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Post by Deleted on Aug 19, 2017 11:01:16 GMT -5
I grew up with my parents vinyl collection which was not to my liking as a youth. My Dad was really into Swing, Big band (Glen Miller Band), and Jazz (I have since come to greatly appreciate).
When I got my first radio/cassette stereo (yup i'm over 30) I was listening to quite a bit of mainstream rock and classic punk. I transitioned into grunge and alt. rock much like many of my high school peers in our era (90's). Bands like Nirvana, Soundgarden, Stone Temple Pilots and Pearl Jam.
Took up drums and through a friend was introduced to metal in the late 90's (and have never looked back). I didn't start out on bands like Pantera, Machine Head, Slayer or Sepultura. The first metal album I purchased was Slipknot: Self Titled.
I have since worked my way through various sub genres listening to bands (but not limited to): Fear Factory, Nine Inch Nails, Rammstein, 36 Crazyfists, As I Lay Dying, Killswitch, Katatonia, Korn, Lamb Of God, Marilyn Manson, Megadeth, Ministry, Mudvayne, Sevendust, Shadows Fall, Spineshank, S.O.A.D., Tool, Periphery, Veil of Maya, Born of Osiris, The Arusha Accord, and After the Burial.
These days I spend most my time between the Progressive Rock-Metal and Tech Death space with a little Deathcore thrown in for good measure: BTBAM, Devin Townsend (In any form), Fallujah, Meshuggah, Obscura, Protest The Hero, Soreption, The Schoenberg Automaton, Uneven Structure, Vildhjarta, The Dillinger Escape Plan, The Acacia Strain, Fit For An Autopsy and Archspire.
In the words of Primal Fear... "Metal Is Forever"
Where did it begin for you? and where is it now?
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Post by chainbreaker on Aug 19, 2017 11:38:19 GMT -5
my mother loved wham, my dad loved iron maiden and was in a electro-indie band in the 80s, think huey lewis mixed with depeche mode type of jig.
Music was huge in my house, 100s of cassettes, cds. No records though. My dad works with computers so everyone had a computer in my house back in the late 90's/early 2000s. With my 19GB hard drive lol. Dialup internet, scouring what little i knew of the internet looking up bands and music, and at some point i got speakers so i could listen to music.
At around.. 12ish, I discovered glassjaw and the rest is history.
My taste is now supppppppppppper varied and I will listen to so many different things, and will happily reccomend something from any genre.
I currently work in a soundproof office at work, so I can listen to whatever I want, whenever I want. Realllly loud. I have a russian developer in my office aswell so thats really added some stuff to the mix.
Last weeks rotation was: Everything Everything, King Gheedorah, Kate Bush, Noggano, Hercules & Love Affair, Nirvana, System of a Down, maybe a few others.
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Post by v9733xa on Aug 19, 2017 12:40:17 GMT -5
My dad has always listened to terrible music so his taste meant nothing to me. Smooth jazz (not real jazz) and whatever is on the radio.
Mom, though, was big into classic rock when she was younger. She talks about seeing Black Sabbath and Steppenwolf in concert, among others, and i think my love of classic rock and good 80s loud rock came from her.
So by the time i started buying albums when i was around 11, it was just whatever grabbed my attention. Strangely, it was "Weird Al" Yankovic as one of the first records i ever owned. I found that i love the parodies of the "modern" songs, and at this time i was listening to alternative rock radio and the other songs rock stations play with the classics. In junior high school, i just liked whatever those stations played.
A lot changed for me though when i finally got a TV in my room when i was 14, and the MTV show Total Request Live or TRL, as silly as it seems now, was a big influence for me. This was before high-speed internet, so any music on the computer (i didn't even own one personally) was meaningless and impossible to listen to. I can't tell you how many bands, for the next 3-4 years, i started to see that i loved from there: 311, Limp Bizkit, Blink-182, Korn, Creed (sorry), Green Day, New Found Glory.
Going to college was the most important thing though. High-speed unlimited internet! No, we're not talking about Napster really, just the ability to stream (well, 2001 streaming) what i wanted and find stuff i liked. The two bands that changed everything for me early on were Reveille and Slipknot. Why those two, i'm not sure. But holy hell, i loved this loud angry music. I still don't know why exactly. It was just a hop, skip, and a jump from them to The Dillinger Escape Plan, Poison the Well, Every Time I Die, and so many other early-2000s hardcore and metal bands. Also, i can't forget how important Pig Destroyer was in opening my eyes to grindcore and other chaotic technical bands.
