Dewinged
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10.08.26 10 years on Sput + HBD to...me ♦12.22.25 Dewinged's AOTY 2025 ♦
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12.20.18 Dewinged's AOTY 2018 ♦12.25.17 Dewinged's AOTY 2017 ♦

10 years on Sput + HBD to...me

Today's my bday Sput, 49 autumns. Also, around next week I think it'll be 10 years since I stumbled upon this site. It's crazy how much has happened since then. I really miss our daily interactions and even if I'm not writing anymore and just shitpost from time to time, know that I miss you all and that I hope you're all having a great life. Below is one album since I came to Earth.
1Triana
Hijos del Agobio

These guys are from Seville, where I was born, in 77.
2Judas Priest
Stained Class

With only 1 year we moved to a little island called Gran Canaria, my parents didn't have much money but they made it work.
3The Police
Outlandos d'Amour

My father was a surgeon, and did love his job, but he also played drums and loved music. The Police is one of the bands I got into thanks to him.
4The Buggles
The Age of Plastic

The 80s in Spain were absolutely wild, I don't have many memories of being 3 years old, but all i can remember is smoking, everyone smoking, all the time, everywhere.
5Electric Light Orchestra
Time

I wish I knew about this album when I was 4.
6Toto
Toto IV

I did have to suffer Africa on repeat on coastal rides with my parents and sister at night, those were good times, I remember the smell of pizza mixed with sun cream and burnt German old couples getting hammered under the sun in the south of the island.
7Tokyo Blade
Midnight Rendezvous

This came out but I wouldn't know it until years later. This tape would become my lifeline in years to come.
8Warlock
Burning The Witches

A couple of years later, my dad would come home with Whitesnake, AC/DC and Warlock. The first song of this album, Sign of Satan, would scare the shit out of me.
9Iron Maiden
Live After Death

But before that happened, I would discover this little record here hidden in my dad's vinyl collection. I put it on and looking at the pictures on the gatefold and listening to the people screming blew my fucking brains out. A metalhead was born. I was 8.
10Europe
The Final Countdown

Again, my dad would gift me my very first record, the Final Countdown in 86, after being completely flashed out by Joey Tempest's magnificent hair on Spanish TV and a keyboard that according to my dad, I would not stop humming even in my sleep.
11Manowar
Fighting The World

10 years old and I just couldn't stop devouring metal, I would exchange records with guys way older than me, buy a couple of magazines every month, Metal Hammer and Heavy Rock and just try to tune with MTV to catch glimpses of a video.
12Riot
Thundersteel

And this would go on for.... a few years. I was told my parents were splitting, my dad got a gf, my mum was left heartbroken.
13Leatherwolf
Street Ready

But eventually my dad came back for us, the family reunited and we decided to go back to Andalucia, settling in Malaga. I'd live there for 20 years.
14King Diamond
"The Eye"

With my whole world upside down, new city, new people, strange accents and entering puberty metal was the only thing I could hang to.
15Nirvana
Nevermind

And so it kept me alive but suddenly these motherfuckers come out, and everything changes. And I'm a teenager, 14, starting highschool, and I just wanna be cool and impress the girls.
16Faith No More
Angel Dust

And so I decide to join the cool gang at highschool. They had a band, I wanted to sing, they told me I sucked (I really did), but there was a spot for a drummer, so I exchanged a haircut for a cheap drum set (my dad really hated long hair).
17Life of Agony
River Runs Red

Me and my friends can't keep up with the 90s, too much good music, too many dreams, our bands lifts off, we start to play shows and we get a little following.
18The Offspring
Smash

There's a little punk rock fever going on and we all jump on it, but it wouldn't last long, my dad decides to run away again with yet another nurse. My mum is heartbroken again.
19Paradise Lost
Draconian Times

Meanwhile I finish high school and I'm supposed to decide what I wanna do with my life, I'm 18, I tell my dad I wanna play in the band, he tells me to go to Uni or I wil never be a decent person. I say whatever and start journalism. I instantly hate everyone on that classroom.
20Type O Negative
October Rust

Life is shitty, drugs start to be very present in my life, some friends lost to LSD, others to traffic accidents, i meet my first love and spend a magical year to the beat of October Rust.
21Bjork
Homogenic

My first love leaves me for one of my best friends, I'm devastated, my first heartbreak, seems such a small pain now when I think about it. Bjork records this album in my hometown, and I get to know her music for the first time, instantly fall in love with her first 3 albums.
22Massive Attack
Mezzanine

Lots of changes, I decide that journalism sucks and I turn to English, I spend 5 years just studying history, literature, semantics, linguistics to become and high school english teacher, but all I wanna do is play with the band. I fall in love again, with a red haired girl I just saw on the street one day on my way to drive school.
23Dover
Late at night

Through a mutual friend I get acquainted with this girl, I fall deep in love with her, we're happy, young and free, we would spend 10 years together.
24A Perfect Circle
Mer de Noms

Uni is good, band is good, gf is good, couldn't have wished for better 23s.
25Tool
Lateralus

