Who are your top 5 bands/musicians?
- Thread starter Kenbo Slice
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My favorites change somewhat frequently but at the moment it's something like this:
5 - Voltaire
4 - Steam Powered Giraffe
3 - Cradle of Filth
2 - Helloween
1 - Seikima II (Seikimatsu)
5 - I love his content and I can sing along to most of his songs.
4 - It's difference but like with Voltaire, I can sing along to their songs...and what's better, I can sing along at work without fear of explaining why I'm singing about necrophelia!
3 - I grew up with this band so chalk this up to Nostalgia. Out of all their albums, my favorites are the ones that are full on narratives such as Cruelty and the Beast and, Damnation and a Day.
2 - I like Iron Maiden but for every Fear of the Dark or, Number of the Beast they have 5 - 7 songs that I don't care about. Helloween is similar to Iron Maiden (in my mind anyway) with the only difference being that I can listen to their albums from start to finish...multiple times over. Loves me the Keeper of the Seven Keys trilogy!
1 - Awesome metal band from Japan. I dunno how to describe them since they went through a few styles.
With an incredibly special mention that goes out to Diana Garnet who performed Spinning World, the ending theme to the latest (32nd I think) season of Naruto. Her voice...does things to me.
5 - Voltaire
4 - Steam Powered Giraffe
3 - Cradle of Filth
2 - Helloween
1 - Seikima II (Seikimatsu)
5 - I love his content and I can sing along to most of his songs.
4 - It's difference but like with Voltaire, I can sing along to their songs...and what's better, I can sing along at work without fear of explaining why I'm singing about necrophelia!
3 - I grew up with this band so chalk this up to Nostalgia. Out of all their albums, my favorites are the ones that are full on narratives such as Cruelty and the Beast and, Damnation and a Day.
2 - I like Iron Maiden but for every Fear of the Dark or, Number of the Beast they have 5 - 7 songs that I don't care about. Helloween is similar to Iron Maiden (in my mind anyway) with the only difference being that I can listen to their albums from start to finish...multiple times over. Loves me the Keeper of the Seven Keys trilogy!
1 - Awesome metal band from Japan. I dunno how to describe them since they went through a few styles.
With an incredibly special mention that goes out to Diana Garnet who performed Spinning World, the ending theme to the latest (32nd I think) season of Naruto. Her voice...does things to me.
My tastes periodically shift, but a few things tend to stay the same (none of these are in any particular order).
Runners up:
Blue Stahli (similar reasons to Celldweller).
Coheed and Cambria (I like some of their albums, that and Domino the Destitute is one of my favorite songs of all time).
All That Remains (similar reasons to Disturbed, but my interest has waned over time).
After listening to some of Klayton's tracks in Dead Rising 2 I became hooked to his work.
Disturbed was the first band I really fell in love with. Maybe because they were different from what everybody else was listening to at the time (which was exclusively rap, hip-hop, R&B, and pop) I latched onto them. That and David Draiman's pipes are a gift from the gods or demons!
I actually got into Nine Inch Nails a few years ago after finding out that Trent Reznor did the soundtrack for Quake (my childhood), but it took quite a while for me to really start listening to the songs. But once I listened to the entirety of The Downward Spiral (which to be frank, I basically forced myself to listen to it) I really began to like them.
I learned about Scar Symmetry after hearing the song "Quantumleaper" in a sprite video called VG Exiles 3 in which it was used as fight music. My reaction was basically the same as the Headbangers from Brutal Legend when they first hear Metal. I tried to find their CD's but Nuclear Blast Records a a bunch of assholes and don't release the band's CD's in the States, so I got them on iTunes instead...fucking pain in the ass. Either way Holographic Universe became one of my favorite albums of all time.
Generally my favorite Sabbath songs were sung by either Ozzy Osbourne or Ronnie James Dio, but no matter what Black Sabbath deserve the respect they get. It helps that my first concert was Black Sabbath.
Blue Stahli (similar reasons to Celldweller).
Coheed and Cambria (I like some of their albums, that and Domino the Destitute is one of my favorite songs of all time).
All That Remains (similar reasons to Disturbed, but my interest has waned over time).