hey who's your fav band???

[drummer344]

If you want to know who my band is it's ACDC

pick one

ACDC

SOULSIRKUS

D12

backstreetboys (who in my book suck)

[cjcdrums]

Uhh... do we HAVE to pick one? Or can we name our ACTUAL favorite bands?

[drummer344]

Uhh... do we HAVE to pick one? Or can we name our ACTUAL favorite bands?
just name your fav and pick one :D

[jimi]

oh right, we have to pick one, hmmm let me see ... ok i got one! i got one!

I LOVE THE BACKSTREET BOYS!!!!! never seen anyone so musical since Mozart

[cjcdrums]

How about the ACDC12BackSIRKUSBoys? They're pretty good!

[drummer344]

How about the ACDC12BackSIRKUSBoys? They're pretty good!
you are a nut

[cjcdrums]

you are a nut
That's what they tell me! :D

[jimi]

you are a nut

yeah sorry buyers, this one doesnt come with a case, mint condition all the same ....

[James G.]

out of your list I would have to plug for ac/dc, however the musical genius and sheer poetry of the backstreet boys did prove tempting why do you ask?

[morgenthaler]

Alison Krauss + Union Station
Uncanny interaction between these guys. Litterally a band of superheroes on their chosen instrument.
http://www.alisonkrauss.com/

The Young Gods. Love their sounds, ideas, and totally unique approach to music!
http://www.younggods.com/cms/front_content.php?idcat=45

And then about 30 or 40 other ones...besides all the great solo artists...
I am thrilled to constantly discover new music!!

[cjcdrums]

Dream Theater, Steve Vai, OTV, Planet X, Radiohead, Tool, Allen Holdsworth, A Perfect Circle, The Mars Volta, Audioslave, Rage Against The Machine, Dave Matthews Band, Slipknot, Mudvayne, Lamb of God, Chimera, System of a Down, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Bjork, The Seatbelts, and countless others I forgot to mention.

[C.J.]

My favourite band is definitly Freak Kitchen...

.mov (http://www.pearldrum.com/05reftour/Mangini-1ref_Medium.mov)

[drummer344]

out of your list I would have to plug for ac/dc, however the musical genius and sheer poetry of the backstreet boys did prove tempting why do you ask?
for the sake of conforstaion :D

[drummaman1]

I like the band that does.. the singing..with the guitar playing...and the drums that play that...you know...drum...

[alencore]

metallica bec. lars in it........shoot mwah!

[SacredArrow]

Mi-Kun (drummer344) I don't like any of those bands, and you know it. I like my J-Pop/J-rock bands/singers best, L'arc en ciel, Gackt, Ayumi Hamasaki, BoA, Dream, Hitomi, 'Nittle Grasper', and 'Bad luck', The pillows, and whatever else I can get in a no where town like this.

[C.J.]

L'arc en Ciel played the intro song to Full Metal Alchemist season two \m/

[SacredArrow]

^_^ And they finally performed on Western land! Can't wait to buy that DVD!
Ignore me, please.

[Dfreak]

King's X......period :D

[PercDudeJR]

Dream Theater is my favorite band and I do know they're not the best musicians in the world. But their music's awesome.

[johngregson]

The Beatles! And Queen.
Hell, I like almost anything, but those 2 are my favourites.
And Morgenthaler, good call on Union Station!

[morgenthaler]

Hey John!
Good call on Beatles and Queen.
My current favorite is the Concert For George ( Harrison ) cd. That man wrote SO many good songs, it's uncanny!! Good show they put together around his songs.

[43%dillinger]

Hey i've posted here a few times, but i never had the whole "hey guys! im new here" thread. So here it is! What's up, im Julien from michigan. Favorite bands would have to be Tool, Dream Theater, Opeth (top 3, then everything else is just mixed) Dimmu Borgir, Dillinger Escape Plan, Mars Volta, System of a Down, Radiohead, Deftones, 30 Seconds to Mars, Muse, A Perfect Circle, Sevendust, Dredg, Frank Sinatra, Liquid Tension Experiment, Oasis, Cryptopsy, and...Planet X why not. I try to get a variety of music so if anyone's got some suggestions, please share!

