I understand what Dread is trying to say. I was never a huge metal head but there was definitely a different vibe to the metal of the early 70's than what you hear today. "Heavy Metal" to me will always be bands like Black Sabbath, Blue Oyster Cult, Iron Butterfly, Judas Priest and even AC/DC. They created the genre and then the hair bands came along and tried to make everything generic. I really don't "get" a lot of the stuff today that is being passed off as metal. Speed Metal? Might as well be some of the techno pop that I can't listen to either. While I still listen to a radio station that plays alternative music (including some modern metal), I will still revert to my 70's punk collections when I'm home alone but that's a whole different debate on what happened to punk over the years.