I've been looking to expand my hard rock collection. Admittingly I'm influenced by the '70's brand of hard rock. With overplay however I've grown tired of stuff and have delved into some of the newer head bangers music.
So I bought 2 volumes of Head Bangers Ball and I was Rocking for like 4 hours last night. Some of its pretty raunchy and demonic sounding and I don't listen to that crap. But other stuff sounds down right powerful and it fills my need to Rock!
Sadly however none of these new bands have guitar players that know how to play anything but power chords. Gone are the guitar gods like Ritchie Blackmore, Angus Young who could play lead and crank out some awesome solos. Maybe someday some young upstart band will finally get what real music talent is and we will see the re-emergence of great rock guitarists.