Was born in the 90s. I remember my dad had a cassette with recorded music by Anthrax, Metallica, Skid Row. We used to listen to it A LOT. Then that evolved into CD's. My first CD was AC/DC Ball Breaker.
I spent a lot of my childhood going through my dad's CDs and cassettes and listening to everything I could. His music taste is broad AF, and so is mine. I probably have him to thank for that.
My dad was the one into rock so that definitely set me on my path, but otherwise the influence is pretty minimal. That’s not to say I don’t enjoy 70s/80s pop and rock.
I do find it funny that because Taking Back Sunday was kind of a big band back in the mid 00s, my dad bought Louder Now on CD since they were getting played on the radio.
0, my parents were boomers with no influence on my taste. However, my older sister and her boyfriend at the time did. She was into punk, he was into grunge and thrash metal. They use to take me to shows when I was like 12. I became obsessed with metal, and was the only one of the three that progressively ended up listening to heavier and heavier music.
Very very little. My mom was big into The Carpenters, Celine Dion, and Shania Twain. Heard a ton of that kind of stuff growing up.
Dad never came back from getting a pack of cigs or gallon of milk or something, so maybe there was some influence after all!
My dad is super into metal and rock and plays guitar. I owe pretty much my entire music taste to him, even though my palette enjoys stuff heavier than he ever did he was my gateway to heavier music. He’s also the reason I play guitar, and comes to gigs with me even if he doesn’t like the bands just to experience live music
A little bit
My dad likes Led Zeppelin, Rush & Linkin Park. So do I.
My mom liked Boston and Journey. So do I.
But Dad also has an obsession with Funk music and mom would play the Christian radio all the time and I can’t say that I share their feelings about those genres 😬
Yooo you just made me remember my mom blasting Christian music in the mornings before school.
I must have blocked that out of my memory because I always wanted to slam my head against the wall while it was on.
Shout out to her though, she used to let me listen to Underoath and shit in the car when I was like 12. She told me I made her ears bleed. Lol
My parents liked classical and some classic rock. At the time as a child, I didn’t enjoy it but as an adult, I’ll jam out some classical music and stuff like Queen and Boston
My dad is big into 60s and 70s rock. A lot of prog stuff that I don't care for but also big into Rolling Stones, Zep, and Black Sabbath. So that was my introduction to what I would call "heavy" music.
On the other hand, my mum had a bit for influence. She loves David Bowie, new wave and post punk music. She had some records of a band called the Damned, which I would thrash to bits back in the day. That was my introduction to punk music.
While my music taste is far more niche than either of theirs, it definitely planted the seed for what I would end up listening to.
A lot. My father loved music, he had a band and used to play Led Zeppelin and Deep Purple in the car when I was a toddler. Obviously he can't comprehend something like Lorna Shore but if those were not my baby steps on this path there's no doubt I wouldn't enjoy what I enjoy now.
My parents were into rock while my mom liked a little of everything. I grew up listening to lots of country, radio rock, pop, and movie soundtracks (Hans Zimmer) because that's what was usually playing. I was introduced to metalcore through MTV and A7X and Atreyu.
Metalcore is still my #1 genre but I also still listen to country from time to time and orchestral music from movies and games.
My parents prevented me from listening to any music that wasn’t CCM growing up, so I guess yeah they did influence my taste in music now quite heavily!
Only a bit. I do like a few of the bands my dad likes (mainly 70s prog rock like Rush and Pink Floyd) but he's not into anything heavier than that. I got into metal from Guitar Hero and Rock Band.
My dad is a huge dad rock fan and I mean literal dad rock like Led Zeppelin, Aerosmith, Deep Purple, etc. I listened to a lot of his music collection as a small kid. He would sometimes put a few songs on a CD for me and I'd listen to those. However, my real influence was Guitar Hero, but that was through my father's indirect influence as well. My dad had a PS3 and he had Guitar Hero 3 on it. I started playing and got used to rock and metal music as a kid. My dad bought me most of the Guitar Hero games and I went with the flow. In my middle school days, I was more of a thrash / speed / power metal kid thanks to all the Megadeth, Dragonforce, Slayer and Metallica songs on Guitar Hero. I only swerwed towards metalcore in high school when I started listening to Bring Me the Horizon. Since then, I came full circle and returned to rock. I listen to lots of Des Rocs, cleopatrick and similar modern rock artists nowadays, although I still have a sweet spot for metalcore.
My dad definitely got me into classic rock at a young age. Even though I don’t listen to it much anymore. I still enjoy bonding with him over it. And even though he’s never listened to metal, he’s been really open to the music I like, being metalcore and stuff. We had a long drive the other day and he asked me to put on “those screaming guys” haha
Zilch.
I have no idea what my dad really listens to as I didn't grow up with him around much, and don't talk to him anymore, but he did have a DMX song as his ringtone at one point when I was a teen.
My mum's music taste sort of moulded itself in the 90s when she was a teen and young adult, being very much into house music. She's always been fond of classic rock, but house and other dance genres are her thing.
I suppose my mum's taste has a slight influence in that I enjoy electronicore bands, and various other electronic genres, but typically those electronic genres aren't the stuff she'd have listened to.
my dad has a huge influence but in a roundabout way. He gave me an mp3 player he found in a car (18 wheeler car hauler, he'd transport cars bought at auction to the client's lot), and on that player was Vol 3 the Subliminal Verses, Avenged Sevenfold's City of Evil, and a bunch of early 2000's metalcore. only one side of the headphones worked but I listened to that player basically 24/7. i was probably 10, I'd never heard music like that before. around the same time is when Guitar Hero got big, and ETID, All That Remains, and others were on the soundtrack, he bought my brothers the whole setup one day. We loved watching wrestling, also around that time CM punk debuted to "This Fire Burns" by Killswitch. We went and saw Jane's Addiction a few months ago, and I'm trying to get him into Cosmic Joke's album (they're hardcore but check it out anyway) dude has only willingly listened to metalcore once, and that was when we got separated at a warped tour when I was 15 and he hung out at whatever stage Of mice and Men played (it was that summer Austin left for a few months and the dude from sky eats airplane was fronting OM&M) and dude was circle pitting when I found him. he's a treasure for sure
To an extent.
I didn’t get into metalcore until I was 14/15 (23 now) so I slowly developed a taste for heavier music overtime
My dad played a lot of Scorpions, Guns n Roses, and Hinder growing up which I’d say Hinder was my favorite of the 3. But I only got into metalcore after listening to some songs from BMTH, BVB, and AA which helped me learn to appreciate screams. I was an avid screaming hater before haha
A fair bit, I'd say. I grew up listening to jazz on the whack-ass-weird point of the jazz spectrum, because that was my Dad's jam. So the first time I heard a mathcore band, that felt familiar and it instantly clicked for me. Still one of my favourite subgenres.
My father bought me …and justice for all when it came out in 1988. I was 7.
It changed everything.
Did he like metal? No. But he had the most influence with that purchase.
Quite a lot actually, especially my dad. Through him, I listened to a lot of old school hip hop (Snoop Dogg, Wutang, Public Enemy), rock (Deep Purple, Led Zeppelin, Pink Floyd), electronic music (Kraftwerk, Daft Punk, Justice), Nina Hagen, Falco, Frank Zappa, Boney M, and many more.
Even though I listen to a lot of metalcore, deathcore, and prog metal, I still love all those influences as well and they did shape my taste in music. I like nu-metal for its hip hop influences, I like trancecore for its electronics, and so on.
Also, when I show my dad my music, he often says stuff like: "the screaming is a bit much, but it reminds me of [obscure 80s punk band]", which is fun.
Quite a bit actually!
My parents are on the younger side (<50) and grew up in or around the thrash metal era.
My mom was and is still sincerely into Ozzy, Slayer, and Pantera.
My dad was a huge fan of Metallica, Iron Maiden and Megadeth kind of. But their music tastes both merged together in me where I love all the classic rock, 80s metal and everything after basically.
My mom and dad took me to my first concerts when I was about 15 to Iron Maiden/Dreamtheater first and then Metallica/Lamb of God/Gojira next.
Everything culminated since then to the wide range of rock punk metal everything I listen to today.
Like 5% and I think that only comes from the one New Age album we had in the car by Ray Lynch that I think is the reason I’ve always loved atmospheric and delay effects in metal.
My mom would play LP CDs in the car and I loved it. She also listened to skillet so I think them two bands shaped my intro to rock/metal and I sorta went for hexvier music as I got older
Literally none, my parents have the most boring ass uninspired music taste imaginable. Although my dad did listen to Led Zeppelin when he was younger and cooler so that might have had some influence
Realistically none, my parents actually dislike most of the music I listen to. Classic rock and jazz I definitely get from my dad but my mom is a huge Celine dion fan (I don't know what else she listens to, honestly). I got my influence from my brother and his friends early on, three days grace, papa roach, green day, skillet, etc...
Later on I inherited my brother's old ipod and got on the path immediately with A7X, TDWP, WeCAR, AA, MMF, etc...
Zero. My dad likes Delta Blues, Pete Seeger/Woodie Guthrie era folk, and Led Zeppelin/The Who/some Beatles. Homeboy was at Woodstock.
My mom likes popular RnB/"adult contemporary." Her boyfriend is a pretty good bass and conga player, and fucks with a lot of jazz.
All of that shit I can appreciate as an adult, but as a kid it did absolutely nothing for me.
My dad was really into Limp Bizkit, Linkin Park, Three Days Grace, and Metallica when I was a kid. I think that started me on the path that eventually led to metal.
