Getting to know each others music taste.

[Igor_Cavalera]

Just some questions for people to answer if they feel like it (I'm bored )

Top 10 favourite bands?

Top 10 favourite albums?

Preferred metal sub-genre?

Favourite guitarist?

Favourite drummer?

Favourite vocalist?

Favourite bassist?

Favourite keyboardist?

Favourite composer?

Favourite lyricist?

Favourite post-1990 band?

Favourite post-2000 band?

New band that you're most looking forward to future releases from?

Band you'd most like to see in concert? (That you haven't seen yet)



And if anyone has any other questions they'd like to add, feel free to add them

 

[ElectricWiz]

OK, so we all know that this kind of thing is damn near impossible, but it's still fun. To that end, I fully expect to slap my forehead when I realize all the music that means a lot to me that I forgot here - did this pretty fast. Still.....here's an idea:

Top 10 favourite bands? (NO ORDER)
ISIS, Grateful Dead, Sigur Ros, Tool, Dead Can Dance, Iron Maiden, Black Sabbath, Led Zeppelin, Opeth, Mercyful Fate

Top 10 favourite albums?

Iron Maiden - Number of the Beast
Metallica - Master of Puppets
Mercyful Fate - Mellisa/Don’t Break The Oath
Black Sabbath - everything through Born Again
Isis - Oceanic
Saxon - Power and the Glory
Opeth - Blackwater Park
Led Zeppelin - Physical Graffitti
Tool - Lateralus
Grateful Dead - Can’t choose just one
Dead Can Dance - The Serpent’s Egg


Preferred metal sub-genre?
Doom, Stoner stuff

Favourite guitarist?
Mikael Akerfeldt - Opeth (writes amazing riffs, and his solos are always good, even though solos tend to bore me these days).

Favourite drummer?
Danny Carey - Tool

Favourite vocalist?
Have to put two:
1. Ian Gillan (hands down)
2. Bruce Dickinson
Dio would be in there somewhere, but a few down the line, and only up through Holy Diver (that includes Rainbow and Sabbath stuff).

Favourite bassist?
Well, you know, Steve Harris. Oh, and the guy from Tool always gets my attention; Justin Chancellor

Favourite keyboardist?
Various people from Deep Purple and Rainbow

Favourite composer?
Probably Mikael Akerfeldt from Opeth - too many to mention though.

Favourite lyricist?
Robert Hunter (Lyricist for the Grateful Dead)

Favourite post-1990 band?
Honestly, for metal, I don’t think you can beat Bruce Dickinson’s two great solo albums (Chemical Wedding, Accident of Birth), so I would say his band at that time was the "best" metal band of the 90s.


Favourite post-2000 band?
ISIS

New band that you're most looking forward to future releases from?
Absolutely obsessed with Hammers of Misfortune and Sloug Feg right now, and both should be putting out new records soon. Classic old school stuff. VERY GOOD!

Band you'd most like to see in concert? (That you haven't seen yet)
I’ve had the good fortune to see most of the stuff on my list (I live in San Francisco, so, we get a lot). The BIG missing one is Dead Can Dance, and they are doing a reunion tour this year. I check the site every day (American dates have been "coming soon" for awhile). After that, obvious stuff like Zeppelin which will never happen. No big deal though, I’ve been lucky to see a lot of bands at cool times. Maiden, Opeth (during acoustic tour AND two heavy tours), ISIS, Dio, Metallica, well, tons.

 

[Trans-Siberian Outcast]

Ah, shit. This is like an IQ test...too many questions, too limited by boundaries. I'm just gonna fill out this survey on the whim; all answers are off the top of my head (which might be the most honest results possible).

