Gentlemen on Overdrive

Reign in Blood fucks really hard, but Slayer's best record is still God Hates Us All. And you're probably sitting here about to tell me to go fuck a bucket of dogshit or something worse for daring to suggest that Slayer's best record was made with someone other than David Lombardo behind the drumkit, and I'm about to tell you that Lombardo's greatest contribution to the world of metal drumming is either for Testament's The Gathering...

Fantomas' The Director's Cut

Or the last record from Grip Inc.

Again, this is just a hot take, but yeah: Slayer's best record, imo, is their angriest one, the one they made fully away from Rick Rubin's influence ("oh, but he's listed as executive producer!" I hear you say, person I made up for the sake of this argument, but as of lately, I'm thinking Rick Rubin™️ has been kind of a fraud for a good while now), one of the record that a lot of people turned their noses up about because of comparisons with nu-metal. --- And I'm here to tell you: Fuck those people, right in the ear.

Stoner, Metalcore & Punk Bands (90's proto-emo/hardcore bands like Fugazi and Quicksand also work)

King of Fighters (94 to 2000 and XIV-XV, ideally)

Mainline Shin Megami Tensei (I don't mind Persona, but I do vastly prefer the atmosphere of the mainline games)

Fun movies.

Fun books (fiction and non-fiction).

A goddamn PRS, too! I think the only mainstream metal artist who's experienced that much success with an extended-range guitar is, what, Matt from Trivium? Maybe Mark and Misha from Periphery?