Chris
“Just when they think they got the answers, I change the questions”
Favorite subgenres: Doom Metal, Thrash, Traditional Heavy Metal, NWOBHM, Stoner Doom
Bands I really like: Saint Vitus, Spaceslug, Bell Witch, Candlemass, Ooozing Wound, Enforcer (Chicago)
Connor
“I’m mostly just here for the album art.”
Favorite subgenres: Melodic Death Metal, Blackened Death Metal, Prog Metal
Bands I really like: Opeth, Children Of Bodom, Ne Obliviscaris, Nick Johnston
Hannes
“I started this.”
Favorite subgenres: Heavy Metal, Doom Metal, Melodic Death Metal
Bands I really like: Paradise Lost, Gojira, Dissection, Kreator, Draconian
Jared
“I’m just a nerd with lots of bad opinions.”
Favorite subgenres: Death metal, folk metal, doom metal, black metal
Bands I really like: Eluveitie, Bolt Thrower, Death, Saturnus, Agalloch
Leon
“I love writing and music, which basically makes me perfect for this place. When I don’t do metal, I do political science.”
Favorite subgenres: Black Metal, Sludge, Post-Metal, Hardcore
Bands I really like: Deathspell Omega, Drudkh, Neurosis, High on Fire, The Dillinger Escape Plan
Matthew
“I’m a high school English teacher and aspiring writer. Macbeth’s mind may have been full of scorpions, but mine is full of Dr. Pepper.”
Favorite subgenres: Death Metal, Doom Metal, Progressive Metal, Heavy Metal
Bands I really like: Black Sabbath, Iron Maiden, Death, Extol, Devin Townsend Project, My Silent Wake
Nathan
“I’m an engineer from New England.”
Favorite subgenres: Death Metal, Progressive Metal
Bands I really like: Death, Between the Buried and Me, Immolation
Rick
“If I’m not blasting some music right now, then there’s a song playing in my head. Or maybe, I’m playing the drums.”
Favorite subgenres: heavy metal, thrash metal, power metal, melodic death metal
Bands I really like: Judas Priest, Megadeth, Rammstein, Dark Tranquility, A Pale Horse Named Death
Rutger
“I like to explore the borderlands between musicality and noise.”
Favorite subgenres: (atmospheric) black metal, shoegaze, experimental/avant-garde
Bands I really like: Ellende, Schammasch, Behemoth, The Body, Nick Cave
Spenser
“I’m a music fan with a bit of a metal problem. Some of my other hobbies include reading books (fantasy and sci-fi in particular) and playing drums for all who care to listen.”
Favorite subgenres: Progressive Metal, Symphonic Metal, Black Metal, Funeral Doom Metal
Bands I really like: Rush, Dream Theater, Nightwish, Scar Symmetry, Epica, Dimmu Borgir, and many more than what I’m allowed to list here.