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| 1666 ratings: my musical evolution
I recently hit 1666 ratings and i wanted to make some sort of list commemorating it. So I decided to make a list telling my musical journey from young metalhead to slightly older metalhead...except for that one part..... | | 1 |  | Slipknot
Vol. 3: The Subliminal Verses
Duality is possibly the first song I can really remember listening to. I would have been either 7 or barely 8 years old back when I heard it, and man did I love it. Maybe it was the video, maybe I always had the desire for metal and didn’t know it, but that music video resonated with me on a deep level. My dad showed me the video, and that was the beginning of something great. | | 2 |  | Disturbed
Ten Thousand Fists
Possibly tying Slipknot for my favorite band at the time, Disturbed was likely the most played band for me for quite a while. I can safely say that I only listened to the heaviest songs on both Indestructible and Ten Thousand Fists, the only two albums I had access to. Songs like Facade, Indestructible, Inside The Fire, and especially Ten Thousand Fists were mainstays whenever I listened to music. I was only in it for heaviness and that was the heaviest stuff I knew | | 3 |  | Slayer
Reign in Blood
At the same time, I had access to my dad's original CDs for Reign and South from Slayer as well as Master Of Puppets and Ride The Lightning. You might think that I would have liked Slayer since I loved heaviness, but you’d be wrong. I thought Slayer was too slow. Yes, you read that right and, no I can’t explain my thought process. I liked a total of two Metallica songs though: Battery and Fight Fire With Fire, but only after skipping the intros. | | 4 |  | Static-X
Wisconsin Death Trip
Later, I found Static-X through Yahoo music videos. I saw the video for Push It and loved it. That led me to the video for I’m With Stupid which I loved even more. Seeing “heavy” videos brought up more heavier videos as a result, and I kept pushing for more heaviness. | | 5 |  | Mudvayne
L.D. 50
This is where stuff got real. I’d come across Meshuggah - Rational Gaze, which blew my 8 year old mind, and that led me to other videos, one of which Mudvayne - Dig. I don’t think I can overstate just how intensely I loved Dig. That song was without a doubt the heaviest song I’d heard at the time and I knew it. The video was insane, the lyrics were absolutely not what I should have been hearing at that age, and there was NO CLEAN SINGING. I was in love | | 6 |  | The Black Dahlia Murder
Deflorate
Yahoo didn’t stop showing me heavier videos, even though it had slowed down. One fateful day, I was recommended the video for Necropolis at the age of 9. By this point I had surpassed the heaviness of albums that even my dad, who was into such bands as Slayer and Celtic Frost back in 85, had listened to. Trevor’s vocals were beyond belief for me, they didn’t even sound human! Around that same time, I heard Nocturnal on Sirius XM radio and the first seed of death metal was sowed. A little bit of nostalgia is that I downloaded those tracks off Limewire, that was before our computer got infected with a virus from it. | | 7 |  | Whitechapel
This Is Exile
This was it, I was convinced music could not get better than this. Alone in my house one night, I discovered the video for This Is Exile. All the musical cravings I had were satisfied. There wasn’t anything even close to cleans, the guitars were crushing, and the drumming was as fast as I needed. I’m not a fan of breakdowns nowadays, but as a child solely interested in heaviness, I was hooked. I didn’t really evolve from stuff like Whitechapel for a few years. | | 8 |  | Excision
Destroid - The Invasion
Okay…….I went through a phase when I was like 13-14. I found hardcore dubstep or whatever its called. I truly don’t know what came over me, it’s a dark spot in my music journey. Knife Party - Centipede, alot of Angerfist, Evil Activities, the Destroid stuff from Excision and……..Skrillex. I used to look up “brutal dubstep” or “most brutal bass drop” on youtube or I would use the Windows Phone version of Pandora called Mixradio to find the stuff. I wish I was making this up | | 9 |  | The Black Dahlia Murder
Abysmal
One day I heard that TBDM were going to be releasing a new album. I hadn’t heard anything new from them since my initial discovery, so I was excited for Abysmal. Of course, Abysmal ended up being my least favorite album in their discography. Nevertheless, it breathed new life into my interest in music and I started looking for new stuff. That’s how I started my current journey for music. I’ve been dedicated to finding new extreme metal since the release of Abysmal. There’s been higher and lower points of activity, but it’s taken a decent chunk of my free time since then. In fact, my first concert was the Abysmal Predator tour TBDM co-headlined alongside Napalm Death | |
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04.20.20 | There you go, now you know how I came to have a 100% metal pie chart | Asdfp277
04.20.20 | so, where's the evolution bro | blou52
04.20.20 | I got into heavier music, that's about it | el_newg
04.20.20 | you were listening to black dahlia murder at 9 yea ok bro | blou52
04.20.20 | I guess there's probably no way I could prove it, but it's true. I've seen a bunch of elementary school kids with their parents at the Slayer shows I've been to, I just had a bit heavier than that | Asdfp277
04.20.20 | i personally don't think it's that unbelievable, but definitely not the most common experience | blou52
04.20.20 | I was thinking it was uncommon, that's why I wanted to share it. If I have kids, they'll for sure be listening to it at that age. As long as they don't rebel against me and start playing pop music anyway | Asdfp277
04.20.20 | now that's dumb | Gnocchi
04.20.20 | --As long as they don't rebel against me and start playing pop music anyway--
wouldn't this make you a bit of a hypocrite? I mean you're listening to music that's against the grain of society's norms. So why can't they listen to what you don't consider 'normal'? | widowslaugh123
04.20.20 | Check Fugazi | blou52
04.20.20 | Don't worry, if they end up liking pop, that's okay with me. It was meant to not be taken too literally. I was poking fun at the idea that my style of music is the "typical" rebellious music. To rebel against that, they'd wind up listening to mainstream music |
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