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A

After Forever - After Forever
Akercocke - Antichrist
Alestorm - Captain Morgan's Revenge
Alice in Chains - Facelift
Alice in Chains - Jar of Flies
Alice in Chains - Black Gives Way To Blue
Arch Enemy - Wages Of Sin
Arch Enemy - Anthems of Rebellion
Arch Enemy - Doomsday Machine
Arch Enemy - Rise Of The Tyrant
Astarte - Doomed Dark Years
Astarte - Rise From Within
Astarte - Quod Superius Sicut Inferius
Astarte - Sirens
Astarte - Demonized
Avantasia - The Metal Opera
Avantasia - The Metal Opera, Part II
Avantasia - The Scarecrow
Ayreon - The Final Experiment
Ayreon - Actual Fantasy Revisited
Ayreon - Into the Electric Castle
Ayreon - The Dream Sequencer
Ayreon - Flight of the Migrator
Ayreon - The Human Equation
Ayreon - 01011001
Ayreon - Timeline

B

Battlelore - Where the Shadows Lie
Battlelore - Evernight
Battlelore - The Last Alliance
Beyond Fear - Beyond Fear
Black Sabbath - Black Sabbath
Black Sabbath - Heaven And Hell
Black Sabbath - Dehumanizer
Blind Guardian - Tales From The Twilight World
Borknagar - Empiricism
Breed 77 - Breed 77
Breed 77 - In My Blood

C

Cruachan - Folk-Lore

D

Darkthrone - A Blaze in the Northern Sky
Deadlock - Wolves
Death - Leprosy
Demons & Wizards - Demons & Wizards
Demons & Wizards - Touched by the Crimson King
Bruce Dickinson - Balls To Picasso
Bruce Dickinson - Alive in Studio A
Dimmu Borgir - Stormblast 2005
Dimmu Borgir - In Sorte Diaboli
Draconian - Turning Season Within
DragonForce - Valley Of The Damned
DragonForce - Inhuman Rampage
Dream Theater - When Dream And Day Unite
Dream Theater - Images and Words
Dream Theater - Awake
Dream Theater - A Change of Seasons
Dream Theater - Falling Into Infinity
Dream Theater - Metropolis Pt 2: Scenes From a Memory
Dream Theater - Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence
Dream Theater - Train of Thought
Dream Theater - Octavarium
Dream Theater - Systematic Chaos
Dream Theater - Black Clouds & Silver Linings

E

Echoes of Eternity - The Forgotten Goddess
Elvenking - Heathenreel
Elvenking - Wyrd
Elvenking - The Winter Wake
Elvenking - Two Tragedy Poets (...And a Caravan of Weird Figures)
Epica - The Divine Conspiracy
Epica - The Classical Conspiracy
Epica - Design Your Universe
Evanescence - Fallen
Evanescence - The Open Door
Evergrey - In Search of Truth
Evergrey - Recreation Day
Evergrey - Torn

F

Fejd - Storm
Foo Fighters - Foo Fighters
Foo Fighters - The Colour and the Shape
Foo Fighters - There Is Nothing Left to Lose
Foo Fighters - One by One
Foo Fighters - In Your Honour
Foo Fighters - Skin and Bones
Foo Fighters - Echoes, Silence, Patience & Grace
Forest Silence - Philosophy Of Winter

G

Godsmack - Godsmack
Godsmack - Awake
Godsmack - Faceless
Godsmack - IV
Gorefest - Soul Survivor
Gorefest - Chapter 13
Guilt Machine - On This Perfect Day

H

Heaven & Hell - The Devil You Know

I

Iced Earth - Night of the Stormrider
Iced Earth - Burnt Offerings
Iced Earth - The Dark Saga
Iced Earth - Days of Purgatory
Iced Earth - Something Wicked This Way Comes
Iced Earth - Horror Show
Iced Earth - The Glorious Burden
Iced Earth - Overture Of The Wicked
Iced Earth - Framing Armageddon (Something Wicked Part I)
Immortal - Diabolical Fullmoon Mysticism
Immortal - Pure Holocaust
Immortal - Battles in the North
Immortal - Blizzard Beasts
Immortal - At the Heart of Winter
Immortal - Damned in Black
Immortal - Sons of Northern Darkness
In Flames - Colony
In Flames - Come Clarity
Iron Maiden - Iron Maiden
Iron Maiden - Killers
Iron Maiden - The Number of the Beast
Iron Maiden - Piece of Mind
Iron Maiden - Powerslave
Iron Maiden - Live After Death
Iron Maiden - Somewhere in Time
Iron Maiden - Seventh Son Of A Seventh Son
Iron Maiden - No Prayer For The Dying
Iron Maiden - Fear Of The Dark
Iron Maiden - A Real Live Dead One
Iron Maiden - Live at Donnington
Iron Maiden - The X Factor
Iron Maiden - Virtual XI
Iron Maiden - Brave New World
Iron Maiden - Dance of Death
Iron Maiden - A Matter of Life and Death

J

K

Kamelot - The Fourth Legacy

L

Lacuna Coil - The Eps
Lacuna Coil - In a Reverie
Lacuna Coil - Unleashed Memories
Lacuna Coil - Comalies
Lacuna Coil - Karmacode

M

Machine Head - The Blackening
Mastodon - Leviathan
Mastodon - Blood Mountain
Mastodon - Crack The Skye
Megadeth - Killing Is My Business...
Megadeth - Peace Sells... But Who's Buying?
Metallica - Kill 'em All
Metallica - Ride The Lightning
Metallica - Master of Puppets
Metallica - ...And Justice For All
Metallica - Metallica
Metallica - Load
Metallica - Reload
Metallica - Garage Inc.
Metallica - S & M
Metallica - St. Anger
Metallica - The Unnamed Feeling E.P.
Metallica - Death Magnetic
Midnattsol - Nordlys

N

Nickelback - Curb
Nickelback - The State
Nickelback - Silver Side Up
Nickelback - The Long Road
Nickelback - All the Right Reasons
Nightwish - Angels Fall First
Nightwish - Oceanborn
Nightwish - Wishmaster
Nightwish - Over The Hills And Far Away
Nightwish - Century Child
Nightwish - Once
Nightwish - Dark Passion Play

O

Opeth - Orchid
Opeth - Morningrise
Opeth - My Arms, Your Hearse
Opeth - Still Life
Opeth - Blackwater Park
Opeth - Deliverance
Opeth - Damnation
Opeth - Ghost Reveries
Opeth - Watershed

P

Pantera - Cowboys From Hell
Pantera - Vulgar Display of Power
Pantera - Far Beyond Driven
Pantera - The Great Southern Trendkill
Pantera - Official Live: 101 Proof
Pantera - Reinventing the Steel
Pharaoh - Be Gone
Pyramaze - Legend of the Bone Carver
Pyramaze - Immortal

