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@Nasty_Cabbage bringing the fucking Nina Simone! Cheers mate. Great stuff.
Fornicus - Sulphuric Omnipotence
Scourge Lair - One Hundred Eyes One Hundred Arms (demo)
Judas Iscariot - To Embrace the Corpses Bleeding
Non-skipper albums for me:
Sad Wings
NOTB
Piece of Mind
Seventh Son
 

As it goes - opinions are like assholes, everyone has a shitty one...
Most of what I would consider "perfect" or "unskippable" I'm sure would fall out of your wheelhouse and most likely the opposite is true. NBD. Fortunately, we both passed the metalhead certification test years ago.
Enslaved - Mardraum
 

As it goes - opinions are like assholes, everyone has a shitty one...
Most of what I would consider "perfect" or "unskippable" I'm sure would fall out of your wheelhouse and most likely the opposite is true. NBD. Fortunately, we both passed the metalhead certification test years ago.
Enslaved - Mardraum
 

As it goes - opinions are like assholes, everyone has a shitty one...
Most of what I would consider "perfect" or "unskippable" I'm sure would fall out of your wheelhouse and most likely the opposite is true. NBD. Fortunately, we both passed the metalhead certification test years ago.
Enslaved - Mardraum
 

As it goes - opinions are like assholes, everyone has a shitty one...
Most of what I would consider "perfect" or "unskippable" I'm sure would fall out of your wheelhouse and most likely the opposite is true. NBD. Fortunately, we both passed the metalhead certification test years ago.
Enslaved - Mardraum
 

CEMETERIES - Filth Ritual
ANCST / AST - Split
 

@Nasty_Cabbage bringing the fucking Nina Simone! Cheers mate. Great stuff.
Fornicus - Sulphuric Omnipotence
Scourge Lair - One Hundred Eyes One Hundred Arms (demo)
Judas Iscariot - To Embrace the Corpses Bleeding
Non-skipper albums for me:
Sad Wings
NOTB
Piece of Mind
Seventh Son
 

Circle of Ouroborus - MatterEther
Hypnosia - Extreme Hatred
Arnaut Pavle - Arnaut Pavle
 

I really do mean to keep up with this thread, but every time I make a post here I then forget all about it for the next few months.
 
Bokluk - Taphonomy, Spain 2014. I've definitely listened to this album far more than any other over the last few weeks since I stumbled over it on YouTube. Probably click on it two or three times a day, I can't seem to stop myself. They're billing it as old school death metal and that's not a lie, it is, but it's not a clone of Morbid Angel or Deicide or Dismember or Entombed. There's definitely quite a bit of grindcore present and some crust influence worked in here too. But that's the way I like it, which is why I don't really ever listen to any of those four 90's bands I just mentioned.
 
Machetazo - Mundo Cripta, Spanish deathgrind 2008. Could have chosen any Machetazo album because I've been playing the shit out of all of them lately, but tonight I picked this one. 
 
The Atomic Bitchwax - Scorpio, NJ 2020. Riff heavy stoner rock from New Jersey. Catchy. As. Fuck. Their 3-piece lineup has changed a few times over the years, but the three current members responsible for this latest album have all played together as hired guns for Dave Wyndorf in that other notable Jersey shore stoner rock band Monster Magnet. But this album is better than anything Magnet's done in at least a decade.
 
The Lords of Altamont - Midnight to 666, LA 2011. Another random find on YouTube. Garage rock, punk rock, psychedelic rock, whatever you want to call it, I love this stuff when I'm not death-grinding it up. I think I keep coming back to this one at least partly for the Ain't It Fun Dead Boys cover. But still it is a great album all the way around.
 

