The Best Metal Album of Each Year Since 1970
Heavy metal is officially over 50 years old, and it s flooring to look at how the genre has evolved since Black Sabbath released their debut album on Feb. 13 of 1970. Oh, and if you re wondering, yes, it was the ominous Friday the 13th.
While the Birmingham, England, group owned this new style, then dubbed downer rock, it eventually caught fire at the tail of the decade (with the help of Judas Priest), smashing down the door as the decade turned over, owning the next 10 years with the emergence of the New Wave of British Heavy Metal, the first wave of black metal, thrash and death metal s infancy.