Music and me

When I was younger I was much influenced by my fathers taste in music, so I got into classic rock at quite a young age. Guns and Roses where the first band that I really idolized, more specifically the lead guitarist Slash. The guitar was always my dream instrument, I'd have loved to have started learning at a young age, and be able to tell you I'm pretty good now, but I didn't get my first guitar until I was 16, and I have no money for lessons, so me self teaching myself isn't going well, but im soldiering on. Anyway way back when, I got into more, current rock music, so when American Idiot came out in 2004 I lapped it right up, for the next few months I lived and breathed Green Day, if you didnt find me listening to them it was cause my mp3 player was out of battery. I then moved to Lostprophets, back before they sold out and started making mainstream crap. I really got into it when their liberation transmission album came out, and it was at that time in my life I came to, what I call my musical crossroads. I could see myself moving towards the opposite end of the spectrum, Rap music, hip hop, all that stuff, or moving onto heavier things. After a few weeks of indecision I went heavy, and punched my way into Dragonforce.

Dragonforce changed my life, listening to 7 straight minutes of almost pure shred, insane drums and almost heavenly vocals, I felt I was finally happy with my musical taste, it was soon I was gonna hit the heavy though. Without much ado, I bid my farewells to clean vocals and un downtuned guitars, I said hello to Children Of Bodom. The sudden move from power metal straight to Death Metal was like a punch into my eardrums. My brain was in a state of shock, it couldn't process exactly what was happening in the music, but it knew it fucking loved it and wanted more and more.

Not long after this I really moved into my genre of choice, Metalcore. A good friend of mine put me in touch with a band that, I didn't know it at the time, would change how I thought about music like no other band has since. I am talking, of course, about Parkway Drive. The Aussie quintuplet smashed their way into my head and haven't left since. The drumming is sublime, the guitaring is deliciously brutal and the vocals display nothing but pure unbridled aggression. The entire package is nothing but raw power that is comparable to getting repeatedly punched in the face.

That moved me into deathcore, bands like Suicide Silence, Black Dahlia Murder and even Bring me the Horizon for a short while before I realized I hated them. I don't much listen to these bands but if it cones on an I don't feel like changing I'll enjoy it and just mosh. More recently I have moved into enjoying Dubstep and some house music, but my first love will always be the metal. So mosh on, keep it up at 11 and fuck the haters.