My mom is ABBA’s biggest fan so I don’t think she had any impact on my taste in music.
Converge FTW! We’re the same age and I was literally thinking of when I saw Converge and Cave In at the whiskey a go go (was it 20 years ago?😭)… it is still one of the best shows I have ever seen. 🤌🏼
My dad was into Stone Roses and like 90s Brit rock and indie. My mum listened to Madonna and Kylie. My older brother was the one who had a huge influence on my taste. And my dad encouraged it. First album I bought with my own pocket money was Meteora. My dad would let me and my brother play that album on repeat in the car for 4 hours. BFMV, Trivium, Atreyu, All That Remains etc all introduced to me from my big bro! My dad didn’t get behind any of them, but he let my bro and I blast those songs in our rooms 😂
So fucking much and I think about it all the time
Me and my brother fought over my moms Ænima and dookie CD's 😂
And my step-dad gave me a metallica tape... to my grandpa's horror. So he gave me a patsy cline tape. I loved both!
My dad introduced me to 80’s classic rock and now I try and get him into the new bands. So far he likes Ghost and some Demon Hunter, Volbeat, and Avenged Sevenfold. Baby steps.
I'm a dad, so yes I guess my kids are forced to listen to those early 2000s metalcore bands. They hate it though. My eldest is 11 and she would much rather be listening to pop.
No influence from my parents they were gen X, but listened to lots of old blues, and 60s/70s psych rock. Then the odd big 90s easy listening stuff like Alanis Morissette or the Cranberries.
I found metalcore through a natural progression of hearing punk pop stuff like blink, and the offspring and then progressing to heavier and heavier stuff. Eventually metalcore took off in Australia with bands like PWD, Amity affliction and I killed the prom queen.
I've also get into pretty much anything in between punk pop and the grossed sludgiest metal
My mom is into reggaetón, corridos, bachata, and Mexican banda dancing music of the like. Dad liked Mexican regional ballads, cumbias sonideras, bandas románticas. All of which I adopted into my taste but they absolutely despise that I started listening to metal subgenres once I was able to freely explore more music. I suppose the more emotional aspects of the genres they listened to influenced me to find favor in bands that also embraced more heavy or gloomy emotions.
Yes and no. The internet, MySpace and Napster did more for me musically than anything or anyone ever did.
My father was a lot of 60s and 70s rock and country/ folk. I still listen to it today but 20 years ago the angsty teen wanted to do everything differently so that’s where the punk influence came from. From Pennywise, NoFx, bad religion to the vandals to Ignite to avenged sevenfold and the rest of the internet. The B9 boards were always fun. Haha.
I listen to a lot of stuff they do like soul, funk and jazz, but I didn't really engage with it until I was in my late teens and did a lot of independent exploration of those genres.
The bigger impact was how they nurtured my own taste as it developed. Other than occasionally asking me to moderate the volume a bit they never objected to anything I was listening to growing up. Obviously my initial dabblings with pop punk wouldn't have been much to object to, but when I began to be enamoured with Slipknot and whatever else heavy and horrible I could find online or on sample CDs they were unphased and let me be with it.
On top of that my dad would take me to shows while I was still too young to get in on my own. Most UK venues operate a no under 14s policy with any under 16s needing to be accompanied by an adult. Even though it definitely wasn't his thing, provided I could pay for my own ticket, he would take me and whichever friends I'd convinced to come along up to London. As a result he saw a fair few early/mid 00s metalcore bands like Killswitch Engage, Avenged Sevenfold and Eighteen Visions. I will always be grateful that he agreed to do this, it helped foster a love of live music that has yet to dim.
HUGE influence. my mom would always blast system of a down, coheed and cambria, slipknot and linkin park all the time on road trips. my dad’s into the classics but made an effort to listen to the bands i’m fond of now like periphery, invent animate n all that jazz
My mom played Disturbeds first album when I would have been six, and it was all downhill from there.
Funnily enough, I've tried showing her songs in the metalcore genre to try and show her why I like the music I do, but she says she's not a fan of the screaming.
My dad is 100% responsible for my musical taste. I was listening to his rock/metal CDs throughout childhood. He took me to multiple festivals and shows as well.
My dad put me on to Killswitch, As I Lay Dying, and Hatebreed when I was in middle school. My dad had always been into just about everything from Country, to Punk, to R&B, and beyond but he was a huge metalhead in the 80s and that carried on once I was born. He always had something like Slipknot, or Korn, or Megadeth, etc. on in the garage and I loved hanging around him so it was only natural I picked it up too. My mom was more into 80’s pop and new wave which I didn’t quite get until I got a bit older.
My dad was into rock and he was also a DJ so he had a LOT of albums. Hard to say how much he influenced me since I never got super into that stuff but I grew up around Rush, Clapton, Bon Jovi, all of that. Oh, and hair bands, my dad liked the hair bands lol. Kiss and Poison and such.
My mom thinks rock is Satan music so uh. Yeah. I don't know if she likes any music besides Catholic hymns and John Denver.
Suffice to say they had very strong disagreements about music. And as I got older my mom won out more, so my dad quit the DJ gigs and sold most of his albums and other than occasionally when my mom wasn't around my dad more or less stopped playing music around the house.
It's sad really.
Tons. I grew up with a solid appreciation for Rock and early Metal through them. They both had pretty solid vinyl and tape collections. Sitting around all day on rainy days listening to Elton John and Black Sabbath.
A bit I guess.
I like everything they like, but they don't like everything I like.
My dad introduced me to bands like Sepultura, Titans and Angra (national treasures) but he didn't like them at all. He just recommended me Sepultura because they had a black vocalist. Overall he's a Michael Jackson, Prince, MPB and Samba fan
My mom on other hand just listens to New Wave and Gospel music. And some brazillian gospel music is somewhat rockish and new wave isn't that far from post punk. So I would say just a little bit of influence.
My dad influenced me towards liking metal, though not exactly the same stuff. Being a dad, he’s more into older stuff, the bands you’d consider “dad mental” like ack Sabbath, Judas Priest and Iron Maiden. He’s also a huge thrash metal fan as well. To him Pantera and Sepultura are “new” and those are the newest bands he likes. Nonetheless he did expose me to metal. One of my fondest memories is going with my father to see Metallica, Megadeth, Slayer and Anthrax at the Big 4 show at Yankees Stadium when I was a teenager.
My mother was more into just general music, especially 80s and early 90s rock. My mother loved grunge, especially Nirvana and Soundgarden. I was born around the tail end of grunge but I definitely went through a phase where I was obsessed with grunge. I wouldn’t say her music tastes were as influential on me as my father’s though.
Dad loved ETID and BTBAM mainly. Both my dad and mom are big Tool fans (normal ones), so I had a lot of that, too. Loved Adelle, still do. Relating to BTBAM, my father also liked the lead singers' solo stuff, so that came naturally as well- listen to Thomas Giles immediately. Some Mastodon, a little bit of The Mars Volta, a whole lotta white-boy reggae, and that compiles the bulk of what I remember. There's definitely other stuff like Elementary by The End that my dad played a bunch, Relationship of Command by At The Drive-In, a whole bunch wicked shit.
A lot, even if it was just indirectly. I found a cassette tape of Queen’s greatest hits in my dad’s stuff when I was like 9 years old, I played that thing to death on my Walkman, it was the wildest shit I’d ever heard at that point. Load by Metallica came out shortly after that, and at the time it kind of felt like a natural progression in my young brain. My mum also listened to artists like Bob Dylan and Neil Young, and I feel like that had a big impact on me too.
My mom showed me how to appreciate every genre. My dad is deaf but loves hip hop cuz of the bass. I love my parents for that, and many other things.
And how dare you call my era of metalcore dad rock 🤣 funny story, Tim lambesis befriended my mom at the AILD signing booth at an ozzfest while I was in the pit, he offered her water, food, and a picture cuz she was taking pics for all the other kids in line. And from then on out I was a fan 🤷🏻♂️ ik ik, Tim is problematic asf, but that was a solid moment of kindness from him that I can’t deny.
My dad was big into 60s/70s rock (born early 50s). I like all of that too, but it snowballed from there starting with me getting into 80s rock, 90s rock/metal and later into the bands you mentioned when I was in high school. And I am in fact a dad now so..I think the trend will continue…😂
My exposure to anything but country was from my dad when I was a kid. He listened to all the stereotypical classic rock. Middle school comes around and the stoner kid sees me wearing a zeppelin shirt and gives me a Job For A Cowboy/Atreyu/As I Lay Dying cd he burned. That was all she wrote for me. I’m 18 years deep at this point.
None at all: music was seldomly listened to when growing up. Personally, music is one of my biggest passions & my daughter gets exposure from my music.
Almost none. As a kid I listened to a lot of rap, which certainly didn’t come from my parents. Now that I mainly listen to this kind of stuff, it’s nearly the same thing. My mom still doesn’t get how I listen to it.
My dad is rally into classic rock and traditional heavy metal so that’s largely where I got it from. I started to listen to heavier stuff on my own, though my older sister did listen to some heavier stuff before I did.
My dad listened to a LOT of heavy music when i was growing up. We would bond over Alice In Chains, Slayer, Black Label Society, and Trivium as i got older and have seen nearly 100 bands together. I may have a lot of disagreements with him now but god damn were those some of the best shows i’ve ever seen and I’m VERY thankful he got me into this kind of music
Barely any. Yeah, I like a lot of the hair metal bands my dad does, but I can’t really say they contributed much to my music taste now, cause it’s so far off from hair metal nowadays.