At the same time, i always enjoyed good fun loud techno music (yes most of it was called that back then, or even "electronica") from The Crystal Method to Fatboy Slim to The Prodigy. While i lost track of that genre for a few years, it came roaring back to me with Skrillex, Rusko, and other dubstep and trap artists that i can't get enough of now.
As it stands now, i like more progressive/djent-y metal (Periphery and BTBAM), but i still enjoy fun fast hardcore and even a bunch of good grindcore bands. But i still love my classic rock. I'm literally listening to Led Zeppelin IV as i type this.
EDIT: Hey, good thread idea. Fun to just have a space to type about whatever music moved us.
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Post by Liggy on Aug 19, 2017 12:45:58 GMT -5
There was a huge difference between my mother and dad in music. My mom loved classic rock and stuff like that, and when I saw my dad he would play hip-hop and what not.
Anyways, I liked both and started leaning towards the mainstream rap (whatever was on the radio) when I was younger. Then my brother started getting into nu-metal (slipknot, korn, etc.) I remember him showing me the first Slipknot album and it pretty much started from there. I would listen to Slipknot, Korn, Mudvayne, Mushroomhead, and so on. I remember trying to get into other bands like Old Underoath around 2004. Went to my first (metal) concert in 2005 which was Slipknot, As I Lay Dying, Unearth. I really dug AILD and explored more into that genre to find It Dies Today, and then it just went on from there. I started finding more Metalcore bands, deathcore, death metal, even grindcore. I just going crazy with bands, either falling in love or never listening to again.
Now I have strict music policy when it comes to bands, I guess? Right now I'm mainly listening to Old Northlane, Invent Animate, and ERRA.
As for hip-hop, I stopped listening to mainstream hip-hop when finding metal. I just have a weakness for 90's hip hop and then rappers who can actually spit. My favorites at the moment are Freddie Gibbs, Spark Master Tape, The Underachievers, Clear Soul Forces, Heltah Skeltah, Sean Price, etc.
I could go into more detail but I'd rather keep it short and simple.
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Post by tao on Aug 20, 2017 17:48:47 GMT -5
Growing up, I was homeschooled, so in order to promote a more conducive study environment, my mom would allow my siblings and I to only listen to classical music and film soundtracks while we did schoolwork. Whenever I helped my dad with basic mechanical maintenance on the family cars or woodworking, we always listened to classic rock (50's-70's), so I guess you could say I had a decent musical base to build off of. Through high school, I listened to whatever the top 40/mainstream pop rock station had playing and also classic pop standards and big band/swing music. Things began to change after I began going to college, as I had begun to become disillusioned with pop rock and began searching for new alternatives to sate my curiosities. It was in college that I took a history of jazz class and grew to enjoy the past masters (Miles Davis and John Coltrane FTW), branched off from "normal" rock into metal, post hardcore and metalcore, and found J-rock. Today you can say that I'm a bit of a musical chameleon, as I can listen to almost, ALMOST anything. I do draw the line at certain genres (country, death/black metal, etc.), but if something sounds interesting to me, I'll give it a whirl. Too many favorite bands to list here, so here's a couple: Boom Boom Satellites, Dir En Grey, Anciients, Mastodon, Boris, Kasabian, Chemical Brothers, BTBAM et al. Pleased to meet you and I hope you enjoy your time here at the Mosh!
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Post by sirmoshington on Aug 22, 2017 13:25:38 GMT -5
Well my parents weren't really a big influence on my musical taste. My mother is the typical radio listener and back in the day she listened A LOT to Celine Dion. My dad had some cool musical taste like AC/DC, Kiss, Uriah Heep, Deep Purple and whatnot which got me a bit curious about rock music coming from a stroooong boyband streak when I was around 10-11.
