RVAHC13: SPUTNIKMUSIC USER SURVEY (reupload)

RVAHC13 04.03.25	I’m very sorry to everyone who replied to the previous post. If I could copy and paste it all here I would. I’m not touching this list on my phone again. Please have at it.
brickhed 04.03.25	Fine time for this again 1. 16, 17 2. Probably hunting for music review websites better than RYM 3. Got me a lot more into death metal 4. Hawks, NexCeleris 5. Toughness, Metaphobic, diSEMBOWLMENT, Demilich, Cryptopsy
AnimalForce1 04.03.25	Oh lord, I've had that happen to me before, it's the worst feeling. But, since it's back up... 1. My first rev here was in 2020, and I'm 90% sure I'd been lurking here before as well, so I'd say probably somewhere around 16 or 17/21 2. I can't exactly remember, I think I just stumbled into the site while looking for a review of a more niche album. It might've been a Band-Maid album actually, World Domination? I can't remember for sure 3. Easily blew the doors open to metal I'd never even considered listening to before. I didn't even consider any of the more extreme genres beyond metalcore until I became more active here 4. Johnny for my weeb shit, Sowing and Rowan turned me onto a bunch of good music, Artificalbox, Mkmusic, and Manatea as well! Oh, and Hawks when it comes to BM recommendations 5. Easily, easily Ethereal Shroud, also Mechina (thanks Dewi!), Invent Animate, Rolo Tomassi, Silent Planet, Adjy, and many others
efp123 04.03.25	damn what happened???? 1. 14 maybe 15, but made an account at 29 2. pretty sure google, but I cannot remember 3. like I said before, I really did find a lot of my stuff I liked listening to, but this site certainly helped back in the day. 4. nex has showed me a lot of dm. 5. deafheaven, this will destroy you, ion dissonance, yeule
Hawks 04.03.25	1. 13/32 2. Was probably looking for Cradle reviews. Don't remember for sure 3. Got me way more into extreme metal as a teenager. 4. Man..too many. Spirit, Crysis, Wiz, Ford, Hype, Noctus, Balls, Dedes, Garas, Night, Cylinder, Nex, Futures and like 4000 other users. 5. Defeated Sanity, Ulcerate, Sargeist and again 4000 other bands lol.
evilford 04.03.25	Lol
evilford 04.03.25	1. 26/40 2. Neurosis reviews on Wikipedia 3. Sput has shaped my taste pretty significantly 4. NexCeleris, Hawks, hyperion1001, ShadowRemains, Hexfix93, relinquished 5. GORGUTS
tyman128 04.03.25	1. 16/23 2. I don't remember exactly, but I was looking up album reviews for something and this came across for some reason 3. I was the kid who only would listen to metalcore in high school, so Sputnik actually made me appreciate a lot more variety, all the way from more extreme metal to the softer folky stuff that I refused to listen to as a teenager for the longest time 4. Steak was my guy for core stuff early on, and then I've had a lot of people just rec a variety of stuff to me, like YoYo, Drifter, onion, Dewinged, Sowing, and the list goes on 5. mewithoutYou, Manchester Orchestra, Ruston Kelly, and just about any other band that I would consider a favorite nowadays
Hyperion1001 04.03.25	1. How old were you when you started using Sputnikmusic? How old are you now? 15 when i found it, 17 when i made an account, 32 now 2. How did you find out about SM? mxtabs 3. How did Sputnikmusic influence/change your taste in music? never would have known about 75% of the music i listen to now. maybe would have never gotten into electronic music. i explored to much in so many different genres because of this website. instrumental, it was. 4. Which user introduced you to the most music? god idk if i can pick just one. so many good users introduced me to so much good music. i will say though, as much of a dickhead as he was at times, rasputin's journey through death RYM list introduced me to basically every death metal album i now call my favorite. 5. What is/are your favorite band/bands you learned about through SM? autechre. deviant and hyperbore introduced me to tri repetae in probably 2012 and the rest is history.
