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Originally Posted by 66Sexy
80s metal production is great not because it's the most accomplished but because metal in its pure 80s form doesn't need polish and nuance. Metal along with hardcore is the musical realization of the desire to smash faces and eat brains and prettying that up can honestly be reductive.
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A lot of 80's metal has studio trickery applied, though. Not least added reverb. The sort of 90's metal production that I like so much is the sort where it sounds like they pretty much just plugged everything in, recorded it, then layered it. No filtering or much of anything else. I'm not sure why 90's metal sounds generally so much fatter than 80's metal. Probably some changes in recording technology, plus some changes in what's a trendy sound for metal. The 90's was the decade where groove and bass came back to metal.