Around I dunno 12-13 I started exploring bands like Nirvana, Metallica, Slipknot, Megadeath, Static-X, Pennywise, KoRn and similar bands. KoRn became my favourite band for maybe 4 years. When I was 16 my brother then moved to Hamburg in a flat that he shared with a dude who wrote and maybe still writes for Metal Hammer. The charmer that my brother was, he just said to that dude "My brother listens to the same shitty music as you do!" Being a big douche buuuuuut this remark ensured that after reviewing new albums I would get all the CD's which was fuckin awesome. The first batch included As I Lay Dyings - Shadows Are Security (which basically is Metalcore perfection) and TBDM - Miasma. Especially the first album blew my mind and got me in the whole genre of Metalcore: Atreyu, Bleeding Through, Parkway Drive and so on.
Nowadays my musical taste is quite diverse like a lot of the folks on here I guess digging the likes of Hardcore, Emo, Hip-Hop, Thrash, Ambient, Post-Rock, Jazz, Slam, Beatdown, Melodic-Hardcore/ -Deathmetal, Shoegaze, Post-Punk, Pop-Punk, Metalcore, Pop, Punk, Technical Deathmetal and some more.
At the moment I mostly listen to Crust, D-Beat, "Black Metal" and Blackened Hardcore and whatever bustles about these genres. I guess the only style of music I just can't really get into is EDM but besides that I will check out every band/artist I think might be cool.
Well I guess thats it, cool idea dude. See you around.
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Post by well paid scientist on Aug 22, 2017 19:36:43 GMT -5
this started it all
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Post by Glitch on Aug 23, 2017 7:26:32 GMT -5
My parents are casual music listeners, so they weren't a real influence on my musical journey. Of course I had a huge 5ive & Backstreet Boys thing when I was really young. At the age of 10 (or somewhere around that) I had a cd from Limp Bizkit that I listened to for like a million times. Somewhere later Linkin Park started to boom. I found a shitty Tribute To Linkin Park cd of which I thought it was the real Linkin Park. Nevertheless, I absolutely loved it.
When I was 13, I was blown away by the Slipknot appearance on TMF Awards. I talked to my pal about it and he made me a cd with a lot of Slipknot songs, Slayer, Rage Against the Machine, Sepultura, Godsmack, Deftones, you name it. That started it all for real. I dug deep into nu-metal and absolutely loved it all. On the road I bought myself a Rock Tribune magazine, which was accompanied by a sampler CD that contained Bolt Thrower, Gorefest, Cannibal Corpse and more extreme metal bands. I was shocked at first, but after a couple of years full of every possible more or less popular metal band, I discovered brutal death metal like Severed Savior, Gorgasm, Soils of Fate, Disavowed, etc through a user on a music website (which I still visit daily). I also discovered grindcore (The Berzerker and Nasum were heroes to me) and other extreme metal music.
Deathcore started to take ground through Suicide Silence and All Shall Perish and I loved the dynamics in the music. When one of my friends talked about All Shall Perish visiting Ieperfest, I did the same thing. The Sworn Enemy show I saw over there was like the start of my love to hardcore music. I already knew bands like Blood for Blood, Knuckledust and Hoods, but the amazing atmosphere of that Sworn Enemy show totally got me.
Nowadays I still listen to a ton of hardcore(-related) music, almost every metal sub sub sub genre there is, fell in love with hip hop music (which was a journey on it's own), some electronic music, jazz, blues, just name it. The only thing I thoroughly dislike is classical music and opera music, but I'd consider that will change over time.
If I'd make a list of very importants artists for my musical journey, it'd be 5ive, Linkin Park, Slipknot, Devildriver, Bolt Thrower, Severed Savior, Nasum, All Shall Perish, Sworn Enemy, Liferuiner, Terror, Xanopticon, Nas, Richie Hawtin, Curren$y, George Clinton, Miles Davis, J Dilla, Youth of Today, Black Flag, Black Sabbath, Sleep. And many others.
