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'Killed by the Hypnotic Bastard' by Deathless. S0unDOfCha0S has some cool stuff on his/her channel.

'Don't Go Any Further' by Disillusion. Gloria is odd, but I like most of it. It's pleasantly eclectic in a way that a lot of people attribute to other albums, but unlike most of them this is enjoyable. It is somewhat repetitive, but the repetition doesn't grate.

'The Moment She Died' by Ram-Zet. Harsh vocals remind me of Marilyn Manson, to the band's significant disadvantage. On the other hand, everything else is pretty great.

My birth date is Nigerian Independence Day...

I'm listening to their first album, the stuff from the second didn't really interest me.

'Nuclear Desecration' by Truppensturm. Maybe others have heard this, but if not I recommend it to fans of blackened death metal.

Huh. I've been reppin' erry day, most of the shirts I have with me are for bands.

'Avalanche' by Disillusion.

'The Black Sea' by Disillusion. I hope the rest of the album is like this, or better...I'm kinda surprised I didn't enjoy this more back when I listened to it first.

'Bogie In a Coal Hole' by Mechanical Poet.

'Lucy Fears the Morning Star' by Diablo Swing Orchestra.

Well, I've heard djent being used by bands like Voyager and Orden Ogan for whom it didn't really work all that well (at first, anyway; I've enjoyed Voyager's latest way more than I should). I know it's sort of a 'genre' but that sort of sound has been incorporated elsewhere and I typically don't care for it.

'Diluvial Ascension - Gateway to the Antisphere' by Sulphur Aeon. Absolutely seething with effortless malevolent power. I hope the rest of the album is like this.

I don't think it's completely idiotic to say that djent is 'ruining' progressive metal, because it is becoming popular and making it less likely for labels to pick up groups doing something different. I've heard loads of complaints, on this forum, about excessively 'slick' sound production, I don't think it'd be complete nonsense for someone to argue that it is to a certain extent ruining death metal. It doesn't ruin any of the bands that are actually good, and doesn't necessarily damage the genre as a whole, but I don't quite think that's what people mean. I think they mean it's just becoming less and less of a varied field and that it's starting to stagnate.

'Acceptance' by Hope For The Dying. The only metalcore I've chosen to listen to more than once aside from that band As The Sun Sets, I think it was?

'Prince Hata Theme' from Gintama. One of the most weirdly funny songs I've ever heard.

I looked at his posts, and yes, he does seem to mainly like 70's and 80's stuff. Now I'm not inclined to dogpile him because I generally don't like blast beats or pig-squeals either. Still, I've heard them work so I won't dismiss them out of turn.

Could probably have edited this down, but: Rain Irving (vocals) Jens Carlsson (vocals) Christine Rhoades and/or Leilindel or Nell Aelin (vocals) Joel Thorpe (growls) Jeff Loomis (lead guitar) Syriak (rhythm guitar) ChaoTH (bass) Jim Austin (drums) Tim Charles (violin) Exod (keyboards) Johannes Bergion (cello) And Magnus Sigfridsson, Dan Swano, Vladimir Cochet plus guys from Unexpect, Equilibrium, Persuader, Manticora, Pagan's Mind and Serenity to compose. So...essentially just Unexpect with a clean male vocalist and a larger, more majestic sound from time to time.

'Cosmo Funk' by No-Metric.

'Black Betty' by Ram Jam.

'Waves of Thought' by Exivious.

'Simple Boy' by Karnivool. Reminds me of the new Klone stuff but it doesn't suck as much.