Name: Kurt Morgan Skjæringrud

Age: 32

Status: Married, 2 daughters and a stepson

Location: Sarpsborg, Norway

Occupation: Autopaint/refinish worker

Interests/hobbies: METAL, listener, collector, addict!, Internet

Website: www.metal-metropolis.com
http://www.myspace.com/kmorg
http://www.myspace.com/metalmetropolis

Favorite metal genre: Power metal (both US and Euro)

Favorite Bands: Savatage, KISS, Stryper, Vengeance rising, Believer, Nocturnal Rites, Nevermore, Hammerfall, Iron Maiden, Barren Cross, Extol, Metallica, Angra, Grave Digger, TNT, Iced Earth, Queensryche, Dio, Lethal and hundreds of others....

Famous last words: Metal forever!

Name: Boštjan Sovdat

Age: 19

Status: Single

Location: Blanca / Ljubljana (college), Slovenia, Europe

Occupation: Student

Interests/hobbies: Metal, table tennis , Ski jumps (just observer), dogs!

Website: www.myspace.com/sovdat

Favorite metal genre: Thrash metal

Favorite Bands:
Metallica, Slayer, Sepultura, Forbidden, Anthrax, Overkill, Testament, Annihilator, Razor, Kreator, Tankard, Hypocrisy, Judas Priest, Artillery, Heathen, Vio-Lence, Laaz Rockit and many many more!

Famous last words: Be all, end all!

Name: Wes Lewis

Age: 33

Status:Married with one daughter

Location: Kentucky,USA

Occupation: GM parts consultant

Interests/hobbies: Metal.collecting,listening,playing drums

Website: n/a

Favorite metal genre: Thrash baby

Favorite Bands:Exodus,Overkill,Stryper,Living Sacrifice,Iron Maiden,Twisted Sister

Famous last words:I havent spoken those yet

Name: Kieran O'Loughlin

Age: 30

Status: Soon to be Engaged (pray for me)

Location: Blackwater, Co. Wexford, Ireland

Occupation: Work for a Haulahge Company. (drive a truck)

Interests/hobbies: Soccer, Building up my Metal Collection.

Website: in developement

Favorite metal genre: Thrash

Favorite Bands: Burning Point, Cinderella, Grave Digger, Great White, Messiahs Kiss, Overkill, Rebellion, Savatage, WASP

Favorite Quote: Livin' on Luck (Threw this one in myself!!)

Famous last words: If it wasn't for Bad luck I'd have no luck at all.

Name: Heath

Name: John Boden

Age: 36

Status: Married, 2 Sons

Location: Harrisburg, PA

Occupation: Bakery Manager/Supervisor for grocery chain

Interests/hobbies: Music, reading, horror films, Family, writing my odd poetry (a sample of which can be read in my myspace blogs)

Website: www.myspace.com/shineynobuttons

Favorite metal genre: Glam/sleaze/hair metal...but I love nearly all of it.

Favorite Bands: Kiss, Alice Cooper, Dogs D'Amour, Wildhearts, Kix, Saxon, Acid Bath, Dio, Iron Maiden, Lizzy Borden, Blaz-On, Ultimatum, Believer, Brass Kitten, Ratt....

Famous last words: a smirk

:halford:

Name: Kurt Morgan Skjæringrud, Jr.

Age: 6

Status: Single, but I am heavily involved with my kindergarden teacher

Location: Sarpsborg, Norway

Occupation: Hello - I'm 6!

Interests/hobbies: Admiring my dad, hot-wheels, flicking the occasional booger at the mail-lady.

Website: http://truefire.com/littlekidsrock/littlekidsrock.html

Favorite metal genre: Grind/crust

Favorite Bands: alot of bands my dad won't let me say out loud - oh yeah, I LOVE "The Lead", too!

Famous last words: But, I HAD to go!!

Forever the comedian there Kurt Jr.

Now I wanna play:


Name: John John's John

Age: never knew her

Status: like a turd in a bunch-bowl

Location: surfing the toilet waves

Occupation: Holy diver

Interests/hobbies: body cavity odors

Website: http://smellmyfart.com

metal genre: poopgrind

Favorite Bands: Butthole Surfers

Famous last words: the smell of victory!

@ kmorg

Well, I DO like the Butthole Surfers....

Name: Randy Alan Michaud

Age: 39

Status: Happily married and we have 1 son.

Location: Phoenix, Arizona, USA

Occupation: Husband/Father/Musician/Social Worker

Interests/hobbies: Music (listening, collecting, playing, writing, recording); Biking, Reading; Writing (lyrics, poetry, prose, fiction); Dogs & Cats; any OCD or anal-retentive endeavor...

