Name your fav artists!!!

Top. 5 classic rock

1. Classic DLR van halen
2. The Doors
3. King Crimson
4. Frank Zappa
5. Black Sabbath

Top 5. death metal

1. Death
2. Cannibal Corpse
3. Necrophagist
4. Suffocation
5. Deicide

Top 5. Black metal

1. Behemoth
2. Goatwhore
3. Dissection
4. Bloodthrone (chicago local black metal)
5. Dark Funeral

Top 5. Industrial/Alt. Metal

1. Strapping Young Lad
2. Rammstein
3. Rob Zombie
4. Ministry
5. Acid Bath

Top 5. Grindcore/Brutal Metal

1. The Berzerker
2. Nile
3. Mortician
4. The Red Chord
5. Napalm Death

Top 5. Blues

1. Gary Moore
2. Eric Clapton
3. Stevie Ray Vaughn
4. Eric Sardinas
5. Pink Floyd (blues influenced soloing 2nd solo in comfortably numb love it)

Top 10. guitarists

1. Eddie Van Halen
2. Chuck Schuldiner
3. Ralph Santolla
4. Muhhamed Suicmez
5. Yngwie Malmsteen
6. The Motor City Mad Man (Ted Nugent)
7. Micheal Amott
8. Eric Johnson
9. Paul Gilbert
10. Buckethead

Top 3. Folk/Viking metal bands (still getting into the genre lol)

1. Unleashed
2. Falkenbach
3. Amon Amarth

Top 5. Modern/Thrash Metal

1. Exodus
2. Black Label Society
3. Arch Enemy
4. Megadeth
5. Testament

Top 5. Hair metal bands

1. David Lee Roth
2. Accept
3. Scorpions
4. Ratt
5. Motley Crue

Top 5 Avant Garde/Off beat bands

1. Cryptopsy
2. Buckethead
3. Meshuggah
4. The Faceless
5. Virtuosity

I'd like to somehow break this into categories, but it's late and I don't care enough, so here goes:

--Off the top of my head--
Cannibal Corpse
Type O Negative (I just got into them. I love "Life is Killing Me")
Curtis Mayfield
Arch Enemy
Exodus
White Zombie
Rob Zombie
Scum of the Earth
Danzig
(old) Cryptopsy
King Crimson
Claudio Simonetti/Goblin
SuBathmateersed (specifically the song "Hollow")
Overkill
Devin Townsend
Martyr

a ton more, but I can't think of them right now. Maybe I'll post later.