oh yeah...forgot the Blue Man Group...the DVD-A of Audio and Complex roxx!!!!

i listen to a lot of stuff, but i think it would be pointless to make a huge list of bands. I would only name the shit im into now, and the stuff i always go back to when im feeling down, or really happy. You know, the stuff you REALLY like a lot.

Devin Townsend (included it only because he is definitely in my top 2 or 3)
Black Label Society
Zakk Wylde
Opeth
Strapping Young Lad
Iced Earth
Katatonia
and a few others that i might be forgetting, but that is mostly my FAVORITE stuff. I would call this tier 1 as you put it.

maybe i will add a few tier 2 shit, but it will not be complete
Lamb of God
Children of Bodom
Slayer
3 Doors Down
Death
Nevermore
Pantera (RIP Dime )
Down
Superjoint Ritual
Testament
and more of course

Porcupine Tree, The Beatles, Pink Floyd, Led Zeppelin, Metallica, A Perfect Circle, Rush, Tokyo Dragons, The Mars Volta, Soundgarden, Portishead, Sonic Youth, The Gathering, Jeff Buckley, King Crimson, Anathema, Explosions In The Sky, Godspeed You Black Emperor, Mogwai, Sigur Ros.

Tool, Isis, Mastodon, Anaal Nathrakh, Opeth, Cult Of Luna, Mars Volta, APC, The Blueprint, earthtone9, Killswitch Engage, Slayer, The Gathering, Lacuna Coil, Soilwork, Dredg, Sinch, Pelican, Pig Destroyer, Akercocke, Black Sabbath, Dillinger Escape Plan, Faith No More, Mr Bungle, Fantomas, Incubus, Napalm Death, Old Man Gloom, Sepultura

Meshuggah
soilwork
morbid angel
carcass
SYL
Corpoate Avenger
steve vai
dimmu borgir
samael
bloodbath
fear factoy
311
deftones
hypocrisy
hed(pe)
ebony tears
devolved
slipknot
faith no more
pantera
TooL
chimaira
mudvayne
mnemic
nile
katatonia
opeth
BLS
Pink Floyd
....I could keep going but I won't

Good list, aside from a few, namely Slipknot (woeful!)

But you're forgiven my son, haha


I'd add to that list:

Immortal
Alice in Chains
Cryptopsy
Immolation
Isis
Jane's Addiction
Emperor
Borknagar
Ephel Duath
VAN HALEN!!!

Meshuggah, John Coltrane, The Mars Volta, Tori Amos, Massive Attack, Billie Holiday, Mr Bungle, Public Enemy, David Bowie, Miles Davis, Peter Gabriel, Secret Chiefs 3, Neurosis, Monster Magnet, The Beatles, Opeth, The Melvins, Prince, Nine Inch Nails, Charles Mingus, Isis, Tool, Thelonius Monk, Genesis (with Gabriel), Nat King Cole, Autechre, Joe Pass, Muse, Sade, Alicia Keys, Wes Montgomery, Pink Floyd, Cypress Hill, Sunn O))), Lamb, The Prodigy, Soilwork, Belle and Sebastian, Syd Barrett, King Crimson, Tom Waits, Oscar Peterson, Blur.... the list goes onnnnnnn....

Alice In Chains
Pink Floyd
Devin Townsend
Porcupine Tree
Megadeth
Jimi Hendrix
Corrosion Of Conformity
Metallica
Kyuss
Ohm
Mahavishnu Orchestra
QOTSA
Led Zeppelin

Nowadays it's

- Devin Townsend
- Strapping Young Lad
- Pain Of Salvation
- Opeth
- Samael
- Amorphis
- Turisas (Battle metal, man!)
- Ensiferum
- Arjen Anthony Lucassen's Ayreon and Star One

It all started from

- Metallica
- Megadeth
- Dream Theater
- Manowar
- Pantera
- Blue Öyster Cult

There has also been

- Nightwish
- Therion
- Theater Of Tragedy
- Tristania
- Katatonia
- Thy Serpent

For relaxation I play

- Apocalyptica
- Hagalaz Runedance
- Riverdance and Irish folk
- medieval music

Faith No More, The Beatles, Radiohead, Zappa, Prince, Charles Mingus, Tom Waits, Björk, Weezer ... and so many more.

Martyr, estradasphere, mr. bungle, secret chiefs 3, faith no more, anything mike patton related, meshuggah, spastic ink, watchtower, emperor, spiral architect, tubring, allan holdsworth, swans, s.u.p., cryptopsy, illogicist, cynic, death, thought industry, coroner, theory in practice, anata, miles davis, pj harvey, bjork, msi, anything townsend related, king crimson, yes, captain beyond, and on and on....

William Shatner
Ani Difranco
Ween
November's Doom <==== (They Frickin Rock, dude)
Sabbath
Meshuggah
Mnemic
Soilwork
Slayer
COC

And of course
DTB and SYL

the metal includes:
lamb of god, dimmu borgir, old mans child, burzum, bathory, marduk, shadows fall, morbid angel, incantation, the haunted, opeth, at the gates, iced earth, iron maiden, judas priest, death, old voivod, *the first four albums of metallica*, bleeding through, the acacia strain, syl, zimmers hole, bloodbath, old cannibal corpse, mayhem, children of bodom, killswitch engage, eyehategod, pain, hypocrisy, deicide, vital remains, fog, windir, vreid, arch enemy, soilwork and so on....

others include:
devys stuff, satriani, vai, liquid tension expieriment, most of all classic rock, o.a.r., 311 and so on.....

thanks

I listen to pretty much everything metal and rock, old school metal is my fave at the minute. can't beat a bit of maiden and priest, twisted sister, dio etc. love it. Prog not too big on but obviously i'm a huge fan of all devs solo work, There isn't anything his done I haven't liked. Dillinger escape plan, energy fueled insane bands ive got a big thing for. Also bands with insane members - Gg allin, Wesley willis etc. Heh im easy going il listen to pretty much anything, can't stand emo and ska though. Evil...very evil.

Anacrusis (Screams and Whispers!), The Mars Volta, Mastodon, Meshuggah, Thought Industry, Tool, Type O Negative, Voivod...

Industrial and EBM (Knorkator, Oomph, And One, VNV Nation)
Death Metal (In Flames, Opeth?)
Swedish Rock n Roll (The Hellacopters, Backyard Babies)
Classical (Wagner, Bach, Mozart, and all the other greats)