I was a metalhead in the early eighties, still list to the old-school stuff, from Priest, and even the pop-like leppard occaisionally. I find that GWAR's "scumdogs" was the peak of the genre.

Nowadays I listen to "doom", like Electric Wizard, Bongzilla, or sheavy, high on fire, and other heavy riff stuff like that. I don't buy albums anymore, so I'm always trying to find anything that sounds good free on mp3, of course.