chains, Soundgarden, Metallica, Megadeth, Slayer, Anthrax, Iron Maiden, Slipknot, KoRn, Meshuggah, Kyuss, Entombed, Cannibal Corpse, Death, Godsmack, Rammstein, Sevendust, Sepultura, Marilyn Manson, White Zombie, Rob Zombie, etc.
And Suffocation, Broken Hope, Unleashed, Autopsy, Immortal, Enslaved, Emperor, Marduk, Pungent Stench, At the Gates, Dying Fetus, Bloodbath, Deeds of Flesh, Dissection, Malevolent Creation, Obsessed, Grave, Morbid Angel, Brutality, Sinister, Darkthrone, Immolation, Obituary, Deicide, Hypocrisy, Dismember, Incantation, Gorguts.... and those are all legendary, game changing bands. Anyone who says anything other than the 90s literally has no idea what they're talking about
Deftones
Hard agree
Dude, half of all those bands had their best albums in the 80's
Early to mid 90’s were the shit. Seems like every other week another amazing band from nowhere, usa was rolling through my area. Just amazing underground acts grinding on the road for gas money and a dollar menu lifestyle. Discovering them in such intimate settings as we had at the time around the area made the experience all that much better.
6 minutes in and still no mention of pantera.
Literally zero words about the all fucking mighty pantera .
Very shameful
best band of all time imo
@MARKOFTHEBLADE
That's actually the thing that bothered me most
They have phil commenting on all these bands but meanwhile he was the front man of one of the most influential bands ever .
Felt disrespectful to me
Toolkills it's a personal thing,I don't mind Pantera but Phil is not even close to the best metal singer.Not disrespectful justothers view.
I agree. Anything to do with metal history that doesn't mention Pantera is bogus. Anselmo appears, yes, and he could have talked about the immense importance of his own band, but he didn't. For the others not to mention Pantera is kind of ridiculous, honestly. They WERE metal in the 90s!
I agree. Where the fuck is Pantera in all of these answers? Pantera started in the 80's. I remember hearing them and thinking "Damn! This band is cool!" And then hearing them again in the 90's and thinking "Damn! This can't be the same band I heard in the 80's!" But it was! Mind blown!
I’ve always thought you could look at this in two different ways: the roots of metal or it’s penultimate point. So you could say the 70’s because of bands like Sabbath and Priest, or, in my opinion, the 80’s when you had metal divulge into tons of different genres and with bands like The Big Four and Exodus, and then you had hair metal with Motley Crue, power/heavy metal with Dio and Maiden, and death and black metal also started at that time too with Possessed, Death, Venom, and Bathory, and then of course Mercyful Fate/King Diamond. There’s just tons of great bands and albums that came out of the 80’s
I can't decide between the 80s or actually the 2010s
The 80s was the outright the most important decade for metal, no matter which subgenre, that it legit blew up big in both the mainstream and the underground. Almost no metal band in the last 20 years would be here without the 80s.
The most recent decade that just passed, 2010s, honestly has a lot more creativity and substance that I think anyone can sink their teeth into. Granted barely any band nowadays isn't straight up metal (metalcore, djent, whatever poppy's recent album is) but imo with such a wide variety of different spins and takes on blanket we call "metal", I believe there's something for everyone and I personally fuck with that
The most important decade was probably the 80s, but the best I would say would whatever decade you were in your late teens/early 20s. When you're in that age to go to the most shows and listen to the music and discover the most bands. God what a time. And having grown up with youtube also showing up, the ease of discovering new music was insane, I may have lost the experience of going to a record store and buying from the album look and stuff like that, but hearing recomendations from people online and being able to instantely listen to those recomendations is truly awesome.
The 80's was the best era by far.
The birth of different genres & subgenres:
From Metallica to Cannibal Corpse... every new band was discovered by buying/trading cassettes.
Felt like a treasure inside your pocket. No cameras or phones at the shows. Just pure insanity and fun in the crowd.
to me its 80's coz its all kinds of genre's are intact and yet so radical at that time. the most craziest ever blown of metal.
King Diamond - Fatal Portrait
Voivod - Rrröööaaarrr
Metallica - Master Of Puppets
Iron Maiden - Somewhere In Time
Megadeth - Peace Sells... But Who's Buying?
Queensryche - Rage For Order
Fates Warning - Awaken The Guardian
Flotsam & Jetsam - Doomsday For The Deceiver
Candlemass - Epicus Doomicus Metallicus
Omen - The Curse
And that's just 1986 folks!
