Your favorite bands/musicians?

[Matt-S]

My 20 favourite Metal/Rock artists in alphabetical order:

Audiovision
Demon Hunter
Divinefire
Ecthirion
Ensiferum
Equilibrium
HB
Holy Blood
In Extremo
Korpiklaani
Mortification
Narnia
Nightwish
Sabaton
Scandinavian Metal Praise
Skillet
Switchfoot
Theocracy
VIZA
Within Temptation

 

[Aish!]

My 20 favourite Rock/Metal artists in alphabetical order:

Adiastasia
Ascension
Björn Stigsson
Deliverance
Ecthirion
HB
Mortification
One Bad Pig
Saint
Scelerata
Shout
Sonata Arctica
Steve Taylor
Stryper
Temple of Blood
Theocracy
The Toerags
Tourniquet
X-Sinner
Yngwie Malmsteen


My 20 favourite "Classical" composers in alphabetical order:

Aish!
Bach
Brahms
Dvořák
Elgar
Fauré
Gounod
Handel
Haydn
Liszt
Mahler
Mozart
Parry
Rachmaninov
Schubert
Sibelius
Smetana
Sullivan
Tchaikovsky
Verdi

12 other great artists I love:

Bing Crosby
Frank Sinatra
Glenn Miller
New Order
Oingo Boingo
Placido Domingo
Shiro Sagisu
Shnabubula
Tokyo Ghetto Pussy
Tom Jones
Toni Pearen
Weezer

 

[robhudd]

My favorite band of all-time is Theocracy!!! Theocracy is everything I could ever want in a metal band! The LYRICS, stunning vocals, incredible guitars & drumming are all simply amazing! You guys RULE!

 

[Verbum Lux]

I don't feel like doing a big list at the moment, so I'll just follow the OP's lead and give my top five:

!. Theocracy

2. Leaves' Eyes

3. Tarja

4. Symphony X

5. Phish

Aish - Nice to see another Sinatra fan here.

 

[Ichthys Records]

That's a hard one...
But in no definitive order
Theocracy
Stryper
Narnia
Audiovision
Nightwish
Switchfoot
Skillet
Benjamin Havskog
Bloodgood
Shane Tracy
Rob Rock

 

[Parched Earth]

In approximate order (really only the first two are in definite order - #3-10 can fluctuate)
1. Theocracy
2. Dream Theater
3. Veni Domine
4. Sonata Arctica
5. Pain Of Salvation
6. Fates Warning
7. Helloween
8. Stryper
9. Queensryche (at least through Promised Land)
10. Nightwish, Galactic Cowboys, or any other number of bands could be here

 

[Matt-S]

Ichthys Records - great favourite bands, I love most of them. Cool to see another Narnia-fan here!

 

[Matt-S]

Aish!
- Ecthirion and HB - great bands!

 

[FleshAndBloodTheocracy]

In no particular order

Metal:
Theocracy
Nightwish
Epica
Becoming the Archetype
Sonata Arctica
Iced Earth
Avenged Sevenfold
Metallica

Hard Rock
Three Days Grace
Disturbed
Godsmack
Skillet
Thousand Foot Krutch
Disciple
Bon Jovi
Led Zeppelin
Love and Death/Brian "Head" Welch

Rock
Icon for Hire
Relient K
Nine Lashes
Anberlin
Paramore
Chris Tomlin
Hillsong
Hillsong United
Journey
Kansas
Deep Purple

Pop
Katy Perry
Natasha Bedingfield
Family Force 5

Rap
Eminem
Lecrae
Flame
Fort Minor

Country
Creedance Clearwater Revival

 

[Aish!]

^
Hey F&BT, that's quite a range!

Aish!
- Ecthirion and HB - great bands!

I especially love HB because they lead me to Theocracy - the greatest band EVER!!!

I'm not a huge screamo fan, but Ecthirion has so much variety and uses the screams so well. I just wish I could get hold of more of their stuff...

 

[MetalSummer]

I mostly love all the ProgPower/Melodic Metal bands. My favourite band is Evil Masquerade from Denmark, who are still relatively unknown but have just released their 5th album - Pentagram..well worth checking out. Here's a showreel preview from it -

Other bands I love -

Firewind (same singer as Evil Masquerade)
Pagans Mind
Communic
Lacuna Coil
Sonata Arctica
Kamelot
Allen/Lande
...and many many more in that style

Others...

Megadeth
Whitesnake
Deep Purple
Dio
Black Sabbath
Judas Priest

etc etc.

 

[Soldier777]

Here are my top favorite bands/artists in no particular order:
Petra
Stryper
Michael Sweet
Joshua Perahia
Deliverance
Guardian
Rob Rock (solo, Driver, Impellitteri, Fires of Babylon)
Mastedon (John and Dino Elefante's group)
Resurrection (Rez) Band
Saint
Theocracy
Whiteheart
Whitecross
X-Sinner
Rex Scott's (X-Sinner) GX Project
Ken Tamplin and Shout
Dream Theater


Other bands/artists I am into in no particular order:
Angelica
Barren Cross
Bloodgood
Holy Soldier
Sacred Warrior
Siloam
Daniel Band
HB
Magdallan/Magdalen

 

[Verbum Lux]

Icon for Hire

Icon for Hire is FREAKING AWESOME. Scripted is one of the best debut albums ever.

 

[lady_metal1978]

Lovin all those bands!!! One band i was introduced to is Saviour Machine.. theatrical but cool! I like, Behold A Pale Horse.

 

[lady_metal1978]

check this out!

http://youtu.be/YdGT75fsIEw

Behold the suffering unspeakable in death
And the abominations of the earth;
Its desolation turns,
And now there is no life in her ...

Behold the pale horse ...
With fire in its eyes, with murder its rides,
Behold the grave sword ...
It slays in violent horror, it preys in war ...

Behold the scales of famine tear the flesh of men,
And harvest all the bodies of the dead;
The lifeless continents
Are lined beneath the carcasses ...

Behold the pale horse ...
And death be not proud, and life be not found.
Behold the plague comes,
And the haunting epidemic - infectious - has begun ...

Behold the horrifying evidence,
The sequence of prophetic events,
The escalation fate ascends,
The darkest hour lies ahead ...

Behold a pale horse ...
And hell follow thee; in darkness it feeds,
Behold, the unseen world
Of Hades arise ... burning in time ...

Behold, the fourth seal
Is broken; it is revealed ...
Behind the face of God;
In the silence of heaven concealed;

The seventh seal ...

 

[Snert]

Okay, here are my favorite favorites:

Hard Music
Saviour Machine (@lady_metal1978: You were introduced to a great band )
Theocracy
Amorphis
Wuthering Heights
Bloodgood
Petra


Rock/CCM
Casting Crowns
Third Day
Petra
Michael W. Smith
The O.C. Supertones
Danny Plett
Lifehouse
Live
Bon Jovi

Instrumental/Classical/Orchestral
Some works I love:
Michael W. Smith - Freedom
Michael W. Smith - Glory
John Powell - Soundtrack: How to train your dragon
Thomas Bergersen - Illusions
A. Vivaldi - The Four Seasons
G. F. Händel - Opus No. 7
WDR Rundfunkorchestra - Concerts with film and game music played by this orchestra

 

[lady_metal1978]

Hey Thanks! I lot of those I like myself. Right now i'm favouring Theocracy!