Guys, I think you are starting to miss the point here...Heavy Metal, to me anyhow, is a band that rarely, if ever, gets radio airplay. That would exclude all of Metallica's works from Justice on...but would include bands like CoC, Slayer... AS far as that goes, I'd have to limit it to bands from the early 80s...bands before 1982ish didn't rock as hard as Metallica and that whole Bay Area thing...Led Zeppelin is a hard rock band...not heavy metal. Same goes for Deep Purple, Black Sabbath, etc... My vote goes to Metallica, not so much for what they've done recently, although, their covers are a throwback to the early days (Garage Days 5.98 EP)...they were pretty much solely responsible for the widespread availability of heavy metal bands... Wait until Razvan2000 gets his opinion in here... G-Man PS-What ever happened to bands like GWAR, or Cryptic Death, Celtic Frost and others of the genre...that stuff REALLY ROCKED...Pantera cut their teeth on these bands... I also tip my hat to bands like MOD, SOD and especially Anthrax, who started the whole Rap n Roll genre...