Avagantamos 04.03.25	1. 15/29 2. I was high school buddies with Danielito19 and he told me to make an account (I think he found it by googling post-hardcore reviews) 3. I joined the site as a Dream Theater fanboy and quickly got drawn towards stuff like BTBAM. by the end of high school I was jamming lots of tech death and post-metal. then in 2013 during my freshman year of college I clicked on a list that changed my life 4. Hyperion1001, AnimalsAsSummit, also pretty much based my taste in music in high school on Thor's 5s 5. Autechre
swallowtales 04.03.25	1. 13/28 2. Honestly prob looking for Tool and Slipknot reviews lmao 3. Massively, dunno where I would have ended up in music taste without this site and the RYM charts. Would probably be a different turbo music nerd. 4. No idea but I remember Blackbelt introduced me to a bunch when I was pretty new to the site. 5. Most of them tbf, maudlin of the Well, and Funeral Diner stick out though. Dunno when I would have found them if not for this site and they are so special to me.
artificialbox 04.03.25	1. 16/30 2. idk, google search or something 3. It has definitely opened me up to genres and artists I never thought I would like 4. Hawks and Cylinder are always putting me on to stuff 5. Artificial Brain and Amia Venera Landscape lol
swallowtales 04.03.25	Amia Venera Landscape is such a time capsule of a sput classic
Butkuiss 04.03.25	1. Lurked since I was 14, made my account at 16, 31 in a couple of months. Wild to think I’ve been here for over half my life 2. I think via a wiki link. Probably to an ISIS or Mastodon review or something. 3. Most of my music taste can be traced back to this site (and by extension RYM). 4. Potsy, Dev and Adam recommended me a whole bunch of very influential stuff in the early days. Probably them. 5. Laura Stevenson, based solely on the fact that Sit Resist and Wheel were absolutely massive on this site and precisely nowhere else
BAT 04.03.25	1. 14/15ish and 32 atm 2. i'd seen the site listed on album ratings on wiki but several of my highschool friends were on sput and had me make an account 3. really helped me find stuff that wasn't being played in my friend circle/branching out a bit. had ne look into genres outside of guitar-centric music 4. one of those said friends, he had a few accounts but the last one he had was 'InHumanForm,' he pretty much got me into all sorts of bdm/tech death/rap/etc and had a car so took me to tons of concerts at the time. but yeah main way i'd discover non-metal stuff was to look through the top charts for each genre, that's how i'd get into stuff like glassjaw. 5. discordance axis, rolo tomassi, drive like jehu, ion dissonance, melt-banana, and red chord
zakalwe 04.03.25	What’s gone on here? 1. 33/45 2. A link from Wikipedia to an album review, the particular one I can’t recall. 3. My taste was pretty much cemented by the time I arrived here but I definitely listen to more metal than I ever did before. 4. A lot of people have chipped in but Doof for the most part. 5. Anathema 6. Cheers….again.
Dewinged 04.03.25	Oh damn, that sucks, let's see if I remember. Actualy I'm not commuting so I can expand a bit more: 1. 38/47 2. Mongi's review of Cult of Luna and J. Christmas' Mariner 3. I would still be listening to hair metal if it wasn't for Sput. But seriously, I got into black and death metal, pop, jazz, a bit of electronic music thanks to this site. I was too focused on creating my own music for a long time and upon joining the site I rekindled that long lost flame of appreciating new music. 4. Atari definitely opened me to the dark diva stuff and what eventually became dewicore. Frippertronics, Doof, Sowing, Johnny, Crysis, Hawks, pizzamachine, MiloRuggles, butcherboy, Wines, so many great writers on this site... 5. That probably would be Alcest and Chelsea Wolfe. 6. Anytime.