Q

R

Rammstein - Mutter
Rammstein - Reise, Reise

S

Scooter - ...and the Beat Goes On!
Scooter - Our Happy Hardcore
Scooter - Wicked
Scooter - Age of Love
Scooter - Rough & Tough & Dangerous: Singles 1994-1998
Scooter - No Time to Chill
Scooter - Back to the Heavyweight Jam
Scooter - Sheffield
Scooter - We Bring the Noise
Scooter - Encore - Live And Direct
Scooter - Push the Beat for This Jam
Scooter - The Stadium Techno Experience
Sepultura - Beneath the Remains
Sepultura - Arise
Sepultura - Chaos A.D.
Sepultura - Roots
Sepultura - Blood-Rooted
Sepultura - Against
Sepultura - Nation
Sepultura - Dante XXI
Star One - Space Metal
Symphony X - Twilight in Olympus

T

Tarja - My Winter Storm
Tenacious D - Tenacious D
To-Mera - Transcendental
To-Mera - Delusions
Trivium - Ember to Inferno
Trivium - Ascendancy
Trivium - The Crusade

U

V

Steve Vai - Passion and Warfare
Steve Vai - Alien Love Secrets
Steve Vai - Sex & Religion
Velvet Revolver - Contraband

W

Within Temptation - Enter
Within Temptation - The Dance
Within Temptation - Mother Earth
Within Temptation - The Silent Force
Within Temptation - The Heart of Everything
Wongraven - Fjelltronen

X

Y

Z

Last update 25/12/2009
- 1 new album.

In München wurden vergangenen Freitag zum zweiten Mal die SMRZ-Music-Awards verliehen, die vor allem in der alternativen Musikszene heißbergehrt sind.

Moderator Jan Delay eröffnete die Preisverleihung stilecht im Smoking und riss einige Witze über Namensgeber und Gründung der Smrz- Stiftung Cotisuelto Smrz, ehe der erste Preis des Abends verliehen werden sollte.

Passenderweise verlieh Ärzte-Drummer Bela B. den Preis für die beste Band des Jahres (natürlich abgesehen von den Ärzten aus Berlin (aus Berlin!)) an Portugal.The Man, die sich überraschenderweise unter anderem gegen Muse durchsetzen konnten. Da die vier Jungs aus Alaska keine Freunde der großen Worte sind, bedankten sie sich brav und räumten die Bühne für den ersten Showact des Abends: Die Foo Fighters spielten erst ihre aktuelle Single Wheels an, ehe sie in den alten Brecher All My Life übergingen und so den Anwesenden ordentlich einheizten.

Nach lang anhaltenden Jubelstürmen kam dann auch Laudator Helge Schneider endlich zu Wort um den Sven-Väth-Gude-Laune-Preis zu vergeben. Der ging dieses Jahr an The Whitest Boy Alive für ihren locker-leichten Frühlingshit 1517. Frontmann Erlend Øye beteuerte kurz in der Landessprache seine Liebe zu Deutschland und machte dann Platz für den nächsten zu verleihenden Preis.

Thrash-Legende Max Cavalera stürmte zusammen mit seinem Kumpel Dave Grohl die Bühne und übte mit dem glänzend aufgelegten Publikum ein paar Growls um dann The Prodigys Invaders Must Die als Smasher of the year auszuzeichnen. Da diese sich bereits wenige Meter nebenan für ihre Performance bereit waren kam Vocalist Keith Flint nur zum Abholen vorbei und bedankte sich durch das Spielen von Invaders Must Die und Breathe.

Gitarrengott Steve Vai hatte dann die große Ehre den Gitarrenmoment des Jahres 2009 zu küren, der an die schottischen Alternativerocker von Biffy Clyro für ihren Lick in Bubbles ging. Auch sie führten die Serie der kurzen Danksagungen fort.

Der nächste Preis war für den Solokünstler des Jahres, den Peter Fox vergeben sollte. Dieser beteuerte, dass er zwar immer über Berlin sänge, aber auch ein Stück München in seinem Herzen trüge. Zum ersten Mal ging ein Award nach Österreich, denn die junge Anja Plaschg alias Soap&Skin überzeugte die Jury am meisten. Leider konnte sie nicht anwesend sein, da sie sich derzeit in Österreich auf Tour befindet.

Der Übergang von Soap&Skin zum nächsten Liveact fiel Jan Delay nicht schwer, waren doch beide Künstler in der selben Kategorie nominiert: Die britische Künstlerin Imogen Heap performte First Train Home und Goodnight and Go, sehr zur Freude der begeisterten Fans.

Danach war Zeit für einen der beiden Hauptpreise des Abends: Wer hat das Album des Jahres aufgenommen? Bemerkenswert war, dass jeder der Nominierten auch in anderen Kategorien zur Wahl stand. Die Ehre der Verleihung ließ sich der Zeremonienmeister des Abends, Jan Delay, nicht nehmen und sorgte mit dem Ergebnis für Erstaunen: Der Preis ging an Karin Dreijer Andersson als Fever Ray für ihr gleichnamiges Debütalbum. Delay würdigte es als das athmosphärisch überzeugendste Album und würdigen Sieger.

Für den Audiovisual-Preis konnten die Organisatoren niemanden geringeren als Kultregisseur Uwe Boll gewinnen, der betonte, dass dieser Preis demjenigen gilt, der die überzeugendste und stimmigste Symbiose aus der gespielten Musik und den dazugehörigen Bildern erzeugen kann. Wie erwartet ging dieser Preis an den US-amerikanischen Künstler Sufjan Stevens für seinen Kurzfilm über den Brooklyn-Queens-Expressway in New York, The BQE. Das Werk sei eine moderne Sinfonie, die dazu noch in geradezu perfekter Weise mit genau den richtigen Bildern, die eine kohärente Gesamtstimmung transportieren würden, so Boll. Stevens selbst war an diesem Abend leider nicht anwesend.

Dennoch kamen die knapp 5000 Gäste auf ihre musikalischen Kosten, denn als nächster Showact brachten Bloc Party die Halle zum Beben: Mit ihren Smashern Mercury und Helicopter brachten sie jeden einzelnen zum Tanzen.

Um den Newcomer des Jahres zu küren, kamen die Vorjahressieger Ezra Koenig und Rostam Batmanlij von Vampire Weekend extra von ihrer Australientour angereist. Sie betonten, dass in dieser Kategorie nicht zwangsläufig nur Künstler nominiert wären, die ihr Debüt 2009 veröffentlichten, sondern generell Bands, die sich in diesem Jahr zum ersten Mal Aufmerksamkeit erspielen konnten. Und als wäre es ein Theaterstück gewann auch die Band, auf die genau das zutraf: Die US-Progger von dredg. Deren Sänger Gavin Hayes bedankte sich artig für den unglaublichen Support bei ihren deutschen Fans und verschwand dann auch schon.

