Tell us 5 bands you can't live without

[8Fingers]

My musical taste goes from Barry Manilow(lol) to Dream Theater so it's really hard for me choosing only 5 bands but these ones changed/affected my life cause I played in so many cover bands.

Pink Floyd

Steve Vai

Dream Theater

Bon Jovi

Journey

 

[Meldville]

Soilent Green
Misery Index
Trap Them
Wolfbrigade
Immortal

 

[Flux_Architect]

CYNIC
NINE INCH NAILS
AMON TOBIN
GOJIRA
KORN

 

[Scar Symmetry]

Opeth
Textures
Meshuggah
Dimmu Borgir
Scar Symmetry

 

[TimSE]

Dream Theater
Pink Floyd
Strapping Young Lad
Devin townsend
Frost*

 

[st2012]

It's tough as hell to pick 5 but here are the first few that pop in to my head in no particular order:

Nevermore
Unearth
Eric Johnson
Pantera
Arch Enemy

 

[sami]

Vader
Meshuggah
Arsis
Demiricous
Arch Enemy

 

[toolsound]

Tool
Pearl Jam
Silverchair
In Flames
Periphery

 

[heineken_fretwalker]

Iron Maiden
Death
Meshuggah
All Shall Perish
Protest the Hero

 

[Arteriorrhexis]

CAN'T
DECIDE

Damn...

Animals as Leaders
Architects
Anata
After the Burial
Dark Tranquillity
And either Cynic or The Faceless

 

[troyguitar]

hardest question ever, here's my best shot:

Iron Maiden
Queen
Savatage
Yngwie
Metallica

 

[SerratedSkies]

Opeth
Necrophagist
Opeth
Meshuggah
Gorod


Number 6 would be Opeth, obviously.

 

[LadyKiller]

Stuck Mojo
Pantera
Deftones
Illdisposed (Slow Death Factory)
Van Halen

it is very difficult to decide only 5

 

[8Fingers]

hardest question ever, here's my best shot:

Iron Maiden
Queen
Savatage
Yngwie
Metallica

Yeah man Queen is in my list too but it 's the number 6.
Thank god someone here likes Queen,I know it's a 7 strings forum still I don't like only metal.

 

[darbdavys]

Opeth
Dream Theater
Nevermore
Tool
Necrophagist

 

[Triple7]

Only 5!!!

Pink Floyd
Tool
Alice In Chains
Opeth
Meshuggah

Man that is so hard to narrow down.

 

[Triple-J]

Celtic Frost
Bauhaus
Meshuggah
IAMX
Danzig/Samhain/Misfits

Those that didn't quite make the list.....Johnny Cash, Satyricon, Danny Elfman, David Bowie and Goldfrapp.

 

[EliNoPants]

going with 10 would be way more comprehensive and accurate, but limiting it to 5...in order

Pink Floyd
Undying
Tool
Bane
Metallica

 

[shredguitar7]

1- BLOODBATH !!!!!
2- Fear Factory
3- Immortal
4- Joe Satriani
5- Rush

weird mix... but oh well...

 

[Varcolac]

In no particular order.

Emperor
The Jam
Miles Davis Quintet
Pink Floyd
If orchestras aren't cheating, the BBC Philharmonic.
If orchestras are cheating, the Jacques Loussier Trio.