Websites:
http://www.trogdawn.net
http://www.myspace.com/troglodytedawn
http://www.myspace.com/trogdawn
http://www.myspace.com/christiandoomalliance

Favorite metal genre: DOOM, you fool!
(I also like classic hard rock & classic prog rock, classic metal & NWOBHM, ambient/electronic, punk/hardcore, blues and classical)

Favorite Bands: Black Sabbath, Place of Skulls, Judas Priest, Halford, U.D.O, Diamond Head, Saxon, UFO, Thin Lizzy, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Tangerine Dream, Brian Eno, Jean Michel Jarre, Wendy Carlos, Mike Oldfield, Aphex Twin, Alice Cooper, Uriah Heep, Atomic Rooster, Bang, My Silent Wake, Attitude Adjustment, Black Flag, Fear, GBH, Dead Kennedys, Bad Brains, Cro-Mags, Misfits, Led Zeppelin, Kate Bush, Spirit Caravan, The Hidden Hand, The Obsessed, Saint Vitus, Trouble, Rose, Goliath, David Benson, Sheavy, Starchild, Yes, ELP, Jethro Tull, King Crimson...

Favorite Friends' Bands: Ultimatum, Tykkus, Sweet Cicada, HypNoGoG, Troglodyte Dawn (that's me!)

Famous Last Words: What happens if I push this button?

Name: Eric Hutton

Age: 38

Status: Married with 2 kids

Location: Leechburg PA USA

Occupation: Warehouse Manager

Interests/hobbies: Music (collecting and listening),watching pro football (GO STEELERS !!),remodeling my house

Favorite metal genre: power and thrash

Favorite Bands: KISS,Rage,Overkill,Metal Church,Vicious Rumors,Iron Maiden,Judas Priest,Testament

Name: Serena

Age: 40

Status: Married, 3 daughters and 1 son

Location: Bardstown, Ky. - Bourbon Capitol of the World

Occupation: Warranty Administrator at a GM Dealership

Interests/hobbies: theatre, reading, movies, baseball (particularly NY Yankees and Cincinnati Reds), Jeopardy!, Mathcounts, 4-H, all kinds of music, and whatever my kids are into at the moment

Favorite metal genre: the old stuff

Favorite Bands: Def Leppard, AC/DC, Nazareth, Krokus, Van Halen, Poison, Motley Crue, Scorpions and my very favorite of all Tina Turner and Rod Stewart (do I belong here?)

Famous last words: I'll act nicer when you act smarter.

Name: Scott Waters

Age: still 30-something, at least for a couple more months.

Status: Married, 2 teenage children.

Location: New Mexico, USA

Occupation: color corrector/electronic prepress

Interests/hobbies: METAL! Ultimatum (more than a hobby, but since it's not my occupation, it fits here)
Collecting CDs, records, metal memorabilia esp. signature guitar picks and 8x10 promo photos

Websites:
http://www.nolifetilmetal.com
http://www.myspace.com/ultmetal
http://www.ultimatum.net

Favorite metal genre: Classic metal, thrash, 70's hard rock, doom, power metal, progressive metal and rock

Favorite Bands: Ultimatum
Aerosmith, Ted Nugent, Angel, Thin Lizzy, Kiss, Alice Cooper, Motorhead, Judas Priest, Dio, Anthrax, Hirax, Stryper, Hammerfall, UFO, Mortification, Iron Maiden, Iced Earth, Nevermore, Tourniquet, Vengeance Rising, Grave Digger, Accept, U.D.O., among many others.

Famous last words: Go Scorps!

Name: Ben Tosh

Age: 28

Status: Married, 2 sons and 1 daughter

Location: just outside of Memphis, Tennessee, USA

Occupation: Student (currently looking for a job)

Interests/hobbies: Collecting CDs, reading, playing video games (for PC, PS2 or XboX360), travelling

Website:
http://www.freewebs.com/sideshowdisaster
http://www.myspace.com/sideshowdisaster

Favorite metal genre: THRASH!

Favorite Bands: Overkill, Kreator, Sodom, Tankard, Judas Priest, Iron Maiden, Coroner, Exodus, Phalanx, Demolition Hammer, Equinox (Norway), Vulture, Slammer, Mortification, Believer, Ultimatum, Prestige, Defiance, Obituary, Massacre, Bolt Thrower, Anthrax, Megadeth, United, LawShed, Eldritch (Japan), Intruder, and many, many more...

Famous last words: I wasn't thinking...

