Favourite Music Artists

[viperver1]

What is your favourite music artist(s) and why?

[emwearz]

The Beatles, The Sex Pistols, The Dead Kennedys, The Misfits, ACDC, The Killers, Blink 182, The Clash, The Police, The Skyhooks, The Ramones, NWA, Ice Cube, NOFX, Sweet, Coldplay, Beastie Boys.

Why? Because there music doesnt suck.

[Hard core Rikki]

Nami Tamaki, Hinnoi Team, Mega NRG Man...
I'll shorten the list and just resume it as the top Super Eurobeat artists basically, plus Keiko Matsui :P

[PCXL-Fan]

Originally Posted by Hard core Rikki

...Hinnoi Team...

Well spelt wrong, but I agree

I like lots of music but I can't think of a favorite. The favorite of my least favorite genre "rap" would be Kanye West.

Videogame music rockband Stemage: favorite tune from Metroid: http://www.metroidmetal.com/metroid_...roid_kraid.mp3

[Mako Eyes]

Artist? Either Mikael Åkerfeldt or Mike Portnoy. Both are brilliant musicians and songwriters. Åkerfeldt has the best male singing voice I've ever heard (and he's also the damn best growler in existance) and Portnoy is one hell of a drummer.

Band? This one's tough. Right now I'm really liking Dream Theater.

Originally Posted by PCXL-Fan

Videogame music rockband Stemage: favorite tune from Metroid: http://www.metroidmetal.com/metroid_...roid_kraid.mp3

Oh man, I hear ya. I'm more fond of his Super Metroid work myself.

[Spyhop]

Christopher Tin, Bear Mccreary, John Williams, Alan Sylvestri.

[Cid Highwind]

Fav Artist? Do you have a minute?

If asked some time ago, I'd have said Tony Kakko from Sonata Arctica, he's a great singer, with a very typical voice, and the lyrics he writes really grabbed me, shook me, shocked me. Very close to reality, even if in metaphors.

At this moment I'll have to say Tobias Sammet, from Edguy and Avantasia, he has written some very epic albums, has a great voice and has the balls to go his own way, despite even fans saying he's become a sort of Jon Bon Jovi.

Arjen Lucassen is another great guy, he just seems very cool to me, and his inspiration is limitless, given the amount of Ayreon albums he's written. I don't know any person who is able to get so many heroes from the rock and metal scene to play on his albums.

Kai Hansen is one of my biggest heroes though, he never fails to to pick me up with his uplifting metal. Having inspired thousands of other bands he really is an icon in the world of powermetal, the way he still pulls off songs from his first Helloween album as if it were yesterday is impressive. Seeing him live just makes you feel good, that's all that matters to me. I'm a lucky bastard for having a plectrum of his on my wall, *starts hissing* My preccccciousssssss.

The final heroes from metal would be Joey De Maio and Eric Adams from Manowar. Manowar in general has given me plenty of inspiration, kinda like Kai Hansen and his bands. Seeing them this summer feels like a pilgrimage.

Finally, a recent addition to my fav artists is Placido Domingo, his singing just touches me, easily one of the finest male vocalists on the planet. Too bad the three tenors are no more. Right now I could only wish I'd have seen them live. It's also a shame how budget is a limiting factor, seeing such a legend live costs more than a 4 day metal festival. Unless I include the costs of beer

[Mako Eyes]

Originally Posted by Cid Highwind

Fav Artist? Do you have a minute?

Aw Cid, no love for Dream Theater or Opeth?

[Cheesus]

Far Less, Alter Bridge, Godsmack, Lamb of God, Rob Zombie, Trivium.

[skoreanime]

Top three for me would be Foo Fighters, High and Mighty Color and Yasunori Mitsudas work .

[Urine Sample]

Parkway Drive, I Killed The Prom Queen, It Dies Today, Suicide Silence, The Black Dahlia Murder, Drop Dead Gorgeous, Bring Me The Horizon. Usually anything under the hardcore genre

[Cid Highwind]

Originally Posted by Mako Eyes

Aw Cid, no love for Dream Theater or Opeth?

I never got into them...

I forgot one band that will always hold a special place in my heart: Hammerfall, simply for the song Glory to the Brave. From the One Crimson Night live album, not a single song sums up the emptiness inside from a dear person having passed away, like a 23 year old friend of mine did this week...

There's not many songs that brought tears to my eyes when played live, but that one, means the same to me as it does to the band. Pretty epic when they played it live with (artificial) snow falling down last year.

[galson]

Tristania, Theatre of Tragedy, Therion, Tarot, Within Temptation, Nightwish, Lacrymosa, Cradle of Filth... Could find some more, but they are the first ones that come to my mind

[_mr_m_]

I definitely like too many artists to name one as my favorite, but you can usually find me listening to stuff like Nature Living, Envy, Fact.. theyre pretty good J-Rock groups.

I mainly listen to indie stuff from around the world.

But I do have a thing for the Foo Fighters and Flogging Molly (who I actually got to meet in person this past Wednesday!)

I could go on like this, but I wont.

[ShadowPlayer]

Linkin Park,Marko Perkovic Thompson,...They have great songs

[ShadowDancer]

Tool, A Perfect Circle, Guns N Roses, Rage Against the Machine, Audioslave, Godsmack, Staind, Linkin Park, Jimmy Eat World, Arctic Monkeys, Death Cab for Cutie, Three Days Grace, Deftones, Disturbed,

[Titus03]

Fav artists? Others have listed bands also, so I list them too. I leave composers from my list.

Singers:

Elvis, Sinatra, Virta, Modugno and many others.

Bands:

The Beatles, ABBA, AC/DC, The Shadows, HIM, Poets of the Fall

Led Zeppelin, Stratovarius, Sonata Arctica

The most important things about music for me are compositions and arrangements. It's gotta be genious and something different. I'm not very interested in singers, but mainly what I like about them is their great songs.

[_mr_m_]

Rage Against the Machine was one angry band..but they were awesome!