Ausführlicher wurde es dann bei der Vergabe des Classic- Awards für Künstler, deren zeitlose Musik auch über ihr (Band-)Bestehen hinaus Menschen bewegen und inspirieren würde, so Laudatorin Alison Krauss. Vor allem bei den Geehrten träfe dies zu, die nicht nur den Grundstein für spätere Rockbands gelegt haben, sondern dazu noch den vermutlich besten Song aller Zeiten geschrieben haben. Die Rede war natürlich von Led Zeppelin, die von Frontmann Robert Plant vertreten wurden. Dieser zeigte sich sehr gerührt ob der feinen Worte seiner Freundin und Kollegin und ließ sich tatsächlich von den (mittlerweile stehenden) Gästen zu einem kurzen A-Capella-Duett ihres (Plants und Krauss') Hits Please Read The Letter hinreißen.

Die erfürchtige Stimmung in der Halle zerstreute anschließend Electrolore-Meister Alexander Marcus mit der Performance seines Hits 1,2,3

Wie die Faust auf's Auge passte da natürlich die Kür der besten Live- Performance in diesem Jahr, die Clueso mit Vergnügen übernahm. Ihm gefalle hier besonders die Tatsache, dass man mit einem kleinen Gig vor 100 Leuten die gleichen Chancen auf den Sieg hat wie mit einer riesigen Stadionshow oder sogar mit einem von Monologen unterbrochenen Jazzkonzert, wie sich dieses Jahr zeigte. Am Ende war es dann doch eine riesige Stadionshow, die den Sieg davontrug, denn Muse waren siegreich und dürfen nun eine weitere Trophäe in ihrer Königsdisziplin ihr eigen nennen.

Mike Skinner, der zunächst mehr dem Flirten mit Damen aus der ersten Reihe als mit dem Halten einer Laudatio beschäftigte, durfte dann die Melodie des Jahres auszeichnen. Er tat dies indem er (eher schlecht als recht) große Melodien der Vergangenheit intonierte, wie Yellow Submarine von den Beatles, We Are The Champions von Queen und natürlich Fit But You Know It von The Streets. Die Melodie des Siegerliedes konnte er dann aber doch nicht, sodass uns eine Skinner'sche Interpretation von John Frusciantes Unreachable erspart blieb. Leider war auch Mr. Frusciante an dem Abend nicht in München, weil er gerade mit den Red Hot Chili Peppers probte.

Trotz der Tatsache, dass sie an diesem Abend leer ausgingen, feierten die Schweden von Friska Viljor ausgiebig auf der Bühne, während sie People Are Getting Old und Old Man zum Besten gaben - mit der Ankündigung auf der Aftershowparty weitere Songs zu spielen.

Für die vorletzte Laudatio hieß es dann "Maximi, Maxima, Maxi Max ist da", denn der ehemalige Freundeskreis- Vorsitzende zeichnete die Lyrics des Jahres aus, bei dem der Großteil der Nominees deutschsprachig war (es war die einzige Kategorie, in der es so war!). Den Award mit nach Hause nehmen durfte der Mindener Rapper Curse, der sich unglaublich freute, da er, wie er sagte, eigentlich nur zum kostenlos Essen, Trinken und Feiern hierher gekommen wäre.

Mit Spannung wurde dann der Preis der Preise erwartet: Was würde der Song des Jahres werden? Fünf hochkarätige Lieder standen zur Auswahl, bei denen auch Laudator Kele Okereke eine Entscheidung äußerst schwer gefallen wäre, wie er betonte. Es könne aber, wie immer, nur einen Gewinnersong geben und der hieße dieses Jahr Rich Girls und stamme von The Virgins. Frontmann Donals Cumming freute sich über alle Maßen über diesen Award, musste aber die deutschen Fans, die sich auf die Liveperformance des Songs freuten, leider enttäuschen - er leide an einer Erkältung und könne unmöglich auftreten. Er bedankte sich noch ein Dutzend Mal und räumte dann mit sichtlich schlechtem Gewissen die Bühne.

Ein letztes Mal kam dann auch noch Jan Delay zu Wort. Er versicherte dem Münchener Publikum, dass es keinen Grund zur Trauer gäbe, denn er höchstpersönlich habe für hochkarätigen Ersatz gesorgt. Niemand geringeres als Peter Fox sollte diese Show beenden!

Und so gingen mit den Songs lok auf zwei beinen, Schwarz zu blau, Stadtaffe und Alles neu eine rundum gelungene Awardshow mit den absolut richtigen Gewinnern und rundum zufriedenen Gästen zu Ende.



Die Gewinner und Nominierten in der Übersicht:

Band
dredg
Friska Viljor
Muse
Portugal.The Man
The Virgins

Sven- Väth- Gude- Laune
curse - Gold
friska viljor - People Are Getting Old
the whitest boy alive - 1517

Smasher
biffy clyro - Golden Rule
dredg - Savior
the prodigy - Invaders Must Die

Guitar Moment
biffy clyro - Bubbles (lick)
incubus - Black Heart Inertia (solo)
the mars volta - Cotopaxi (riff)

Solokünstler
John Frusciante
Imogen Heap
Soap&Skin

Album
fever ray - Fever Ray
john frusciante - The Empyrean
portugal.the man - The Satanic Satanist
soap&skin - Lovetune for Vacuum
the virgins - The Virgins

Audiovisual
marilies jagsch - concrete garden (music video)
muse - making the resistance (bonus dvd)
sufjan stevens - the bqe (short film)

Newcomer
dredg
Fever Ray
Soap&Skin
The Virgins
James Yuill

Classic
Led Zeppelin

Live- Performance
jan delay - s.oliver arena, würzburg
peter fox - hip hop open, mannheim
friska viljor - schocken, stuttgart
muse - olympiahalle, münchen
helge schneider, liederhalle, stuttgart

Melodie
dredg - Cartoon Show Room
john frusciante - Unreachable
imogen heap - Swoon

Lyrics
curse - Gold
jan delay - überdosis fremdscham
dredg - I Don't Know

Song
dredg - I Don't Know
foo fighters - Wheels
imogen heap - Wait It Out
muse - Undisclosed Desires
the virgins - Rich Girls

Sat 5 Dec – Dolphin в Краснодаре

First of all – band cannot tour with incomplete line-up, definitely. Recorded parts are bullshit. Its nonsense and disrespect to fans and eventual listeners. Even if band’s member is sick or just out why don’t find a temporary replacement? And this kind of fault is not about stolen riff from Marilyn Manson. It’s much worse.

