Top 10 Favorite Bands

Metal in no order:

In Flames
Amorphis
Nightwish
Devin Townsend
Metallica (except St Anger)
Machine Head
Paradise Lost
Bathory
Iron Maiden
Dream Theater

Non Metal (In nor order too):
Queen
Muse
Steve Vai
KMFDM
Nine Inch Nails
Pink Floyd
Radiohead
Joe Satriani
Sisters Of Mercy
Shihad
 
Porcupine Tree
Mogwai
Nasum
Discordance Axis
Gadget
Psycroptic
Alchemist
Omega Massif
Caustic Resin
Raw Radar War

at the moment.....
 
Not in order

Slipknot
Dimmu Borgir
Cradle of Filth
In Flames
Moonsorrow
Haggard
System of a Down
Children of Bodom
Soilwork
Bal-Sagoth
 
Not in a particular order

Marduk
Slayer
Zyklon
Behemoth
Dimmu Borgir
Limbonic Art
Immortal
Kreator
Destruction
My Dying Bride
 
I have more than 10 bands in my sig, and tastes change, but yeah...still a fairly valid representation of my tastes.
 
What's a good Steely Dan album to start out with?

I think Countdown to Ecstasy is their best, so I'd go with that one. It's the only one of their albums that I like every single song from, and some of the songs are really memorable.
 
1.Sonata Artica
2.Judas Priest
3.Helloween
4.Gamma Ray
5.Vio-Lence
6.Europe
7.Testament
8.Exciter
9.Skid Row
10.Rage
 
Primordial
Meshuggah
Acid Bath
Grimlair
In The Woods
Bathory
Nortt
Iron Maiden
Radiohead
Temnozor'
 
1. Dream Theater
2. Iron Maiden
3. Arcturus
4. Judas Priest
5. Megadeth
6. Symphony X
7. Emperor
8. Heathen
9. Yes (hey, you didn't explicitly state metal bands!)
10. Borknagar