Relinquished 04.03.25	fuckin hell 1. 17-18/35 2. guitar tabs from learning of mxtabs only to find out it got renamed some time after to what we know as sputnik 3. If anything it reinforced my favorites because I discovered my all time favorited a few years prior. Lucky to have been 14 and know of meshuggah and neurosis when some of their most influential works were released 4. BallsToTheWall, TheWizard, and rasputin, glad to have been e-friends with the tastemakers around the time. RIP Spirit. Shoutout to my other dawgs coneren, bloc, ire, dryden, kount, angelofdeath, shadowremains, hyperion, crysis, hawks, metalstyles, willie, zooyorker, anyone else from the blogs I had forgotten. All those blogspots and megaupload/mediafire days were definitely influential to have solidified most of the today’s users’ favorites. Like Hype said in regards to rasputin, if we didn’t put in the work to dig around and promote then this site would’ve died a long time ago. Potsy, especially during silentpotato days, had(has) the most eclectic taste out of anyone else. 5. fuckin learned about my cousin from this website so that was surreal as fuck, def changed my life there. Ulcerate and Amia Venera Landscape for sure for me were also definite sputnik bands for me. I still remember ZooYorker and his deathmetal vault blog when he posted Everything Is Fire and the AVL review when I was at my height of post-metal worship. That was my niche here too. Everyone was death and black metal, I promoted post metal.
Futures 04.03.25	1. lurked 15/16 made account 18, now 30 (fuck) 2. i actually don't know specifically. when i was first getting into music i would read blogs like metalsucks, metal injection, heavyblogisheavy, no clean singing, stuff you will hate and got a lot of my taste through what was talked about on there. early fantano when he was cool too. i hope someone else relates lol. i think just digging deeper into music and wanting to categorize my listens i stumbled upon sputnik. i've always been one to keep track of everything. and i also distinctly remember looking up a review for parallax 2 by btbam and people in the comments calling each other redacted and redacted's lol. thought it was a colorful place but held off for a little to actually make an account to comment on, especially since the music i liked was absolutely torn to shreds. 3. more than words can describe really. basically listened to only metal mostly core stuff with some alt rock and sput made me branch out much more. now i listen to most genres and really much more appreciate the intricacies of music, before i think i consumed at much of a base level like is it memorable or not and didn't think much more of it as a true artform. gained an appreciation for technicality and composition. made me listen to more experimental and weird stuff and that pushed me down a path of just checking out whatever. i'm always giving new stuff of any genre a shot. 4. too many to name for sure. at the beginning the people that shaped my taste were the plug crew for sure. for those who weren't around plug was where you got in an online room and listened to the same song as everyone else. i would hang in there for hours and hours endlessly. so many great times and moments with my friends. of course this exposed me to such a vast variety of music. i dug in a little to every genre that was new to me be it midwest emo, post-metal, shoegaze, hip hop. those were people like climactic, fromtheinside, fourthreich, judio, demigod, evilford, fearthyevil, someguest, yaknips. others at the beginning were people like fripp, mongi, rowan, tommygun, zak, oltna, treb, baakermartin, foxxy, mort, artuma, tyler, sixdegrees, bmdrummer, foxblood, mappy, scuro, justinking, snake, jac, ryus, steak. i def checked out a lot of the cool shit they were jamming and helped shape my taste. nowadays too many to name but shoutout hawks, artificialbox, cylinder, emim, nex, jr, beloved, jay, nash, spec, botb, calmrose, budgie, doof, hype, muzz, zaru, fowl, dedes. def missed some but you can't get them all and my bad. 5. godspeed you! black emperor by far. changed how i viewed music. a few others, mineral, interpol, brand new, radiohead, zao, converge, glassjaw. a lot of sput essentials.
