My musical development started with music that my parents listened to, so ABBA, Italo Pop, Frank Duval, Rondo Veneziano, Cliff Richard, Simon and Garfunkel are the names that I still remember. After starting to listening to music on my own, I succumbed for a few years to boybands, but luckily quite quickly emerged from that, haha.
In 1997 I was 14 and it was Aerosmith who finally saved me and sent me on the rock and eventually metal way. After Aerosmith I discovered HIM and Type O negative, soon thereafter Sentenced, Tiamat and the 69 eyes. The road was clear before me, metal. At that point still a lot Gothic metal.
Living in Finland thus was heaven. So many metal bands, pure bliss. In addition to Gothic bands I also started to listening to Death/Doom and in this genre I would find for some years my niche. There were some excursions to Metalcore, Punk and Postpunk and other styles. Here I need to mention AFI, who have been a very huge influence on me.
Moving to Greece changed some things, I listened to the bands I still knew, but then also some greek music, alternative stuff. Fast forward to April 2015.
Behemoth were a bit known to me. I had heard the name, I had seen their picture in some metal magazine, with Nergal holding the raven and screaming. But I knew nothing of them musically. There were no interesting metal shows at that time and passing from Ticket House, I spontaneously decided to get a ticket.
Little was I to know that this would change me completely. I went to see them and it was like a black mass, impressive, so dark, so full of rebellion. I was fascinated and started my research at home immediately. I had heard the names of iconic black metal bands before, of course. But now it was time to listen to them. A genre, that I always considered too raw or too chaotic for me, finally opened up to me and I spread my tentacles in every direction.
I read both the Behemoth biography and Nergal's book, a survivor's story. Knowing what he has been through with leukaemia makes it even more fantastic that I was so fortunate to see them live, they build the portal for me to another music genre.
Musically I enjoy nowadays other kinds of black metal, but Behemoth have paved the way for me and I will be eternally grateful.
Daedin
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In 1997 I was 14 and it was Aerosmith who finally saved me and sent me on the rock and eventually metal way. After Aerosmith I discovered HIM and Type O negative, soon thereafter Sentenced, Tiamat and the 69 eyes. The road was clear before me, metal. At that point still a lot Gothic metal.
Living in Finland thus was heaven. So many metal bands, pure bliss. In addition to Gothic bands I also started to listening to Death/Doom and in this genre I would find for some years my niche. There were some excursions to Metalcore, Punk and Postpunk and other styles. Here I need to mention AFI, who have been a very huge influence on me.
Moving to Greece changed some things, I listened to the bands I still knew, but then also some greek music, alternative stuff. Fast forward to April 2015.
Behemoth were a bit known to me. I had heard the name, I had seen their picture in some metal magazine, with Nergal holding the raven and screaming. But I knew nothing of them musically. There were no interesting metal shows at that time and passing from Ticket House, I spontaneously decided to get a ticket.
Little was I to know that this would change me completely. I went to see them and it was like a black mass, impressive, so dark, so full of rebellion. I was fascinated and started my research at home immediately. I had heard the names of iconic black metal bands before, of course. But now it was time to listen to them. A genre, that I always considered too raw or too chaotic for me, finally opened up to me and I spread my tentacles in every direction.
I read both the Behemoth biography and Nergal's book, a survivor's story. Knowing what he has been through with leukaemia makes it even more fantastic that I was so fortunate to see them live, they build the portal for me to another music genre.
Musically I enjoy nowadays other kinds of black metal, but Behemoth have paved the way for me and I will be eternally grateful.
Daedin
Czy śmierci się boicie?
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