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To put it mildly, Absurd is a very odd band. The easiest place to start would be with the name. Given their strangeness, I suppose the name itself fits. According to Hendrik Möbus, the name "Absurd" is meant to refer to the band's relation to the ideas of disorder and chaos. Sonically, disorder and chaos are very near to the band's founding aesthetic principles: the band attempted to create a coherent blend of black metal, oi, horror soundtracks, and other disparate aural influences. The band also placed something of an emphasis on satanic or anti-christian themes. Sometimes these ideas work. Sometimes they don't. Formed in 1992 while its members were still in high school, most of Absurd's early works sounded quite amateurish and were unintentionally hilarious. Still, its contributing members -- Hendrik "Jarl Flagg Nidhögg" Möbus (drums) and Sebastian "Werwolf Dark Mark Doom" Schauscheill (vocals, guitar, bass) -- were apparently relatively popular among their peers owing to their demos, specifically Sadness and God's Death. Buzz about the young band was so great that no less a personage than Øystein "Euronymous" Aarseth offered to sign Absurd to his record label, Deathlike Silence Productions, based on the strength of their Death From The Forest demo. This deal never materialized, however. Incarceration can do that to a person.

As the members of the band were still in high school, they still had to deal with typical high school problems. You know, just the basic stuff...homework, petty rivalries, and first degree murder. In 1993, Möbus and Schauscheill began complaining about constantly being bothered by another student named Sandro Beyer. It seems as if Beyer -- who had a reputation for being something of an annoyance -- was interested in either joining Absurd or wanted to be with the band at all times. The members of Absurd were not interested. As a matter of fact, Schauscheill and Möbus sent notes and letters to Beyer, tell him to leave them alone. Additionally, Hendrik Möbus made several very derogatory references to him by name in a high school fanzine and took great lengths to distance him from the band. Offended, Beyer began spreading rumors about the members of Absurd around the school. Apparently most were fairly trivial, but there was one that was particularly accurate that had the potential to create a real problem for the band: 17-year-old Schauscheill was sexually involved with a married woman who had become pregnant with his child. For this reason -- among others -- the members of Absurd determined that "the guy had to go." Schauscheill and Möbus recruited a friend of theirs -- identified only as Andreas K. -- to assist them in this removal. One evening in late April, Sebastian, Hendrik, and Andreas sent a letter to Sandro Beyer that was signed by someone named "Juliana," telling him to meet her in the town-square so that they could discuss a matter relating to the members of Absurd. When Beyer arrived, he was greeted by the band and they asked him to come to the woodshed where they rehearsed to talk their differences out. Although apprehensive, Beyer went along anyway. After reaching the shed, Beyer attempted to leave, but the three youths would have none of it: Andreas K. restrained Beyer with an electrical cord while Möbus threatened him with a knife. After a while, Andreas K. and Schauscheill each grabbed a separate end of the cord and strangled Beyer to death. Beyer's body was discovered a few days later and within a week, the members of Absurd were arrested. Owing to youth sentencing laws in Germany, Möbus and Schauscheill each received 8 years in prison and Andreas K. received 6 for their crime.

Satanskinder

News of the murder was reported all over Germany. As if the tale wasn't unfortunate enough, however, a new layer had been added by the media: Absurd was a Satan-worshipping band and Sandro Beyer's murder had actually been a sacrifice to the fallen angel. Although Absurd had openly used satanic/occult imagery in their lyrics, the members insisted and still insist there was nothing beyond a casual curiosity in the matter at the time and that satanism played no role in the slaying of Sandro Beyer. Their protestations mainly fell on deaf ears, however, as other students attested to their Satanism and when other circumstancial evidence (ie, the fact that the murder took place on Walpurgisnacht) also received attention in the media. Indeed so, a book about the case entitled Satanskinder (Satan's Children) devotes itself to this proposition, hence the title. Not surprisingly, the members of Absurd despise Satanskinder and do whatever they can to discredit it. Hendrik Möbus for his part claims that since he and Schauscheill refused to cooperate with the authors, the book is filled with comments from nobody but enemies.

