What's your favourite bands?

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I don't know any of that bands but some names strike me as melodic metal (Which is a very cool genre!). Maybe try....Stormwitch's "Walpurgis Night" album?
http://www.metal-observer.com/articles. ... =1&id=7510
Sounds kinda like Helloween or Rush gone metal......

Please look into a band called Gonga. If you're into early AiC you'll like 'em. I think they have some stuff on YouTube and their album is floating around on bittorrent somewhere.

I just had the chance to take a listen, I give you props for trying but no - doesn't have the same appeal whatsoever, I'd say I'd recommend that to Nirvana and Foo-Fighters or Silver Chair fans. I think the closest band I've know who's come to actually capturing that same angles and energy that I saw in AIC was Drain STH (or at least their first cd) but even with them its less coherent and of course them trying to legitimately be their own band rather than a chick AIC knock-off.

I almost think the feel of AIC in dirt or anything later had to really come from Lane's girlfriends death and him feeling himself rot away on the heroin. Its a very specific hellish kind of pain in the tunes that I like, stuff that if your listening to it in the right mood and actually feeling it your getting tears in your eyes and mad chills. I think the way I described what I liked about em back when I had dirt in 6th grade was that it was different from most metal in that it had that real grimy, sesspool sort of edge to it but but I felt that whole give you chills sort of burnt and seared beauty derived from pain. I don't know if I'd use the 'cesspool' terminology to describe them anymore and maybe its just because I'm so used to seeking that angle in music that I've gotten that used to it. That slowed down feel of inner-city decay is definitely there (which BTW, Ministry had that as well and loved them for that and their sort of 80's anti-drug commercial sort of dysphoria) but also a lot of other very heavy emotions that go off on other angles. I've lost that specific sort of imagery just because I don't attach it to tangible objects like I used to as a kid when my mind was thinking more concretely, an emotion is an emotion and a mental state is a mental state. I think with AIC if I were to name which songs I think I feel the most off of the cd's I mentioned they'd have to be Down In A Hole, Sludge Factory, Headcreeps, Junkhead, Dirt, Hate To Feel (and that little skit is the perfect intro to that because they make it sound like this epic battle but in a really desolate way and it almost gets directed like its just symbolism of someone's internal psychosis and battling their own inner shadows). Rooster I would put in there, that octave guitar riff in the middle always gets me but its just too overplayed. Rain when I die's got a really sick twist to the melodic scale in the vocal bridge (can't quite sum that one up but again its a level of emotionality that's grimed beyond what most people can put out or register).

Still, if you know of any bands that are really immersive, intense, and have a feel as grimy but as lucid as AIC, Tool, or Sublime - notice none of those bands sound anything alike but there's a certain methodology they have in common just in terms of very well-matched and delivered intensity of ideas, the music itself, everything. Hate to be a music snob but its just how I'm wired. I kinda do notice though, the crowd of people who seem to actually like the same edges of music I do - hard core drug dealers, drug addicts, in-and-out-of-jail, not trying to sound like I'm anything but its just funny and kinda odd that it takes people of that intensity and that level of 'been through it' to usually say "Holy s--- these guys are ill" a the same times and on the same stuff as I would (then again I think that partly explains the perceptual gap I have with most people on music - its just not the same place of mind).

Rush
They Might Be Giants
Hugo
The Beatles
Queen
Benny Goodman

You all have great taste in music - another reason I feel somewhat "at home" here.

Yeah I think that is true.

Here's some of my faves in no particular order:

Summoning
Wyrd
Empyrium
High on Fire
Sleep
Agalloch
Burzum
Death
Cynic
Demons and Wizards
Dissection
Falkenbach
My Dying Bride
Kyuss
Godflesh
Jesu
Bathory
Enslaved
Black Sabbath
Morbid Angel
The Meads of Asphodel
In The Woods
Bal-Sagoth
Symphony X
Om
Blind Guardian
Ulver
Fates Warning
Current 93
Coil
Of the Wand and the Moon
Die Verbannten Kinder Evas
In Gowan Ring
Stone Breath
Tenhi
Zoviet France
Unto Ashes
Dead Can Dance
Elend
Waldteufel
Lycia
Legendary Pink Dots
Skullflower
Acid Mothers Temple
Main
Rapoon
Autechre
My Bloody Valentine
Six Organs of Admittance
Stars of the Lid
Sigur Ros
Comus
Incredible String Band
Hawkwind
Can
Amon Duul 2
Nick Drake
Donovan
Shirley Collins
Jimi Hendrix
King Crimson
Pink Floyd
Jethro Tull
Brian Eno
Led Zeppelin
The Beatles

My Last.fm page is here (though it doesn't show my full range of interests - its heavy on the metal, of which I've been listening to a lot lately): http://www.last.fm/user/Araxaos/

Corrosion of Conformity, but you have to hear all their stuff because it's such a diverse-sounding band. They do everything from Metallica-esque riffs to Pink Floyd-like melodic prog rock. However, they share the grimy sound and the mature, intensive intelligence of those other bands you listed. They are, in my opinion, one of the most underrated bands ever.

Here are some good example songs, but as I said before you really need to check out all of their albums to get the whole picture. I'd recommend starting with Deliverance or Blind.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=8z65rMJUURs
http://youtube.com/watch?v=hslYRaaYflo& ... ed&search=

Buckethead
Terry Riley
Organum
Steely Dan
The Vienna Art Orchestra
The Pink Floyd
Henry Cow
This Heat
The Homosexuals
Annette Peacock
Faust

Currently:
Deep Purple
Killswitch Engage
Black Sabbath
Metallica
Arch Enemy
Bleeding Through
Children of Bodom
Neurosis
Mastodon
Isis
Slayer
Primordial
Motörhead

Nightwish, I really dont care for any other music right now because most infact, almost all music out there sucks.

Do you also like Ritchie Blackmore's Rainbow. Rainbow's a great band! Has an awesome Foreigner feel to it and it's made up of some Deep Purple members!

I like the early Rainbow stuff too, the Dio period, before Graham Bonnet became the lead singer.

I have a pretty wide range of music interests, but most of them are current bands. Here are the ones I can think of, in no particular order:

Breaking Benjamin
Three Days Grace
Skillet
Linkin Park
Sevendust
Bullet for My Valentine
Staind
30 Seconds to Mars
All American Rejects
Slipknot
Story of the Year
Green Day
Papa Roach
Blink-182
Powerman 5000

Pendulum are cool.

Especially the 2 songs, Slam and Through The Loop.

The Beatles
Radiohead
Final Fantasy (The violinist, not the video game, although FF soundtracks are awesome.)
The Arcade Fire
TV on the Radio
Nine Inch Nails
My Chemical Romance
Fall Out Boy (A guilty pleasure, but still a pleasure)
System of a Down
Linkin Park (Again, a guilty pleasure)
Metallica
The Smiths
Depeche Mode
Bjork
DJ Shadow
Nelly Furtado
Justin Timberlake
Green Day
No Doubt
Rage Against the Machine
...And Most North American Indie Rock (Of Montreal, Deerhoof, The Shins, etc.)

The Surf Coasters are great!

They play the intro video's song of Samurai Legend Musashi (PS2)

I like Rush, AFI, Pink Floyd, and early Elvis.....