Drifter 04.03.25	1. 13/22 2. Reading reviews for The Dear Hunter's Color Spectrum EPs 3. I had started to very very preliminarily dip my toes into hip hop and indie which exploded when i joined sput 9 years ago. 4. Originally my big tastemaker was Keyblade who showed me a bunch of great g funk, then it became Foxblood who showed me even more g funk deep cuts. LordePots is by far my biggest reccer though due to our back and forth list series we've been doing the past 1.5 years. 5. Paris, Jeff Buckley, Jason Molina, Nosferatu D2, many. 6. Yay
DoofDoof 04.03.25	1. 35/45 2. The discussion for Carrie and Lowell came up on a search and the opinions were super strength, had to join 3. To begin with, completely, I’d try about ten times as many albums as before. Now other sites like RYM are as equally responsible. 4. Zak followed by Boney, Twig and Anatelier 5. Grant Lee Buffalo, with honourable mentions to Thomas Feiner and Sunhouse
Sharenge 04.03.25	1. was familiar with it and using it for reference and discovery as a teenager years before I made an account which I didn't do until like a year or so into uni - 33 now 2. I don't remember probably Wikipedia pages for music where a Sput review was referenced 3. been one of many nice resources to help discover music 4. n/a 5. Boris and Unwound come to mind but there's probably a lot more than that
Coast 04.03.25	1. 33/50 2. Probably googling Opeth 3. From mainstream metal to far more diverse and extreme and later hip hop 4. Hawks among heaps of other Sput lists 5. Enslaved, Converge, Rush, Death, Pig Destroyer, Paysage d'Hiver, Black Twilight Circle, Aesop Rock
arthropod 04.03.25	1. 14/17 2. Can't remember, propably found it randomly on the Internet. 3. Got me into death metal and deathcore. 4. None in particular, I'm mostly after the music I read about in randomly picked reviews. 5. Karnivool, Agalloch, Be'lakor, Old Gods of Asgard
zakalwe 04.03.25	Rush! Christ
gabba 04.03.25	1. 41->47 2. Googled reviews for Script of the Bridge by The Chameleons. 3. More riffs, definitely! Flirting with metal ever since. 4. There’s many, but Doof, Boney and Demon were the ones I recognized first. 5. Anna von Hausswolff, Jesu, Unwound, Ulver, etc.
Coast 04.03.25	Rush didn’t take off in Australia and never toured here. Sonic was Rush crazy when I joined Sput in the 08-10 era, impossible to ignore.
Muzz79 04.03.25	1. 38/46 2. Probably searching the net for an album review then realizing there’s a good database and huge metal presence. 3. Definitely got me into bands I’d previously dismissed or back into bands I’d given up on 4. Hawks budgie TheNotrap Dewinged frozencarl linguist TheSpirit silentscream nazzadan Titan futures pizzamachine nash. Also bigfan of Egarran 5. Ive gotten into much more melodic death metal and symphonic & prog metals. Stuff like Shadow of Intent and more recently Blood Incantation
Demon of the Fall 04.03.25	1. 29 > 38 2. honestly not sure. I remember endeavouring to rekindle my somewhat waning interest in music during my late 20s, as life had "gotten in the way" so it wasn't complety by chance 3. did an almost complete transformation into a metal truther before abandoning a portion of it, embracing my softboi indie roots from yesteryear, getting into electronic music in a big way and eventually embracing jazz (it's been a hell of a journey) 4. along similar lines re 3. I'd have to say users like Wolfe, ford and Hawks initially, then Pots was huge for electronic. Later on Trif, Johnny and tect for various reasons. Honestly, they were the first people that came to mind for the "journey" but there are so many others 5. Death, Gorguts, Oxbow, Trophy Scars, Fall of Efrafa, Dir En Grey, Blonde Redhead, Cocteau Twins, The Field etc. After a certain point in time most of my music discovery originated here, even if I'd "heard of" or even checked out something in my younger years, this site was the catalyst for properly diving in or revisiting
garas 04.03.25	1. 17 / 28 (soon 29) 2. I don't remember, I was probably looking up the ratings of a Deafheaven album... idk, really. 3. Starting from blackgaze, my taste became more and more extreme, but fortunately sput helped me finding my own niche. 🖤 4. A bunch of lovely people: budgie, Dewinged, DDDeftoneDDD, Hawks, Gnocchi, dedex, Bedex, ScuroFantasma, Papa Universe, Pikazilla, Elynna, Egarran, DrGonzo1937, parksungjoon, Trifolium, Pangea, Pho3nix, arf. 5. Ulver, Coroner, Demolition Hammer, Sunn O))), Kvelertak, Misthyrming.
