James Hetfield cut his hair and Judas Priest went on hiatus. Metal for me is NWOBHM + old skool metallica.
As a metal addict, I love me a lot of oldskool bands (got full discography of Metallica for example, though I don't like Judas Priest that much). On the other hand, I really love how new-gen metal bands keep marching on and triumphing in terms of musiquality.
When metal is in question, there is always quality indeed, because you know you most probably won't be making shitloads of money out of it despite the fact that bands like Metallica may have done it back in the day. So, metal means focusing on great music.
I can't really think of any new pure metal bands to recommend to you and appease your longing for oldskool bands but I listen to a lot of other bands playing other niche genres of metal (goth, doom, stoner, ambient etc.). In brief, I have full trust in metal such that I am sure I will still find some bands to listen to even when I grow old enough to be called a geezer.