80's is still the best decade for Rock and Metal
I love how Phil went from "The Kid" to a wise old mentor of metal
80's.. so easy.
Sabbath's best record came out in 1980.
Thrash metal shows up and says, "hey.. you can take the speed of punk and use your talent to make really cool riffs."
thrash's style is easily the biggest influence on heavy music.
80s you get actual power metal bands.
cross over bands..
NWOBHM hits it big..
so many subgenre's blossom and flourish.
i am only 35 but am still discovering 80's bands I've never heard and thinking, "If these guys were a smaller band of this decade this is definitely the best decade for heavy music."
Not that it matters, but it should be a crime to say Sabbath's best record came out in the 80s hahahaha
@@antoniop4914 most people agree with you. I think Dio breathed fresh air into the lungs of Geezer and Tony. Heaven and Hell is easily my favorite Sabbath album. The lyrics aren't cringe worthy looks at the world. The riffs are better. There is more speed. It just feels alive where older Sabbath is too slow.
@@marcusg5665 Makes sense. And i love the Dio era, H&H especially, is a masterpiece. But the first 5 albums are unparalled imo, Vol.4 is my favorite
@@marcusg5665 stop the madness. Trust me I love me some dio and im with the 80s when it comes to best decade for metal but no way sir does 80s sabbath beat out early 70s sabbath. The first 5 sabbath albums are masterpieces. Yeah we can debate whether those albums were actually metal or not (well at least the first two to three were more blues influenced if anything) but Vol. 4 Supernaut? Snowblind. A national acrobat on sabbath bloody sabbath, oh my god that’s some straight fucking heat man. The thrill of it all, is pure fire as well.
@@user-ll9nu8fb7j Trust me.. I know my BS opinion is not popular. And you'll never hear me say those first 5 are not influential nor monumental. I just get really bored in each song.
The decade of 1980-1989 also was the birth of all of our favorite subgenres.
the 70's were the people who first arrived to a new land (metal) and the 80's were their children and grandchildren. Taking what their parents taught them and then going way further and creating better civilizations. That's my analogy/metaphor.
The 80s! We had, hair metal, thrash metal, speed metal, power metal, black metal, and death metal!
The 90's easily for me , especially because death (my favorite band ever) released my favorite albums in that era.
Yeah definitely the best era for death, also my favorite metal band. The 80’s really were great too though
I'm an old fart, but I was happy to hear Caleb saying 2000-2010s. I hope he's right, but the 90s man! *Morbid Angel, Deicide, Pantera, Entombed, Nirvana, Sepultura, Darkthrone, RATM, Carcass, Type O Negative, Cannibal Corpse, Korn, Machine Head, NIN, Meshuggah, At the Gates andsoonandsoonandsoon...*
Do you actually consider Nirvana metal?
@@justworkingfortheweekend8504 No I don't. Got carried away ;) But they sure were in the same sphere for me
Imo 2000-2010 is easily the worst decade of metal yet, but props on mentioning Type O, love them!
I think there’s merit to picking 2000-2010 just because of LOG and A7X...they put out the most incredible albums...I think music in general took a dive after 2010
@@TV-yf9kn I’m not a fan of either tbh but these last few years in extreme metal have been some of the best ever, so many amazing underground death and black metal bands
70's most important
80's reached its peak
Exactly
The fact that we can talk about all these decades makes that we have acces to all these decades. In ' 85 as a 7 year old I got introduced to King diamond, Accept, Metallica and Iron maiden. 35 years later and we are having this conversation. It means that this music sticks to you. No matter what decade
'Sabbath alone makes the 70s the highlight of metal (even though they considered themselves to be more "hard rock").
Sabbath Bloody Sabbath (1973) and Sabotage (1975), back to back, the best metal albums of all time!
It's difficult. Personally, all of my favorite music came out between the years of 1995-2005. Or I should say the bands who produced the music really gained notoriety in that time. Korn, System of a Down, Primus, Slipknot, Tool, Dream Theater, Lamb of God, Opeth, Gojira...etc.. But I know that when talking about importance, the 80's is the most important.
In 86 master of puppets raining blood and peace sells were released. END OF !
It's mainly between 80's and 90's for me
80's: Iron maiden, Judas priest, Ozzy Osbourne, Dio, Metallica, Megadeth, Helloween,Saxon,Slayer , Anthrax
90's: Death, Pantera, Strapping young lad, Morbid Angel, Opeth, Dream theater, Fates warning, Symphony X, Tool..
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You can see a trend, most of these guys are older and grew up listening to 80s metal bands. The really old guys say the 60s and I bet younger guys will say the early 2000s.
