I didn't see anything queued up for today, so I thought I'd put up my first ever FMD post. Exciting stuff!

I've been using Google Play on a free trial (I use the free version of it to store my songs since you get up to 20 some thousand songs for free and I'll never have that much) for the past two weeks. While I've been pretty impressed with their metal selection. I've been able to find just about whatever I've been looking for (except for Doomsword, which is disappointing). That said, I won't be continuing with a paid subscription when my two months is up. Doing random lists from "genre radio" stations is completely terrible for me. It might work great for others with different tastes, but the "metal" it randomizes is... not good. I pretty much have to know exactly what I want to listen to, then search for it and make my own playlists. I'm quite content buying albums and listening to my own personal collection.

That all said, I have been able to give a listen to some bands that I hadn't before. My favorite that I've discovered so far is Slough Feg. I could see them as having some appeal to some citizens here. They have a dirty, hard-rock sort of groove going while still falling on the heavier side. The vocals are clean, by the way, in case that is a general hang-up for anyone.

01. Metalium - "Rasputin", Hero Nation - Chapter Three
02. Eluveitie - "Thousandfold", Everything Remains as it Never Was
03. Korpiklaani - "Keep on Galloping", Korven Kuningas
04. Bruce Dickinson - "Freak", Accident of Birth
05. Skyclad - "Great Blow for a Day Job", Oui Avant-Garde á Chance
06. Arch Enemy - "Demoniality", Black Earth
07. Hammerfall - "Born to Rule", Chapter V: Unbent, Unbowed, Unbroken
08. King Diamond - "By, Bye, Missy", Them
09. Control Denied - "What If...?", The Fragile Art of Existence
10. Candlemass - "Solitude", Epicus Dommicus Metallicus