[vdreignsuponus1]

dream theater, chroma key, planet x, liquid tension experiment, steve vai, cab, tool, and some others..

[schecter diamon]

Opeth, Dream Theater, Meshuggah, Tool, Incubus, among others.

[hereswheristand]

Hey i've posted here a few times, but i never had the whole "hey guys! im new here" thread. So here it is! What's up, im Julien from michigan. Favorite bands would have to be Tool, Dream Theater, Opeth (top 3, then everything else is just mixed) Dimmu Borgir, Dillinger Escape Plan, Mars Volta, System of a Down, Radiohead, Deftones, 30 Seconds to Mars, Muse, A Perfect Circle, Sevendust, Dredg, Frank Sinatra, Liquid Tension Experiment, Oasis, Cryptopsy, and...Planet X why not. I try to get a variety of music so if anyone's got some suggestions, please share!
hey julien, if you see this what part of michigan are you from? im from bay city and i love most of the bands you mentioned also

[43%dillinger]

hey julien, if you see this what part of michigan are you from? im from bay city and i love most of the bands you mentioned also

Im from Troy, about 20 minutes or so north of Detroit. I haven't heard of bay city, is that nearby?

[Vai777]

Steve Vai, Dream Theater,Dixie Dregs,Planet X, the Beatles,Zappa, skynard
smashing pumpkins and any band that Virgil or Mike Portnoy plays drums in.

[hereswheristand]

Im from Troy, about 20 minutes or so north of Detroit. I haven't heard of bay city, is that nearby?
not really... Bay City is at the inside of the thumb at the edge of Saginaw Bay.
right next to Saginaw and Midland(the tri-cities).
So, probably a good 2 or 3 hours away.

[GreenPremier]

I just picked up the new Strapping Young Lad disc and I can't stop listening to it..it ruuuuuuuules

[Andrew Dennison]

I'm going to have to agree with many of you guys on this one. Dream Theater, Tool, Opeth, The Dillinger Escape Plan, Dimmu Borgir, Dredg, Planet X, and I have to add Marco Minneman. The things he writes with his computer are amazing. And that doesn't even include the drums he adds to them.

[MrFizzyCola]

My favs are:
John Mayer, TOOL, Earth Wind and Fire (**** yeah dude!), Steve Vai, Dream Theater, Miles Davis, Herbie Han***** Juno Reactor, Planet X, Jason Becker, Jamiroquai, Layo and Bushwacka! to name a few...

[Ludwig]

Don't be angry cjcdrums, but I think... Bjork is stupid! Led Zeppelin are the best!

[druiloor]

Public Enemy, Toto, Meshuggah, Sergent Garcia and so on.

[insomnia]

rhcp, ratm,apc,incubus,the police,the used,deftones,james brown, foo fighters,nirvana etc etc too many to mention lol :D

[Anhur]

Rock/Pop:

Led Zeppelin - Bonzo!
Planet X
Tori Amos - amazing massive Drums on Precious Things
The Police - Stewart!
Fiona Apple - just love the music ....and her ;)
Nelly Furtado - dito.

Grindcore/Death-Black-Metal:

Nile - Tony Laureano
Hate Eternal - Derek Roddy
Dark Funeral/Defleshed - Matte Modin
Strapping Young Lad - only the LP "City"
Mayhem - listen to their actual LP "Chimera" with Jan Axel von Blomberg aka Hellhammer

Jazz and other crap:

Mike Stern
Steve Vai
Chambers - Outbreak
Helénè Grimaud - amazing Piano
Apocalyptica
Peter Finger - the god of finger-picking!

Hmm... still not everything...