Name - Scott Douglas

Age - 32 (05-1974)

Occupation - Firefighter/EMT- I

Status - Married with two girls - 6 and 3

Location - Abilene, TX

Interests - Metal, Reading, Movies, Weightlifting, Strongman (watching only, I'm feeble), my family!!, trains (real and model) most sports

Website: http://www.myspace.com/scottmitchell74

Favorite Metal genre - Powermetal and classic straight-ahead metal

Favorite bands -Bride, Mortification, Deliverance, Rob Rock, Masterplan, Elvenking, Wuthering Heights, Blind Guardian, anything "Ripper" Owens, Sonata Arctica, Dark Moor, Falconer, Impellitteri, Ensiferum, Gamma Ray, Iron Maiden, Dio, Tourniquet, Last Tribe, Firewind, Brainstorm, Die Happy, Vengeance Rising, Paramaecium, Hank Sr., The Cranberries

Favorite quote - "I promise, I will NEVER die!"

Name: Arttie Parker

Age: 36

Status: Married with baby number 1 due in August

Location: Nebraska, USA

Occupation: Counselor for troubled teens

Interests/hobbies: Bodybuilding, powerlifting, the Kansas City Royals baseball team, all things Husker, pro-wrestling, and of course CD COLLECTING and HEAVY METAL! I am also a columnist for www.TNAHeadlines.com

Website: www.christianmetalrealm.com
http://www.myspace.com/christianmetalrealm
http://www.myspace.com/arttiethe1manparty
http://christianmetalrealm.niceboard.com

Favorite metal genre: Hair/glam/sleaze followed by thrash

Favorite Bands: GREAT WHITE, TESTAMENT, Ratt, Kix, Tesla, Ultimatum, LA Guns, Guardian, WASP, Erotic Suicide, Neon Cross, Barren Cross, old Metallica, TNT, Iced Earth, One Bad Pig, Queensryche, Dio, Def Leppard, Stage Dolls, Firehouse...this list could go on for days...

Famous last words: My signature says it all...



Arttie

Name: Ken

Age: 31

Status: Single, Divwhorced

Location: Boston, MA

Occupation: Computer Nerd, Writer, Musician

Interests/hobbies: Music (collecting, writing/recording, listening, etc.), writing, cartooning

Website: None at the moment

Favorite metal genre: 80s

Favorite Bands: Def Leppard, and a million others...

Famous last words: Hey! You're not Jesus!

Name: Abraham Blanco

Age: 26

Status: Single, one son who doesnt know me (Will change that someday)

Location: Houston. TX

Occupation: CT/MRI Service Engineer

Interests/hobbies: Music, Video Games, Fantasy / Horror anything, Collecting DVDs, Anime

Website: n/a

Favorite metal genre: Power Metal probably

Favorite Bands: Iced Earth, Mago de Oz, Angeles Del Infierno, The Minibosses. From there depends on my mood but my taste cover a wide area (Salsa music to Blues and back to Thrash and Death Metal)

Famous last words: "My choice is to stay in this fort and die for my country, fighting as long as breath should remain in my body. This I will do even if you leave me alone. Do as you think best, but no man can die with me without affording me comfort at the moment of my death."

-Last know words of William Travis-

Name: Ty

Age: 18

Status: Single

Location: California (for now)

Occupation: Student

Interests/hobbies: music, hockey, reading, metal, every other genre other then rap, and hockey.

Website: http://www.myspace.com/tjsmith

Favorite metal genre: Power, Classic, and Thrash

Favorite Bands:
Metallica, Megadeth, Scorpions, Iron Maiden, Guns N Roses, Rush, (and non-metal) Collective Soul, Pink Floyd, Counting Crows, Nickel Creek, Nickelback

Famous last words: Remember the Alamo!

Name: Dale Huffman

Age: 42

Status: Married, 5 daughters and a stepson and 3 Granddaughters

Location: Anchorage,Alaska

Occupation: Manager at Safeway

Interests/hobbies:Spending time with my family, Fishing and a collector of Christian music cd

Website: http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendid=6992010

Favorite metal genre: Power metal

Favorite Bands: Believer, Barren Cross, Extol, SAint, Utlimatum,Stricken,Neon Cross,Big D and a ton more

Famous last words: Metal Lives forever!

Name: Bryan Bolin

Age: 21

Status: Have a girlfriend, she has two kids, and we have one on the way! :)

Location: Sparks, NV

Occupation: Albertson's - Grocery manager

Interests/hobbies: Music, cd collecting

Website: www.myspace.com/bryanlovestrek

Favorite metal genre: Thrash and Power

Favorite Bands: Anthrax, Annihilator, Galactic Cowboys, Megadeth, Dream Theater, Spiral Architect

Other Boards I post at: The mighty CMR, Vengeance Warpath

Name: John May

Age:29

Status: Married, no kids

Location: Pine Bluff, Arkansas

Occupation: Carpenter

Interest/hobbies: collecting metal, wrestling, role playing games

Website: http://www.myspace.com/swordoftheheretic

Favorite Genres: Power, speed and thrash

Favorite Bands: Deliverance, Mortification, Transfigural Form, Ultimatum, Rammstein, Megadeth, Savatage, Scorpions