These are my heroes:
* Steve Harris (Maiden's number one, his songs aaaargh)
* Jimmy Page & Robert Plant / and Robert Fripp (they layed the fundaments to metal)
* Aaron Stainthorpe (a lot of good lyrics are from his hand if you ask me)
* Max Cavalera (ok the last one isn't that good
or perhaps I'm getting into proper stuff
)
* Anathema (best band ever...)
* Waters & Gilmour (ok, lot will say Gilmour sucks
but he was also a part of those legendary albums..., and he really can play the guitar...)
* Good ol' Metallica (is there any who disagree? I never met someone who dislikes master of puppets
)
* and other ones too, but these are the most important for me...