:)

Flo

[thetrooper]

I've been listening to a lot of Nile lately, Amongst the Catacombs... and whatnot. Also, Decrepit Birth is one of my new favorites. I saw Tim Yeung on the Vital Remains tour last year and I've been listening to his stuff ever since. What else...Hate Eternal, Cryptopsy, both amazing and I'm eagerly awaiting their new albums.

[Anhur]

I saw Tim Yeung on the Vital Remains tour last year
AAAARRRRGHHH! You saw Tim with the VR Tour? Damn it! Sometimes it´s hard to be an European....
And how were the Bassdrums? Like the ones on the CD Dechristianize or slower (maybe faster ;))

Flo

[MaltBuddow3]

alright, so I just heard Jaco for the first time! AHHHHH!!!!!

Portrait of Tracy is one of the most beautiful things I've ever heard, and I can't believe harmony that dense can be picked out on the bass like that. I've been listening to it for 3 days straight!

That song ranks him up there with Bill Evans in the beautiful music category, although Bill will forever be the ultimate.

I'm also really getting into Wayne Shorter right now, and there's always room for more Coltrane!

[MaltBuddow3]

Hey Fizzy! Nice to see someone else is into groove music! I love Earth Wind and Steely Dan and Tower of Power and Jamirahowdoyousay and Chaka Kahn and Prince and Stevie Wonder!!!

[ghostnote3000]

rock:
Dream theater, liquied tension, zappa, bozzio levin stevens, primus, derek sherinian, spatic ink,
Deathmetal:
necrophagist, cryptopsy, origin, nile, decrepit birth, deeds of flesh, odius mortem, beneath the massacre, dying fetus, psychroptic
jazz
the mahavishnu orchestra, frank gambale, earth works, miles davis, niacin, vital tech tones, scott henderson, holdsworth, victor wooten

and many more...

[IronCobraMan]

meshuggah and pantera...thats it thats all

[blueturnswhite]

botch, candiria, ISIS, muse, radiohead, mock orange, shiner, dillinger escape plan, every time i die, stuff like that...but botch is the favorite, cause they were the only math rock band that was catchy.

[ghostnote3000]

cant forget sleep terror

[Wankmaster Joe]

Dream Theater my favorite and probably always will be.

[Journey77]

Journey forever

[Wankmaster Joe]

Dream Theater is my favorite band and I do know they're not the best musicians in the world. But their music's awesome.
Well if you think of it as one they are. Like all of theyre members are extremely good and I haven't see other band that have it all not just like a good guitarist but good everything and are as diverse as them.(Odd time and all that)

[hereswheristand]

you must have forgotten about planet x dude! ;)

[dorothy]

hmmmmmmmmmm
Tool, Rush, AIC, Mudvayne, Pantera, Lamb of God, Slayer, SMB (really cool band out of Minnealpolis, used to be called Screaming Monkey Boner, but had to change their name due to being looked at by labels www.SMB.com) Meshuggah, the Misfits, Radiohead, Tori Amos, APC, Cliff Burton Metallica (the greatest cymbal muter of all time, ladies and gentlemen, Lars Ulrich), Primus, Mr. Bungle, and of course Wesley Willis.

[James G.]

led zeppelin, velvet revolver, thin lizzy, del amitri?
and when I'm in a sombre mood
damien rice, nick cave, tom waits, james taylor and counting crows
welcome to dorothy by the way! we really have to get more female imput in here.

[dorothy]

that is misleading, i'm not female. it's an old nickname from 5 bands ago when we dressed for a show as the oz characters who traveled the yellow brick road, and it just stuck. that and people remember it, so it's my stage name.

[cjcdrums]

Ha! You thought there was a female on THIS messageboard? Ha ha ha!

No sir, this is a bona-fide sausage fest!

[dorothy]

lol, daddy would you like some sausage!

[43%dillinger]

hey dorothy! glad to see another wesley willis fan.

