Who is your biggest metal influence?

[Iron Chef Sakai]

What band, singer, album or metal song has influenced you the most? and why is it the most influential to you?

For song, I'm going to say Spellbound by Dimmu Borgir, its the one song for some reason got into listening black metal all the time!

 

[ohiogrinder]

Fenriz from Darkthrone
Bill Steer of Napalm Death/Carcass/Blackstar/Firebird
Tony Iommi from Black Sabbath

 

[ThisIsACoolName]

Probably The Lumberjack Song. What with all the cross-dressing and all.

 

[Vitor]

bands:

carcass, napalm death, sepultura, slayer, judas priest, cannibal corpse

albuns:

reek of putrefaction, tomb of the mutilated, utopia banished, beneath the remains, painkiller, hell awaits

 

[Zephyrus]

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Simen Hestnaes a.k.a. ICS Vortex. The Borknagar albums he sings on are what got me into black metal, and he's the main reason I'm starting to play the bass guitar.

 

[genocide roach]

emperor (ihsahn as well)
borknagar
bathory
enslaved

those are pretty much my biggest influences. though, my dying bride has been a recent influence
~gR~

 

[Fury of the Storm]

Janne Warmen got me to do keyboard
Jazz got me to do Alto Saxophone

 

[Astrum]

Burzum and Darkthrone got me into the music I most listen to today; they are still two of my favorite bands.

 

[cookiecutter]

Hypocrisy - Roswell 47 for getting me into Death Metal.
Slayer - Dead Skin Mask for getting me into metal in general.

 

[Nikki]

Angela Gossow as far as frontwomen go.

Layne Staley,Hansi Kursch and Stu Block for vocals.

 

[~Derek~]

David Vincent, Chris Barnes, and Glen Benton are my death metal influences for my vocals.
Morbid Angel got me into Death Metal, Emperor got me into Black Metal, didn't need Cradle or Dimmu to be a gateway band.

 

[genocide roach]

David Vincent, Chris Barnes, and Glen Benton are my death metal influences for my vocals.

you and everyone else.

for my voccals you can add matt harvey (exhmed) to that list
~gR~

 

[Vitor]

madonna, michael jackson, david bowie and evander hollyfield

 

[Unfaithfully Metalhead]

David Vincent, Chris Barnes, and Glen Benton are my death metal influences for my vocals.
Morbid Angel got me into Death Metal, Emperor got me into Black Metal, didn't need Cradle or Dimmu to be a gateway band.

Oh no u didn't go that way lol :: Hits u over head with a metal bat :: leave it for the other thread... anyways I don't know what influenced me more... Def Leppard's Pyromania got me into metal to begin with back in 1983... and i progressed from there.. but as for extreme metal I would have to say starting with Thrash circa 1986... Metallica, Megadeth and Slayer...

 

[Carcassian]

Megadeth.

 

[Son of Evil]

1) Iron Maiden - for getting me into Metal. Number of the Beast did it.

2) Gamma Ray - Discovered Power Metal. I listened to their song 'Rebellion in Dreamland' and loved it. Since then, I have pretty much exhausted the genre, it no longer holds the interest it did once for me.

2) Dream Theater - I found them to be an absoultely amazing band at the time. Progressive Metal was the second subgenre of Metal I got into, and it led me to a whole plethora of awesome bands like Shadow Gallery, Fates Warning, Green Carnation, etc. My favorite genre of Metal, and I don't think I will ever get tired of it.

As far as Thrash and Death Metal goes, I am into all the major bands of the two genres, but still exploring the genres. Same for Black Metal. I am still an 'Extreme Metal' novice, but I really like what I have so far, from it.

 

[stupidsoul1]

Opeth,Children of bodom, dream theater,evergrey i guess.

I never really touched the piano until i realised how melodically beautiful it sounded.

I love to play iced earth on the bass

 

[hibernal_dream]

Gene $immons. I just look to everything he does and aspire to do the absolute opposite.

 

[Personified Hatred]

Burzum, Darkthrone, Ulver and Metallica.

 

[The Heartbreak Kid]

Def Leppard