The night... the cry of wolves... Autumn... Winter... ice and snow... old cemeteries... grey skies... European history... forests... ancient ruins... music...
Destruction, Imperator, Mutilator, (old) Sepultura, Vulcano, (old) Samael, the 1st Deicide, (old) Emperor, Thergothon, Sacramentum, Throne of Ahaz, Sorhin, Clandestine Blaze, Maniac Butcher, Deathspell Omega, Abyssic Hate, Horna, Katharsis, (old) Satyricon, Isengard, Carnage/Dismember, Brutality, Hypocrisy, Necromantia, (old) Rotting Christ, Varathron, the 1st Grave, (old) Katatonia, Autopsy, Massacre, Immolation, (old) Unleashed, (old) At the Gates, the 1st Sentenced, (old) Bethlehem, (old) My Dying Bride, Paragon Belial, (old) Amorphis, Incantation, (old) Enslaved, Nihilist/Entombed, the 1st Therion, the 1st Anathema, the 1st Aeternus, (old) Paradise Lost, Von, Archgoat, Blasphemy, Coroner, Bloodstone, (old) Edge of Sanity, Mournful Congregation, (old) Malevolent Creation, Mortician, Skepticism, Silencer, Worship, Hearse, Loss, (old) Dark Funeral, Infernal, The Abyss, Twilight, Aura Noir, Unpure, Satanized, Bloodbath, The Black, Vlad Tepes, Paragon Impure, Belketre, Nortt, Armagedda, I Shalt Become, Ofermod, Pentagram, Black Sabbath, Motorhead, (old) Metallica, Testament, Dark Angel, Exumer, Voivod, Sacrifice,(old) Anthrax, (old) Megadeth, (old) Savatage, Helloween, Exodus, Sanctuary, Flotsam & Jetsam, Hallows Eve, (old) Iron Maiden, Candlemass, Samhain, Diamond Head, the 1st Acheron, (old) Carcass, (old) Sinister, (old) Pestilence...
Horror - Nosferatu, Vampyr, Dracula, Mark of the Vampire, The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, The Devil Bat, The Raven, et cetera. A good number more of old films featuring Bela Lugosi, Boris Karloff and Vincent Price.
Halloween, Subspecies, Maniac, Friday the 13th, Night of the Living Dead, Nosferatu the Vampyre, Evil Dead, Suspiria, The Beyond, Demons, Hellraiser, A Nightmare On Elm Street, Don't Torture A Duckling, the Texas Chainsaw Massacre, Shadow of the Vampire, The Shining, The Exorcist, Night of the Demons, Phantasm, Return of the Living Dead, Tenebrae, Two Evil Eyes, Phenomena, The House By the Cemetery, City of the Living Dead, The Omen, Tombs of the Blind Dead, House of 1000 Corpses, etc.
European History, Northern European Mythology, Tolkien, etc.
I do not have heroes, rather, there are a very few people whom I admire and respect... Vlad Tepes has always fascinated me...