I wrote a long response but it got deleted. Anyway:Crap. If you can't handle, say, janeways incomprehensible yet frequently amusing *and* "erotic" nonsense or that one (1!, it's rarely more simultaneously) dude who's a bit more "conservative", then I don't know what to say... am ...

I guess I was always too much of a proto-hipster (alternatively "old") to be turned on to "cool" bands by "lame" (alternatively "commercial") bands. The main exception is Metallica who are singlehandedly responsible for turning me onto Diamond Head (and other ...

R.I.P. Les Binks-the drummer who played with Judas Priest on Stained Class, Killing Machine (a/k/a Hell bent for leather) and Unleashed in the east. Their best drummer IMO, they became too rhythmically basic after that with Dave Holland and those albums are awesome...

Some I haven't seen mentioned though I may be missing out:

Zapp (Troutmans, main man Roger murdered by elder brother Larry later)
Deicide (the Hoffmans)
Obituary (the Tardys)
At the Gates (the Björlers)

Not crap. Only really listen to the first 2 with any regularity, Leprosy in particular which was the first "true" death metal album I heard back in early 89 or so (no, neither early Napalm Death/Carcass nor jurassic Celtic Frost/Possessed stuff counts IMO). Morbid Angel and Autopsy meant f...

Don't like either Deftones or Korn but I'd go with (early) Korn too...Deftones has always struck me as the type of band that music nerds give half-hearted props to as being "good for a nu metal band" simply because they sort of, kind of sounds like they are inspired by "good music&quo...

Kim Gordon. Deal has a better voice but Gordon has substantially more good to great music behind her.

What started groove metal? I seem to remember the groove on “Raining Blood” opening the door, but is there a better early example? Man, maybe Supernaut by Sabbath. That's a tough one to answer, but it definitely evolved from thrash breakdowns. Yes, Phil Anselmo even alluded to that in some Sam Dunn...

If there was an option for NC, I would have voted that. Cool hard rock voice, underrated bassist and enough good songs written to earn NC; I'm sure he's an idiot but my only relationship with him is the music and it's not like he's a politician or even "influencer"; no, he's a bassist/voca...

Not crap. Great flow and delivery with solid beats behind her. As for 90s Hip-hop being " boring", I don't even dare to ask what type of contemporary indie-/"punk-adjacent" rock people here were into after 92 or so that was less "boring"...