Bands :
- Linkin Park (these guys are the people that got me into music. Thanks for making me waste my money and time, guys. Especially you, Robert....jerk ;-) )
- OrkeStar Trio (Singapore) (The first band I ever liked. Surprisingly, they didn't inspire me enough to pick up an instrument, unfortunately... Never knew why. They were "newer", maybe? They do inspire my sound a lot, though...)
- The Reign of Kindo (If it weren't for this band, Snarky Puppy and OST, I wouldn't have thought to mix every single genre in my playing. And their 8-bit stuff. Wow.)
- Dropkick Murphys
- All Time Low
- Blink 182
- Animals As Leaders
- August Burns Red
- Tesseract
- 30 Seconds To Mars
- The Word Alive
- Black Sabbath
- Megadeth
- King Crimson
- Porcupine Tree
- Pink Floyd
- Metallica
- 5 Seconds of Summer
- Imagine Dragons
- OneRepublic
- Issues
- Dream Theater
- Periphery (to OUUUURRRSEEEEEELLLLVVVEEESSSS)
- Twenty One Pilots
- Foo Fighters
- Ventura Lights
- New Found Glory
- Bad Religion (Oh, the irony.)
- Rancid
- +44
- We The Kings ( not a fan of Charles Trippy, though...)
- A Day to Remember
- Atomic Mosquitoes
- Queen
- Led Zeppelin
- Green Day
- The Beatles
- The Dear Hunter
- Avenged Sevenfold
- Snarky Puppy
- The Offspring
- The Bellerophon Project
- Styx
- Bunkface
- Deep Purple
- Pomplamoose
- Royal Crown Revue
- The Police
- The Transplants
- Red Hot Chilli Peppers
- Alestorm
- All American Rejects
- Flogging Molly
- The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band*
- Fall Out Boy
- Neck Deep
- Sekumpulan Orang Gila
- Alvarez Kings
- Black 47
- RED
- The Black Mages
- Rush
- Muse
- Radiohead
- Pierce The Veil
- Dance Gavin Dance*
- The Dillinger Escape Plan*
- The Apemen
- The Shadows
- Hawaii Samurai
- The Pogues
- The Dubliners
- The Venopian Solitude
- DragonForce
- Scale The Summit
- Korpiklaani
- Of Mice and Men
- Incubus
- Royal Blood
- Walk Off The Earth
- Twenty One Pilots
- Metallica
- Toto
- The Script
- Kyoto Protocol
- Enterprise
- Pitahati
Solo Artists, "Boy/Girl Bands", Composers, Orchestras, Ensembles and others that are not rock bands :
- Steven Padin
- Jake Bowen
- Chick Corea
- Vinnie Colaiuta
- Alhafiz Jamat
- Russ Miller
- Virgil Donati
- One Direction ( not so much, but still... it counts)*
- Michael Jackson
- Ellie Goulding
- John Williams
- Hans Zimmer
- Karl Jenkins
- Steve Jablonsky
- Brian Tyler
- Junkie XL
- John Mayer
- takaharasuiko
- Some random Kpop bands that I periodically listen to
- Luca Striganoli
- Omar Faruk Tekbilek
- Dave Brubeck Quartet
- Buddy Rich Big Band
- London Symphony Orchestra
- Patrick Williams
- Andrew and Simon Hale
- Alex Rudinger
- Nick Glennie-Smith
- Vibrasphere*
- Jack Arel
- Phil Collins*
- Salatin El Tarab Orchestra
- Yasin Sulaiman
- Various Arab, Brazilian, Japanese, Italian, Scottish and Welsh composers and orchestras ( the names are mostly unknown since I listen to random mixes on YT for stuff like that)
- Vitamin String Quartet
- Eric Calderone
- Yuna
- Sting
- Steve Jordan
- Two Steps From Hell
- Johan Skugge
- Juka Ritamaki
- Nobuo Uematsu
- Ryuichi Sakamoto
- Richard Wagner
- Keith Carlock
- Steve Gadd
- Jack Conte
- Jordan Rudess
- Aphex Twin
- Weird Al Yankovic
- Nino Rota
- Fort Minor/Mike Shinoda
- Noisecontrollers (dammit)
- Lincoln Brewster (instrumentals) *
- Marty O'Donnell
- Bill Conti
- Robert Glasper
- Lars Erik Fjosne
- Steve Vai
- Steven Wilson
- Jon Licht
- Daniel Platzman
- Dick Dale
- Madrasah Aljunied al-Islamiah Angklung Ensemble ( do you know how weird it is to take inspirations from a group that your friend is in? .___. )
OK.
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* - This means I've only probably listened to less than 5 of their songs.
