Testament - Return to Serenity. The template for thrash ballads.
Play count: 8

New Keepers of the Water Towers - Rise of the Lizard King
This band has caused a deep impression on me — best stoner metal I remember losing my mind to since The Quill’s Hooray! It’s a Death Trip.
New Keepers… come from Sweden, and their lyrics revolve mostly around underground monsters, flying beasts and other mythical/badass creatures. Putting aside this is not a drawback but an incentive to me, the music simply blows you off the chair. These guys’ riffs make me wanna jump out, kill dragons with my bare hands, bite their heads off and set their corpses on fire.
I read about them in Cosmo Lee’s Invisible Oranges.
Play count: 4