Top 10 favourite bands?
Sabbath thru Born Again, Blue Oyster Cult, Savatage, Ayreon (Arjen Lucassen), early Fates Warning (w/John Arch), late 70s Styx and REO, Priest thru Defenders, Blackmore's Night, Therion

Top 10 favourite albums?
The Human Equation, Mabool, Poets and Madmen, The Spectre Within, Imaginos, Piece of Mind, Heaven and Hell, Streets, Fate of a Dreamer, Darker Than Black

Preferred metal sub-genre?
prog/symphonic/gothic

Favourite guitarist?
Ingenuity and emotion does it for me: Ritchie Blackmore, Michael Schenker, Criss Oliva, Randy Rhoads, SRV, Eric Johnson, Buck Dharma

Favourite drummer?
Bill Ward and Cozy Powell; Ed Warby nowadays

Favourite vocalist?
Ozzy (for nostalgia's sake), John Arch, Glenn Hughes, (early) Geoff Tate, Dave King. Also dig the modern chicks: Astrid Van Der Veen, Marcela Bovio, Sharon den Adel, Heather Findlay, Irene Jansen, Candace Night etc.

Favourite bassist?
Geezer Butler, Geddy Lee, Steve Harris

Favourite keyboardist?
Beethoven

Favourite composer?
Jon Oliva and Arjen A. Lucassen

Favourite lyricist?
Me

Favourite post-1990 band?
Ayreon

Favourite post-2000 band?
Orphaned Land

New band that you're most looking forward to future releases from?
Orphaned Land

Band you'd most like to see in concert? (That you haven't seen yet)
Orphaned Land (woulda picked Ayreon, but they don't tour).

 

[TRrEiTxIxRiE DTrash]

Top 10 favourite bands?
KISS, Motley Crue, Ratt, Bon Jovi, Alice Cooper, Vinnie Vincent Invasion, Warrant, Def Leppard, AC/DC, Poison.

Top 10 favourite albums?
Vinnie Vincent Invasion - S/T; Vain - No Respect; Shotgun Messiah - S/T; Queensryche - Operation Mindcrime; Bon Jovi - Slippery When Wet; Kane Roberts - Saints & Sinners; AC/DC - Back In Black; KISS - Alive; Warrant - Dirty Rotten Filthy Stinkin Rich; Harem Scarem - S/T.

Preferred metal sub-genre?
Everything Hair Metal, Sleaze/Glam, AOR, Melodic Rock, Hard Rock, Pop Metal, whatever you wanna call it all.

Favourite guitarist?
George Lynch, Warren DeMartini, Vinnie Vincent.

Favourite drummer?
Tommy Lee. I don't care about drummers but he's the most exciting to watch & listen to. A real performer, rare in a drummer.

Favourite vocalist?
Paul Stanley by far. He is the voice of rock & roll for me. The best singer though I think is Tony Harnell from TNT.

Favourite bassist?
Nikki Sixx.

Favourite keyboardist?
I love keyboards, LOVE them, but who really cares who the best is? Haha

Favourite composer?
Composer? As in songwriter?? Desmond Child, Vinnie Vincent, Paul Stanley.

Favourite lyricist?
Alice Cooper

Favourite post-1990 band?
As in who's first album came out from 1990-onward? Don't have many!! Harem Scarem, Talisman, Hericane Alice, Wildside..

Favourite post-2000 band?
I honestly don't think I even own an album from a band who's first album is post-2000. Oh I have one, Talon. They are pretty good.

New band that you're most looking forward to future releases from?
New band? Don't know. But I look forward to all Pink Cream 69's new releases because I know they won't disappoint. Their latest (and their 9th) studio album, which came out last year, is probably the 2nd best album they have ever done! I can always rely on them for a fix of excellent big chorus catchy well written, well played and well produced melodic hardrock!

Band you'd most like to see in concert? (That you haven't seen yet)
Alice Cooper, with his whole theatrical stageshow.

 

[SickBoy]

Top 10 favourite bands?

In no order:
80s Iron Maiden, 80s Metallica, Rage, Riot, King Diamond, Mercyful Fate, Death, Lost Horizon, 80s Slayer, Doomsword

Top 10 favourite albums?

