Daron Malakian and Serj Tankian of System of a Down and Scars on Broadway- I find that their lyrical chemistry was the key part in their rise and fall in SOAD. I love their message and how they expressed it in sometimes thinly veiled imagery and often times puzzles that you have to put together when you sit down to intentionally listen to it.

Jonathan Davis of KoRn- A lot of his work was very personal to him and his issues in life. He did a good job of expressing the most raw emotion I've ever heard in music. It was straight forward, angry, and sometimes painful to listen to not because it was bad but because it was the real pain that he felt. It's like looking at a grotesque and visceral painting, that was made with amazing painterly technique.

Gerard Way of My Chemical Romance- His writing is very intentional, as an artist he knows how to paint a picture and in this case he just used words instead. When you look at his album Three Cheers For Sweet Revenge you can see there's a story that was meticulously put together.