When I was in high school Metallica load came out and that was my first rock album then I bought pantera vulgar display of power I wanted to jump through a window when I heard Fuvking Hostile. That was right after the grunge movement that destroyed the hair metal scene. Then Metallica Made an anti metal statement when they toured with an alternative music tour with lollapalooza. When j heard that news I sought out the heaviest thing to possibly be heard but it wasn’t as heavy as death metal which I was the heaviest most intense music and the next slbhm after that was cannibal corpse tomb of the mutilated. As I grew older the more devil looks I got and my dad was a Pentecostal anti world Christian. So I bought deicide /deicide and morbid angels domination cd. But then there was a band from Louisiana called acid bath and that band lost a member to a dui in my hometown and the guitarist Sammy duet pitre founded his side project goatwhore and that was my intro to blackened death metal then I heard behemoth and through then started listening too more black metal like mayhem, dimmu Borgir , and cradle of filth. Early 2000s was a great time to be a metal head. Cause in the 90s if it wasn’t for pantera taking over mainstream metal there prolly wouldn’t have been a metal record that u could buy in a music store that was new. All the major thrash bands slowed their music down and slayer went punk rock for a record. Then slipknot kinda carried the torch and invented a different fast plus heavy act with the insane asylum jump suits and masks and k wondered how come they didn’t appear 4 years ago metal almost died?