Getting to know each others music taste.

[Burkhard]

Top 10 favourite bands/artists?
1. Atrox (with Monika Edvardsen)
2. Fear Of God
in no particular order:
Gåte
Kari Bremnes
Kate Bush
Nightwish
The Gathering
The Third And The Mortal
Dead Can Dance
Coroner

Top 10 favourite albums?
1. Atrox - "Terrestrials"
2. Fear Of God - "Within The Veil"
3. Nightwish - "Oceanborn"
4. Gåte - "Iselilja"
5. The Third And The Mortal - "Tears Laid In Earth"
6. Kari Bremnes - "Løsrivelse"
7. Kate Bush - "The Dreaming"
8. Atrox - "Orgasm"
9. Madder Mortem - "Deadlands"
10. The Gathering - "How To Measure A Planet?"

Preferred metal sub-genre?
thrash; female-fronted

Favourite guitarist?
Tommy Vetterli (Coroner)

Favourite drummer?
Helge Andreas Norbakken

Favourite vocalist?
Monika Edvardsen (Ex-Atrox)
Dawn Crosby (Fear Of God/Détente) - R.I.P.
Kari Bremnes

Favourite bassist?
Ron Broder (Coroner)

Favourite keyboardist?
Tori Amos

Favourite composer?
Lisa Gerrard, Kate Bush, Ketil Bjørnstad

Favourite lyricist?
Kari Bremnes, Monika Edvardsen

Favourite post-1990 band?
Fear Of God, Atrox (considering that my favourite albums of the latter have been released in 2002 and 2003, they´d also qualify as "favourite post-2000 band" - at least in this regard)

Favourite post-2000 band?
Gåte

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

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

 

[Wyvern]

Alright.

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

Top 10 favourite bands?

99.9% of the bands I have but I can pinpoint some for the sake of the thread

Black Sabbath
Judas Priest
Thin Lizzy
Motorhead
Iron Maiden (up to FOT)
Saxon
Helloween (except 2 albums)
Deep Purple (mostly the old hits and everything since 1984)
Nazareth
Rush (from FBN up to GUP, and a couple more afterwards)

Top 10 favourite albums?

Shit that's more difficult, so again 10 from over 900 (so far) No particular order

"Overkill"
"Renegade"
"Heaven And Hell"
"Defendrs Of The Faith"
"Piece Of Mind"
"2112"
"The Fool Circle"
"The House Of Blue Light"
"Power & The Glory"
"The Time Of The Oath"


Preferred metal sub-genre?

NWOBHM
Thrash
Doom
Prog

Favourite guitarist?

Ritchie Blackmore

Favourite drummer?

Not much into drummers. Brian Downey most probably

Favourite vocalist?

Impossible to pinpoint one.

Favourite bassist?

Not much into bass either. Lemmy/Phil Lynoot/Geddy Lee

Favourite keyboardist?

Rick Wakeman (the master!)

Favourite composer?

Antonio Vivaldi

Favourite lyricist?

Don't look much into lyrics, maybe Martin Walktier because ot wittiness

Favourite post-1990 band?

Shiiiiiittttt, a lot. Wolf for starters (debut 1999). If not then Heavens Gate

Favourite post-2000 band?

Most probably Cryonic Temple

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

Motorhead
Rick Wakeman
Ayreon (or any Arjen Lucassen project)
Sentenced
Misery Inc.
Masterplan
Helloween
Hammerfall
Death Angel
Mesmerize
Cryonic Temple
Majesty
Yngwie Malmsteen
Time Requiem
Rata Blanca
Seventh One
Solitude Aeturnus
Candlemass
Krux
Memory Garden
Thunderstorm
Saxon
.
.
.
etc.

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

Too large a list!

 

[AntonCrowley_16]

top 10 favorite bands:
Black Sabbath
Slayer
Cyclone Temple
Pantera
Ozzy
The Doors
Overkill
Iron Maiden
80's Metallica & And Justice For All
later Beatles

Top 10 favorite albums:
Black Sabbath - everything up until Born Again + Dehumanizer and Forbidden
Slayer - Reign in Blood
Pantera - Cowboys From Hell
Cyclone Temple - I Hate Therefore I am
Overkill - The Years of Decay
The Doors - all of them
Ozzy - Blizzard of Ozz
Annihilator - Never, Neverland
Iron Maiden - the Number of the Beast
Metallica - Ride the Lightning

Preferred Metal genre:
Thrash, Death, NWOBHM

Favorite Guitarist:
Tony Iommi, Randy Rhodes, Dimebag Darrell(r.i.p.)
Favorite Drummer:
Bill Ward, Dave Lombardo, Neil Peart
Favorite Vocalist:
Ozzy, Phil Anselmo, Jim Morrison, Dez Farrara
Favorite Bassist:
Geezer Butler, Cliff Burton, Rex
Favorite keyboardist:
dont have one

Favorite composer:
dont have one
Favorite Lyricist:
Geezer Butler, Phil Anslemo

Favorite post 1990 band:
Pantera
Favorite post 2000 band:
Cyclone Temple

New band that you're most looking forward to future releases from:
Death Angel, Judas Priest, Misery Inc.

