THROW THE GNOME! THROW THE GNOME!

Acid Bath - Scream of the Butterfly

Ednaswap - Torn

Closure in Moscow - Seeds of Gold

Clutch - Ghost

Sleep Token - Jaws

I apparently really like when heavier bands do ballads lmao

Luckily it's very easy to tell whether someone is "I'm trying to use automated pattern recognition to change the way we study linguistic evolution over time" kind of AI fan or the "I love not having to write letters to my grandparents" kind

I think the problem is that the nostalgia isn't for music because it's genuinely good, it's for things that are very much a symbol of a time that they weren't alive for.

And man, make yourself and morning rise are too damn good to be seen as that

Why not throw back to this dungeon synth classic:

I basically trained myself to only be able to hear new music when exercising, so now whenever I want to listen to a new album, I *have* to be walking. And luckily I love music and always want to hear new stuff