I have lots of interests: Music, all types, but inde bands, hard core, metal, rock, and some emo and punk as well as alternative bands, are my favs, live shows, scuba diving, swimming, boating, billiards, movies, magic, wicca, coffee houses, a good party or going to clubs once in awhile in New Jersey, New York and Philly. Camping (I have a 28 ft motor home I enjoy using often) I enjoy reading, poetry, sci-fi, gourmet cooking, dinning out, Atlantic City casinos, travel, the beach and boardwalk, chillen with friends, shopping, photography, animals, I have three dogs, several cats and fish and I collect swords, gargoyles, dragons, and wizards.
Music:
Working in the Music Business for many years as a PROFESSIONAL ARTIST MANAGER, I have had both the privilege and pleasure of working with many great and very talented artist, TO ALL MY FRIENDS AND CONTACTS IN THE MUSIC BUSINESS - ROCK ON!
Below are what I fell are some of the best and most influential heavy metal bands and albums. There is absolutely nothing scientific or factual about the order that the artist appear in below; it is simply my opinion Not everyone will agree with my choices, the order of the list or all the artists on it, and that's fine, I make no apologies for having an opinion and sharing it with you!
1. Metallica - Master of Puppets #2. Iron Maiden - Number of the Beast #3. Metallica - Ride the Lightning
#4. AC/DC - Back in Black
#5. Slayer - Reign in Blood
#6. Iron Maiden - Powerslave
#7. Iron Maiden - Piece of Mind
#8. DIO - HOLY DIVER
#9. Slayer - Seasons in the Abyss
#10. Judas Priest - SCREAMING FOR VENGEANCE
Judas Priest -Painkiller, Megadeth - Peace Sells…But Who's Buying?, Black Sabbath - Paranoid, Slayer - South of Heaven, Queensryche - Operation Mindcrime, Guns n' Roses - Appetite For Destruction, Motley Crue - Shout at the Devil, Judas Priest - Defenders of the Faith, Megadeth - Rust in Peace, Black Sabbath - Black Sabbath, AC/DC - Highway To Hell, Ozzy Osbourne - Blizzard of Ozz, Metallica - Kill 'Em All, Judas Priest - British Steel, W.A.S.P. - W.A.S.P., Slayer - South of Heaven, Black Sabbath - Paranoid, Iron Maiden - Somewhere in Time, Dio - Last in Line, Helloween - Keeper of the 7 Keys, Judas Priest - Hell Bent For Leather, Van Halen - Van Halen, Motley Crue - Too Fast For Love, Accept - Balls to the Wall, Iron Maiden - Killers, Ozzy Osbourne - Diary of a Madman, Slayer - Show No Mercy, Black Sabbath - Sabbath Bloody Sabbath, Motorhead - Ace of Spades, Judas Priest - Sad Wings of Destiny, Judas Priest - Stained Class, Iron Maiden - Iron Maiden, Anthrax - Among the Living, Twisted Sister - Stay Hungry, Black Sabbath - Heaven & Hell, W.A.S.P. - The Last Command, Rainbow - Long Live Rock and Roll, Def Leppard - Pyromania, Skid Row - Slave to the Grind, Megadeth - So Far, So Good...So What!, Megadeth - Countdown to Extinction, Savatage - Hall of the Mountain King, King Diamond - Abigail, Dismember - Massive Killing Capacity, Halford - Resurrection, Black Sabbath - Master of Reality, Testament - Practice What You Preach, Led Zeppelin - IV, Mercyful Fate - Melissa, Sepultura - Beneath The Remains, Bruce Dickinson - Accident of Birth, Scorpions - Blackout, Slayer - Hell Awaits, Venom - Black Metal, Van Halen - 1984, Ratt - Out of the Cellar, Mercyful Fate - Don't Break the Oath, Iced Earth - Something Wicked This Way Comes, Blind Guardian - Nightfall In Middle Earth, AC/DC - Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap, Metallica - And Justice For All..., King Diamond - Them, Blind Guardian - Imaginations from the Other Side, HammerFall - Glory To The Brave, Van Halen - Van Halen II, Overkill - The Years of Decay, Kiss - Destroyer, Exodus - Bonded by Blood, Black Sabbath - Mob Rules, Skid Row - Skid Row, Megadeth - Killing is My Business...and Business is Good, Testament - The Legacy, Pantera - Cowboys From Hell, Venom - Welcome To Hell, Twisted Sister - Under the Blade, Dokken - Tooth & Nail, Accept - Restless & Wild, AC/DC - Let There Be Rock, HammerFall - Legacy of Kings, Saxon - Wheels of Steel, Manowar - Kings of Metal, Twisted Sister - You Can't Stop Rock & Roll, Scorpions - Love At First Sting, Van Halen - Fair Warning, W.A.S.P. - The Crimson Idol, Kreator - Pleasure To Kill, Death - Individual Thought Patterns.
