Get your patches!

Note (1): for information about importing these samples as patches into your soundcard, synth, whatever, please refer to its documentation. If it has a reverb setting, I recommend you set it a little high.
Note (2): you'll need a sound card (duh!) in order to listen to the recorded MIDI files, as well as a RealAudio player. Visit Real's site here
Forever a small collection

Drum samples:

The Anthrax samples were recorded from Volume 8 and "Poison my eyes"
The Dream theater samples were recorded from Awake
The Megadeth samples were recorded from Countdown to extinction
The Whitesnake sample was recorded from Slip of the tongue
means: why haven't you downloaded this f*&$%*$( sample yet???

I sincerely recommend you go out and buy all the albums mentioned above if you feel your life has no meaning.

Anthrax's Volume 8 snare
Anthrax's "Poison my eyes" snare (new)
Anthrax's "Poison my eyes" bass drum (new)
Dream Theater's bass drum
Dream Theater's floor tom
Dream Theater's high-medium tom
Dream Theater's high tom
Dream theater's snare drum
Megadeth's bass drum
Megadeth's snare 1
Megadeth's snare 2
Megadeth's tom
Whitesnake's snare

Listen to a recorded MIDI file played with Megadeth's bass drum, tom and snare 1 (the Sweating Bullets intro):

in Real Audio format

This collection needs your help to grow.
If you've got any samples that can be used on composing rock and metal songs, please E-mail me.
And, gosh, I'm starting to get sick of drum sounds.... does anyone have a distorted keyboard sample?