IRON MAIDEN - Powerslave
METALLICA - Master Of Puppets
RIOT - any from "Thundersteel" to "Sons of Society"
RAGE - Soundchaser
SLAYER - Reign in Blood
DOOMSWORD - Resound The Horn
DEATH - Individual Thought Patterns
LOST HORIZON - any of the two
ICED EARTH - Night Of The Stormrider
MEGADETH - Rust In Peace

Preferred metal sub-genre?

Heavy metal

Favourite guitarist?

Oh man...
Mark Reale probably...
Great solos and melodies, as well as superb songwriting skills.

Favourite drummer?

Bobby Jarzombek

Favourite vocalist?

Oh man #2...
Bruce Dickinson

Favourite bassist?

Steve Harris
Many are better technically, but very few can match his instant recognizable sound and style and awesome songwriting

Favourite keyboardist?

Jon Lord

Favourite composer?

Chuck Schuldiner

Favourite lyricist?

Chuck Schuldiner

Favourite post-1990 band?

Iced Earth

Favourite post-2000 band?

Lost Horizon

New band that you're most looking forward to future releases from?

Doomsword

Band you'd most like to see in concert? (That you haven't seen yet)

Riot, hell yeah! I really hope they'll visit Europe this year...

 

[AngelWitch73]

Top 10 favourite bands?

I can only do three as they are the only ones that are constant in the order I list them: SKYCLAD, OVERKILL, MANILLA ROAD.

Top 10 favourite albums?

It´s extremely difficult to pick an exact top 10 because there are so many great albums and for my top 3 bands alone there are many albums that are equal and just as great as others. Some of my favourites:
SKYCLAD - Waywards Sons Of Mother Earth
OVERKILL - Years Of Decay
MANILLA ROAD - Crystal Logic
METALLICA - Ride The Lightning
IRON MAIDEN - Powerslave

Preferred metal sub-genre?

Finally an easy question: Thrash Metal !!

Favourite vocalist?

Once again, there is no single one, here are some of my favourites:
Mark Shelton (MANILLA ROAD)
Bobby "Blitz" Ellsworth (OVERKILL)
King Diamond
Dani Powers (POWERS COURT)
James Hetfield in the 80s aka when the METAL part of METALLICA meant something
Bruce D from the almighty IRON MAIDEN
Udo (ACCEPT / UDO)
James Rivera (HELSTAR)
The guy from LOITS but I forget his name right now

Favourite bassist?

DD Verni

Favourite keyboardist?

Kevin Moore

Favourite composer?

Mozart

Favourite lyricist?

Martin Walkyier when he was in SKYCLAD

New band that you're most looking forward to future releases from?

LETHAL, HAMMERWHORE

Band you'd most like to see in concert? (That you haven't seen yet)

PESTILENCE but too bad there is no possibility for that. I´d also like to see TORCH and AGENT STEEL which´ll come true in April. I´d also like to see MOURNING BELOVETH in concert someday. CHAINSAW would be awesome too.

 

[JonnyD]

Good thread Igor!

Top 10 favourite bands?
Overkill, Savatage, Testament, Slayer, Manowar, Metal Church, Danzig, Motley Crue, Anthrax, Blaze

Top 10 favourite albums?
Metallica - Master of Puppets
Slayer - Seasons in the Abyss
Overkill - The years of Decay
Iron Maiden - X-Factor
Metal Church - Blessing in Disguise
Vintersorg - Cosmic Genesis
Pantera - Cowboys from Hell
Testament - Low
Savatage - Gutter Ballet
Savatage - Edge of Thorns

Favourite guitarist?
Criss Oliva

Favourite drummer?
Tim Mallare

Favourite vocalist?
Blitz

Favourite bassist?
DD Verni

Favourite keyboardist?
Jon Oliva

Favourite composer?
Vintersorg

Favourite lyricist?
Alice Cooper/Paul O'Neil

Favourite post-1990 band?
Iced Earth

Favourite post-2000 band?
Into Eternity

Band you'd most like to see in concert? (That you haven't seen yet)
Morgana Lefay!

