Hey Fusion

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sMQUFvv0WRY

You have to include Revelations its pretty much necessary. Seeing Drifter or Twilight zone would be good too.

Nocturnus would be fun

5: Looking Down The Cross
4: My Last Words
3: Poison Was The Cure
2: Rattlehead
1: Good Mourning Black Friday

4th Clive is amazing

Charts like these are always fascinating to look at but I've yet to see one with a lot of accuracy.

Lol don't worry about it just kidding, I'm on an odd sleep schedule due to summer so that explains my late night ninja-ing.

that hurts

++ Wolves in the Throne Room, Iron Maiden
+ In Flames, Mastadon
~ Dinosaur Junior, Opeth

Not too familiar with a decent number of those bands 8/10 on the ones I do know
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Glad to see you're taking the initiative

A few songs by the three biggest traditional metal bands I would highly suggest buying/downloading albums in order to gain the full experience

Iron...

I emailed Cynic

Maiden easily, megadeth had 4 extremely good albums...maiden had about 10. If I were to compare my favorite albums by each band Killers beats Killing is my business by a long shot. That being said...

Traced in Air took me a little longer to fully appreciate I think you should give it several more listens, personally I find them of equal greatness but in different ways. Each track on Focus is...

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I just recently got into Sonic Youth over the past few weeks and have been reading a bit about the black metal scene with the recent rumors of...

Gordion Knot has to be on the list. I also like Nocturnus a lot (I seem to be the only one) although not super progressive they have enough elements to make it on the list.

I wouldn't consider it a demo but Traced in Air is certainly more of a full concept. Partially for that reason I think stuff off of Focus would be more appropriate for RB.

12 year olds are annoying by nature (for the most part) and if they are into Dragon Force now they will probably outgrow them just like you did.

I say if they are exposing people to metal then...

60s: Black Sabbath
70s: Judas Priest
80s: Iron Maiden
90s: Cynic
00s: Wolves in the Throne Room

Although I'll admit I'm not that familiar with too many 60s and 00 artists

Seeing BFD with a friend several years ago was an all around terrible experience for me, the Foo Fighters are incredibly boring. Also Lauren Harris opening for Iron Maiden, I understand that shes his...

Its almost impossible on most studio tracks but they each have fairly distinct soloing styles. On the old songs live I think Dave's tone is fairly prominent.