@Nasty_Cabbage bringing the fucking Nina Simone! Cheers mate. Great stuff.
Fornicus - Sulphuric Omnipotence
Scourge Lair - One Hundred Eyes One Hundred Arms (demo)
Judas Iscariot - To Embrace the Corpses Bleeding
Non-skipper albums for me:
Sad Wings
NOTB
Piece of Mind
Seventh Son
 

Circle of Ouroborus - MatterEther
Hypnosia - Extreme Hatred
Arnaut Pavle - Arnaut Pavle
 

Ah. This one's pretty easy as it's about how our brains process music. A musical phrase "resolves" usually when it ends on a note that more or less demarks it's conclusion as a single musical statement within the song like a single sentence in grammar. So if you were to take Twinkle twinkle little star / How I wonder what you are, the resolution is the note that the word "Are" is sung over. Note we're going one syllable per beat. Line one line goes up three times in a row so: twinkle/up twinkle/up little/up, star/middle, and the second line goes down how I/down wonder/down what you/down are/down, with the fourth down breaking pattern from the first line and resolving the phrase (and for what it's worth I wasn't choosing a children's song as some sort of taunt. It's just a melody everybody knows). Of course it's music so there's all manner of complications that can and will come into play, but that's the basic idea. It's also possible to create songs without neatly resolving melodies like Nina Simone's rendition of Langston Hughe's poem Strange Fruit.
Note that the piano behind Ms. Simone here begins with a relatively simple four chord series that moves and shifts as the song goes on because it needs to be malleable and not static or neatly timed out to use the exact cadence the poem necessitates.
I hope that helps some. The way human pattern recognition works, whether we like it or not, is moment to moment, and a big part of our enjoyment of music is following this kind of thing (often subconsciously) with it's surprises and it's predictability going hand in hand. I also think you're perfectly fine enjoying music on a much less analytical and much more visceral level. Bringing the music nomenclature into it just helps me with articulating some of this stuff a little more exactly. I don't need anybody to think that I'm insulting them by throwing that kind of language around. It's really more for my benefit than anyone else's.

Someone highfalutin would say that.
 
NASCAR metal! Silly in nature. Silly in lyrics. Just silly all round, but it's still a bit of fun too.
 

Monster Magnet... now I can get down with that. Let's throw on some Tab and Spine of God.
JP playlist game:
Winter/Deep Freeze
Victim of Changes
Call for the Priest/Let us Prey
Beyond the Realms of Death
Delivering the Goods
The Rage
Heading out to the Highway
Screaming for Vengeance
The Sentinel
Out in the Cold
Painkiller 
Judas Rising 
Honestly though, I can just throw on everything from Rocka Rolla through Defenders with a few select tracks from everything after and be good. Not my favorite band of all time, but I do listen to quite a bit of JP. I was late to the game on them along with most other late 60's-70's rock. That was my dad's music so I wanted my own stuff. Aside from VH, I was into Twisted Sister, Ratt, Helloween, Maiden, AC/DC, Queensryche, Def Leppard, and of course Rush. Only in the last 6-7 years have I gotten into older Scorpions, BOC, Uriah Heep, Priest etc. All of it is perfectly serviceable and good for a playlist. Rare I want to listen to a full album start to finish.
Yes, yes, yes, fuck Weather Report, yes, yes... Throw in some Brand X, Chick Corea, Wayne Shorter, Eric Dolphy, Thelonius Monk, Charles Mingus, Return to Forever, Stanley Clark, John Coltrane, and Al di Meola and call it a day.

