As Metal Director/DJ at WRUV, plus owner of this website, I get sent a metric shit ton of new music every year. I was once able to house my entire MP3 collection on a 160 GB iPod Classic, but as the inevitable digital shift progressed, my virtual library grew exponentially. For a time, just all of my Metal (including new stuff) lived on the 160 gig …but then it died. The 64 GB iPod Touch became the most attractive option as a better overall tool for my needs, albeit at the sacrifice of ~100 GB in potential storage. So I had a decision to make: what would now live on this iPod?
My inbox influx only expands. And in the Metal world these days (especially with radio) the average promotion cycle of a new album is 3-4 months—if not less. So my ‘Recent Adds’ and ‘Recenter Adds’ playlists would obviously make the cut during the albums’ “new” periods for review purposes, but I wanted some perennial favorites in there, too; a man cannot live on new music alone. So here is the initial list of 85 artists who never leave my iPod. It may be amended in the future.
~MetalMattLongo
A.L. Lloyd & Ewan MacColl
Alice in Chains
Alive & Well
Anaal Nathrakh
Arsis
Baroness
Bathory (added 2012Feb23)
The Beatles
Black Sabbath
Blind Melon
Carcass
Carnival in Coal
Clutch
Cormorant
Crooked Still
Cynic
The Damned Things
Death
Deftones
Dethklok
Elysian Fields
Faith No More
Fall of Efrafa
Fantômas
Frank Zappa
The Fucking Champs
George Carlin
Ghost
Glyder
Hammers of Misfortune
Hank Williams
Isis
Johnny Cash
Junius
Karl Sanders
Killing Joke
The Kinks
Kylesa
Kyuss
Led Zeppelin
Lesbian
Lovage
Mad Season
Made Out of Babies
Mastodon
Megadeth
Melvins
Mercyful Fate
Meshuggah
Metallica
Michael Jackson
Minibosses
Motörhead
Mr. Bungle
Necrophagist
Neurosis
Nile
Nirvana
Om
Opeth
Pearl Jam
Peeping Tom
Pin Up Went Down
Queens of the Stone Age
Rasputina
Regina Spektor
Slayer
Sleep
Sly and The Family Stone
Strapping Young Lad
The Sword
Syd Barrett
T.Rex
TesseracT
Testament
Thin Lizzy
Tom Waits
Tomahawk
Tool
uneXpect
Voivod
Volbeat
Ween
Yat-Kha
YOB
ZZ Top
Mind Over Metal 