The Deed Speaks For Itself

While in prison, the members of Absurd were not idle. In fact, they were more prolific behind bars than they had ever been when they were free. Andreas K. actually joined the band -- after all, what else was he going to do for 6 years? -- and they recorded and released an accoustic demo entitled Out Of The Dungeon in 1994 and the Thuringian Pagan Madness cassette EP (released by Capricornus, the then-drummer of the Polish black metal band Graveland) in the following year. In a very disappointing show of poor taste, the latter featured Sandro Beyer's tombstone on its cover. In 1996, Absurd released the album Facta Luquuntur (a somewhat incorrect rendering of the Latin meaning "the deed speaks for itself"), which featured a few tracks from Thuringian Pagan Madness as well as some newer ones that revealed a rather, uh, tender edge to the band. Songs like Dreaming Of Love and Wartend In Einsamkeit (Waiting In Solitude) were rather mournful ballads, apparently directed towards Schausheill's now-divorced mistress. When Sandro Beyer's parents complained about the fact that the members of Absurd were able to be together and still release music, the prison warden was fired and the members were transferred to different facilities. It was around this time that the members of Absurd first became exposed to radical neo-Nazism. Although these ideas manifested themselves only briefly on Facta Luquuntur (mainly in the song Der Sieg Ist Unser, which includes lines in German like "when the morning comes, so begins the battle against the subhumans") they were out in full force on 1999's Asgardsrei, with tracks like Germanien über Alles. Not surprisingly, this caused more than a bit of uneasiness. In 1998, Möbus had been paroled and started a White Power record label called Darker Than Black Productions. This type of thing is illegal in Germany, however, and the label was closed. Around this time, Hendrik Möbus did a "sieg heil" arm movement in public -- also illegal in Germany -- and was sentenced to another 8 months for breaking the conditions of his parole.

Not particularly excited about the prospect of returning to prison, Möbus escaped to the United States (by using his own visa and passport, strangely) and stayed with National Alliance founder and leader Dr. William Pierce. For those not familiar with the National Alliance, it is probably the most visible and most well-known organization in the American white separatist movement. Pierce -- author of the Turner Diaries -- had recently purchased White Power record labels in the US and Scandinavia and needed to make contacts elsewhere. Möbus agreed to help him with this in exchange for assistance with his impending legal problems. In 2000, Möbus was arrested in West Virginia for extradition to Germany and had his arm broken during the altercation, which he later cited as an instance of police brutality. He then attempted to apply for political asylum in the US, saying he faced imprisonment for his political beliefs. Technically, this is true; the Nazi Party is outlawed in Germany and professing its tenets is considered hate speech. Neither happens to be the case in the US. Möbus wrote several pieces about the lack of free speech in Germany, arguing that if some types of speech are restricted, then there's no real freedom involved. Does Möbus have a point? It raises an important yet difficult question for which there is no easy answer that is likely to be found.

With the prominence of Möbus's story, the saga of Absurd began to make the rounds in the American media. This time, however, the murder of Sandro Beyer was presented as a racially-motivated attack rather than as a Satanic sacrifice. While Möbus does not deny that he is a neo-Nazi, he has been equally adamant in claiming that Beyer's murder was just as unrelated to Nazism as it was to Satanism. It's especially peculiar given that Sandro Beyer himself was a white German, removing any real racial incentive that the members of Absurd may have been supposed to have had. Two articles by the Associated Press proclaimed "Mobus [sic] murdered a 'non-Aryan' teenager in 1994 [sic]" despite the fact that the original stories and articles from Germany made no reference to this factor at all. As unseemly as Möbus's beliefs may be to some, the evidence just doesn't seem to support the claim that Sandro Beyer was killed for apparently nonexistent racial reasons. In 2001, Möbus's request for asylum was denied and he was deported to Germany.

Conclusion

There really doesn't seem to be much positivity to be found in the story of this band. A couple of shitty demos, a fairly unintelligent killing, people who may or may not be Satanists, neo-Nazis, questions about the freedoms we value, sensationalistic journalism with no real concern for the truth, and the fact that the band has now reformed without a single original member really don't allow one to walk away with a good or satisfied feeling. It's a bleak story with bleak characters and a bleak conclusion. There was this movie in which a character remarked "I guess some people just have tragedy in their veins;" if this is the case, I'd say that every member of Absurd has tragic hypertension and they seem to spread it to everyone they come into contact with.



