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| A Two Year Toast
A toast to how far my musical tastes have come in just a short time. This may come as a surprise to some of you (and perhaps not for the more negative characters amongst you), but I have only been listening to music consistently for 2 years now. It began with my old job at Quiznos where my co-workers forced me to learn bands for fear of water induced punishment. At this time, I did not even know who AC/DC were. As the months went by, I learned the bands from the local classic rock station, and as Christmas came and went, a strange twist of fate had my parents purchase my first mp3 player that very holiday season. My fellow art student had been making a small mural of a SOAD poster, and I found myself interested in their music. I asked my brother what he used to get music, and he suggested limewire. Excited to hear some music, I greedily set forth to find as much SOAD and whatever else piqued my interests as I could.
As the months went by, my tastes expanded slowly; I gained new tastes through wikipedia (yes, that's as bad as it sounds), and slowly transitioned into more extreme forms of metal. I began listening to light bands extensively, however, with a7x taking the lead; I actually spent an entire month listening to City of Evil every day (for shame, I know). I began listening to basic (simple and easy to listen to) death metal, such as Gojira, In Flames, and Arch Enemy.
I soon went to college, and after a month of time spent in that wretched-hellhole-of-a-farmtown-with-a-college-in-it, I discovered a sputnik review link within the depths of wikipedia; I became interested, and made an account with the small phrase I had been using recently, jack (for Mr. Jack, a SOAD song), tiger ('cause tigers are fucking awesome), and 7x (for Avenged Sevenfold). I only stand by one part of that name now (it's the tiger one dumbasses).
Below are the top five bands about 4 months after beginning my "music trip" as I have cornily phrased it, and my top five bands now. | | 1 | Ulver
Everything Ulver has done and everything they will ever do is made of amazing. | | 2 | Agalloch
The Mantle is, per number of listens, my favorite album of all time; I do not foresee that changing | | 3 | Wolves in the Throne Room
Best U.S. black metal. No arguments. Raise a word of disagreement and my response is a polite "No sir. Fuck you, sir". (or ma'am) | | 4 | Cynic
Traced in Air has been in my CD player for three weeks now, and it will not leave it for a very long time. Everything about that album is just too... right. | | 5 | Amon Amarth
TWILIGHT
OF
THE THUNDER GOD
Seriously though, Slays for Days. | | 6 | A7x
Back in the day, these guys were the shit to me; they couldn't do anything wrong (LOL I WAS SO MISTAKEN). They are now one of my most hated bands
M. Shadows = Vacuum + Blender + holding-your-nose-while-singing | | 7 | Gojira
I was convinced Gojira had made in From Mars to Sirius the heaviest and most brutal album ever. While it is very heavy, and very brutal, it also very full of filler and fantastically boring. (great live show, though) | | 8 | In Flames
One of the bands really responsible for my ability to tolerate screamed vocals now, I owe In Flames a great deal for most of my music taste progression. It's funny, then, that I skipped their act when I went to their headlined show. | | 9 | Nevermore
Nevermore were amazing back then and are still amazing. Everyone should listen to Nevermore. | | 10 | Arch Enemy
Arch Enemy combined awesome riffs with curiously female grunted vocals.
I soon became bored of them for reasons I cannot explain. This boredom still holds true. | |
Crysis
01.01.09 | First three are definitely the best. Nice list, glad to see you found your musical niche. | ironzeppelin789
01.01.09 | Nice list but I like versus the world better than twilight of the thunder god. | OllieS
01.01.09 | For some reason i've never gotten bored of 10 | BallsToTheWall
01.01.09 | Twilight is crapolla. Agree with Crysis. | Essence
01.01.09 | I forgot to explain that the first five bands are my top 5 now, and the last 5 are my top 5 as they were. | Essence
01.01.09 | Oh wait yes I did I'm retarded | jrowa001
01.01.09 | 1,2,3,4 (Focus > TIA), 5,7 (new album is their only good one), 9 rule | Tulannical
01.01.09 | I feel really dumb asking this, but do the first three have satanic lyrics? I REALLY want to get into them but I'm against those kind of things :/ | Captain North
01.01.09 | Yeah, 8 got me used to screamed vocals as well. It's why I'm such a big fanboy now. | Willie
01.01.09 | Nice list and I love the story. | dankeyes11
01.01.09 | Tulannical: I don't know about Ulver, but Agalloch and Wolves in the Throne Room don't have "satanic" lyrics, per say, but they are very bleak and certainly not religious | Essence
01.01.09 | NONE of them have satanic lyrics. Both Agalloch and WitTR 'sing' about nature, with the latter also having strong roots in shamanism. Ulver sing about whatever the hell they want to (which only really happened in their black metal trilogy), and in latter albums their is little to no singing at all. | Masochist
01.01.09 | You should still be an In Flames fan, they're amazing. They got me used to screamed/growled vocals, as well, but I found more to love as I got deeper into them.
Let's see where 2009 takes you ;-) | Pebster49
01.01.09 | The Mantle is an amazing album. #6 has Waking the Fallen which is still an amazing album to me. Only album I listen to them. The rest are very good/awesome etc etc etc too | Jim
01.01.09 | tigers are fucking awesome. well done.
oh and nevermore rule as well so good job all round. happy two years mang | Poet
01.01.09 | THOR ODEN'S SON, PROTECTOR OF MANKIND!!! | Wizard
01.02.09 | 11 years of music listening for me son. Just remember who helped excel you into the elite my friend ;). Nice confession. Mine is worse...a la Ace of Base!!!! Fuck yeah! |
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