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

[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.