Can you remember the first time you ever came face to face with extreme metal? It's a feeling cherished by unwashed longhairs the world over, and one that has a tendency to reoccur every time metal pushes itself into more uncompromising terrain; that giddy thrill that shot through your body the first time you heard Slayer, for example, finally being bested by that slack-jawed bafflement that accompanied your first encounter with Napalm Death, and so on and so forth. The genre thrives on this sense of one-upmanship, but as time goes by and the more esoteric tendrils of the genre branch into...
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