- X-Japan - X (Power Metal/Speed Metal).
- Slayer - Black Magic (Thrash Metal).
- Trivium - Pull Harder On the Strings Of Your Martyr (Thrash Metal/Groove Metal).
- In Flames - Artifact Of The Black Rain (Melodic Death Metal).
- Lamb Of God - Redneck (Groove Metal).
- Bullet For My Valentine - Hit The Floor (Metalcore).
- Bullet For My Valentine - Ashes Of The Innocent (Thrash Metal/Metalcore).
- Killswitch Engage - My Last Serenade (Metalcore).
- Periphery - Insomnia (Groove Metal/Progressive Metal/Djent).
- Kino - Peremen (Post-Punk, New Wave)
I will not describe all causes and consequences - this will not be enough for one blog entry. The only thing I notice is that at first the complexity gradually increased, then the notion "genre" ceased to exist for me at all.