OOT modern extreme metal thread

We've had a metal thread that was mostly hardcore, and then there was a thread about some concert tour featuring some washed up old dudes who play ****ty music now.

This thread is for discussion of modern death/black/grind etc. metal. Or, in other words, if your idea of good metal is the new metallica album then gtfo.

I'll start with possibly my 2 favorite songs of all time, from the latest Nile album, Those Whom The Gods Detest. This is the sickest **** ever, especially the drumming. Before this album I'd never really been into Nile even though it was obvious the drummer was a freak.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yc-A5zSdY...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-XW51VorK...

My tastes cover a wide range of sub-genres, although I hate getting into retarded arguments over which genre(s) a certain band belongs to, which is a disturbing trend on forums and youtube comments.

I like some grindy/wanky ****, like Psyopus:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FJn2wMWcu...

^That's a great one to piss off hippies with.

In terms of black metal, I'm not a snob. I don't insist on only listening to black metal from Norwegian bands from 1992 or whatever. I like some more melodic catchier black metal. Chthonic is probly my favorite, they're from Taiwan. Even though they list COF as among their strongest influences, I really can't stand COF. The vocals make me want to hurt kittens.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=66YNWi_nD...

A mainstay in my listening rotation is Black Dahlia Murder. The odd thing about them is that I absolutely love 3 of their albums, but Miasma was just flat and I can't get into it at all.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PLlSiFYGE...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2rZG2aMAK...

Best album of 2010 so far imo is Fear Factory, Mechanize:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Jq7WnF-g...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tpyrLTn1E...

I'm interested to hear what songs/bands really got people into metal. For me, it was Meshuggah. When I heard this for the first time on a local college radio station: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4A_tSyJBs... it was a total mind****. It was unlike anything I'd ever heard before. All the mainstream bull**** would never interest me again.