I'm sure you've all had this happen at some point, right? You find out about a few bands that fall outside the general realm of your typical listening tastes, and they send you spiralling towards similar bands of that new style you just discovered...
I recently discovered some amazing albums by Tenhi, Artrosis, Hagalaz' Runedance, Elend, The Gathering, The 3rd & the Mortal, Raison D' Etre, Dark Muse, Umbra, Origami Galaktika, Ambeon, Devil Doll, Arcana, Skin Area, Brave, and so on...
Most of these bands fall in the dark/ambient/avant-garde category, and I'm now officially ADDICTED to this amazing musical medium. Before, I was mainly into technical death metal -- Cynic, Atheist, Theory in Practice, and the brutal stuff like Nile, Behemoth, etc. Finding some of these bands has completely changed my view of music as a whole...it's really expanded those all-important "horizons". I now see so much validity in SUBTLETY in music, and how it, in itself, can be a form of "technicality" if perceived from a certain frame of mind...
So my question and/or POINT is, can you cite a specific band or bands which changed your entire viewpoint on music? Has there been a time where you heard an album, or albums, which made you sit up and say "hey! I think I'm onto something here!!!"...
I dunno, just thought I'd pose the question here...seems like an appropriate forum for such a topic.
I recently discovered some amazing albums by Tenhi, Artrosis, Hagalaz' Runedance, Elend, The Gathering, The 3rd & the Mortal, Raison D' Etre, Dark Muse, Umbra, Origami Galaktika, Ambeon, Devil Doll, Arcana, Skin Area, Brave, and so on...
Most of these bands fall in the dark/ambient/avant-garde category, and I'm now officially ADDICTED to this amazing musical medium. Before, I was mainly into technical death metal -- Cynic, Atheist, Theory in Practice, and the brutal stuff like Nile, Behemoth, etc. Finding some of these bands has completely changed my view of music as a whole...it's really expanded those all-important "horizons". I now see so much validity in SUBTLETY in music, and how it, in itself, can be a form of "technicality" if perceived from a certain frame of mind...
So my question and/or POINT is, can you cite a specific band or bands which changed your entire viewpoint on music? Has there been a time where you heard an album, or albums, which made you sit up and say "hey! I think I'm onto something here!!!"...
I dunno, just thought I'd pose the question here...seems like an appropriate forum for such a topic.