Thank you for the compliment. Yeah, it is just so different now. It's fascinating how metal has evolved. At the beginning of the decade we all were obsessed with the 90s and stuff coming out of Scandinavia. On the doom front, Doom/death was more popular than stoner and sludge. The legacy of the 80s and thrash was waning; American metal (excepting it's stranglehold on brutal death metal) was largely an afterthought. And I think were are all to an extent a reflection of the metal scene when we first dove into the genre.
Now a decade later everything seems reversed. And that's completely fine, it is just time to let go of the old biases and start discovering what I've been missing.
