I love metal. I bet every one of you know this.

I was talking to someone who doesn't listen to metal at all about the genre, about why I liked it. It boils down to the feelings it inspires that is very hard to get from any other music or art form really. The music is fueled on aggression, a lot of the time from anger, but not always.

"Extreme" metal exemplifies this. Do you know what I mean by that term? Metal that pushes you even further into some sort of aggressive abyss. Metal that is too metal for some.

But when I hear that riff, or that scream, or whatever it is and it just hits me in the face, there's no feeling like it. It can give you a momentary high.

Bands that do this for me:

Enslaved
Ulver
Akercocke
Emperor
Converge
Hypocrisy
Lykathea Aflame
Neurosis
Old Man Gloom
Pig Destroyer
Rosetta
Windir
Woe
Strapping Young Lad