One day a friend of mine was playing this really interesting remix of a linkin park song... I am not a big fan of linkin park, except for those few popular and nice songs. They are good musicians i have to agree but they weren't as appealing to my musical appetite. Nu-metal was a strict NO NO to me till about 3 years ago. Linkin Park did lead me to this side of music, but i started exploring heavier music. Pandora helped me to dig more into this side of metal, Through Pandora Rage came back into my life. Rage against the machines their heavy base lines, powerful riffs, the fx-pedals and Zach De la rocha's reggae-rage voice. They were perfect, some of their tracks like "Wake up", "Testify" and "Killing inn the name of" give a new perspective on life. Some think its just angry music that makes you wanna kill people but there is more in the music than anger, there are questions, there is protest and there is rebellion. My idea of Rebellion used to be Nirvana... but RATM changed it for me.
Rage was my new favorite now, their loudness was melodic, through a pandora channel on RATM, i started listening to more of similar Artists like The offspring, Chevelle, KORN, One day as a Lion, audioslave(obviously) etc. I started liking this loud music now, suddenly after a week i realized i hadn't the Zepps or Who or any of those in a while, that was a sign. I kept listening to more of RATM and after a long time i heard "Freak on a leash" by korn on the radio. Earlier i only heard the unplugged version of it featuring Amy Lee from Evanasence. Weired but yes i wasn't never much into Korn, So this song was new thing for a day or two. Like the previous patterns i explained, I heard Korn - Live and Rare.... A very nice concert. I realized they did have a good style of music, Heavy Base lines, Unique fx, Steely-drumming and amazing vocals, the growls, the pitches, the sway in the voice.
Yes i was now a fan of Korn, one thing led to another and i heard their version of "Another brick in the Wall" originally performed by Pink floyd. A Beautiful song, very personal to Roger Waters, And korn added more Rock to it. It is only but unfair to compare the Pink floyd version and this one. I don't even want to get started on that. So my respect for Korn was pretty high right now. Ok this is when things fall into place.
I was following some Korn news on the net, and it read Korn was making this whole new dubstep Album, I was like wow, that is BOLD. I started looking for leaks for their album's songs, and turned out Jonathan Davis- their lead singer had posted a small sample of a song called Get up on "grooveshark.com". I checked it out and it was interesting, I got more curios of this 'dubstep', I thought for a while and it hit me that the Linkin Park song i heard a few months ago was actually a dubstep mix of "what I've done", I started looking for it. I found a couple of hits on youtube, and it didn't take me too long to find the right mix.
That was when i started exploring 'dubstep', it was unique, it wasn't like electronic, or trance, or club or hip-hop. I haven't had a chance to describe how much i dislike those kinds of music, but anyway, dubstep has been described as "tightly coiled productions with overwhelming bass lines and reverberant drum patterns, clipped samples, and occasional vocals". I was infatuated with this kind of music, I realized there are very few dubstep-rock songs unless people take the pain to remix it.
My hunger to find more of that kind grew and google gave me this website called 8-tracks as a solution.
8-tracks is this website vaguely based on a the idea of a mixed tape. 8-tracks per side, hence 8-tracks. This website features playlist's uploaded by users. Like mixed tapes available online. It was perfect except for unlike pandora you cannot dislike a track or an artist. I found a classic rock dubstep remix playlist on this site, it was perfect, it has songs by nirvana, AC/DC, pink floyd, Police, Journey, Foreigner and so on. This website, like yotube, has a related playlist's feature, and thats how i kept on exploring more of dubstep. This website is one of the best things that happened to me int he year of 2011....
So from Linkin Park, to Rage, to Korn, to dubstep to 8tracks........
Through 8tracks i was exposed to classical dubstep which was super interesting, they were dubstep mixes of classical songs featuring Mozart, Beethoven and more. This site had amazing playlist's of classic rock songs, I got to hear of bands i would've probably not ever encountered like The Mars Volta, BCC, more of rush, UFO and many more.
This journey with nu-metal which led me to heavier metal, which introduced me to dubstep and led me to 8tracks, has been an amazing journey and am proud that by the end of the day my loyalty towards classic rock hasn't changed and have managed to broaden my musical horizon.
This is the end. A beautiful experience.
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