Boy... Am I ever gonna be the odd one out... Here's a handful of the albums I've been listening to recently.
Artist: Fear Factory
Album: Demanufacture
Song/s: Self Bias Resistor, Replica
Optional,genre: Industrial/Metal
Optional,why?: Liked these guys forever. Saw them live last Saturday. It was the musical equivalent of being repeatedly smashed in the face with a ton of bricks. And I loved it.
Artist: Devildriver
Album: The Fury of our Maker's Hand
Song/s: Before the Hangman's Noose, Grinf**ked
Optional,genre: Metal
Optional,why?: These guys kick all manner of arse, especially live, since they were support for FF on saturday.
Artist: Dimmu Borgir
Album: Puritanical Euphoric Misanthropia
Song/s: Kings of the Carnival Creation, Puritania
Optional,genre: Black Metal
Optional,why?: Why not? Those crazy Norweigans know how to make one hell of an album.
Artist: Strapping Young Lad
Album: The New Black
Song/s: Far Beyond Metal, Wrong Side, You Suck, f**ker
Optional,genre: Metal
Optional,why?: Because they are the best band ever.
Artist: Slayer
Album: Christ Illusion
Song/s: Flesh Storm, Black Serenade
Optional,genre: Thrash Metal
Optional,why?: Still kicking arse after all these years and showing no sign of slowing down
And now for something a little different...
Artist: Jello Biafra with The Melvins
Album: Never Breathe What You Can't See
Song/s: Yuppie Cadilac, The Lighter Side of Global Terrorism
Optional,genre: Punk/... Um... Melvins
Optional,why?: Jello (singer from the Dead Kennedys) and The Melvins is a combination made of win and awesome.
That's a small cross section of my playlist. It's mostly metal