You like to play the part of the rube, but anyone that reads your posts know that you are highly intelligent. We've engaged in a range of convos on your takes on history, left wing politics to the complexities of economics. You like language and culture. So, don't play the knuckle dragger with me! Your tastes are questionable, you like to instigate debate and can be annoying AF at times but your intellect is not in questions, sir. 
We have vastly different views on lyrics. Here's what I would say on the subject-first off, metal lyrics by and large don't add much. That said, in regards to extreme metal they sometimes help draw me into the world of the artist. You don't need to read the lyrics to The Ramones or Judas Priest. And most extreme metal lyrics are a throw away, but I've found that some artists really take the time to put a great deal of thought  into their lyrics. It's an odd thing-introspective lyrics that no one can understand-but that's part of the riddle of extreme metal. Most artists want success. Extreme metal is the opposite. There are self imposed barriers to limit entry like the code to get into khazad-dum. It requires effort on the part of the listener. In a way, that's part of the appeal. 
That's partly why I like physical media. I'll typically take a few minutes to look at the artwork and the lyrics and often don't read past the first couple of tracks. But, I just figure songs are combination of music and words and artists, no matter how primitive might want to say something or at minimum create an atmosphere where language plays some part. BM in particular has a way of taking the listener to other dimensions where the artwork and sometimes the lyrics can add to the mystique they try to envelope the listener in. 
Extreme metal can be complex and dense and the lyrics can be used to punctuate a point in the prose or storyline if there is one.
Beginning with Metallica and Anthrax per my listening, those artists were making great music but also talking about real societal things-racism, the criminal justice system, mental health drug addiction, the futility of war. Lemmy was actually an underrated lyricism. Beyond the sex, drugs and rock and roll culture of many of his songs, his lyrics were often hilarious and quite poignant writing about his disgust at the wealthy and powerful, disingenuity of elitists, his intolerance of the lies hoisted upon all of us by those that pull the strings in our world, the stupidity of war and and religion.  
Ihashn wrote some really interesting stuff on Anthems that took the power of their symphonic black metal and fused it with more than Satanism-but with occult mysticism that was genius for a teenager. I know you're not an Opeth fan,  Mikael Åkerfeldt basically wrote dark poetry that he set to music. I can't imagine listening to Blackwater Park or Ghost Reveries without taking a peek at the lyrics. He's a great example of using extreme metal to punctuate his lyrical themes. Neurosis is another band who took wild, ambitious ideas both sonically and lyrically using samples and ideas from myth and psychology. Arioch (both with Funeral Mist and Marduk) does some pretty intelligent things to the old Satanic tropes of BM inverting Christianity with some twisted shit. DSO is famous for their existential essays posed as intellectual Satanism set to music. I've noticed in recent years that DM sometimes brings in elements of eastern religion, particularly Buddhism and bands like Vastum (and definitely doomy post metal bands like Subrosa) pull from literature and in Vastum's case write some twisted, thought provoking disturbing shit.
I know you don't have any interest in any of that stuff, but my point is in a small percentage of metal, the time and talent put into lyrics enrich my enjoyment. It's like the dead sea scrolls or the Davinci code-only available to those that put the effort into deciphering secret runes.   Enough said!

Terrible Claw - Disaster Catalyst, UK death/thrash 2021
 
The Devouring Void - Hypnagogic Hallucinations, black/death Portugal 2021
 
Nashgul - Cárcava, deathgrind Spain 2016
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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Morbus Chron - Sleepers in the Rift, Sweden 2011
 
