@craigmaloney would you be interested in collaborating on a Top 10 !ccmusic !metal albums. No deadline. Just something I was thinking about as I listen to Frostburn over and over again. That first(?) Diablo Swing Orchestra album also immediately comes to mind.

Mostly as an aside, but I think you are more into extreme metal than me. I like it, but...it mostly seems to all sound the same to me. I mean I can tell the difference in grindcore, doom, black, death, and sludge (and of course sometimes lines are blurred). I'm not 100% sure what classifies as extreme metal outside of death and black. And past that I've got atmospheric black and some of the other sub-genres. What I'm saying though is within the genres it all starts to sound the same. This is true to some extent in every genre, but when you can't understand the lyrics...

I think this is why I end up liking weird shit like the Flowerviolence album and that retrowave black metal one.