[Glice]

Personally, it's very important. But production doesn't have to mean spending oodles on fancy mics. Just what's appropriate for the songs. Your sort of stuff needs quite a dense production, I'd say. It's really difficult to know what you personally want though. The second track on your myspace is, to my ears, murkily recorded and convoluted - is that stereo-panning or bad recording? Is that self-induced peaking or accidentals? - but that might be precisely the sound you're going for. By contrast, you've used similar production for the track you've uploaded, and that sounds fine to me - however, I could gaurantee a lot of my metaller mates would be put off by that production (consciously or unconsciously - I think production works that way).