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Fellas! Metal is a diverse thing. You really can't be a hardcore metal fan and listen to only power metal and thrash per say. One must find the metal sound in all kinds of genres.

I used to only like thrash (big 4 + testament), which slowly expanded to death (Carcass,Death) which lead to liking of melodic death (At the gates, Soilwork, inflames) which completely blew the door wide open for me once melodic vocals came in to the mix. Even things like Slipknot and Korn are A-OK Metal in my books.

Its really down to the albums now and which is a good album of that genre and which isn't. Some monumental releases in the last year for me were Fear Factory's Mechanize, Helloweens Sinners, Arch Enemys Kaos Legion, Soilworks last album...

Some disappointments were Inflames's and Trivium's new album, Children of Bodoms new one...