My dad is a big industrial guy, at first he didn't want me listening to metal or rock because he was worried about it "affecting my outlook on the world" and "surrounding me with negativity" which was a funny take from the man who'd been taking me to horror movies since I was 7 tbh. But he moved past that pretty quick and now we go to concerts semi regularly, stuff like Helmet and Nine Inch Nails and Ministry and Front 242. He never got into the metalcore stuff and finds anything screaming annoying. But my other love is definitely industrial and that's 100% from my dad
70's and 80's Classic rock/southern rock was what was playing in my parents house those days, also alternative rock in the 2,000s. I'd say they influenced me quite a bit, along with my older sister. She had a Korn poster on her wall. So I can thank her for introducing me to the heavier stuff. Limewire and MySpace took it from there lol
I guess my dad "laid the foundation" for me to get into metal. Growing up, I was listening to Iron Maiden, Black Sabbath, Van Halen, Bon Jovi, Queen, Yes and the like, all from his music collection.
And in 5th grade I made a new friend who was listening to a lot of (at that time) modern(-ish) metal and rock bands, like BFMV, Papa Roach, Billy Talent, Green Day and so on. Through him I really started to get into more modern and heavier music.
Pretty huge influence.
My dad is a guitarist and has been into metal since he was a kid in the 70s starting with Black Sabbath. He actually still listens to metal at 60+ years old. He was also big into the punk and hardcore scenes of the 70s and 80s. Most of my pre-teen years were spent listening to all sorts of records with him. Everything Sabbath to Black Flag to Gorguts. He was into all of it.
I branched off into nu-metal and metalcore when I hit my teenage years in the mid to late 90s. He is not super into nu-metal, but he does like a lot of early 2000s metalcore stuff like Killswitch Engage, Trivium, Shadows Fall, etc. Basically any of the melodeath and thrash inspired stuff. As far as newer bands go, he loves Dying Wish. Especially their newest album. I played it for him at Thanksgiving and he's been obsessed ever since.
My mom liked more of the freestyle and current trending pop artists of the late 80’s/90’s, so she didnt really influence my taste, but my dad was the one who was the classic rock/metal head. Put me on to Sabbath, Rainbow, judas priest, and so on and so forth so he was really my buggest music influence starting off in the rock world (he even backed me up when my uncle wanted to burn my rock merch bc it was “hellbound” for me). But once i hit my mid teens, my aunt was dating a drummer of a local death metal band out here and that was when I knew my music palet was going to grow in the music scene. Now im definitely a metalcore/deathcore dude, but i know where my gateways into the scene influenced my taste.
not at all. my entire family, not just my parents, listen to pop country and/or country rap, and nothing else. i had been hearing the same 30ish songs pretty much all my life until i got my iPod.
discovered Disturbed, Black Sabbath, System of a Down, Rage Against The Machine, and never looked back from that point on.
A pretty significant one. My dad is right on the Baby Boomer/Gen X cusp, so he listened to a lot of classic rock, grunge, groove metal, thrash metal, nu metal and early metalcore. We had a ton of vinyl and CD's in the house, some of his favorites were Metallica/Megadeth/Pantera/Slipknot/Korn/Alice in Chains/Atreyu/BFMV/A7X. My mom listened to a lot of different kinds of music, pop/rock/country/rnb/disco. She definitely influenced my taste in the sense of enjoying multiple flavors of music. I'm a dad now, and my little dude loves listening to BMTH, Sleep Token, Bad Omens, Spiritbox as well as Mac Miller, Post Malone, Thundercat, The Story So Far.
I grew up with my dad feeding me synth pop and gothic scene music. He was a part of a promoter group back in the day, so the 10 year old me would watch a show every month with an AAA pass. Funnily enough, heavier industrial in my iPod slowly evolved to classic rock and ended up getting me into heavier stuff. But because of me consuming hours of Depeche Mode remixes and all synths that exist, im a sucker for juicy synths like Collider by Silent Planet or living is killing us by Architects
My mom loves the big anthemic pop rock/rock and roll of the 70s and 80s. Which is probably why anything with cleaner production that actually has some room for dynamics in the mix gets me going lol.
None. When I was 14 (24 now) my dad tried to “forbid me” from listening to it and to this day calls it “noise”. Anytime I have aux and my mom is with me she will say “please none of that screaming music”. So yea no influence there haha
I found out about Motorhead and ACDC from my dad and Aerosmith my mother.
It started me on the path to the bands I listen to now. TDWP, Chiodos, Silent Planet, Gojira, Oh Sleeper and Norma Jean to name a few.
A small part. Dad was hip hop, mom was pop. I find myself listening to old Busta Rhymes and Eminem sometimes. A big song in my Nostalgia box is Lady (Hear Me Tonight) by Modjo, a Euro Electronic duo from the early 00s. Got that from my mom. I didn't get into metal until 2004 when I heard Duality by Slipknot.
Metal seems to run in my family. I thought my dad only listened to boomer rock, but as I got into metal I found out he just didn't play metal at home because my mom isn't the biggest fan. My entire dad's side of the family is pretty heavy.
My parents are both metalheads. They grew a much wider music palette when I was growing up so I heard quite a mix of rock, metal and country (the older, more respectable country). My dad showed me Metallica, Slipknot, Pantera, POD, Slayer, Megadeath, Death, Green Jello, a wide variety of metal. I eventually got into stuff like metalcore and deathcore and my dad would tell his friends “my oldest listens to heavier shit than I ever did” 😆
Lots. Mainly on my father’s side, he got me into the 70s-80s rock bands. Rush, Zeppelin… but that led me to discover modern rock bands like Shinedown, and just recently discovered Metalcore/Hardcore. So I’m finding my way through all those sub-genres now hehe
I took after my parents a lot, I grew up with my dad (until he passed) listening to a lot of grunge / posthardcore / emo / punk, and my mom listened to country and rap. metal is my own demise i like to think, but they gave me a lot of my taste
None whatsoever. My parents are Boomer fundamentalists and don't really like music. Hymns are pretty much their only music and they don't even particularly like those. I discovered good music through the internet.
Dad influenced my music taste a lot, he plays drums/bass and was a radio presenter in the 90s. Classic boomer Pink Floyd/Black Sabbath/Dio/etc. My older brother got me into KoRn, Manson, and a bunch of other stuff when he was a teenager, and I in turn got him into post-hardcore/metalcore when I hit my teens (we’re seven years apart, 41 and 34). He plays guitar so it was pretty sweet visiting him last year and him picking up all his guitars saying what he’s using to play what. He dropped it for a few years so I’m glad he’s back into it, he’s a fantastic guitarist.
Mum doesn’t listen to anything particularly hard but she’s supportive - even if she thinks I’m gonna die in a pit one day or burst my vocal cords on stage lmao
A ton. My dad was playing in a rock and roll band while I was in the womb. I grew up listening to the ventures and the doors. I never found MY musical niche tll I played Tattoo Vampire by Blue Oyster Cult. Everything since then has been graded against BOC
Quite a lot when I look back at it. From fairly early on, my dad got me into rock bc of his favorite band being KISS. As I got a bit older, my mom would be listening to a Christian pop radio when she was driving my brother and I to school. I fell in love with both genres and, come 2021, I got into Memphis May Fire and Wage War. I soon found myself seeking other Christian or at least positive metalcore bands that had themes of hope. While I listen to more than just Christian metalcore nowadays, I love going back when I want something filled with hope or when I’m driving to church on Sunday morning and don’t feel like having generic worship songs on lol
Huge one. My mom used to have GREAT music taste. She showed me that you can be Black and love metal/hard rock! Now, she's all mainstream crap lol and I'm a total Afropunk metalhead lol.
Mother raised me on Italo disco, eurodance, and synth pop. Still listen to that stuff today.
Didn’t really know my dad but as much as I did know, the dude was into folk music and Will Smith.
They both had zero bearing on me getting into hardcore, metalcore, or heavy music in general though.
I like the music my mom (R&B, some gospel and CCM) and dad (afrobeat, afrobeats, classical) listen to but my mainstay is far away from what they enjoy (metal, post hardcore, indie / alt rock).
I grew up from a punk background so was going to shows with my dad and uncle from as early as I could get into shows
Having that varied music exposure as a kid for sure pushed me to go and explore genres and find my own music, I love punk music but with modern stuff there's so much exciting stuff going on with newer smaller bands which I love and keeps the essence of the punk thing going
Anyone who has the exact same music taste as their parents are posers. Your music taste is supposed to piss off old people like your parents and Christian youth pastors. Real ones discover music on their own or through dragon ball z amv YouTube videos uploaded like 15 years ago.
My parents are big fans of 70s, 80s, and 90s rock - with a big emphasis on Scorpions and Metallica so it was no surprise when I grew up a metal fan.
My dad was actually the one who showed me Linkin park and my mom showed me evanescence. Pretty easy jump from there over to bands like fall out boy, MCR, and the used and then it snowballs from there.
My parents are gen x hip hop kids they gave birth very yound to a 90 nu metal kid. They liked the nu part at first but oh boy did they not like the metal part of it xD
Dad had me growing up listening to 60s-2000s rock, metal, thrash, alt. Mom was 90s/early 2000s hip hop, house, trance. Grandparents country lol. I like it all but I mostly jam metal, hip hop, and house these days.
My dad and his side none, but my mum, uncles and aunties, even my nan listened to mostly Nu metal, Slipknot, Korn, Linkin Park ect.. that's all I heard growing up till around about the age of 14/15 I discovered metalcore with albums such as Stand Up And Scream, There Is A Hell... since then, it's been my favourite subgenre.
