Oh yay, I found a fellow metal listener 🙂 was starting to feel a bit like I was the only one on Hive hahaha.
As for the horizon being lopsided, it's actually upside down, you're just looking at it the wrong way.
It's always really awesome when you get to have a bit more of an in-person connection with band members, the music seems to be filled with a lot more substance like you say. Having conversations with them about songs sometimes reveal things about their music that nobody else even knows.
I like lots of metal. Aluminium, Steel, Iron... uh Titanium?
My favourites, in a nut shell:
Lol. Good one. You forgot Palladium, Nickel, Beryllium and Lithium which incidentally is actually a band who I personally know a member of.
Look, I'm not a metallurgist. I can barely iron out the kinks of language.