Personally I think a lot of the 80s and 90s was trash and I wouldn't consider black Sabbath or bands like that to be what we call metal today. Right now is the best time decade of metal because we have so many great bands within reach of their audience, some of which are from the 80s
Metal and music in general is alot more diverse now then back in the days. Now there are soo many different subgenres of metal and alot more underground bands it's fascinating to listen to. So i also have to agree that this is the best metal decade. As the years go on it becomes more and more diverse. This is why i love alot of genres in music, as the decade passes, music changes soo it becomes fascinating❤️✨
I'm a big thrash metal guy so 1983-1993 is the best 10 years (decade's time) of metal for me.
I'm a 90s, early 2000s kid, so Korn is actually my favorite band of all time. I know those years also brought about a lot of crap, but Korn, Deftones, SOAD, Slipknot, early Linkin Park, all gold.
Soad ain’t on the list dude
Funkybutt G Why? And what list?
I think it has to be the 80's. That when the metal look and sound was really honed. All the albums from that era were a huge influence to what we know now as all these different metal sub-genres. Metallica, slayer, megadeth, motorhead, iron maiden, judas priest, napalm death, and the list goes on and on. To this day I still listen to the classic 80's metal albums all the time. Metal as a whole is an amazing genre and an amazing diverse community of people and ideas and thats why I will always be a metalhead.
The 90s in a way...Pantera went no 1, Metallica became legends (and nearly blew it), Slayer hit the top ten, and Carcass, Cathedral, Sepultura, Napalm Death and Entombed were all on major labels. We will never see that again.
St. Anger, right?
@@redhurricane24 Load and after that. Thought those records were really flat and lifeless. They lost me for years after that. Even to an extent the Black Album too...I remember picking it up day of and being disappointed.
@@redhurricane24 hahahaha
@@ferox965 really the black album damm...
@@legend-rx9ik Yeah...I remember picking it up when it came out...being a little disappointed.. it still sounded like Metallica, but it was like they were going for radio...which they were...I enjoyed the mini epics they were doing...but when it came to Load, they lost me totally.
I feel like this last decade has been the best for underground metal. This is a really exciting time to be into it. That said, the classics are classic for a reason.
i'm sorry but i'll go with the 90's, the death metal development in the early 90's is awesome: Death, Morbid Angel, Atheist, Cynic, Obituary, Pestilence...But that works for many other genres too, power metal had blind guardian and gamma ray, Thrash had Pantera and Sepultura, who in my eyes made legendary abums, then Black metal and so on...
90's hands down. Just so much variety...just so much going on that bands like Kyuss and Acid Bath couldn't really get a look in at the time.
80's thrash ie Metallica, Megadeth, Slayer, Antrax, Sepultura etc.... paved the way for all metal that came after ie 90's: Pantera, Cannibal Corpse etc...ie 2000's: Slipknot, Mudvayne etc...
It's the '80s. It was metal's peak.
Anyone who says the '90s is out of their fucking minds. Metal was on life support in the '90s. Metal was front page rock in the '80s. THAT'S when it went mainstream. The first metal album to go number one in the US was Metal Health in 1983.
80s imo, just those 4 Metallica albums are legendary
Listening to all these guys gals just talk n stuff really makes me fucking miss the parking lots before metal shows. Can't wait to just talk fucking metal again!!!!!
80s, don't even have think about that one 😎 90's is a close 2nd.
Big respect for those who came before, but the best is with no doubt in my mind got to be the 90s. The band's were so unique and coming out with stuff no one believed was possible.
All my fav metal music is mid 90's to mid 2000's. But pantera trump's all as far as I am concerned.
...and Pantera started in the 80s
@@healthywealthy4620 yes, but my fav Pantera ALBUMS are in the 90's. Thx for the input.
@Dangerous2099 Amen brother.
For my is the late 80s and middle 90s , bands like melvins , napalm death godflesh , sepultura , pantera , even the best era of black metal whit the early mayhem and darkthrone etc
Not even a question... definitely the 80's!
Late 1960’s through the 70’s. With bands like Blue Cheer,Iron Butterfly,Cream,Jimi Hendrix,Vanilla Fudge,Grand Funk Railroad,And of course Led Zeppelin. Black Sabbath took heaviness to the next level. Was and still is a big fan of early metal from the 70’s.