Band you'd most like to see in concert:
The Doors( though I'll never get to)

 

[ElectricWiz]

You know, a few people have put here "Black Sabbath up through Born Again," and that does my poor hear good. People used to really shyte on Born Again, and I think it's fucking great; always have. That run, first album up through Never Say Die....THEN the Dio stuff...THEN Born Again, I mean, it's just plain one of the most consistent sequences of albums ever. I know there is no shortage of Sabbath fans, but it's nice that some recognize that the "classics" didn't really end until after Born Again. Gillan is a God on that, and the title track is worth the price alone.

 

[AntonCrowley_16]

That is very true.....I might be only 17.....but I listened to Sabbath as a Fetus...from i was born until now...and they've always been my favorite band....they were the first actual band i had tapes by when I was 8 yrs. old lol.

 

[SoundMaster]

Born Again...it's fucking great...Gillan is a God on that, and the title track is worth the price alone.

I agree 100%. Gillen f*cking rules....a voice made for metal! And, as you've said, the title track is amazing. Easily one of Sab's best tunes.

BA was one of my 1st Sabb records....oved it then, love it today.

 

[TheGraveDigger]

Top 10 favorite bands

Iron Maiden

Judas Priest

Savatage

Running Wild

Grave Digger

King Diamond

Testament

Overkill

Edguy

Stratovarius

Top 10 favorite albums

Iron Maiden - Seventh Son of A Seventh Son

Judas Priest - Defenders of the Faith

Mercyful Fate - Melissa

Lizzy Borden - Love You To Pieces

Metal Church - Blessing in Disguise

Overkill - Horrorscope

Edguy - Hellfire Club

Blind Guardian - Somewhere Far Beyond

KISS - Rock n Roll Over

Pantera - Cowboys From Hell

Favorite guitarist - Andy La Rocque

Favorite bassist - Steve Harris

Favorite drummer - Jorg Michael

Favorite vocalist - Rob Halford

Favorite keyboardist - Tuomas Holopainen

Favorite post 1990 band - Edguy

Favorite post 2000 band - Pagan's Mind

New band most looking foward to next release from - Kamelot (not quite a new band but fuck it)

Band I would most like to see in concert I have not seen yet - Stratovarius

 

[IcedMadness]

Top 10 favourite bands?
in no order
Black Label Society
Iced Earth
Metallica
Slayer
Iron Maiden
Judas Priest
Megadeth
Dream Theater
Godsmack
Opeth


Top 10 favourite albums?
Metallica - And Justice For All
Godsmack - Facelesss
Dream Theater - Awake
Pink Floyd - The Wall
Queensryche - Operation Mindcrime
Black Label Society - The Blessed Hellride
Pantera - Cowboys From Hell
Opeth - Blackwater Park
Iced Earth - Night of The Stormrider
Judas Priest - Screaming For Vengeance



Preferred metal sub-genre?
Traditional

Favourite guitarist?
Zakk Wylde

Favourite drummer?
Mike Portnoy

Favourite vocalist?
Ronnie James Dio

Favourite bassist?
Geddy Lee

Favourite keyboardist?
Derek Sherinian

Favourite composer?
Dream Theater. All their songs take some sort of composition

Favourite lyricist?
James Hetfield. I don't care about St. Anger. All his stuff before that just rocked

Favourite post-1990 band?
Black Label Society

Favourite post-2000 band?
Godsmack

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

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

 

[Hawk]

So Igor, what about you? After putting us all through album/band selection HELL its time to show us your colours.

Perhaps you already working on it?

 

[Trans-Siberian Outcast]

You know, a few people have put here "Black Sabbath up through Born Again," and that does my poor hear good. People used to really shyte on Born Again, and I think it's fucking great; always have. That run, first album up through Never Say Die....THEN the Dio stuff...THEN Born Again, I mean, it's just plain one of the most consistent sequences of albums ever. I know there is no shortage of Sabbath fans, but it's nice that some recognize that the "classics" didn't really end until after Born Again. Gillan is a God on that, and the title track is worth the price alone.

Absolutely, Born Again may have been completely different from the previous BS albums, but the songwriting was kick ass and it was a perfect forum for Gillian to push his pipes to the limit. Personally I think it's Gillan's best vocal performance ever, and that's saying something! Seventh Star was pretty good too, but that was the first album where the songwriting dropped down a notch (I think one of the main reasons I still like Seventh Star is simply because of Glenn Hughes). After Eternal Idol, I continued to buy BS albums, but I seldom ever listened to them, and still don't to this day. It's not that they are bad, I like them when I do dust them off, but they just lacked the magic of the 15 years leading up.

 

[JonnyD]

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.

I bought it then everybody else I know .. Who likes metal that is .... which is all of 3 other ppl .. bought it too that includes my own mother "Twist of Fate" is Incredible and I can only hope this isnt the last we hear from Mr. Arch!

 

[JonnyD]

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.

