Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 204. Chapters: King Crimson, Iron Maiden, Old Crow Medicine Show, INXS, Snow Patrol, Florence and the Machine, Bad Religion, Wilco, Grateful Dead, Linkin Park, Rammstein, Thin Lizzy, Underoath, Bleeding Through, Gentle Giant, Jefferson Airplane, Within Temptation, Lostprophets, Styx (band), Beast (South Korean band), The Birthday Massacre, The Allman Brothers Band, Counting Crows, The Miracles, Mink DeVille, Savatage, Antestor, We Came as Romans, Cradle of Filth, Whitesnake, Foreigner (band), Soilwork, The Black Mages, Hollywood Undead, Suburban Legends. Excerpt: King Crimson are a rock band founded in London in 1968 by members from western England. Widely recognised as a foundational progressive rock group, the band have incorporated diverse influences and instrumentation during their history (including jazz and folk music, classical and experimental music, psychedelic rock, hard rock and heavy metal, New Wave, gamelan, electronica and drum and bass). They have been influential on many contemporary musical artists and have gained a large following, despite garnering little radio or music video airplay. Peter Sinfield, interviewed for Prog Rock Britannia: An Observation in Three Movements, described Crimson thus: "e had an Ethos in Crimson...we just refused to play anything that sounded anything like a Tin Pan Alley record. If it sounded at all popular, it was out. So it had to be complicated, it had to be more expansive chords, it had to have strange influences. If it sounded, like, too simple, we'd make it more complicated, we'd play it in 7/8 or 5/8, just to show off." Though originating in England, King Crimson have had a mixture of English and American personnel since 1981. The band's line-up has persistently altered throughout their existence, with eighteen musicians and two lyricists passing through the ranks. The only musician to appear in every line-up of the band has been founding guitarist Robert Fripp, although drummer Bill Bruford was a member from 1972 to 1998 and guitarist Adrian Belew has been a consistent member since 1981. The debut line-up of the band was influential but short-lived, lasting for just over one year. During 1970 and 1971, King Crimson were an unstable band, with many personnel changes and disjunctions between studio and live sound as they explored elements of jazz, funk and classical chamber music. By 1972 the band had a more stable line-up and developed an improvisational sound mingling hard rock, contemporary classical music, free jazz and jazz fusion before breaking up in 1974. They re-fo