What 1 band or player...

[Jeffy]

...Has the biggest influence on your style? We all are influenced by a lot of artists but I'm curious to know who effects your playing the most. For me it's probably At The Gates, at least at the moment .

 

[Evil Ernie]

Judas Priest, Testament, Opeth... among others.

 

[Clammy]

Lemmy and Motorhead

Cheers!

 

[Leper_/-\ffinity]

Mikael Akerfeldt, David Gilmour, Dan Swano, Peter Tagtgren, Alex Lifeson, Jimmy Page

 

[Jeffy]

I was kind of looking for you to name 1 person or group, but it doesn't matter, those are all fine answers.

 

[Metal is Religion]

for me, In Flames/Jesper Stromblad and Death/Chuck Schudler(however its spelled) have the biggest influence on me.

 

[Evil Ernie]

God damn I forgot Chuck Shuldiner. Great influence.

 

[USMC0341]

As a bassist, I would have to name 2:

Steve Harris from Iron Maiden and Cliff Burton from Metallica...

 

[oneshotendsthiswar]

testament, children of bodom, decapitated

 

[NAD]

Les Claypool, since he is why I play bass. As far as style, I've always said if Kerry King played slap bass, he'd sound like me.

 

[Break Zero]

For guitar, If I were to narrow it down to one, it would be Dave Mustaine.
If I cited a few influences, I'd say Megadeth, Crowbar, Nevermore, Vio-Lence, Testament, and Black Sabbath.
Vocals, I'd probably have to say Chuck Billy. Overall, alot of the 80's rough, angry sounding voices, like James Hetfield back in the day, maybe Phil Anselmo (I also tend to hit high notes similar to Halford like Phil did on Cowboys From Hell)

 

[King Chaos]

Id Say Anders Bjorler (At the gates/The Haunted) did when I wrote my best thrashy material, but now with more mellodic deathmetal flowing through my veins I get inspiration from Suidakras guitar style (very similar to Kalmah and Susperias riffs).

 

[i acnt spell]

Chuck Schuldiner, I'd have to say.

 

[SevenString]

guitar playing : paul gilbert (early racer-x days)
vocals : carl albert (vicious rumors)

as for my current influences, i'm listening to a lot of russ allen and jorn lande for vox, and sym-x, vanden plas, ark, and transatlantic for songwriting

 

[ExhumedKarcass]

Right now my biggest influence is the vocals of Circle Of Dead Children

 

[demondeath]

anders bjorler! (at the gates). hetfield and hammet of course.(metallica),dave mustaine.(megadeth) Bill Steer and Ammott!(carcass) fuck those guys are great.
for the bands. in flames,angelcorpse,slayer,megadeth,the haunted,Carcass and a lil bit of malmsteen

 

[EdenBeast]

Different styles and bands , from My Dying Bride to After Forever to Death ....

 

[Bryant]

Wolf Hoffmann from Accept is/was amazing. The only modern guitarist I can think of that can even come close to rivaling his great style is Jorn Viggo Lofstsat of Pagans Mind. Wolf is da man !!


Bryant

 

[MFJ]

My style would best be represented as a mix between Burzum/Darkthrone/Vintersong

(older Vintersorg, that is)

Interesting, yes... but in a good way, I'd say.