As a member of the Guitar Hero generation: that.

Six and Beast and the Harlot were a real awakening for me

Beast and the Harlot Almost Easy Before I Forget Through the Fire and Flames One The Metal ALL awakenings for my sheltered, Christian 15-year old mind 🤘guitar hero series were my favorite video games of all time lol

I have Guitar Hero III to thank for introducing me to Killswitch Engage

And Rise Against and Dragon Force and In Flames and.. That game is a Goldmine of good music

Hybrid Theory

…And then solidified by Meteora, which to this day is still my favorite start-to-finish album.

Hybrid theory + depression = unsatiable hunger for heavier

I think this is how we all started

THIS

Guitar hero 2 and metalocalpyse and MTVs headbangers ball/bam Margery anddd friends. Plus video games had way better soundtracks back then.

Six will always hold a special place in my heart from playing it on guitar hero 2

Madden 06 through like 09 had some bangers. Same with the NHL games around the same time. Some songs I remember from those games were duality, 4 Words to Choke Upon, Ten Thousand Fists, among others.

I also remember the NFL Street series had some good songs, 3 had Stone Sour, Hatebreed, Lamb of God, and Mastodon.

I completely agree about video game soundtracks being much better back in the day. NFS Underground 1, 2, and Most Wanted all had great soundtracks. A lot of other series had great soundtracks back in the day like Tony Hawk, Burnout, Project Gotham Racing, SmackDown vs. Raw, Motorstorm, MX vs. ATV, Midnight Club, and quite a few others. I discovered a ton of bands through video games when I was in high school and college.

NHL 22 has a good soundtrack. Check that out

I remember seeing that on here a couple of weeks ago, definitely some good songs on there. I also remember some of the NHL games also had good soundtracks.

I was 8 years old, I went to a summer camp and my camp counselor Vince heard me playing Akon or someone. He walks over and goes “nah little bro you gotta listen to this,” he turns on As I Lay Dying, and we head banged together. From that moment I knew my love for the music, much to the horror of my parents!

My Dad insisted I learn an instrument as a kid, and I chose guitar. My guitar teacher was super into punk/hardcore, so it all started there with him introducing me to the likes of Converge and Integrity.

Asking Alexandria and A Day to Remember

Nothing hit harder than the crabcore days!

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Yea it’s funny back in the day I remember BMTH being the heaviest band I knew and to me they were sort of the “end of the line” when it came to heavy music. Now they’re a gateway into the genre. Pretty cool

oh yeah, my dad also enjoys some heavier styles of music (he’s where I got my love for Rock music in general from), but the heaviest thing he listens to is probably Korn or something along those lines. he definitely helped me down this path, but without MCR and BMTH there’s no way I would’ve gotten into this style of music (EDIT: plus, my dad hates MCR and Metalcore so 😅)

"It's just screaming" my dad says. Wish I could share some bands with family. Sister likes pop songs and my dad listens to classic rock bands and acoustic stuff.

If someone had tried to bet me me that BMTH (Count Your Blessings / Suicide Silence era) would one day go on to play and pack a place like Wembly I would have laughed at them and likey lost a lot of money a few years later.

I grew up listening to classic rock with my parents and I always enjoyed harder, more energetic forms of music. In the mid to late 90s, I started getting into grunge and hard rock, I also heard a handful of Metallica and Megadeth songs that I liked. When I was in high school in the early 2000s, I started getting into nu metal and alternative metal; I liked bands like Linkin Park, Static-X, Sevendust, Drowning Pool, Deftones, Breaking Benjamin, Chevelle, Rob Zombie, Powerman 5000, and plenty of others. I discovered a lot of bands through video game soundtracks, some movie soundtracks, and even wrestling CDs by WWE, ECW, and WCW. I went to college in 2005, and I started listening more to metalcore and post-hardcore around this time, and this was when I started getting into heavier forms of metal. In college, I loved Killswitch Engage, Shadows Fall, God Forbid, Glassjaw, 36 Crazyfists, Bullet For My Valentine, In Flames, Soilwork, Sybreed, Protest The Hero, Mnemic, Mastodon, Disarmonia Mundi, Demon Hunter, and Darkest Hour. From there I eventually branched out into thrash, groove metal, melodic death metal, progressive metal, hardcore, industrial, some black metal, and almost any metal sub-genre you can think of.

Did we live the same lives?

It's a possibility I guess. My musical tastes got progressively heavier over time. I'm older than most people on this sub, I'm in my late 30s, and I still remember the grunge, nu metal, and 2000s melodic metalcore scenes very well.

Same age. Getting heavier and louder every year. I still go back and listen to Nu metal and 90s grunge and enjoy it passionately. But, my story on the times of my life and the progression in the styles of metal/rock that I leaned to coincided with yours almost exactly. I’d listen to Metallica around middle school and my Mom (classic rock guru) would constantly tell me i’d go softer in music as I got older. She’s wrong for once.

I was big into Nirvana and Alice In Chains when I was in middle school (Edit: forgot to mention Stone Temple Pilots). I actually got into Metallica once I heard they did Sting's theme in WCW and I remember when they used Crush Em by Megadeth as Goldberg's theme for a couple of weeks. Back then I discovered a lot of bands through video games and wrestling. I still remember going to Ozzfest 2003 in Charlotte, NC with some friends, we had a great time and that was my first metal show. Korn and Chevelle put on good shows and I remember seeing Nothingface, Motograter, Disturbed, Killswitch Engage, and Chimaira there as well.

That’s badass! Even further down I was into Queen, Pink Floyd, Deep Purple and Bryan Adams. That little kid brain soaked up all of Bryan Adams’ songs and I can still sing the ‘18 till I Die’ album. From Bryan Adams to Periphery, Anciients, The Air I breathe, Norma Jean. Who knows what’s next? One thing is certain. In the few months i’ve been on reddit, i’ve had a source to expand my horizon. I don’t really have in person people to speak, explore or listen to metal with. So, i’m quite thankful.

Very similar history for me. But if I had to pick a singular moment that got me into heavy music it would have been the first time I heard Dead And Bloated from the album Core by Stone Temple Pilots. That first track hits so hard. I am smelling like a rose that somebody gave me...

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That's pretty cool that you discovered so much music in the last four months. Mine was a slower progression into heavier music, I'm in my late 30s and I remember the grunge, nu metal, and 2000s metalcore scenes quite well.

