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Ancient Mariner
I think a lot of the elements of extreme metal are an exaggeration of what metal is, brought to self parody levels. If there's a spectrum of what metal is, then Ted is a lot closer to what all the best bands Maiden, Metallica, Judas Priest, Black Sabbath do than ott drumming and grunting vocals are.
I don't want to sound like I'm singling out Enslaved here as there was some good stuff in that song. It's just there was a lot of "that's not metal" comments this round which are a pain in the hole to have to read time and time again, especially when a lot of stuff was nominated by users in good faith, hence a snarky comment from me.