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The final of the top 3, I wanted better metal, thats pretty much all there is to it.  The original black metal was basic shoegaze stuff, and not even the best of the basic, thankfully they used non traditional themes for the songs but you'd think black metals sound would have evolved slightly over 60 years instead of staying the exact same as it was in the 80s... So I switched everything out for legendary metal artists that created masterpieces of extreme metal albums in their respective metal genres, or flat out created a new genre and made significant changes to the metal world that would last forever.  This was probably the easiest and most difficult to create because Ive listened to extreme metal for over 2 decades now and my library is extensive and metal itself is extensive.  I needed music that not only was good, but would still be seen as a style to emulate almost a century into the future.  Metal is basically todays classical music, but I feel I chose the perfect bands to not only represent the station, but Night City itself, so there's not really any music that sings about forests or trolls or any of that stuff, this is music that represents civilizations rise and fall in current times, the destruction of the world around us for personal gain, and the eventual consequences of those actions, even the couple somewhat traditional black metal I selected is based off mankinds knowledge of science and space instead of satanic or magical themes.

Agalloch is a Black Metal folk themed band from Portland, OR. USA.  They mostly use the traditional themes in black metal but they tend to keep it more human related than magical, they often use the themes of classic writers like Henry David Thoreau and Ralph Waldo Emerson in their lyrics and sometimes quote them. They incorporate native american themes and sounds in some of their most atmospheric songs, have songs about nature, poetry, and space and time opposed to satan and what not.  Ive chosen two of their heaviest songs, both are about space and time and from the Album "The Serpent and the Sphere" but they are still by far the most "melodic" of the songs, and they are the longest songs of the bunch but some of the shortest for the band itself as they often create 12 minute long epics, and have released a 22 minute long album that was one song, and they are well produced, no fuzzy raw black metal stuff, this is soundscape/movie quality music.  They disbanded in 2016 and the members went on to start their own solo projects or join other bands.

At The Gates are from Gothenburg, Sweden and are considered the fathers of the "Gothenburg death metal" sound, they didn't start the melodic death metal genre but they are the ones that brought it to the world and made it possible to become as large and popular as it is today. These guys started up in 1990 as At the Gates after being called "Grotesque" and doing some average black/death metal songs for a year or two prior to rena