My very first Bass Kit with the help of my 2 year old Daughter.

[DrNomis_44]

Well said Dr.Nomis. I agree whole heartedly...Metal music has saved my life a number of times before having kids, now they are one of the reasons i am still alive n kickin'. Any genre of music is always there for you to suit your mood at the time. I chose Metal since hearing Saxon, Maiden, Wasp, Slayer and Metallica back in 1986. 30 years on, it is still by my side...ONLY MUCH BIGGER !!! \m/\m/. Now i share that with my kids and Fiancee who was already a MetalHead when we met. Now i am channeling that positive energy into my University studies as i am doing a Bachelors in Music Composition and Sound Production and now building Basses.

I credit my mum as being the one who got me into Heavy Metal music, one of the first bands I got into was AC/DC, my mum is in her 60's now and she still is a big AC/DC fan, I also got into some other music genres, one of them is Blues music, which is where a lot of the sub-genres of Heavy Metal came from, Black Sabbath is widely acknowledged to be the first true Heavy Metal band that started it all off, there were some other bands that came before Black Sabbath, that were regarded as Heavy Metal pioneers, I got introduced to the big four Thrash Metal bands (Metallica, Slayer, Anthrax, and Megadeth), by my younger brother, Megadeth is the one I like the most out of the big four, but I am also into the other three too, they all have their unique take on Heavy Metal music, I like checking out the other bands that were a part of the history of Heavy Metal, one band that I like a lot is Australia's Mortal Sin, next chance you get try searching for Mayhemic Destruction by Mortal Sin on youtube, it's off one of their earlier albums but I reckon it still rocks to this day.

There are a lot of good Metal bands still touring these days, one in particular has a female singer that blew me away when I heard her, the band is Arch Enemy with Angela Gossow, she really surprised me , check them out.

I should add that I'm a big fan of alot of the 80's Metal scene, since the 80's was my teen years.

Saxon and Iron Maiden are definitely two bands who were pioneers of Heavy Metal, Iron Maiden and a few other bands, like Judas Priest, started off what was called the New Wave of British Heavy Metal, which also included bands that influenced Metallica, the Big Four ( Metallica, Anthrax, Slayer, and Megadeth), started off as a reaction to Metal bands from the LA Glam scene (Motley Crue, and their contemporaries), then we had bands like Sepultura ( from South America), who took Thrash Metal and made it heavier, eventually we ended up with the Metal bands we have today, along the way new Heavy Metal sub-genres were created, about the most extreme Metal band I have heard so far is a band called Bestial Warlust.