There is no limit so it's unlimited so post as much as you want. I want them in this order look at example to see what order.

EXAMPLE:1.Skillet
2.AC/DC
3.Three Days Grace
4.Britney Spears

I know this is the non game music forum, but Akira Yamaoka is the first name that comes to mind. I don't know how he works, I don't know how he sees in his head what he does to write the music he writes, he is incredibly creative. His work is very refreshing in a time when so much has already been done, and people are just doing things better then before, or doing the same thing differently. He's doing new things, and it's, freakin' fantastic.

Brian Eno is the next name that pops into my head. His work with procedural and generative music is really interesting shit.

I know this is the non game music forum, but Akira Yamaoka is the first name that comes to mind. I don't know how he works, I don't know how he sees in his head what he does to write the music he writes, he is incredibly creative. His work is very refreshing in a time when so much has already been done, and people are just doing things better then before, or doing the same thing differently. He's doing new things, and it's, freakin' fantastic.

Brian Eno is the next name that pops into my head. His work with procedural and generative music is really interesting shit.
Ermm.. I was not talking bout that I'm talking about the damn real music not video game, anime, TV, Movie or anything like that I mean regular music LOL God I feel like a douche for not saying that in first post.

I don't see how game music is any different than any other genre of music. The artists, composers and writers working in the gaming industry are talented individuals, just as people working in the commercial music industry are. Music is music, and my favourite musician, or music artist, if you prefer, is Akira Yamaoka.

Well Guys these are my favorite Music Artists of all the times .

Lady GaGa
Taylor Swift
Raphael Saddiq

Lady Gaga is doing something extremely right. She has a bead on the current mainstream music scene in a big bad way. The woman knows how to write songs that cater to the mainstream music audience, it's pretty damn impressive.

The most favorite music artists are :
1.James Taylor
2.Joan Baez
3lady gaga
4.The Buzzcocks
5.The Rolling Stones

1. Backstreet Boys
2. Mariah Carey
3. Fefe Dobson

Here's a long list, but still:

Human League
Rod Argent
Malice Mizer
Rammstein
The Beatles
Mediawolf (a band I actually wanted to work with -- 2 of my buddies/schoolmates were in that band)
Terry J. Sanks (another buddy/schoolmate of mine - a rapper)
ABN (Belgian rap group)
Osdorp Posse
NWA
The Virus
Sex Pistols
Public Image Ltd.
The Unseen
The Moody Blues
The Chieftains/Ceolto�ri Chualann/Se�n � Riada
Manfred Mann (with or without the Earth Band)
Man�lis Chi�tis
M�rkos Vamvak�ris
Vass�lis Tsits�nis
Poll, Vang�lis
Nana Mouskouri
Da Arabic MCs (DAM)
Marshall Mathers (Eminem)
Nasir "Nas" Jones
Notorious B.I.G.
Tupac Shakur
Yellow Magic Orchestra
Linkin Park
DMX
ACDC
Los Cuates de Sinaloa (a narcocorrido group)
Big Rat
Tech N9ne
Gary Numan
Nena (Gabrielle Kerner)
Mecano
Pizzicato Five (early)
Jean-Marc Cerrone ("Supernature, Supernature...")
Goin' Through
Mari Hamada
Rush
Sublime
Kraftwerk
Los Abandoned
Enrique Bunbury
Juan Esteban "Juanes" Aristizabal
Kinto Sol
Molotov
Falco
Wendy Carlos
Popol Vuh (German band)
Tangerine Dream
Do As Infinity
TM Network
Jorge Drexler
Off Course
Clannad
Goblin
Heart
Ha-Ash
The Who
Metallica
Black Sabbath
Public Enemy
Coldplay
GWAR
Plasmatics
Mike Oldfield
David Bowie
Pink Floyd
Propaghandi
Devo
Aqua (Yes, the Danish pop group - don't judge me!)
Ravi Shankar
Susumu Hirasawa
Lucio Dalla
some early reggaeton stuff (before it got all technoey)
Fabolous
Lit
Sevendust
311
Eurythmics
Jethro Tull
Little T (Tim Fite) and One Track Mike
Visage
Genesis (Particularly the Peter Gabriel/Steve Hackett eras)
The Clash
Beirut
Mother Mother
Sarah Slean
Frank Zappa
FM (Canadian prog-rock band)
Peter Gabriel (Mr. Genesis himself!)
Wretched (the North Carolina death metal group)
Ganymed (MUSIC TAKES US HIGHER!)
Modest Mouse
Raimundo Fagner (early stuff)
the La Bionda Brothers
Daft Punk
Roxy Music
Carlos Santana
Secret Machines
Mikis Theodorakis
System of a Down
Tool
Van Der Graaf Generator
Rick Wakeman
Andrew Lloyd Webber
Creed
Adema
Jimi Hendrix
Os Mutantes
Neu!
U2
Berlin
Cypress Hill
Air
The Postal Service
Muse
King Crimson
Dethklok (Brendon Small)
Anasthesia (little known Norwegian crossover black metal band)
Iron Maiden
Blondie
Accept
The Doors
Deep Purple
Can
Kittie
P.O.D.
Korn
Queen
Bloc Party
Nirvana
Green Day
The Ramones
The Minutemen
Kaka DeLuxe
Para�so
La Uni�n
Bernardo Bonezzi/Los Zombies
Patti Smith
Wire
Krzysztof Penderecki
Depeche Mode
Radiohead
Den Haag Connection
Appa
Mohammed Sheb (Mo$heb)
Ferdi Baba (both of us, amazingly, share the same birthday!)
Aoife n� Fhearraigh
Joy Division/New Order
The Stone Roses
The Smiths
Busta Rhymes
Violent Femmes
Coil
The Offspring
Blink-182 (early stuff - up to 2005)
Simple Plan
New Found Glory
NOFX
Rancid
In-Grid
Dead Kennedys
Arcade Fire
Iconz
50 Cent
Metric
Simon & Garfunkel
Amon D��l II
Brian Dewan
Franz Ferdinand
Lene Lovich
Sum 41
The Strokes
Soundgarden
The Cranberries
Sunforest
Black Flag
The Stranglers/Jean-Jacques Burnel
Planxty
Paul Giovanni (guy who composed the score to the 1973 version of The Wicker Man)
Sagrado Cora��o da Terra/Marcus Vianna
Sepultura
Alpha Team (of "Speed" fame)
Frankie Goes to Hollywood
ABC
The Cambridge Buskers/Classic Buskers
Oh! My Blackbird
Kaoru Ishibashi
Gein� Yamashiro-gumi (affectionately called by me as "The Geinohs")
Hellogoodbye
Ludacris
Inti-Illimani
Jean-Michel Jarre
Ladytron
Superior/Su Goodacre (of "Polaroid Millennium" fame)
New Radicals
Billy Joel
Bob Marley
Ice-T/Body Count
Biosphere
Ice Cube
Andre "Dr. Dre" Young
Bananarama
Ben Folds
Archive
Akwid
Miles Davis
Dave Brubek
Crooked Stilo
Cake
The Casualties
Alec R. Costandinos
Imiskoumbria
Midnight Oil
The Police
Weezer
Neon Indian
Wavves
Alice in Chains
Lasse Helner & Mathilde Bondo
Space

