That said having a lot of bands as friends has caused a unstoppable tsunami of friend requests from hundreds, if not thousands, of bands to clog my inbox. I know there is an option to block friend requests from bands and really it doesn’t annoy me as much as simply astound me. I must get between 5 to 10 a day consistently for the last 3 or so years I’d say.

I think that is a really good example of what you describe Shawn. I’m pretty easy-going about metal, a real stickler for quality, but the genre or level of originality, modern, oldschool, raw, polished…etc doesn’t make a difference to me if the band excels at what they set out to do. I used to give a lot of these bands a chance but I’d say 95% of the time they are either completely awful or so faceless and bland (a greater insult imo) as to not be worth a second listen.

No matter how tolerant and understandable I try to be, there is simply no way to say anything nice about most of them or give them any sort of additional chance. And as you say, time and money is limited! Why should I bother checking out EVERY band that wants my attention when I already have piles of albums from bands I know are fantastic and are worth as many listens as I can give them? You’re dead on with this blog.