Many artists and pieces I admire, but my current fave is a NWOBHM band known as Holocaust. My God, though...their CDs are rare as Hell!! I've been looking for ages for their "Covenant" album, which has their masterpiece "The Battle of Soaring Woodhelven", which, I must say, puts my Metallica material to shame! Speaking of which, their cover of "Master of Puppets" was also brilliant.