John Butler Trio
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Muse
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Lamb of God
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When I first listened to Dream Theater's "Home" my mind was blown.
It was also my first time listening to Dream Theater, unfortunately I'm not too huge on a lot of their other stuff.
Oh, and when I was nine when I first listened to Elton John's Funeral for a Friend / Love Lies Bleeding. I'd still consider it one of my favourite songs.
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Oh and the Abbey Road Melody still blows my mind.
Sonic Youth. Specifically their Day Dream nation album.
I've gotta say Jimi Hendrix really made me go wow.
Mastodon, Meshuggah and Acid King
[QUOTE=UberWarri0r;21376975]Opeth, Wolves In The Throne Room, Skagos, Burzum.[/QUOTE]
Opeth are indescribably awesome. They are just amazing. Opeth.
As do Insomnium. Just amazing melodeath band.
Dream Theater
Nine Inch Nails
Nightwish
Kamelot
Gamma Ray
Machine Head
Lamb of God
Tool
Pink Floyd/David Gilmour
Metallica didn't really wow me on the first song, but I've ALWAYS loved them. I knew Metallica songs before I realized they were even Metallica songs, just from random radio play. It's less of a technical "wow" as it is just an awesome band I have an undying love for (even after St. Anger).
Nevermore guitarist Jeff Loomis.
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I am adding Amorphis as well, because they are so unique, the singing is absolutely amazing, the lyrical themes are great. Their instrumentals are really unique as well, I've never really heard a band quite so original as Amorphis. First time I heard them, I was breathtaken.
Iron Maiden were the first metal band I had ever heard, it was a completely new experience to me, and I fell in love. They really do wow me. I heard Can I Play With Madness? and knew I would never look back :allears:
And Sabaton
Absolutely amazing band. Just love the lyrical content (war), the way it's done is also fantastic. They're really powerful, the energy is just astounding. Moves me.
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This album, right here. Nothing comes close to this piece of absolute perfection.
mas todon
Renard Queenston , because this guy basically shits out kickass music all the time :D
Cult of Luna.
A few albums that had that "wow" effect on me.
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Just an overall fantastic album, I wouldn't call it my favorite Cure album being that it can be seriously annoying if you're not in the right mood, but it's definetly some of their best work.
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I still don't have the words to describe this album.
There's such vivid imagery behind the layers of music on this album that I'm surely going to have to listen to it a lot more to take it all in. Perfection in ambient/electronica.
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Probably my favorite metal album of all time. As brutal as it goes without sounding over the top, in my opinion.
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Mechanical precision and a downright unpleasant atmosphere is what makes this album the best industrial metal album ever made IMO. The soundtrack to the apocalypse.
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One of the first post-rock albums. Probably the most depressive music I've ever heard.
The sisters of mercy.
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Florence and the Machine
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[QUOTE=En-Guage V2;21379705]Andy McKee, hands down the most powerful and moving guitarist I've ever heard[/QUOTE]
i actually could'nt agree more. I went to see him in york not long ago, purely amazing!
"In The Distance Fading" by God Is An Astronaut
Because it was the first one by them I'd ever heard and I hadn't heard anything like it before. It really really blew me away.
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"Die Weide und der Fluß" by Equilibrium
As with the above, I'd never heard anything like it before. Well I had, kind of. But no metal I had ever liked. I was put off by screaming, but in this I loved it. The shock of the fact I actually found metal I liked was amazing. Great song. Folk Metal is my thing.
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Those are the only two I can think of that stood out for me. Examples of other stuff I listen to is Vampire Weekend, Owl City, Snow Patrol, Animal Collective, Lily Allen, Kate Nash, Muse and A LOT OF OTHER SHIT.
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and Scriabin, [IMG]http://img709.imageshack.us/img709/3586/scriabin.jpg[/IMG] always wow me.
I'm also wowed immensly by the Avante-Gard works of John Cage,[IMG]http://img709.imageshack.us/img709/7585/johncage.jpg[/IMG]
and Karlheinz Stockhausen [IMG]http://img709.imageshack.us/img709/2906/stockhausen.jpg[/IMG]
Soundgarden
And Nine Inch nails. Hurt always sends chills down my spine
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One of the first post-rock albums. Probably the most depressive music I've ever heard.[/QUOTE]
What album is that, I sorta recognize it
[QUOTE=PinkRhino;21407678]What album is that, I sorta recognize it[/QUOTE]
Slint - Spiderland
Slint's Spiderland
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what the fuck
Meshuggah and Devin Townsend.
Townsend blew my mind with sheer awesomeness, metal with a sorta pop edge to it that I fucking loved, seriously this sorta shit made me love metal again.
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And Meshuggah sand blasted my brain with the sheer insanity of stuff like Spasm
[QUOTE=cyanide101;21399490]Soundgarden
And Nine Inch nails. Hurt always sends chills down my spine[/QUOTE]
Always preferred Johnny Cash's cover.
Guns n roses
Porcupine Tree are my biggest one
Agalloch
Streetlight Manifesto
Rachmaninov
Opeth (since I started listening to them)
Dead Can Dance
Isis
Tool
Ulver too ^
[QUOTE=Dopey Trout;21413385]Porcupine Tree are my biggest one
Agalloch
Streetlight Manifesto
Rachmaninov
Opeth (since I started listening to them)
Dead Can Dance
Isis
Tool
Ulver too ^[/QUOTE]
What's your favorite Rachmaninov piece?
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