aww that would be so cool!! ☺️✨ niagara falls seems like a really fun destination 💫

omg finland! you def need to check out the bodom bar. it’s the place that a cob fan should try to experience :D manifesting that you will be there one day ✨ i went when it opened in 2022, and it was surreal!

21!

OMG I LOVE THIS ALREADY!!!

however, these past few months have been a lot of fun. also very healing as i’m slowly reintroducing myself to the gems that i remember vividly from my childhood but couldn’t identify the artist/genre until now.

their iced version was elite tho omg i genuinely love mocha

same!! and noticing that you enjoy some good melodeath too is so cool!!

i see a hatecrew just from reading this list :,,) hi

LITERALLY THIS!!! i know too many thrash bands that love to compare themselves with nostalgic bands and it’s like ok? what makes you different though? there has to be something revolutionary in some way in order for a band to be interesting. some form of creativity.

for me, what happened was that i’ve always loved power metal when i was a teen and was huge with black metal and other extreme metal genres after high school BUT i didn’t enjoy blind guardian until my 20s lol and now they’re part of my top 10 favorites 😭 it’s interesting though lol.

oh, you’d probably love heavens gate if you haven’t listened to them.

“if it’s not boring” FR!!!

yeah, i’m still unfamiliar with prog as a genre (i have listened to some recs but not a lot) but i do like some of its elements in other subgenres from what i’ve noticed some bands use sometimes.

and then i love melodeath and symphonic death metal BUT cannot sit through a regular death metal song unless it has elements of another subgenre!!! i love when music is experimental with certain traits that matches with another subgenres.

but overall the list is very vague bc for black metal and symphonic metal i love them when their elements are included with other subgenres. the same goes for thrash, bc i cannot stand american thrash UNLESS it has other elements from other subgenres - cross/over, speed, blackened thrash, etc.

* no opinion (n/o) meaning that i have not listened to those genres enough btw.

i wish i could send you some 🧋

i feel this fr!! moms got some great taste tbh

hell yeah new wave bands!!!

pretty sure it’s bc these are mostly speed/thrash related bands, some being black metal influences + such.

but yeah hopefully you get to see ensiferum too! :)