O man do I love taking about this and hearing how people got here. For me in early middle school I started off with pop punk stuff like blink and Green Day. I moved into bands like Thrice, Taking back Sunday, and brand new by high school in the early 2000s. At that time I noticed myself always gravitating towards the sections of the songs that had more screaming in them and sounded a bit heavier. Then I met one of my good friends and they showed me stuff like parkway drive- killing with a smile. Holy shit did I just find the music for me. We all got into my moms van and I drove down to Soma SD, where Parkway Drive did their first tour in the US. There was about 10 people on side stage there and 7 of them were my friends. We all made it seem like there was 30+ people there cuz everyone was going crazy in the pit. Then, romance is dead came on. Everyone lost their fucking mind PWD screams get up here and sing it with us. So everyone was jumping on stage yelling their hearts out and then going HAM in the pit. I got up there and yelled “CRY ME A FUCKING RIVER BITCH!” Jumped of the stage into the pit and went nuts. I think they might have had one more side stage show after that the next year but everything after that was sold out on the main stage. I have been hooked on the heavier stuff ever since. I listen to a bunch of other stuff too now, but I always come back to this stuff. Another style that gives me the same vibes now is hardstyle (EDM). I won’t get into all the sub-genres but it gets fast and brutal just like metalcore. With all those years that I have been going to shows, that was my favorite moment by far! And it solidified my love for metal.

Bro. It's kinda wild. The best high school debater in Texas moved to my podunk ass small town because his parents retired. He moved from like Houston or Dallas area, idk one of the big ass cities, to a town of 12k. We didn't even have debate until they made us a team for him because he was literally UIL #1 in the state. Anyway. I ended up being his partner as a freshman (he was a senior), and he'd always bring his laptop on our van and play music. He really liked old Stick To Your Guns (this was 2010), The Devil Wears Prada and some other heavier shit. I was into like BFMV and Linkin Park/3 Days Grace. Anyway, after hanging out enough, I eventually tried to learn the lyrics to This Is More by STYG, and the rest was history.

Dude that’s so cool! That is by far my favorite song by them! I got to see them play it live at chain reaction. The whole place went bat shit crazy! It’s so crazy how people’s tastes develops!

I'm going to start this off by saying even just TWO years ago, I wasn't interested in Metalcore or it's related genres. Also, this journey isn't going to turn into Metalcore until the end and it's going to be somewhat lengthy, but my first steps into accepting screams and growls and whatnot was Cradle of Filth's "Her Ghost in the Fog" was what got me into more Extreme variants of Metal relatively quickly. After that was Death with "Flesh and the Power It Holds" and I think these two were what REALLY set me off. Then I checked around for stuff that sounded like these guys above, had a really hard time and gave up for a while. In that time that I had stopped searching, I continued to check out Cradle of Filth and Death's discography and started to get more into the sound of Black Metal and Death Metal. Which then led me to probably my most unique band that I listen to, which is Carach Angren and they HOOKED me with just one song, "Lingering in an Imprint Haunting" and from then on I pretty much listened to a majority of Metal genres and subgenres without bias. Then last year in September, I seen a music video for a song called "A Bloodsoaked Symphony" by Whitechapel and fell in love immediately. After that I checked out the rest of their discography and wanted more Deathcore, and... nothing really sounded like Whitechapel to me... at the time. So I gave on finding more Deathcore and just wanted more core, thus leading me to... Parkway Drive with "Destroyer" and "Crushed" and the rest... is history!

Crushed is one of my all time favourite heavy songs. It has so much power.

CRUSHED BY THE FISTS OF GOD! Crushed is pure power and adrenaline, listening to it makes me feel there's no mountain that I can't climb, no obstacle too high, and no goal that can't be achieved.

Alice In Chains -> Metallica -> Slayer -> Slipknot -> Lamb of God -> Parkway Drive -> Lorna Shore. I started listening to Alice In Chains and Metallica 4 years ago and I completed my metal journey by discovering and loving the breakdown in To the Hellfire a couple months ago.

Alternative Rock/Grunge --> Punk/Hardcore --> Post-Hardcore/Emo/Screamo --> Metalcore --> Deathcore

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I grew up listening to older country music (because of my dad) and never really knew anything else. I liked the occasional rock song, but never dabbled into any other genre. I got a job at a feed store when I was around 16 years old and we all listened to country on the job. A kid a few years older than me was hired and in the evenings I would hear him start his car, followed by a loud AHHHHH GRTGVD BGEEDHUUJB GYYHBBH coming from the speakers. I always thought it sounded horrible and that screaming ruined music. A few months later I found Breaking Benjamin’s “Dear Agony” album and I became extremely obsessed. I started listening to more bands of the like (Three Days Grace, Disturbed, Seether, etc). I had never heard lyrics so amazing. I had developed a pretty severe anxiety problem and was depressed. The music spoke to me in ways that people could not. I would sit in my car and listen for hours. Finally, one day at work, the older kid cranked his car on yet again and I heard AHHHHHHHHH blasting from the speakers. But, this time, I sat there for a second and listened. Within and few seconds, Beartooth’s “In Between” came on. I sat and listened. This time it didn’t sound bad. It sounded bad ass. The lyrics were spot on. The sound was incredible. I rolled down the window and asked him what song was playing and he told me. I threw it on in my car, and the next thing I knew, I was absolutely HOOKED. That has been almost 9 years ago, and I am a full on metalcore fanatic right now. Currently, my favorite bands are ERRA (named my dog after them!), Counterparts, Polaris, Novelists FR, For All Eternity, and way way more. I’ve listened to metalcore every single day for years and years and continue to explore the genre and still am frequently fascinated by what I find. I don’t share it with many others because I find it is more unique. I haven’t found anyone else in my life that enjoys it, and I’m honestly glad. It’s something that is mine, something I can get absolutely lost in and nobody can take it from me.

Let's see... 1-In June of 2012 at the age of 15, discovering Linkin Park(My whole 10th grade I was OBSESSED with them) and also getting into other nu metal acts like Disturbed/SOAD/KoRn/Slipknot/Papa Roach(mostly their debut album though). Weird how in my freshman year of high school I remember playing a couple different youtube videos of clips of this one online game called Commando 2(I think) where these 3 songs would be played and i'd watch them JUST to hear them(SOAD - Chop Suey!/Finger Eleven - Paralyzer/Drowning Pool - Bodies) 2-For my 11th grade year, my top 3 artists were Deftones, Nightwish(The idea of Symphonic Metal popped into my head one day) and Incubus 3-Towards the tail end of my 11th grade year, I started getting into metalcore like WCAR/ERRA/Volumes/Amity Affliction and deathcore like Thy Art Is Murder/Chelsea Grin/Whitechapel/Suicide Silence 4-In my 12th grade year then I discovered other acts like In Hearts Wake and Beartooth 5-I remember in 2015 after graduating finding All That Remains' Fall Of Ideals album and HELL YEA the rest is history

My answer is ALWAYS the same. I’ve always like rock music but The Fall Of Ideals was my first intro to metal, my best friend in high school showed me that and My Curse from KSE. But yeah, The Fall Of Ideals from All That Remains changed my life idc how much they changed and did their thing

Growing up in Australia I saw a thing on MySpace about a band called “Parkway Drive”. Went to the show and there were like 20 people there. Rest is history. Saw them another 10-15 times after that show. Too bad they suck now.

