Your Music Evolution

Avril Lavigne
We all had to start somewhere right? Well basically I was about 13 or 14..or even 15 and Popstars were dominating the tv and radio. I was pretty much getting bored of pop and r'n'b and wanted to listen to music that actually involved instruments and an artist who wrote their own songs. So being blissfully unaware at the time Avril Lavigne came along and I thought she was amazing. I still respect her as a musician, both of her albums are good and have some good songs on but I moved on to other music quickly.

Evanescence
I was pretty intrigued by recent rock music and I got introduced to Evanescence. It was around the time of the release of the Daredevil film, where they were relatively unknown here. I heard "Bring me to Life" and instantly fell in love with it. I loved the fact that the band had a female vocalist, I always liked when a woman could stand up and do something people tend to think males do better. Amy Lee's vocals just struck me, I remember thinking "THIS is the type of music I want to be listening to" I loved the lyrics, the blend of orchestra with rock, the angelic vocals everything. I looked into everything they've done (which is pretty much old EP's and Demos) and i'm still a huge fan. I even cried when I met Amy Lee =D.

Muse
Since I was showing my Evanescence fangirlism at school, I became friends with a girl (who is now one of best friends) who also liked them. We began talking and she was going on and on about this band called Muse. My knowledge of rock was, and still is, pretty limited so I hadn't heard of any of the bands she was ranting on about. Anyway, she let me borrow Origin of Symmetry and Absolution and from the point I pressed play to the second the albums finished I was hooked. I bought their CD's, DVD's, anything that had Muse on it I had. I loved the music, the lyrics, the vocals, the fact they were British (big up britland) just everything. There wasn't one song I didn't like. They're became my favourite band.

Jack off Jill
Clear Hearts, Grey Flowers was the album that made me a fan. I loved the opening track "When I am Queen", it was so dark and haunting. I never really could tolerate screaming vocals but I got used to them after listening how powerful they could sound in a certain context within a song.

Slipknot
After swearing i'd never ever listen to them or like them, I gave in when I saw them live. I thought they put on an amazing show, and as musicians they are extremely talented and know how to make powerful songs.

Lacuna Coil
Obvious connections to Evanescence, I heard Swamped on tv and loved it. I purchased Comalies and it took a few listens but they became a favourite. I even met them when I saw them live =o.

Nightwish
Since I were a kid I always loved orchestrated music in films, I just loved violins and choirs and all that. When I heard Nightwish for the first time was when I was really into Evanescence and heard Nightwish were Evanescence with talent. So I went on good ol' Kazaa and found The Carpenter. I hated it, and to this day I still hate that song. So on the release of their album "Once" I was hearing reviews that said the album was incredible. I heard it, and was completely blown away. It was perfect, my love of orchestra's, choirs, female vocals and rock music were all bundled into one package. I bought all their albums and saw them live too, i'm interested in the new vocalist although it'll be hard to replace Tarja.

Within Temptation
Fantasy themed, beautiful female vocals, orchestras, what wasn't to like?

Tristania
I saw them perform with Nightwish and I was just hypnotised by them, very dark yet beautiful.

Epica/After Forever
On my hunt to find more bands with the similar symphonic metal genre I found these two beauties.

Kamelot
I discovered these by accident when I was looking for Epica albums, since one of their albums is called Epica, but I'm glad I stumbled upon them.

Eisley/Imogen Heap
I remember ava sending me two albums that she fell in love with, one was Room Noises by Eisley and the other was Speak for Yourself by Imogen Heap. I didn't really give them a proper chance to begin with, but after seeing the lyric "I wasn't prepared for this" in ava's msn screename I felt compelled to check it out. I loved the song, and soon found it was an old EP version. I downloaded the official copy of the album and loved it. Eisley were just so...cute! Their songs were very positive and Stacy and Sherri's vocals were so sweet.
I became to be an Imogen Heap fan when I heard "Hide and Seek", it was different yet beautiful so I gave the full album a listen and became a fan, yay =D.

Some random artists and bands that I discovered over the years:
Bjork
Black Eyed Peas
Blue Oyster Cult
Bullet for my Valentine
Coldplay
Damien Rice
David Bowie
Delerium
Enigma
Flyleaf
Green Day
H.I.M
Hans Zimmer
Harry Gregson Williams
InMe
John Williams
Kelly Clarkson
Kittie
Linkin Park
Lostprophets
Marilyn Manson
My Chemical Romance
Nobuo Uematsu
Pink
Prince
Pussycat Dolls (that's right)
t.A.T.u
The Dresdon Dolls
The Gathering
The Killers
The Prodigy
The Used
Trivium
U2
Utada Hikaru
Visions of Atlantis

Jam it back in, in the dark.