THE WORST (AND BEST) GATEWAY BANDS (rock & metal)

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2. Grand Theft Auto Vice City and its radio station V-Rock was my gateway to metal
   Still have a playlist on my phone called V-Rock with almost all the songs that I listen to whenever I am feeling nostalgic. Even liked one of those Love Fist songs parodying the era

3. Ska and reggae are very meaningful genres to me. The red pill for my love of music, it's really easy to sit back and call any genre cheesy. Grew up around a large Jamaican community, and part of the skate scene.. its always amazing to me how the different cultures in this world come together.

4. Lorna Shore will be the first real ‘mainstream’ deathcore gateway band. I know that’s a lot of qualifiers in order to make that statement work, but deathcore is ridiculously niche already so I stand by it.

5. About Ska I would have to say that you are right if you’re talking about Ska from the USA. Yeah, it might not hold as well, with certain exceptions like “The IInterrupters” who are an amazing band.
   But, if you’re talking about Ska from the first or second wave + Ska from Latin America or Spain, you couldn’t be farther from the truth. Apart from the fact that ska just sounds that much better in Spanish, those bands are musically great, diverse and a lot of them hold up really well today. By taking some ideas from stuff like Latin, you can hear awesome wind arrangements and lyrics that are way more eye-opening and socially changing than anything else. (In this regard, I would recommend listening to Ska-P or La Ska Brass).
   I know, you only know the US scene, but outside it is way different and, several times, way better in certain genres 🙂

6. Limp Bizkit, 1999 on a choir trip in elementary school. Dude showed me their cover of Faith. So cheese, but it’s my heart.

7. Lars is a jerk. When Napster was around, he zeroed in on a 13 year old girl who loved Metallica and downloaded some of their stuff. Since she was 13, he sued her Grandfather who she lived with. He didnt know what she was doing on the computer. If I was as rich as him I would have just sued Napster and sent her a bunch of Metallica stuff. I saw them 1x outsode in Miami and they were having sound problems all night. Plus James Hetfield made fun of Layne Staley for having an addiction.

8. Avenged Sevenfold fandom is definitely the most annoying ( other than tool)

   Also, get some eye drops. You blink too much.

9. I met RBF in 2008 warped Cleveland. Nice guys!!❤

10. I think what got me into metal was SOAD

11. If Avenged Sevenfold is your favorite band, I assume your favorite album is the Guitar Hero soundtrack…

12. My dad was a huge acdc fan so i was too! But it was Metalica Master of puppets album that got me into metal!!

13. For me, it was 3 bands that mattered for me, in terms of shaping my music taste.

    1. Guns N Roses. It was the year 2016, I was 14, and I got ps3 and along tother games, there was Burnout : Paradise, for those who don’t know, Burnout : Paradise was a racing game, that takes place in fictional Paradise City, where the grass is green and the girls are pretty, named after Guns N Roses song Paradise City, wchich is also the game’s intro song.

    2. Judas Priest. It was 2018, and at the time I still wasn’t very much into music in general. I liked the most basic, well known rock bands like AC/DC, Bon Jovi, some particular rock songs that I knew from pop culture. And of course my favorite and most well-listened to band was Guns N Roses. Also, I somehow accidentally discovered The Cramps, a psychobilly band, psychobilly sounds like if Elvis did bath salts. Very weird stuff compared to everything else I heard at the time. The contrast between The Cramps and everything else I liked at the time was pretty hilarious. Trough the Cramps, I kind of got into rockabilly, and really old music in general, because at the time I played lot of Fallout, wchich has mostly music from the 40s-50s. At the time when you asked me what I’m listening to right now It would be 45% chance something like AC/DC and 45% chance some random ancient song from Fallout, and remaining % would be either some completely random song like All Stars by Smash Mouth, or The Cramps or Guns N Roses.

    But then, on 9th March, everything changed, when Judas Priest released Firepower, and I fell in love with the band, didn’t listen to any other artist for 2 months straight. After the 2 months I finally decided to be good to listen to some other of that “heavy metal music” than Judas Priest, and it went down the classic metal rabbit hole. I remember being obsessed every week with different band, Metallica, Jimi Hendrix, Scorpions, Slayer, Venom, Rezet, Kreator, Rammstein…

    And for the last part, what truly cemented my taste for increasingly weirder bands was the band Igorrr. Wchich is if you know Igorrr very self explanatory, and if you don’t… go check Igorrr out

    TLDR – Guns N Roses, Judas Priest, Igorrr, and I guess The Cramps too.