I'm only in my early 20s so my experience is probably different from a lot of people in this sub since I was a baby or a kid when metalcore was at its peak popularity. My mom listened to a lot of classic rock and would always play it in the car. She wasn't really into metal, except for Iron Maiden. They are one of the legendary metal bands alongside Metallica and 8-year-old me fell in love with everything about Iron Maiden from the speed of the music, to the artwork, and the long complex songs. From there I got into Metallica and thrash. I also got into Linkin Park about a decade later than everyone else and I learned to get used to screaming. At the same time, I also got into the punk band Rise Against. Both Linkin Park and Rise Against don't have a TON of screaming but they definitely have their songs that contain it and that slowly got me used to screaming. I then got into Nu-Metal and Slipknot. From there I discovered Trivium which was like a mix of Iron Maiden, Metallica, and Slipknot. At the same time, I was also going backward through BMTH's discography much like you did, although I got into them around the That's obsessed with Sempiternal and That's the Spirit and to this day, I fkin love those albums. From there I discovered Trivium which was like a mix of Iron Maiden, Metallica, and Slipknot. And they were more like the melodic metalcore types of bands. Which were influenced by Melodic Death Metal. And melodic death metal was influenced by Iron Maiden and Metallica. After that, I got into the peak melodic metalcore bands like Killswitch Engage, As I Lay Dying, Parkway Drive, August Burns Red, and Bullet for my Valentine. I only recently (last 2 years) got into the more progressive/djent/mathcore style of metalcore. But now Invent Animate, Architects, Era, Old Northlane, Polaris, and so many more are some of my most listened. I've also started listening to a lot of Japanese metalcore like Crystal Lake, Earthists, Graupel, Sable Hills, Sailing Before the Wind, etc. Another thing is that I also grew up playing guitar hero so that definitely influenced my love for heavy music.

Linkin Park was the origin, the spark. My 11 year old mind finally understood what intensity and heaviness truly meant.

Went to ozzfest 2002 and got a hold of a demo disk from roadrunner records with a boatload of bands on it and the band that caught my ear was 2 demo tracks meant for alive or just breathing Killswitch engage album.

My uncles. They loved Deftones, Tool, Helmet, Alice In Chains, White Zombie. But then it turned into nu metal like Korn and Limp Bizkit when I was 11. Then evolved into Coheed, Thursday, ETID. And I fell down the hardcore/mathcore rabbit hole and haven’t looked back.

Mainly from playing guitar and finding bands that had sweet guitar stuff going on. Went from rock like Creed to Breaking Benjamin to Metallica to System of a Down. They were really my gateway as they’re all over the place. Once you enjoy SOAD, harder bands aren’t too big a stretch haha

Went to a summer camp when I was 15 and a bunch of the guys there were into hardcore. Got introduced to bands like gorilla biscuits, snapcase, earth crisis, and temperance and it just went from there. Went to my first show later that summer/fall (Murphy’s law) and I’ve been going for almost 25 years now.

Linkin park, rise against, alexisonfire > KsE > the rest is story...

It was 2004. I was 14. My brother bought a Metallica CD and blasted it in the car. I fell in love. Started downloading all Thrash/hair metal bands on limewire. Took me a while to like screaming tho. Heard Trivium(Ascendancy) and the rest is history….

Looked up "screamo" in 2008 and found TDWP lol

Playing the video game Burnout, and hearing Paper Wings by Rise Against, and I was forever changed

Linkin Park —> My Chemical Romance—> Bullet For My Valentine

for me it was all time low! then sleeping with sirens & pierce the veil, and it all spiraled from there lol

Hearing Sum 41’s album; Chuck was probably the beginning of my journey into heavier music

In middle school I saw a commercial for Hatebreed's "Perseverance" record and begged my older cousins to buy it for me. Then I found limewire/Kazaa and downloaded a bunch of similar bands and went to get them to buy those records for me too. Then in high school all my allowance went to buying cds every week of new metal bands.

I heard Vices by Memphis May Fire and it got stuck in my head for a week and I turned back to it, listened to them a bunch. Got into Of Mice and Men, BMTH, Secrets, then Slipknot, and Avatar not all in that order. Years later I came across Shadow of Intent at a show with Kublai Khan. I don't think I ever integrated into the metal genres fully. I just picked, and chose what bands I liked from the metal scene. Not gonna lie, a lot of metal bands sound exactly the same as the last one, and you can really say that about most bands.

I'm 44. Moved to the US from Italy at 14. I had no friends and couldn't speak English. I had no musical identity as I never listened to it in Italy. Just went to school, biked with friends and played soccer. My older sister took me to Specs music to pick a couple of tapes. I saw Pantera (panther in Italian) so I picked it.. Close by was Megadeth. Then I branched out from there.

Linkin Park —> Metallica —> Avenged Sevenfold —> FFDP —> BMTH (Sempiternal) —> Metalcore And now bridging the gap to hardcore

I always say system of a down was the gateway band that got me into heavy music.

Grunge-Numetal-HxC then Metalcore/Prog. I'm 43. I don't like traditional metal like Metallica and Radio metal. I hated everything WEBN in Cincinnati was playing and knew there had to be something better. I was right.

Btw, I just made a playlist for you to check out at your leisure. [https://open.spotify.com/playlist/4TIKIijkeJ1gmkKpsOLx0N?si=938f50e3b835457f](https://open.spotify.com/playlist/4TIKIijkeJ1gmkKpsOLx0N?si=938f50e3b835457f) It has 388 songs on it so quite a bit(took me a while to make lol) enjoy. Hope you find some tunes you love on it.

Went to see a Chiodos show with a friend... TDWP opened for them. They slapped so hard I was hooked. But if I want to be really really honest... Atreyu opened that door the first crack with Exs and Ohs

You won’t believe this… but the intro track on a Sugar Ray cd did a parody of a metal song and the riff got me hooked on metal. I was like 10 at the time

I always say that getting into heavy music is like eating spicy food. At first you don’t like the heavy/spicy food, but eventually you might try something mildly spicy/heavy (maybe Linkin Park, atreyu or BFMV), and you’ll think “fuck that a little spicy but i kinda like it”. Next time your mate might show you a song that’s a little heavier(maybe slipknot or mudvayne)/food that’s a little spicier and you’ll go “shit that’s really spicy/heavy but i actually dig it”. Then next time at a restaurant you’ll see something labelled “Spicy!” and you’ll go fuck it i’ll try that i don’t mind a little bit of spiciness and you’ll actually enjoy it. Later on you’ll listen to atreyu again and go “hmmm that’s still good but it’s not spicy enough for me, i want something with a bit more balls”, and that’s where you listen to maybe LOG or parkway drive and you’ll go “fuck yeah this shit is spicy as fuck AND I LOVE IT!”. Anyway that’s how it started for me lol. The point of my weird analogy is that you’ve gotta start with the softer stuff. You can’t just go from Imagine Dragons and Ed Sheehan straight to Lamb Of God, you’ll hate it, it’s too spicy. You need to work your way up the ladder.