[dorothy]

of course. any 450 lb. schitzofrenic black man on crack who does music using a casio keyboard and sings completely off key about random s*** is a genius in my book

[Qaatar]

Hate Eternal (because Roddy is god), Origin, Vintersorg, Winds, Behemoth, Immolation, Naglfar, Arcturus, and 1349.

[blueturnswhite]

Candiria, Botch, Shiner, Hum, Codeseven, DEP, ISIS, blah blah blah

[MikeTheater]

way way way to many to mention, i wish i could post my music library here, it would probably take a few pages, but my fav right now are.... DT, Planet X, John Williams, STP, Nobuo Uematsu, Bleeding Through, Muse, Marillion, and a bunch more that i had in my head a min ago, that i cant think of right now.

[stefan_vortex]

Ha! You thought there was a female on THIS messageboard? Ha ha ha!

No sir, this is a bona-fide sausage fest!
why!!?? maan we suck....
theater, planet x, king diamond, fates warning,linear sphere, pantera, megadeth... yooo tomorrow..20.06.- MegadetH in Bulgaria!! MegaDave kicks ass!!!!!!!

[Karma_Tool]

its really sad ppl how these silly pop circle turning this world into a complete market, with fake music with no creativity at all , its goin really bad, thr r sum ppl who really supports good stuff, but im really sad about it, not only music but in all aspects of life ppl r believing in fake thngs, they r loosing the grip of life.......well backstreet boyz pluck ur own jack...

[Karma_Tool]

hmmmmm, huge list, first bunch which cums in mind....
Tool, DT, Soungarden, Frank Zappa, OSI, Radiohead, Spock's Beard, G3-JS-SV-JP,
Mettalica(early), Rush-2112 era, the who, King Crimpson, Yes, Pink Floyd, Ayron, Rage Against the machine, RHCP, Stomp(hope u guyz knw bout it), Lamb of god, Meshuggah, A perfect Circle, Primus, Coldplay, U2(early), LTE, Transatlantic, POS, Mahavishnu stuff,..., and any good music........

[MasterEmmicy]

Tool
The Mars Volta
A Perfect Circle
Rage Against the Machine
Symphony X
Staind
Dream Theater

In that order.
And who's this Donati guy everyone's talking about? J/K :p

[cjcdrums]

GREAT list^!

I love your first four bands, and DT.

[Rose]

Dream Theater, Steve Vai, OTV, Planet X, Radiohead, Tool, Allen Holdsworth, A Perfect Circle, The Mars Volta, Audioslave, Rage Against The Machine, Dave Matthews Band, Slipknot, Mudvayne, Lamb of God, Chimera, System of a Down, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Bjork, The Seatbelts, and countless others I forgot to mention.


good effort! i agree with this guy!
mabye add some meshuggah, incubus,NIN, in flames and a bit of dave brubeck......we might have something there

[Where is she]

humm.....well im sorry to tell you guys this but i really dont care what kind of music it is,im a big fan of lyrics,there for i listen to hardcore music like Killswitch Engage,From Autumn to Ashes,Unearth,and as for a song,im going to say "My Last Serenade" by Killswitch

[cjcdrums]

good effort! i agree with this guy!
mabye add some meshuggah, incubus,NIN, in flames and a bit of dave brubeck......we might have something there
Hey, I forgot Incubus! Dave Brubeck (with Morello) kicks ass too...

The other guys I haven't heard much from. I keep hearing about how awesome Meshuggah is but I don't know where to go to check them out. I don't want to buy a CD that I might not like...

[alencore]

The Beatles....it's the only band that never leaves my hard drive and in my car cd compartment.

Others would be....Van Halen, Rush, Deep Purple, Pantera, TooL Led Zeppelin, BR Big band and Kay PArker's small group hehe.

[bor31]

Planet X and Dream Theater (esp. songs without LaBrie!!!)
and
Check out Steve Holmes's Altered...www.houseofdrumming.com...love the album!

[druiloor]

The other guys I haven't heard much from. I keep hearing about how awesome Meshuggah is but I don't know where to go to check them out. [...]