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Post by ꧁꧂ on Aug 24, 2017 12:31:59 GMT -5
this started it all Can relate: my musical journey started with a lot of official Anime CDs of Pokémon, Digimon and Beyblade. That was the shit I was jamming the whole day as a gradeschooler. At the age of 10 I kinda stopped listening to music at all unless it was played in my environment. My passion for music was ignited again when a friend showed me Linkin Park when I was like 12. I found some sick bands too through fanmade music videos of an online game I was playing around that time. Mostly Nu Metal and/or Punk bands. Around this time my mom got married again too and my "stepdad" was listening to a lot of Metal mostly Folk Metal such as In Extremo, Fintroll, Eluveitie etc. pp. so I was sticking to this too since I really liked it. With 14/15 I discovered through a guy in the online game I was playing Carnifex and Suicide Silence and was like "wtf is this shit" at first. But I can't deny that I wanted to listen to it again for a whole week straight so I finally gave in and jammed all their tracks. Searching for more "Deathcore" bands after I soaked in every fucking breakdown of them. I also discovered some more softer shit like Asking Alexandria and really like them until I saw them live with 16. 16 was the age I listened to my first Hardcore bands too. I guess it was a Madball single, but I can't remember anymore which one. I was like "lol why do people like this so much. It's way softer than Deathcore and where the hell is the breakdown?!", but it was so more groovy than Deathcore so I eventually turn in some Hardcore from now on, but wasn't really in love yet. My friend told me then that STYG would play in my hometown and he wants to check them out. He only knew Amber and showed it to me and I really liked it, so I decided to go with him. That was the night I fell in love with Hardcore and listened to all the modern shit which was big around that time. Going through the different Hardcore genres like melodic Hardcore, Beatdown Hardcore, Powerviolence/Grindcore I am now for the last 2 years really deep into metallic Hardcore and I can't see an end. Since I'm born in '95 I missed a whole lot of the 90s Metalcore era and have the feel I have to revisit this time at least musicially. So I listen to a lot of H8000 Metalcore, some Beatdown bands from that time such as Denied or Irate today and also all these new bands who lead the revival of 90s Metalcore and it's so hard and riffy I can't help but really feel sad that I can't see my favourite bands from this time anymore.
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Post by windsofdismay on Aug 24, 2017 12:55:47 GMT -5
cool thread! though i didn't live to see any more of the 90s than the last two years, i was big on 90s pop music until i turned maybe 10 or 11 years. my favourite songs included cher's believe, aqua's barbie girl, eiffel 65's blue, one-t's the magic key and a lot of other unbelievably awful songs that i am forced to still enjoy by nostalgia. other than that, i listented to whatever my two older sisters listented to, which on the one hand was a lot of no angels, brittney spears and backstreet boys and on the other hand a lot of slipknot, korn and system of a down. there wasn't a lot of musical input from my mothers side, though i was told she was big into music when she was younger, all my life she just listened to whatever was on radio or tv at the time. my dads musical input however included deep purple, die prinzen (german CULTURE), acdc, the beatles. he had a lot of vinyl and listened to them in his basement room until i one day stole his record player. sorry dad. one vinyl i particularly remeber is peter maffay's soundtrack for tabaluga - a children's tv show about a dragon (german CULTURE), because when i was young he would always let me come into his room, listen to that vinyl and dance a waltz with him. (i still have that vinyl today.)
when i was about 12 i leaned more towards the slipknot/korn/soad side and also discovered rise against, paramore and linkin park which were my favourite bands for a few years years.
at about 14 i discovered la dispute on youtube and along with that a lot of the emo/indie/alternative shit i still listen to today, like nai harvest, b&c, title fight, basement, etc etc. i don't really know how i got into "have-heart-like" hardcore, probably through spotify recommendations or something. i really don't know, it just happened.
since last year i am trying to listen to rap more.
and other than that i listen to all kinds of playlists on spotify. praise spotify man.
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Post by Velocity on Aug 24, 2017 20:17:50 GMT -5
Growing up my parents were big into Classic Rock like Led Zeppelin, Aerosmith, The Rolling Stones, The Beatles etc...Also listened to David Bowie a lot and U2. I still like almost all of these bands and artists to this day.
My first section of music that I listened to isn't my proudest, as I loved Backstreet Boys and NSync and Destiny's Child and Spice Girls when I was around 7 years old. Those were the 1st CD's I bought.
I then found rap, which became my love for many years. First rap album I bought was Chronic 2001, and then found Eminem and DMX and The Game and 50 Cent and basically listened to rap from 2000-2007 exclusively. I went to a pretty 'urban' high school too, so that helped keep it going for that long.
My first foray into metal was actually through Guitar Hero 3 and Rock Band. I discovered Disturbed and re-found Metallica and started listening to them a lot more. Those were my 'gateway' metal bands. The first song I liked that had screaming in it was Just So You Know by American Head Charge...and we were off to the races.