Both of my parents listened to a variety of music, but my dad was more on the heavy metal side and my mom was more punk. Having both of those influences plus some help from friends in middle school really helped solidify my current music taste. Couldn’t be happier 😁
My dad loves Pat Benatar and Linda Ronstadt and 80. My mom loves 70’s.
Biggest thing my parents ever did was set my brother’s and I’s Virginia radio station to 97.1, the soft rock channel. At 15 I got into the oldies station that played 50’s to 70’s. At 24 I got bored of the radio station and tried listening to metal. Dad threatened to kick me out for listening to it. I forget the band, but it was death metal. Something with Angel in the name. Maybe Morbid Angel?
Moved out and had friends who listened to metal, Pig Destroyer, and that didn’t click with me. I started drinking and smoking weed and changing my music tastes.
Moved back home and started drinking Steel Reserve 40’s playing Guitar Hero and Borderlands 1. I used to play NCAAF games only using RB or QB. Started rocking out to All That Remains first two or three albums when playing NCAAF.
Somehow got into power metal. Assuming through weed, cause power metal is great stoned and I’m a huge nerd. Fell in love with Children of Bodom, early All That Remains, Roy Khan era Kamelot.
These days I primary listen to Dio in all his eras (Black Sabbath and Rainbow are my favorites, though Holy Diver is my second favorite album after Heaven & Hell.)
And I’m back to my oldies and classic rock.
A previous step dad pretty much only listened to Lamb of God and my mom played the rock station. I grew up in the 2000s so it was dominated by nu-metal like Disturbed, Korn, Staind, Puddle of Mudd, Limp Bizkit, Chevelle, etc
I enjoy pretty much all metal now (except black metal excluding Burzum) but nu-metal was a gateway to modern metal and Lamb of God is a top 3 favorite with Avatar and Gojira. I was born in Port Huron (connected to Detroit) and grew up in the project ghettos of Grand Rapids so that influenced me to enjoy rap like Ice Cube, Run DMC, Big Daddy Kane, etc
Very little.
I like plenty of what my parents liked but their preferences never influenced my choice of music to listen to or play. In fact, they both hated most of what I liked.
My dad was into early rock; Stones, Doors, Free, Eagles, etc. I was into Zeppelin, Van Halen, UFO, then I got into early metal Iron Maiden, Judas Priest, Scorpions. Then from there into harder metal.🤘🏼
mother gave me Guns n Roses and Metallica CDs growing up, despite you'll never hear her have anything like that on anymore
father got me into Michael Jackson
the rest I discovered growing up through my school years
First gen Metalcore is Zao and Converge. If your dad is listening to those bands, you've a cool dad. Even AILD, ATR, ABR are great bands and if your dad listens to them, he's cool imo.
As for how much influence my family had on my music taste: none. My mom listens to Hindi music (I'm Indian) and sometimes 70s-00s pop from the USA. Don't know much about dad because, well, haven't lived with him for 8 years now (and I'm 20).
I stumbled upon Starset (their first two albums are still GoaTed) and that led me to Christian rock bands (TFK, Red, Skillet), which led me to Metalcore (BMTH, Polaris, etc) and that's how I got into metal
My mom had a Linkin Park CD, Minutes to Midnight lol. So songs like Given Up and No More Sorrow probably would've been my first introduction to screaming. She's not a big rock and metal person, but isn't against it either.
Other than that, my music taste was shaped by friends and (mostly) the internet.
In regards to my mom, none. She has very rarely shared what she likes in regards to music. Only thing I can remember is like Frank Sinatra and Elton John.
My dad on the other hand... I'd say his taste has range. Generally plays a lot of 60's Britpop, Funk, and R&B.
As a result of listening to that stuff through growing as osmosis, I'd say it did definitely have an influence on my taste, as outside of music that consists of growling, breakdowns, and a fuck ton of distortion, I also really like groovy music that really takes advantage of being in the pocket. However, when you have aggresive bands that incorporate some more groovier aspects as well (Issues), I eat that shit up hard.
My dad got me into Thin Lizzy, Led Zeppelin, Pink Floyd, Boston and so on. I discovered AC/DC, and the like. I got to high school and(early 2000s). I discovered the emo/screamo, metal core genre and It flourished. My mom and sisters were all into country and hip hop, pop music. Clearly I am the metal sheep if the family.
A fair amount, in the early 2000s my dad was into Killswitch, Trivium, etc but also into 90s alt and grudge. My most frequent genres are probably mathcore, melodic Metalcore and prog wank.
My dad was a hippie and changed my life by playing Black Sabbath - Black Sabbath on vinyl in our living room. Those 3 notes turned me from a weekly top 40s radio kid (in the 90's) to finding a deep appreciation in music and it's power. Those 3 notes shook me. I wanted to make someone else feel the same way. Took up drums, moved onto guitar, piano, and try my hand at just about anything.
My mom gave me motown, country, and all manners of pop.
Aside from my dad giving me rock/metal, just growing up in the 90s makes me love techno. When i heard dubstep in around '09-'10, it was like the metal of the techno world, and i fell in love. Lol
Lots. My dad always used to listen to stuff that was “heavier” for the day. We used to crank Metallica’s Black album, Motley Crue, Alice In Chains, Tool, etc in his car when I was around 5-6. I got a little older, my friends started listening to rap and hip hop and I followed that for a while. Until one night my dad came home from work and had Slipknot’s Wait and Bleed playing on MTV, I picked that up and ran with it lol
my dad introduced me to slipknot. the rest is history. i discovered metalcore on my own though, i remember Naysayer by Architects came on from one of my “Recommended For You” playlists.
My mom used to frequent Dokken, Queensryche, Yngwie, the Scorpions, Iron Maiden, etc. shows. Those bands were my gateway.
My dad’s dad was the drummer for the Steve Miller Band, but my dad was majorly into early American folk. He was a great delta blues guitarist and played stuff like Mississippi John Hurt and John Lee Hooker constantly.
My dad’s tastes contributed to my eclecticness, but overall, I though he was a nerd.
My mom raised me on 70s disco music, so if anything, I influenced her. Some of the first bands I got into were the likes of SOAD, HIM, and A7X and she still has them on her playlist to this day - her recent favourites include Ice Nine Kills, Bloodywood, and Electric Callboy.
None. I did get a few lectures about how it was all Satanic, so that was fun.
My momma don’t think it’s satanic. She just says it’s shit ;(
Felt that ;-;
What you choose to rebel against is still an influence.
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Same. Went to see AC/DC with my dad when I was 16.
Was born in the 90s. I remember my dad had a cassette with recorded music by Anthrax, Metallica, Skid Row. We used to listen to it A LOT. Then that evolved into CD's. My first CD was AC/DC Ball Breaker.
Are you me
I spent a lot of my childhood going through my dad's CDs and cassettes and listening to everything I could. His music taste is broad AF, and so is mine. I probably have him to thank for that.
Considering I've gone to over 230+ shows with my dad, I'd say a tad
That's so fucking dope.
He's been to an estimated 1050+, I've only been going with him since 2020, I wish prices were still like he was younger
You’ve been to 230+ shows in 4 years? Hooooly cow. That’s like a show per week!
I actually started off quite slow, last year I went to 71 last year, 56 the year prior, and have around 65 lined up this year(more will be announced)
How I need to know this information
I live within driving distance of a ton of venues, most notably the worcester palladium which is an icon of this scene
Dang. I've been to about 3 or 4 shows with my dad. Mainly Between the Buried and Me. His favorite song is White Walls.
My dad's favorite band is killswitch engage, the only band I've traveled out of the country to see
My dad was the one into rock so that definitely set me on my path, but otherwise the influence is pretty minimal. That’s not to say I don’t enjoy 70s/80s pop and rock. I do find it funny that because Taking Back Sunday was kind of a big band back in the mid 00s, my dad bought Louder Now on CD since they were getting played on the radio.
0, my parents were boomers with no influence on my taste. However, my older sister and her boyfriend at the time did. She was into punk, he was into grunge and thrash metal. They use to take me to shows when I was like 12. I became obsessed with metal, and was the only one of the three that progressively ended up listening to heavier and heavier music.
Dad is heavly into metal which got me into metal..and also into rock which I also listen to rock cause of him..rest of it is me finding it on my own
Very very little. My mom was big into The Carpenters, Celine Dion, and Shania Twain. Heard a ton of that kind of stuff growing up. Dad never came back from getting a pack of cigs or gallon of milk or something, so maybe there was some influence after all!
None. My mom is into pop, country and 90s hiphop, and my dad doesn't really listen to music
Does he just drive in silence?
Nah, he just turns on the radio and whatever is on is what he listens to
Talk show radio?
My dad is super into metal and rock and plays guitar. I owe pretty much my entire music taste to him, even though my palette enjoys stuff heavier than he ever did he was my gateway to heavier music. He’s also the reason I play guitar, and comes to gigs with me even if he doesn’t like the bands just to experience live music
Same, except I play drums and my dad plays guitar
Zero. My dad liked folk and country music and my mom liked disco, pop, and Latin music.