Akeboshi
Brown Eyed Soul/Brown Eyes
Clazziquai Project
Two Steps From Hell
Lighthouse Family
Linkin Park

Paul Kalkbrenner.

Currently, I've been into a lot of classic stuff... I really love The Beatles (given), The Police, Journey, Santana, Depeche Mode, Yazoo/Alison Moyet, Duran Duran, ABBA, Michael Jackson, Billy Idol... Growing up I used to listen to a lot of R&B, and I still have some favourites like Toni Braxton, Jazmine Sullivan, Aaliyah... For Japanese music, Utada Hikaru, Namie Amuro, Ayumi Hamasaki, Dreams Come True - pretty much all the divas, or diva fronted bands... Kpop - 2ne1, Big Bang, SNSD, DBSK, Girls Generation TTS, G-Dragon, Jaejoong... I have a fair share of pop I listen to as well - Britney, Madonna, Kylie Minogue, Mariah Carey, Sam Smith and Gaga... Videogame composers - Jun Senoue (Sonic), Naoki Maeda (of DDR), the rest of Konami's sound team (seriously too many to list), the rest of Sega, and Shinji Hosoe (Ridge Racer). That list is really long, so I'm stopping there... Miscellaneous stuff that doesn't fall into these categories would include Arash, who is a Persian singer (I'm Persian, so I get my fair share of Persian music and Bollywood), A.R. Rahman... I pretty much listen to anything that's not country music.

Metal/Rock-
Demon Hunter
August Burns Red (especially their newer stuff)
Theocracy
RED (especially their older stuff)
Nine Lashes
Nightwish
Within Temptation
Xandria (some)

Trailer Music-
Two Steps From Hell
Immediate Music
X-Ray Dog
Audiomachine
Carbon Maestro

Sawano Hiroyuki

Hiroyuki Sawano

Deep Purple, Black Sabbath, Led Zeppelin, Iron Maiden ... hard rock and heavy metal musicians

Beatles, Metronomy, La Femme, Pink Floyd, Phoenix