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Who the hell are you?

Taking a quick look at DeGeneri, it will be the typical experimental-noise-doom-spacccoglio ni album.

Suck.

Who are you? Forgive my ignorance.

Great review. Since I can't stand black metal like Darkthrone, Mayhem, and Bathory, could you recommend some other black metal bands that have a more progressive and/or melodic approach? I also only appreciate the more progressive and melodic side of Death metal (if you give me a "Scream Bloody Gore" by Death, I certainly won't like it, but I love "Persistence of Time" or "Individual Thought Patterns," also by Death ;-) )

Hoglan, are you sure about what you're saying? Master of Puppets less influential than Reign in Blood? Without a doubt, Slayer's masterpiece has influenced all that extreme metal, of which I still save fewer than twenty bands, that is increasingly distant from the blues roots of metal (yes, Black Sabbath). In other words, I've said, with a roundabout way, that, for me, various grind, brutal, black, with some exceptions, really suck, just like they suck to Kerry King, who is one of the main inspirers of it all. That said, speaking of Metallica's influence, it's infinite, greater than you can imagine. How many bands started their "journey" covering a Metallica song, how many 14-15 year-olds have gotten into metal by listening to a song from the four Californians? Slayer has influenced the most extreme branch of metal, Metallica has influenced all of metal (see the shift after the Black Album) and, if you want, since they are now included in the overall Hall of Fame alongside Led Zeppelin and various Black Sabbath, all music from the Eighties onward. Don't you agree?

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And I'm not the usual die-hard Metallica fan “with blinders on.” As I've said before, I also agree that they've become Bob Rock's puppets (more like "Master of Puppets"). I'm just being realistic. Now that they've kicked out the vulture, I hope for at least a decent album. If it turns out to be crap, I'll admit it’s crap, but let's not pretend their past didn’t happen. And live, unless you're talking out of your ass without having seen them at least once in concert, classics like "Master of Puppets" still rock. And have you listened to "Christ Illusion"?! It's not on the level of "St. Anger," but we're very close. Idiotic, gratuitous blasphemy recycled for the umpteenth time by our dear Slayer. As you can see, even Slayer has run out of ideas. And I want to clarify, I'm not even the goody-goody who gets scandalized by an upside-down cross because I loved, for example, "Reign in Blood." I just want to point out that Slayer's creative crisis is of the same nature, if not worse (at least Metallica, even though "Load" and "ReLoad" are flat and boring, have ventured into other genres), compared to that of Metallica.

Ah, now it's fashionable to "shoot" at Metallica. Live, they still kick the ass of many young bands like Trivium, in fact I'm going to see them on the 22nd together with Down. I agree that they've run out of ideas (let's see the new album) but they remain INVIOLABLE. There have been dozens of thrash copycat bands in the eighties. They were a cut above everyone, including Slayer. I agree on the fact that they've made a lot of stupid decisions since the nineties. But the fact that they've been the best thrash metal band in history is a fact in my opinion. Four clownish pseudo-satanist-nazis can't hold a candle to them.

Where has the Judge gone?