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Korn - Follow The Leader / Slipknot - Self titled / Chimaira - Pass Out Of Existence
These albums taught me how to connect with music on an emotional level and how to do more than listen to the music - they taught me how to feel the music.
Five Pointe O - Untitled
This album showed me that I was much more than an angsty teen and that good lyrics, vocals, and decent musicianship go much further than shitty guitars and terrible songs about being an outcast.
Cephalic Carnage - Lucid Interval
This album along with too many to list taught me that I really really like death metal and the more talented the musicians are and the more thought out their songs were the better. This album in particular was my first introduction to really deep and unrealistic guttural vocals and stop-start time signature changes.
The Dillinger Escape Plan - Calculating Infinity / Irony Is A Dead Scene
43% Burnt ends in the greatest breakdown ever. And Irony Is A Dead Scene opened up my interests to the manic genius Mike Patton.
The End - Within Dividia
This album taught me me to be patient and to dig deep under layers of noise and feedback to find such an incredibly well written and meaningful story that anyone could identify with if they took the time to digest the music. That album paved the way for my appreciation of bands like Psyopus, Crowpath, etc.
Radiohead - Kid A
It really blew my mind that I could get into something so soft and the fact that I could sit down and pay enough attention to make out Thom Yorke's subliminal vocals amazed me. I really felt this album and coupled with Bright Eyes' "Digital Ash in a Digital Urn I became much more open to so many new genres.
Ulver - Blood Inside
For the most part, the album intrigued me. I read reviews on it in so many metal magazines and when I finally heard it, I couldn't understand why anything that sounded like Ulver would be in those magazines. I put the time in to understand why it's such a brilliant album and eventually downloaded their entire discography. I got into all of their weird electronic and minimalist shit and found myself delving into the poetry of William Blake and the works of several other writers simply because they referenced them or in the case of Blake, based an entire album on his work.
Aesop Rock - Bazooka Tooth
Aesop taught me that I could and should expect the rap music that I like to be exactly as intelligent and fun as all the other genres I enjoy. Bazooka Tooth is so New York and it's so artsy while still hip hop . That album along with his other works turned me on to El-P, Cage, Yak Ballz, Tame, Weathermen, Cardboard City....
Zs - Buck
Zs helped to show me that all genres of music have much more in common than they ever will be different. Their music is essentially, technical and quirky jazz with obsessive compulsive leanings and seeing them live for the first time cemented my love for them.
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