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Question 4 of at most 6 leading so far, Speed metal

Does it matter when it was made?

Every genre carries the year it is generally held to have emerged. Records made long afterwards still belong to it, so this dates the sound rather than the record.

• The beginnings Before 1970, when none of this had a name yet.
• The seventies and eighties Where most of the tree's branches actually fork.
• The nineties The decade the extremes were built in.
• This century The parts of the tree still growing.
• Doesn't matter Skipped, and counted for nothing.