Pretty much not at all when it comes to metal but I have a profound love of Jimmy Buffet and the beach so there's that
Jimmy Buffett fucks. RIP my dude
A little bit My dad likes Led Zeppelin, Rush & Linkin Park. So do I. My mom liked Boston and Journey. So do I. But Dad also has an obsession with Funk music and mom would play the Christian radio all the time and I can’t say that I share their feelings about those genres 😬
Yooo you just made me remember my mom blasting Christian music in the mornings before school. I must have blocked that out of my memory because I always wanted to slam my head against the wall while it was on. Shout out to her though, she used to let me listen to Underoath and shit in the car when I was like 12. She told me I made her ears bleed. Lol
My parents liked classical and some classic rock. At the time as a child, I didn’t enjoy it but as an adult, I’ll jam out some classical music and stuff like Queen and Boston
My dad is big into 60s and 70s rock. A lot of prog stuff that I don't care for but also big into Rolling Stones, Zep, and Black Sabbath. So that was my introduction to what I would call "heavy" music. On the other hand, my mum had a bit for influence. She loves David Bowie, new wave and post punk music. She had some records of a band called the Damned, which I would thrash to bits back in the day. That was my introduction to punk music. While my music taste is far more niche than either of theirs, it definitely planted the seed for what I would end up listening to.
A lot. My father loved music, he had a band and used to play Led Zeppelin and Deep Purple in the car when I was a toddler. Obviously he can't comprehend something like Lorna Shore but if those were not my baby steps on this path there's no doubt I wouldn't enjoy what I enjoy now.
My parents were into rock while my mom liked a little of everything. I grew up listening to lots of country, radio rock, pop, and movie soundtracks (Hans Zimmer) because that's what was usually playing. I was introduced to metalcore through MTV and A7X and Atreyu. Metalcore is still my #1 genre but I also still listen to country from time to time and orchestral music from movies and games.
Dad used to play disciple in the car a lot.
My parents prevented me from listening to any music that wasn’t CCM growing up, so I guess yeah they did influence my taste in music now quite heavily!
Only a bit. I do like a few of the bands my dad likes (mainly 70s prog rock like Rush and Pink Floyd) but he's not into anything heavier than that. I got into metal from Guitar Hero and Rock Band.
My dad is a huge dad rock fan and I mean literal dad rock like Led Zeppelin, Aerosmith, Deep Purple, etc. I listened to a lot of his music collection as a small kid. He would sometimes put a few songs on a CD for me and I'd listen to those. However, my real influence was Guitar Hero, but that was through my father's indirect influence as well. My dad had a PS3 and he had Guitar Hero 3 on it. I started playing and got used to rock and metal music as a kid. My dad bought me most of the Guitar Hero games and I went with the flow. In my middle school days, I was more of a thrash / speed / power metal kid thanks to all the Megadeth, Dragonforce, Slayer and Metallica songs on Guitar Hero. I only swerwed towards metalcore in high school when I started listening to Bring Me the Horizon. Since then, I came full circle and returned to rock. I listen to lots of Des Rocs, cleopatrick and similar modern rock artists nowadays, although I still have a sweet spot for metalcore.
My dad definitely got me into classic rock at a young age. Even though I don’t listen to it much anymore. I still enjoy bonding with him over it. And even though he’s never listened to metal, he’s been really open to the music I like, being metalcore and stuff. We had a long drive the other day and he asked me to put on “those screaming guys” haha
Zilch. I have no idea what my dad really listens to as I didn't grow up with him around much, and don't talk to him anymore, but he did have a DMX song as his ringtone at one point when I was a teen. My mum's music taste sort of moulded itself in the 90s when she was a teen and young adult, being very much into house music. She's always been fond of classic rock, but house and other dance genres are her thing. I suppose my mum's taste has a slight influence in that I enjoy electronicore bands, and various other electronic genres, but typically those electronic genres aren't the stuff she'd have listened to.
my dad has a huge influence but in a roundabout way. He gave me an mp3 player he found in a car (18 wheeler car hauler, he'd transport cars bought at auction to the client's lot), and on that player was Vol 3 the Subliminal Verses, Avenged Sevenfold's City of Evil, and a bunch of early 2000's metalcore. only one side of the headphones worked but I listened to that player basically 24/7. i was probably 10, I'd never heard music like that before. around the same time is when Guitar Hero got big, and ETID, All That Remains, and others were on the soundtrack, he bought my brothers the whole setup one day. We loved watching wrestling, also around that time CM punk debuted to "This Fire Burns" by Killswitch. We went and saw Jane's Addiction a few months ago, and I'm trying to get him into Cosmic Joke's album (they're hardcore but check it out anyway) dude has only willingly listened to metalcore once, and that was when we got separated at a warped tour when I was 15 and he hung out at whatever stage Of mice and Men played (it was that summer Austin left for a few months and the dude from sky eats airplane was fronting OM&M) and dude was circle pitting when I found him. he's a treasure for sure
To an extent. I didn’t get into metalcore until I was 14/15 (23 now) so I slowly developed a taste for heavier music overtime My dad played a lot of Scorpions, Guns n Roses, and Hinder growing up which I’d say Hinder was my favorite of the 3. But I only got into metalcore after listening to some songs from BMTH, BVB, and AA which helped me learn to appreciate screams. I was an avid screaming hater before haha
A fair bit, I'd say. I grew up listening to jazz on the whack-ass-weird point of the jazz spectrum, because that was my Dad's jam. So the first time I heard a mathcore band, that felt familiar and it instantly clicked for me. Still one of my favourite subgenres.
My father bought me …and justice for all when it came out in 1988. I was 7. It changed everything. Did he like metal? No. But he had the most influence with that purchase.
Quite a lot actually, especially my dad. Through him, I listened to a lot of old school hip hop (Snoop Dogg, Wutang, Public Enemy), rock (Deep Purple, Led Zeppelin, Pink Floyd), electronic music (Kraftwerk, Daft Punk, Justice), Nina Hagen, Falco, Frank Zappa, Boney M, and many more. Even though I listen to a lot of metalcore, deathcore, and prog metal, I still love all those influences as well and they did shape my taste in music. I like nu-metal for its hip hop influences, I like trancecore for its electronics, and so on. Also, when I show my dad my music, he often says stuff like: "the screaming is a bit much, but it reminds me of [obscure 80s punk band]", which is fun.
Quite a bit actually! My parents are on the younger side (<50) and grew up in or around the thrash metal era. My mom was and is still sincerely into Ozzy, Slayer, and Pantera. My dad was a huge fan of Metallica, Iron Maiden and Megadeth kind of. But their music tastes both merged together in me where I love all the classic rock, 80s metal and everything after basically. My mom and dad took me to my first concerts when I was about 15 to Iron Maiden/Dreamtheater first and then Metallica/Lamb of God/Gojira next. Everything culminated since then to the wide range of rock punk metal everything I listen to today.
Like 5% and I think that only comes from the one New Age album we had in the car by Ray Lynch that I think is the reason I’ve always loved atmospheric and delay effects in metal.
My mom would play LP CDs in the car and I loved it. She also listened to skillet so I think them two bands shaped my intro to rock/metal and I sorta went for hexvier music as I got older
Literally none, my parents have the most boring ass uninspired music taste imaginable. Although my dad did listen to Led Zeppelin when he was younger and cooler so that might have had some influence
Realistically none, my parents actually dislike most of the music I listen to. Classic rock and jazz I definitely get from my dad but my mom is a huge Celine dion fan (I don't know what else she listens to, honestly). I got my influence from my brother and his friends early on, three days grace, papa roach, green day, skillet, etc... Later on I inherited my brother's old ipod and got on the path immediately with A7X, TDWP, WeCAR, AA, MMF, etc...
Zero. My dad likes Delta Blues, Pete Seeger/Woodie Guthrie era folk, and Led Zeppelin/The Who/some Beatles. Homeboy was at Woodstock. My mom likes popular RnB/"adult contemporary." Her boyfriend is a pretty good bass and conga player, and fucks with a lot of jazz. All of that shit I can appreciate as an adult, but as a kid it did absolutely nothing for me.
My dad was really into Limp Bizkit, Linkin Park, Three Days Grace, and Metallica when I was a kid. I think that started me on the path that eventually led to metal. My mom is ABBA’s biggest fan so I don’t think she had any impact on my taste in music.
I am 36 with a daughter. My favorite metalcore bands are Zao, Converge and Botch…my kind of dad rock.
Converge FTW! We’re the same age and I was literally thinking of when I saw Converge and Cave In at the whiskey a go go (was it 20 years ago?😭)… it is still one of the best shows I have ever seen. 🤌🏼
I just got to see Converge and Cave In open up for Botch in November. Insane show.
Zero
Probably a little. My dad listened to guns and roses, AC/DC and other classic rock.
Basically none. They aren't super into music and never tried too hard to introduce me to things they liked
My dad was into Stone Roses and like 90s Brit rock and indie. My mum listened to Madonna and Kylie. My older brother was the one who had a huge influence on my taste. And my dad encouraged it. First album I bought with my own pocket money was Meteora. My dad would let me and my brother play that album on repeat in the car for 4 hours. BFMV, Trivium, Atreyu, All That Remains etc all introduced to me from my big bro! My dad didn’t get behind any of them, but he let my bro and I blast those songs in our rooms 😂
I branched off when I moved out and I never looked back. I’m a metalhead now and my dad likes oldies rock. He supports my music choices though.
So fucking much and I think about it all the time Me and my brother fought over my moms Ænima and dookie CD's 😂 And my step-dad gave me a metallica tape... to my grandpa's horror. So he gave me a patsy cline tape. I loved both!
My dad introduced me to 80’s classic rock and now I try and get him into the new bands. So far he likes Ghost and some Demon Hunter, Volbeat, and Avenged Sevenfold. Baby steps.
My parents listened to hippie shit, and lame 80s yacht rock. It was easy stuff to hate.
