Hey, I want to thank all of you who have contributed to this thread, I appreciate it very much. I haven't been able to check out all of the bands yet, however I know a lot of bands that have already been mentioned and I know that a lot of them are excellent. Here are the bands I heard were good and know are good from the reccomendations:
Rage, Kreator, Grave Digger, Edge of Sanity, Helloween, Anthrax, Death, Dream Theater, Into Eternity, Nevermore, Pantera, Kamelot, Jag Panzer, Stratovarius, Angra, Tool, Judas Priest, Rush, At Vance, Sinergy, Antithesis.
So I have this list of bands that I need to look at and get some c-d's from. knowing that these bands here interest me, I would like to get more recommendations based on this list and the material I mentioned before from here. Thanx again.