A Heavy Metal Poll

[Holymagica]

Tell me what you are listening to the most out there?
As we are a DIO forum ...I expect you all to be listening to DIO so you don't need to post DIO's music.

My information is from how many plays these have on my MP3 player.

1.Draconian
2.Autumn
3.M.S.G.
4.Iron Maiden
5.Whitesnake
6.Sister Sin
7.Halestorm
8.Regardless Of Me
9.Candlemass
10.Deep Purple

[PinkLedRushDio]

So a 1 through 10?

1.Rush
2.Pink Floyd
3. Led Zeppelin
4. Black Sabbath ( not just with Dio)
5. The Beatles
6. Alice in Chains
7. Ozzy Osbourne
8. Jimi Hendrix ( wow, didn't know I listened to him that much, he's not one of my favorites)
9. Soundgarden
10. Iron Maiden

This is only from my mp3 as well. I don't have as much music as I would like, but I'm working on it.
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[StargazerGeisha]

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1. Deep Purple
2. Queensryche
3. Van Canto
4. Hammers of Misfortune
5. Doro
6. Premiata-Forneria-Marconi (an Italian prog-rock group)
7. King Crimson
8. The Devin Townsend Project
9. Le Orme (another Italian prog-rock band)
10. Quatermass

[Rockerbob]

Y&T
Riot
Iced Earth
UFO
MSG
Leatherwolf
Flaw
Godsmack
Judas Priest
Accept
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[DioInfinitum]

Lately,

Metallica's Death Magnetic (amazing for this band, in many ways a return to their roots) ->Their previous album St. Anger, was not good to me. Bob Rock is too poppy and cheesy. Rick Rubin brought out great stuff from these guys.

The other day I had a huge desire to pop Iron Maiden back in.

Yanni-Live from the Acropolis
An amazing live recording of this man's work. The sound is amazing and the compositions are incredible. Not metal, but historic music, and a memorable concert immortalized.

System of a Down-Mezmirize & Hypnotize
I love this band. They are quintessential geniuses. I prefer Daron the guitarist and Serj the singer together rather than solo. I think they bring out the best in one another.

Ween-'Mollusk'-
This album is a batch of very interesting and beautiful experimental recordings. I don't like all albums from this band, but this is a masterpiece. I must say that I've approached composition and production in a different way because of this band.

The Smashing Pumpkins-Adore
I have recently listened to this album again. It invokes heavy nostalgia in me because of the period in which I listened to it heavily when I was younger. I feel that this is probably Billy Corgan's best creative masterpiece. Very mature. Very experimental. Definitely not straight 'rock and roll.' I also love Siamese Dream and his double album. Siamese Dream was his 'coming of age' masterpiece album, and I consider it a noteworthy classic.

The Beatles-Rubber Soul and Revolver
All around, I love the Beatles. These are light choices that I'm introducing my daughter to. Great melodies. Great feelings. Light and full of inspiration.

Rage Against the Machine-Rage Against the Machine
A classic album, from a classic band of their generation. Some of the craziest, politically charged heavy metal ever made, fused with a hip hop style and rapper. What an exceptional album!

(HED) pe - an amazing metal band, with an amazingly charismatic performer of a lead singer/songwriter. Incredible angry wild passion in this music.

Over the years, I have never lost my interest in the following bands, and I know that I'll always find my way back to their music...