14. Alkaline trio think I saw a video on kerrang when that was a Tv channel in the UK and that was all she wrote

15. One thing DragonForce deserves more credit for is the fact that they had strong vocal hooks and singing ability in addition to all the ridiculous guitar solos. The shredding and the chords underneath it also had relatively simple harmonic and melodic direction. Of all ridiculously virtuosic guitar music, “Through the Fire and Flames” is exactly the sort of thing that would dazzle normies, not just with the technical ability but the fact that it sounds enough like mainstream rock music to make them care. By contrast, if you played them stuff by turbo-shredders like Steve Vai or newer jazzy prog bands like Arch Echo, as cool as their music might be once you’ve developed a taste for it, most people probably wouldn’t care. It’s less predictable and doesn’t have such strong melodies. DragonForce deserves credit for finding that balance.

16. I discovered all of this because of tribute Bodybuilding videos basically amv's but Bodybuilding instead

17. For me, depends on the sub-genre of rock…
    Alt-Rock: Incubus
    Hard Rock: Three Days Grace and Linkin Park
    Alt-Metal: Primus
    Experimental Rock: Radiohead
    Pop-Punk: All Time Low and Mayday Parade
    Emo: My Chemical Romance
    Metal: Bring Me the Horizon

18. My intro into alternative music was twenty one pilots with their vessel album. Didn’t really listen to anything past their blurryface album but I have a huge amount of nostalgia for their music even still.

19. I got into metal through Quiet Riot, Twisted Sister, and Metallica in the late 80's, thankfully I had parents who listened to nearly everything but were mostly into Rock.

20. SEEN RAGE SCREAMING & MY MOM SAYIN HES GONNA HAVE AN ANURISM LOL N ME THINKING IVE BEEN THAT MAD LMFAO💥💯

21. Thursday
    Coheed and Cambria
    Children of Bodom

    were all my gateways for me

22. It sounds stupid now since i listen to it all, but back in like 2001 it was the Greene Day American idiot album or Linkin Park first album

23. it was Linkin Park for me, specifically the Minutes to Midnight album. I was 10 at the time and Shadow of the Day was all over the radio and quickly became my favorite song. My father mostly listened to jazz and my mother was a fan of those older prog rock bands, like supertramp and genesis. the only thing they could agree on was pretty much earth wind and fire so the compromise was basically just turning on a standard hit music radio station, so whatever was on the radio was my taste in music at that time. So half a year later I went and bought my very first full album at that time i had also discovered Bon Jovis Its My Life, but i wouldnt consider them a gateway band. I bought the Lost Highway album by Bon Jovi which had a live version of Its My Life as a bonus track on it, but the rest on that was, for the most part, rather slow. And I also bought the Road to Revolution live album, mostly cause i didnt know live albums were a thing and just thought: "why would anyone buy a CD with 10 songs on it, when you can also have one with 18?" so i went home and played it, expected 18 Songs like Shadow of the Day. Well they opened with One Step Closer, i was completely shocked, since i had never heard anything like that before, but i was also strangely fascinated and from that point onwards i was hooked. Since there was no person other then me who liked that type of "harder" music in my life i had no way of getting to know anymore than linkin park and the occasional punk band who had a radio hit (Green Day), so that was that until i got my own pc at 14 yrs of age and could discover music through youtube, so that was when phase of "every music without electric guitars in it is garbage" where i started listening to some metal bands pretty much only because i felt like that was the rebellious thing to do, not because i actually liked it. By now i can fascinate myself for a variety of genres all across the musical landscape, its funny how one can scream to not be put into a drawer by anyone else, but then goes on to hop in it oneself ^^

24. Pearl Jam for me, lead to Nirvana and Sound Garden, and finally Alice in Chains. AIC then threw me into the metal scene

25. It was first Paramore which led to Three Days Grace

26. I'm an old school metallica fan myself, however I will say that Death Magnetic is a masterpiece.

27. GWAR got me into thrash metal. The Misfits got me into punk. This was in the early 90s. In 2000, I got to see them play together.

28. Geez, this guy hates my 3 favorite bands. RBF, flyleaf, and breaking Benjamin. I’m like Rodney dangerfield here

29. My uncle was into 80’s thrash I got into that then I liked Danzig and checked out the Misfits

30. Holy diver all the way back in 85 got me into metal. The artwork and music captivated me. The rest his history

31. You should check out a billion ernie's. Ska core band. Idk I listen the their ep till this day.

32. Bands that have influenced me a lot into music we're Korn, Three Days Grace, Slipknot, Linkin Park and System Of A Down.

33. My gateway was watching Halo 2 montages. Stricken by disturbed and bombtrack by RATM were definitely some of the first ones that got me hooked.

34. My gateways we're rob zombies hellbilly deluxe and the bleeding by cannibal corpse

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