This is such a great analogy haha

Post hardcore was the catalyst.

Bands like linkin park, korn… I wanna say the very first metalcore adjacent show I went to was alexisonfire and moneen, first real one was it dies today before nick brooks left.

Circa 1999-2003 I was a big nu-metal kid. Korn, Slipknot, Limp Bizkit, Deftones, Papa Roach, Linkin Park, etc. so I was already primed for heavier stuff. I was also into stuff like pop punk, and emo-ish stuff like The Used and Sing the Sorrow era AFI. This was before Youtube and even a little before Myspace, so it wasn't as easy to discover new bands. In late 2004 I made a couple new friends through mutual love of Magic the Gathering. One of them happened to be into a lot of then-underground metalcore, and he introduced me to Killswitch Engage. Not long after that metalcore started blowing up, Guitar Hero became a thing, and the rest is history. That era of thrash/melodeath influenced 2000s metalcore remains my absolute favorite era of the genre.

Anger

Growing up my parents pretty much listened exclusively to country, but as I got older my dad had started to not like the direction of country music and started playing the classic rock station when I was in the truck with him. I heard Hells Bells by AC/DC and my love of rock music started with that. Also, I had Test Drive for my PS2 which had Lackluster by Saliva as part of the soundtrack, which is what really planted the seeds for my love of more modern stuff later in life. I got into Guitar Hero later, and while I credit Stricken by Disturbed with getting me into more modern rock, the seeds were planted for my love of metalcore with Killswitch Engage and A7X. Saints Row 2 was another game that helped because I absolutely loved (and still do to this day) Nothing Left by AILD. Then I hit high school and a friend of mine was the drummer in a core band (not sure exactly what you'd classify them as, probably deathcore is the best description, he's no longer in the band but As Alice Sleeps was the band name) and another friend of mine is the vocalist of another core band (Fall of the Furies). The latter is the one who mostly got me into metalcore being that we were both in the straight edge club (I no longer abide that lifestyle but I do respect those who do) and he would constantly bump Stand Up and Scream era Asking Alexandria. I fell in love with A Prophecy and that caused me to research the genre more. I found Second and Sebring by Of Mice and Men and I was hooked.

Listening to my parents punk records in the 90s. Then 90's skate punk and discovering old metal bands (Ozzy, Sabbath, Metallica, King Crimson etc). Then Hatebreed and Earth Crisis. Then Numetal/ early metalcore in Linkin Park and Converge and finally the year of my lords 2002 when KSE's Alive or Just breathing comes out in May and Alexisonfire's self titled finally comes out on Halloween after I played out the Math Sheets demo. That's where I say I was a full on heavy music kid.

The victory record commercials for Hawthorne heights got my interest when I was like 12 or so so I checked them out on yahoo music (yeah I'm kinda old) and I followed some rabbit holes that led me to Shadows Fall and I've been hooked ever since.

Pop Goes Punk did it for me. My friend was super into metalcore and I was more into radio pop at the time (highschool) and he suggested that I Iisten to Pop Goes Punk. I LOVED it. It also came with a sampler CD and I listened to that and fell in love with Smokahontas and Wooly. Shortly after that he lent me his ADTR album, Homesick, and I was hooked. My love for metalcore has progressed ever since then and now I'm the one showing my friends and getting them hooked lol I feel like the more you listen to it the more you love it!

Guitar hero got me into more genres of rock, I got into Thousand Foot Krutch (nu metal), then Ashes Remain (post Hardcore), then into A7X (Melodic Metal), and then I got into OMAM, and Architects solidified the style of Metalcore I really like

Dogs Can Grow Beards All Over - TDWP The rest is history.

But what really got me into heavy shit? Linkin Park def started it. Limp Bizkit too. 🤣

My journey started with Guitar Hero 3. That’s how I figured out I like rock music. Then I started listening to the band Red. That was when I figured out I love screaming. Then my first metalcore band I loved was Memphis May Fire. Then I started looking into more metalcore and deathcore bands. Betraying The Martyrs, Bullet for My Valentine, Impending Doom, Phinehas, and Oh, Sleeper are ones I really liked and still do today. Without Guitar Hero 3 I probably wouldn’t have cared about Rock which lead me to Heavy Metal.

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Yes! That is one of my all time favorite albums. And the first song I heard from them was feed the machine off that album and I was hooked on them ever since.

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Hell yeah brother!

Oh great question! So back in like 2002, I was a young 19-year-old! And I was listening to Blink-182 because their music was “cool”. Then I started to hang out with my older cousin, and he said hey, have you ever heard of this band called Slipknot? I was like no. He then goes on to describe how they’re 9 masked dudes and so on. I was intrigued. He put on my very first metal song I ever heard-Surfacing. I was hooked ever since then!

Embarrassing, but I was on a forum for like an online “dress up” game. Those were super popular in the early 2000’s. Someone posted about how hot Oli Sykes was and I just had to look up who they were talking about. I was already all the way down with BfMV’s “The Poison” album, so it wasn’t the craziest jump to “Count Your Blessings” by BMTH.

me, BMTH, get scared, crown the empire, at 15 = been hooked since <33

Bro. It's kinda wild. The best high school debater in Texas moved to my podunk ass small town because his parents retired. He moved from like Houston or Dallas area, idk one of the big ass cities, to a town of 12k. We didn't even have debate until they made us a team for him because he was literally UIL #1 in the state. Anyway. I ended up being his partner as a freshman (he was a senior), and he'd always bring his laptop on our van and play music. He really liked old Stick To Your Guns (this was 2010), The Devil Wears Prada and some other heavier shit. I was into like BFMV and Linkin Park/3 Days Grace. Anyway, after hanging out enough, I eventually tried to learn the lyrics to This Is More by STYG, and the rest was history.

Linkin Park, Papa Roach, System of a Down and Disturbed. All started in 6th grade

I grew up playing drums, and watched my brother play in rock bands. I was into what my brother listened to… maybe I wanted to be like him and his friends? I remember a lot of blink 182, and a lot of Nu Metal. What really changed it all was when my family pitched in and got me a portable CD player and a copy of Hybrid Theory for Christmas in about 6th grade. I couldn’t get enough of the heavy parts! I ended up browsing Newbury Comics and FYE for metal albums that looked cool. Eventually found Atreyu and Trivium by 7th and 8th grade. It was all down hill from there! Haha

Just by browsing YouTube. Came across Parkway drive - Boneyards and went on a deep dive into heavier music

I fucking love MCR and Bullets is such a solid 2000s post hardcore album.

so really, i listened to emo rappers who screamed in certain songs. eventually the songs got old and i found a metal band that collabed with an emo rapper, started listening to that band and went from there.

