the Rules Of Metal
Those rules are way too American. Leather trousers are still pretty true over here in Europe, probably second only to kilts as metal-as-fuck lower-half clothing. Same with the grammar. Plus, there's rules missing, like the 'never by halfs' rule and all its applications: Half pints and mixers are false, shots and pints are true. T-shirts are false, longsleeves and vests are true, and so on.
I've gone off Opeth quite a bit, but I've got to say seeing them live catapulted them fucking way up in my estimation. Akerfeldt is a great front-man, really funny and with an appropriately outrageous accent, and their older tunes in particular slay a hell of a lot of ass. The Leper Affinity blew me, and the six other guys I was linked arms with in a headbanging line, completely away.
"This was...good album for us. Very popular. In fact, with proceeds from this album, I buy six castles in Switzerland. It was called...Blackwater Park. You know it? Yes I thought you might. This track is the...first track from that album. it is The Leper Affinity, and if you do not headbang, you are fucking poser."