My Favorite Bands
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3 INCHES OF BLOOD
A BLACK ROSE BURIAL
ABHORRENT
ABORTED
THE ABSENCE
ACID DEATH
AEON
AEON SPOKE
AGALLOCH
AGHORA
AGATHODAIMON
AINULINDALE
AKIRISE
ALARUM
ALCHEMIST
ALETHEIAN
ALICE IN CHAINS
ALL THAT REMAINS
ALMAH
AMON AMARTH
AMORAL
AMORPHIC FORM
AMORPHIS
ANATA
ANCESTRAL STIGMATA
ANCHORHEAD
ANDROMEDA
ANEKDOTEN
ANGRA
ANNIHILATOR
ANOMALOUS
ANOUSHKA SHANKAR
ANTHRAX
ANTIMATTER
APALLING SPAWN
ARCHAIC
ARSIS
ATHEIST
ATROPHIA RED SUN
ATTENTION DEFICIT
AUGURY
AVULSED
AYREON
AZARATH
BARONESS
BECOMING THE ARCHETYPE
BEHEMOTH
BEHOLD... THE ARCTOPUS
BENAEATH THE MASSACRE
BENIGHTED
BETWEEN THE BURIED AND ME
BIOMECHANICAL
BIRCH BOOK
BLACKFIELD
BLACK LABEL SOCIETY
BLACK SABBATH
BLIND GUARDIAN
BLIND MELON
BLOODBATH
BLOTTED SCIENCE
BLUE OYSTER CULT
BORKNAGAR
BOSTON
BRAIN DRILL
BURNING INSIDE
BUSH
C-187
CAB
CACOPHONY
CANVAS SOLARIS
CAPHARNAUM
CARCARIASS
CARCASS
THE CARDIGANS
CARNAL FORGE
CATAMENIA
CELLADOR
CEPHALIC CARNAGE
CHILDREN OF BODOM
CIRCLE OF DEAD CHILDREN
CODEON
COMMUNIC
CONFESSOR
CONTROL DENIED
COPROFAGO
CORONER
COSMICS
COSMOSQUAD
CRUACHAN
CRYSTALIC
CRYPTIC WINTERMOON
CRYPTOSPY
CULT OF LUNA
CYNIC
DALI'S DILEMMA
DAMAGE PLAN
DARK SUNS
DARKANE
DARKSIDE
DARKWOOD
DAUGHTERS
DEADSQUAD
DEAD SYNDICATE
DEATH
DECAPITATED
DECREPIT BIRTH
DEFEATED SANITY
DEICIDE
DEMILICH
DEMIRICOUS
DESTRUCTION
DETHKLOK
DEVIL DRIVER
DEVILYN
DIABLO
DIM MAK
DISAVOWED
DISILLUSION
DISMEMBER
DISSECTION
DIVINE HERESY
DIVISION BY ZERO
DOWN
DRAGONLAND
DREAMSCAPE
DREAM THEATER
DUBLIN DEATH PATROL
DUDE PLAYS SAXOPHONE
DYING FETUS
DYSRHYTHMIA
EARLY MAN
EDGAR WINTER
EDGE OF SANITY
ELUVEITIE
ELVENKING
EMETH
ENSIFERUM
ENSLAVED
EQUILIBRIUM
EPHEL DUATH
ESTRADASPHERE
EVELYN GLENNIE
EXHORDER
EXODUS
THE FACELESS
FARMAKON
FAZJAZ.JP
FILTER
FINNTROLL
FIREWIND
FJORD
FLAYING
FOO FIGHTERS
FOLKEARTH
FORLORN LEGACY
FORSETI
FRAGILE
FRANK ZAPPA
FREAKEYS
FREDERICK THORDENDAL'S SPECIAL DEFECTS
FUSEBOXX
GAMALON
GALNERYUS
GNOSTIC
GODLESS TRUTH
GORDIAN KNOT
GORGASM
GORGUTS
GOROD
GORY BLISTER
GRAVEWORM
GREEN CARNATION
GUILD OF DESTRUCTION
GWAR
HAMMERFALL
HATE ETERNAL
HELLOWEEN
HENRY COW
HIECTIC PATTERNS
HIERONYMUS BOSCH
HOUR OF PENANCE
THE HUMAN ABSTRACT
HUMANOID
ICED EARTH
ILLNATH
ILLOGICIST
IMMORTAL
IMMORTAL SOULS
INDUKTI
IN GOWAN RING
IN THE WOODS...