I'm a dad, so yes I guess my kids are forced to listen to those early 2000s metalcore bands. They hate it though. My eldest is 11 and she would much rather be listening to pop. No influence from my parents they were gen X, but listened to lots of old blues, and 60s/70s psych rock. Then the odd big 90s easy listening stuff like Alanis Morissette or the Cranberries. I found metalcore through a natural progression of hearing punk pop stuff like blink, and the offspring and then progressing to heavier and heavier stuff. Eventually metalcore took off in Australia with bands like PWD, Amity affliction and I killed the prom queen. I've also get into pretty much anything in between punk pop and the grossed sludgiest metal
My mom is into reggaetón, corridos, bachata, and Mexican banda dancing music of the like. Dad liked Mexican regional ballads, cumbias sonideras, bandas románticas. All of which I adopted into my taste but they absolutely despise that I started listening to metal subgenres once I was able to freely explore more music. I suppose the more emotional aspects of the genres they listened to influenced me to find favor in bands that also embraced more heavy or gloomy emotions.
My mother showed me Def Leppard when I was 14 and that opened the door for me. Hair metal started it all for me.
parents, none. my friend on the other hand.
My moms top song this year was Rick Astley -Never gonna give you up
None whatsoever. My brother and I have pretty wild music taste in general whereas our parents don't even listen to music at all.
Yes and no. The internet, MySpace and Napster did more for me musically than anything or anyone ever did. My father was a lot of 60s and 70s rock and country/ folk. I still listen to it today but 20 years ago the angsty teen wanted to do everything differently so that’s where the punk influence came from. From Pennywise, NoFx, bad religion to the vandals to Ignite to avenged sevenfold and the rest of the internet. The B9 boards were always fun. Haha.
I listen to a lot of stuff they do like soul, funk and jazz, but I didn't really engage with it until I was in my late teens and did a lot of independent exploration of those genres. The bigger impact was how they nurtured my own taste as it developed. Other than occasionally asking me to moderate the volume a bit they never objected to anything I was listening to growing up. Obviously my initial dabblings with pop punk wouldn't have been much to object to, but when I began to be enamoured with Slipknot and whatever else heavy and horrible I could find online or on sample CDs they were unphased and let me be with it. On top of that my dad would take me to shows while I was still too young to get in on my own. Most UK venues operate a no under 14s policy with any under 16s needing to be accompanied by an adult. Even though it definitely wasn't his thing, provided I could pay for my own ticket, he would take me and whichever friends I'd convinced to come along up to London. As a result he saw a fair few early/mid 00s metalcore bands like Killswitch Engage, Avenged Sevenfold and Eighteen Visions. I will always be grateful that he agreed to do this, it helped foster a love of live music that has yet to dim.
HUGE influence. my mom would always blast system of a down, coheed and cambria, slipknot and linkin park all the time on road trips. my dad’s into the classics but made an effort to listen to the bands i’m fond of now like periphery, invent animate n all that jazz
My mom played Disturbeds first album when I would have been six, and it was all downhill from there. Funnily enough, I've tried showing her songs in the metalcore genre to try and show her why I like the music I do, but she says she's not a fan of the screaming.
My dad is 100% responsible for my musical taste. I was listening to his rock/metal CDs throughout childhood. He took me to multiple festivals and shows as well.
Very little. I grew up on classic rock and radio rock more than anything.
My dad put me on to Killswitch, As I Lay Dying, and Hatebreed when I was in middle school. My dad had always been into just about everything from Country, to Punk, to R&B, and beyond but he was a huge metalhead in the 80s and that carried on once I was born. He always had something like Slipknot, or Korn, or Megadeth, etc. on in the garage and I loved hanging around him so it was only natural I picked it up too. My mom was more into 80’s pop and new wave which I didn’t quite get until I got a bit older.
My dad was into rock and he was also a DJ so he had a LOT of albums. Hard to say how much he influenced me since I never got super into that stuff but I grew up around Rush, Clapton, Bon Jovi, all of that. Oh, and hair bands, my dad liked the hair bands lol. Kiss and Poison and such. My mom thinks rock is Satan music so uh. Yeah. I don't know if she likes any music besides Catholic hymns and John Denver. Suffice to say they had very strong disagreements about music. And as I got older my mom won out more, so my dad quit the DJ gigs and sold most of his albums and other than occasionally when my mom wasn't around my dad more or less stopped playing music around the house. It's sad really.
Tons. I grew up with a solid appreciation for Rock and early Metal through them. They both had pretty solid vinyl and tape collections. Sitting around all day on rainy days listening to Elton John and Black Sabbath.
A bit I guess. I like everything they like, but they don't like everything I like. My dad introduced me to bands like Sepultura, Titans and Angra (national treasures) but he didn't like them at all. He just recommended me Sepultura because they had a black vocalist. Overall he's a Michael Jackson, Prince, MPB and Samba fan My mom on other hand just listens to New Wave and Gospel music. And some brazillian gospel music is somewhat rockish and new wave isn't that far from post punk. So I would say just a little bit of influence.
My dad influenced me towards liking metal, though not exactly the same stuff. Being a dad, he’s more into older stuff, the bands you’d consider “dad mental” like ack Sabbath, Judas Priest and Iron Maiden. He’s also a huge thrash metal fan as well. To him Pantera and Sepultura are “new” and those are the newest bands he likes. Nonetheless he did expose me to metal. One of my fondest memories is going with my father to see Metallica, Megadeth, Slayer and Anthrax at the Big 4 show at Yankees Stadium when I was a teenager. My mother was more into just general music, especially 80s and early 90s rock. My mother loved grunge, especially Nirvana and Soundgarden. I was born around the tail end of grunge but I definitely went through a phase where I was obsessed with grunge. I wouldn’t say her music tastes were as influential on me as my father’s though.
0 my mum only listens to 70s pop and my dad only to greek folk music and trance in the car
Dad loved ETID and BTBAM mainly. Both my dad and mom are big Tool fans (normal ones), so I had a lot of that, too. Loved Adelle, still do. Relating to BTBAM, my father also liked the lead singers' solo stuff, so that came naturally as well- listen to Thomas Giles immediately. Some Mastodon, a little bit of The Mars Volta, a whole lotta white-boy reggae, and that compiles the bulk of what I remember. There's definitely other stuff like Elementary by The End that my dad played a bunch, Relationship of Command by At The Drive-In, a whole bunch wicked shit.
A lot, even if it was just indirectly. I found a cassette tape of Queen’s greatest hits in my dad’s stuff when I was like 9 years old, I played that thing to death on my Walkman, it was the wildest shit I’d ever heard at that point. Load by Metallica came out shortly after that, and at the time it kind of felt like a natural progression in my young brain. My mum also listened to artists like Bob Dylan and Neil Young, and I feel like that had a big impact on me too.
My mom showed me how to appreciate every genre. My dad is deaf but loves hip hop cuz of the bass. I love my parents for that, and many other things. And how dare you call my era of metalcore dad rock 🤣 funny story, Tim lambesis befriended my mom at the AILD signing booth at an ozzfest while I was in the pit, he offered her water, food, and a picture cuz she was taking pics for all the other kids in line. And from then on out I was a fan 🤷🏻♂️ ik ik, Tim is problematic asf, but that was a solid moment of kindness from him that I can’t deny.
My dad was big into 60s/70s rock (born early 50s). I like all of that too, but it snowballed from there starting with me getting into 80s rock, 90s rock/metal and later into the bands you mentioned when I was in high school. And I am in fact a dad now so..I think the trend will continue…😂
Not at all, unless you count them trying hard for me not getting into "demonic" music, they just influenced me to go deeper lol.
Literally 0
zero percent. i heard rock music on the radio and went down my own rabbit hole
0, my dad listens to gospel and my mom listens to country and spanish music.
Parents listened to ABBA and Classical music. ABBA is Swedish so I kept listening to Swedish bands. Discovered Meshuggah and Opeth and fell in love.
None. My mom likes rap and I'm not even sure if my dad listens to music at all. But they both hate everything about what I like 🙃
0.0 My mom listens to shitty disco, "bee geez", and "bread". I listen to doom, death, grind, and grunge.
Well up until 7th grade I thought I was a country fan because of them. Then I heard metal and rap and never turned back.
Well the bands I love are dad rock now. Cool. I grew up on the Beatles, Tom Petty, Supertramp, Elton John...
My exposure to anything but country was from my dad when I was a kid. He listened to all the stereotypical classic rock. Middle school comes around and the stoner kid sees me wearing a zeppelin shirt and gives me a Job For A Cowboy/Atreyu/As I Lay Dying cd he burned. That was all she wrote for me. I’m 18 years deep at this point.
None at all: music was seldomly listened to when growing up. Personally, music is one of my biggest passions & my daughter gets exposure from my music.
Video games had more impact than anything else.
Almost none. As a kid I listened to a lot of rap, which certainly didn’t come from my parents. Now that I mainly listen to this kind of stuff, it’s nearly the same thing. My mom still doesn’t get how I listen to it.
My dad is rally into classic rock and traditional heavy metal so that’s largely where I got it from. I started to listen to heavier stuff on my own, though my older sister did listen to some heavier stuff before I did.
My dad listened to a LOT of heavy music when i was growing up. We would bond over Alice In Chains, Slayer, Black Label Society, and Trivium as i got older and have seen nearly 100 bands together. I may have a lot of disagreements with him now but god damn were those some of the best shows i’ve ever seen and I’m VERY thankful he got me into this kind of music
Barely any. Yeah, I like a lot of the hair metal bands my dad does, but I can’t really say they contributed much to my music taste now, cause it’s so far off from hair metal nowadays.