Ad HominemAbsurd

Mayhem
Impaled Nazarene
Kristallnacht
Wolfnacht
Burzum
Honor
Temnozor
Nokturnal Mortum
Landser
Infernal War

Sadly it does contain a lot of crap from when I first started listening to music. Also, if I own multiple albums by an artist they are ordered by the year of release.


Abigail Williams - Legend
Abigail Williams - In the Shadow of a Thousand Suns
Aborted - Goremaggedon: The Saw And The Carnage Done
Aborted - The Archaic Abbatoir
Aborted - Slaughter & Apparatus: A Methodical Overture
Aborted - Strychnine.213
Absu - Barathrum: V.I.T.R.I.O.L.
Absu - Absu
The Acacia Strain - The Dead Walk
The Academy Is... - Santi
AFI - Answer That and Stay Fashionable
AFI - Very Proud of Ya
AFI - Shut Your Mouth and Open Your Eyes
AFI - A Fire Inside E.P.
AFI - All Hallow's E.P.
AFI - Black Sails in the Sunset
AFI - The Art of Drowning
AFI - Sing the Sorrow
AFI - DECEMBERUNDERGROUND
AFI - Love Like Winter
AFI - I Heard A Voice, Live From Long Beach Arena
AFI - Crash Love
Against - Left For Dead
Against - Loyalty & Betrayal
Agnostic Front - Victim In Pain
Agnostic Front - Cause for Alarm
Agnostic Front - Liberty & Justice For...
Agnostic Front - Warriors
Agoraphobic Nosebleed - Altered States of America
Akercocke - Choronzon
Alexisonfire - Alexisonfire
Alice Cooper - School's Out
Alice in Chains - Nothing Safe
Alkaline Trio - Maybe I'll Catch Fire
The Amenta - n0n
The Amity Affliction - The Amity Affliction
The Amity Affliction - High Hopes
The Amity Affliction - Severed Ties
Amon Amarth - Once Sent From the Golden Hall
Amon Amarth - Twilight of the Thunder God
Anaal Nathrakh - Hell Is Empty, and All the Devils Are Here
Anal Cunt - It Just Gets Worse
Anarchsphere - 2008 Sampler
Angela's Dish - War On Time
Angelcorpse - Of Lucifer And Lightning
Ansur - Axiom
Antagonist A.D. - These Cities Our Graves
Anthrax - Spreading The Disease
Anthrax - Among The Living
Anti-Flag - Underground Network
Anti-Flag - For Blood and Empire
Apocalyptica - Cult
Arch Enemy - Doomsday Machine
Arch Enemy - Rise Of The Tyrant
Architects - Hollow Crown
Arctic Monkeys - Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not
Arcturus - The Sham Mirrors
Arsebreed - Munching The Rotten
As Blood Runs Black - Allegience
At the Gates - The Red in the Sky Is Ours
At the Gates - Slaughter of the Soul
Atreyu - Lead Sails Paper Anchor
August Burns Red - Messengers
Austrian Death Machine - Total Brutal
Autopsy - Severed Survival
Avenged Sevenfold - Sounding The Seventh Trumpet
Avenged Sevenfold - Waking The Fallen
Avenged Sevenfold - City of Evil
Avenged Sevenfold - Avenged Sevenfold
Bad Religion - The Gray Race
Bad Religion - New Maps Of Hell
Behemoth - Evangelion
Behind Crimson Eyes - Prologue: The Art Of War/Cherry Blossom Epitaph
Behind Crimson Eyes - A Revelation For Despair
Behind Crimson Eyes - Behind Crimson Eyes
Beneath the Sky - What Demons Do To Saints
The Berzerker - The Berzerker
The Berzerker - Dissimulate
The Berzerker - World of Lies
The Berzerker - Animosity
The Berzerker - The Reawakening
Between the Buried and Me - The Silent Circus
Between the Buried and Me - Colors
Black Comedy - Instigator