 

[Hawk]

Top 10 favourite bands?

01) Nevermore
02) Symphony X
03) Children of Bodom
04) Zero Hour
05) Ayreon
06) Arch Enemy
07) Judas Priest
08) Anacrusis
09) Kansas
10) Psychotic Waltz/Sieges Even

Top 10 favourite albums?

01) A Sense of Change - Sieges Even [1990]
02) Zero Hour - The Towers of Avarice [2001]
03) Symphony X - The Odyssey [2002]
04) Nevermore - Dead Heart In A Dead World [2000]
05) Rush - A Farewell to Kings [1977]
06) Queensryche - Operation Mindcrime [1988]
07) Judas Priest - Sad Wings Of Destiny [1976]
09) Kansas - Point Of Know Return [1977]
10) Arch Enemy - Wages of Sin 2002


Preferred metal sub-genre?

Prog-Metal


Favourite guitarist?

Michael Romero [Symphony X]


Favourite drummer?

Alex Holtzwarth [Sieges Even]


Favourite vocalist?

Jorn Lande [Masterplan]


Favourite bassist?

Troy Tipton [Zero Hour]


Favourite keyboardist?

John Lord/Derek Sherinian


Favourite composer?

Michael Romero [Symphony X]


Favourite lyricist?

Neil Peart [Rush]


Favourite post-1990 band?

Nevermore


Favourite post-2000 band?

Zero Hour


New band that you're most looking forward to future releases from?

Communic - Conspiracy In Mind/ New Zero Hour album!


Band you'd most like to see in concert? (That you haven't seen yet)

Children of Bodom!!!
Arch Enemy!!!


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Damn! Thats bloody hard work!!
I am a bit surprised by the outcome.
I seem to like Zero Hour even more than I thought.

 

[CybrMaiden]

Top 10 favourite bands?

01) Iron Maiden
02) Jag Panzer
03) Judas Priest
04) Motley Crue
05) Blind Guardian
06) Evergrey
07) AC/DC
08) Scorpions
09) Joe Satriani
10) Amon Amarth

Top 10 favourite albums?

01) Powerslave - Iron Maiden
02) Somewhere In Time - Iron Maiden
03) Number of the Beast - Iron Maiden
04) Blizzard of Ozz - Ozzy Osbourne
05) Shout At The Devil - Motley Crue
06) Mechanized Warfare - Jag Panzer
07) Defenders of the Faith - Judas Priest
08) Back In Black - AC/DC
09) Versus The World - Amon Amarth
10) Not of this World - Joe Satrianai


Preferred metal sub-genre?

Heavy Metal/Power Metal


Favourite guitarist?

Randy Rhoads / Stevie Ray Vaughan


Favourite drummer?

Neil Peart [Rush]


Favourite vocalist?

Bruce Dickinson [Iron Maiden]


Favourite bassist?

Steve Harris [Iron Maiden]


Favourite keyboardist?

None


Favourite composer?

Michael Romero [Symphony X]


Favourite lyricist?

Neil Peart [Rush]


Favourite post-1990 band?

Jag Panzer


Favourite post-2000 band?

Pharaoh


New band that you're most looking forward to future releases from?

Pharoah


Band you'd most like to see in concert? (That you haven't seen yet)

Jag Panzer

 

[Jean-Pierre]

Top 10 favourite bands?
Judas Priest, Kreator, (early) Fates Warning, Jag Panzer, Metal Church, Slayer, Iron Maiden, Sodom, Overkill, Black Sabbath.

