"Metallum Limited" - Straight From My Playlist

[Mors Morza]

Timeline of Band/Genre Interest

This timeline, from the summer of 2010, details what has been and is of my interest.

2008 to mid-2010 -- "The Nonsense Train Ends Here"; still a foolish child, I spent the summer of my 6th grade listening to absolute rubbish radio pop. Somewhere between 2009 and 2010 I discovered that there existed a much better genre than pop, with musical styles and instruments that appealed to me: alternative rock (alt metal?).

Bands: Three Days Grace

2010 -- "The Transit of Metal"; Thanks to YouTube I learned that an even heavier genre than what I was listening to existed. At the time my musical preference within the one band I knew of was specifically for songs with more bass. When I first listened to the nu metal band Slipknot, it was (by coincidence?) the exact day and possibly time that their bassist died. I learned this later. In the meantime, this was technically my first foray into a genre that can be considered metal, even if I don't personally believe it is now.

Bands: SlipKnoT

2011 -- "Upping the Ante"; With rapidly declining interest in Slipknot and a lone friend on the internet who knew of better music, I leaped the gap and became a major fan of industrial metal and melodeath, at the same time. My search for music that was heavier had found an oasis for the time that I was quite satisfied to stick to.

Bands: Scar Symmetry, Fear Factory

~2011-12 -- "Branching Out"; Thanks to my ever-appreciated friend Oxi, I also came to learn of a number of bands with progressively heavier genres. My exclusivity to certain bands stopped, and I began to really expand my horizons and preferences.

Bands: Scar Symmetry, Fear Factory, Soilwork, Solution .45, Sabaton, Dragonforce, Disarmonia Mundi, Battlesoul, Mnemic, Disturbed, Pain, Heidevolk...

2013 -- "Major Divergence"; Most of the early bands from 2012 and earlier were dropped in favour of others. At this point in my genre exploration there existed a very specific dichotomy: heavy and not-heavy. The year brought me into favour of such genres as funeral doom and black metal, and at the same time folk metal and general folk music. Songs under 5 minutes long were almost entirely wiped from my playlists.

Bands: Ensiferum, Falkenbach, Otyg, Skepticism, Funeral, Bathory, Fejd, Catacombs, Dolorian, Primordial, Nokturnal Mortum, Týr...

 

[Mors Morza]

My All-Time Favourites

Favourite Songs:

Edgecrusher (Fear Factory)
The Illusionist (Scar Symmetry)
Tumman Virran Taa (Ensiferum)
Naar De Hal Der Gevallenen (Heidevolk)
Regin Smiour (Týr)
The One Whose Name Has No End (Dolorian)

Favourite Bands:

Fear Factory
Scar Symmetry
Dolorian
Ensiferum
Fejd
Týr
Falkenbach
Catacombs

Favourite Genres:

Black Metal
Doom/Funeral Doom Metal
Atmospheric Doom (ex. Dolorian)
Melodic Death Metal
Folk Metal

Favourite Albums:

Pitch Black Progress (Scar Symmetry)
Obsolete (Fear Factory)
Weltanschauung (Nokturnal Mortum)
Under the Sign of the Black Mark (Bathory)
The Voice of Steel (Nokturnal Mortum)
Hammerheart (Bathory)
Alloy (Skepticism)