INCINERATE
INFERI
INSISION
INSOMNIUM
INTO ETERNITY
IN VAIN
IRON MAIDEN
ISIS
IWRESTLEDABEARONCE
JAG PANZER
JASON BECKER
THE JOY OF NATURE
JUDAS PREIST
KAI KUROSAWA
KAIPA
KALMAH
KARABOUDJAN
KARCIUS
KARL SANDERS
KATAKALYSM
KAYO DOT
KING CRIMSON
KIUAS
KORPIKLAANI
KREATOR
KRISIUN
LALLE LARSSON
LAMB OF GOD
LED ZEPPELIN
LIQUID TENSION EXPERIMENT
LOST SOUL
LYRNYRD SKYNYRD
MACHINE HEAD
MADE OF HATE
MAHAVISHNU ORCHESTRA
MAJESTY
MALEVOLENT CREATION
MANEGARM
MARDUK
THE MARS VOLTA
MARTYR
MASTODON
MATRAZ
MATS/MORGAN BAND
MEGADETH
MESHUGGAH
METAL CHURCH
METALLICA
MONSTROSITY
MOONGAZING HARE
MOONSORROW
MORBID ANGEL
MORTAL DECAY
MUTINY
MYRKSKOG
NAGLFAR
NAPALM DEATH
NEBELUNG
NECROPHAGIST
NEGLECTED FIELDS
NEGURA BUNGET
NEUN WELTEN
NEVERMORE
NIGHTINGALE
NILE
NOCTURNAL RITES
NOCTURNUS
NOVEMBRE
NOVEMTHREE
OBSCURA
OBSIDIAN
ODIOUS MORTEM
OHM
ON THE VIRG
OPETH
ORIGIN
ORDER OF ENNEAD
ORPHANED LAND
OUTWORLD
OVERKILL
PAN.THY.MONIUM
PANTERA
PARIA
PAVOR
PEARL JAM
PESTILENCE
PITBULLS IN THE NURSERY
PLANET X
PORCUPINE TREE
PORTAL
PRIMUS
PSYCROPTIC
QUIDAM
QUO VADIS
RACER X
RECIPROCAL
RED HOT CHILI PEPPERS
RETURN TO FOREVER
RHAPSODY OF FIRE
RINGO STARR
RIVERSIDE
RUSH
SABHANKRA
SCAR SYMMETRY
SCEPTIC
SCULPTURED
SEPULTURA
SEVERED SAVIOR
SHADE EMPIRE
SHADOW GALLERY
SHAWN LANE
THE SHOWDOWN
SICKENING HORROR
SIEGES EVEN
SIGH
SKINLESS
SLAYER
SLEEP TERROR
SOILENT GREEN
SOILWORK
SOLSTICE
SOMBRES FORETS
SOUL SOURCE
SOUNDGARDEN
SPASTIC INK
SPAWN OF POSESSION
SPIRAL ARCHITECT
STONE TEMPLE PILOTS
STRATOVARIUS
SUBTERRANEAN MASQUERADE
SUIDAKRA
SUFFOCATION
SULACO
SYMBYOSIS
SYMBIOTIC IN THEORY
SYMPHONY X
SYSTEM OF A DOWN
T-SQUARE
TENHI
TERMINAL FUNCTION
TESTAMENT
TEXTURES
THEORY IN PRACTICE
THERION
THOLUS
THROUGH THE EYES OF THE DEAD
TO-MERA
TOOL
TONY SCOTT
TOXIC DEATH
TRIGGER THE BLOODSHED
TURISAS
TYRANT THRONE
UNCLE MOE'S SPACE RANCH
UNMERCIFUL
UZEB
VADER
VALI
VISCERAL BLEEDING
VITAL REMAINS
VORNAGAR
VILE
VINTERSORG
VIRAEMIA
VIRTUOCITY
VITALIJ KUPRIJ
WARMEN
WATCHTOWER
WINTERSUN
WOLVERINE
WORLD UNDER BLOOD
YATTERING
ZYKLON
Metal and Fusion Jazz are my favorites. I also like Folk music, Zen and Healing music, Classical, Southern Rock, and anything progressive.
