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Favorite band?!
- Thread starter Kakarot1212
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Picking my favorite band is like picking a favorite family member for me, I have quite a few favorites. Modest Mouse, Dinosaur JR, Animal Collective, Tigers Jaw, Algernon Cadwallader, The Smiths, and The Chameleons.
T!M
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The Mountain Goats, John Darnielle... <3
pokemasta92
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I've already posted, but I just wanted to add another band that deserved their own post: IMAGINE DRAGONS. Dat drum banging doe.
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Nightwish is definitely one of my favorites. I was enraptured from the moment I heard them, and even now some of their songs still give me chills because it's so brilliant. Tuomas Holopainen is a genius.
Probably one of my oldest favorites is a Swedish band called Blindside. They haven't really done much lately, but their sound is always evolving and I feel the strongest connection lyrically to their songs.
I also love Showbread and Tarja Turunen, although her most recent album left a lot to be desired.
Probably one of my oldest favorites is a Swedish band called Blindside. They haven't really done much lately, but their sound is always evolving and I feel the strongest connection lyrically to their songs.
I also love Showbread and Tarja Turunen, although her most recent album left a lot to be desired.
pompayyy
Forever and Ever
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I've grown into Soundgarden recently, along with a ton of 90's Britpop bands (Oasis, Ocean Colour Scene, etc.)
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Nirvana. The Smashing Pumpkins, Red Hot Chili Peppers, The Prodigy. I've been on a bit of a Deftones kick lately. There aren't a lot of new bands that I listen to. Most music today is complete trash *strokes hipster mustache*
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Pierce the Veil
Sleeping With Sirens
A Day to Remember
Alesana
All Time Low
Panic! At The Disco
Chiodos
Fall Out Boy
Of Mice & Men
Memphis May Fire
letlive.
Asking Alexandria
Bring Me The Horizon
The All-American Rejects
A Skylit Drive
My Chemical Romance
New Found Glory
blink-182
etc. etc. I enjoy a lot of other bands and genres, but these are just my all time favorites.
Sleeping With Sirens
A Day to Remember
Alesana
All Time Low
Panic! At The Disco
Chiodos
Fall Out Boy
Of Mice & Men
Memphis May Fire
letlive.
Asking Alexandria
Bring Me The Horizon
The All-American Rejects
A Skylit Drive
My Chemical Romance
New Found Glory
blink-182
etc. etc. I enjoy a lot of other bands and genres, but these are just my all time favorites.
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Favorite band, hands down:
Coheed and Cambria
They are a progressive rock "concept" band. They albums are each a story in a singular over arching world. The story is called "The Amory Wars" and there are comics available by the same name. The comics tell the same story the albums do.
Most people know their song "Welcome Home". Some know "The Suffering" or "A Favor House Atlantic," but it's rare that they know more than that, if even that. I recommend listening to "A Favor House Atlantic" "Junesong Provision" and "Away We Go"
I don't know if they will draw you into the band, or away, they are just songs I enjoy. To be completely honest, in the 7 albums they've released, it's rare I skip a track.
Other bands/groups/people I enjoy (incomplete list, and in no particular order):
Placebo
Stromae
Die Antwoord
Daft Punk
The Knife
David Bowie
The Prize Fighter Inferno
Mika
Explosions in the Sky
Signal Hill
Bowling for Soup
October Project
Toybox
Coheed and Cambria
They are a progressive rock "concept" band. They albums are each a story in a singular over arching world. The story is called "The Amory Wars" and there are comics available by the same name. The comics tell the same story the albums do.
Most people know their song "Welcome Home". Some know "The Suffering" or "A Favor House Atlantic," but it's rare that they know more than that, if even that. I recommend listening to "A Favor House Atlantic" "Junesong Provision" and "Away We Go"
I don't know if they will draw you into the band, or away, they are just songs I enjoy. To be completely honest, in the 7 albums they've released, it's rare I skip a track.
Other bands/groups/people I enjoy (incomplete list, and in no particular order):
Placebo
Stromae
Die Antwoord
Daft Punk
The Knife
David Bowie
The Prize Fighter Inferno
Mika
Explosions in the Sky
Signal Hill
Bowling for Soup
October Project
Toybox
Algo Fonix
oh god
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I think the band that's really become my favorite is Between the Buried and Me.
They've really moved away from their post-hardcore influence into this wonderful progressive metal space, and it's beautiful. Their music is very dense and I'm still finding new things in songs I've been listening to for years.
Transatlantic and Haken are the two other bands I consider top tier these days. They really give me faith in straight progrock again.
They've really moved away from their post-hardcore influence into this wonderful progressive metal space, and it's beautiful. Their music is very dense and I'm still finding new things in songs I've been listening to for years.
Transatlantic and Haken are the two other bands I consider top tier these days. They really give me faith in straight progrock again.
Crunch Punch
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Well, when I was younger I guess Linkin Park was my favourite, but now my music taste had kinda shifted away from Nu Metal towards the softer side of rock.
Currently I'm into The Strokes, Arctic Monkeys, Yeah Yeah Yeahs and The Black Keys. All of them are indie/garage rock and though I'm not really limited to them and have a broad preference of music, they really are my favourite bands right now. Especially the first one.
Currently I'm into The Strokes, Arctic Monkeys, Yeah Yeah Yeahs and The Black Keys. All of them are indie/garage rock and though I'm not really limited to them and have a broad preference of music, they really are my favourite bands right now. Especially the first one.
MegaKuriboh
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- Metallica
- Megadeth
- Anthrax (Joey Belladonna era only)
- Slayer
- Black Sabbath
- Dio
- Ozzy Osbourne
- Avenged Sevenfold
- Children Of Bodom
- Austrian Death Machine (Ahhhhhnorld)
- Bullet For My Valentine
- Iced Earth
- Iron Maiden
- Motionless In White (Kind of out of place, I know XD)
- Rage Against The Machine
- Body Count
- Guns 'N Roses
- Judas Priest
So mostly older metal bands, most of which are Thrash Metal which I LOOOVE, and now I'm TRYING to get into Death Metal, even though I'm not that big a fan of it, but the band Children of Bodom is absolutely outstanding, especially their first 2 albums, the album "Hatebreeder" blows me away every time I listen to it! I really recommend it to ANY metal fan.
- Megadeth
- Anthrax (Joey Belladonna era only)
- Slayer
- Black Sabbath
- Dio
- Ozzy Osbourne
- Avenged Sevenfold
- Children Of Bodom
- Austrian Death Machine (Ahhhhhnorld)
- Bullet For My Valentine
- Iced Earth
- Iron Maiden
- Motionless In White (Kind of out of place, I know XD)
- Rage Against The Machine
- Body Count
- Guns 'N Roses
- Judas Priest
So mostly older metal bands, most of which are Thrash Metal which I LOOOVE, and now I'm TRYING to get into Death Metal, even though I'm not that big a fan of it, but the band Children of Bodom is absolutely outstanding, especially their first 2 albums, the album "Hatebreeder" blows me away every time I listen to it! I really recommend it to ANY metal fan.