Artist	Song
Dillinger Escape Plan	The Running Board
from Calculating Infinity (1999) this blew my mind so much I led off with it.
Himsa	Dominion
from Courting Tragedy And Disaster (2003) "DOMINION!" a pleasure to headbang to
Children Of Bodom	Hate Me
from Follow The Reaper (2000) "I despise everything I see so I DON'T GIVE A FUCK IF YOU HATE ME!"
Watch Them Die	Sadist Ways
from Watch Them Die (2003) cool riff, errie vibe.awesome
Mastodon	Blood And Thunder
from Leviathan (2004) the first song by them that made me want to buy their album.
Martyr AD	American Hollow
from On Earth As It Is In Hell (2004) "I am inside of you"
Fear Factory	Archetype
from Archetype (2004) epic shit
Pelican	Drought
from Australasia (2003) cool music but an involved listen. not sold on them
Dillinger Escape Plan	Destro's Secret
from Calculating Infinity (1999) brief bludgeoning
Himsa	A Girl In Glass
from Courting Tragedy And Disaster (2003) "Rather be somewhere else,Rather be someone else"
Children Of Bodom	Bed Of Razors
from Hatebreeder (1999) sweet song
Watch Them Die	Torn Pages
from Watch Them Die (2003) a walking riff and you can understand the lyrics better.
Mastodon	Iron Tusk
from Leviathan (2004) Brann is insane on the drums here.
Martyr AD	Bring Out Your Dead
from On Earth As It Is In Hell (2004) numbers are so fucking brutal
Dillinger Escape Plan	Sugar Coated Sour
from Calculating Infinity (1999) you didn't stuttered, but my ears are bleeding from your voice
Children Of Bodom	Mask Of Sanity
from Follow The Reaper (2000) Finnish black/power/heavy metal. what exactly are they?
HIM	Your Sweet 666
from The Greatest Love Songs (1997) wonder what bam margera thinks about them
Soilwork	Steelbath Suicide
from Steelbath Suicide (1998) vocals need to be mixed better
Mayhem	You Must Fall
from Chimera (2004) black metal is alright. MayheM rules
Cannibal Corpse	I Will Kill You
from Gallery of Suicide (1998) this is insane. great death metal from the legends themselves

Comment:

My how far I have come. I'm not 100 percent sure when this mix was created but I'm pinpointing it from 2003-2004.The so called nu-metal scene at the time was one its way into oblivion with its declining record sales and popularity. Real metal (!) was emerging to the surface and growing bigger and better and heavier. This was an exciting time to be a metalhead. Some of the groups have been around in some form for awhile, but were becoming more known and such. Not every band around this time is on this mix, but I thought the majority of these artists represented a future of metal. They are real bands playing different exciting forms of heavy metal. I'm not going to get into every artist but might as well touch on a few. Mastodon was getting big at the time so they are on here. I loved their sound and I still do. I grew to be a big fan of this band. In fact, I have tickets to see them in April. Watch Them Die had a decent metal sound but where are they now? A shame. Randy from Lamb Of God wore their t-shirt I remember. Martyr AD is probably more hardcore or metalcore than metal but I wanted to listen to them more so they are here. Bodom is on here and I grew to be a big fan of them as well. Recent albums by them are disappointing, sorry to say. A few bands on here were on just for fun and were already established at the time (Cannibal Corpse, MayheM, Fear Factory). Not really the future of metal, but hey...they may have at least influenced the artists on here.

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