Your favorite era of heavy metal music

The 80s was the golden age but I'm going to go with the 90s on this one because some of my favortie bands emerged during that time: Sentenced, Amorphis, Nightwish, Iced Earth, Hammerfall, Jag Panzer (yeah their first album was in the 80s but they re-emerged in the 90's), Hammerfall, etc. Also my favorite 80s bands released my favorite material in the 90s: Savatage, Blind Guardian, Helloween, etc. In order my favorite eras in order:

90s
80s
Present
70s
60s

My fave era will be always the 80s but also love the 70s and the 90s from 1990 till 1993 and from 1997 till today.

I love it all almost equally ... but if I were forced to answer at gunpoint - I'd say - RIGHT NOW!!!

I've not heard stuff this good ever!

I mean these bands have me sold on the current state of metal:

Therion
Nightwish
Leaves Eyes
Sirenia
Tristania
Kamelot
Stratovarius
Pagan's Mind
Silent Force

All of these bands are releasing stuff right now that really blows everything else out of the water heretoforth.

The 80's for sure!!!

80's thrash was great but I have to go with now as well especially this year in particular, great stuff coming out!

Wargod48

I really think 2007 will be one of those years that alot of people (myself included) will look back and realize was one of the best years ever for metal music.

80's

especially 1983 - for Piece of Mind album

metal reached the peak of perfection in 1986 so the eighties i would say

mop
peace sells
among the living
reign in blood

all released 1986

iamrockerfun wrote:

original pure HM
69 sabbath
70 zeppelin
75 kiss, alice cooper
73 deep purple
80 judas
82 iron
83 metallica, quiet riot
00 halford
07 ozzy's new

Humm... Black Sabbath first album came out in 1970 right?

1980-1989

80s for Thrash Metal
80s for Speed Metal
70s for Heavy Metal
70s for KISS
80s for the British Band

spectrefate wrote:

I really think 2007 will be one of those years that alot of people (myself included) will look back and realize was one of the best years ever for metal music.

I totally agree!