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Despite being one of the senior engineers at a Fortune 100 company, I wear an Iron Maiden shirt to work almost every Friday. Screw em..

Despite the 90’s sucking for metal, at least it filtered out all the hair band, and some really good bands like Dream Theater gained traction.

Maiden is back to selling out arenas. Unfortunately never heard Ghost until they opened for Maiden this summer; reminds me of old Mercyful Fate, with some late 80’s Voivod.

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Same, I work for a Fortune 20 and wear my metal shirts to work nearly every day in HQ too - I’m often seen with Maiden, Blind Guardian, Helloween, Nightwish, Dream Theater shirts, amongst others.

Turns out a lot more developers in my org appreciate me wearing those shirts than I expected, although the preferences vary.

Everywhere i've worked, people would have been far more accepting of me turning up in an Iron Maiden T-shirt than they would have been of me turning up in a Britney Spears T-shirt.

Relatively, we work in a pretty open/accepting industry. There are plenty of Fortune 100's that probably have a shit culture, but there are plenty (literal tons if you move outside the F100) where this wouldn't be weird.

I like to show up in a Skeletonwitch/Ghoul/Toxic Holocaust shirt every now and then.

Funny you should mention IM... was in 3 different stores last weekend, and three different guys (upper 50's) had Iron Maiden tour t-shirts on.. Being in that age group myself I wanted to high 5 them.

I have this hilarious photo from the last tour. I call it the Sea of Baldness.

Metal isn't dead. It just goes to bed earlier.

I found out about Ghost indirectly via my favorite band, The Birthday Massacre. A TBM fan group had a subset of members who were talking about Ghost, and I got into them through that discussion. Totally different sound and feel between the two bands, but as the article says, that's the great thing about the metal/hardcore scene: There's enough variety for everyone.

Dunno man, the 90s brought us Death's best work, the good Cynic album, Nile, some cracking (and cracked) black metal... lot of dross too, of course, but it's the last seven or eight years that've proven a wasteland for me.

Amen. Death's Human and Cynic's Focus are on my favourites list. I will add:

Opeth - Blackwater Park.

Slayer - Seasons (1990).

Megadeth - Rust in Peace (1990).

Fates Warning - A Pleasant Shade of Gray.

Spiral Architect - A Sceptic's Universe.

Dream Theater - Awake.

Emperor - Nightside and Anthems.

Soilwork - Chainheart Machine.

Morbid Angel - Domination.

Dissection - Storm of the Light's Bane.

Gorguts - Obscura and From Wisdom...

There is always nostalgia for the ground broken in the 80's, but the 90's yielded many great bands' best.

I would also pull in

Ulver - Bergtatt

In Flames - The Jester Race

Meshuggah - Destroy Erase Improve

The 90s hold so many good and interesting directions for metal!

Destroy Erase Improve is indeed killer. I also love Amorphis' Tales From the Thousand Lakes.

I would also pull in:

Dark Tranquility - The Gallery

At the Gates - Slaughter of the Soul

Edge of Sanity - Crimson

> Despite the 90’s sucking for metal

Define metal? The hardcore scene was on fire in the 90s.

> Despite the 90’s sucking for metal

Not a death metal fan eh? 1990-1994 is generally considered a creative high point for death metal and starting about 10 years ago there was a huge trend toward reviving that 'old-school' sound, which involved a lot of blatant aping in particular of early 90s Swedish bands.

Probably not, but one of the first albums (records) I bought was the first Celtic Frost album. Never really liked all the grunting. I really like Kreator, Slayer, King D. & MF, but that’s not death metal.

I never liked the vocals all that much either actually, but I was singularly obsessed with death metal from about age 12 onward into my 20s. I don't keep up with it as rigorously anymore, but for anyone curious I would recommend bands like Infester, Disembowelment, Wormed, Demilich, Pyrrhon, Orchidectomy, Gorguts, Flourishing, Sect of Execration, Diskord, Immortal Fate, Pustulated, Stargazer, Incantation, Wicked Innocence, Miasma, Imprecation, Corpsevomit, Atheist, Fallen Christ, The Chasm, and more to get a picture of how musically varied and interesting death metal can be.

I thought the 90s were great for metal. Bands like Enslaved, Ulver, Opeth, In Flames, Ensiferum, Children of Bodom producing amazing records, that still inspire new acts and whose material stand as pillars of many new genres.

> Despite the 90’s sucking for metal,

Pantera best albums came out in the 90s and they are some of the best metal records ever

One or two of them, maybe. But nu-metal is essentially their fault.

90s: Blind Guardian, made up for the death metal and thrash crap.

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