Rejected:
Avulsed
Candlemass
Celtic Frost
Cryptopsy
Destruction
Dying Fetus
Electric Wizard
Krisiun
Manowar
Megadeth
Nightwish
Onslaught
Pentagram
Profanatica
Rhapsody
Sodom
Sonata Arctica
Testament
Approved:
Vintersemestre
Cirith Gorgor
Cryptic Wintermoon
Dominion Caligula
He rejects a lot of good shit in favor of
Gates of Ishtar 
. I couldn't remember what GOI sound like, even if i wanted to. When i went to clean out my files, they were one of the first bands to be dismissed. I can understand rejecting Hemdale, but what about Pentagram? Or fucking CANDLEMASS?