This is my list of top 20 metal albums (personal favorites, no other criteria matters to me), from any subgenre. If your favorite isn't on here, tough luck. If you see a band/album you hate, keep it to yourself.

1. Peace Sells...But Who's Buying?

2. Rust In Peace

3. Infinity

4. This Godless Endeavor

5. Accelerated Evolution

6. Dreaming Neon Black

7. Powerslave

8. Dead Heart In A Dead World

9. Black Sabbath

10. The Bleeding

11. Coma of Souls

12. Pleasure To Kill

13. Killing Is My Business...And Business Is Good!

14. City

15. Human

16. Synchestra

17. Don't Break The Oath

18. Tomb of the Mutilated

19. Ride The Lightning

20. Countdown To Extinction

Mayhem Fest is soon!

So as most of you know I mostly listen to metal, but that's not all. My second most listended to genre would be rock. So here I am, listing all the rock bands I listen to, every subgenre included, and in order of who I consider the best to who i consider to still be worth listening to but not great either . I may do a top twenty metal bands somewhere down the line, but who knows.

Rush

Rainbow

Led Zeppelin

Cream

Pink Floyd

Simon & Garfunkel (If you consider them rock, I know some don't)

Muse

The Doors

Van Halen

The Beatles

Jimi Hendrix

AC/DC

Guns & Roses

The Who

Creedence Clearwater Revival

The Eagles

Deep Purple

The Smashing Pumpkins

Velvet Revolver

Foo Fighters

ZZ Top

U2 (So what if they're commercial? I'm not afraid to say I like their early stuff and the new album.)

Carlos Santana

The Shins

The Killers (They're arrgogant, but their music has some good atmosphere to it.)

Wolfmother

Death Cab For Cutie (Despite the absolutely stupid name, they do have some solid stuff.)

The Rolling Stones

Coldplay (Admit it guys, they have a few good songs)

Now commence the whining complaining, and ridiculing on the order of the bands, the bands I listen to, and the bands I don't listen to.

There is always debate on what decade was the best for what genre of music, but the one I feel most strongly about is that the 1980's was without a dbout the best decade for heavy metal. It gave birth to badass bands like: Autopsy, Bathory, Blind Guardian, Cacophony, Cannibal Corpse, Celtic Frost/Hellhammer, Coroner, Dark Angel, Death, Destruction, Dio, Exodus, Guns N Roses, Helloween, Immortal, King Diamond, Kreator, Mayhem, Megadeth, Mercyful Fate, Metallica, Ozzy Osbourne, Rigor Mortis, Sacred Oath, Sanctuary, Savatage, Sepultura, Slayer, Sodom, Testament, and Vader. Plus, it still had great bands like Black Sabbath, Iron Maiden, Judas Priest, and Motörhead that started before the 1980's but were still producing great metal at the time.

As much as I've loved every era of metal, I gotta say that the 1980's was by fat the best decade to be a metalhead, even if a couple of my favorite bands like Nevermore, Devin Townsend/Strapping Young Lad, Opeth, Amon Amarth, and Nile weren't around yet.

On a side not, my one year anniversery with my girlfriend will be coming up on June 6th. Also, I'm officially going to Testament on June 12th now thanks to Nimatoad2000, and as I'm sure most of you already know I'll be attending Mayhem Fest on July 11th. Should be two great shows. You guys should also be sure to check out my Spore review and let me know what you think. Hopefully everything is going well for all of you, peace out!

I got modded and suspended again, for calling someone out as a troll. I had no idea you weren't allowed to do that, what and idiotic rule. The guy wasa total troll too, he wasn't contributing anything at all. It was a thread about what bands you thought were bad. He said that he didn't agree with any of my selections and therfore refused to contribute. I responded by asking him why he even made that post in the first place thena nd to stop trolling. Oh, and apparently all opinions you have are wrong now if someone doesn't agree with you. The thread wasn't evena bout my personal opinion, it was supposed to be about everyone's, and it's sad how few people could understand that.

Last night I saw Angels and Demons and then snuck into Star Trek. I didn't really want to see either but my friends did so whatever. Angels and Demons was alright, it was a step up from Da Vinci Code at least. It stuck a lot closer to the book, which I certainly appreciated considering that the only thing Da Vinci Code shared with the book was the same characters and basic plot. The cinematography and directing were mediocre at best and the acting was alright, with Tom Hanks being the highlight even if it was far from his best performance. Overall I would give it a generous 6/10. Star Trek was horrendous. I actually had a little higher hopes for Star Trek because it looked like it could be fun at the very least, but it actually turned out to be one of the worst movies I've seen in a long time. I mean, if Star Wars fans were disappointed with the prequels, I can't imagine how pissed off Star Trek fans must be with this steaming pile of crap. The acting is unanimously terrible with the exception of Scottie who provided some much needed comic relief. The script is one of the worst I've seen in years, the dialogue alone is cringe worthy at best. The movie just goes through action movie cliche after action movie cliche as it proves to you time and time again, just how bad it really is. Even the plot, which is no doubt what trekkies will care most about, is just plain terrible. All Star Trek has going for it are it's special effects, which are still not even as good as Star Wars Episode III and that was released years ago. It's always funny when a movie that takes itself so seriously is so incredibly bad. I would give Star Trek a 2/10.

Back on Thrusday night I went to the Opeth/Enslaved cocnert. Enslaved performed great, but it's too bad they focused mostly on the newer albums, with only one song from pre-Ruun I believe. They need to get a new road crew though, because their equipment was having a lot of problems and the road crew kept going on stage to fi it and obviously had no idea what they were doing. Then Opeth came on and were better than I could have imagined them being. I already enjoyed their music a great deal, but my respect for them shot up even more after that performance. They play on an entirely different level than most other bands around these days. They even did a cool improv section, which would ahve been way better if it wasn't so damn hot in there. Mikael was also incredibly funny and laid back, he has his own style and personality amd is an excellent frontman. It was a really great show.

I hope everyone has had an excellent week as well, and I'm sorry if i haven't commented on your blogs much, I;ve been really busy with finals but tomorrow is my alst day for the semester. Peace out guys!

I now have three stitches in my middle knuckle on my right hand, a tetnis shot, a whooping cough vaccination, and a sweet orange wristband all courtesy of Peet's Coffee's Workman's Comp Fund, score!