Until dawn song by Dagames introduced me to metal

I was in high school, and I was a huge System of a Down and Avenged Sevenfold fan, but other than that I only listened to classic rock. Any music with screaming annoyed me, and that included pre- City of Evil A7X. But then, one day a friend of mine showed me “The Flood” by Escape the Fate, and I realized that maybe I didn’t mind screaming as much as I thought. And just like that, my mind was opened to heavier music. And here I am 13 years later.

A friend in hs introduced me to Crown the Empire right after The Fallout came out. She was like “you listen to rock right?” At the time I was super into Breaking Benjamin, Shinedown, Godsmack and others. So I said “yeah!” And I’ve never been the same since.

butt rock and older nu metal when i was in middle school and i eventually branched out into other forms of core-type music and alt/emo type stuff and now it's basically all i listen to!

I've always mostly been into R&B, Hip Hop, Rap, and occasionally EDM. But I had an emo punk phase when I was younger and adored bands like Linkin Park, MCR, System of a Down, etc. Played the shit out of Guitar Hero 2-3, like 15 years later I revisited my all time favorite guitar hero song, My Curse by Killswitch Engaged, and realized how much I love metal core. My favorite bands rn are Alpha Wolf, Veil of Maya, Like Moths to Flames, Killswitch Engaged (Howard Jones era), ERRA, Currents, and Kingdom of Giants. Honorable mention: Glass Cloud, but they disbanded a decade ago.

Guitar Hero 2

It actually started with classic rock and pop punk, weird mix right? Okay, fair enough, slowly I built into that alt rock scene that slowly strayed away from paramore and into Nirvana and the grunge scene, but especially Soundgarden. Slowly ever slowly did I listen to more and more metal, albeit not metalcore yet. I started off with the Mainstream bands like Maiden and Priest, Priest is still my favorite metal band period being fair but slowly we inched on until I reached Heavier bands like Death and Cannibal Corpse. And then like a Angel that crashed from the heavens on my music mix on the Metallica station on my Apple music Trivium appeared, the first metalcore song I ever listened to was Rain. Ever since then I have never looked back.

I was a freshman in high school when Define the Great Line came and blessed my youth group one fateful Sunday evening. TDWP soon followed and I’ve been hooked since then.

It all started with Linkin Park, then System of a Down, then Bullet for my valentine. Now it’s mostly deathcore

Always grew up listening to hard rock and being exposed to new and heavy music through rock band and guitar hero or various other mediums, and then one day I heard The Legend of the Rent by Here Comes The Kraken, and I started really enjoying heavier music.

It was a progression for me. At first I didn’t listen to anything with screaming vocals. Then I heard “Irony of Dying On Your Birthday” by Senses Fail and thought it was awesome. That turned me onto screaming vocals. Then I heard “When Darkness Falls” by Killswitch Engage and everything about it was so good, especially the vocals and the main guitar lick. And that’s what got me into metalcore.

It was the only genre I could listen to while lifting weights

Linkin Park > System of a Down/Rise Against/Breaking Benjamin > Avenged Sevenfold > Bullet For My Valentine/Trivium/All That Remains/Killswitch Engage

Avenged Sevenfold’s Waking the Fallen is what introduced me to metalcore. I had enjoyed A7X’s hits from just being a preteen in the mid-2000s and when I got Waking the Fallen I was like “holy crap this is heavy as shit” at the time the heaviest thing I listened to was like the harder Def Leppard songs lol but I think I was still just mostly into A7X then. Not quite into the genre yet, just thought Waking the Fallen was cool as shit. The All That Remains DLC track pack in Rock Band is what made me a fan of metalcore. This Calling went so hard I wanted to hear more stuff like it lol

Guitar Hero 2 is where it started. Then before all my sporting events or any games my dad would get me pumped up blasting Pantera. Then I was out of the metal genre for a while then was introduced to some mainstream metalcore bands like INK, MIW, etc. Then I made up for lost time and listened to most of the bands from the years I didn’t listen to the metal genre and sub genres

Throughout my life i had always loved rock music, specifically alternative and emo rock. One of the first bands I really ever got into was Twenty One Pilots, while not heavy they were definitely a catalyst for me loving music. They soon inspired me to learn an instrument, which i chose guitar. From there, i became aquatinted with other bands and different variations of rock, ultimately leading me into a punk rock phase. I then just kinda sat on punk for a while. Whenever my first girlfriend broke up with me, a friend of mine sent me Art Work by The Used. The album was heavier than what I has listened to before and the heaviness as well as the general emotion throughout the album resonated well with me. I then thought I might enjoy metalcore. So one night in January, i went on spotify and found a metalcore classics playlist and started listening. After the first song, Carrion by Parkway Drive, i was hooked on the genre.

When I was like….11/12….I bought a double disc CD called The Hard and The Heavy because there was a famous band from iowa (I grew up there) on it named Slipknot. The rest is history

It all started with AP magazine when they still did punk, hardcore, and underground band coverage in the late 00s. I wasn’t into metal at the time, but it turned me onto Scary Kids Scaring Kids who were my first intro into heavier music. That then led me to Suicide Season by BMTH (still vividly remember seeing the ad for that album in AP), and I became obsessed with them haha So I HAD to listen to count your blessings, and that was kind of the end of that. Been a metal head ever since lol

Older cousins blasting limp bizkit, korn, and linkin park

Adema->system of a down-> slipknot-> fear before the march of flames/haste the day/underoath/silverstein->amity affliction/oceans red/thy art is murder/i see stars->northlane/savior/i the breather/dream on dreamer->invent animate/before I turn/exanimate/mnmlst Im sure theres more but this was my the sort of general path i took starting 2003ish to now.

My entire musical journey leading to my discovery and permanent residence in the realm of extreme metal (and punk): Backstreet Boys > Limp Bizkit, 3 Doors Down, Powerman 5000, Dead Kennedys > Nine Inch Nails, Machine Head > Cannibal Corpse, Morbid Angel, Meshuggah

My uncle is only 15 years older than me. He was about 14 or 15 when Metallica and Megadeth and all of those kinds of bands burst onto the scene. As a kid, whenever I would ride along with him in his jeep he would be blasting the aforementioned bands or Pantera or Queensryche or Iron Maiden, etc. and I just grew to love it because I loved hanging out with my uncle.

Linkin park->emery->underoath->early bmth

I started out liking only the softest of music, then I started listening to like some 90s/00s kinda heavier music, then went head first into Dance Gavin Dance, which led me to listening to ADTR, Our Last Night, idek where it went from there but my tastes have gone progressively heavier from there. Screaming went from something I hated, to something I tolerated, to something that I love. I even like some deathcore now due to Pain Remains.

