
After a decade-plus of metal fandom, I’ve found it harder and harder to find bands that truly stick with me. As a teen, the sheer sonic brutality of Slayer’s Reign in Blood or Death’s Leprosy gripped me like nothing else.
Now, I spend countless hours scouring Bandcamp's depths, trying to recreate my early experience with metal. Recently, I’ve discovered some genuinely baffling genre tags: melodic grindcore, psychedelic nu-metal, pro-Keynesian-economics black metal and something called… Elder Scrolls metal?