All the rhythm section has been recorded. Though even in this case bass sounded suck. What a poor gear? Also frontman had an addition drumset but it’s a damn dumb. Crashes seems were off but he stuck them anyway, in various sound case. Yeah, what a smart triggers. Other things as tom sounded as bassdrum in one song and obviously seen unrhythmical snare sticking in marching parts seem to be less harmful. I don’t understand a reason for he’s dumb-drumming experience. Do headbanging or something if you bored to stay in instrumental parts. Lame drumming sucks.

Guitar payer. Strange because it has been suspicious he had just slight appearance in mix. I’m not sure because most of parts were heavily processed with echoes, feedbacks and so on. Also notable thing is that technician changed him a guitar almost after every song. Four or five guitars have been cycled, where one of them looked left-handed which is strange because the others not. And after a change, during a song, taken guitar’s head had been sticking out of the stage from left side where technician slowing tuned it. This is as funny as stupid. Guitars, each for 200 bucks from the local guitar store? Or maybe ‘cause of big variety of tunings? Nope. The only way is that he’s a Steve Vai’s fan or his old Evo as it cannot stay tuned long ;)

The rest parts as casual keys and other, of course, were recorded.

Also the artworks are noticeable ‘cause they resample KoЯn’s stuff. Weird kids, stump bleeding bodies, knife murder. Hm… well, what have I been attending, huh? It’s hardly correlated with musical part. Also notable fact that artworks’ credits have been shown. As it’s a gift to a band or something.

And the last disappointment. There’s been a lack of crowd communication. Frontman only once told “thank you much”, no hello, no goodbye, no how-you-doing-fellows. He had lots of time when he didn’t sing or didn’t dumb drumming. He didn’t even bow with guitarist in the end. I haven’t seen this before.

Maybe this time is for me as an old video game played long ago. You remember it only well and once you play it after that time you realize it’s outdated and not any longer well. It’s sad.

1. How did you get into 29? Steve Vai
Many of my friends love his work so I figured I should give him a try. He's great.

2. What was the first song you ever heard by 22? Joe Satriani
Hmm..Super Colossal, I think.

3. What’s your favorite lyric by 33? Novembers Doom
The lyrics of the song Swallowed by the Moon is pretty awesome.

4. What is your favorite album by 49? Evergrey
That would have to be The Inner Circle.

5. How many albums by 13 do you own? Arch Enemy
None, at the moment.

6. What is your favorite song by 50? Skid Row
Monkey Business. Great band overall.

7. Is there a song by 39 that makes you sad? Rotting Christ
Heh, not really.

8. What is your favorite album by 15? Diabolical Masquerade
Death's Design or Nightwork, I'm not sure.

9. What is your favorite song by 5? Megadeth
Wow, um..Holy Wars...The Punishment Due, I guess.

10. Is there a song by 6 that makes you happy? Draconian
The cover for Forever My Queen, haha.
A pretty gloomy band besides that.

11. What is your favorite album by 40? Got no 40, so I'll pick Rotting Christ again.
Theogonia, no doubt.

12. What is your favorite song by 10? Eric Clapton
Tears In Heaven

13. What is a good memory you have involving 30? Death
I remember me and my ex listened to Death sometimes when got together.

14. What is your favorite song by 38? Liquid Tension Experiment
Universal Mind. Great track.

15. Is there a song by 19 that makes you happy? Nightingale
Steal the Moon is pretty fun.

16. How many times have you seen 25 live? Warrel Dane
Well, I've seen him once performing with Nevermore if that counts.

17. What is the first song you ever heard by 23? Swallow the Sun
No Light, No Hope, I think.

18. What is your favorite album by 11? Meshuggah
obZen or Chaosphere, can't really decide.

19. Who is a favorite member of 1? Nevermore
Jeff Loomis, although Warrel Dane is great too. They're all a bunch of ass kickers, though.

20. Have you ever seen 14 live? Septic Flesh
Unfortunately - no. But I think they're about to book a concert here soon, so I hope to see them in 2010.

21. What is a good memory involving 27? Paradise Lost
Nothing really happened involving them.

22. What is your favorite song by 16? Beyond Twilight
The Path of Darkness.

23. What is the first song you ever heard by 47? Dragonlord
Until the End, I think.

24. What is your favorite album by 18? Pantera
Vulgar Display of Power, hands down.

25. What is your favorite song by 21? Buckethead
I've seriously got no idea.

26. What is the first song you ever heard by 26? Porcupine Tree
Blackest Eyes, which is great.

27. What is your favorite album by 3? Bloodbath
Nightmares Made Flesh. Yup.

28. What is you favorite song by 2? Opeth
A tough one, but I'll go with Serenity Painted Death.

29. What was the first song you ever heard by 32? Orphaned Land
Norra El Norra (Entering the Ark), hehe.

30. What is your favorite song by 8? Edge of Sanity
Crimson II. Does that count? heh

31. How many times have you seen 17 live? Marty Friedman
Once. Back in 2006, I think.

32. Is there a song by 44 that makes you happy? Fredrik Thordendal's Special Defects
Not really. It's a pretty bizzare project, But I love it.

33. What is your favorite album by 12? Jeff Loomis
Zero Order Phase, which is his only album as a solo artist.

34. What is the worst song by 45? Symphony X
Nothing I can think of. All songs are great.

35. What was the first song you ever heard by 34? Haggard
All'inizio E La Morte. Simply amazing.

36. What is your favorite album by 48? Aborted
Slaughter & Apparatus: A Methodical Overture, I guess.

37. How many times have you seen 42 live? The Beatles
Haha.

38. What is your favorite song by 36? One Man Army and the Undead Quartet
Make them die slowly

39. What was the first song you ever heard by 28? Scale The Summit
The Great Plains. Beautiful.

40. What is your favorite album by 7? Deep Purple
I'll go with Machine Head, but I really like In Rock too.

41. Is there a song by 31 that makes you happy? Dio
Rainbow In The Dark, hehe.

42. What is your favorite album by 41? Katatonia
Brave Murder Day. Love Mikael.

43. What is your favorite song by 24? Dark Tranquillity
Of all I've heard from them, I'll go with The Endless Feed.

44. What is a good memory you have involving 46? I got no 46, so I'll pick Ensiferum
Well, nothing really.

45. What is your favorite song by 35? Again, no 35 so I'll pick Wintersun
A hard choice, but I think Death and the Healing takes the pie.

