My musical influences

I have no idea why I decided to do this. I just do. Maybe I could use this as reference if I need ideas. Or if I forget which bands I haven't listened to in a long time.

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.