Hmmm I’m not seeing enough love for the 90’s. In my opinion it’s by far the best. Here’s why
1990:
Megadeth - Rust in Peace
Judas Priest - Painkiller
Slayer - Seasons in the Abyss
Entombed - Left Hand Path
Bathory - Hammerheart
Artillery - By Inheritance
Morbid Saint - Spectrum of Death
Obituary - Cause of Death
1991:
Death - Human
Atheist - Unquestionable Presence
Sepultura - Arise
Autopsy - Mental Funeral
Dismember - Like an Ever Flowing Stream
Carcass - Necroticism
Coroner - Mental Vortex
Entombed - Clandestine
Suffocation - Effigy of the Forgotten
Morbid Angel - Blessed Are the Sick
1992:
Faith No More - Angel Dust
Darkthrone - A Blaze in the Northern Sky
Kyuss - Blues For the Red Sky
Neurosis - Souls at Zero
W.A.S.P. - The Crimson Idol
Sleep - Holy Mountain
Incantation - Onward to Golgotha
Bolt Thrower - The IVth Crusade
Demolition Hammer - Epidemic of Violence
Demigod - Slumber of Sullen Eyes
1993:
Death - Individual Thought Patterns
Demilich - Nespithe
Morbid Angel - Covenant
Darkthrone - Under A Funeral Moon
Disembowelment - Transcendence Into the Peripheral
Carcass - Heartwork
Cynic - Focus
Dissection - The Somberlain
Melvins - Houdini
My Dying Bride - Turn Loose the Swans
1994:
Kyuss - Welcome to Sky Valley
Burzum - Hvis Lyset Tar Oss
Emperor - In the Nightside Eclipse
De Mysteriis Dom Sathanas
Darkthrone - Transilvanian Hunger
Tiamat- Wildhoney
Acid Bath - When the Kite String Pops
Bolt Thrower - ...For Victory
Incantation - Mortal Throne of Nazarene
Enslaved - Vikingligr veldi
1995:
Death - Symbolic
Ulver- Bergtatt
Dissection - Storm of the Light’s Bane
Blind Guardian - Imaginations From the Other Side
Suffocation - Pierced From Within
Paradise Lost - Draconian Times
At the Gates - Slaughter of the Soul
Gamma Ray - Land of the Free
Darkthrone - Panzerfaust
Dark Tranquility - The Gallery
1996:
Burzum - Filosofem
Neurosis - Through Silver in Blood
Cryptopsy - None So Vile
Edge of Sanity - Crimson
Opeth - Morningrise
Type O Negative - October Rust
Katatonia - Brave Murder Day
Immolation - Here in After
In Flames - The Jester Race
Sacramentum - Far Away From the Sun
1997:
Emperor - Anthems to the Welkin at Dusk
Strapping Young Lad - City
Devin Townsend - Ocean Machine
Electric Wizard - Come My Fanatics...
Ulver - Nattens Madrigal
Bruce Dickinson - Accident of Birth
The Gathering - Nighttime Birds
Gamma Ray - Somewhere Out in Space
Esoteric - The Pernicious Enigma
Symphony X - The Divine Wings of Tragedy
1998:
Death - The Sound of Perseverance
Gorguts - Obscura
Opeth - My Arms, Your Hearse
Blind Guardian - Nightfall in Middle Earth
Bruce Dickinson - The Chemical Wedding
Incantation - Diabolical Conquest
The Chasm - Deathcult for Eternity
Virgin Steele - Invictus
Dawn - Slaughtersun
Solstice - New Dark Age
1999:
Opeth - Still Life
Immortal - At the Heart of Winter
Neurosis - Times of Grace
Paysage D’Hiver - Paysage D’Hiver
Agalloch - Pale Folklore
Windir - Arntor
Summoning - Stronghold
Testament - The Gathering
Type O Negative - World Coming Down
Esoteric - Metamorphogenesis
Apart from 97 and 98, every year of the decade is practically perfect and chalked full of classics throughout the whole genre. Although it definitely wasn’t the decade of the genre’s commercial peak, from an artistic standpoint no other decade is close to as complete.
@Hobo seasons was the last great slayer record
Sepultura didn’t release an album in 94
Pantera sucks
Finally somebody putting some respect to Electric Wizard. That band and Sleep is what made people know more about Doom Metal but it seems alot of people forgot about EW. Such an amazing band✨
Very well written.
Glad fo see Neurosis, Acid Bath and Obituary listed!
@Hobo Yes, they are!
i love the way phil always talks about slayer
85-95. Most major subgenres have their roots there. Thrash, Speed, and classic Heavy Metal bands were huge. Power, Doom Death, Black, Grindcore, and Progressive were emerging. Hell, you could even say Djent (or proto-Djent)was around because of Meshuggah.
