What's a headbanger to do? That grunge/alternative metal/whatever stuff doesn't really, well, rock. That Helmet-style surgical precision is too icy. Your friends laugh at your spandex-'n-studs dinosaurmetal CDs. You know all the lyrics on your Slayer albums, you play them all the time ... but you still have yearnings.

Death-metal bands understand this.

Before, they worshiped atonality to the point...