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That's a long time. Good for you!

Thank you for an awesome answere! Just have to add, Started play piano at age 7 -91, drums at age 10 -94, guitar at age 13 -97, where the bass also includes. Started to growl/scream back in 2005, but the clean singing started like.. yesterday I have recorded music a very long time, but not seriously until last year. To be honest, I don't really know what all these plugins and stuff do ? I might have used them wrong. Or not at all. The thing is, I want to learn, to actually know what the fudge I'm doing And yes,, the biggest problem I have is to get a "clean" distorted guitar. So I am very grateful for the tips you gave me.

I agree!!! I do not care if a song was written 40 years ago or 3 months ago, by a 60 year old or 16 year old: if it is good then I'll listen to it, buy the CD, or buy it online and download it...if there is no other option available! Time is something that I have never really understood or had a good concept of and it has nothing to do with my music choice. Metal has a long history: if you include classical music which a lot of metal is based on then it hundreds of years old. And well, sticking exclusively to one or two decades with in more than five centuries or more, seems very limited. But as for personal preferences: the 1993 to around 1995 did nothing for me music wise!

Still good to know there's somewhere you can play when you manage to scrape together some band members.

Archspire: Relentless Mutation Black Sabbath: Paranoid

Car music the past two days: Queensryche “Empire” Morbid Angel “Altars of Madness” Morbid Angel “Blessed Are The Sick”

From my perspective, a damn good song is a damn good song, whether it was recorded 30 years ago or 30 days ago. The past has already given us many damn good songs, which I still enjoy listening to, and the present also has plenty of damn good songs, though just a bit more difficult to find these days. But searching for them remains the most fun thing I do these days.

The past is a whole heap of 'nows' collected behind us. Our current time is simply one set of 'now'. Therefore, the past is better because it contains 50 years of metal 'nows', whereas the current moment only contains one, and the future none at all. The past wins.

well i feel like yes but then again I like metal from then and now its so different now but still good in new ways but i have such a positive association to the metal i used to listen to as a child. so to me it will always be special or "golden" i think being real would be to accept that many things we see now are just offshoots of great original creative ideas from the past there is no area of life in which the past has become no longer relevant. the past is what shapes the future and it's what created our current now "who cares about how great judas priest used to be?" me, for one. everyone I know. i think everyone should care about how great judas priest used to be. i think thats a very relevant topic in the art world in general, and in music, and it always will be. i would hope that my great grandchildren would one day find out how great judas priest was there are so many aspects of classic music that we just can't hear anymore. so its good to be appreciative of the then and the now. that way you can have a full understanding of music and how it has evolved

The problem is that the older material is revered for a variety of different reasons other than simply establishing the genre. Many of the bands operating today would be nothing without the innovations brought forth from bands in the '80s and '90s. That's clearly something worth considering.

Just because something is new does not entail that it is in any way better (or more worthy of attention) than something that is old. Just as anticipation of the future can bring new advents to music (and anything really), so can reexamination of the past.