46. Is there a song by 9 that makes you happy? Gojira
Nah.

47. What is your favorite album by 4? Hypocrisy
Virus. A masterpiece.

48. Who is a favorite member of 37? Naglfar
Wrath, the vocalist.

49. What is the first song you ever heard by 43? Therion
Gothic Kabbalah, I think.

50. How many albums do you own by 20? Carcass
None, at the moment.

Alright, as we near the end of this first Y2K decade, it's time to take a look back at all the best Albums that have been released in the last 40+ years.

I'll start off this extensive research with 2000, up until 2009. I'll then go back to 1980, all the way up to 1999, to then wrap things up with the 70s and before.

I'll be choosing my Top 25 Albums for each year; an ordered Top 10, and ~15 others worth mentioning. I'm also considering the live albums and EPs (~5), but they have their own section since songs on these have usually been released on official releases. The final result will be a Top 1000 for Official Albums, and Top ~250 for Live/EP albums.

These are general rankings of how I see them today, and based on my Last.FM songs playcounts (2005-now) put through the formula:

Total Sum of each Album's Song's (running time X playcount)
DIVIDED BY
Album's Total Running Time

Thanks to MediaMonkey and its amazing scripting abilities, that formula gives an Album's REAL playcount, taking into consideration every song's lenght & playcount in relation to the overall album's lenght and # of songs on it.
You'll see the result (# of times I've really listened to an album since 2005) besides each, along with my 10* Rating. (x/x)
Besides each Year, you get the Total of all Albums' Playcounts and the average of all Albums' Ratings. (x / %)

Note that I haven't necessarily discovered and enjoyed all these albums on their released years, some I discovered years later. So these are also based on how important (to me) some of these albums were at the time.

(**) are the complete albums I was into at that time;
(*) are albums that contained only a few song(s) I was into or listened to at that time;
and those without (*) are albums I discovered years later.

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Favorite albums (1970-1979)
Favorite albums (1980-1989)
Favorite albums (1990-1999)
=======================

2000 (~140 / 81%)



1) Furnished Souls for Rent (48/10) (**)
2) The Screen Behind The Mirror (9/9) (**)
3) Universe (6/9) (**)
4) Dead Soul Men (6/9)
5) undefined (1/9)
6) A New Day Yesterday (1/9)
7) CAB (4/9)
8) Another Spin Around The Sun (5/8) (*)
9) Origin (9/8)
10) Stiff Upper Lip (1/8)

Live/EP:

-) S&M (-/10)
-) Is There Anybody Out There? The Wall Live (-/10)
-) Half the World Is Watching Me (-/9)
-) Earth, Sky and Everything in Between (-/9)
-) Spirit of Live (-/8)
-) Not Enough Shouting (-/8)

worth mentioning:

-) Awake (3/8)
-) The Perfect Element, Part I (1/8)
-) SMPTe (3/8) (*)
-) Don't Give Me Names (1/8)
-) if_then_else (2/8)
-) You Go Now (6/8)
-) Rated R (6/8)
-) Outbound (1/8)
-) Brave New World (1/8)
-) Flamenco.A.Go.Go (1/8)
-) The Sickness (4/7)
-) Lightbulb Sun (3/7)
-) Shuttlecock (2/7)
-) Mer De Noms (3/7) (*)
-) My Favorite Headache (2/7)
-) Crush (9/7) (*)
-) Ice Cycles (2/7) (*)
-) Crack a Smile... and More (1994 album w/ Blues Saraceno) (1/7)




2001 (~100 / 84%)



1) Leitmotif (23/10)
2) Alive in an Ultra World (8/10) (**)
3) The Pleasure and the Greed (10/10) (**)
4) Amélie (3/10)
5) Huron Street (6/9)
6) Toxicity (3/9)
7) Contact (2/9)
8) Emalgamation (1/9)
9) Days of the New III (4/9)
10) Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (2/9) (**)

Live:

-) Live Scenes From New York (-/10) (**)
-) One Wild Night (-/10) (*)
-) Half Life (-/9)
-) Live at the Baked Potato (-/9)
-) The Deep End (-/8)
-) Pyramidion (-/8)
-) Live Frogs (-/7)

worth mentioning:

-) Lateralus (7/8)
-) Everyday (2/8)
-) Inertia (6/8) (*)
-) Manic Moonlight (1/8)
-) Feeding the Wheel (3/8) (*)
-) Bridge Across Forever (1/8)
-) Origin Of Symmetry (3/8)
-) Tantric (1/8)
-) Almost Heathen (3/8)
-) Invincible (1/8)
-) Unleashed Memories (1/8)
-) 2 (2/8) (*)
-) 10 000 Hz Legend (1/8)
-) The Interzone Mantras (1/7)
-) The Idiot King (2/7)
-) Buck Fever (1/7)
-) Book M (1/7)




2002 (~270 / 85%)



1) Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence (25/10) (**)
2) Population 1 (36/10) (**)
3) Moon Babies (15/10) (**)
4) Songs For The Deaf (21/9)
5) 67 (28/9) (**)
6) Move (12/9)
7) In Absentia (11/9) (*)
8) Freak Guitar (3/9)
9) Saturate (25/9)
10) El Cielo (13/9)

Live/EP:

-) Live From Oz (-/10) (*)
-) Stolen Babies EP (-/9)
-) And All That Could Have Been (-/9)
-) Not for Your Ears (-/8)
-) Boozed, Broozed & Broken-Boned (-/7)

worth mentioning:

-) Bounce (4/9) (*)
-) X (13/8) (**)
-) By the Way (2/8) (*)
-) Exit Elvis (11/8) (**)
-) Weight of the World (3/8)
-) Steal This Album! (3/8)
-) So, It's Like That (1/8)
-) Remedy Lane (2/8)
-) Diorama (4/8)
-) Audioslave (6/8) (*)
-) Vapor Trails (7/8) (*)
-) From One (4/8)
-) Dead Soul Tribe (1/8)
-) The End of the Beginning (1/8)
-) Star Wars: Episode II: Attack of the Clones (3/7) (**)
-) Independent (3/7)
-) Believe (4/7)




2003 (~240 / 90%)



1) Train of Thought (41/10) (**)
2) The Quicksilver Meat Dream (35/10) (**)
3) Office of Strategic Influence (38/10) (*)
4) Frengers (24/10)
5) The Moon is Falling (3/10)
6) Robot Monster (10/10) (**)
7) Re-Foc (12/9)
8) Summercamp Nightmare (2/9)
9) Good Bye Lenin! (1/9)
10) Absolution (14/9) (*)

Live:

-) Live at the Astoria (-/10) (**)
-) Rush in Rio (-/10) (**)
-) This Left Feels Right (-/8) (*)
-) 10 anos ao vivo (-/8)
-) Spatial/Design (-/8)
-) Animals Should Not Try To Act Like People (-/7)

worth mentioning:

-) Faceless (4/8)
-) Souvenirs (2/8)
-) Black Utopia (4/8)
-) In Lake 'ch (2/8)
-) Black Like Sunday (1/8)
-) Blues Deluxe (8) (*)
-) Little Worlds (1/8)
-) Jeff (1/8)
-) A Murder of Crows (1/8)
-) Walking on a Thin Line (1/8)
-) A Natural Disaster (2/8)
-) Fallen (21/8) (*)
-) St Anger (7/7) (*)
-) Quadropus (1/7)
-) Emergent (1/7)
-) Voyageur (4/7)
-) Thirteenth Step (2/7)




2004 (~160 / 83%)



1) We Are Not Alone (33/10)
2) Come Again (24/9) (**)
3) Mythology (10/9)
4) Live Manchester And Dublin (16/9)
5) Wake Pig (4/9)
6) Dreamcatcher (3/9)
7) The Big Eyeball in the Sky (1/8)
8) Time (1/8)
9) Rhythm of Time (2/8)
10) Fraktal (1/8)

Live/EP:

-) Live At Budokan (-/10) (**)
-) Hallucino-Genetics (-/10) (**)
-) Cloon Demo (29/9)
-) Live In Hyde Park (-/9)
-) Live All Over the Place (-/9)
-) 12:5 (-/9)
-) Anywhere But Home (-/9) (*)
-) Sessions From Room 4 (23/8) (**)
-) The Other Side (-/8)
-) Sleepy Buildings (-/8)
-) Southside Double-Wide: Acoustic Live (-/8)
-) Feedback (1/7)

worth mentioning:

-) The January Tree (1/8)
-) Wheel of Life (1/8)
-) Kallocain (3/8)
-) After We Go (2/8)
-) Legs to Make Us Longer (2/8) (*)
-) Seven Circles (2/8)
-) One Day Remains (3/8)
-) Talkie Walkie (3/8)
-) Blackfield (1/8)
-) Had to Cry Today (1/8)
-) Is There Love in Space? (1/8)
-) Passion for Life (1/8)
-) Amplifier (1/8)
-) Out of Myself (3/7)
-) Graveyard Mountain Home (3/7)
-) This Type of Thinking (Could Do Us In) (4/7)
-) Perpetual (3/7)




2005 (~310 / 84%)



1) Love (76/10) (**)
2) Octavarium (62/10) (**)
3) Panzerballett (7/10)
4) Deadwing (30/9) (*)
5) Freak Guitar: The Road Less Traveled (7/9) (*)
6) Suspended Animation (17/9) (**)
7) Real Illusions: Reflections (11/8) (*)
8) Mesmerize (17/9) (*) & Hypnotize (1/8)
9) S.U.S.A.R. (8/8)
10) Catch Without Arms (9/8)

Live:

-) R30 (*) (-/10)
-) Montreal (-/9)
-) Jagged Little Pill Acoustic (-/9)
-) Gluttons for Punishment: Live in '05 (-/8)
-) Over the Years and Through the Woods (-/8)

worth mentioning:

-) Star Wars: Episode III: Revenge of the Sith (8/8) (**)
-) Art of Motion (3/8)
-) Organic (2/8)
-) 44 (2/8)
-) The Art of Navigating by the Stars (1/8)
-) And The Glass Handed Kites (6/8)
-) riddle (1/8)
-) Ten Thousand Fists (7/8)
-) Second Life Syndrome (1/8)
-) Leva-me P'ra casa (17/8) (*)
-) Ogre Tones (1/8)
-) Stand Up (1/8)
-) Elements of Persuasion (6/8) (*)
-) Lullabies To Paralyze (2/8) (*)
-) Octane (1/8)
-) Duality (2/7)
-) Out of Exile (5/7) (*)
-) World Play (1/7)




2006 (~200 / 84%)



1) Rodrigo Y Gabriela (34/10) (**)
2) Free (59/10) (**)
3) A Posteriori (22/9) (**)
4) The Lost Book Of Malchus (1/9)
5) Revelations (7/9) (*)
6) Development (5/9)
7) Black Holes and Revelations (9/9) (*)
8) The Butcher's Ballroom (2/8)
9) 10,000 Days (8/8) (*)
10) Leaving Lotus (1/8)

Live/EP:

-) Score (-/10) (**)
-) Cloon EP (11/10) (**)
-) Live At The Fillmore (-/9)
-) Raw (-/8)
-) Home (-/8)
-) Two Nights In North America (1/8)
-) Tour EP (1/8)
-) Yeah! (2/7) (*)

worth mentioning:

-) Phobia (12/8) (*)
-) The Hidden Land (1/8)
-) Erotic Cakes (1/8)
-) IV (2/8)
-) The Open Door (4/8) (*)
-) Upside Down (1/8)
-) There Be Squabbles Ahead (1/8)
-) Blood of the Snake (6/8) (*)
-) Home (1/8)
-) Milliontown (1/8)
-) BE (1/8)
-) The Dark Third (3/8)
-) Stadium Arcadium (1/8)
-) You and Me (1/8)
-) Palace Of Mirrors (1/7)
-) Karmacode (1/7)
-) Insider (1/7)




2007 (~160 / 90%)



1) Snakes and Arrows (16/10) (*)
2) Systematic Chaos (30/9) (**)
3) Quantum (14/9) (**)
4) Sound Theories Vol. I & II (4/9) (*)
5) Ultra Payloaded (21/9) (**)
6) The End is Begun (9/9) (*)
7) Fear of a Blank Planet (22/9) (*)
8) The Gates of Gnomeria (2/8)
9) Art Metal (1/8)
10) Blackbird (2/8) (*)

Live:

-) The String Quartet Tribute to Dream Theater (-/10)
-) Made In Australia (2/9) (*)
-) MTV Unplugged (-/9)

worth mentioning:

-) Spontaneous Combustion (2/8) (*)
-) Clinophobia (2/8)
-) Spot De Rue (2/8)
-) Sloe Gin (1/8)
-) Scarsick (1/8)
-) Fates (5/8) (*)
-) Who Did It to Michelle Waters? (1/8) & Creepy Tales for Freaky Children (1/8)
-) Rapid Eye Movement (4/8) (*)
-) Libertad (1/8) (*)
-) A Lullaby for the Devil (1/8)
-) Era Vulgaris (3/8) (*)
-) Young Modern (2/8) (*)
-) Into the Presence (1/8)
-) Pocket Symphony (1/8)
-) Blackfield II (1/8)
-) Into the Wild (2/8)
-) Acid Test (1/8)




2008 (~120 / 83%)



