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your gateway band
KharBevNor:
I don't listen to indie.
I suppose you could say my gateway band would have been maybe Cradle of Filth. I can even remember how it happened. At the time I was heavily into anime and just starting to get into hard rock music via the likes of late Metallica, Rammstein etc. Well, I was downloading anime music videos, (typically geeky) and I got one with Cradle of Filth's cover of Iron Maiden's 'Hallowed be thy Name' and I was just blown away.
Then, soon after, I got one with Dimmu Borgir - Fear and Wonder leading into Dimmu Borgir - Burn in Hell. Hearing that dark, claustrophobic orchestral piece leading into that little cough and that scream of "YOUR GONNA BURN IN HEELLL" set me down the road to decent shit.
Robbo:
Again, dont listen to Indie.
It was Iron Maiden. When I was younger, didnt like music at all. Nothing on the TV or Radio interested me at all, thought it was all complete crap. Only bits I liked where bits of J-Rock in the anime I watched.
Anyway, one day was playing Carmageddon 2 at my friends house. And listening to the music...which happen to Iron Maiden and I loved it. I I end up looking up more of Maiden's music and going onto the internet to find more bands like them. And it just went on from there.
MilkmanDan:
Rage Against The Machine and The Beastie Boys.
zekterellium:
pearl jam. i got vitalogy when i was ten, and my brother sat down with me and made me count the beats in 'my last exit.' one, two, three, four, FIVE!!!!! one, two, three four, FIVEEE!!!!
it was insane.
nickyandthefuture:
The Poster Children. I sort of randomly came across them when mucking about on the Internet when I was a young lad. I liked the things that I read, so I picked up Daisychain Reaction, which was a revelation in two ways: 1) Music that's not played on the radio can be much better than music that is and 2) I like music that my parents don't.
From then on, I pretty much lived by the Parasol Records catalogue. They used to send out a big paper one that I would go through underlining things that sounded cool (or even bands that had nice names) and try to find out more about. I started out with the Champaign/Urbana scene at the time (which was impossibly awesome) and then branched out to the rest of the indie world.
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