Between the Buried and Me quickly became my favorite band (when Colors came out), but I was actually huge into deathcore. I hated clean vocals. I then slowly softened my stance on them and now actually prefer if a band has clean vocals in their songs.
Maybe it's my old age (is 28 old?), but even though I still love deathcore, I'm totally more into progressive stuff now.
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Post by theblackpage on Aug 25, 2017 6:38:31 GMT -5
Started listening to Slipknot, Limp Bizkit, Korn and Marylin Manson when I was about 7/8 years old. My cousin was in a black metal band and took me to shows lmao. He also burned cd's for me to listen to. Listened to a lot of metal in High School as well. Then started to listen to more Hip Hop. Discovered metalcore and deathcore after that.
Currently I'm always switching between hip hop and metal on a day to day basis. But I can also listen to pop and generic radio stuff. As long as it sounds good I'm good.
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Post by Calvinball on Aug 25, 2017 22:13:19 GMT -5
I wont bore you with anything before I was 13 because it was pretty much just whatever was on the radio. Shortly after I got into high school I started getting into the punk, bands like Blink 182, Reel Big Fish, Flogging Molly and Sublime. Growing up in Cleveland at that time I was of course required to get into Mushroomhead like a sonofabitch. This of course led to a mildly regretful nu metal stage with the typical bands that don't require a list.
Towards the end of high school I was at Coconuts and bought an album from a band I've never heard of before called Napalm Death. This led me down a path for the next few years were I was very heavy into the death metal and grindcore scenes. At The Gates, Carcass, Extreme Noise Terror, Vital Remains and Nasum were some of my favorites at the time, I could go on a super long pretentious name dropping list but I'll spare myself from typing it lol.
Around 2011 I found myself getting burned out on the really heavy and br00tal stuff and just really wasn't enjoying music anymore. I wound up at a concert from one of my high school favorites Reel Big Fish and was introduced to a band called Streetlight Manifesto and they blew my fucking socks off. Thus began my ska stage, Spunge, Goldfinger, Five Iron Frenzy, Big D and the Kids Table, and many more bands of the elk dominated my ipod. Shortly thereafter reggae came into my life as well the main culprit being Rebelution but bands like Stick Figure, Slightly Stoopid, and Protoje were prevalent as well.
About 3 years ago the metal bug struck me again, this time in the form of some metalcore and a lot of prog. I feel like I've already walled of texted this so I won't name drop at all, but my musical listenings have been a wild ride and my ipod on shuffle certainly reflects it. I deleted all the stuff I don't listen to anymore but the main contributors are all still there.
And for what it's worth I always tell people the three most influential bands in my life will always be Blink 182, Mushroomhead, and Streetlight Manifesto. Based entirely on what they meant to me at the time and also the doors they opened up moving forward.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 26, 2017 0:07:13 GMT -5
Growing up my parents were big into Classic Rock like Led Zeppelin, Aerosmith, The Rolling Stones, The Beatles etc...Also listened to David Bowie a lot and U2. I still like almost all of these bands and artists to this day. My first section of music that I listened to isn't my proudest, as I loved Backstreet Boys and NSync and Destiny's Child and Spice Girls when I was around 7 years old. Those were the 1st CD's I bought. I then found rap, which became my love for many years. First rap album I bought was Chronic 2001, and then found Eminem and DMX and The Game and 50 Cent and basically listened to rap from 2000-2007 exclusively. I went to a pretty 'urban' high school too, so that helped keep it going for that long. My first foray into metal was actually through Guitar Hero 3 and Rock Band. I discovered Disturbed and re-found Metallica and started listening to them a lot more. Those were my 'gateway' metal bands. The first song I liked that had screaming in it was Just So You Know by American Head Charge...and we were off to the races. Between the Buried and Me quickly became my favorite band (when Colors came out), but I was actually huge into deathcore. I hated clean vocals. I then slowly softened my stance on them and now actually prefer if a band has clean vocals in their songs. Maybe it's my old age (is 28 old?), but even though I still love deathcore, I'm totally more into progressive stuff now. Never too old for Metal \m/
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Post by unodwicho on Aug 26, 2017 9:04:02 GMT -5
My journey started with a Linkin Park Reanimation TV ad. Pts.OF.Athrty got me hyped up as shit.
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