Who is your favorite band(s) and why? What is it about them that makes you a fan? What kind of music do you like? Rock, oldies, classical, country, jazz, blues, alternative, new age? How many cds, tapes, records do you own? What concerts have you seen? Share your musical likes with the rest of us here.

Why does like 90% of Black Metal have to be blatantly Satanic? As a Christian, I really don't want to hear about brutalizing Jesus or doing a nun.

But the sound of the Black Metal style is just so freaking cool.

Should I start posting updates of my band in here?

In the meantime, our major influences .....

NIN
Fear Factory
Black Sabbath
Danzig/Misfits
yes .... Metallica, after all I DO currently use a Kirk Hammett Signature guitar in the studio
Rammstein
Megadeth
Korn (new single SUCKS, but always loved Korn)
Testament
Morbid Angel
Slayer
Cradle of Filth
The Faceless (Alien death metal, nice stuff)
Type O Negative
Dethklock
Nile
Led Zepp
Anthrax

.......

so many more.

This year has been really fun creating and molding this band. not sure what we are going to tackle next. We need to write music for Invisible Champion, the lyrics have been there for a bit. After some creative slipping with Fate, the B!tch, I am considering continuing our Broken cover streak with Happiness in Slavery.

Still asking for artwork for a band logo, bonus for a tshirt idea based either just on the band name or one of our songs. To recap that without you having to change forums to see them .....

Chalice of Tainted Blood - death metal song laced with mythological references describing my ex wife and her sister

BioRot - Dark Metal - A nameless being emerges from the soil, only to find a desolate wasteland, being disappointed with what it see, it returns from whence it came.

Fate, the B!tch - Punk metal song sung in the perspective of Fate herself. Basically it tells the listener, its been there all along, but free will is still there, if you use it ........ but you probably wont, so I will ruin things FOR you.

Invisible Champion - Everyone has had to console another for many different reasons, from a dead dog to a lost love ...... this person has been that champion a long time ....... but has no champion of their own.

Watkin Tudor Jones: The Fantastic Kill; Reprogram. Not a big fan of rap but this stuff is pretty good.

A long list of bands I enjoy:

-AC/DC
-A.F.I.
-Alice Cooper
-Alice In Chains
-All That Remains
-Amon Amarth
-Amorphis
-As I Lay Dying
-Bad Company
-Billy Idol
-Blind Guardian
-Blue Oyster Cult
-Breaking Benjamin
-Bush
-Calabrese
-Chevelle
-Children of Bodom
-Coal Chamber
-Cinderella
-The Cult
-Dark Tranquility
-Def Leppard
-Demons & Wizards
-Devil Driver
-Dio
-Disturbed
-DragonForce
-Dream Theater
-Evanescence
-Fear Factory
-Five Finger Death Punch
-Flyleaf
-Foreigner
-God Forbid
-Guns N 'Roses
-Halestorm
-Iced Earth
-In Flames
-In This Moment
-Iron Maiden
-Journey
-Killswitch Engage
-KISS
-Kittie
-Linkin Park
-Lordi
-Machine Head
-Megadeth
-Metallica
-The Misfits
-Motley Crue
-Mudvayne
-Nightwish
-Pantera
-Pat Benatar
-Pearl Jam
-A Perfect Circle
-Pink Floyd
-Queensryche
-Quiet Riot
-Ratt
-Rise Against
-Rob Zombie
-Scar Symmetry
-Scorpions
-Sevendust
-Shadowsfall
-Sixx A.M.
-Skid Row
-Smashing Pumpkins
-Stone Temple Pilots
-Tesla
-3 Inches of Blood
-Trivium
-Vintersorg
-White Zombie
-Whitesnake
-The Who
-Year 200X

I was a child of grunge, coming up in the early 90's. Pearl Jam was the bread and butter for me. I dug Nirvana, AIC and the other as well. But Vedder was always my fave. I still dig Vedder's stuff today, and the album that he did for the "Into the Wild" Soundtrack was awesome... As I have gotten older, I really have gotten into singer/songwriter type stuff. My faves are Bruce Springsteen, Ray LaMontagne, Neil Young, that type of stuff. But my desert island (can only take one artist's music) is the Boss hands down. Now while I like the E Street Band, my favorite Boss stuff is just him and his guitar and maybe a harmonica.

I also play a bit, and should you be so inclined to listen...

www.reverbnation.com/kevinwhitten

Depeche Mode (my fave) is in studio now recording their 13th album and will be starting up a world tour next year. Yeah, I'll be going to the Phoenix show and hopefully see them in Las Vegas, L.A., and San Diego too!

actually, system of a down is my favorite one. It is even more love for all members, not only to their music.

My ride only has a cassette tape deck. Music radio has been nauseating for some time now, and I've just about had my fill of talk radio. Since all my old cassette tapes from when I was a kid are buried deep in storage, I went on eBay to try to find some tape lots of old bands I like. I guess cassette tapes are now becoming scarce and in demand, because finding Metallica tapes (either single tapes or in lots) will set me back at least ten bucks each plus shipping. Gone are the days of finding tapes for fifty cents or a couple bucks, I guess. Might have to go hunting at some local shops.

For me it's 100% metal.

New Haiduk album - Diabolica

Haiduk - Swarm [youtube]

One of my (LINK REMOVED BY MODERATOR) favorite bands is Foals, a British indie rock band. I like their old albums more than the new ones.

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Haiduk - Morph [blackened death metal]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uNQ1-hyWLxo

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