Repugnant - Epitome of Darkness, Swedish death/thrash 2006
 

Me, I was in high school between 80-84. Weened during preteen years on AC/DC, Aerosmith, Kiss and Van Halen. My parents liked folk rock and The Beatles, a little Dylan, The Who and so on.
I listened to pop metal through high school. I definitely was a JP fan. I listened to some Def Leppard, Accept, Iron Maiden, etc. And hair metal-the usual suspects, Ratt, Motley Crue, Dokken, Twisted Sister. But I was a theater nerd and none of my friends listened to metal. But Pink Floyd, The Ramones, Elvis Costello, Bowie were staples.  Of course I listened to Zeppelin and Sabbath. Always liked Neil Young and I love Dylan.
Then, in college ; (84-90), I got into Metallica, Anthrax, and Megadeth (Peace Sells and Rust in Peace-the only albums I bothered with) and didn't listen to Slayer until Seasons in the Abyss. For some reason I remember seasons in the Abyss, Slave to the Grind and Cowboys from Hell all came out when I graduated college in 1990. Of course, GNR, Motorhead and grunge-Soundgarden Alice Chains and were a big influence for me-really opened my ears to alternative and punk influenced stuff. But I was pretty vicarious in my metal listening-a little Suicidal Tendencies, Ministry, Tool, Prong,  and finally it all got played out for me and lost interest in the mid 90's-my late 20's  when I was L.A. pursing acting and then got married and had a kid in my mid 30 and finally woke the fuck up. 
Years later, on the cusp of 40, I woke up and plugged into the 'net and really started exploring stoner metal, doom, post metal and finally a little melodeth, black and DM that came out in the early aughts-Gaahl fronted Gorgoroth, Opeth, Dark Tranquility, Behemoth, Nile, second wave black.
But because I was older and avoided extreme metal all those years, I've always held extreme metal at a kind of arms length. Time went by and I began listening to more and more but to this day, I reject the label metalhead, I'm just a middle aged guy that likes a lot of music and some of it is heavy. Death metal and black metal are ridiculous. But I can't deny the virtuosity and inventiveness also contained within those genres and I like a lot of it, even though it's absurd.
It's the wide tentacles of metal that keep my interest. I like to be part of the conversation and enjoy metal that defies expectations, upends them even, from the primal to the ethereal and keeps me guessing what new Van Halen savant will blow me away with unlimited potential and ambition. It's the range for me from caveman metal to avant-garde. But, I prefer my metal with some level of musicality-so much of so called cavernous, goat bestial metal seems to want to drown and suffocate any level of musicality and I tend to like my metal just slightly elevated above lizard brain. 
 

Off the top of my head I'd have to get all the way to Painkiller before I had a track listing worthy of being a compilation album.
Victim Of Change
The Ripper
Delivering The Goods
Take On The World
Evening Star
Breaking The Law
Living After Midnight
You Don’t Have To Be Old To Be Wise
Heading Out To The Highway
Desert Plains
Rock You All Around The World
Painkiller
Night Crawler
One Shot At Glory
 
It would probably be different if I listened to all the albums again.

Monster Magnet... now I can get down with that. Let's throw on some Tab and Spine of God.
JP playlist game:
Winter/Deep Freeze
Victim of Changes
Call for the Priest/Let us Prey
Beyond the Realms of Death
Delivering the Goods
The Rage
Heading out to the Highway
Screaming for Vengeance
The Sentinel
Out in the Cold
Painkiller 
Judas Rising 
Honestly though, I can just throw on everything from Rocka Rolla through Defenders with a few select tracks from everything after and be good. Not my favorite band of all time, but I do listen to quite a bit of JP. I was late to the game on them along with most other late 60's-70's rock. That was my dad's music so I wanted my own stuff. Aside from VH, I was into Twisted Sister, Ratt, Helloween, Maiden, AC/DC, Queensryche, Def Leppard, and of course Rush. Only in the last 6-7 years have I gotten into older Scorpions, BOC, Uriah Heep, Priest etc. All of it is perfectly serviceable and good for a playlist. Rare I want to listen to a full album start to finish.
Yes, yes, yes, fuck Weather Report, yes, yes... Throw in some Brand X, Chick Corea, Wayne Shorter, Eric Dolphy, Thelonius Monk, Charles Mingus, Return to Forever, Stanley Clark, John Coltrane, and Al di Meola and call it a day.

Monster Magnet... now I can get down with that. Let's throw on some Tab and Spine of God.
JP playlist game:
Winter/Deep Freeze
Victim of Changes
Call for the Priest/Let us Prey
Beyond the Realms of Death
Delivering the Goods
The Rage
Heading out to the Highway
Screaming for Vengeance
The Sentinel
Out in the Cold
Painkiller 
Judas Rising 
Honestly though, I can just throw on everything from Rocka Rolla through Defenders with a few select tracks from everything after and be good. Not my favorite band of all time, but I do listen to quite a bit of JP. I was late to the game on them along with most other late 60's-70's rock. That was my dad's music so I wanted my own stuff. Aside from VH, I was into Twisted Sister, Ratt, Helloween, Maiden, AC/DC, Queensryche, Def Leppard, and of course Rush. Only in the last 6-7 years have I gotten into older Scorpions, BOC, Uriah Heep, Priest etc. All of it is perfectly serviceable and good for a playlist. Rare I want to listen to a full album start to finish.
Yes, yes, yes, fuck Weather Report, yes, yes... Throw in some Brand X, Chick Corea, Wayne Shorter, Eric Dolphy, Thelonius Monk, Charles Mingus, Return to Forever, Stanley Clark, John Coltrane, and Al di Meola and call it a day.

