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

[METAL Rulez 4ever]

Heavy Metal music is something that I think is pretty unique, for something that has the power to take us away from all the things that get us down as we live our lives, and takes us to a better place, it has to be a good thing, Heavy Metal music has played a big part in my life as I was growing up, and it has always been there for me, through all my good times and bad times, it has helped me through it all.

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.

[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.

[METAL Rulez 4ever]

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.

Yes Dr.Nomis...I have heard of Mayhemic Destruction, i got it on cassette when it first came out. I used to hang out with Mortal Sin during those times at Bell St. Rock. Arch Enemy, i have all their stuff. Have you heard the latest Arch Enemy with Alyssa ? She derives from The Agonist, check em out if you havent.

[FrankenWashie]

Yes Dr.Nomis...I have heard of Mayhemic Destruction, i got it on cassette when it first came out. I used to hang out with Mortal Sin during those times at Bell St. Rock. Arch Enemy, i have all their stuff. Have you heard the latest Arch Enemy with Alyssa ? She derives from The Agonist, check em out if you havent.

Just checked out Arch Enemy's last album, Alyssa pulls it in well, she doesn't seem to be as raw as Angela Gossow? I always got the impression with Angela that vocally she was at her absolute limit, almost pushing past it at times. Alyssa seems less totured to do a similar job. Different artists, quite like both in how they perform and I don't think AE suffers with the change, it seems a tad more polished vocally with Alyssa to me. No bad reflection on Angela, she did a great job, that just the way I hear it I guess.

[METAL Rulez 4ever]

Just checked out Arch Enemy's last album, Alyssa pulls it in well, she doesn't seem to be as raw as Angela Gossow? I always got the impression with Angela that vocally she was at her absolute limit, almost pushing past it at times. Alyssa seems less totured to do a similar job. Different artists, quite like both in how they perform and I don't think AE suffers with the change, it seems a tad more polished vocally with Alyssa to me. No bad reflection on Angela, she did a great job, that just the way I hear it I guess.

You are right FrankenWashie, Alyssa is classically vocally trained and has more of a range than Angela.

[Simon Barden]

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

You need to remove Judas Priest from that list. They were going long before TNWOBHM hit the music world, which was somewhere around 1980-1981. Judas Priest were very much of the old school of rock, more on a level with Thin Lizzy than Sabbath. They later reinvented themselves as more of a metal band, but they were never officially part of TNWOBHM. TNWOBHM was a convenient music press label to give to bands that had generally been started and going unnoticed through the late '70s, when labels were generally just signing punk and new wave bands (because 'rock was dead') and then when the punk phase ended, the labels still found that there was a big demand for loud rock music, so TNWOBHM became the new bandwagon for a while. Certainly Saxon, Iron Maiden and Def Leppard were in it, then there were some of the lesser known bands like The Tygers of Pan Tang, Samson, Girlschool and Witchfinder General. Maiden was the most metal of the lot, the others were really no more than heavy rock. Even Ian Gillan (with his band Gillan) was included within the TNWOBHM label.

[METAL Rulez 4ever]

You need to remove Judas Priest from that list. They were going long before TNWOBHM hit the music world, which was somewhere around 1980-1981. Judas Priest were very much of the old school of rock, more on a level with Thin Lizzy than Sabbath. They later reinvented themselves as more of a metal band, but they were never officially part of TNWOBHM. TNWOBHM was a convenient music press label to give to bands that had generally been started and going unnoticed through the late '70s, when labels were generally just signing punk and new wave bands (because 'rock was dead') and then when the punk phase ended, the labels still found that there was a big demand for loud rock music, so TNWOBHM became the new bandwagon for a while. Certainly Saxon, Iron Maiden and Def Leppard were in it, then there were some of the lesser known bands like The Tygers of Pan Tang, Samson, Girlschool and Witchfinder General. Maiden was the most metal of the lot, the others were really no more than heavy rock. Even Ian Gillan (with his band Gillan) was included within the TNWOBHM label.

...And also my fave bands...Tokyo Blade, Diamond Head, Blitzkrieg, Motorhead, Angel Witch and Grim Reaper.

[DrNomis_44]

...And also my fave bands...Tokyo Blade, Diamond Head, Blitzkrieg, Motorhead, Angel Witch and Grim Reaper.

Some great classics there, Diamond Head, Motorhead, and Angelwitch, are all influences of Metallica, I seem to remember James Hetfield saying that he was into Angelwitch when he was younger, there's also Mercyful Fate too.

I've been getting into building guitar amplifiers, there's one that's a work in progress, I'm in the process of building it into a fully-working Soldano SLO 50 Head, still got a fair way to go before it's functional though, my main guitar amp is a 100 Watt Marshall MA100C 2 X 12 All Valve combo amp, it recently got serviced and I've been really happy with it ever since I got it back home.

[METAL Rulez 4ever]

Some great classics there, Diamond Head, Motorhead, and Angelwitch, are all influences of Metallica, I seem to remember James Hetfield saying that he was into Angelwitch when he was younger, there's also Mercyful Fate too.

I've been getting into building guitar amplifiers, there's one that's a work in progress, I'm in the process of building it into a fully-working Soldano SLO 50 Head, still got a fair way to go before it's functional though, my main guitar amp is a 100 Watt Marshall MA100C 2 X 12 All Valve combo amp, it recently got serviced and I've been really happy with it ever since I got it back home.

Nice Dr.Nomis. Good luck with that. I may get into building bass cases. With all these kits...i need 'em !!! Haha.