Most of the metal (Power and Death Metal) that has been popping up recently were from the 80's.
There are a lot of great Metal that came out the last 8 years.
Of course, as ZakkWylde said, Thrash metal had been booming again since Brazil and Bay Area Thrash bands had been popping up by a thousand lately. Not just any thrash metal, but 86 Thrash ala Exodus, Kreator, Slayer, and even Sarcofago kind of Thrash.
Death Metal had been slightly monotonous as of late, but bands such as Origin, Hail Of Bullets, Flesh, Coffins, Frightmare, Arghoslent, and Drawn and Quartered had been the new bands to keep this genre alive and violently flailing heavy riffs.
A lot of 80's and early 90's bands from Death Metal are still making great album today. Dismember, Grave, Bolt Thrower, Immolation, and Obituary all came out with nothing but a spectacular release in the last year.
Folk/Viking Metal also boomed the last 2 years or so. Eluveitie's album Slania is my album of the year. Its catchy, heavy, and full of folk instruments to keep anyone interested.
Prog is not my forte, but I think this genre hasn't impressed me in the last 2 years.
Yeah, Metal really suffers from being boring, monotonous, and even terrible the last 10 years or so, but its still worth checking out because out of 10 terrible bands that I find in a week, one of the them is bound to be an unstoppable force for there upcoming years.
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