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	Metal Genre	Nb. Rated	Avg. rating
1	Non-Metal	183	3.84
2	Progressive Metal	176	3.76
3	Heavy Metal	153	3.67
4	Black Metal	125	3.71
5	Hard Rock	120	3.54
6	Metal Related	108	3.81
7	Power Metal	85	3.46
8	Thrash Metal	81	3.76
9	Proto-Metal	78	3.74
10	Atmospheric Black Metal	66	3.86
11	Doom Metal	58	3.77
12	Gothic Metal	58	3.38
13	Death Metal	54	3.94
14	Traditional Doom Metal	46	3.88
15	US Power Metal	43	3.44
16	Stoner Metal	40	3.77
17	Avant-garde Metal	40	3.83
18	Industrial Metal	35	3.46
19	Symphonic Black Metal	30	3.20
20	Technical Death Metal	25	3.84
21	Melodic Death Metal	25	3.94
22	Death-Doom Metal	24	4.08
23	Melodic Black Metal	22	3.91
24	Atmospheric Sludge Metal	20	3.98
25	Hardcore Punk	19	4.21
26	Heavy Psych	17	4.12
27	Funeral Doom Metal	15	3.70
28	Folk Metal	14	3.36
29	Symphonic Metal	14	3.04
30	NWoBHM	13	4.23
31	Alternative Metal	12	3.25
32	Speed Metal	12	3.83
33	Technical Thrash Metal	12	4.13
34	Sludge Metal	11	3.95
35	Depressive Black Metal	10	3.45
36	Drone Metal	9	4.00
37	Funk Metal	9	3.78
38	Groove Metal	8	3.31
39	Viking Metal	8	3.63
40	Crust Punk	6	2.75
41	Brutal Death Metal	5	3.70
42	Grindcore	5	4.10
43	Death 'n' Roll	4	4.50
44	Crossover Thrash	2	4.50
45	Glam Metal	2	2.50
46	Pagan Black Metal	2	3.50
47	Nu Metal	2	4.00
48	War Metal	2	3.00
49	Stoner Rock	2	3.50
50	Metalcore	1	3.00
51	Neoclassical metal	1	4.00
52	Heavy Alternative Rock	1	3.00
53	Mathcore	1	3.00

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MOUNTAIN WITCH Extinct Cults

Album · 2020 · Doom Metal

Brief, fairly straight-ahead doom metal effort with strong trad doom and hard rock influences. The cover art is neat and the production helps evoke an early doom sound, but precisely because the imitation of the early doom style is so close, if you're into the likes of Pentagram or Saint Vitus or Trouble then you've probably heard plenty of heavier, doomier takes on very similar material before. I could have done with a touch more psych in the balance here; as it stands, this is the sort of thing I can have in the background happily and enjoy myself when it's there, but don't really remember much compelling about once the music stops playing.

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BANTHA RIDER Binary Sunset Massacre

Album · 2020 · Stoner Metal

The first full-length album from Bantha Rider finds the trio refining their sound from the Kyuss-influenced approach of their self-titled EP. Dedicated to a fully instrumental sound, the band bring additional polish to bear on the production side this time, yielding a sound which combines the precision and instrumental virtuosity of The Fucking Champs with a thunderous stoner rock groove that sounds like a bantha stampede surging across the wasteland. It's not what you might expect from a Star Wars-themed band - there's no quotes, no references, and none of the light-hearted power metal that the idea of a Star Wars-themed metal band might make you think of, just serious business stoner metal with an endearingly geeky concept for the artwork and song titles.

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BANTHA RIDER Bantha Rider

EP · 2017 · Stoner Metal

Despite the Star Wars theming behind the band name, song titles, and cover art for Bantha Rider's debut EP, don't go into this expecting some sort of cheesy exercise in trite lyrical references - in fact, don't expect lyrics at all, because Bantha Rider are purveyors of all-instrumental stoner metal, the power trio of Bart, Art, and Krzysiek showing an adept command of the subgenre and generating a forceful, powerful groove perfect for those long drives in your landspeeder across the arid deserts of Tattooine. Knocked together in just a couple of days, it's a promising start for the group, recommended for fans of early Kyuss.

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ALICE COOPER He's Back (The Man Behind The Mask)

Single · 1986 · Hard Rock

Offering a pulsing, synth-heavy take on his mid-1980s glam-tinged sound, Alice Cooper's contribution to the soundtrack for Friday the 13th Part VI is a cheesy as hell tribute to the series and to slasher films in general, as well as being one of the catchiest damn things Cooper would put out in the period. Constrictor, the album it comes from, otherwise isn't up to that much, but this one song suggested that Cooper was finally able to recapture a bit of the swagger that had eluded him since his stumbles of the early 1980s, and prefigured his later career revival driven by the Trash album.

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COFFINS Beyond the Circular Demise

Album · 2019 · Death-Doom Metal

"Middle of the road death metal" is something of a contradiction in terms, especially when it comes to stuff which captures the aura of the 1990s pioneers as deftly as Coffins do on Beyond the Circular Demise. It's solid, entertaining stuff for sure - but it's also so straight-down-the-line as to be unmemorable, without much distinguishing it from the output of other old school death metal practitioners beyond the odd touch of death-doom influences here and there, such as on Impuritious Minds. The production also isn't quite at the level it needs to be to get the best out of the more intricate material, and I can't help but think it'd be more memorable and more rewarding on repeated listens if there were a bit more clarity on that front.

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Posted more than 2 years ago in Scott Kelly (Neurosis) retires from music
Coming to this late but echoing what other people have said: I don't trust Kelly's statement an inch.I've known people who've gotten into a cycle of regularly making big dramatic apologies for their behaviour and spurting all sorts of promises they're going to change... but actually, the apologies and promises are what they do instead of working on themselves. They just use them as a delaying tactic to convince people to give them a bit more time before writing them off entirely.Apparently, this isn't the first time Scott's done this particular dance - just the most public one - so it smells like a similar situation to me. If the band don't see any reason to back him up on this - and they might have been out of touch with him a while, but they surely know him better than me - I don't see any reason to differ.
Posted more than 2 years ago in A name for "progressive metal punk?"
If most of the examples LightningRider's thinking of are usually described as some flavour of 'core, why not just go with "progcore"?
Posted more than 2 years ago in Sean Reinert R.I.P.
An ugly coda to the story: despite strongly believing in organ donation, and despite the fact that he was clean of STDs, Sean's wish to donate his organs was denied simply because he was a gay man with a normal, active sex life:https://www.metalsucks.net/2020/02/11/sean-reinerts-organ-donor-request-was-denied-because-of-his-sexual-orientation/If any of us want to do some small thing in Sean's memory, I'd say making a monetary donation to a charity that supports transplant patients wouldn't be a terrible idea.