Thanks for posting Den you've put a lot of this stuff straight--though your tastes in Belfast differ somewhat (though not a lot)from what was popular stateside. As to my comment about "inane" it was meant with deep affection and in the best possible sense--I mentored a fair number of aspiring metal guitarists, and, though I seldom admit it, had a really raw high power band in the early seventies, even before people called it heavy metal(people called it just "heavy" music first)--

The thing about metal related music is that, even though it is very commercial, it is mostly really well constructed music, built from interesting musical ideas, and full of great guitar playing--it is real "live" music, which is to say, music created to be played live, instead of music that is created in the editing room to be good background music for a slick video--