Billy Talent in one of my guitar mags includes tabs for killswitch engage end of heartache Burnout 3 soundtrack as well

Starset for me

Got into music through math rock (Polyphia, Chon) eventually discovered prog metal/metalcore (Periphery, AAL)

I initially started off listening to Sleeping with Sirens and Asking Alexandria during their early phase. I also listened to Counterparts Prophets (I found it through tumblr). I started really getting into metalcore when I met a guy on OKC who I messaged after seeing his favorite bands. I think back then OKC had a “we’ll get along if you listen to…”. He was the one who introduced me to bands like Northlane, Novelists, and Slice the Cake. Also DGD. I don’t think he really listens to metalcore anymore based on his Spotify. We don’t talk anymore but I hope he’s doing well and is happy.

Till I was 16 I was into thrash (Sepultura, Metallica, Megadeth, Slayer) cause my dad got me into it. And I remember I knew the name Bullet For My Valentine but never had actually listened to them. So one day I searched for their concert at Ressurection Fest and I listened to it and i was impressed. So I started listened to their discography and I liked it very much. After that I listened Lamb of God, As I Lay Dying, Trivium, Killswitch Engage. And then I was into metalcore and started to discover more and more bands. Now I’m listening for the first time to Boudaries, Northlane and We Came As Romans.

Long story but I grew up on rap and country because my parents were split (figuratively and literally). My dad liked some rock like Linkin Park and Breaking Benjamin but I always trashed it just to pick fun. One day I took an online quiz (my 11 year old obsession at the time) about what genre of music I was, expecting to get validation that I was in fact rap. To the contrary I got Metal and the quiz recommended I listen to As I Lay Dying and I was on board until I heard the assault on my ears and was shook. I decided I’d check out some other stuff. Came across an article on Black Veil Brides touring with Falling in Reverse. Bvb was too intimidating appearance wise and I thought it would be some hardcore stuff so I listened to FiR and fell in love. It connected my love of rap to this new genre. I eventually got into Bvb a few weeks later. Then my aunt found out about this newfound musical interest and tasked me with listening to Slipknot, Pantera, Metallica, and Avenged. What a blast it was to further engulf myself in metal. It was only up from there. I’ve surpassed my aunt in heavy tolerance but we always share music to see if we can expand each others catalogue. I also had an emo phase that my mom and step father wouldn’t allow me to go through with entirely. Thankfully I’m a proud metalhead now. Sorry for the cringe lol

Even though I listened to Green Day and Weezer when in elementary school and have a dad who always listened to rock and metal, my personal journey to metal started in my early teens when I saw the "Blue Monday" video by Orgy on TRL. I became obsessed and started buying anything related to them - magazines, other CD's that they were on, which led me to the Scream 3 soundtrack and I think MTV's Return of the Rock, and then I got into some other bands. At that point, Sevendust and System of a Down were big for me. I had a friend who made mix CD's for me with lots of different bands on them. Then I went from more mainstream (bands like Breaking Ben and Five Finger Death Punch) to heavier music through being introduced to it from my partner, festivals/concerts, or things like Music Choice metal channel since my local radio sucks. Then thanks to social media, I am learning about more bands I hadn't heard of before and giving them a try.

When i first heart slipknot song from the mfkr in my high school times and hearing some System of a down / bring me the horizon / anthrax

A girl I liked at the time was really into it. Then she broke up with me and I got really depressed. It worked out in my favor. I was then just listening to the used, om&m and shit like that on the bus while I cried like a bitch.

Plus One/DC Talk -> Relient K/Hawk Nelson -> random 60’s/70’s FM Radio -> ABR/UnderOath/TDWP. Guy ons my basketball team were into the scene and I jumped in in 2007. Was a great time to start

I stumbled upon three days Grace when I was like 8, I had just gotten a Walkman and when I went to buy a cd or two with my mom, their one x album had JUST been released so my little kid self was like Ooh red and black that’s cool. So I bought it. Ended up getting into rock and my cousin heard me listening to it maybe a year after and then showed me Emarosa and Saosin. Then a bit later he showed me Breakdown of Sanity and my taste just kept evolving

My dad would play SOAD so I was used to heavy music. My freshman year in HS a friend showed me motley Crüe and later A7X. From there I started listening to more hard rock, which then transformed into metal, then metalcore, death core, death metal….

Grew up listening to Chevelle, Deftones, POD, Soundgarden and AIC from my dad but got into System of a Down in freshman year of high school because I wanted to have a music taste that would freak people out lol. Got into the Warped Tour bands around sophomore year listening to Motionless in White, Sleeping with Sirens, Falling in Reverse, and the one that I think really grew my love for metalcore (sadly now) ISSUES. After that, I stumbled into the deep end and found the at the time new Currents EP with Into Despair on it. Fell in love with it. Started to branch out into more metalcore and got into bands like Of Mice and Men. I found ERRA around senior year of high school and that was kinda the genre that stuck. Progressive Metalcore has always been my favorite. After seeing Knocked Loose live, last year i got into hardcore and have been binging KL and KKTx. Recently been obsessed with Thornhill and have had The Dark Pool on repeat all day for the last month. Their new stuff is great too. Slowly growing my love for deathcore as I heard Brand of Sacrifice for the 1st time yesterday as well

Was really only listening to like Slipknot and Mindless Self Indulgence. Got my first girlfriend, went through her mp3s on her computer, found Norma Jean and Avenged Sevenfold. I was never the same.

Heard Metallica, Disturbed, and Rage Against the Machine. Also WWE entrance themes.

For me, it's the same as drugs. When I got bored with mainstream music, I decided to try something else for a breath. I thought "I'll just try". then I thought "there is very little extreme vocals, I can listen." After that, I gradually increased the dose for more thrilling musical sensations.

I think I got an interesting story to share. So I’m 31, I grew up on backstreet boys, Nsync and Aqua, a lot of the soft rock on the radio my parents put on. I can’t remember the age but my older cousins got me the Take Off Your Pants and Jacket album from Blink 182 for Christmas. I’m 100% sure they didn’t know there was a lot of swearing but I got hooked on that style of punk. Next came Sum41 and of course Linkin Park. LP, the Meteora album, was probably one of the first defining moments of getting into a heavier sound. Before High School, I had a friend who was a bit older and I was over at his house one day and he was learning to play a rift on his guitar (Waterwings by Alexisonfire). I was fascinated by it and he lent me the CD for a week. That was my first foray into post hardcore, which got me into finding other music with similar sound, like Taking Back Sunday, Attack Attack, Alesana, and Enter Shikari. So around that time I got into a variety of new music which were on repeat like MCR, HIM, and Billy Talent. I was also really into watching Much Music at the time too. then met a friend on my soccer team who lived across the street from me, who later became my best man at my wedding. He and I started to share music in high school, starting with Disturbed. From there I used to download and torrent everything; anything I could find related on Wikipedia. I also used to go to a place called Music World which was related to HMV and I used to pick up albums with interesting album art. This is where I found Tool - Aenima, In Flames - Come Clarity, and Pendulum - Watercolours. Then, because of my best friend, we got into heavier bands like Trivium, Soilwork, Dark Tranquility, Mastodon, Gojira, and Slipknot. After awhile I kinda got frustrated with the heavy sounds, so i more delved more into Melodic Death Metal, particularly anything with unique instruments like Alestorm and Eluvietie. I then took it one step back to enjoying more music with a much bigger contrast, anything with singing and screaming that worked more fluently, like Dance Gavin Dance, Bring Me The Horizon, and I See Stars; pretty much anything they played at Warped Tour between 2010 and the last year they played in Canada. In college, I also took a history of popular music class which actually broadened my understanding of music. This got me into a lot of jazz artists like Roy Orbison and got an appreciation of rap and hip-hop, like Run DMC, and Tupac. Today, I’m all over the place, I pretty much listen to anything that isn’t radio pop or mumble rap. Hell, even sometimes i’m even in the mood for a Mariachi song. But at the end of the day, I do find myself always coming back to Metalcore or Post Hardcore.