Top 10 favourite albums?
Judas Priest - Priest In The East
Kreator - Coma Of Souls
Fates Warning - The Spectre Within
Jag Panzer - Ample Destruction
Metal Church - Metal Church
Slayer - Show No Mercy
Iron Maiden - Killers
Sodom - Persecution Mania
Overkill - The Years Of Decay
Black Sabbath - Sabotage

Preferred metal sub-genre?
This is fucking tough, but right now I'm most interested in the epic underground US Metal from the 80's, like Manilla Road, Brocas Helm, Cirith Ungol, Omen, and Warlord.

Favourite guitarist?
Tipton/Downing

Favourite drummer?
Lombardo

Favourite vocalist?
Halford

Favourite bassist?
DiGiorgio

Favourite keyboardist?
John Lord

Favourite composer?
Mark Shelton

Favourite lyricist?
Martin Walkyier

Favourite post-1990 band?
Skyclad

Favourite post-2000 band?
Drunkard

New band that you're most looking forward to future releases from?
Drunkard

Band you'd most like to see in concert? (That you haven't seen yet)
Jag Panzer or Manilla Road. How bout both?

 

[Jean-Pierre]

Favourite post-1990 band?

Jag Panzer

But they released their first album in 1984...

 

[ElectricWiz]

Somebody put John Arch for favorite vocalist(s), and I almost did. So, I'm adding him to my list (below Ian Gillan and Bruce Dickinson). He's just amazing. Trans-Siberian, I'm assuming you bought is solo ep of late. I just wanna give that a sales pitch here. Anybody on "old-school" who doesn't have it should RUN to the store. One of the best resurfaced old-school things to EVER come along. Man, I must have listened to that EP about 1000 times, and I still put it in every few weeks. Just fantastic. That record gives me goosebumps.

 

[Hawk]

John Arch is a vocal GOD! Not only because of his wondefull voice but also because he writes those haunting vocal melodies. He is truely [size=-1]sui[/size] generis among vocalist!

 

[Wicked Child]

Top 10 favourite bands?
Black Sabbath
Overkill
Anthrax
Judas Priest
Savatage
Queensryche(from the EP to Promised Land)
Angel Witch
Running Wild
Hellhammer
Kreator
Rush(yes, it's 11)
Deep Purple(12! so what!?)
Top 10 favourite albums?
Queensryche-Operation: Mindcrime
Judas Priest-Stained Class
Black Sabbarh-Master Of Reality/Deep Purple-Machine Head(tie)
Overkill-The Years Of Decay
Anthrax-Persistence Of Time
Savatage-Sirens
Angel Witch-S/T
Running Wild-Port Royal
Hellhammer-Apocolyptic Raids
Kreator-Pleasure To Kill
Rush-Permanant Waves(again, 11. so what?)

Preferred metal sub-genre?
thrash, speed, power, traditional

Favourite guitarist?
Ritchie Blackmore

Favourite drummer?
Neil Peart

Favourite vocalist?
Rob Halford

Favourite bassist?
Steve DiGiorgio

Favourite keyboardist?
Jon Lord

Favourite composer?


Favourite lyricist?
Neil Peart

Favourite post-1990 band?
Iced Earth

Favourite post-2000 band?
Phantom Lord

New band that you're most looking forward to future releases from?
Phantom Lord

Band you'd most like to see in concert? (That you haven't seen yet)

Overkill

 

[SoundMaster]

Top 10 favourite bands?
1) Led Zeppelin
the rest are not in any order, as they often interchange:
Dead Can Dance, Sabbath, Maiden, Priest, My Dying Bride, Katatonia, the Gathering, Anathema, Opeth, Queensryche, Deep Purple, Pearl Jam

Top 10 favourite albums?
1) Heaven & Hell - Black Sabbath
2) Turn Loose the Swans - My Dying Bride
3) The Human Equation - Ayreon
4) Somewhere in Time - Maiden
5) British Steel - Priest
6) Sabotage - Sabbath
7) Blackwater Park - Opeth
8) How to Measure a Planet- the Gathering
9) Tonight's Decision - Katatonia
10) Led Zep III

Preferred metal sub-genre?
I Love all genres of metal except for hair/cheese/fluff metal
and Flower-metal

Favourite guitarist?
Jimmy Page, strictly for his songwriting ability.

