Heavy metal bass is the use of the bass guitar (also called "electric bass") in the rock music genres of heavy metal and hard rock.
 The bassist is part of the rhythm section in a heavy metal band, along with the drummer, rhythm guitarist and, in some bands, a keyboard player.
 The prominent role of the bass is key to the metal sound, and the interplay of bass and distorted electric guitar is a central element of metal.
 The bass guitar provides the low-end sound crucial to making the music "heavy".
 The bass plays a "...more important role in heavy metal than in any other genre of rock."
Robert Crane (born January 5, 1969 in Orange County, California) is the current bass guitarist with hard rock band Black Star Riders.
 He is also a member of Ricky Warwick's band The Fighting Hearts.
 He was previously the bassist with the band Ratt.
Whisky is a Turkish rock band founded by Kamil Özaydın in 1979.
 They are known to be the first Turkish hard rock and heavy metal band.
 The band used to rehearse in a basement in Istanbul in their early years.
 After a while, songwriter Ahmet Dağaşan joined the band and wrote more poetic lyrics for Whisky.
 Soon after, they were asked to perform at various rock festivals.
 They released the first Turkish hard rock/heavy metal album, "Babaanne" in 1986.
 The band had problems with TRT, because of its name.
 TRT didn't encourage them to advertise the name "whisky".
 Kamil Ozaydin changed their name to Yuzde yuz muzik (One Hundred Percent Music) and later on, they published their album with TRT's approval.
 The band gave their last concert in 2006 at a rock festival in Turkey.
 Their last work was the album "Biz" (We), which was released in 2009.
 Eventually the members, except for Serdar Cokuslu and Ahmet Dagasan, left the band.
Ricky Warwick (born 11 July 1966, Newtownards, County Down, Northern Ireland) is a Northern Irish musician and songwriter, and the lead singer with Black Star Riders and Thin Lizzy.
 He is also the frontman for the Scottish hard rock band The Almighty, with whom he achieved chart success in the UK throughout the 1990s, although the band is currently on hiatus.
 Warwick has released several solo albums and performed with a variety of other bands and artists, and also fronts his own band, The Fighting Hearts, to showcase his solo material.
Vincent Paul Abbott, also known as Vinnie Paul (born March 11, 1964), is an American professional drummer and producer who is best known for being a former member, and co-founder, of the heavy metal band Pantera.
 He is currently a member of supergroup Hellyeah.
 He also co-founded the heavy metal band Damageplan in 2003 with his late younger brother, Dimebag Darrell.
The following is a comprehensive discography of UFO, an English hard rock band formed in 1969.
 The band became a transitional band between early hard rock and heavy metal and the new wave of British heavy metal.
 UFO's influence was strongly felt in the 1980s heavy metal scene and they have been cited as a primary influence of Steve Harris of Iron Maiden, Kirk Hammett of Metallica, Dave Mustaine of Megadeth, Joey Tempest of Europe, Frank Hannon of Tesla, and Mike McCready of Pearl Jam, among others.
Volbeat are a Danish heavy metal band formed in Copenhagen in 2001.
 They play a fusion of rock and roll, heavy metal and rockabilly.
 They are inspired by classic rock and roll artists such as Elvis Presley and Johnny Cash, as well as modern hard rock, thrash metal, heavy metal, alternative rock and hardcore punk groups.
 Their current line-up consists of vocalist and guitarist Michael Poulsen, guitarist Rob Caggiano, drummer Jon Larsen and bassist Kaspar Boye Larsen.
 The band is signed to Dutch label Mascot Records and has released six studio albums and one DVD.
 All of their studio albums have been certified gold in Denmark.
 Their second album "Rock the Rebel/Metal the Devil" received platinum status, and their 2010 release "Beyond Hell/Above Heaven" was subject to widespread international critical acclaim, receiving double platinum in Denmark, platinum in Finland and Germany, and gold in the United States, Sweden and Austria.
 Volbeat's sixth album entitled "Seal the Deal & Let's Boogie" was released worldwide on 3 June 2016.
Girish and The Chronicles (commonly abbreviated as GATC) is an Indian Hard rock/Heavy Metal band from Gangtok, Sikkim, formed in 2009, by the Singer-Songwriter/Vocalist Girish Pradhan.
 Presently based in Bengaluru, Karnataka, GATC is a four-member band, known for their electrifying live shows.
 GATC has been touring the country and overseas for more than 5 years now, although the line-up has existed since 2006 but was known as Revolving Barrel.
 After having released numerous singles online since 2009, The band released its first official album on June 2014 under Universal Music Group.
 The band is known for its peculiar Classic Hard Rock/Heavy Metal sound influenced from the bands of'70s/'80s era.
 GATC is known to be the first and the only band from Sikkim to ever have travelled/performed overseas and toured on a national scale.
Rock Hard (also RockHard) is a German music magazine published in Dortmund, Germany, with other language editions in various countries worldwide, including France, Spain, Brazil/Portugal, Italy and Greece.
 The magazine contains reports, interviews, specials, reviews, news and all other content regarding hard rock and heavy metal music.
 Next to the German edition of "Metal Hammer" it is the leading magazine for metal and hard rock in Germany.
 German news magazine "Der Spiegel" called it the "Zentralorgan" ("Central organ") of the heavy metal fans in Germany, others dubbed it a "Kultzeitschrift" ("cult magazine").
 Founded by Holger Stratmann, it has published in Germany more than 300 issues since 1983 and since 1989 has become monthly.
 "Rock Hard" magazine is independent from major media companies.
 Its slogan is "critical, competent, independent".
 Since 1990, the magazine employees have been also organizing the Rock Hard Festival, which is held annually in Gelsenkirchen since 2003 - on the Pentecost weekend.
 The festival is streamed by news magazine "Spiegel Online", the internet edition of "Der Spiegel", and by "WDR" television under the "Rockpalast" label.
The Almighty are a hard rock/heavy metal band, from Glasgow in Scotland who formed in 1988.
 Three of the founding members, Ricky Warwick, Stump Monroe and Floyd London were friends who met at school.
 Although the band members musical roots were in punk, The Almighty adopted a more heavy metal/hard rock oriented musical direction in their early years.
 Later albums saw the band's musical style move towards the band members' original punk roots.

Question: What artists front his own band, The Fighting Hearts, and also co-founded the hard rock/heavy metal band The Almighty?
Answer: Ricky Warwick