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Nice one, that. 8.5% in a 500ml bottle is a bit dangerous, though!

Against Me! - Transgender Dysphoria Blues Anthemic modern punk with a great message!

Swans - Soundtracks for the Blind Been listening to this album near enough every day for a week, which is no mean feat considering it's nearly 2h30 mins. I'm not one to be fickle with music and generally take a long time to fully form my opinions, but I think this might be the best album I've ever heard. So disturbing and sinister, but really beautiful and moving. Flawless piece of work. Few artists or albums have struck such a cord with me so quickly.

Gojira - From Mars to Sirius

Chelsea Wolfe - Pain is Beauty

Machine Head - Bloodstone & Diamonds No band in the mainstream spotlight combines extremity and anthemic accessibility so effectively. The band Trivium want to be. Amazing piece of work. On par with The Blackening imo.

Manic Street Preachers - The Holy Bible

The Dillinger Escape Plan - Option Paralysis

36 Crazyfists - A Snow Capped Romance Feeling somewhat out of place here.

Come on, man. She's called 'BrutalTeutonicThrasher666'; she obviously knows her stuff better than you do.

They're relatively left-field for a turn-of-the century mainstream metal band, but I'd say avant garde is stretching it a bit.

Afraid not. They're a Canadian post-rock band; no singing at all. NP: Deftones - Koi No Yokan

Godspeed You! Black Emperor - Yanqui U.X.O.

Mogwai - Young Team Definitely a favourite of mine.

Cool, glad you liked it. Definitely give Severance a listen, in that case. Not heard of Stampin' Ground. Are they particularly new? I tend to like my metal with some hardcore influence, so I should like it. Are you getting into Scandinavian metal in general or black metal specifically? I like some of that stuff, though it's not completely my thing. I own Mayhem's De Mysteriis... album which is really good, and I've found myself enjoying Ihsahn and Enslaved's later work recently as well (would recommend those if you've not already checked them out), but there people here much more involved in that scene than I am.

Deftones - Minerva Floaty as fuck. The best song Coldplay never wrote.

The Dillinger Escape Plan - Black Bubblegum Much as I like their vicious, chaotic stuff, I just love Greg's shamelessly Patton-esque melodic vocal delivery and they have such an ear for cool catchy-as-hell melodies!

Whereabouts are you from in the UK? I live in England (West Midlands) and I think we have a decent heavy music scene over here; though admittedly most of the new bands I'm really enjoying nowadays seem to be coming more from the hardcore scene. That's probably just a reflection of my tastes, though. Have you ever listened to Heart of a Coward? You might like them - they use those poly-rhythmic riffs that Meshuggah do so well and combine that style with hardcore and some slightly Deftones-ish melodies. Severance is well worth a listen. Heavy stuff!

Hey man. Welcome to the forum! I dig Gojira and Meshuggah, too. Nice to have yet another Brit here! Hope you find what you want on this forum.

Slipknot - .5: The Gray Chapter

Swans - The Seer Part of the problem with discovering this band is everything else in my collection now seems bland, soft, safe, predictable and weak. :/