Pink Floyd-I could go on and on and on about this band. They have so much amazing and classic material. They are legends of their era, like Led Zeppelin, or Black Sabbath.
Metallica
Megadeth-Underrated and the better guitar player between he and his metallibros. A true heavy metal guitarist, the stuff of legends.
Iron Maiden-so much good stuff...
Korn-Legends of their own era, pioneering original sound, the seven string guitars....lots of amazing material.
(Yes, Ozzy, esp Blizzard of Ozz and Diary of a Madman, I won't forsake Zakk Wylde either, one of my favorite guitarists ever ->His solo albums are excellent)
Not a huge Black Label Society fan though.
Radiohead(everything up to and especially OK Computer)
SOME Eminem-He has a wild way with words. I do not fancy him a deep thinker, but a definite heavy weight artist. Relapse was excellent. Recovery is blah. Some older stuff is cheese, but he has many good pieces.
Green Day-Dookie and American Idiot
I had written off Billy Jo as washed up, but with the release of American Idiot, I felt that he creatively topped himself like never before. The album that followed was redundant cheese and I've lost some of my steam for this band.
Guns N Roses-Appetite for Destruction, Use Your Illusion I&II
Loved this band. Amazing music. Personally destructive as f*ck. I've always sort of wished for a 'real' reunion w/the original band. Axl was an embarrassment when I saw him perform on MTV a few years ago.
Queen-
I don't know much of their discography, except to say that Freddie is one of the most amazing vocalists I've ever heard. When I think of the best, he comes to mind along with RONNIE JAMES DIO!
Soundgarden-Chris Cornell is another artist whose voice I absolutely love. All of the Soundgarden work is excellent. I loved his first solo effort. After that, he turned to some soft cheese.
Nirvana-
A classic punk band. Another legend of their era, if not the 'Jim Morrison' of their era.
The Doors-
I love this band. So many albums. So many songs. I love them. Jim was a 'bad' influence on me personally, and a good influence artistically.
Nuno Bettencourt - I love the guitarist from Extreme. I don't love the cheesier material. Extreme III is an amazing album, mature and beautiful. Nuno went on to make very much his best music post Extreme. This guitar player is the kind of first class that we revere in other guitarists like Randy, Zakk or any virtuoso capable of gold medal olympic feats on the guitar.

So much good music out there. We are so lucky to live in our era b/c of this.

Also, I've often thought we take music for granted because it's such a constant. We go into the grocery store and hear it, we hear it at home, in the car, in a mall, in a club.

Sometimes I take it for granted and notice it when we lose electric power!!!
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[LindaJeanne]

Lets see, in descreasing order of playcounts over the past six months (excluding all Ronnie fronted material):

Iron Maiden
Wuthering Heights
Candlemass
Myrkgrav
Wintersun
Eluveitie (saw them live!)
Primordial
Isole
Ensiferum (saw them live!)
Finntroll (saw them live!)
Vesania
Swallow the Sun (saw them live!)
Therion
Moonsorrow (saw them live!)

Lots of others as well, but that's enough for starters.

Editing to add: Dio-fronted stuff has been a little over half my listening over the last three months, and about a third of my listening before that.

The rest keeps changing regularly, as I went from a run of power metal to a run of folk metal to a run of doom metal to a run of symphonic-black metal to a run of melodeath to a run of old fashioned traditional heavy metal-- I just love variety. (Though the "variety" reminds me of that line from The Blues Brothers: "We listen to both kinds of music: country AND western!")

[olivious the drummer]

My current listing is:

1. Whitesnake
2. Iron Maiden
3. Iced Earth
4. Opeth
5. SOAD
6. Tenacious D
7. Queensryche
8. Evanesance
9. Benedictum
10. Butterfly Ball (various)

But it changes all the time - really rediscovering early whitesnake at the moment.....having recently done the same thing with all the Elf stuff.
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[Jeffrey]

This is going to make me look like an old man, but I don't have an mp3 player. Every song I listen to comes from CD. So I will have to think of what I have been listening to lately.

The order is whatever comes to mind first, 1 to 10.

1. Iron Maiden
2. Avenged Sevenfold
3. Ozzy with Randy Rhoads
4. Accept
5. JUdas Priest
6. Motley Crue
7. WASP
8. Steeler
9. Alice Cooper
10. The Who

Man, that was hard not to Dio in there in some form.

Jeffrey
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[Mjr Digby Dawlish]

Killswitch Engage
Iron Maiden
Sabbath
Whitesnanke
Jorn
Dio
The Scorpions
In Flames

Swear I'm going deaf

[M60]

Based on my plays from the last 3 months

1. Nevermore
   
2. Gojira
   
3. Ansur
   
4. Galneryus
   
5. Voivod
   
6. Cynic
   
7. Queensrÿche
   
8. gonin-ish
   
9. Death
   
10. Rush
    

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