Your musical journey... No judgement to be passed.

albinoskunk

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Your musical journey... No judgement to be passed. Aug 26, 2017 18:39:32 GMT -5 Glitch and tao like this

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Post by albinoskunk on Aug 26, 2017 18:39:32 GMT -5

I grew up in a highly religious family so listening to secular music was (and still is) frowned upon (even though my dad had a punk phase when he was in university and played in bands, so there's hypocrisy there). Started listening to lots of pop and pop rock when I was in high school but I was really intense about it, like I'd go through pages and pages of chart music to find anything I liked.

My favourite songs had always been slightly darker and more rocky, so when I was about 13/14 I started to focus more on that (Lostprophets and Linkin Park were both big bands for me then, but those are both names tinged with sadness now), and got into more "emo" music - mostly whatever Kerrang! had on - and was majorly into My Chemical Romance and 30 Seconds To Mars. Then I remember hearing Losing You by Dead By April playing on my friend's speakers in our woodwork class and that turned me onto metalcore, and I started listening to bands like Bullet For My Valentine, Asking Alexandria and Motionless In White. But the real gateway songs were Early Grave by Architects and Visions by Bring Me The Horizon, after that I was mostly into metalcore, mathcore, deathcore for a few years, searching for anything like those two songs, and then got very into prog and tech metal in about 2014.

This past year or two I've been branching out a bit more and listening to more alternative and pop punk, so I'm basically having a second emo phase, but still very into metalcore, deathcore, djent etc. I've also spent soooo much more time over the past couple of years searching for music on sites like this, and generally listening to far more

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Your musical journey... No judgement to be passed. Aug 28, 2017 23:30:50 GMT -5 tao and albinoskunk like this

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Post by tylorxedge on Aug 28, 2017 23:30:50 GMT -5

My dad grew up a metalhead in the 80s and my mom loved all the New Wave and pop growing up so when I was little I was exposed to vastly different genres. Me being closer to my dad when I was younger I took to metal a little bit and really liked Pantera, Korn, Limp Bizkit, and Linkin Park. When I got to be around 10/11 I was really into 50 Cent, Eminem, Jay-Z, Ludacris and so on, but around 8th grade is when I REALLY got into music.

I was super into stuff like Trivium, Lamb of God, Killswitch Engage, and really anything that was on Fuse at the time, but also taking influence from my mom I liked poppier stuff like Taking Back Sunday, Fall Out Boy, and Panic at the Disco until I eventually found stuff like Emmure and A Day to Remember. That was my introduction to bands with breakdowns and being heavy for the sake of being heavy. Once I got to High School and Myspace/scene kids were a big thing I started listening to stuff like Suicide Silence, Annotations of an Autopsy, and Born of Osiris. Of course since I was totally into the scene girls I listened to stuff like Nevershoutnever and Forever the Sickest Kids. I've always been into opposite ends of the musical spectrum since that's how I grew up so I liked the really cheesy synth pop that was coming out at that time and also loved Deathcore. I mean that was fairly typical for "scene" kids at the time, but I never shied away from listening to something just because I was into something else so I liked stuff like Alesana and The Academy is... while also listening to Carnifex and Winds of Plague.

In my Sophmore year is when I met my buddy Will. Will was also big into music, but I never knew too many of the bands he would talk to me about. He wasn't into stuff like Bring me the Horizon or A Day to Remember, so our conversations didn't go much of anywhere until I brought up Hatebreed. At this time I had been straight edge for about a year, but wasn't into hardcore. My only real exposure to straight edge bands was seeing Throwdown at warped tour one year and after looking up was straight edge was I claimed, but never looked into the music. Once I talked to Will about Hatebreed he perked up and showed me stuff like Have Heart, Champion, Ten Yard Fight, Cruel Hand, Cro-Mags, and essentially is who got me into hardcore. The rest of high school I listened to a mixture of hardcore, deathcore, the really cheesy synth pop, and is really when I became more active in my local scene and started playing in bands.

As time went on I really grew to love rap again and really all thanks to Waka Flocka. Once I started getting into trap rap that became a big obsession for me and that's been a recurring theme with my music tastes as I'm sure it is with many of us. I'll get swept up in a sound or style and for months that's all I'll be into whether it's trap rap, post-rock, synthwave, indie pop,youth crew, sludge metal, melodic hardcore, etc. So that's where I'm at now. I'm not still into every band I listened to growing up, but for the most part I've retained a little bit of everything from middle school, my teens, and now my early 20s.

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Your musical journey... No judgement to be passed. Sept 1, 2017 9:28:43 GMT -5 Glitch and tao like this

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Post by eternalsleep on Sept 1, 2017 9:28:43 GMT -5

I grew up listening to some chart music in the late 90s here in Germany and shortly after that I discovered Techno because of my older brother. So with 11 or 12 I listened to some DJs or bigger acts like Scooter. But then Linkin Park came up with Hybrid Theory (I saw the video for Crawling on MTV and that was just "wow"). That was the moment when I really started listening to music and statarted buying CDs (it was in 2003 if I'm right). After Linkin Park I disvovered Papa Roach, Disturbed, Slipknot and many other bands I've been listeing to till 2005/2006.

In high-school I started listening to Punk for a very short time. I had ripped jeans, a leather jaket full with bottons and all that stuff for just about 2 years or so. My favorite bands in that time were Pennywise, Anti-Flag and a bit of Rise Against. That was also the time I sarted going to punk concerts in my hometown and so I discovered hardcore, when Comeback Kid played here in 2008. And through that and the people I've met I discovered all that hardcore-punk stuff I still listen to today.