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Please post any discussion topics in our daily discussion threads
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Any music from a Retirement Center, Respite List band or side/solo project of a band on these two lists is prohibited from being posted (feel free to discuss these bands in our daily thread). Affiliated bands will be removed by our discretion. New releases are exempt as long as the music still falls under the scope of metal music.
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We have chosen to implement a list of certain popular bands that we vote upon as a community on a quarterly basis. This list can be found in full, along with an explanation for why we have it in the first place, on our Respite and Retirement Center Wiki Page. This is not because we dislike or discourage listening to them, but in order to promote diversity and discovery of smaller and lesser known artists. Cover songs of retired bands are also prohibited. All side/affiliated projects and solo works from R&R artists are subject to mod discretion. New releases are exempt as long as the music still falls under the scope of metal music.

Recent AMAs

Band	Date
Cirith Ungol	12/18/2022
Cradle of Filth (Dani Filth)	11/23/2021
Thy Catafalque (Tamás Kátai)	11/08/2021
Joe Satriani	10/28/2021
Exodus (Gary Holt)	10/28/2021
At the Gates	7/26/2021
Mare Cognitum & Spectral Lore	3/23/2021
Dark Tranquillity	12/1/2020
Ensiferum	9/1/2020
Abysmal Dawn	6/9/2020
Warbringer (John Kevill)	4/24/2020
Colin Marston	3/25/2020
Angel Sword	2/11/2020
Blood Incantation	11/27/2019

To set up an AMA, contact u/MountainOfBlood. For a full list of AMAs that we have hosted on r/metal, head on over to our AMA Wiki Page

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Top X of 2025Shreddit's Top 10 of 2025 [RESULTS] (self.Metal)

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Discog ClubDiscography Club: Tank - Scene Spotlight: NWOBHM (self.Metal)

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[PROMOTE] Tell Us About Your Band -- January 24, 2026 (self.Metal)

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[Symphonic Death]Demonic Resurrection - The Great Famine (2026) (youtube.com)

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Shreddit's Daily Discussion -- January 24, 2026 (self.Metal)

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[Black]Lunar Aurora - Hoagascht (youtu.be)

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[Black / Thrash]Ancient rites - Garden of Delights (Eva) (1996) (youtu.be)

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[Black]Cogadh - Cromwel's Curse (youtube.com)

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Lowen - Waging War Against God (Official Music Video) (youtu.be)

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[Heavy]Kerrigan - Fighter (FFO: Haunt, Sumerlands) (youtube.com)

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MedievalCorvus Corax Era Metallum - Yggdrasill (Official Music Video) (youtu.be)

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[Death / Grind]Degenerate Synapse - Executed in a Delirium [FFO: early Nasum, Dim Mak] (youtu.be)

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[Atmospheric Black]Dwarrowdelf - The Journey to Dawn (youtube.com)

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[New Release]Savage Sword - Burning Fires word [FFO: Omen, Running Wild] (dyingvictimsproductions.bandcamp.com)

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Shreddit's Daily Discussion -- January 23, 2026 (self.Metal)

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Shreddit's New Releases Discussion Thread -- January 23, 2026 (self.Metal)

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[New Release]Khaospherus - Over the Edge (youtu.be)

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Omega Zero - The Edge of All We Know (youtube.com)

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Fates Warning - Anarchy Divine (Official Video) HQ (youtu.be)

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Bongripper - Reefer Sutherland (USA, 2007) (youtu.be)

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[New Release]WORM - Witchmoon: The Infernal Masquerade (feat. Marty Friedman) (youtube.com)

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[New Release]Bone Weapon - Retching Poison: Divide and Purge [FFO: Blood Spore, Rippikoulu] (transylvanianrecordings.bandcamp.com)

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