1) Saudades de Rock (44/10) (**)
2) Death Magnetic (16/9) (**)
3) Seven Lives Many Faces (7/9) (**)
4) Existence (5/9) (**)
5) Starke Stücke (4/9)
6) The Cosmic Year (2/9)
7) Songs From The Sparkle Lounge (10/8) (**)
8) XV (3/8) (*)
9) Black Ice (1/8)
10) Chapter VII: Hope & Sorrow (8/8) (**)

Live:

-) Snakes & Arrows Live (-/10) (**)
-) Chaos In Motion (-/10) (**)
-) Live in Japan (-/10) (**)
-) Live At Mile High Music Festival (-/10)
-) Smart People (-/10) (*)
-) Playgrounds (-/9)
-) The Thing That Came From Somewhere (-/9) (*)
-) Reality Dream (-/8)
-) Hindsight (-/8)
-) Il Grande Silenzio (-/7) (*)

worth mentioning:

-) The End Begins (2/8) (**)
-) Professor Satchafunkilus and the Musterion of Rock (1/8)
-) Diffusion (1/8)
-) The Garden (1/8)
-) Experiments in Mass Appeal (1/8)
-) The Atomized Dream (1/8)
-) Sleeping In Traffic: Part Two (2/8)
-) Equilibrium (1/8)
-) Who's The Boss In The Factory? (1/8)
-) Chinese Democracy (1/8)
-) God Is An Astronaut (1/8)
-) Orquid (1/8)
-) Palmystery (1/8)
-) Black Sun (1/8)
-) Hope (1/7)
-) Cheat The Gallows (1/7)
-) Indestructible (*) (2/7)




2009 (~80 / 92%)



1) Black Clouds & Silver Linings (18/10)
2) Blood (19/10)
3) 11:11 (5/10)
4) Land of the Freaks (1/10)
5) Sing-Along Songs for the Damned & Delirious (3/9)
6) Idmen (1/9)
7) Street Sweeper Social Club (1/9)
8) Molecular Heinosity (6/9)
9) Them Crooked Vultures (1/9)
10) The Incident (3/9)

Live:

-) Where The Wild Things Are (-/10)
-) Liquid Tension Experiment (-/10)
-) Ilosaarirock (-/10)
-) Revisions (-/8)
-) When The Keyboard Breaks: Live In Chicago (-/7)

worth mentioning:

-) Hart Genossen (1/9)
-) Big Whiskey And The Groogrux King (1/9)
-) Chickenfoot (1/9)
-) No More Stories (1/9)
-) Amor Vincit Omnia (4/9)
-) The Pariah, The Parrot, The Delusion (2/8)
-) Tiny Pictures (4/8)
-) Sol Eye Sea I (1/8)
-) Don't Panic (1/8)
-) Anno Domini High Definition (1/8)
-) The Whirlwind (1/8)
-) The Ballad Of John Henry (1/8)
-) Of Fungi and Foe (1/8)
-) Mind Control (1/8)
-) The Resistence (1/8)
-) Chapters (1/8)
-) Dear Agony (1/8)
-) Magnified (1/7)




Coming up next: 1980s



Artists

3, 7for4, A Perfect Circle, AC/DC, Air, Alanis Morissette, Alter Bridge, Amplifier, Anathema, Andy McKee, Anekdoten, Antoine Dufour, Attention Deficit, Audioslave, Baby Animals, BeardFish, Béla Fleck and the Flecktones, Bigelf, Big Wreck, Black Label Society, Blackfield, Blues Saraceno, Bon Jovi, Breaking Benjamin, CAB, Canvas Solaris, Caspian, Chevelle, Chickenfoot, Chroma Key, Cloon, Collective Soul, Colonel Claypool's Bucket of Bernie Brains, Cosmics, Cosmosquad, Counter-World Experience, Dave Matthews Band, Days of the New, Deadsoul Tribe, Def Leppard, Derek Sherinian, Devil's Slingshot, Diablo Swing Orchestra, Disturbed, Don Ross, Don Ross & Andy McKee, Dr Sin, DramaGods, Dream Theater, dredg, Eddie Vedder, Edwin, Enigma, Erik Mongrain, Estradasphere, Evanescence, Extreme, Flesh, Freak Kitchen, Frost, Gambale Donati Fierabracci, Geddy Lee, God Is an Astronaut, Godsmack, Gordian Knot, Gov't Mule, Guano Apes, Guns 'N Roses, Guthrie Govan, Hammer of the Gods, Harem Scarem, I Mother Earth, Indukti, Interférence Sardines, Into The Presence, Irepress, Iron Maiden, James LaBrie, Jeff Beck, Jesse Cook, Joe Bonamassa, Joe Satriani, Joel Hoekstra, John Petrucci, John Williams, Jon Gomm, Jonas Hellborg, Jordan Rudess, Kaki King, Karma to Burn, Karmakanic, King's X, Kingdom Come, Korn, Lacuna Coil, Les Claypool, Liquid Limbs, Liquid Tension Experiment, Liquid Trio Experiment, Lucia Moniz, Mattias IA Eklundh, Mechanical Poet, Metallica, Mew, Michael Jackson, Mourning Widows, MullMuzzler, Muse, Nine Inch Nails, Nuno Bettencourt, OSI, Ozric Tentacles, Paatos, Pain of Salvation, Panzerballett, Perry Farrell's Satellite Party, Pink Floyd, Planet X, Platypus, Poison, Population 1, Porcupine Tree, Primus, Pure Reason Revolution, Queens of the Stone Age, Ra, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Riverside, Rodrigo y Gabriela, Rush, Sam Aliano, Secret Chiefs 3, Sevendust, Sieges Even, Silverchair, Soul SirkUS, Spock's Beard, Street Sweeper Social Club, Steve Stevens, Steve Vai, Stolen Babies, Super TransAtlantic, System of a Down, Tantric, The Gathering, The Les Claypool Frog Brigade, The Mayan Factor, The Tea Party, Them Crooked Vultures, Thomas Leeb, Thornley, Tool, Transatlantic, Tribe of Judah, Unitopia, Velvet Revolver, Victor Wooten, Wolfstone, Yann Tiersen.