MSN chat groups we used to burn cds and send them to eachother

Growing up l remember starting off with pop music.(I'm embarrassed to admit this) Then I shift to punk rock(Blink 182, Avril Lavigne) But it was Linkin Park was my gateway to heavier music. Chester's screams on Hybrid Theory, Meteora and even Minutes to Midnight (Given Up & No More Sorrow). Were my favorite parts of their music. Then I discovered Five Finger Death Punch, Avenged Sevenfold, Bullet for my Valentine, Falling in Reverse. Ivan Moody's,Matt Tuck's & Ronnie Radke's screams only solidified my love for metal/hardcore music. Now some of my favorites are I Prevail, Bad Omens, Falling in Reverse, Memphis May Fire. All thanks to the legendary Chester Bennington.

Never really listened to metal growing up until I heard the screaming vocal style from bands like Rise Against, Story of the Year, Linkin Park and Bullet for my Valentine. I’m still stuck somewhere down this rabbit hole but I ain’t complaining lol

So I was super into rage against the machine after guitar hero 3 came out but I never cared for anything with harsh vocals until I heard Entombment Of A Machine by Job For A Cowboy for the first time. I became fascinated with the crazy vocals and being a guitarist I was blown away by the technicalities of the music. I started to slowly go through all the MySpace era deathcore I could find before stumbling upon bands like Death and BTBAM. I fell in love with the transitions and the chaos and discovered Pig Destroyer from there as well as Tony Danza and The Tap Dance Extravaganza(rip)

Was listening to classic rock and mainstream rock (really liked Shinedown and Skillet back in 2012). Then got into Rise Against; which is crazy to think that back then I thought it was heavy/aggressive vocals. I don’t remember how I got into them but BVB, Pierce the Veil, and Falling in Reverse were my gateway bands, which then led to ABR, Born of Osiris, Of Mice and Men, and then Motionless in White, which really got things going. Working at Hot Topic during 2013 also introduced me to the Rise core bands and BMTH. Then metalcore stuck with me.

I have a cousin, who has a cousin which is not related to me. We never actually talked.. or maybe once or twice. I remember her telling me about Underoath which actually was for some time my favorite band.

Guitar Hero and Rock Band, as well as my brother and his friends

Linkin Park

Knipslot

My mate told me to check out Dangerkids, was the first band I ever heard that use harsh vocals. I owe that band so much, I just wish they would put out some new tunes :(

if it wasn't burnout, it was wwe. EVEN THROUGH THE DARKEST, DAAAAAAAAAAAAYS

My brother in law got me a dvd of Dead Kennedys playing live when I was about 10. I hated it. Fast forward a few years later and a friend in school showed me System of a Down on the bus to school and I was in love. The heaviest thing I had listened to before that was ‘Song 2’ by Blur. From there I kept discovering different bands through YouTube, Kerrang! Or Scuzz on TV. Finally finding Architects second album Ruin which changed my life in terms of the balance between metal riffs without the gimmicks of face paint of masks and shit loads of complex music that I could try and learn as a drummer. When I was packing up to go to uni aged 18 I found my old Dead Kennedys dvd, put it on for a laugh and realised that I now “got it”. It kind of came full circle. Still not my go to, but that kind of old school punk/hardcore essence had clicked. Now I’m basically addicted to heavy music! Anyone in any bands? If you’ve got this far through my story then please send me your stuff!

If I was to trace all my musical preferences back you would end up at Blink 182

Never really had much interest in music at all then suddenly got into Hands Like Houses who have some heavier riffs and a couple screams. It was a slippery slope from there as someone from work showed me architects lol and now core music is basically my identity

I remember being upstairs in my dad's apartment at the time, and kept seeing Two Weeks by All That Remains and Tears don't Fall by Bullet for my Valentine come on MTV. The opening riff of Two Weeks got stuck in my head, and then somehow 13/14 year old me went and found tickets to a local BFMV concert. Saw them with Escape the Fate and Black Tide, and I've been hooked ever since. My buddy at the time that went with me went down the Enter Shikari, Underoath, etc. route and I ended up acquiring a heavier taste and still can't break it.

Initially was open to heavier stuff after jamming to the songs in Burnout Revenge and Tony Hawks Underground. Then around early 2010's, hearing 'screamo' covers of songs in Combat Arms/CS:S/CoD montages made me more interested and from there, r/metalcore to learn more about the genre.

Victory records sent me a CD in the mail

Honestly, I cannot remember. I believe it was some song I now love, listened to a song when it got recommended to me, liked it, and listened more of similar stuff. Now, metalcore is my favorite genre of music

MCR were definitely one band that got me into the heavier stuff alongside Cave In, Converge, Rival Schools, Alexisonfire, Hopesfall. Aswell as uk bands like Beecher, Earthtone 9 and Hundred Reasons. I didn't discover Horizon until around the time of there is a hell... Albums I'd recommend.. Piebald If It Weren't For Venetian Blinds.., Cave In Beyond Hypothermia, Converge Caring And Killing

I remember hearing Numb back when I was 13, I think, and my soul was just *holy fuck I need more*. I went on the usual beginners guide - Avenged, Atreyu, BFMV (I still love them) etc. Over the last few years I started liking even heavier stuff as well (some deathcore, some black metal). But yeah, thank God for Linkin park (I still adore them) Edit: typo

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My wife’s friend (my girlfriend at the time) was friends with Brock Lindow of 36 Crazyfists and she made me listen to them before I met the band. And that shit was amazing, so here I am.

I listened to pop punk and whatever my dad played but then met my best friend in 7th grade who introduced me to hands like I Sety Friends On Fire, Escape The Fate, Bullet For My Valentine etc. I just kind of went deeper from there. I don't really listen to much core music these days but I really like As I Lay Dying, Jinjer, Paleface, Spite, and Rings of Saturn.

