hmm so far this list is pretty trash sorry .....

Each to their own not that I give a toss really. The world would be boring if we all liked the same albums.

Your assessment of Dopethrone is pretty spot on. They have some fantastic riffs, but they just seem to go no where. I do think "Funeralopolis" is a brilliant song, however.

There are many bands within metal who distort the boundaries of what's acceptable musically and all too often bands are too outlandish for the sake of it and lose their identity and overall sound. Not so with Dog Fashion Disco. Like a bastard offspring of Mr. Bungle but with more of a grounding in Metal, DFD peddle a furious mish mash of sick humour, crunchy riffs and a playful sound that stretches into Jazz, Vaudeville with an infectious backdrop of the sound of a church organ underpinning most of their music.

I first encountered DFD on a freebie disc that came with a Metal mag and they immediatedly stood out amongst the crowd. The Metal template is adhered to but they frequently took trips into territory that most Metal bands daren't approach with fear of coming across as kooky and phony.

They are relatively easy to listen to yet sound like no one else out there. When bands manage to pull this off in the hermetically sealed world of metal and still are easy to listen to then in a listening spree of over 20 years of Metal I have to sit up and take notice.

The album never becomes too alienating or overblown to become unlistenable and it remains cohesive and challenging with each listen. I love it when bands fuck with genre conventions yet still remain listenable.

Care to elaborate or are you just going to continue to think that your opinion on its is worth two shits?

Like others on here, I`m enjoying the list and the first couple of entries like Obituary I was familiar with. Both Electric Wizard and Anathema are both new to me though and its kind of good to see some British bands doing some great metal again despite being very different styles........hey, and a band from Dorset!

Electric Wizard sounded how I expected it to sound so no surprises there, but as you say its gut wrenchingly heavy and a great listen but the only downside is the length 71 mins!!!

Anathema are a completely different kettle a fish and it`s hard to believe that they started off a death/doom metal outfit and by the time "Judgement" had come around they were producing I suppose a kind of ambient metal. I noticed the group has had a large amount of line-up changes as well. When I was listening to the album, it had a metal feel but it was without the metal sound and as you say its rather like some of Opeth`s more mellow moments but I could certainly hear bits of Radiohead and even more interestingly Wishbone Ash, I expected them at anytime to go on and sing the Wishbone Ash line "Time Was......" Anyway I`m certainly going to investigate more stuff by them.

Keep up the good work with the reviews.

Waiting to see how many Scott Hull bands are on the list.

Who were you thinking of?

Well Pig Destroyer has to be on there somewhere.
Head in a Pickle jar might not make a top 50, but Agorophobic Nosebleed should.
How people enjoy Anal **** varies, so I doubt it will be on the list.
Japanese Comedy Torture Hour (I think it's called) could be there.

Man that album is so good! I don't listen to much metal nowdays, but when i do it's proper stuff like this.