how have your musical tastes changed ?

[TESTAMENTLegions YouTube Group]

Here's something we were talking about this weekend.

What metal bands did you USED to listen to a lot, but not really anymore ?
And why did you stop liking them or listening to them ? Not bands that have broken up mind you, just that you don't care for their music anymore.


And what bands did you rarely if ever listen to or like, but now you really love them.Now you have changed your mind, and you can't get enough of them. And why or what changed to make you like them ?

 

[Dak]

Black Label Society got me on the road to "real" metal, as opposed to nu-metal and past clean vocals ala Iron Maiden.

However now, I can barely stand listening to BLS. Godsmack (not really metal but I used to think it was), used to listen to them a lot, can't really stand them either now.

 

[Vegard Pompey]

I started out listening to melodic death metal but I can barely stand most of it now. Boring genre.

 

[Omni]

Xasthur was one of the first black metal bands that I ever listened to, but I never really was a big fan of his music anyway.

 

[Janga666]

I used to listen to nu metal like Korn and shit like that. I can't stand that shit now.

 

[SentinelSlain]

I've got in to Traditional doom and NWOBHM. Before I was more into thrash.

Still like thrash though, just not as much.

 

[tagradh]

Until I was 10 or so I just listened to the same metal as family and that so it was always Metallica/Iron Maiden/Black Sabbath/Pagan Altar/Judas Priest/blabla. I really can't stand any of that now. As soon as I discovered P2P my musical taste changed really quickly to more mainstream DM/grind bands. The past few years BM makes up most of the metal I listen to.

 

[SentinelSlain]

From how other people are speaking I should probably point out in the average day I go from listening to NWOBHM, Doom, black metal, Dissection, Bathory, to stuff like carcass, entombed, then Ensiferum, Tyr etc.

If it's serious metal I probably like it and I like some stuff that isn't too.

 

[zabu of nΩd]

Big green text makes you special.
Yes, indeed.

Anyway. My music tastes have basically gotten broader and broader over time. I started out almost exclusively with metal, then expanded to classic rock, then more experimental rock, then experimental whatever, and lately I'm really getting into electronica.

I still like most of the bands I used to listen to at first, though, except for the alternative and nu-metal that I thought was cool before I heard real metal.

 

[sarkain]

Well for me listening to metal started from hard rock acts like KISS etc, slowly moving onto heavier music all the time. Back then we used to laugh at how Slipknot sounded, thinking it sounded like throwing up in a sewer and required no musical skill (Ironically we were actually right). When we got past that era, we started listening to Metallica and Megadeth, it was kind of a natural step. Those two bands still remain among my all-time favorites though. While listening to these two, I got very much into thrash metal and found many awesome bands. I'm still a thrasher, I love it more than any metal sub-genre. Since thrash was pretty heavy, it lead me to death metal. After enjoying these genres for a long time I grew a taste for progressive metal. Dream Theater, Death, Watchtower etc came along. Thrash, prog and death metal are the genres I listen to all the time to this day. I haven't gotten into black metal or doom metal/sludge metal, I hate them both. I tried forcing myself to like Beherit and Mayhem, but it just doesn't click with me. Only black metal band I ever found good/listenable was Venom, which was pretty much because of their speed metal/NWOBHM sound. I don't know if I'll ever learn to like these styles of music. Time will tell. However, I have a pretty diverse musical tastes nowadays. I listen mostly to metal, but sometimes I crank up some hard rock or blues rock etc. Heartland rock is pretty great too, my dad introduced me to Bruce Sprinsteen when I was a lil kid.

 

[Ross]

this thread is basically the same as the "how did you get into metal" thread.

 

[SweptbackFlame]

I used to listen to nu metal like Korn and shit like that. I can't stand that shit now.

I'm in the same boat as you. Though, when you hear those songs that you listen to back then, your like fuck I used to listen to this lol.

 

[mutantllama]

this thread is basically the same as the "how did you get into metal" thread.

Pretty much.

 

[Janga666]

I'm in the same boat as you. Though, when you hear those songs that you listen to back then, your like fuck I used to listen to this lol.

I did that the other night! I put on Korn's self titled CD and couldn't get through the second song....lol

 

[Vossyrus]

My tastes really haven't changed, they've just gotten broader. I can still listen to albums I liked ten years ago and enjoy them.


And lulz at the people who used to be into nu-metal who go to great lengths to tell people how much they now hate those bands.

 

[Janga666]

My tastes really haven't changed, they've just gotten broader. I can still listen to albums I liked ten years ago and enjoy them.


And lulz at the people who used to be into nu-metal who go to great lengths to tell people how much they now hate those bands.

I don't know about "great lengths". It's just the sad truth.

 

[Vossyrus]

I don't know about "great lengths". It's just the sad truth.

I wasn't referring to anyone here specifically but I see it all the time, and figured it was likely to happen in this thread.

People who talk about how they used to be into the style of music and how they regret it now, and looking back can't understand how they could've found those bands appealing at all. How they now think Korn and Slipknot are incredibly gay and would rather listen to some "real" metal, and how they took all their nu-metal cds and smashed them to pieces etc. - only written out with plenty of capitals and exclamation marks.

 

[Caecius]

Started with Classics through my dad, then nu-metal, then thrash, then everything else. I still pop in some nu-metal cds every once in a while, such as Mudvayne's End of All Things or even Korns Follow the Leader.

I'm not ashamed of liking it, but I had no idea what I was missing when I was listening to nu-metal. At the time it was the most aggressive thing I ever heard. Then I heard Metallica's Ride the Lightning, Megadeth's Peace Sells, and Slayer's Reign In Blood. After that I was instantly hooked to thrash and just delved farther into extreme metal.

 

[AchrisK]

My tastes really haven't changed, they've just gotten broader. I can still listen to albums I liked ten years ago and enjoy them.


And lulz at the people who used to be into nu-metal who go to great lengths to tell people how much they now hate those bands.

Pretty much this. I still like just about everything I ever liked in whatever genre that it happened to be in. When I was real young (this was in the 70's), I liked some pop and disco and lot of rock, and I still like any song I ever liked. Some can get old because the radio plays them too much, but that is different.

I don't quite understand how people can turn 180 degrees on music they actually claimed to have liked. It smells to me like either they liked the scene or the people involved in that music, and never had a real appreciation for the music itself. Either that or they did like the music, but now it is more cool to like real metal, so they reject what they actually like and embrace something new that they have no real appreciation for.

I have gone through stages of focus. I was a huge thrash fan (because it rules, and that was the first "extreme metal") and then my focus really shifted away from thrash to death metal and then some black metal, but then I came back to thrash a few years ago, along with some classic American style power metal, and I was really enjoying it. More recently I seem to be gravitating towards progressive death metal the most.

But I don't hate or even dislike anything from any stage.

To me the only valid change is expansion.

 

[Vitor]

my tastes don't change, just expand.