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#171 (permalink) |
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Join Date: Jun 2011
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It was a slow evolution for me. I would say the primer for metal for me was to a degree Led Zeppelin. I'd also have to say some of the guitar playing on Mahavishnu Orchestra had something to do with it. But, King Crimson with the Larks/Starless/Red era and their most recent work was probably the biggest factor. True, it not totally metal but there is a lot of influence it would have on metal and songs like Fracture and Level Five may as well be metal songs anyway.
In terms of actual metal bands it was Opeth. I started getting into them right around the time I was really into prog. It just worked out that Opeth is a metal band and has tons of prog influence and sounds that made the transition really easy for me. The mixture of growls and clean vocals, bombastic sounds and quiet interludes was very accessible to me. That led to more progressive and technical metal acts for me such as Atheist, Nevermore, Agalloch and probably my favorite out of all of them, Meshuggah. |
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#173 (permalink) |
The Aerosol in your Soul
Join Date: Jun 2012
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Never got the appeal of Megadeth. I remember listening to them in early years of discovering metal, and thought they were pretty meh, boring, stale. They actually for the first time turned me off the genre.
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Join Date: Jan 2011
Location: Beating GNR at DDR and keying Axl's new car
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I don't listen to Megadeth like I used to back in the day, but I still put on Rust In Peace on a semi regular basis and every now and again I'll go on a Megadeth binge. I will always remember them as the band that got me over losing faith in Metallica though. Of course then I realized just how much their nineties material sucked and I've never really been that obsessed with a band ever since. Of course I was also around sixteen or so when that happened so I imagine that it was about time to stop having number one favorite bands anyway.
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