It's been probably four years or more since someone asked me if my username (not this one; my other one) was inspired by the band, Firewind. I'd never heard of them, so that was a definite, though intrigued, "No".
I don't know why it took me this long to look them up (or if I in fact did before, and just forgot) but...well, I'm just not feeling them. It's funny, because I like a fair number of bands similar in musical technique and tone to them. Maybe that's the problem; there are those I still listen to, and those I feel myself drifting away from--and maybe Firewind reminds me too much of the latter group.
Pity.