Jada Pinkett Smith.

And I'll toss The Showdown's A Chorus of Obliteration into the mix, mainly because it's what I immediately thought of when the The Devil Wears Prada song started. You actually don't even need the whole album, just the first track. Best five minutes of metalcore I can think of.

c) Dead guy's name was Dead.

And for the non-ironists, here is the brutalest black metal album cover of them all:

Once you narrow it down to the metalcore, then I'm pretty much with you on that. I exempt God Forbid's Gone Forever, although come to think of it, it's probably exempt already. But I CONDEMN their work since. They were so promising.

I keep meaning to watch it. Thanks for the reminder.

Was that disgust? I have a hard time telling.

Incitatus, categorizing metal bands is a lot of fun for me because I am anal. But I've done several metal subgenre categorization rants on the internet, and I'm trying to restrain myself. The wikipedia list of metal subgenres is not bad, and it includes examples of bands that fit the bill.

On one hand, listeners during the early days of Motorhead probably wondered if it could get any faster.

I'm with you, asshole. I've shared a lot of metal with a lot of people, and it's become this predictable, tragic moment, thirty seconds into a really great song, and the screaming, growling, shouting, or rasping vocals start, and the listener's face falls, and they say some variation on "Do they have to sing that way?"

Craig, give Thundergod another shot. At first, I only dug the mandatory fast song "Where is Your God?" and felt like the rest of it was kind of a slog. So wrong. It's great. My favorite since Versus the World, and I think it shares the abbreviated anthemic quality of that album in many of its songs. Try "No Fear for…

Nah, man, it's Frost who can't play here, not Hellhammer. Of course, seeing Trym take his place for a live Satyricon show is its own special kind of awesome.

Oh, and mbs…

Not only an interesting, multi-faceted first batch of metal songs, but one containing no fewer than TWO of which I had NEVER HEARD and now WANT VERY MUCH. And since you didn't ask, Defeatist and Ulcerate.

I submit "Damages" for discussion. I loved the first season and lost interest a few episodes into the second season. I think the subject matter we're discussing here can help figure out why.

Slate's review, also, accuses it of trying too hard and coming up short. But I'm okay with being charmed by John Krasinski and watching Allison Janney be drunk and lecherous.

Jared Leto got two doses of awesome. One from Fincher, the other from Meat Loaf.

She has chops. Adventureland demonstrated that.

@Hunsweasel

Meatwad, you up next with your knock-knock…