Everybody has their own tastes. Mine lean toward the extreme or the dark. I love some Dark Funeral or Dissection, Cannibal Corpse, Gorerotted, Brujeria, Slayer and Destroyer 666, and even My Dying Bride and Draconian when I'm feeling Gothic. Metal is just about my cure-all to whatever might ail me.

I live eat and sleep metal brother. I work for Dash Radio in Hollywood it's an app like Pandora but with real DJ's on the Los Anarchy channel. I love all kinds of metal but really love Bay Area thrash as I grew up in that scene bands like Exodus, Testament, Death Angel and this other little called Metallica.

I think fans of bands like Corrosion of Conformity, Anal Cunt, Cannibal Corpse, Rotting Christ and Carcass might disagree with your assessment of the bands you mentioned as being true metal.

Yes, all the bands you mentioned plus others such as Suicidal Tendencies, Hatebreed, Dropkick Murphys, Maiden, Saxon, Judas Priest etc. Not a great fan of increasing tendency to divide the music into smaller subsets with seemingly growing hostility amongst them

I like Volbeat

Slipknot lamb of god yes. FFDP no

Not really True Metal but I LOVE Punk Rock, especially what we call British Street Punk, bands such as All Flags Burn, The Warriors, Citizen Keyne. I love the honest uncompromising lyrics and melodies to the point that with a DJ friend we host Punk/post-Punk nights when we get the chance. I will look up the bands you mention and have a good listen.