Por Vagner Mastropaulo
Em 15/05/21

Encontramos a postagem somente agora, mas, em 13/01, a "Loudwire Staff" criou "Best Metal Song Of Each Year Since 1970", a rigor um texto coletivamente assinado por Joe DiVita, Graham Hartmann, Katy Irizarry, Brian Ives, Eduardo Rivadavia e Jon Wiederhorn, em ordem alfabética de sobrenome. E, ao contrário do que o título sugere, houve o zelo em apontar uma "runner-up" no original, livremente traduzida por nós como "vice".

O "campeão" foi o Black Sabbath, com, por assim dizer, quatro "medalhas de ouro e cinco de prata" – fora o 1-2 de Ozzy Osbourne, padrão adotado daqui por diante. Quase empatando, o Iron Maiden vem a seguir com 3-5 e outro destaque é o Judas Priest, não apenas pelo 3-3, e sim pelo fato de a primeira aparição ter sido com "Victim Of Changes", de Sad Wings Of Destiny (76), e a última por "Lightning Strike", de Firepower (18), ou seja, uma janela de quarenta e dois anos! E com dois segundos lugares, o Sepultura nos representa em 93 e 96.

Demais artistas com ao menos duas "premiações"? Ghost, 4-0; Metallica, 3-1; Tool, 3-0; Pantera, 2-1; Death, Rammstein e Meshuggah, 2-0; Slipknot e Mastodon, 1-2; Deep Purple, Rainbow, Scorpions, Exodus, Slayer, Megadeth, Opeth e Gojira, 1-1; e Anthrax e System Of A Down, 0-2. Já "Holy Diver" colocou Dio no topo em 83 e o frontman ainda obteve um primeiro lugar e um vice, com os citados Rainbow e Black Sabbath.

Em três oportunidades fez-se barba e cabelo: em 71 e 73, ambas com o Black Sabbath, e em 82 para o Iron Maiden. Indiretamente o fenômeno se repetiu em 70 e 78, com o mesmo conjunto, porém em gravações distintas: novamente Tony Iommi e companhia e Judas Priest.

De resto, há: dois registros extraídos de EPs, Broken (92), do Nine Inch Nails e Popestar (16), do Ghost; e três singles, de Poppy, Spiritbox e Architects, justamente do biênio 2019-20 e numa espécie de "licença poética" para furar este ranking, pois dois deles figuram em full lengths e o terceiro estará em breve – com tudo devidamente explicado abaixo.

Enfim, vamos aos eleitos no formato "ano – ‘faixa’ – álbum – banda" e sem links do YouTube porque cento e dois deles quebrariam escriba, editor e leitor... ah, separamos as músicas em blocos de dez meramente pela comodidade visual:

1970: "Black Sabbath" – Black Sabbath – Black Sabbath
Vice: "Paranoid" – Paranoid – Black Sabbath

1971: "Sweet Leaf" – Master Of Reality – Black Sabbath
Vice: "Children Of The Grave" – Master Of Reality – Black Sabbath

1972: "Supernaut" – Vol. 4 – Black Sabbath
Vice: "Smoke On The Water" – Machine Head – Deep Purple

1973: "Sabbath Bloody Sabbath" – Sabbath Bloody Sabbath – Black Sabbath
Vice: "Killing Yourself To Live" – Sabbath Bloody Sabbath – Black Sabbath

1974: "Burn" – Burn – Deep Purple
Vice: "Stone Cold Crazy" – Sheer Heart Attack – Queen

1975: "Man On The Silver Mountain" – Ritchie Blackmore’s Rainbow – Rainbow
Vice: "Symptom Of The Universe" – Sabotage – Black Sabbath

1976: "Victim Of Changes" – Sad Wings Of Destiny – Judas Priest
Vice: "Stargazer" – Rising – Rainbow

1977: "The Sails Of Charon" – Taken By Force – Scorpions
Vice: "Sinner" – Sin After Sin – Judas Priest

1978: "Hell Bent For Leather" – Killing Machine – Judas Priest
Vice: "Beyond The Realms Of Death" – Stained Class – Judas Priest

1979: "Overkill" – Overkill – Motörhead
Vice: "Lovedrive" – Lovedrive – Scorpions

1980: "Crazy Train" – Blizzard Of Ozz – Ozzy Osbourne
Vice: "Heaven And Hell" – Heaven And Hell – Black Sabbath

1981: "Wrathchild" – Killers – Iron Maiden
Vice: "Over The Mountain" – Diary Of A Madman – Ozzy Osbourne

1982: "Hallowed Be Thy Name" – The Number Of The Beast – Iron Maiden
Vice: "The Number Of The Beast" – The Number Of The Beast – Iron Maiden

1983: "Holy Diver" – Holy Diver – Dio
Vice: "The Trooper" – Piece Of Mind – Iron Maiden

1984: "Creeping Death" – Ride The Lightning – Metallica
Vice: "The Sentinel" – Defenders Of The Faith – Judas Priest

1985: "Strike Of The Beast" – Bonded By Blood – Exodus
Vice: "Madhouse" – Spreading The Disease – Anthrax

1986: "Angel Of Death" – Reign In Blood – Slayer
Vice: "Master Of Puppets" – Master Of Puppets – Metallica