My Favorite Guitarists
Guthrie Govan
Shawn Lane
Ron Jarzombek
Allan Holdsworth
Paco De Lucia
Al Di Meola
Frank Gambale
John Mclaughlin
Wes Montgomery
Matias Kupiainen
Paulo Schroeber
Kiko Loureiro
Alex Hutchings
Jason Becker
T.J. Helmerich
Bret Garsed
Steve Vai
Tony MacAlpine
Antoine Dufour
Andy McKee
Paul Gilbert
Santiago Dobles
John Petrucci
Per Nilsson
Chris Broderick
Scott Henderson
Koichi Yabori
Syu
Greg Howe
Fernando Miyata
Shane Gibson
Robert Marcello
Marcelo Barbosa
Ron Thal
Mattias IA Eklundh
Jari Mäenpää
Christian Muenzer
Jonas Bryssling
Jonas Karlsson
Muhammed Suicmez
Paul Masvidal
James Murphy
Alex Skolnick
Michael Romeo
Rusty Cooley
James Malone
Peter Lake
Tom MacLean
Jeff Kollman
Dave Weiner
John Cassio
Nori Bucci
Chris Poland
Takayoshi Ohmura
Jeff Loomis
Marco Sfogli
Daniel Mongrain
Fredrik Thordendal
Ryan Knight
Johan Reinholdz
Mikko Salovaara
Marty Friedman
Luke Jaeger
Erik Sagardia
Mark Evans
Zeb Nilsson
Edu Ardanuy
Stef Burns
Jeff Waters
Rand Burkey
Dave Suzuki
John Li
Chuck Schuldiner
Matt Sotelo
Joe Haley
Michael Keene
Masahiro Andoh
Kelly Shaefer
and FRANK ZAPPA!
My Favorite Bassists
Jonas Hellborg
Jeroen Paul Thesseling
Sean Malone
Erlend Caspersen
Victor Wooten
Tetsuo Sakurai
Stuart Hamm
Alan Goldstein
Lars Norberg
Steve DiGiorgio
Kevin Glasgow
Bunny Brunel
John Myung
Tony Choy
Gary Willis
Jaco Pastorius
John Patitucci
Kai Kurosawa
Jeff Hughell
Mike Flores
Stefan Fimmers
Trey Gunn
Colin Marston
Alain Caron
Mark Palfreyman
Les Claypool
My Favorite Drummers
Dennis Chambers
Morgan Ã…gren
Jeff Sipe
Marco Minneman
Dave Murray
Peter Wildoer
Tony Royster Jr.
Nathaniel Townsley
Virgil Donati
Billy Cobham
Johnny Rabb
Thomas Lang
Sean Reinert
Stef Broks
Giann Rubio
Richard Christy
Hunter Ginn
Kirk Covington
George Kollias
Mike Mangini
Romain Goulon
Flo Mounier
Gene Hoglan
Marcelo Ruiz
Bobby Jarzombek
David Weckl
Thomas Haake
Chad Wackerman
Kai Hahto
Steve Flynn
Charlie Zeleny
Mike Portnoy
Brett Batdorf
Tim Yeung
Lille Gruber
Dariusz Brzozowski
Jon Longstreth
Antonio Donadeo
Zbigniew "Inferno" Promiński
Dennis Rondum
Patrice Hamelin
Kuba Kogut
Jens Maluschka
Paul Westwood
Deen Castronovo
Thomas Lejon
Chris Adler
KC Howard
Max Kolesne
Rob Brens
Brann Dailor
Danny Carey
Dave Suzuki
Conny Pettersson
Marco Pitruzella
Van Williams
Joe Cangelosi