I guess that you're quite right about the neighbours. I wouldn't be glad if someone cranked up an evil metal amp early morning.
By the way. How's the axe fx working? It sounds pretty nice on the clips you've been posting. I'm a bit shy of these amp modelling things, but that's probably because I ran into a line6 modelling amp I had to practise on in my old band. I couldn't get a decent sound out of that thing.
But i guess it could be nice to have the possibillities to mod an amp like the vh4 that realy suits the heavy genre. According to this my problem is that I use a Musicman HD-130 which isn't the ideal amp for heavy tunes.