Seems I might've erroneously assumed that because of your propensity to defend ancient has-been legacy bands including Judas Pweest, Megastaine and Anthrax from nay-sayers, and because of your being an old thrash metal aficionado just one year younger than me, that you would quite likely have been a Pweest fan back in the day. So then what were you listening to back in your teenage years and those early 80's days just before thrash metal hit the scene?
There aren't any rules Orca, I don't believe in rules. Put whichever and however many Pweest songs on the list that you want to, based on any criteria you'd like. Or don't make a list at all if you've really never been into the band and don't have any favorite Pweest songs. I don't really care that much about Pweest myself tbh or most of these 40 - 50 year old legacy bands for that matter. I just figured Pweest are one of those bands that most of us older metal dudes would likely have in common from back in the days when there weren't so many different sub-genres and not so many heavy bands to choose from out there.
I can't talk to old guys like you about black metal or deathgrind, or even make jokes about it, you get all cranky and go ad hominem on me. So I was trying to engage you on a neutral playing field, maybe find some common ground we could build on. Same reason I'll often weigh in on Megastaine, Metallica or Maiden convos. I don't give two shits about most those old dinosaur mainstream metal bands anymore, but they were undeniably a big part of my 80's metal upbringing so I have enough background knowledge about their music still kicking around in my head somewhere that I can hold my own in a convo. Because it's a forum, we have to talk about something, or else Cabbie will come and make a remark about how quiet it is in here today.
 
 
Monster Magnet -  Dopes to Infinty, space rock out of Red Bank New Jersey 1995
 

Priest compilation-easy
Double album 
 Victim of  Changes The Ripper Dreamer Deceiver Tyrant Sinner Diamonds and Rust Starbreaker Let Us Prey Call for the Priest/Let us Prey Dissident Aggressor  Exciter Better by You, better tan Me Invader Beyond the Realms of Death That's just  the 70'sn albums, not even including Killing Machine and I left off several I like,  and then come the 80's, baby!
15. Breaking the Law
16. Rapid Fire
17. Metal Gods
18. The Grinder
19. Don't Have to be Old to be Wise
20. The Rage
21. Heading out to the Highway
22. Desert Plains
23. The Hellion
24. Electric Eye
25. Blood Stone
26. You've Got Another Thing Coming (hell yes)
27. Freewheel Burning
28. Jaw Breaker
29. Ride Hard, Ride Free
30. The Sentinel
31. Defenders of the Faith
32. Some Heads Are Going to Roll (hell yes) 
33. Screaming for Vengence
Now, @GoatmasterGeneral. I can already hear you say, but Mark half of those songs suck,  but this is my list Goddammit!

LMFAO, this is the funniest thing I've seen in weeks. Brilliant. The younger sister is a beast. American girls would never rock like that. Sign me up! I'm a huge fan. 
But, GG, then you share a cover of Angel of Death. Little girl metal? I see a crack in your criticism. Is Slayer, and a cover from the greatest thrash album (supposedly) of all time no less, really little girl metal? 
Answer-little girls are metal Af. Bring it, Audrey and Kate, bring it! Take no prisoners, take no shit. 

Np: Ahab - The Coral Tombs
I was talking to someone the other day about The Cart & Horses (because they lived round the corner) where Maiden played it's first gig. Although for years I thought it was The Ruskin Arms. I even played there years ago.
Anyhow, reading today about the literal birthplace of metal, where Sabbath first played. Turns out it is closed down but is still standing.
https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2024/mar/15/the-crown-pub-birmingham-grade-ii-listed-black-sabbath-heavy-metal