@Spider the last Lacuna Coil album (Black Anima) is very, very good. Unpexpectedly good, nobody thought they could release such a good album.
Zeal & Ardor are amazing. This last album is good, but I like their previous a bit more. They have some killer songs.Not sure if this counts as 'choral crap', it's rather some kind of gospel with different styles of metal in between, but those metal parts are executed so well (better than many actual 'real' metal bands) this deserves a listen. Hard to pick one from the album, so here's two songs which are fairly representative. When that first song started I was like 'oh please no don't do that'. But then came the 10' mark and the devil revealed himself to me
Hah,I remember going to see Ross and the boys when they opened up for Napalm Death in their first US concert in Yonkers ,NY 1988.Great times to be in the scene for sure.Though for me Immolation never really topped their early demos kinda like Morbid Angel,Thy Kingdom Come demo is just fucking perfect.