I cannot stand modern rock/metal production, at all. There's some good riffs but it just brings the music down. Please give me recommendations for any newer metal band with production that would be considered great before the year 2000. Preferably, no basement dweller raw black metal projects that are only on bandcamp, or brutal death metal or grindcore. Just something fundamentally still musical, I like that stuff sometimes but it's not what I'm looking for.

Basically, bands with a pre-2000 sound after 2000.

This is a big problem for me too. I really like how Primordial sound on "To the Nameless Dead" (2007).

Interested in crust or punk at all? It's not completely void of modern production for obvious reasons, but the drums in particular don't usually sound like yogurt containers wrapped in gauze.

Not at the moment. I'm looking for metal.

I feel as though Worm are doing a particularly good job of pulling off 90's death/doom and black metal with a very Disembowelment-inspired production.

Not sure how you feel about psych rock or stoner/doom, but a ton of bands like Jex Thoth, Orchid, Electric Wizard, and Beastmaker have gone deliberately out of their way to recreate the dusty and raw production of early Sabbath.

Technically not "new" since it was from 2013 (over ten years ago I feel old), but The Mystery of TIme sounds to as if it were some Disney or Hallmark Christmas movie from the 90s.




For the most part I do agree that metal these days kind of lost its atmosphere that makes it feel more grand or sinister. I mean, I still enjoy some of it, but I wish we bring back rawness more often.

These are all new traditional heavy metal bands, so the albums have an 80's sounding production:

Eternal Champion - The Armor of Ire

Tanith - In Another Time, Voyage

Eisenhand - Fires Within

Amethyst - Rock Knights

Century - The Conquest of Time

Also, if you like death/doom, here's something for ya:

Krypts - Unending Degradation

BeCursed from Denmark sounds like mid-90s death metal with a really beefy guitar tone. Like a mixture of old Illdisposed and Unleashed.

Tyrann from Sweden (well, Sweden has a million of these kinds of bands really) is really solid 70s style heavy metal with old school production too.