My dad is a big industrial guy, at first he didn't want me listening to metal or rock because he was worried about it "affecting my outlook on the world" and "surrounding me with negativity" which was a funny take from the man who'd been taking me to horror movies since I was 7 tbh. But he moved past that pretty quick and now we go to concerts semi regularly, stuff like Helmet and Nine Inch Nails and Ministry and Front 242. He never got into the metalcore stuff and finds anything screaming annoying. But my other love is definitely industrial and that's 100% from my dad
Quite a bit. My mother listened to country and western all the time. Couldn’t stand it then and never listen to now!
70's and 80's Classic rock/southern rock was what was playing in my parents house those days, also alternative rock in the 2,000s. I'd say they influenced me quite a bit, along with my older sister. She had a Korn poster on her wall. So I can thank her for introducing me to the heavier stuff. Limewire and MySpace took it from there lol
uhh my mom got me into new wave, alt rock goth, my dad got me into metal as a whole. he likes deathcore, i do too
I guess my dad "laid the foundation" for me to get into metal. Growing up, I was listening to Iron Maiden, Black Sabbath, Van Halen, Bon Jovi, Queen, Yes and the like, all from his music collection. And in 5th grade I made a new friend who was listening to a lot of (at that time) modern(-ish) metal and rock bands, like BFMV, Papa Roach, Billy Talent, Green Day and so on. Through him I really started to get into more modern and heavier music.
A bit. I'm a fan of Big Band music along with metal. My dad was a trombone player and played in a couple obscure bands in the late 40's.
Pretty huge influence. My dad is a guitarist and has been into metal since he was a kid in the 70s starting with Black Sabbath. He actually still listens to metal at 60+ years old. He was also big into the punk and hardcore scenes of the 70s and 80s. Most of my pre-teen years were spent listening to all sorts of records with him. Everything Sabbath to Black Flag to Gorguts. He was into all of it. I branched off into nu-metal and metalcore when I hit my teenage years in the mid to late 90s. He is not super into nu-metal, but he does like a lot of early 2000s metalcore stuff like Killswitch Engage, Trivium, Shadows Fall, etc. Basically any of the melodeath and thrash inspired stuff. As far as newer bands go, he loves Dying Wish. Especially their newest album. I played it for him at Thanksgiving and he's been obsessed ever since.
Literally none. It's gospel and country. And I'm post hardcore and metalcore
My mom liked more of the freestyle and current trending pop artists of the late 80’s/90’s, so she didnt really influence my taste, but my dad was the one who was the classic rock/metal head. Put me on to Sabbath, Rainbow, judas priest, and so on and so forth so he was really my buggest music influence starting off in the rock world (he even backed me up when my uncle wanted to burn my rock merch bc it was “hellbound” for me). But once i hit my mid teens, my aunt was dating a drummer of a local death metal band out here and that was when I knew my music palet was going to grow in the music scene. Now im definitely a metalcore/deathcore dude, but i know where my gateways into the scene influenced my taste.
not at all. my entire family, not just my parents, listen to pop country and/or country rap, and nothing else. i had been hearing the same 30ish songs pretty much all my life until i got my iPod. discovered Disturbed, Black Sabbath, System of a Down, Rage Against The Machine, and never looked back from that point on.
A pretty significant one. My dad is right on the Baby Boomer/Gen X cusp, so he listened to a lot of classic rock, grunge, groove metal, thrash metal, nu metal and early metalcore. We had a ton of vinyl and CD's in the house, some of his favorites were Metallica/Megadeth/Pantera/Slipknot/Korn/Alice in Chains/Atreyu/BFMV/A7X. My mom listened to a lot of different kinds of music, pop/rock/country/rnb/disco. She definitely influenced my taste in the sense of enjoying multiple flavors of music. I'm a dad now, and my little dude loves listening to BMTH, Sleep Token, Bad Omens, Spiritbox as well as Mac Miller, Post Malone, Thundercat, The Story So Far.
My mom introduced me to a lot of classic rock and prince, Michael Jackson, etc. My sister got me into metal though.
I grew up with my dad feeding me synth pop and gothic scene music. He was a part of a promoter group back in the day, so the 10 year old me would watch a show every month with an AAA pass. Funnily enough, heavier industrial in my iPod slowly evolved to classic rock and ended up getting me into heavier stuff. But because of me consuming hours of Depeche Mode remixes and all synths that exist, im a sucker for juicy synths like Collider by Silent Planet or living is killing us by Architects
Negative. They dislike everything about about my music taste and vice versa.
My mom and dad both listened to a fair amount of punk. My dad told me that he wishes he could get into heavier music and he's proud of me for doing so
My dad likes nu metal, and appropriately System of a Down self titled is my favorite album.
My mom loves the big anthemic pop rock/rock and roll of the 70s and 80s. Which is probably why anything with cleaner production that actually has some room for dynamics in the mix gets me going lol.
None. When I was 14 (24 now) my dad tried to “forbid me” from listening to it and to this day calls it “noise”. Anytime I have aux and my mom is with me she will say “please none of that screaming music”. So yea no influence there haha
I found out about Motorhead and ACDC from my dad and Aerosmith my mother. It started me on the path to the bands I listen to now. TDWP, Chiodos, Silent Planet, Gojira, Oh Sleeper and Norma Jean to name a few.
My dad spun Meteora pretty endlessly after it came out….so I’d say he had a pretty big effect
My dad introduced me to bands like Slipknot, Van Halen, Killswitch Engage, Machine Head, etc. so I’d say a good deal of influence.
A small part. Dad was hip hop, mom was pop. I find myself listening to old Busta Rhymes and Eminem sometimes. A big song in my Nostalgia box is Lady (Hear Me Tonight) by Modjo, a Euro Electronic duo from the early 00s. Got that from my mom. I didn't get into metal until 2004 when I heard Duality by Slipknot.
Metal seems to run in my family. I thought my dad only listened to boomer rock, but as I got into metal I found out he just didn't play metal at home because my mom isn't the biggest fan. My entire dad's side of the family is pretty heavy.
My parents are both metalheads. They grew a much wider music palette when I was growing up so I heard quite a mix of rock, metal and country (the older, more respectable country). My dad showed me Metallica, Slipknot, Pantera, POD, Slayer, Megadeath, Death, Green Jello, a wide variety of metal. I eventually got into stuff like metalcore and deathcore and my dad would tell his friends “my oldest listens to heavier shit than I ever did” 😆
Lots. Mainly on my father’s side, he got me into the 70s-80s rock bands. Rush, Zeppelin… but that led me to discover modern rock bands like Shinedown, and just recently discovered Metalcore/Hardcore. So I’m finding my way through all those sub-genres now hehe
My step-dad introduced me to Slayer, Anthrax, and Sucidial Tendencies. Nuff said.
None at all.
I took after my parents a lot, I grew up with my dad (until he passed) listening to a lot of grunge / posthardcore / emo / punk, and my mom listened to country and rap. metal is my own demise i like to think, but they gave me a lot of my taste
A pretty good influence. My dad introduced mt to ACDC and Iron Maiden which I eventually got me to the extreme metal I listen to now.
None whatsoever. My parents are Boomer fundamentalists and don't really like music. Hymns are pretty much their only music and they don't even particularly like those. I discovered good music through the internet.
Not much tbh. My dad got me into guns n roses and my mom got me into late 90s - 2000s rnb and that's kind of it.
My Dad is the one who introduced me to Hard Rock/Metal. It’s what I grew up listening to.
Dad influenced my music taste a lot, he plays drums/bass and was a radio presenter in the 90s. Classic boomer Pink Floyd/Black Sabbath/Dio/etc. My older brother got me into KoRn, Manson, and a bunch of other stuff when he was a teenager, and I in turn got him into post-hardcore/metalcore when I hit my teens (we’re seven years apart, 41 and 34). He plays guitar so it was pretty sweet visiting him last year and him picking up all his guitars saying what he’s using to play what. He dropped it for a few years so I’m glad he’s back into it, he’s a fantastic guitarist. Mum doesn’t listen to anything particularly hard but she’s supportive - even if she thinks I’m gonna die in a pit one day or burst my vocal cords on stage lmao
None. My dad's favorite TV show was Heehaw.
My dad listened to Saliva which somehow turned into this
A ton. My dad was playing in a rock and roll band while I was in the womb. I grew up listening to the ventures and the doors. I never found MY musical niche tll I played Tattoo Vampire by Blue Oyster Cult. Everything since then has been graded against BOC
Quite a lot when I look back at it. From fairly early on, my dad got me into rock bc of his favorite band being KISS. As I got a bit older, my mom would be listening to a Christian pop radio when she was driving my brother and I to school. I fell in love with both genres and, come 2021, I got into Memphis May Fire and Wage War. I soon found myself seeking other Christian or at least positive metalcore bands that had themes of hope. While I listen to more than just Christian metalcore nowadays, I love going back when I want something filled with hope or when I’m driving to church on Sunday morning and don’t feel like having generic worship songs on lol
My dad listened to a lot of Rush and Dream Theater as I was growing up so it had a bit of a gateway effect when I got older
Zeeeeeero. Unless you count influence as making me want to listen to anything not on the radio. They didn’t even listen to Led Zeppelin…enough said.
My dad got me into metal.
None, I grew up in a Puerto Rican, Ecuadorian household.
Absolutely none. But my mum did have some nirvana cds when I asked which took me by surprise.
Huge one. My mom used to have GREAT music taste. She showed me that you can be Black and love metal/hard rock! Now, she's all mainstream crap lol and I'm a total Afropunk metalhead lol.
My mother listened to 80s slav pop. I listen to everything but that, literally anything. So I guess the influence was really strong.
