AlSymerz

Toxic Holocaust

Toxic Holocaust - Reaper's Grave

Holy Moses - Queen Of Siam

Haha, but he keeps telling me he is my only choice when it comes to voting this year.

Quintuplet Unicorns Aggravate Kenny SPUD

Addictive - Man-Made Act Of God

I wouldn't reckon that it's a huge stretch to assume he had some knowledge of their future music, maybe not as an entire song, but definitely in part. Most bands have stuff floating around, some of it doesn't fit, some of it needs work, some just sits for years until someone remembers it's there. He may not have had enough input to deserve a credit, and Lars doesn't hand out credits for free, but he was part of a band that did have a future, to think he had no part in that future seems a bit silly.

Death Angel - Act III

While I did choose quite a bit of Aussie stuff it's mostly because I spent so long working with those bands and the music kind of got ground into my brain. We'd often be listening to new music by these bands live on stage long before we got the cassettes in the truck. Sometimes we'd have sound board recordings, other times we just didn't have time but we usually at least heard the band playing. So for more than a decade my brain just got pounded with Aussie pub rock and hard rock. Most of the lists I've done over the years have been separated as metal and not metal so my lines of hard rock are probably more blurred through laziness than others. However thinking about that list now there is probably some I'd remove and some I'd add. There really should be something in there from bands like ZZ Top, maybe Van Halen and probably others I forgot. But then I'm sure if I completely redid the list every day for a week I'd have 5 different lists.

Buffalo - Volcanic Rock

Desecrator

Screaming In Churches (SIC)

Free Beer! Surf's Up! - Alkoholizer

Dammit, there goes my aspirations for life

Incubus - Beyond the Unknown

LOG put me to sleep as well, but not because I enjoy listening to them. Last time I gave them a chance I couldn't get through their discography, I got up to Wrath and just couldn't find anything interesting enough to keep going. Maybe they are good and my old timers ears are missing something I'll regret but I guess I'll have to live with it because I've tried multiple times and always had the same result.

Even as an honourable mention your addition of Spirit Caravan broadens "hard rock" so much that I'd have trouble coming up with definitive 25. Given there does seem to be some room for personal fluidity with genres my list probably looks something like this based on similar lists created for other forums and despite some maybe not being 'hard rock' enough for others. Placements are far from definitive though. The Angels – Skin And Bone AC/DC – High Voltage Rose Tattoo – Scared For Life The Screaming Jets - All for One Skyhooks – Living In The 70’s Cold Chisel - Circus Animals Jimmy Barnes - Freight Train Heart Airborne – Breakin’ Outta Hell The Poor – Who Cares Hoodoo Gurus – Crank Rose Tattoo – Assault And Battery The Angels - Beyond Salvation Choirboys – Big Bad Noise Meat Loaf - Bat Out Of Hell Buffalo – Volcanic Rock Guns n' Roses - Appetite for Destruction Alice Cooper – Trash Queen – Sheer Heart Attack KISS - Destroyer Deep Purple - Deep Purple in Rock Pink Floyd - The Dark Side of the Moon Kyuss – Blues For The Red Sun Creedence Clearwater Revival – Cosmos Factory Led Zeppelin – III Red Hot Chili Peppers – Blood Sex Sugar Magik

60 year old metalheads...I hope I never come across any of those

Extinction AD - Chaos Collision Carnage Propaganda

I used to break headphones in bed so then I moved to ear buds. I really only listen to music when I go to sleep (as opposed to falling asleep while music is on in the car, or in the room), when it's really windy. The noise of the house banging in the wind shits me so I put music on. For going to sleep I don't give a crap about quality, I use a $10 MP3 player and some $2 ear buds. I'm over any fears of falling asleep and strangling myself with the cord, or doing any damage to my ears because I know the buds fall out pretty easy.

Don't know what it's like in other countries but Easter Chocolate is the best chocolate in Australia because it comes with such a short used by date and the stores have to get rid of it quicker. No idea why Easter Eggs, Easter Bunnies and the like only have about 3 months store shelf life where as blocks have 6 or more, but it's good for sales.

Black Mass - Feast At The Forbidden Tree

Yeah I think I did it all wrong. I hit mid life and slowed down, got off the road, stopped driving trucks and started sleeping in a bed every night. Then I got lazy and now I'm old, tired and I started riding a bike. I should have just accepted age and gone straight to yoga and bingo!

I saw that when it first came out about 5 months ago and the guy claimed he was just fan. But that is one serious fan who wants to sit on Lars' lap and take a shit. My bet is that he sits backwards. It's a great purchase for the Danish museum though.

It was a mistake, they didn't do it! The blind witness was not even in the country when the crime happened. Their lawyer was useless and they ended up with 20 years in solitary. Present In Startling Solitude PUFF