Il titolo dice tutto, ma vi prego, non fermatevi qui, io devo assolutamente denunciare la deficienza di quelle persone che più in là del proprio molo, non vanno.
Ma io dico, cazzo stai a fare sul molo se poi non pigli la tua barca?
Arriverò al punto, senza girarci troppo attorno:
L'altra mattina, con mia spiacevole sorpresa, stavo vagando su Facebook alla ricerca di qualche bel video divertente condiviso dai miei amici.
Il brutto di Facebook è che non puoi far a meno di venire a sapere cose più o meno personali di ex compagni di classe di cui non te ne fotte un cazzo, ma lo tieni lì, nella lista amici, perché ti dispiace toglierli, sopratutto se sei stato tu, da bravo coglione, ad aggiungerli.
Ebbene, io sapevo già che questa ragazza fosse innamorata persa dei Lost, Finley e tutti gli altri cazzoni che oltre a farsi il ciuffo emo, cosa rispettabilissima, ma, fino ad un certo punto, che fanno musica che io personalmente non riesco ad ascoltare.
Ci ho provato, eh. Io ci provo sempre. Ho provato ad ascoltarli, i Lost. Fanno testi penosi e il sound è pessimo. Ho provato a sentire anche i Tokio Hotel e vi dirò... sì il batterista le sa usare le bacchette, il gemellino coi rasta non mi dispiace neppure fisicamente... ma le canzoni hanno una struttura banalissima, non sono dinamiche, sono ripetitive e sono melodicamente ritrite e ritrite.
Non parto prevenuta, per niente, anzi, sono fra le poche persone che ha provato ad ascoltare queste band. Ma giuro, non mi piacciono e questa è solo la mia opinione.
Però devo accusare tutti gli individui di deficienza per un motivo:
La ragazza che ho citato prima, aveva condiviso un bel video, a mio avviso sconcertante, che si intitola così:
*Sfida tra chitarristi (Roby vs Ka vs Tom vs Sonohra)*


Vi prego stringete i denti e non moritemi di infarto proprio adesso.
NON CHIAMATEMELI ASSOLI QUESTI QUI!
PORCA PUTTANA!
Ma possibile che non avete mai sentito gente come Allen Collins(Lynyrd Skynyrd), David Gilmour(Pink Floyd), Jimi Hendrix, Jimmy Page(Led Zeppelin), Steve Vai, Van Halen, Angus Young(AC/DC), Santana, Joe Satriani....
E cito questi solo per essere banale, perché sono solo gli autori degli assoli più famosi nella storia della musica!
Per tutti gli amanti di Kirk Hammett(Metallica), Slash(Guns N' Roses), Zakk Wylde e altri, non offendetevi, volevo solo evitare di fare una lista troppo lunga.
Ragazzi, vi prego aprite gli occhi. Davanti a voi non c'è solo una piccola spiaggia bagnata da un pò d'acqua, c'è un intero oceano da scoprire, fino in fondo, negli abissi.
C'è musica che merita davvero di essere ascoltata, non limitatevi, VI PREGO!
E fate un pò il confronto... non vorrete mica dirmi che sono meglio i Lost degli AC/DC?! Oppure i Tokio Hotel migliori dei Led Zeppelin?
E parlo sia tecnicamente che musicalmente.
Buon ascolto.

PREMISE:
I know noone cares about my favourite musicians. But I wanted to post it in a place where I could show it to my Last.fm friends and some forum friends and where I could quickly edit it when needed.

GUITAR PLAYERS:
1)Andrè Olbrich (Blind Guardian)
2)Syu (Galneryus, SPINALCORD (formerly AUSHVITZ), ex-Animetal, ex-VALKYR)
3)Luca Turilli (Rhapsody, Luca Turilli's Dreamquest, Luca Turilli)
4)Herman Li (DragonForce)
5)Kai Hansen (ex-Helloween, Gamma Ray)
SPECIAL OUT-OF-TOP-FIVE MENTIONS:
A)John Schaffer (Iced Earth, Demons & Wizards), awesome rhythm guitarist;
B)Brian May (Queen, Brian May), 'cause he's BRIAN MAY OF QUEEN, damnit!
C)All three Iron Maiden guitarists.
D)Tony Iommi (Black Sabbath), OF COURSE!
E)My dad. :P
F)Timo Tolkki (ex-Stratovarius, Timo Tolkki, Revolution Renaissance)
G)Richie Sambora (Bon Jovi, Richie Sambora)
H)Alexi Laiho (Children of Bodom)
I) Steve Vai
J)Mark Knopfler (Dire Straits)

VOCALISTS:
1)Michael Kiske (ex-Helloween, Michael Kiske, Place Vendome)
2)Tobias Sammet (Edguy, Avantasia)
3)Hansi Kursch (Blind Guardian, Demons & Wizards)
4)Eizo Sakamoto (Anthem, Eizo Sakamoto, EIZO Japan, ex-Animetal)
5)Fabio Lione (Rhapsody, Vision Divine, ex-Labyrinth)
SPECIAL OUT-OF-TOP-FIVE MENTIONS:
A)Freddie Mercury (Queen, Freddie Mercury), because he's superior to anyone, ever.
B)David DeFeis (Virgin Steele)
C)Andre Matos (ex-Angra, ex-Shaaman, Andre Matos)
D)Bruce Dickinson (Iron Maiden), OF COURSE!
E)Matt Barlow (Iced Earth)

GROWL/SCREAM VOCALISTS:
1)Mark Jansen (Epica, ex-After Forever)
2)Alexi Laiho (Children of Bodom)
3)Angela Gossow (Arch Enemy)
4)Pekka Kokko (Kalmah)
5)Syu (Galneryus, SPINALCORD (formerly AUSHVITZ), ex-Animetal, ex-VALKYR)

BASS PLAYERS:
1)Masaki (Masaki Project, ex-Animetal)
2)Steve Harris (Iron Maiden)
3)Markus Grosskopf (Helloween, Markus Grosskopf's Bassinvaders)
4)Cliff Burton (ex-Metallica. R.I.P.)

DRUMMERS:
1)Thomen Stauch (ex-Blind Guardian, ex-Savage Circus)
2)Alex Holzwarth (Rhapsody, Avantasia, ex-Angra, Sieges Even)
3)Dave Mackintosh (DragonForce)
4)Eric Singer (ex-Black Sabbath, KISS, Avantasia)
5)Vinny Appice (Black Sabbath, Heaven and Hell)
SPECIAL OUT-OF-TOP-FIVE MENTIONS:
A)Ingo Schwichtenberg (ex-Helloween, R.I.P.)
B)Nicko McBrain (Iron Maiden), OF COURSE!
C)Jorg Michael (Stratovarius)
D)Junichi (Galneryus, SPINALCORD, has also played as touring drummer in Animetal)

KEYBOARDISTS:
1)Yuhki (Galneryus)
2)Vadim Pruzhanov (DragonForce)
3)Jens Johansonn (Stratovarius)
4)Tuomas Holopainen (Nightwish)

Not in exact order, but a general order :D

Jason Becker
Randy Rhoads (Ozzy Osbourne, Quiet Riot)
Shawn Lane
Marty Friedman (Cacophony, Megadeth, etc)
Neil Zaza
Steve Vai (Whitesnake, Alcatrazz)
Andy Timmons
Blues Saraceno
Buck Dharma (Blue Öyster Cult)
Terry Kath (Chicago)
Milan Polak