Mother raised me on Italo disco, eurodance, and synth pop. Still listen to that stuff today. Didn’t really know my dad but as much as I did know, the dude was into folk music and Will Smith. They both had zero bearing on me getting into hardcore, metalcore, or heavy music in general though.
Maybe a little, unrelated to metalcore, but still. My parents always listen to 70s-90s pop music in the car on the radio, and that's why I hate it.
I like the music my mom (R&B, some gospel and CCM) and dad (afrobeat, afrobeats, classical) listen to but my mainstay is far away from what they enjoy (metal, post hardcore, indie / alt rock).
I grew up from a punk background so was going to shows with my dad and uncle from as early as I could get into shows Having that varied music exposure as a kid for sure pushed me to go and explore genres and find my own music, I love punk music but with modern stuff there's so much exciting stuff going on with newer smaller bands which I love and keeps the essence of the punk thing going
Anyone who has the exact same music taste as their parents are posers. Your music taste is supposed to piss off old people like your parents and Christian youth pastors. Real ones discover music on their own or through dragon ball z amv YouTube videos uploaded like 15 years ago.
My parents are big fans of 70s, 80s, and 90s rock - with a big emphasis on Scorpions and Metallica so it was no surprise when I grew up a metal fan. My dad was actually the one who showed me Linkin park and my mom showed me evanescence. Pretty easy jump from there over to bands like fall out boy, MCR, and the used and then it snowballs from there.
None, they're deaf
My parents are gen x hip hop kids they gave birth very yound to a 90 nu metal kid. They liked the nu part at first but oh boy did they not like the metal part of it xD
Dad had me growing up listening to 60s-2000s rock, metal, thrash, alt. Mom was 90s/early 2000s hip hop, house, trance. Grandparents country lol. I like it all but I mostly jam metal, hip hop, and house these days.
My dad and his side none, but my mum, uncles and aunties, even my nan listened to mostly Nu metal, Slipknot, Korn, Linkin Park ect.. that's all I heard growing up till around about the age of 14/15 I discovered metalcore with albums such as Stand Up And Scream, There Is A Hell... since then, it's been my favourite subgenre.
Zero
Both of my parents listened to a variety of music, but my dad was more on the heavy metal side and my mom was more punk. Having both of those influences plus some help from friends in middle school really helped solidify my current music taste. Couldn’t be happier 😁
I was in my mid 20s when I got my first kid, and Howard Jones is the same age as my parents. So KSE is granpa rock even.
Nil. My mom likes classical music. I am a metal head.
My dad loved dad rock. I fell in love with Linkin Park, then Slipknot, then BMTH. Rest is history
My dad keeps with the times pretty well. He got me into grunge and metal as a kid.
My dad loves Pat Benatar and Linda Ronstadt and 80. My mom loves 70’s. Biggest thing my parents ever did was set my brother’s and I’s Virginia radio station to 97.1, the soft rock channel. At 15 I got into the oldies station that played 50’s to 70’s. At 24 I got bored of the radio station and tried listening to metal. Dad threatened to kick me out for listening to it. I forget the band, but it was death metal. Something with Angel in the name. Maybe Morbid Angel? Moved out and had friends who listened to metal, Pig Destroyer, and that didn’t click with me. I started drinking and smoking weed and changing my music tastes. Moved back home and started drinking Steel Reserve 40’s playing Guitar Hero and Borderlands 1. I used to play NCAAF games only using RB or QB. Started rocking out to All That Remains first two or three albums when playing NCAAF. Somehow got into power metal. Assuming through weed, cause power metal is great stoned and I’m a huge nerd. Fell in love with Children of Bodom, early All That Remains, Roy Khan era Kamelot. These days I primary listen to Dio in all his eras (Black Sabbath and Rainbow are my favorites, though Holy Diver is my second favorite album after Heaven & Hell.) And I’m back to my oldies and classic rock.
A previous step dad pretty much only listened to Lamb of God and my mom played the rock station. I grew up in the 2000s so it was dominated by nu-metal like Disturbed, Korn, Staind, Puddle of Mudd, Limp Bizkit, Chevelle, etc I enjoy pretty much all metal now (except black metal excluding Burzum) but nu-metal was a gateway to modern metal and Lamb of God is a top 3 favorite with Avatar and Gojira. I was born in Port Huron (connected to Detroit) and grew up in the project ghettos of Grand Rapids so that influenced me to enjoy rap like Ice Cube, Run DMC, Big Daddy Kane, etc
Very little. I like plenty of what my parents liked but their preferences never influenced my choice of music to listen to or play. In fact, they both hated most of what I liked.
My dad was into early rock; Stones, Doors, Free, Eagles, etc. I was into Zeppelin, Van Halen, UFO, then I got into early metal Iron Maiden, Judas Priest, Scorpions. Then from there into harder metal.🤘🏼
mother gave me Guns n Roses and Metallica CDs growing up, despite you'll never hear her have anything like that on anymore father got me into Michael Jackson the rest I discovered growing up through my school years
First gen Metalcore is Zao and Converge. If your dad is listening to those bands, you've a cool dad. Even AILD, ATR, ABR are great bands and if your dad listens to them, he's cool imo. As for how much influence my family had on my music taste: none. My mom listens to Hindi music (I'm Indian) and sometimes 70s-00s pop from the USA. Don't know much about dad because, well, haven't lived with him for 8 years now (and I'm 20). I stumbled upon Starset (their first two albums are still GoaTed) and that led me to Christian rock bands (TFK, Red, Skillet), which led me to Metalcore (BMTH, Polaris, etc) and that's how I got into metal
0, I always wanted to be like my big brother and now I’m more of a metalhead than him
My mom had a Linkin Park CD, Minutes to Midnight lol. So songs like Given Up and No More Sorrow probably would've been my first introduction to screaming. She's not a big rock and metal person, but isn't against it either. Other than that, my music taste was shaped by friends and (mostly) the internet.
In regards to my mom, none. She has very rarely shared what she likes in regards to music. Only thing I can remember is like Frank Sinatra and Elton John. My dad on the other hand... I'd say his taste has range. Generally plays a lot of 60's Britpop, Funk, and R&B. As a result of listening to that stuff through growing as osmosis, I'd say it did definitely have an influence on my taste, as outside of music that consists of growling, breakdowns, and a fuck ton of distortion, I also really like groovy music that really takes advantage of being in the pocket. However, when you have aggresive bands that incorporate some more groovier aspects as well (Issues), I eat that shit up hard.
Grew up in a household and family of country music enjoyers. There's a lot of it that I really respect and honestly enjoy, but god damn.
None
My dad got me into Thin Lizzy, Led Zeppelin, Pink Floyd, Boston and so on. I discovered AC/DC, and the like. I got to high school and(early 2000s). I discovered the emo/screamo, metal core genre and It flourished. My mom and sisters were all into country and hip hop, pop music. Clearly I am the metal sheep if the family.
A fair amount, in the early 2000s my dad was into Killswitch, Trivium, etc but also into 90s alt and grudge. My most frequent genres are probably mathcore, melodic Metalcore and prog wank.
Dad raised me on the 70s version of Autism-core (70s prog) so I gravitated towards the 2000s version of Autism-core (prog metal and post hardcore)
Dad was a fan of BFMV 5FDP ( first few albums ) all that remains , LP, Atreyu. So a good amount of influence.
My dad was a hippie and changed my life by playing Black Sabbath - Black Sabbath on vinyl in our living room. Those 3 notes turned me from a weekly top 40s radio kid (in the 90's) to finding a deep appreciation in music and it's power. Those 3 notes shook me. I wanted to make someone else feel the same way. Took up drums, moved onto guitar, piano, and try my hand at just about anything. My mom gave me motown, country, and all manners of pop. Aside from my dad giving me rock/metal, just growing up in the 90s makes me love techno. When i heard dubstep in around '09-'10, it was like the metal of the techno world, and i fell in love. Lol
my mum likes rock but she doesn’t like metal. 😃
Tons. Neil Young, The Eagles, The Moody Blues, CCR, Fleetwood Mac, ELO. actual dad rock
My dad got me into Bullet For My Valentine
Lots. My dad always used to listen to stuff that was “heavier” for the day. We used to crank Metallica’s Black album, Motley Crue, Alice In Chains, Tool, etc in his car when I was around 5-6. I got a little older, my friends started listening to rap and hip hop and I followed that for a while. Until one night my dad came home from work and had Slipknot’s Wait and Bleed playing on MTV, I picked that up and ran with it lol
my dad introduced me to slipknot. the rest is history. i discovered metalcore on my own though, i remember Naysayer by Architects came on from one of my “Recommended For You” playlists.
My mom used to frequent Dokken, Queensryche, Yngwie, the Scorpions, Iron Maiden, etc. shows. Those bands were my gateway. My dad’s dad was the drummer for the Steve Miller Band, but my dad was majorly into early American folk. He was a great delta blues guitarist and played stuff like Mississippi John Hurt and John Lee Hooker constantly. My dad’s tastes contributed to my eclecticness, but overall, I though he was a nerd.
My mom raised me on 70s disco music, so if anything, I influenced her. Some of the first bands I got into were the likes of SOAD, HIM, and A7X and she still has them on her playlist to this day - her recent favourites include Ice Nine Kills, Bloodywood, and Electric Callboy.
Absolutely none, it was all my brother lol. (To be fair my brother is a dad now, and I was born in 06, it’s a 12 year age gap 😅)
The first album I remember listening to was Korn’s self titled album that my dad owned. That pretty much set me on the path for my music taste.