u/PsychedUp7

You made a big mistake getting into this car, buddy.

My top 10 in no particular order:

Anata - The Conductors Departure

Gorguts - The Erosion of Sanity

Dodecahedron - Kwintessens

Martyr - Feeding the Abscess

Decapitated - Organic Hallucinosis

Akercocke - Words That Go Unspoken..

Fear Factory - Soul of a New Machine

Disgorge - Consume the Forsaken

Lykathea Aflame - Elvenefris

Deathspell Omega - The Synarchy of Molten Bones

Listening to metal with 20 years, what a journey it has been. My top 10 get regular spins with me and they're all bangers in my opinion. Can play them all straight through with no skips and they're all very dear to me.

I think it's a pretty eclectic top 10? The majority of them I feel are an outisde the box approach to metal.

Any of my top 10 that would feature in your top 10? Any recommendations for me?

Thanks folks \m/

Atrocity - Hallucinations gets my vote. Sounds very strange and discordant even for a death metal album, and then you realise that it was released in 1990. Luc Lemay of Gorguts was heavily influenced by this album and its follow up Todessehnsucht (1992) when he was writing The Erosion of Sanity. He was really taken aback by how weird the riffs were for the time - even by today's standards.

The lyrics reflect the grim and harsh soundscape - it's a concept album which follows the brutal and unforgiving life of a woman from her abuse ridden youth up until she succumbs to drug addiction as a young adult.

Atrocity eventually became a symphonic goth metal band surprisingly.

Anyone else stoked for this? Listening on Spotify, I think they did a great job with the remastering.

I remember buying Feeding the Abscess when I was 15 - I was just after discovering Gorguts and other Canadian tech death - and being so blown away that I got a Feeding the Abscess hoody for Christmas. I wore it 'till it started to fall apart.

It's going to be great to rock some Martyr merch again. Will definitely grab the remasters as well.

Daniel Mongrain (Martyr) and Matt Heafy (Trivium).

Just been blasting the new Martyr remixes on Spotify - Feeding the Abscess is one of all time top 10 albums - and while perusing Google to find info about the remixes, I stumbled across this nugget:

'Trivium frontman Matt Heafy and guitar virtuoso Daniel Mongrain share a deep collaborative history. Most notably, Mongrain contributed mind-bending guitar work on the 2004 technical death metal album Fractured by Capharnaum, which featured Heafy on lead vocals.'

Also:

'Heafy has openly cited Daniel Mongrain as a massive influence on his rhythmic playing. The unconventional, Chuck Schuldiner/Mongrain-style down-picking pattern (down-down-down-up-down) is a trademark technique Heafy utilized on Trivium tracks like "A Crisis of Revelation'

Although I know Heafy has some fairly distinctive tastes when it comes to metal, I wasn't expecting this.

Fisher Stevens. Seen here in Short Circut (1986). Can't remember the last film I've seen him in. He seems so familiar. Any other childhood movies other people can remember him in?

Been wanting to add this to the collection for a while! My favorite album from them and probably in my all time top 10.

Anyone else get some tasty merch lately?

I don't care if I sound like an old school troglodyte, or that I should 'lighten up and see the humour in it'. This is just stupid.