#and also a minefield depending on how high your tolerance for mediocre bands is

[vykodlak]

You got any music recs for somebody who's currently half assing being a metalhead? I want to get in deeper, you seem to have interesting taste

Yeaman shore.

I could probably give more specific recs if I knew some subgenres/bands you like (or whether you're more into harsher or cleaner stuff, how obscure you wanna go, how comfortable you are with the possibility of developing tinnitus and so forth), so feel free to ask abt that. I'm always down to talk about music.

I'll just list what I can think of off the top of my head now. Gonna assume you know the super popular/older bands and skip most of those. 2 lazy to link them all but I'll point out any notable tracks/albums for a few.

Speed/Thrash/NWOTHM/Power:

☞ Enforcer, Ambush, Black Soul Horde, Black Sites, Satan, Traveler, Silver Talon, Herzel, Obsession, Voivod, Hyperia, Enforced, Demoniac, Heathen, Bütcher, Eliminator, Skull Fist, Eternal Champion, Herzel, Pharaoh, Manticora, Stone Dagger, Atlantean Kodex, Spirit Adrift, Hammers of Misfortune, this song by Vicious Rumors that's been stuck in my head lately

Black/Doom/Death/Grind & adjacent:

(I've marked the bands who have artwork with gore/disturbing imagery in purple in case you wanna skip that stuff. you know how it is with spaghetti.)

☞ Human Serpent (ach nae.... I love them...), Seer, Grima, Allfather, Obsequiae, Grey Aura, Wiegedood, Etxegiña, Folterkammer, Valdrin, Lamp of Murmuur, Ultha, Yaotl Mictlan, Nechochwen, Mare Cognitum, Hulder, Kampfar, The Silver, Bathsheba, Black Curse, Panopticon, Uprising, Pagan Altar, Dautha, Restless Spirit, Magic Circle, Funeral Circle, Paul Chain, Moon Reaper, Green Lung, Cormorant

☞ Veilburner, Slugdge, Konvent, Undergang, Exhumed, Vastum, Worm, Nexorum, Necrot, Horrendous, Pharmacist, Urushiol, Paranorm, Sigh, Blood Spore, Tribulation, Edge of Sanity, Pale Divine, Heretical Sect, Putrescine, Anaal Nathrakh (popular enough that you probably know 'em but I have to shill in case you don't), Aephanemer, In Mourning, Wharflurch, Avatarium, Our Place Of Worship Is Silence, Dragged into Sunlight, chained to the bottom of the ocean

Enjoy!