These lists are completely ridiculous.

I fail to see the need to heap a whole bunch of arbitrary bands from seperate, reasonable, established and coherent genres which have existed for over twenty years, into vague categories like "extreme".

The fact that you have listed Mayhem tells me that these lists are nothing more than an attempt to cast a kind of limelight on what you apparently think is some sort of cosmic wealth of knowledge regarding metal, and make yourself look hardcore. Mayhem are a terrible band, comprised of absolute maniacs whos music admittedly serves no other purpose than to facilitate the fact that these men are deeply disturbed individuals, who want nothing else but attention to further thier misanthropic obsession. If the ranking and placement of bands on these lists requires any sort of musical validity, which I would expect of a list concerning a particular style of music I cannot comprehend why in fuck Mayhem are on it.

Similarly, I find myself revisiting the JonSnow Face Contortion in attempts to try and understand why you have included Nine Inch Nails. NIN have never been a metal band, they know they aren't a metal band, and they're not trying to be a metal band. Listing them under "Gay Eyeliner Shit" doesn't make you look tough, cool, or more metal, it makes you look like some kind of human phenomenon who has managed to dedicate his existence on this Earth to the definition of ignorance. If you'd any kind of real knowledge about even half of the stuff you've listed here, you'd have probably known that Trent Reznor (the mind behind NIN, just in-case) used to be a fairly weedy man due to his penchant for certain chemicals, but as of around 5 years ago the man has instead substituted his drug addictions for personal training, and now looks more like a slightly pasty Zangief. If you ever decide to speak your mind to Trent, you might want to inform Cannibal Corpse so that they can use the bloody event to draw inspiration for new song titles.

In keeping with the theme you have so concretely established, your "Middle Tier List" is such a blatantly opinionated, uninformed, and again, phenominally ignorant collection of shit which you have somehow used to form words, that I have to stop and focus on stopping my head from shaking in utter diesbelief so vehemently that I am approached and asked if I have Parkinsons Disease. I would risk jail time for armed robbery in an effort to fund a trip across the ocean JUST to see the look on the face of anyone actually involved with the metal industry, that you fucking said that to. Fuck, my JonSnow face would look like Johnny Depp in comparison.

Your top tier extreme bands is a list so entirely dated that not only is the use of the term extreme so extremely slothfull and vauge, but in todays standard it boarders on innacurate. You've done almost nothing but list old household names that the average 13 year old toe-dipper knew 10 - 20 years ago. Yes, these bands are excellent, but they're classics and dont reflect the current status quo of the bands who will be, if not already are considered modern classics in terms of quality, ability and yes, extremity. Where are these bands not only pushing, but fucking obliterating the envelope? Meshuggah, Nile, Anata, Origin, Psycroptic, Decapitated, The Faceless, Gojira, Necrophagist, Neuraxis, Beneath The Massacre.. these bands are nowehere to be seen on your apparently definitive list.

Opeth are a band that are simply "in the now" ? They were creating music far more similar to, and plainly influenced by, their peers' in their earlier days than they are now. They rose to where they are now through growing and progressing as a band. As a dedicated group of artists genuinely interested in developing themselves, their abilities, and the style of music that they love. Whats "in the now" is a bunch of dickheads who rely on media marketing and mainstream industry propaganda for information, who knew Opeth weren't as popular as they are now, suddenly deciding to say "Oh, if lots of people like them now, I dont anymore and I'm going to rip on them"

I scincerely hope that there arent many other metal fans around here. I wouldent wish the brainache this list has inflicted upon me, upon an other living thing. Even if it was a member of Mayhem.

Oh, you have vanquished me sir. How on Earth did you know that my one and only weakness was a susceptibility to the cheap, backhanded, rhetorically suggested insults of obviously embarrassed individuals without a straw to grasp at?

While I'll leave the grudge for you to hold, I will simply suggest you do a little more headwork before deciding to lay claim to any outstanding -or at the very least legitimate- reason for preaching some kind of self professed depth of understanding on the same, or any other matter. On this thing called the internet, you're likely to find people who actually DO know a thing or two about what you're pretending to be an authority of.

You can call me as self righteous as you like. The fact is, that I'm willing to admit the breadth and limit of my knowledge at any given point. There are people who would put my comprehension of metal under the fucking microscope in comparison to their own. Thats life on a planet with an enormous population. I guess I'm just one of those people that not only finds value in actually dedicating time to the study and message of something, but also trying to further my own knowledge, before jumping out and attempting to educate others.

There is no need to stage that sort of pathetic attack on me for pointing out that you've got some homework to do before you start pretending to have a PHD.