Your Fave Artists

I think I do this thread pretty often, but when I have gone back and looked its been almost a year  
So since their are newer people here and some people who have returned, I want to ask
What are your favorite artists. of all time?, or at the moment? or the past six months? or whatever amount of time!!!!

I put this in the Christian section because Im sure the majority of us will pick Christian artists, but feel free to list whatever!!!
It doesnt have to be metal either but I feel most of us will pick metal too   


Anyway I thought I would do all time for my list
Not in any particular order

The Showdown
Mortification
Blessed By A Broken Heart
Maylene And The Sons Of Disaster
For Today
Disciple

Kings x

Amorphis

My two main bands I love and have loved forever then after that it comes down to albums from certain bands

then after that songs

But those two bands I like it all. Cheers.

I'll limit myself to only five, and I'm sure these will surprise no one:

Crimson Moonlight
Antestor
Slechtvalk
Kekal
Grave Declaration

Stryper
Bride
Disciple
Kutless
Third Day
Glenn Kaiser Band

U2
Starflyer 59
Stavesacre
Bob Marley
Desmond Dekker
Celldweller
Matisyahu

Christian Artists:

Bloodgood
Vengeance Rising
Martyr / Betrayal
Seventh Angel
Tourniquet
Saviour Machine
Warlord (Tsamis,Zonder)
Saint
Believer / Deliverance / The Crucified

Other:

Amorphis !
Gojira
Hamferd
Lumsk
Opeth
Orphaned Land
Barren Earth
King´s X
Incubus / Opprobrium
Black Sabbath

Christian Artists

Deliverance
Whitecross
Violet Burning
Starflyer 59

I dont think I can do 5

I'll edit my post later but I need to add:
Johnny Cash

80s thrash metal, 80s heavy metal, 80s progressive metal, Megadeth, Iron Maiden, Annihilator, Dark Angel, Forbidden, Deadly Blessing, Toxik, Judas Priest, Winters Bane, old Metallica, Testament, Fates Warning, Exodus, Overkill, Death Angel, Flotsam and Jetsam, Sanctuary, Coroner, Dream Theater, Sacred Warrior, King Diamond, Death, Control Denied, Helstar, Metal Church, Kreator, Agent Steel, Slayer, Sadus, Manowar, Black Sabbath, Dio, Watchtower, Candlemass, Mercyful Fate, Anthrax, Queensryche, Antithesis, Screamer, Artillery, Blind Illusion, Cynic, Crimson Glory, Forced Entry, Disincarnate, Sanctuary, Nevermore, Hades, Intruder

TOP 10 ALL TIME FAVES:

Therion
Razed in Black
OMD (Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark)
Dead Can Dance
Enya
A Flock of Seagulls
Steve Roach
The Wild Swans
Delerium
Manowar


TOP Christian Bands:

Klank
Leiahdorus
The Prayer Chain
Stavesacre
Stryken
The Violet Burning
Circle of Dust
Deliverance
The Awakening
Stryper (Christian members)
WASP (Christian members)
U2 (Christian members)
Cruxshadows (Christian members)

TOP Metal & Hard Rock bands

Therion
Manowar
BABYMETAL
Britny Fox
Chastain
Def Leppard
DragonForce
Iron Maiden
Kamelot
Keldian
Klank
Metallica (old school)
Motley Crue
Pagan's Mind
Rammstein
Six Feet Under
Stryken
Uriah Heep

This is a tough question.  There are bands who had a few albums that are in my top 10 favorite albums list of all time (Tourniquet, Zao, etc), but then they had a bunch of stinker albums too so I can't really put them in my favorite bands of all time list.  It's frustrating.  I feel like a favorite band list should be made up of bands with no bad albums (for my ears, that is).  That said:

The Crucified
Vengeance Rising (Destruction Comes is kinda lame but the other 3 are so amazing we'll just forget that one exists)
Kyuss
System of a Down
Melechesh
Neurosis
Living Sacrifice
Jex Thoth
Sepultura
Danzig
Melvins
Dark Fortress
Black Sabbath (Ozzy only)
Metallica (80s only)
Led Zeppelin
Pink Floyd

I'm sure I'm probably forgetting a bunch of non-metal bands/artists.

I went and pulled my top 30 from Last.fm.  It's in the order of the number of plays I have for these artists over the last few years, not necessarily the way I'd rank them at the moment, but I think it gives a decent idea of the sort of stuff I go for.  I didn't bother segregating Christian/secular.

Theocracy
Dream Theater
Leaves' Eyes
Symphony X
Phish
Tarja
Children 18:3
Hb
The Who
Becoming the Archetype
Disciple
Miles Davis
Divinefire
Alestorm
Taylor Swift (Pre-1989)
Two Steps from Hell
The New Hot Five (New Orleans jazz band)
Royal Crown Revue (Swing revival band)
Stryper
Harmony
Frank Sinatra
The Clash
Audrey Assad
Xandria
Nightwish
Amon Tobin
Big Bad Voodoo Daddy (another swing revival band)
The Beatles
Liv Kristine (Leaves' Eyes vocalist)

Van Halen
Angelica
Boston
Missing Person
Dokken
Jorn
AC/DC
Scorpions
Saxon
Berlin
Joan Jett & The Blackhearts
Ratt
Led Zeppelin
Darrell Mansfield
Dio

Bloodgood
Extol
Deep Purple
Daniel Amos
Crimson Moonlight
King's X

Megadeth
Judas Priest
Motley Crue
In This Moment
Ratt
Aerosmith
Guns n Roses
The Offspring
Krypteria
Kix



Christian:
Tourniquet
Mortification
Seventh Angel
Stryper
Whitecross

Casting Crowns
Theocracy
Saviour Machine

Amorphis
Third Day
Michael W. Smith
Petra
The OC Supertones
Bloodgood

There are many more I really like, but this are the top ones.
There are also several bands, that have one album I'd rank very high in my alltime favorite album list, but that's not enough to include them in the above ranking (examples: Audiomachine, Ayreon, John Powell)

-Immortal Souls
-Narnia
-Living Sacrifice
-Extol
-Believer
-Rob Rock
-Soul Embraced


-Balance of Power
-Myrath


-Allen/Lande
-Scar Symmetry
-Mors Principium Est
-Children of Bodom
-In Flames
-Nightwish
-At the Gates
-Pyramaze
-Sonata Arctica
-Stratovarius
-Symphony X
-Tony MacAlpine

Strapping Young Lad
Devin Townsend up to Addicted
Death
Pre-Easter Tourniquet
DJ-era Living Sacrifice
Zyklon
Saviour Machine
Kiske-era Helloween
Gamma Ray
Pantokrator
Pre-Cryptic Writings Megadeth
Pre-'Spiritual Wasteland' Veni Domine
Black Tounge
Blotted Science
Decision D
Miseration
Biomechanical
Mechanism
Grip Inc
Pitch Black Forecast
Vengeance Rising
Mortification until Blood World
Slechtvalk