What kind of soundwaves do you listen to?

[Bart]

Dragonforce?

How very cheesy. 

[Kal]

Hey, no one listens to Dragonforce for depth of lyrics.  =P

[Bart]

I never listen to lyrics, couple of exceptions here and there though. I just don't like guitar wanking.

[Quemaqua]

Dragonforce scares me.  They're sort of awesome, and sort of amazingly horrible all at once.  I don't know how that's possible, but they've proven it.

[PHeMoX]

Dragonforce is awesome, their extremely fast paced music is so extremely funny. Did you ever take a look at their drummer, that dude is drumming so damn fast it's crazy hehehe. I really like bands that don't take themselves too serious.

[Cobar]

Diablo is a pretty good finnish band, i just recently bought their new album, and it rocks 

[Kal]

Dragonforce is awesome, their extremely fast paced music is so extremely funny. Did you ever take a look at their drummer, that dude is drumming so damn fast it's crazy hehehe. I really like bands that don't take themselves too serious.

If you've seen the latest music video, I'm not sure you can say they take themselves TOO seriously.  I mean, the solo is set to the theme of Sam and Herman playing Street Fighter with shredding instead of Hadokens.  XD

On an entirely different note...Dream Theater.  Most bands stick to one basic theme or emotion you can generalize for all their music.  Metallica is angry; Dashboard/Simple Plan is whiney; Evanescence is goth; Dragonforce is "HOMGHERMANLIMEGAKICASSSOLOMEEDLYMEEDLYMEEDLYMEEEEEEEEEEEE," etc.  Dream Theater is one of those bands that you CAN'T do that with.  They're anything but cookie cutter; lot of interesting beat switches and musicality to their stuff.  Yes, of course they have the solos, but they run the gamut of beautiful and uplifting ("Surrounded") to sad and emotional ("Space-Dye Vest") to borderline emo ("Octavarium").  The important thing, though, is that the experience simply isn't the same listening to one song; you hear motifs and themes echoed throughout the entire album, and there's usually a story that ties the songs together.  I highly recommend giving them a listen; Surrounded is one of my favorite songs of all time.

But of course, get the CD.  Not because of pirating music, but because it's great listening to the whole thing.

[!nfecti0n_dr()n3]

More into bands such as Reagan Youth, Bad Religion, DRI, NOFX, Rancid, Minor Threat and (the best ska band ever) Operation Ivy.

[PHeMoX]

But of course, get the CD.  Not because of pirating music, but because it's great listening to the whole thing.

Lol, CDs tend to ruin my DVD-drive, apart from the fact that some won't play in a computer CD/DVD drive because of some kind of protection, so  ... I usually buy my music from iTunes or some other legal download shop instead.

If you've seen the latest music video, I'm not sure you can say they take themselves TOO seriously.  I mean, the solo is set to the theme of Sam and Herman playing Street Fighter with shredding instead of Hadokens.  XD

I think it's my crappy English, but I meant to say they're not taking things very seriously, always doing funny stuff, mostly over-the-top things. I really like that about Dragonforce. Their live-shows are always completely insane, really cool. 

[Kal]

Lol, CDs tend to ruin my DVD-drive, apart from the fact that some won't play in a computer CD/DVD drive because of some kind of protection, so  ... I usually buy my music from iTunes or some other legal download shop instead.

Well, then at least buy the whole thing.  Images and Words is my recommendation.

[Cheamo]

Mostly I listen to alternative/rock type stuff. 

Belle & Sebastian is <3

Also love like Radiohead and Cake and some other bands. Not usually harder stuff, but if its good. I find that I never listen to enough new music.

[Toom]

Acch I've been avoiding this topic for ages because it takes so friggin' long to pick a decent cross-section of my musical tastes, but I'm quite drunk and this'll kill some time. Some favourite artists might be a good way to do it; Against Me!, Mclusky, Aphex Twin, Venetian Snares, Buc 65, Zombieflesheater, the Smiths, Clutch, Discount, Squarepusher, Toots and the Maytals, DJ Vadim, Del Tha Funkee Homosapien, Four Tet, NWA, Boris, Quasimoto, Lamb...all kinds of things. Lots of really frantic breakcore and raggacore when I'm working (Bong-Ra, Shitmat, Knifehandchop; the combination activates my Photoshop devil-hands that can blaze through anything in no time flat), Yann Tiersen or SUNN0))) when I'm reading. Lots of unsorted chiptunes stuff, live scratch DJ sets and rap battles, odds and sods of electronica experiments my friends have sent me to appraise. My life improved immeasurably when I started listening to stuff other than white dudes playing guitars.

Portrait of a Cigarette by Discount is my favourite song ever. I found it on an otherwise unremarkable punk sampler about five years ago, and I must've listened to it a good thousand times since. It's only about a minute and a half long and I've been known to put it on four or five times in a row and not get bored of it.

Dream Theater are a prog metal band, I do not see what's so difficult to pigeonhole.

[PHeMoX]

Dream Theater are a prog metal band, I do not see what's so difficult to pigeonhole.

True, it's actually one of those bands easy to define. Sure, it has a flavor of psychedelics to it, but I guess that's simply their Roger Waters influence ... it's still prog metal. :p

By the way, yeah, you're right, white men playing guitar music can somehow be a bit depressing. I mean, metal in general can be depressing, since well, there's not much 'happy metal' out there. In fact, does that even exist?
( My advise: listen of Dragonforce :p , they're funny :-) )

[PiSketch]

"( My advise: listen of Dragonforce :p , they're funny :-) )"

Agreed.  I like them.  Funny is a good thing.

Beyond agreement, i listen to a lot of stuff.  Cake, Jem, Abdoujaparov, Blue Man Group, Linkin Park, Evanescence, so on.  Rock/metal/Emo/electronic stuff.  I like it.

[shinygerbil]

Cake are indeed awesome. I enjoy them a lot.

I've been listening to a lot of Mr. Scruff recently, and I'd highly recommend it. Very enjoyable

Also, something else I like to listen to is anime soundtracks. A lot of good music to be found, there!