The Black Dahlia Murder - Unhallowed
The Black Dahlia Murder - Miasma
The Black Dahlia Murder - Nocturnal
The Black Dahlia Murder - Deflorate
Black Flag - Damaged
Black Like Vengeance - Empty As The Day
Black Sabbath - Paranoid
Black Tide - Light From Above
Blaqk Audio - Cexcells
Bleeding Through - Portrait of the Goddess
Bleeding Through - This Is Love, This Is Murderous
Bleeding Through - The Truth
Bleeding Through - Declaration
blink-182 - Cheshire Cat
blink-182 - Dude Ranch
blink-182 - Enema Of The State
blink-182 - The Mark, Tom And Travis Show
blink-182 - Take Off Your Pants And Jacket
blink-182 - blink-182
blink-182 - Greatest Hits
BLKOUT - Total Depravity
Bloc Party - Silent Alarm
Blood Duster - Cunt
Blood Tsunami - Grand Feast for Vultures
Box Car Racer - Box Car Racer
The Boy Will Drown - Fetish
Boys Like Girls - Boys Like Girls
Brain Drill - Apocalyptic Feasting
Break Even - The Bright Side
Breaking Benjamin - Phobia
The Bright Star Alliance - Oceania
Bring Me the Horizon - This Is What the Edge of Your Seat Was Made For
Bring Me the Horizon - Count Your Blessings
Bring Me the Horizon - Suicide Season
Brokencyde - I'm Not a Fan But the Kids Like It
Bullet For My Valentine - Bullet for My Valentine
Bullet For My Valentine - The Poison
Bullet For My Valentine - Scream Aim Fire
Burning Skies - Greed. Filth. Abuse. Corruption
Burning Witch - Towers
Burning Witch - Rift. Canyon. Dreams
Burst - Origo
Burzum - Burzum
Burzum - Aske
Burzum - Hvis Lyset Tar Oss
Butthole Surfers - Independant Worm Saloon
Caliban - The Awakening
Cancer Bats - Birthing The Giant
Cancer Bats - Hail Destroyer
Candlemass - King of the Grey Islands
Cannibal Corpse - Bloodthirst
Cannibal Corpse - Gore Obsessed
Cannibal Corpse - Kill
Cannibal Corpse - Evisceration Plague
Carcass - Reek of Putrefaction
Carcass - Necroticism: Descanting The Insalubrious
Carnage - The Day Man Lost
Carnage - Infestation of Evil
Carnage - Dark Recollections
Carnal Forge - Testify For My Victims
Carnophage - Deformed Future//Genetic Nightmare
Carpathian - Carpathian
Carpathian - Nothing To Lose
Carpathian - Isolation
Catastrophic - Pathology Of Murder
Cattle Decapitation - Humanure
Celtic Frost - Morbid Tales
Children of Bodom - Something Wild
Children of Bodom - Hatebreeder
Children of Bodom - Follow the Reaper
Circa Survive - On Letting Go
Circle of Dead Children - Human Harvest
Civet - Hell Hath No Fury
Closed Casket - Thy Blood, Thy Word
Coal Chamber - Coal Chamber
Coheed and Cambria - In Keeping Secrets of Silent Earth: 3
Coheed and Cambria - Good Apollo I'm Burning Star IV, Vol. 1: From Fear Through the Eyes of Madness
Coldseed - Completion Makes the Tragedy
Comeback Kid - Turn It Around
Confession - Can't Live, Can't Breathe
Cradle of Filth - Dusk and Her Embrace
Cradle of Filth - Cruelty and the Beast
Cradle of Filth - From the Cradle to Enslave
Cradle of Filth - Midian
Cradle of Filth - Damnation and a Day
Cradle of Filth - Thornography
Crowbar - Equilibrium
Cry Murder - Above Us The Waves
Cryptopsy - Whisper Supremacy
Cryptopsy - Once Was Not
Cryptopsy - The Unspoken King
Cult of Luna - Salvation
Cult of Luna - Somewhere Along the Highway

