I don't even know who Taskforce are.

As for Death Metal my experience is primarily with Death and Malevolent Creation, and a little Athiest. I'll take another look into it eventually.

As for Herman Li, I could listen to him soloing all day. I prefer guitarists like Marty Friedman to this newer generation of mad shredders, but I've been playing guitar for a couple years now and I'm slowly but surely getting the hang of shredding at the moment and it's great listening to madly fast stuff like that. I like Dragonforce because it takes the guitar madness and mixes it up a little with some vocal interludes that stop it getting dull like I find Satch and Vai type material does.

And back on the subject of black metal, I don't like it much because it takes the fast, heavy metal and tries to put an atmosphere behind it. Speed and Thrash are great because it's balls out rock and roll, Black Metal just feels like it sucks the liveliness out of it a bit by messing about with a great formula. Meh, each to their own, I could listen to that new Jem single "Just a Ride" and go straight to Megadeth.

And it's nice to have someone into all this metal knocking about here.