80's Metal
Though heavy metal did of course exist in the seventies,
it really came of age in the eighties, both as a popular form
of music in the mainstream as well as a booming underground movement.
Some of metal's genres didn't really come into being until the
mid-late eighties or later, but a basic style of metal
(sometimes referred to in the press as Priest/Maiden, named
obviously for two of 80's metal's biggest influences) began to take
hold during this period.
