Your words crack me up as usual and I am sure I have stated this before, but you and I have extremely similar interests in music, and since it is metal-oriented for the most part (which is a rarity) that means that we are now obligated to become best friends like Step Brothers when they both determine that if they had to bang a dude it would be John Stamos.

Let me tell you how i feel about what you posted because despite the fact that i scour the interwebs looking for more music that fits into my particular genre tastes, both Spotify and Youtube redirect me constantly to places that I don't want to be (the jerks)

Shadow of Intent - Love the musicianship and driving beats... however, just as a rule, i don't care for any "cookie-monster" lyricists and that kind of ruins it for me. This disdain for that particular vocal style first appeared when Cannibal Corpse was all the rage but I was very nonplussed. Just never got on board with that and dont like it. I'm more of a "gruff but still understandable lyrics" kind of guy.

Circa Survive - I'm a bit "meh" about this one. I'm not sure why but your comments about the vocals being rather uninspired (my words, not yours) rings true to me. I lost interest pretty quickly

Allegaeon - Love this track! I'm gonna put them into heavy rotation now because I've never heard of them and i totally 2nd the motion about artists being a little less serious about being spooky all the time. Dimmu Borgir and Cradle of Filth are very guilty of this and would love to see them lighten up every now and then. When Obituary made a comedic music video followed by another "our lives" video it was funny to see these hardcore pioneers doing such hardcore things like "shopping at Wal-Mart in regular clothes, going to children's birthday parties, and playing golf.

Dance with the Dead - I'm I feel the same way as you about most electronic music, especially the stuff that is featured at low level DJ sessions where sometimes good friends of mine are on the decks. However, this really appealed to me and I immediately imagined that this song would fall right in line if the Original Shinobi from Sega Genesis were to be remastered today.

All in all, a great list that gave me some ideas for my music collection that is seriously lacking these days. I listed to Nu-Metal at the gym the other day out of sheer frustration.... NU-METAL!