1987: "Zombie Ritual" – Scream Bloody Gore – Death
Vice: "Abigail" – Abigail – King Diamond

1988: "One" – ...And Justice For All – Metallica
Vice: "South Of Heaven" – South Of Heaven – Slayer

1989: "Chapel Of Ghouls" – Altars Of Madness – Morbid Angel
Vice: "The Toxic Waltz" – Fabulous Disaster – Exodus

1990: "Holy Wars... The Punishment Due" – Rust In Peace – Megadeth
Vice: "Cowboys From Hell" – Cowboys From Hell – Pantera

1991: "Enter Sandman" – Metallica – Metallica
Vice: "No More Tears" – No More Tears – Ozzy Osbourne

1992: "Mouth For War" – Vulgar Display Of Power – Pantera
Vice: "Wish" – Broken [EP] – Nine Inch Nails

1993: "Black No. 1 (Little Miss Scare-All)" – Bloody Kisses – Type O Negative
Vice: "Refuse/Resist" – Chaos A.D. – Sepultura

1994: "I’m Broken" – Far Beyond Driven – Pantera
Vice: "A Tout Le Monde" – Youthanasia – Megadeth

1995: "Crystal Mountain" – Symbolic – Death
Vice: "Slaughter Of The Soul" – Slaughter Of The Soul – At The Gates

1996: "Ænema" – Ænima – Tool
Vice: "Roots Bloody Roots" – Roots – Sepultura

1997: "Du Hast" – Sehnsucht – Rammstein
Vice: "Jotun" – Whoracle – In Flames

1998: "Freak On A Leash" – Follow The Leader – Korn
Vice: "Demon Of The Fall" – My Arms, Your Hearse – Opeth

1999: "Wait And Bleed" – Slipknot – Slipknot
Vice: "Times Of Grace" – Times Of Grace – Neurosis

2000: "The Wicker Man" – Brave New World – Iron Maiden
Vice: "Wings" – Litany – Vader

2001: "Lateralus" – Lateralus – Tool
Vice: "Aerials" – Toxicity – System Of A Down

2002: "Rational Gaze" – Nothing – Meshuggah
Vice: "March Of The Fire Ants" – Remission – Mastodon

2003: "Progenies Of The Great Apocalypse" – Death Cult Armageddon – Dimmu Borgir
Vice: "Paschendale" – Dance Of Death – Iron Maiden

2004: "The End Of Heartache" – The End Of Heartache – Killswitch Engage
Vice: "Blood And Thunder" [Feat. Neil Fallon] – Leviathan – Mastodon

2005: "Ghost Of Perdition" – Ghost Reveries – Opeth
Vice: "B.Y.O.B. (Bring Your Own Bombs)" – Mezmerize – System Of A Down

2006: "Vicarious" – 10,000 Days – Tool
Vice: "Make Them Suffer" – Kill – Cannibal Corpse

2007: "Milk Lizard" – Ire Works – The Dillinger Escape Plan
Vice: "Aesthetics Of Hate" – The Blackening– Machine Head

2008: "Bleed" – ObZen – Meshuggah
Vice: "Psychosocial" – All Hope Is Gone – Slipknot

2009: "Oblivion" – Crack The Skye – Mastodon
Vice: "The Anticosmic Overload" – Cosmogenesis – Obscura

2010: "Ritual" – Opus Eponymous – Ghost
Vice: "The Talisman" – The Final Frontier – Iron Maiden

2011: "The Vampire From Nazareth" – The Great Mass – Septicflesh
Vice: "The Devil You Know" – Worship Music – Anthrax

2012: "L’Enfant Sauvage" – L’Enfant Sauvage – Gojira
Vice: "Fertile Green" – De Vermis Mysteriis – High On Fire

2013: "Year Zero" – Infestissumam – Ghost
Vice: "An Ocean Of Wisdom" – Colored Sands – Gorguts

2014: "O Father O Satan O Sun!" – The Satanist – Behemoth
Vice: "The Negative One" – .5: The Gray Chapter – Slipknot

2015: "Cirice" – Meliora – Ghost
Vice: "If Eternity Should Fail" – The Book Of Souls – Iron Maiden

2016: "Square Hammer" – Popestar [EP] – Ghost
Vice: "Silvera" – Magma – Gojira

2017: "Forever" – Forever – Code Orange
Vice: "I Saw The End" – Heartless – Pallbearer

2018: "Lightning Strike" – Firepower – Judas Priest
Vice: "Giza Butler" – The Sciences – Sleep

2019: "Deutschland" – Rammstein – Rammstein
Vice: "Concrete" – Concrete [Single] – Poppy
[single de 2019, mas a composição integra o play I Disagree, de janeiro/20]

2020: "Holy Roller" [Feat. Ryo Kinoshita] – Holy Roller [Single] – Spiritbox
[aguardada para o début dos canadenses, quando a pandemia permitir]
Vice: "Animals" – Animals [Single] – Architects
[décima track de For Those That Wish To Exist, de fevereiro/21)]

Evidentemente, um pleito deste porte cutuca onça com vara curta e discordâncias são mais do que esperadas, só que quais? Dê sua opinião...

Fonte: Loudwire
https://loudwire.com/best-metal-song-each-year-since-1970