ArsMoriendi 04.03.25	Let's redo this... 1. 17 / 29 2. I was getting frustrated with the way Pitchfork did reviews, so I went actively looking for other review sites. Found stuff like Consequence too industry vibed etc, and the there it was SPUTNIK lol, I'd casually keep it as part of a list of review sites I'd check a little until I discovered you could rate albums on it too! So I signed up. It was months of having an account before I realized you could make lists lol. 3. If we're talking genre-wise? Honestly Sputnik has had far less of an effect on the kind of music I like than IRL people. 4. Robertsona, but not really until we became IRL friends (we were roommates for 2 years even lol.) That's cheating though, so I'll also mention NeroCorleone because he got me into Brainiac which is still one of my all time favorites 5. Brainiac, Hiatus Kaiyote, Melody's Echo Chamber, Foetus, Robovine, Goat, Holly Herndon, Bruno Pernadas
Hyperion1001 04.03.25	I didn’t realize there were so many 40+ year olds posting on sput but considering the web2.0 style of this site it makes sense. it’s not like im too far off lmao.
zakalwe 04.03.25	40+ >
AlexKzillion 04.03.25	1. 15/25 2. was digging for deftones discussion at the absolute height of my fandom. first piece of content i remember consuming was dave de sylvia's 1.0 review for the a7x s/t i found on wikipedia which was prob a few years before i made an account tho 3. i was mostly listening to djent, scenecore, nu metal and older classic rock/metal before joining the site... so i can prob credit sput for like 80 of my top 100 albums? i think my taste is still mostly the same, just a lot more seasoned/explored now. def was not listening to anything remotely indie or electronic or hardcore prior to joining this site tho. hip hop taste became way more "abstract" 4. drifter tvc onion ianb and minus have culminatively gotten me to jam hundreds of albums and i found a lot of my favorite artists through them. def a lot of users i was less close with who i def trusted a lot regarding certain genres over the years... pots with hip hop/electronic, relinquished with metal, sixdegrees with shoegaze/dream pop. lots im forgetting at the moment. 5. etid, converge, dillinger, the national, glassjaw, everything jeff rosenstock, radiohead(?), injury reserve, danny brown, pup, charli xcx, cave in, mewithoutyou, meshuggah, touche amore, knocked loose, frank ocean, counterparts, alexisonfire, joyce manor, boards of canada, rolo tomassi, erra, turnstile, greyhaven, death, flying lotus, autechre, laura stevenson, the callous daoboys, the chariot, the menzingers. prob a lot more hip hop artists than that but i was also watching a ton of fantano, dehh, everyday struggle etc around when i joined and can't really parse what i discovered where too well anymore
jrlikestodance 04.03.25	1. Lurked since 16 but active the last 2 years. 33 now 2. Prob looking for Underoath/Dillinger reviews brought me here 3. This website introduced me to stuff like Converge and At the Drive In which would lead me digging into more proper forms of genres like metalcore and post hardcore. Lurking here likely influenced me getting into trve hardcore and going to DIY/local shows more regularly than I ever used to along w seeing Terror live for the first time in 09 4. So many awesome peeps but Hawks, Futures, cylinder, Emim, FowlKrietzsche, Hyperion, ArsMoriendi Ryus, NexCeleris, Drfiter all comes to mind when thinking of users who don't miss w recs relevant to my tastes 5. Defeated Sanity hands down are my fav Sput discovery but this site also helped give me a new appreciation for Meshuggah and find Unwound in the past year
mindleviticus 04.03.25	1. 15-29 2. I think there was a klap review of an indie band on wikipedia that I saw for this site. 3. Significantly expanded my music taste, like someone said above the mediafire/megaupload days were essential in getting into all these bands along with here. 4. Too many to even count but a few that come to mind are some OG guys like AStrangerOfSorts (not here anymore :[), Potsy, Yotimi, klap, seaanemone, balcaen. Then there's Hyperion, Hawks, AnimalsAsSummit, CaptainDooRight, Relinquished, evilford, TheSpirit (rip :[), sixdegrees, johnnyofTheWell, YakNips, oltnabrick, Havey... please forgive me if I forgot you 5. Yeah... too many to even count, probably Autechre though, although I think I knew about them before here.