Sorry for the late reply ... but:

Scroll down (for mp3 and video clips), here:
http://www.azheavymetal.com/grupos/discografia_de/Meshuggah.htm

Click the album covers (for mp3 snippets), here:
http://www.meshuggah.net/disco/

[cjcdrums]

Hey, thanks man! :)

[ataraxia]

CAB, Niacin, Dave Weckl etc.

You get the idea. any contemporary fusion. Or anything with Dennis C. in it.

[electrizer]

!! FAITH NO MORE !! :) and... Planet X, Dream Theater (less and less with every next album), DeadLock, Tomahawk, The Melvins, LTE, Derek Sherinian's records, Isis, Daft Punk, Goldie, The Cure, SOAD, Mr Bungle, Neurosis, Photek and many more.

PS: BTW, anyone Mike Patton here?

[kevin123]

RUSH, Dream theater,Tool, Led Zeppelin, Toto,

[nevermore]

Nevermore !!!!!!!!!!!!!! every cd of them is a masterpiece at it's own

[slayericed]

Dark tranquility, Opeth, Emperor, Immortal, Dimmu, Sins of thy beloved, slayer, testament, Hypocrisy, Arch Enemy, Sentenced, Lord belial, Dissection, children of bodom etc ;)

[Ernie Clifton]

Anything but Dave Mathews

[TimeConsumer]

-Coheed&Cambria
-Lawagon
Both very good drummers, although they play a totally different style..
But hey, who cares :)

[TC_Hippie]

Alas.. a subject that can't have one answer. Since this is a drummer's view of great drummers/musicians, then its necessary to list the bands which included the forefathers of metal drumming that influenced all other bands of today.

Atheist
Suffocation
Sodom
Tourniquet
Confessor
Cynic
Death
Believer
Slayer
Metallica (though I wish not to submit this answer, I can't rule them out!)
Venom
Primus
Helloween (for the Prog folks)

....... I could keep going, but you get the point.

[blackzoner]

I like any music, of any style that's played extremely well, by extremely talented musicians!

So that's the easy route, otherwise i'd have to write a novel.(Which I likely will anyway:) I apologize if the length of this post pisses some of you off.

If I have to choose 1 band from the list that was 'given' when this thread 1st began, i'd have to say AC-DC, b/c even tho they play in a minimalistic style, I still find some cool hooks in a # of their songs, & being an old drummer i've always enjoyed 'power chords', & w/o making everyone else whom posted their answers sound like elitists whom only enjoy bands where the drummer is a virtuoso, the drumming for AC-DC always fit the song even if it seems more of a simplistic style...I like it.

Here are some bands that may seem eclectic, or weird or not worthy of mention by many of the posters, BUT I LIKE THEM! Btw, if you haven't heard of some of these they are definitely worth researching & discovering. I start from my earliest recognition of music & work to the newer great stuff. Here tis:

Gene & Buddy & all the other old time greats who started this whole drum thang!
Elvis(Ron Tutt is a fine drummer wether you like Elvis' music or not!)
Louis Prima(A great saxaphonist for the style he played & a FUN band!
Dwayne Eddy
The Ventures(And ANY other great surf type band!)
Sandy Nelson!!
James Brown(EVERYTHING by Da Godfather of Soul!)JB had greatest drummers!
Booker T & The MG's
The Barkays
The Memphis Horns
Otis Redding(Everything)
Joe Tex
Wilson Pickett(Too many other great funk/r&b/soul bands from 60's-70's to mention)
Sly & The Family Stone(Greg Errico was the bomb!)
The Meters("Zigaboo" Modeliste must be heard!
The great Women of funk/soul
All the great funk/soul/R&B bands that followed(Kool & the Gang-Parliment, ect ect)
The Brittish Invasion(including all the bands everyone knows of)
John Mayall
Cream
Hendrix, ect ect ect
The Mothers of Invention
Frank Zappa(& every great musician that played w/FZ that went on to form great bands, like-Vai-Bozzio-Vinnie-Ansley Dunbar-Ralph Humphrey-Eddie Jobson-Ruth Underwood, Chad Wackerman-Warren Cuccurullo-The many FOLWER Bros. ect.
The Pioneers of Prog, King Crimson
Gentle Giant, so many others
"U.K." (Either version w/Bruford-Alan Holdsworth-John Wetton- & E. Jobson or Bozzio-Wetton & Jobson. An incredible prog band from 77 to 80. All 3 albums R unreal.
Group 87, & other 80's prog bands.
Jeff Beck Bands 1 thru 5
Savoy Brown
The Stooges w/Iggy(Altho I don't care for Punk much this guy started it all in 70)
CactusThe heavy trio w/Appice & Tim Bogert! J. Beck was supposed to be their guitarist until he got hurt but did join them later in the super heavy BBA band!
Johnny Winter(Before there could be a SRV there had to be J.W.!)
Tony Williams "Lifetime"(Johnny Mac guitar)
Mahavishnu Orchestra
Billy Cobham's influential "Fusion" album"Spectrum"(Starting w/the 1st cut a song Virgil loves to 'cover', w/his "OTV" bands "Quadrent 4") that many consider to be the beginning of Fusion; even tho it happened after Lifetime & Maha.
Saint James Infirmary & other bands with...
Tommy Bolin
Just too many more to try & continue! Research some of this stuff, pls, as I know you'll be suprised at the music you like today, that is current, emminated from.

Now, a couple names of new pioneering bandsI dig:
"Banned From Utopia" The ex FZ great drummer Chad Wackerman leads this FZ "Tribute" band that ALSO does originals that Frank would be proud of! This briliant band has 11 incredible members & ALL of them played with FZ at 1 time or another. The only cd they've released thus far is the 02 "So Yuh Don't Like Modern Art" & IT is brilliant!!

Plus many other bands like quite a few that are on the "Magna Carta"label. Plus some great bands that have already been mentioned many times, PX-Steve Vai-Billy Sheehans 2 great solo cd's. Ect ect.

"Niacin"(Their dvd from 96 "Live" @ The Blue Note in Japan called, "Blood-Sweat & Beer's"imo, is 1 of the 5 finest music dvd's that has come out in the past 10 years!!) Dennis Chambers does 2 great solo's on it! Also imo ALL their cd's kick arse!

The last 4 or 5 Jeff Beck cd's are cutting edge & breaking new ground imho. Beck like his guitar hero, (the man the amazing "Gibson" guitar was named after) LES PAUL, who did 'tricks' to get NEW sounds & ways of attaining them, & Jeff continues to explore the guitar & what can be done with it, even tho he's been playing & doing that for 40 years!!

I can't wait for Virgil's next cd, supposedly due out in fairly early 06!! That's what a vg friend who attended the "Drummer Live 2005" 2 day event in London was told by Virg as he bought me 2 autographed new posters of Virgil & what to me is Virgil's new t-shirt!! Great stuff! I hope his cd does appear early next year?(Thanks for the stuff Paul! I'll get you paid back by Xmas:)

That's my partial list of bands I LOVE. Many of those I mentioned are probably unknown to alot of posters? And so those(& more well known stuff many of you have already mentioned) kept me interested in music & alot of that music from those older time periods I played as 'covers' in bands over the last 35 yrs.

Plus many of the bands you drummer's already mentioned is also the music I love & is what keeps me interested & still 'attempting' to try & improve as a drummer.

Damn, the material & today's drummer's just keep getting better & the drummer's of today have SO MUCH more to learn from & superior drums & drum equipment to work with, that it's hard for an "old geezer" drummer like me, to play & keep up with!! Again Sorry for the length. This turned out to be a great thread! Thanx. BZ'er

[jimi]

Wow, Blackzoner!! Haven't heard from you in AGES!!! :eek: Hope you're well :)

[blackzoner]

Hiya Jimi!!

