Biggest Loss

Vic wrote: http://uk.imdb.com/title/tt2120779/ Perpetual Burn is by far my favorite guitar album. Altitudes man... The album he did painstakingly note-for-note, by moving the mouse with his head and making the click by opening his jaw (imagine writing the score of an 11 minute piece like this), "Perspectives" makes me a better human being just by listening to it. The End of the Beginning is such a masterpiece and Michael Lee Firkins (a GREAT guitarist) really does justice to Jason's composition. I love Jason Becker man. Once I wrote a fanboy gushing all over mail to him, a little less than ten years ago,  and I got a personal reply. That made my decade.

Out of those, I've personally seen Cliff Burton, Ronnie James Dio, Randy Rhoads, Jon Lord, & Gary Moore in concert.

I'm a huge Alice In Chains fan. So Staley's death is the one I mourn the most.

Nevertheless, in terms of "biggest loss" as the title suggests, Chuck Schuldiner is the obvious choice for me. I mean, he died right while he was artistically at his peak, making albums arguably increasingly better than the previous ones.

Just imagine, what could he come up with after albums like Symbolic, or The Sound Of Perseverance?. Such a pity  we'll never know that

Not an easy vote to cast, personally Chuck, Quorthon, Cliff, Randy and Criss Oliva are all big losses to the metal world for me but I've chosen Chuck.