garas 04.03.25	I loved reading these answers! 🖤
evilford 04.03.25	Same! This is an interesting survey
Demon of the Fall 04.03.25	I haven't run the data (just reading through these), but it feels like a lot of the original users / site veterans were mostly teens when they started, yet those who have joined more recently tend to be older I think that'll certainly be the site's archaic digital infrastructure, lol... it's of a certain "time" for sure. It could also be that an aging demographic will encourage others of a similar age to get in on the action. It's unlikely someone in their 30s would be enticed into creating an account if the environment is mostly significantly younger than they are. Of course new accounts are disabled these days, but for a while it was perhaps relevant
zakalwe 04.03.25	I did. I thought fuck it I can talk about the classics and take the piss. The fact there are like minded people here is an absolute bonus
onionbubs 04.03.25	1. 13 for my first account, 14 for this one 2. from the default 1 star a7x review that came up when i was googling stuff about that album. i was heated lmao 3. idfk how to find music otherwise 4. steak/row 5. alexisonfire prob
SteakByrnes 04.03.25	1. I browsed without an account when I was 15, technically my first account that only has 1 comment and 7 ratings was 2013 so started when I was 17/18, I'm 29 now 2. I found out by googling Bring Me The Horizon reviews in high school and getting sad they were rated poorly lmao 3. I found a lot of cool older metalcore and post hardcore that I liked, but more importantly it gave me lots of friends that rec'd me new music. I'm way more into pop and electronic genres now too 4. too many to count man, but the very first friend I made on the site was Futures he's my fuckin dog. betray was my goat too, pjorn, nazz, ovrot, fripp, hella dogs like that. The core brotherhood, JayEnder, JeetJeet, bloc, onionbubs, tyman, trilo, relinquished, mort, calmrose, space jester, johnny, dewi, drifter, even new pals like artbox and jrlikestodance. row, the aussie gang big dog RAMON, verdant landiving, claire, man there are too many to count lol 5. I guess Unwound probably
climactic 04.03.25	1. 14 / 29 2. don't remember for sure, but i think the first time i landed on this site was when i was looking up reviews for btbam and opeth albums while home sick one day from middle school lol 3. it played a huge role, especially during my first few years on here when i was constantly discovering new genres and subgenres. before coming on here i was basically listening to what a basic teenager first getting into metal listens to- a7x, metallica, dream theater, iron maiden etc. sput definitely introduced me to a wide variety of styles and sounds i hadn't heard before 4. couldnt single out a single user. basically everyone who was on here 2009-2013ish played a role, particularly those skewing towards the metal/punk side of things. relinquished, wizard, kill, curseworship, bloc, adam thomas, rasputin, seaanemone, dozens of others 5. discovering stuff like converge, isis, neurosis and other bands leaning towards the more DIY side of metal/punk probably had the biggest impact on my taste
Icebloom 04.03.25	1. Started browsing since 16, started posting 2/3 years later. I'm 26 now. 2. I was looking for reviews for Absolution by Muse, then my favourite album (I was 16). 3. Hard to say tbh. Obviously I found A LOT of music through this site, but my actual music taste hasn't expanded all that much? I'd say the site has mostly just allowed me to delve deeper into the genres I already liked, to refine my taste a bit. 4. Found a lot of music via Doof's (old) reviews, more recently Johnny has given me good recs. 5. Carissa's Wierd, Jason Molina, Ruby Haunt. Definitely wouldn't have found the last one without Sput.
Zac124 04.03.25	1. Started using the site when I was 15. I am now 20. 2. I was trying to find a site where I could rate and discuss music like I did on Letterboxd at the time. 3. Got me do explore deeper in the genres I already enjoyed and helped me to get into genres I was currently struggling with. Essentially, I became a lot more open to trying new things. 4. Hawks 5. There are so many but just to list a few of my favourites - Saidan, Somewhere South of Here, Kinoko Teikoku, Holy Fawn, Bloody Tyrant, White Ward, Old Man's Child, BOaT.