Everyone around me is obsessed with Tool, as you can imagine, but I start to veer towards a lot of genres, including Celtic folk, and slowly getting back into a metal scene that now looks very different.
26Soilwork
Natural Born Chaos

I get to spend 6 months in Aalbog (Denmark) as an exchange student, first time traveling abroad, I puke twice on the plane there and spend of one of the most magical periods of my life.
27Unkle
Never, Never, Land

But eventually come back to reality, my sister has gone, my parents split again and I'm forced to get out of the house in a confrontation with my dad that could have ended very badly. This time, mum got a bf, and my dad just couldn't handle it. He turns to alcohol and eventually suffers a brain hemorrhage.
28Luar Na Lubre
Hai Un Paraiso

I manage to get a gig in a local magazine about tuning supercars and make a living while going to Uni, just surviving.
29The Black Eyed Peas
Monkey Business

I finish Uni and I start my first proper job at the airport as a sales clerk and boarding agent. I drive at 5am listening to Don't Phunk with my Heart for reasons I'll never understand. I hate my job from day one.
30Katatonia
The Great Cold Distance

Eventually I get some job upgrades and start looking for a house with my girl, my family is broken apart and my band decides to call it quits after a battle royale at the practice room.
31Paramore
Riot!

I move up with the girl, we get a huge dog, my parents decide to reunite, but my own relationship is going to hell really quick. I start seeing a co-worker and eventually things fall apart.
32Anberlin
New Surrender

We finally break up and the damage is unsurmountable. The first 2 months were liberating, and then the void will open below me and swallow me forever. Years after I would write a whole album about this and one of you would review it here.
33Pure Reason Revolution
Amor Vincit Omnia

I decide I need to get the hell out of Spain. I quit my job and find a job testing videogames in Canada, I hop on a plane and start a new life. 3 months later, the same company would open an office in Tokyo and my adventure in Japan would begin and so will my 30s.
34Crippled Black Phoenix
I, Vigilante

First year in Japan is incredible, can't really describe it. Freedom and rebirth, not much money but enoug to club every weekend and just live life to the fullest with wonderful new friends. During this period I barely listen to 5 albums a year.
35Fair to Midland
Arrows and Anchors

But all good things come to and end so i meet my future wife. Just kidding, she's amazing. She comes to live with me and I start playing in bands again.
36Goat
World Music

Eventually my contract comes to and end and my dad (yep, he's still aive) suffers an urine infection. Doctors tell me he doesn't have long, i fly to Spain and prepare to say him goodbye. He recovers after 2 months, we start to understand he's immortal.
37Blood Ceremony
The Eldritch Dark

Back in Japan I find a job on a major game publisher, which still feeds me today and I get to put my name on legendary IPs, really a dream come true.
38Motoi Sakuraba
Dark Souls II Soundtrack

I get to play to my favorite game of all time (could be Skyrim but... yeah) still up to this day. Life is amazing.
39Chelsea Wolfe
Abyss

At this time I've spent 2 years really invested in writing music, playing acoustic guitar and singing, after all my life thinking I wasn't good enough to do it. I start playing shows, get more musicians and I eventually record my first record at home, by myself, with basically one mi, I call it "June".
40Cult of Luna and Julie Christmas
Mariner

Can't really remember how I get to this album but it just blows my mind, and looking at reviews, i find this site called Sputnikmusic.com. I laugh my ass off reading a certain Lordepots roasting everybody. I decide to make an account.
41Ulver
The Assassination of Julius Caesar

I'm devouring music like never in my life, listening to an insane amount of albums every day, these are good times in Sput, I'm also writing reviews and slowly getting (I think) better at it. My GF moves in with me (she was still in Tokyo), we're in another city now.
42Ghost (SWE)
Prequelle

We cook everyday to this album, we start making plans, work is good, reviews are good, I eat too many tacos and drink too much stout.
43Two People
First Body

I'm watching the original Blade Runner back in the big screens by mysef, my favorite movie of all time, but once I go out i notice 20 calls from my sister back in Spain. My mum has died.
44Bohren und der Club of Gore
Patchouli Blue

I had make an attempt of making a shoegaze band called Sol Distorsion and I even record a 4 track demo, but eventually i decide to give u and go back to drums, I join a crazy noise punk Japanese band called o'summer vacation.
45King Woman
Celestial Blues

We're on pandemic grounds here, so I watch the world change. Strange times.
46darkher
The Buried Storm

We slowly go back to normal but the war in Ukraine really gets in my head and I torture myself with way too much information.
47Blood Star
First Sighting

I go back to my roots and start to get into classic metal trevival bands again thanks to bands like Blood Star, Tower, etc. I get a promotion, and my Sput golden years come to and end. I quit writing and decide to try to focus on being a proper dad and husband.
48Kelly Lee Owens
Dreamstate

Wor, work, work, work, I'm incredibly stressed during the whole year.
49Messa
The Spin

My dad suffers a multiorganic failure. Turned out he wasn't immortal. I miss him greatly but it was time for him to go.
50Neurosis
An Undying Love for a Burning World

And life goes on.
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