Yeah it HAS been awhile! I'm doing pretty good. I've found a way to play w/my injuries, & have a new band(well it's a coupla months old)that is doing very well! It's just 2 of us! Me on my acoustic AND Roland kit, & a vg guitarist i've known for yrs & played with before.

We're using alot of "effetcs" since it's just drums & guitar(he's using ALOT more special stuff than me, because 'thankfully' the Roland kit & an amp he helped me find & tweek, are all I really need!)& thus far it's been a successful & great new experience for me! I'm even singing some, thanks to the effects, but most of what I do sing is harmony & the guitarist does about 98% of the lead vocals. I think this band will work! It should last as long as we want it to also.

Before I close. A vg friend in England went to that "Drummer Live 2005" weekend, & he graciously bought me 2 new posters signed by Virg AND that new black t-shirt Virgil has. The one that has a characiture or 'cartoon' type of drawing of Virg playing 2 bass drums. I think it's cool, & wated to know IF you got any of this stuff when Virgil visited Ireland? I now have 3 posters autographed by him & a cd & the shirt. Pretty good for someone who doesn't get to see Virgil as much as others!!:)

Anyway Jimi, as soon as I can get some things fixed & other stuff worked out, i'll email you & we'll see what we can do about sending each other stuff like we did so well with the the recent past, ok? Hope you're doing well, & I like your new avatar. BZ'er
PS: It looks like your getting even more friendly w/Virgil!!? Nice of him to allow only YOU to sit behind his kit, & have a photo taken.

[bevs_joey]

my fave bands - Hate Eternal
Decapitated
Meshuggah
Cryptopsy
Dying Fetus
Nile
Cradle Of Filth
Dimmu Borgir
Zyklon

[alencore]

that's really cool BZ!
me i just quit with mine. got tired of the BS.
besides i'm quite happy with airsoft nowadays
and handling the family business.

[Denny]

Opeth,Slipknot,Chimaira,Strapping young Lad,Dream Theater,Sevendust,
Fear Factory,Dimmu Borgir(But I beleive in GOD!!!)Old Anthrax,Pantera,
Shadows Fall,Lamb of God and Devildriver....I could go on but...anyway
Denny

[Brother Dave]

lets see now....

ANGRA (my number 1 right now)
Dream Theater
Sonata Arctica
Nightwish
Planet X
Tool
Iron Maiden
Rush
Symphony X
Warmen
Dragonforce
Blind Guardian
Rhapsody
Evergrey
Dream Evil
Firewind
Children of Bodom (hate the singing but i like the songs)
Helloween
Liquad Tension Experiment
Sinergy
Kamelot
Edguy


ANGRA
ANGRA
ANGRA! :p

[dyed in the one]

OTV....serious young insects changed my life!!!
Meshuggah
Planet X
Threat Signal
Elevator 22

and for my own shameless promotion, my band
dyed in the wool

[scott h]

Miles Davis Quintet I
Miles Davis Quintet II
Primus
Beatles
Frank Zappa's Mothers' of Invention
Zappa's: 88 band
74 band
all the other bands.
Rage Against The Machine
Led Zep
Dave Matthews Band
Ween
Sly and the Family Stone
The Meters
Yeah Yeah Yeahs
The Strokes (yeah they only have one sound, but it is a cool sound!)
Tool

Individual artists:
Prince (an absolute mother at everything)
Tom Waits
Tori Amos (damn she is hot)
Bjork
Coltrane

I think i've ranted about my admiration for Frank Zappa here somewhere before, but there was just never anyone like him before and there will never be anyone like him ever again. Music needs FZ, now more than ever.

[GreenPremier]

Hate Eternal (I,Monarch)
Tenebrosus
Belphegor
Emperor
Opeth
Naglfar
Dimmu Borgir
Necrophagist
Zyklon
Myrkskog


I can never have ONE favorite band..

[stabwound]

necrophagist
opeth
meshuggah
lamb of god

im getting into cryptopsy and nile