RVAHC13 04.04.25	Thank you for the feature, glad to see everyone here
FearThyEvil 04.04.25	1. Started using the site maybe around 14-15? I technically started on another acct and migrated to this one being my main. Currently 31 and will be 32 in exactly 3 days. 2. I was honestly just trying to find some music reviews for albums I liked and stumbled upon this site. 3. This site DRASTICALLY increased my musical taste, perception, input, everything. Before this site I was your basic youtube/radio rock teen finding the most mainstream acts imaginable. While I still love a certain portion of them, I have much further gone beyond what I ever thought id be listening to back in the day and I'm forever grateful for finding this site and the music I love now because of it. 4. That's tough to say as I've had interactions with many users on here. Wacknizzle for sure was a big contributor as was Intothepit. I'd say as long as I've interacted with someone on here on a friendly basis I've probably found a rec or two from them I enjoy. IntothePit definitely though I remember really helped me get into much better metalcore and even post-metal like Neurosis. Old jam sessions on plug to thank for that. 5. Swans, Cult of Luna, Daughters, Converge, Amenra, Cave In, Touche Amore, I mean the list goes on and on but I'd say if at the time it wasn't really mainstream or well known, sput showed it to me. Now I'm much more in tune and up to date with groups.
evilford 04.04.25	Wacknizzle holy shit, haven't heard that name in ages
0GuyMan0 04.04.25	1. 29 / 39 2. I was just looking for a place where you could consider a reviewer's tastes before trusting a given review, as my available music listenin' time was diminishing heavily in the Navy. 3. Not in the least, as a true lunatic consumer of music to that point, but it did unshroud a few bands that I had the wrong idea about / help me find some of the more underground shit. And now, I honestly don't know how else I'd keep in the know. As Macho Man said, the cream rises to the top - if it's good I'll see it sooner or later around here. 4. I'm not sure I can point to just one, but for sheer listening hours probably Hawks because I had the wool pulled over my eyes with Cradle before hanging around here and they're one of my two or three favorite bands now. Titan for making me realize Crimson Glory was basically Queensryche on speed and Fate's Warning were basically Queensryche on 'ludes. 5. Atheist, Slugdge, Night Verses, Katatonia, Persefone
FearThyEvil 04.05.25	"Wacknizzle holy shit, haven't heard that name in ages" Yeah same, shame though as he and I were pretty chill a lot of the time and his bands music was really solid too. His taste was right up my alley. I also remember BMDrummer as well. Also OP, props to that profile picture because it's hysterical
Chippe 04.05.25	1. Started lurking at 37, joined at 50. Now 53 2. Searched the web for metal review sites 3. Got me into more extreme metal 4. Hawks, darknoctus of the active ones 5. Fen, agalloch, moonsorrow, kauan, enslaved, vi som älskade varandra så mycket
Arked 04.05.25	1. 27/41 2. Googling review of something. 3. Greatly. It probably pushed me into mathcore/post-hardcore/post-metal/dissodeath. 4. Hard to tell. 5. Converge, Architects, Misery Signals, The Amity Affliction, Deafheaven, pg. 99, Thrice, Vildhjarta, Evoken, Gorguts, Ulcerate, Isis, Neurosis, Amia Venera Landscape, Birthday Massacre, Brand New, Cunninlyguists.
Pikazilla 04.05.25	1. 18 (Oct 2008)/34 (present) 2. Randomly googled Protest The Hero Fortress review and here we are 3. Sput made me hate prog like Rush and love sludge/post-metal like Rosetta 4. Evreaia, absolute fucking legend 5. Rosetta, Kayo Dot, Pax Cecilia, Eleventh He Reaches London 6. Nice survey, mate
unclereich 04.05.25	feds lurking itt
unclereich 04.05.25	Wacknizzle holy shit, haven't heard that name in ages an absolute legend really hope he's doing great things wherever he is
Sowing 04.05.25	1. If by using the site you mean signing up, then 21/38, but I was lurking for a couple years prior. 2. Found Chan's TDAG review and started reading other staff reviews. 3. When I first joined I was pretty much only into pop-punk and radio rock. I can credit this site with pretty much every other style of music I've grown into, especially indie/folk/country. 4. That's a tough question. In the beginning it was users like Chan, Knott, and SeaAnemone. Staff members have come and gone over the years, but more recently I've been following Sunnyvale, Odal, and ashcrash. Honestly though, I've taken and enjoyed recs from almost every active staff/contrib at some point. 4. A borderline impossible question considering that I've been on this site my entire adult life, and who knows what I may have discovered anyway without Sputnik, but going by my list of 5's I'd list Foxing, Manchester Orchestra, The Antlers, Fleet Foxes, Sufjan Stevens, and mewithoutYou just as a sample size of the sort of direction this site took my taste.
