Sometimes I hate living in Australia for this single reason.
Bands like Saxon, Queensryche and Scorpions have never come here.
Zep came in 72, but I was 10 years old, so did not know of them.
Got my sabbath tickets refunded in 1980 because fucking "Butler" broke his little finger in Sydney and they didn't 
come to Melbourne. See everyone else several times.
My highlights were:
1:  page/plant
2: deep purple - perfect strangers tour. Talking to John Lord for a good hour, also got Blackmore to sign my "Rainbow" patch on the back of my denim jacket.
3: Black Sabbath (called Heaven and Hell) not too long before Dio passed away.
4: Metallica -all 3 shows
5: all Motorhead ....say no more .walked in sober, walked out stoned!
6: Pink Floyd - technically not metal, but extemely important to me.
7: seen maiden so many times, a but sick of 'em now.
8:  judas priest - nostradamus ...the old poof blew everyone away.
9: queen ... Only months before Freddy passed away.
10: other mentions, Ian gillan band, zztop, etc.

Where does Coheed and Camria fall for everybody? They're kinda hard to nail down, but I usually categorize them as rock/metal. What ever they are, I've decided I fully love them. Even their weird tunes.

I'm not a fan of straight up metal, but I do like music with metal influences, like Tool, Faith No More, Mr Bungle and the industrial genre.  KMFDM does a great job of using metal-like guitar riffs over industrial rhythms...

I like some metal from time to time. I can't say I know much about it though. Does slipknot count as heavy metal?

(June 28, 2015 at 3:55 pm)Exian Wrote: What does everybody think of Advance and Vanquish by 3 Inches of Blood?

Why am I thinking about my wedding night now?

(June 28, 2015 at 10:43 pm)FriendlyNeighborhoodAtheist Wrote: I like some metal from time to time. I can't say I know much about it though. Does slipknot count as heavy metal?

There was this sub genre that became very popular in the early 2000s incorporating heavy grooves and even other non metal elements such as DJs, called "Nu Metal". KoRn and Limp Bizkit are rather typical, but Slipknot is also often counted among it. It became as controversial among old school metal fans as it was popular among the younger generation of new fans (the first big wave of which would have been in their early teens towards the turn of the millenium), and has a lot of haters for not being Trve. It is however definitely "Metal" albeit often not strictly "heavy metal" in the sense of classic metal styles.

(June 28, 2015 at 7:44 pm)Exian Wrote: Where does Coheed and Camria fall for everybody? They're kinda hard to nail down, but I usually categorize them as rock/metal. What ever they are, I've decided I fully love them. Even their weird tunes.

I don't really know either of the bands you mentioned, should check out

(June 29, 2015 at 2:45 am)Alex K Wrote:

(June 28, 2015 at 10:43 pm)FriendlyNeighborhoodAtheist Wrote: I like some metal from time to time. I can't say I know much about it though. Does slipknot count as heavy metal?

There was this sub genre that became very popular in the early 2000s incorporating heavy grooves and even other non metal elements such as DJs, called Nu Metal. KoRn and Limp Bizkit are rather typical, but Slipknot is also often counted among it. It became as controversial among old school metal fans as it was popular among the younger generation of new fans (the first big wave of which would have been in their early teens towards the turn of the millenium), and has a lot of haters for not being Trve. It is however definitely "Metal" albeit often not strictly "heavy metal" in the sense of classic metal styles.

Interesting, I never knew that. I heard of those guys too, some friends from a while back listened to that kind of metal and I guess it rubbed off on me a little lol. Thanks for that bit of information.

It got a *lot* of airplay and was everywhere when I went off to college, so I have some fond memories of it. I saw Slipknot once in '04 with Lamb of God, cool concert, bad acoustics...