Some Hot Death Metal Bands:
Abigor, Abomination, Abruptum, Absurd
Abyss, the Acerbus, Agathocles
Adramelech, Adversary,Amebix Amorphis,
Ancient, Ancient Rites, Angelcorpse,
Antaeus, Arcturus, Asgard, Asphyx, Atheist
Atrocity, At the Gates, Autopsy, Auzhia,
Avenger, Averse, Sefira, Axis of Advance,
Baphomet, Bathory, Behemoth, Beherit,
Belial, Black Goat, Blasphemy,Blood,
Bolt Thrower, Brutal Truth, Cadaver,
Candlemass, Capharnaum, Carcass, Cartilage,
Cathedral, Celtic Frost, Centinex, Ceremonium,
Christ Agony, Cianide, Corrosion of Conformity,
Cryptic, Slaughter, Cryptopsy, Dark Funeral,
DarkThrone, Dark Tranquility, Death, Death Strike,
Deceased, Deeds of Flesh, Deicide, Demigod, Demoncy,
Demonic, Deteriorate, Dismember, Dissection, Drogheda,
Enslaved, Entombed, Eucharist, Exhumed,
Fleshcrawl, Frozen Shadows, Godflesh, God Macabre,
Gorgoroth, Gorguts, Gotmoor, Graveland, Grotesque,
Gutted, Hades, Hellhammer, Hemdale, Hetsheads,
Hypocrisy, Ildjarn, Immolation, Immortal, Impaled Nazarene, Imprecation, Incantation, Infester, Infernum,
Inquisition, Katatonia, Kilcrops, Krieg, Kvist, Lepra,
Lord Wind, Luciferion, Magus, Massacra, Massacre, Mayhem,
Merciless, Mesrine, Molested, Monastery, Monstrosity,
Morbid Angel, Morpheus Descends, Mortem, Mortiis, Mortuary, Mysticum, Mythic,
Mütiilation
Napalm Death,
Necromantia,
Necromass,
Necrophobic,
Nox Intempesta,
Nuclear Assault,
Nuclear Death,
Num Skull,
Obituary,,
Oppressor,
Pentagram,,
Pervertum,
Pestilence,
Possessed,
Powermad,
Profanatica,
Prong,
Repulsion,
Resuscitator,
Revenant,
Rigor Mortis,
Rise,
Rotting Christ,
Sacramentum,
Sadistic Intent,
Sarcophagus,
Seance,
Sentenced,
Sepultura,
Septic Flesh,
Setherial
Sinister,
Skepticism,
Slayer,
Sodom,
Summon,
Summoning,
Suffocation,
Swordmaster,
Tartaros,
Terrorizer,
Thanatopsis,
Thorns,
Throne of Ahaz,
Torchure,
Torturer,
Troll,
Unanimated,
Under The Pagan Moon,
Ungod,
Unleashed
Usurper,
Vader,
Voivod,
Watain.
