Word Vader is great but screw Dimmu, first album storm blast was amazing, i wont deny that, but everything else turned gay. I don't mind bodoms first two albums, hate crew deathroll and follow the reeper but the stuff after that i hated, as for cradle of filth, they're mediocre at best.
I do not like or listen to metal core at all, bands like as i lay dying, otep, hatebreed, killswitch engage, caliban are horrible in my opinion, but it is music so to each his own. Aman Amarth are pretty good live and arch enemy are ok. Have you guys ever heard of a band called Naglfar? they put on an amazing show, did there first tour in the USA this summer with Dark Funeral

Personally, Black Metal, Doom/Folk/Viking, and some Progressive and some Symphonic Metals are my bread and butter. I don't really feel the whole metal core scene, to me it might as well be emo core