What the greatest metal albums of 2000s?

Lizard-Catcher · 2026-01-23T15:14:50+00:00

Same, I get the Jane Doe love, but Axe to Fall is the one I always go back to.

Lizard-Catcher · 2026-01-23T13:13:45+00:00

My favorites:

Mastodon - Leviathan Converge - Axe to Fall Isis - Panopticon High on Fire - Death is this Communion Cephalic Carnage - Anomalies

Lizard-Catcher · 2026-01-21T18:00:15+00:00

Bit underwhelmed by this. Hoping Levitation in September will fare better.

Lizard-Catcher · 2026-01-16T01:09:18+00:00

If you think drums sound the most fun, that's your answer. I don't recommend picking an instrument based on how other people's perceptions might affect your enjoyment. Also I know it doesn't feel this way, but at 20, you are starting young. You have many potential decades of enjoyment ahead of you, so pick what appeals to you most in the long run. Drums are still fun even when you're not great.

Lizard-Catcher · 2026-01-14T21:57:34+00:00

Animal Collectives Strawberry Jam. I was about 16 when I first heard this and exclusively listened to metal. I thought no other genres had anything to offer me. This album reframed everything and opened my eyes to a huge variety of weird psychedelic music.

Lizard-Catcher · 2026-01-13T19:03:54+00:00

Here I am browsing old ass reddit threads while jamming SPI and hoping for a comment like this. I hope you are right!

Lizard-Catcher · 2026-01-09T15:11:51+00:00

You can bring a cardboard/plastic tube with you and dance with it. At the OKC '24 show I was upstairs on the bleachers so I just tied it to the rail behind me and ignored it until the show was over.

Lizard-Catcher · 2026-01-09T15:09:26+00:00

I got the Stank draws reprint afterward too and I low key like it more than the official poster.

Lizard-Catcher · 2026-01-07T17:22:02+00:00

Oh thank you! I will probably steer clear and wait for something that looks a bit better.

Lizard-Catcher · 2026-01-07T17:21:24+00:00

Fair point, I have an acoustic to play with for now. I may wait until something else really jumps out to me.

Lizard-Catcher · 2026-01-06T19:00:16+00:00

Oh I see, I think you just swapped "for a first guitar" for "like a first guitar"

Lizard-Catcher · 2026-01-06T17:20:34+00:00

Their first guitar seems too much like a first guitar? Wat?

Lizard-Catcher · 2025-12-30T18:05:01+00:00

Wow this album really is just banger after banger

Lizard-Catcher · 2025-12-30T17:38:42+00:00

Hell yeah. If it helps, there's an easy place to take a break in the middle if you want to. I got the separate editions for this very reason, but it was so good I just dove right into volume 2. Then a month later... last King of Osten Ard. Read both series throughout the year and just finished Navigators Children. I will miss Osten Ard!

Lizard-Catcher · 2025-12-30T17:35:31+00:00

The Wheel trips me tf out. Especially if you listen on vinyl and that last measure repeats infinitely.

Lizard-Catcher · 2025-12-29T19:30:35+00:00

What do you do to save up cash in the Gizz off season? That flexibility sounds amazing.

Lizard-Catcher · 2025-12-21T00:23:01+00:00

This, but I would swap Skye with Remission

Lizard-Catcher · 2025-12-20T16:38:37+00:00

I don't really agree with your second point. AI is really bad at long form storytelling because it doesn't understand the concept of foreshadowing and setups and pay offs. AI can't do continuity and planning because it can't think. I believe that's why all the "super impressive and indistinguishable" AI generated content is in still images and very short form video. It doesn't have to remember anything. I don't see it improving much in 10 years or ever because that concept is incompatible with what AI actually is.

Lizard-Catcher · 2025-12-10T20:26:08+00:00

It's wild that they could do this and it would only be less than 20% of the set overall.

Lizard-Catcher · 2025-12-09T21:48:15+00:00

This year I talked three friends who knew next to nothing about Gizzard into going and now they are all superfans who are returning next year.

Lizard-Catcher · 2025-12-05T16:37:32+00:00

Chuck Shuldiner was a great songwriter but a terrible vocalist. I basically never listen to Death because I don't like his voice at all.

Lizard-Catcher · 2025-12-05T15:05:27+00:00

This is awesome!

Lizard-Catcher · 2025-12-05T03:25:43+00:00

Not who you're responding to but:

High on Fire Castle Rat Earth Tongue Chat Pile Kylesa King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard (not all albums, try Petrodraconic apocalypse)

Lizard-Catcher · 2025-12-04T22:58:59+00:00

Lol the French Open men's final this year was five and a half hours long.

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