D through # coming soon.

Blood Fire Death by Bathory (1988)


Blessed Are the Sick by Morbid Angel (1991)


Like an Ever Flowing Stream by Dismember (1991)


Legion by Deicide (1992)


Hvis Lyset Tar Oss by Burzum (1994)


Transilvanian Hunger by Darkthrone (1994)


Obscura by Gorguts (1998)


Close to a World Below by Immolation (2000)


Imaginary Sonicscape by Sigh (2001)


Kosherat by Grand Belial's Key (2005)

Since last.fm is the best place on the web for stupid teenagers to vent about their petty meaningless lives, I'd thought I'd share my burden with you guys. It's something that's been bugging me for a while now, it's really been eating away at me...there's this guy at uni on my course, who is probably the most normal person you could ever meet, except for one small thing...right slap-bang on his chest he has a pair of breasts, and they're not round or perky tits, they're just more like two puppies in a burlap sack.

If he was overweight I would understand, but he's 6'2, slim build and cant weigh anything more than 80kg. Whereas most men walk with pride, chest out, back straight, head held high, he walks with his face tucked into his chest as if nobody will notice. Every time I talk to him, every time I just see him, I cant help but stare at his breasts. Please help me, how do I confront him so I can move on with my life?

Between the Buried and MeBurzumOpethDimmu BorgirNileDream TheaterNevermoreMastodonIsisNeurosisMeshuggahThe OceanMayhemDarkthroneEmperorSymphony XSikThAfter the BurialThe Dillinger Escape PlanBorisBehemothAgallochToolAyreonSlayerIn FlamesDeftonesLamb of GodNightwishChildren of BodomTriviumKatatoniaAmon AmarthDragonForceGojiraCradle of FilthArch EnemyDevilDriverStrapping Young Lad

It occurs to me that I've yet to fill out a "questions about ___" questionnaire. Times are changing.

1. What is your favorite song by 29? (DJ Shadow)
Building Steam With A Grain Of Salt
It was also the first I heard, and I loved it the first time I heard it.

2. What was the first song you ever heard by 22? (Dead Can Dance)
How Fortunate the Man With None, I think.

3. What is your favorite album by 33? (Judas Priest)
Unleashed in the East
It has several of my favorites from the band, Exciter, Diamonds And Rust, and Victim of Changes, plus the energy and production were a lot better than the original studio tracks.

4. What is your favorite album by 49? (High on Fire)
Blessed Black Wings. for merely Devilution and The Face of Oblivion.

5. How many albums by 13 do you own? Waylon Jennings)
Only this one: Nashville Rebel, but it's a four disc box set.

6. What is your favorite song by 50? (Portugal. The Man)
Bellies Are Full

7. Is there a song by 39 that makes you sad? (Buena Vista Social Club)
Not really. They are pretty feel good music.

8. What is your favorite song by 15? (Deep Purple)
When A Blind Man Cries

9. What is your favorite song by 5? (Leonard Cohen)
Avalanche

10. Is there a song by 6 that makes you happy? (Buzzov*en)
fucked up, drugged out, hateful, misanthropic sludge... all of their songs make me happy?

11. What is your favorite album by 40? (Burial)
Burial

12. What is your favorite song by 10? (Evil Army)
Evil Army
Once the irritating intro march is out of the way, that track blazes through, one of the best thrash songs ever written.

13. What is a good memory you have involving 30? (Amorphis)
Listening to them.

14. What is your favorite song by 38? (The Builders and the Butchers)
either Bottom of the Lake or Spanish Death Song
Hard to choose between them. Bottom Of The Lake is usually what I would choose to listen to first, but Spanish Death Song is so frantic and I love the lyrical theme.

15. Is there a song by 19 that makes you sad? (Begushkin)
not really. Some of his songs are pretty gloomy. Stroll With Mine sounds pretty down to me.

16. How many times have you seen 25 live? (Eyehategod)
I haven't.

17. What is the first song you ever heard by 23? (Banco del Mutuo Soccorso)
750.000 Anni Fa... L'amore?

18. What is your favorite album by 11? (Saver Tiger)
None in particular. their only material was live recordings, and the three albums I have had in the past had pretty much the same material. The production was terrible on all of them, and the only reason they're so high in my library is because I was really into them for a while.

19. How did you get into 1? (X JAPAN)
Once upon a time, I started using blogspots to discover new music. I downloaded ART OF LIFE from a blogspot many years ago, after like a ten paragraph description which basically had me at "epic metal from Japan." It got lost in inexplicable circumstances, and a year or two later I ran across it again along with I'll Kill You from another blog, which fortunately re-introduced me to the band.

20. Have you ever seen 14 live? (Dismember)
Unfortunately not.

21. What is a good memory involving 27? (Neil Young)
I got laid off work in 2006 for the first time and drove home at 3 am listening to Down by the River

22. What is your favorite song by 16? (Burzum)
Key To The Gate
I could've went with some I highly enjoy from the self-titled album, but the last half of Key is one of the most perfect songs in the black metal genre.

23. What is the first song you ever heard by 47? (Old Crow Medicine Show)
Wagon Wheel
Isn't that the first song everyone has heard from them? I mean the Bob Dylan connection...

