Make sort of a timeline of your metal-listening history. For each period you designate, give your top few bands of the time. Anytime there's a sudden change, point out how you found the band. It should be interesting to see how people's taste evolved.
4th grade: Limp Bizkit (all the controversy over them made me find them)
5th grade: Rammstein (Du Hast from The Matrix soundtrack) I wanted them more probably because my mom wouldn't let me buy their stuff at first. I liked them so much I actually taught myself to be decently conversational in German.
7th: Marilyn Manson, Korn, Slipknot, System of a Down (when my mom finally let me listen to Rammstein, I lost interest. Marilyn Manson's Rock Is Dead was also on the Matrix soundtrack).
8th: Lamb of God, Unearth, The Dillinger Escape Plan (crucial point here: my sister's then boyfriend made me a metal compilation CD. I owe him so much for that.)
10th: Jazz, Classical (took a long break from metal, focusing on piano)
11th (end of): Job for a Cowboy. I saw them twice that year and after the second time, I got really really into them. A friend of mine showed me them.
12th: The Faceless, Job for a Cowboy, Born of Osiris, Veil of Maya, Exivious, Necrophagist, etc. I got to see The Faceless for a second time this year and I absolutely fell in love with them. I actually got to see the first four of those bands this year.
Sorry if mine is a little long. What's your story?
4th grade: Limp Bizkit (all the controversy over them made me find them)
5th grade: Rammstein (Du Hast from The Matrix soundtrack) I wanted them more probably because my mom wouldn't let me buy their stuff at first. I liked them so much I actually taught myself to be decently conversational in German.
7th: Marilyn Manson, Korn, Slipknot, System of a Down (when my mom finally let me listen to Rammstein, I lost interest. Marilyn Manson's Rock Is Dead was also on the Matrix soundtrack).
8th: Lamb of God, Unearth, The Dillinger Escape Plan (crucial point here: my sister's then boyfriend made me a metal compilation CD. I owe him so much for that.)
10th: Jazz, Classical (took a long break from metal, focusing on piano)
11th (end of): Job for a Cowboy. I saw them twice that year and after the second time, I got really really into them. A friend of mine showed me them.
12th: The Faceless, Job for a Cowboy, Born of Osiris, Veil of Maya, Exivious, Necrophagist, etc. I got to see The Faceless for a second time this year and I absolutely fell in love with them. I actually got to see the first four of those bands this year.
Sorry if mine is a little long. What's your story?