Favourite drummer?
The fella from Katatonia.

Favourite vocalist?
I hate to be non-original, but it's clearly Ronnie James!

Favourite bassist?
Geezer Butler


Favourite lyricist?
Aaron Stainthorpe of My Dying Bride

Favourite post-1990 band?
My Dying Bride

Favourite post-2000 band?
Not sure yet...

New band that you're most looking forward to future releases from?
Ayreon / Star One

Band you'd most like to see in concert? (That you haven't seen yet)
Priest! Believe it or not, I've never seen them!

 

[JonnyD]

Somebody put John Arch for favorite vocalist(s), and I almost did. So, I'm adding him to my list (below Ian Gillan and Bruce Dickinson). He's just amazing. Trans-Siberian, I'm assuming you bought is solo ep of late. I just wanna give that a sales pitch here. Anybody on "old-school" who doesn't have it should RUN to the store. One of the best resurfaced old-school things to EVER come along. Man, I must have listened to that EP about 1000 times, and I still put it in every few weeks. Just fantastic. That record gives me goosebumps.

I got it as soon as it came out! its Amazing!

 

[Jean-Pierre]

John Arch is a vocal GOD! Not only because of his wondefull voice but also because he writes those haunting vocal melodies. He is truely [size=-1]sui[/size] generis among vocalist!

Fuck yeah. "Spectre Within" and "Awaken The Guardian" would not have been anywhere near complete without him.

 

[ElectricWiz]

I got it as soon as it came out! its Amazing!

Yeah, I got it the day of release. I was a Fates fan back in the day, and had heard the MP3 for Relentless on the Net. I keep crossing my fingers that he'll make a whole album. I'm sure you do too. I don't know a lot of people who bought it, but those who did (and those I forced it on) agreed that it was amazing, which it was (and is). Ha. It is, simply put, goosebumps from the first note to the last. Seriously, I say it stands up there with any list of all-time metal classics. And I would even go so far as to say it eclipses the records he made with Fates Warning, good as they were. I chose it as my "record of the year," last year....and it was only an EP!
John fucking Arch!

No real point to this post, I realize, just singing the man's praises.

 

[SoundMaster]

Glad to see John Arch getting his due here!


He is amazing - as Hawk stated, GREAT melodies! The "Guardian" album is just superb...total classic from start to finish.
And, last year's EP was also great, as others have stated.


also glad to see folks mentioning Overkill's "Years of Decay", which is, IMO, easily their best, and one of THE BEST thrash records ever released - including the works of Slayer, Megadeth & Metallica. "Years" has more depth & emotion, power & energy than almost anything out there.

Gustafson ruled.

 

[Trans-Siberian Outcast]

Somebody put John Arch for favorite vocalist(s), and I almost did. So, I'm adding him to my list (below Ian Gillan and Bruce Dickinson). He's just amazing. Trans-Siberian, I'm assuming you bought is solo ep of late. I just wanna give that a sales pitch here. Anybody on "old-school" who doesn't have it should RUN to the store. One of the best resurfaced old-school things to EVER come along. Man, I must have listened to that EP about 1000 times, and I still put it in every few weeks. Just fantastic. That record gives me goosebumps.

Hell yeah I've got Twist of Fate! I bought that when it first came out in 2003 and it stayed in my player for about two weeks straight! I couldn't believe that John Arch finally blew the dust off his vocal chords and returned to writing and recording music. It's his calling in life and it pisses me off that he isn't utilizing it. Even if he hates touring and band politics, he should at least still record music as a solo artist like he did with ToF. Arjen Lucassen of Ayreon has made a pretty successful career of creating music that doesn't tour live. John Arch can do the same thing.