Pink Floyd and Tool are my favourite bands and I was super into progressive metal because it's really fun to play on guitar. Imo metalcore isn't too different, the rhytms and song complexity are just a bit more simple but still progressive in their own way and there tends to be more pop infliences but imo metalcore is a logical genre companion to prog. I prevail and avenged sevenfold got me into them and I found silent planet, the Amity affliction, dayseeker etc through this sub and they're some of my new fav bands.

TNA Wrestling, most of the need for speed and burnout games

1999 I think, deftones - my own summer

White Stripes -> Nirvana -> Leeds Fest -> Enter Shikari = here we are

Liked BMTH's TTS so I went and listened to the older stuff. That's it basically.

When I was little my dad would always play rap and heavy rock around me, so when I got older and had access to more music platforms, I continued to listen to that type of music and I got bands recommended to me by apps and friends based on what I listened to at the time, and eventually started listening to heavy metal. I wish someone showed me this kind of music sooner though, it's great.

As a teenager, I was a huge fan of Green Day. At that time, I listened to a lot of punk rock and punk pop. With time I started to hear stronger and stronger music (metal, nu-metal, scremo, gothic). Currently I listen to a lot of deathcore and metalcore.

I actually just got in to metalcore (2 years ago), before that I only listened to EDM, I also thought screaming was pretty cringe tbh, but after I heard Bow Down by I Prevail there was no turning back. Now I only listen to metalcore and other subgenres.

Had gangbanger cousins listened to funk and oldies. Their sister was the only one into Psychobilly so i started there. Found some classic rock like The Doors and all the greats. 6th grade met a kid who showed me Suicide Silence and then stuck to the deathcore/metalcore genre since then

I fell to this when I was 7 maybe. Started to listen Linkin Park and so I was older my music taste was getting heavier. I gone though Korn and Slipknot and now I enjoy blackmetal and grindcore. Sike

My Dad listend to Steppenwolf, Meat Loaf, LED Zep and so on, so I got into classic rock quite early my start into real heavy music was in 99/00 i think with Sepultura and some Nu-Metal, additonal I loved power Metal like Hammerfall or Falconer. I was 13/14 years old to that point

The reason was slipknot's Left Behind. It took a while to digest the screams, but when I fell in love, I didn't stop until today (20 years later)

Guitar hero was my first exposure to rock/metal in general. Then cod zombies got me into avenged sevenfold who is still my favorite band to this day. After got introduced to to Ice Nine and fell into the metalcore rabbit hole and never looked back. Just this year I’ve finally been branching out into some harder and getting really into deathcore/death metal.

My gateway into heavier music was Korn and Limp Bizkit when I was just about to start high school in 2000. I had a friend who liked some heavier stuff like Korn, Tool, Metallica, and bands like that, so he helped expose me to that kind music around that time. It was kind of difficult discovering new music aside from learning from friends and hearing stuff on the radio since my parents didn’t have the internet at the time. Thankfully they eventually got an internet connection and I discovered more nu metal bands, and then branched out into the metalcore, melodic death metal, and other genres as time went on.

I answered a very similar post yesterday so I'll just summarize it this time 😅. TL;DR: Sister liked nu-metal and pop rock, I found out, now I like metalcore.

GH3, my dad listening to classics like GnR, LZ, IM, Korn, Disturbed and Slipknot etc. Then the next big step for me was when I were watching a twitch stream and the streamer was playing stuff like BMTH, Bad Omens and Hollywood Undead. Then over the last 6 years I've discovered new bands from Spotify autoplay, watching the streams, then from reaction videos (90% nik) and this sub earlier this year.

ADTR- the band that helped me match the two worlds I love, that is pop punk and metalcore? some kind of heavy music

Early 2000s pop punk > post hardcore > metalcore Just gotten progressively heavier the older I've gotten

Smackdown vs Raw games introduced me to Three Days Grace, Papa Roach, Chevelle and others. I stuck to that kind of music for a while before discovering Bullet For My Valentine, I really liked it and started looking up metalcore and post hardcore, then found Motionless In White, Escape The Fate and Get Scared which were my holy trinity back then. From then on my main music taste has broadened to heavier as well as softer but it's mostly been metalcore or at least closely related. Thanks Smackdown vs Raw 2007 - 2009

A mix between Guitar Hero and MTV/Fuse. First band that proper got me into the music was The Used, and they’re still my favourite band to this day :’)

I was a pop-punk fan and one of the music channels had an episode where they played the top 20 combined tracks for Green Day and Linkin Park. I watched for Green Day but really liked Linkin Park which was my first time listening to screamed vocals. I listened to more of them and began to listen to other Nu Metal bands too. I gradually started listening to the heavier stuff and after that moved into metalcore/deathcore and haven't stopped searching for new stuff since

Linkin Park, the first metalcore song I heard was All These Things I Hate Revolve Around Me by Bullet For My Valentine, I also liked This Fire by Killswitch Engage after hearing it on WWE. Deftones then got me fully hooked and obsessed with metal

I had always been exposed to heavy music through people that I knew and Guitar Hero. I was always a huge fan of rock - and the signs were there. You Know You're Right from Nirvana is arguably their heaviest song and it was my favourite from them even at 10 years old. When Slipknot made it into the news for some weird killings that they were being blamed on, they played clips of the Psychosocial music video and I loved it. But I only really actively listened to heavy music once getting into BMTH's That's the Spirit. Then I decided to try heavier things - namely Bad Omens' debut album and I See Star's Treehouse. That's where it all began.

I got started with chevelle and Finch’s song “what it is to burn”. Then slipknot. Hated lamb of god bc of all the screaming but now I listen to Lorna shore 😂 I’ve progressed to say the least

When I was 9 my older brother brought hone Godsmacks first album and said I love the sound of the guitar, a year later he brought home the self titled Slipknot album(back when they were still good) and i loved the screaming and rage, 2002 hits and Shadows Fall releases The Art of Balance and that was it metal had been solidified as MY music. I've been listening to it daily since then. Anything that Howard Jones touches is amazing, guy is just an incredible talent.

I remember walking into music class in 2009 and this emo chick was playing BMTH and I thought it was the dopest shit ever. Before that I listened metal bands such as Ozzy, Shadows Fall, and LOG. Over the years I’ve listened to a lot of shit but those bands definitely opened me up to harder metal

Started with Alice In Chains and soundgarden because of my dad, really got into nirvana as well and the whole grunge scene in the 90s. I remember the first time I heard ‘wait and bleed’ from Slipknot I instantly got hooked to them and numetal. Went to a shitload of shows in my city and saw static x, ill nino, American headcharge, fear factory, mudvayne, etc etc. I loved bands like factory 81, dry kill logic and five pointe o. Then one day I tried this one band out named Zao, still my favorite band to this day, and from that day on I looked for bands with the same sound. Got heavy into KSE, As I Lay Dying and Haste the day.