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I grew up on new metal and pop. Recently I am into10,000 Days album by Tool (awesome band, and it appears Im not the only fan here)Tori Amos, in particular "precious things", and "winter"A lot of the stuff Amy Lee is in, the most famous being EvanescenceDavid Bowie did some tracks for the "underworld" soundtrack with Maynard James Keenan that were amazing, check out "Bring me the Disco King"Also, Im into soundtracks a lot. John Williams is among the best currently. And some older symphonies...but not old enough to be considered classical. Tchaickovsky is great to feed my hunger for that kind of music from time to time.I play lead and bass in local bands here, and try to implement a lot of the more epic "scene changing" style into my playing...ala, Tool, and movie soundtracks...so much fun.

No need actually. One of the reasons I like them is because they are sort of a home town hero band from where I used to live, Little Rock. I saw them before the movie Daredevil (which more than anything set them off nationally) at a bar named Juanita's on several occasions. And we had the single "Bring me to Life" years before everybody else did it seemed. Not necessarily my favorite...but the most easily recognizable track by far.

Ill have to get pics later, we take our music pretty seriously in this house, lol. Got a pair of Kaine and Kaine speakers, I forget the model though, Ill check later. A VPI Scout turntable, with a REL T2 subwoofer...considered by most audiophiles (it seems anyways) to be the 2nd best sub available (the T1 being the best). Amazing lows and not boomy...very musical. An 18 watt Almarro amp pushes the system...I know, low wattage...but the speakers are very efficient...no need for more power...and tube amps are just amazing for music.Worth mentioning though, I forgot another great composer. Nobuo Uematsu...my fellow geeks may recognize the name. He is the composer for Squaresoft and does all the Final Fantasy music (...I know, its sad, but its good stuff).Edited by Franatic25, : No reason given.

I think Lee is carrying them now, her voice is intense. But it seems with any band, when you start releasing albums every 2 years or so it starts to tail off. Still catchy stuff, but its getting closer and closer to pop music of sorts, ala Linkin Park. One reason I love Tool so much, they dont seem to lose their epic style, and still evolve in new ways without degrading the music. I cant say the same for that many other bands, Evanescence included...still good, but songs dont seem fully developed or realized, and could use more production time, so it degrades to cookie cutter riffs and rhythms of modern New Metal and is only still unique because of Lee's voice and passion. My take anyways.