Geezer squeaking.."I don't think I should be here." LOL!
2000's was a most diverse decade ever for music in general, not just metal. so for me, second half of 90's and 2000's was best years for every subgenre of metal.
The mid 80's to the mid 90's were the most exciting and creative period for metal. Puppets to Far Beyond Driven.
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90s for me. Nothing beats that 90s raw Black Metal sound and all the classic 90s Black Metal bands and albums
80s for me. Still listening to that shit on the regular! Metallica, Megadeth and Slayer were in their primes and absolutely killing it.
80's. Easily. Idk if it's my personal favorite, but you can't deny metal found its identity in the 80's. So many albums that still hold up amazingly well today were made then.
The 80s would be my simple answer, but my favorite span of ten years and the most important imo would be 83-93. Those years contain the beginning of thrash, death metal, power metal, grind and second wave black metal (and most of the first wave as well). 83-93 is the best decade of metal, hands down.
@Hobo 94 was great, but I had to start at 83. Also, 87 was the best year ever.
Some of these dudes reallllllyyyy don’t know wtf there talking about 😂
Its an option, whats the matter?
Why are they asking the opinion of the dudes from health? Did I miss some part in time where these guys made metal music or something?
Honestly I'd say early 2000's and late 90's because you have Slipknot, Korn, System of a down, Tool, Deftones, Rammstein, Mudvayne and all these new sounding great bands and albums.
But I'd also say 2010's because there are more and more bands and thanks to social media more metal fans are connecting. But also so many new genres were created with like traditional languages or instruments (Alien Weaponry : Maori Language/ The Hu: Mongolian instruments) and so much more!
No, they said best decade for metal, not Nu Metal.
The early 90's was the best, but the late 90's was the worst... haha.
I agree with the people splitting the 80's and 90's. 86-96.
The best era’s of metal were all of them. I personally see the differences more related to the production of the music and what people had to listen to it. Sound equipment was massive to me and what I listened to. I remember in 1994 when I got into the first car that had a really good custom system. It had a Kenwood receiver with crossovers that amped out to pioneer 4 ways 6x9s, Kenwood surround tweeters, and 4 JL audio 10in subs. We popped in Pantera’s Far Beyond Driven and lit the fattest joint and clam baked to our souls being destroyed by the best produced and written music I have ever witnessed. The quality of music needed that system and was the closest we could get to being live. When I was younger the systems didn’t do metal justice and to fully experience it you had to be live. I remember for about 10 years straight from when I was about 15 to about 25 I would always be building out my audio systems to rock out to the best metal. Final flash back... Sepultura Roots on mushrooms, nighttime, tailgate, blaring system, shooting stars, melting into the woods and beyond. Life changing.
I'd say the 80's. That decade started with NWOBHM and American party metal like Van Halen and ended with thrash metal at it's prime, the emergence of extreme metal and alternative metal. Not to mention glam and pop metal all through the decade if that's your thing.
I love 70's metal but most of it is in the hard rock/metal gray area and so I can't really say it was the greatest decade for metal.
The 90's started out strong with a lot of new innovations in the genre but by 96 metal was as dead as it's ever been and then you had nu metal at the end of the decade which was a love-it-or-hate-it sub-genre.
The 2000's and 2010's were hit and miss for me outside of the awesome prog and doom sub-genres.
Korn, slipknot, deftones, tool, maiden, Metallica, Pantera, priest are just untouchable don’t even argue with me because I know I’m right
The 90s gave us the best music period!
60s for jazz and rock
90's- Deicide-for me just blew me away, still my favorite album! Love all Metal tho!
Never forget how lucky we are even being alive in this ”lifetime”. I mean we could’ve been born as an caveman or whatever
A new level of confidence and power
This is really a question?? 80s all the way!!
5:07 i love how humble Phil's become.
If they don't say the mid 80s to mid 90s they're crazy.
90s definitely and I was so lucky to have just got into metal at that time
I’d say the 90’s since that’s when 80’s thrash bands emerged into the mainstream, there were heavy grunge groups, death metal was invented, and there was also rap metal, industrial metal, nu metal, the Second Wave of Thrash (Sepultura, Machine Head, Pantera, etc) and all sorts of other groups.
Wow!!
the 80s for sure...the 90s was more diverse but by the mid 90s the scene had started fracturing into sub-genres....in the 80s we were all metalheads, listening to all sub-genres without judgement (mostly) and that's when metal became metal as we know it today...