Metal Essentials

16 cards · 1980–2013 · 4 decades

From the first riff to the modern wall of sound. Bring someone who owns the t-shirts.

Include the alignment test page (do this on your first print)Black & white (ink saver)

Printing: 100% / “Actual size” — never “fit to page” — and duplex flipped on the long edge. Keep the alignment test page ticked the first time.

Decade spread

1980s7

1990s6

2000s2

2010s1

Every year is confirmed

Stores report the date of the edition they sell, so a 1973 song comes back as 1988. Each year here is either hand-checked or confirmed against MusicBrainz's earliest release of that recording. Anything neither could confirm was left out of the deck rather than guessed — a card with the wrong year cannot be won.