I was Just listening to this album the other night ...Bobby Gustafson has got to be one of the most absolute criminally underated guitar players ever his work on "Decay" is Fanfuckingtastic!!!!! and there isnt a Bad song on the whole record ... Who Tends the Fire Motherfuckers!!!!!!

 

[ElectricWiz]

I agree 100%. Gillen f*cking rules....a voice made for metal! And, as you've said, the title track is amazing. Easily one of Sab's best tunes.

BA was one of my 1st Sabb records....oved it then, love it today.

BA was my first Sabbath record too. I was only thirteen years old, but I loved it. Over the next couple of years I went back and bought everything else. Then of course the CDs when they came out....and just recently I traded in all the old CDs with Ozzy for the Boxset, just to fucking have it.

I do wish they'd have made another album with Gillan though. Incidentally, I have a couple bootlegs of him singing live; doing stuff like Children of the Grave, and they are awesome.

 

[AngelWitch73]

John Arch also belongs on my list. I thought I had put him when I made it but I see I left him out. Great vocalist that is completely unique, which makes those old FATES WARNING albums the best ever.

 

[Bryant]

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

Top 10 favourite bands?


Accept
Vanden Plas
Tad Morose
Dio
Fates Warning
Metal Church
The Goos
pre-black Metallica
Angel Dust
Balance of Power

Top 10 favourite albums?

AC/DC Back in Black
Accept - Metal Heart
Accept - Balls to the Walls
Vanden Plas - Beyond Daylight
Vanden Plas - Far Off Grace
Tad Morose - Modus Vivendi
Queensryche - Operation Mindcrime
Dream Theater - Images and Words
Metallica - AJFA
Metal Church - Blessing in Disguise

Preferred metal sub-genre?

prog/power

Favourite guitarist?

Wolf Hoffmann

Favourite drummer?

Stian Kristoffersen

Favourite vocalist?

Urban Breed

Favourite bassist?

Francis Bucholz

Favourite keyboardist?

Gunter werno

Favourite composer?

Piotr Ilyitch Tchaikovsky

Favourite lyricist?

Andy Kuntz

Favourite post-1990 band?

Vanden Plas

Favourite post-2000 band?

Pagans Mind

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

Pagans Mind

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


Accept


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

Bryant

 

[Igor_Cavalera]

So Igor, what about you? After putting us all through album/band selection HELL its time to show us your colours.

Hehe, I thought I could get away with it. Looks like I'm going to have to do it now


Top 10 favourite bands?

Iron Maiden
Black Sabbath
Symphony X
Metallica (Pre Black album)
Slayer
Sepultura (Max era)
Death
Deep Purple
Children Of Bodom
Bruce Dickinson

Top 10 favourite albums?

Iron Maiden - "Powerslave"
Sepultura - "Beneath The Remains"
Black Sabbath - "Paranoid"
Ozzy Osbourne - "Blizzard Of Oz"
Slayer - "Reign In Blood"
Symphony X - "The Odyssey"
Black Sabbath - "Sabbath, Bloody Sabbath"
Bruce Dickinson - "Accident Of Birth"
Metallica - "Ride The Lightning"
Pantera - "Cowboys From Hell"

Honerable mentions:
Sepultura - "Arise"
Metallica - "Master Of Puppets"
Slayer - "South Of Heaven"
Black Sabbath - "Master Of Reality"
Pantera - "Vulgar Display Of Power"

Preferred metal sub-genre?

Heavy, Thrash, Power

Favourite guitarist?

Randy Rhoads (R.I.P.)

Favourite drummer?

Igor Cavalera

Favourite vocalist?

Bruce Dickinson

Favourite bassist?

Steve Harris

Favourite keyboardist?

John Lord

Favourite composer?

Michael Romeo

Favourite lyricist?

I'm not too sure..

Favourite post-1990 band?

Symphony X

Favourite post-2000 band?

Zero Hour

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

Zero Hour. They're one of very few really new bands I like.

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

Iron Maiden!!! Come to Australia!!!!!!

 

[Hawk]

Hehe, I thought I could get away with it. Looks like I'm going to have to do it now

Thats what I thought you bastard!

Thats quite a good list Igor! It rocks man!! And yea Zero Hour rule!!

 

[Igor_Cavalera]

Thanks Hawk
It was it was waaaaay harder than I thought. I wanted to fit heaps more on there

Zero Hour do rule. Thanks for introducing me to them!!

 

[Hawk]

Thanks Hawk
It was it was waaaaay harder than I thought. I wanted to fit heaps more on there

Zero Hour do rule. Thanks for introducing me to them!!

I am on a mission from god to introduce the known universe to the awesome power that is Zero Hour!

Its great to hear you like them that much. I hope one day you get the chance to meet them. They are very friendly and cool people.

 

[Bryant]

I am on a mission from god to introduce the known universe to the awesome power that is Zero Hour!

Its great to hear you like them that much. I hope one day you get the chance to meet them. They are very friendly and cool people.

Zero Hour played at Prog Power III. I went to II, IV and V and unfortunately had to miss III. Cool band though. You are going to have a blast at PPVI !!


Bryant