yr fave extreme metal genre of the fast ones

Attila and Emmure

I honestly thought "metalcore" mostly referred to stuff like this. Converge are not bad (but this still wouldn't change my answer).

Grind is also the closest to other genres I enjoy like free jazz, punk rock and noize

Oh hm, are you thinking of Painkiller as a grind offshoot/fusion?

sure

Metalcore is a relatively big tent if you include subgenres like Deathcore (Emmure, Attila, After The Burial, Slice The Cake, Whitechapel, etc) and Mathcore (Botch, Dillinger Escape Plan, etc).

other than the earliest DEP, and at least a respect for bands like Car Bomb and Psyopus, I find a lot of mathcore to be a bit on the spastic side for me (which is probably the point). What about stuff like Naked City? Probably too conceptual and self-conscious. anyway, I can handle straight crust/hardcore/powerviolence, but when they try to metal up their sound, I find myself wanting better riffs/coherent songs. but I can be schooled!

Hot takes: Dillinger Escape Plan is hardcore, Naked City is jazz

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Thrash or Death. Black is generally not toe-tapping enough for my tastes.

I expected this to be death for American patriots and euros voting black but chap just had to be different ;)

thrash then death

but that's heavily weighted by nostalgia. present listening = death then black, w/ maybe a little kimchi grind pile on the side.

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this will never be settled haha