Why did most 80's metal age so badly but Metallica's sound seems to continue to be direct inspiration to most rock and...

nobody wants to go back down the 00's nu metal path

The 90s stuff is ok if you can turn your brain off for a bit.

what do you mean by most 80s metal? trad? thrash? doom? early death?
i'd say thrash has a distinctly 80s sound but most of it "aged" pretty well production wise
most trad classics are still loved today

>i'd say thrash has a distinctly 80s sound but most of it "aged" pretty well production wise
Metallica were always more commercial than the rest so their albums did indulge in 80s-isms more than most of the others.

in what way? the overwhelming majority of metal released today is black and death metal that still resembles what was made in the 90s

Don't be a fuck The first 3 Testament albums still kick ass

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Because nu metal's influence is bigger than just metal.
Metallica's albums except the first one were all produced very well (even Justice if we ignore that the bass seems non-existent.) Also, their focus was more on songwriting than the fast fast fast of their peers.

RTL was still fast as fugg

...And Justice For All [Elektra, 1988]
Problem isn't that it's more self-aware than Puppets, which is inevitable when your stock-in-trade is compositions rather than songs. Problem is that it's also longer than Puppets, which is inevitable when your stock-in-trade is compositions rather than songs. Just ask Yes. C+

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>Judas Priest who never once had good producers and their albums were always plagued by dated period production fads.

For real. It's insane how they managed to lock themselves into crazy dated production EVERY SINGLE TIME.

The fastest one, yes, though it probably had the most 80s-isms of the classic four albums especially the title track.

It's because James and Lars knew how to write songs. Good songs.
Good songwriting always separates the showoff wankers from the real artists.

The one exception is Hell Bent For Leather which does somehow avoid most of that. But something like Sin After Sin, come on, you can't tell me you can't hear 1977 in there.

As far as being dated, Turbo is the very worst of all.

Turbo sounds like a Journey album if Journey were into disco.

Justice probably is the most timeless-sounding one, even if you can't overlook how the Blackened intro sounds like a Commodore 64.

It’s still the last good album they made

Like Iron Maiden always had good producers and didn't sound so dated other than maybe the TNOTB title track because it was the single, so it had to sound more commercial.

I've always wondered how this guy could type reviews with a penis in his mouth.

>most 80s metal sucks
>Metallica is good
>good music ages well

Wow, shocking.

>that moment when all the fucking 80s heartbreak love songs click and make sense
and it's all we listen to at work

SHOT THROUGH THE HEART

>Bon Jovi
Um...no.

I know I could have saved our love that night
If I'd know what to say
Instead of making love
We both made our separate ways
Now I hear you've found somebody new
And that I never meant that much to you
To hear that tears me up inside
And to see you cuts me like a knife, i guess

Jim Guthrie produced Hell Bent. They hired him after CBS made them tack Better By You, Better Than Me onto Stained Class as a last minute addition and the original producer was gone, so they used this guy instead and since they liked the production job he did on the track, they asked him to produce their next album.

Unfortunately Guthrie lasted only one album and by British Steel, they were back to shit producers who employed uber-dated production tricks. But Hell Bent is definitely the least dated of the classic Priest albums and it also was the first one to not sound like it was recorded with a portable cassette player.

It didn't age badly but Metallica largely defied conventions, they were a true original so they don't "sound 80s", that's all. People with a hate boner for the decade can listen to them in peace because they sounded like nothing else going on, even within thrash.

>they were a true original so they don't "sound 80s", that's all
Come now, you can hear a lot of the 80s on their tracks.

On Kill Em All, sure. But I mean they largely avoid a lot of the common tropes after that. RTL and onward they never bought into the "need for speed" trend, often having slow heavy parts of rhythmic chugging shit which they popularized, or cartoon vocals sounding like a screeching cat, James had a really unique delivery that wasn't like anyone else. Kill Em All sounds very early 80s but to me after that they just became their own thing, for the most part, especially on MoP.