el_newg 04.05.25	1. joined at 16, now 29 2. found the site via a friend who used it to look at music news 3. sput influenced my taste by spotlighting smaller artists that have become some all time favs 4. user that introduced the most music to me would prob be KILL as well. pretty much any rec from him I would dig 5. hard to remember where I discovered artists, but fav found through sput currently would be Elder, been spinning the fuck outta them last few years. maybe YOB
Tunaboy45 04.05.25	1. Joined at 14 (really), now 25 2. Found Sputnik in 2011 when I was looking for reviews of 21st Century Breakdown, browsed for approximately 2 years before joining 3. I would say the first genre Sputnik really opened my eyes to was black metal, that set me down the path of getting into various other styles and subgenres of metal. 4. HolidayKirk and his 'For Tomorrow' series. 5. Death, Converge, Darkthrone, Touche Amore, The Dillinger Escape Plan
zakalwe 04.05.25	Christ
Tunaboy45 04.05.25	shameful isn't it
Pikazilla 04.05.25	based tuna
Voivod 04.05.25	1. young/old enough to rock n' roll responsibly / too old to rock n' roll, too young to die 2. random google search for good quality reviews, because I was tired of reading sound-offs for surmising what albums to get 3. learned to listen stuff other than metal, like post punk and/or a couple indie albums per year. Also along with other respected media outlets, learned to read and write native US/English English 4. late naughts Sputnik staff initially, then more users than I can remember, all of the above nowadays 5. look at all my year-end lists, too numerous to mention.
Dedes 04.05.25	1-17/27 2-I lied the first site I discovered was Allmusic and it sucked caca so instead I found this lil ditty now it's my home 3-Formative. I would've never deep dived to quite the level I did with extreme metal, discover that hip hop could actually be fucking GOOD or learn the existence of the skramz. 4-Lol Hawks ez we are of one bird brained mind (although I've def just straight up scoured NoTrap and Noctus reviews as well) 5-half of my favorites of all time came from here at least. I'd have an easier time listing bands I discovered through other means (best one is discovering Panopticon thru the hipsterblackmetal channel making fun of Kentucky's tinwhistle)
mouldypigeon 04.08.25	1. Found and joined aged 35, now at the tail end of 36 2. Wikipedia 3. This place put me back onto genres and albums I had long forgotten or neglected basically from the second I landed on the home page. 4. Everyone who was bumping threads, writing reviews and making lists end of 2023 and first quarter of 2024. Anyone who had a part in promoting the below artists. 5. State Faults, Celtic Frost, yeule, macaroom, Emma Ruth Rundle, Alcest, Harp, Kelly Lee Owens, Trespassers William, Numenorean
mkmusic1995 04.08.25	1. 27/30 2. I have no idea honestly, was probably bored at work and was looking up albums. 3. It’s given me the opportunity to diversify and find new music better than I ever could have on my own. 4. I’ve honestly browsed ratings by numerous sputters and it’s given me some great recs. Directly, I feel like the people who have participated in my Best Albums of All Time lists have most directly given me the best stuff. 5. Bjork, Crippling Alcoholism, Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, Talk Talk, but honestly, too many to list.
FowlKrietzsche 04.08.25	Cute thread! 1. Been lurking since 14/15, even made an account and posted a review around 2017, but didn't make this account until I was 23. I'm 25 now. 2. Uhm iirc I stumbled across a BenTheRedFan list because I was super into cringey Christian rock at the time and was just googling any content I could find. I was also pretty active on UltimateGuitar and JesusFreakHideout back then too LMAO 3. My Sput usage really coincided with broadening my tastes beyond the DM and BM of my late teens. Mort's metalcore list was in my bookmarks for ages 4. Demon, Johnny, hyperion, hawks, Deviant., Cylinder, Drifter, and Pots have all given me a lot of great new music. I've scoured all their ratings over and over 5. Boards of Canada, Lapalux, Shellac, The Jesus Lizard, The Field, and Carissa's Wierd are some of my favorite discoveries, but this site is a repository of great music