I really hate when people who do not play music talk about music and try to insert technical details they do not understand. Saying Slayer's Stain of Mind is slower than Coal Chamber's Loco is just plain wrong. In this case Slayer is at 244 bpm and Coal Chamber is at 134 bpm, more than 100 bpm slower.

the sheet music, listen to the songs with a metronome or learn to play it yourself, its obvious.

Many of these bands are still together or reunited. Shadows Fall toured recently and are heading into the studio to do a new album.

Trixter isn't active now but Steve Brown has a line of signature guitars through Guitar Fetish and he is the understudy for Vivian Campbell in Def Leppard when his cancer treatments prevent him from playing.