24. What is your favorite album by 18? (Nitzer Ebb)
Body of Work

25. What is your favorite song by 21? (Rage Against the Machine)
Too difficult to choose. Anything from Evil Empire or half the tracks on The Battle of Los Angeles

26. What is the first song you ever heard by 26? (Lightnin' Hopkins)
Big Black Cadillac Blues

27. What's your favorite lyric by 3? (Electric Wizard)
Damn, that's tough. Perhaps the second verse of Return Trip. The whole Cannibal Ferox thing, and the fact that it's so well stated,
"I hope this fuckin' world fuckin' burns away
And I'd kill you all if I had my way
But I'll live forever, questions curse me why
Oh Lord above, why won't you let me die"

28. What is you favorite song by 2? (Led Zeppelin)
Impossible.

29. What was the first song you ever heard by 32? (Django Reinhardt)
Nuages

30. What is you favorite song by 8? (Taken By Cars)
Uh Oh
The mood, the bass, the drum beat, fucking fantastic.

31. How many times have you seen 17 live? (Asin)
haha, I haven't.

32. Is there a song by 44 that makes you happy? (Stereolab)
not really.

33. What is you favorite album by 12? (Church of Misery)
Early Works Compilation (disc 1) because it contains several of my favorites from the band.

34. What is the worst song by 45? (Elliott Smith)
I couldn't pick. As much as I enjoy many of his songs, he does tend to have just as many that annoy or frustrate me to hear.

35. What was the first song you ever heard by 34? (Last Harbour)
Saint Luminous Bride

36. What is your favorite album by 48? (Motörhead)
the two disc, 39 songs Essential. As much as people tend to hate on compilations like that, I'll be honest and straight up say it's my favorite because it really did put most of their strongest songs altogether.

37. How many times have you seen 42 live? (Death in June)
None.

38. What is your favorite song by 36? (Between the Buried and Me)
either More of Myself to Kill or Use of a Weapon
It's a labor picking from them as well. The first album has magic that none of their other albums do. Then again, I was at the cd release show, and that material has sentimental value to me.

39. What was the first song you ever heard by 28? (UFO)
Doctor Doctor

40. What is your favorite album by 7? (Muse)
Black Holes and Revelations although Origin Of Symmetry is right behind it.

41. Is there a song by 31 that makes you happy? (Spiritual Front)
Not in comparison to any others.

42. What is your favorite album by 41? (Johnny Cash)
The box sets that usually have a quarter of everything he ever did.

43. What is your favorite song by 24? (Portishead)
Glory Box
Epitome of chill.

44. What is a good memory you have involving 46? (The Crown)
Angering christians by posting their lyrics on message boards.

45. What is your favorite song by 35? (Grant Green)
Possibly No. 1 Green Street

46. Is there a song by 9 that makes you sad? (Eluveitie)
Not really.

47. What is your favorite album by 4? (His Hero Is Gone
Definitely Monuments to Thieves
Like Weeds is one of the most intense songs in hardcore.

48. Who is a favorite member of 37? (Sielwolf)
...the fuck kind of question. I wouldn't know any of them.

49. What is the first song you ever heard by 43? (Morphine)
Buena

50. How many albums do you own by 20? (Exhumed)
four. Gore Metal, Slaughtercult, Anatomy Is Destiny, and the Platters of Splatter two disc compilation.

My favorite artists by genre. Just making this so later on I can see how my taste has changed. At least 2 artists per genre, no more than 10. Artists can appear more than once if they work with many genres.


Ambient:

1. Solar Fields
2. Carbon Based Lifeforms
3. Banco de Gaia
4. Solar Quest
5. Cell
6. Aes Dana
7. Yagya
8. Hol Baumann
9. Adham Shaikh
10. Asura

General Chillout:

1. Adham Shaikh
2. Kaya Project
3. Moby
3. Angel Tears
4. Chicane
5. Enigma
6. SnakeStyle
7. Gaudi

Classical:

1 .Ludwig van Beethoven
2. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
3. Antonio Vivaldi
3. Johann Sebastian Bach
4. Frédéric Chopin

Dubstep:

1. Burial
2. Boxcutter

Hip- Hop:

1. Kaliber 44
2. Paktofonika
3. O.S.T.R.
4. Cannibal Ox
5. Coolio

IDM:

1. Kettel
2. Secede
3. Hibernation
4. Nalepa

Metal (all sub-genres included):

1. Iron Maiden
2. Falkenbach
3. Summoning
4. Arkona (Pol)
5. Korpiklaani
6. Blind Guardian
7. Burzum
8. Ensiferum

Neofolk:

1. Current 93
2. Blood Axis
3. Of the Wand and the Moon
4. Nature and Organisation
5. Kiss the Anus of a Black Cat
6. Death in June

Psychill and Psydub:

1. Shpongle
2. Ott
3. Androcell / Distant System
4. Slackbaba
5. Phutureprimitive
6. Puff Dragon
7. Aural Planet
8. Celtic Cross
9. The Peaking Goddess Collective
10. Tripswitch

Punk:

1. Misfits
2. Dezerter
3. Kazik
4. The Analogs
5. KSU

Rock:

1. Pink Floyd
2. Led Zeppelin
3. Dire Straits
4. The Rolling Stones
5. Guns N' Roses
6. The Doors
7. Kult / Kazik
8. The Who
9. Lynyrd Skynyrd
10. Queen

Singer-Songwriter kind of thing (I don't like this tag, but it works well here):

1. Bob Dylan
2. Lou Reed
3. Cat Stevens
4. Leonard Cohen
5. Iggy Pop

Sung Poetry:

1. Stare Dobre Małżeństwo
2. Raz Dwa, Trzy
3. Wolna Grupa Bukowina
4. Pod Budą
5. Grzegorz Turnau

Non-psychedelic Trance:

1. Art of Trance
2. Union Jack
3. L.S.G.
4. Cygnus X
5. Underworld
6. Orbital
7. Cosmic Baby

Psychedelic Trance (including goa, psytrance etc.):

1. Hallucinogen
2. Dimension 5
3. Blue Planet Corporation
4. Cosmosis
5. X-Dream
6. Filteria
7. Transwave
8. Jaïa
9. Man With No Name
10. Khetzal

Whether due to the steady culmination of a cult following, fan pressure, snaky cashgrabs (*cough, cough, Pestilence, cough*), or simply the will to show the new kids on the block how it's done, waves and waves metalbands have been reforming left and right over the last few years, doing tours, releasing new material (for good or bad), and generally kicking ass. This journal is a little tool I'm going to use to keep track of who's back together, and who (in my opinion) still needs to get their ass in gear.

If you think I'm missing something please leave a comment.

Reunited/Reformed-
Abdullah
The Accüsed
Amebix
Anacrusis
Angel Witch
Artillery
Asphyx
Atheist
Autopsy
Black Sabbath/Heaven and Hell
Blood Farmers
Blind Illusion
Brocas Helm
Burzum
Carnivore
Comus (Not metal, but who cares...)
Confessor
Count Raven
Cynic
Deathrow (US, Pre-Pentagram)
Decapitated
Divine Eve
D.R.I.
Exhorder
Forbidden
Goatsnake
Goreaphobia
Gorguts
Hellwitch
Hirax
Hobbs' Angel of Death (Though MA classifies them as "on hold")
Holy Moses
Immortal
Insanity
Inure
Invocator
Living Death
Master's Hammer
Mekong Delta
Morbid Saint/Hallowcore
Mortal Sin
Nihilist
Nocturnus
Order From Chaos
Pestilence
Possessed
Revelation
Rigor Mortis
Saint Vitus
Sadus
Sororicide
Thorr's Hammer (come to the U.S., damnit!)
Toxik
Trouble
Unorthodox
Watchtower
Whiplash
Witchfinder General

Best get their asses in gear-
Acid Bath
Control Denied (sans Schuldiner)
Coroner
Desolation Angels (*with* Dave Wall)
diSEMBOWELMENT
The Gault
Godspeed You! Black Emperor (not metal, don't care)
Grotesque (the one-off show didn't cut it!)
Holy Terror (again)
Mindrot
Molested
Moonshine (please!!)
Necrovore
Nirvana 2002 (Swe)
Only Living Witness (again)
Paul Chain (just needs to play doom again)
Psychotic Waltz
Ripping Corpse
Sacrilege (UK)
Sortilège
Swans
Timeghoul
Vio-Lence
Wake Up On Fire - R.I.P. Kevin Hannigan
Weakling