Wayback Music Challenge - #7 - A Perfect Circle - Magdalena

My Introduction to Metal

So one of my #BeerSaturday buddies (@dennisauburn) nominated me for the Wayback Music Challenge.

The rules are pretty simple, it boils down to writing about some music from your teenage/ early adult years. Easy enough?

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A Perfect Circle - Magdalena

Most people who know me think that I've been a lifelong metal-head. I don't fit the stereotype by any means however when people look at my music collection that's all they see. And when I go see live music these days, it's only metal shows that I'll be found at.

So it might be a surprise to people who know me well to discover that it wasn't until my late teens to early 20s where I discovered metal for the first time. And A Perfect Circle were one of the first bands that I was introduced to. And when I say introduced I mean blindly stumbled across.

I fell into my love of metal purely by chance. None of my friends were into it and I certainly wasn't expecting to become a lover of this genre of music, however I just happened to have the radio playing while working outdoors one day and A Perfect Circle came on. I immediately fell in love with this bands music. It has everything; amazing guitar, drums, aggression, melodic moments. And it's evokes such raw emotion at every listen.

Of all of A Perfect Circle's music, my favourite track by far is Magdalena. This isn't everyone's favourite but I simply love it. And I go back to this song over and over again. This song was released on the Orestes album in 2000, along with one of their more famous songs - Judith.

My obsession with metal evolved over the years to include Death Metal and a variety of other sub-genres (Industrial Metal is another fave - i.e. Rammstein). And my metal journey lead me to discover one of the best bands ever created - Opeth.

Since discovering Opeth I have seen them live in Australia twice. And both times were utterly incredible. There is a rare day where I won't listen to at least one of their songs. And of all their songs, Grand Conjuration is the one that I go to most often. It's quite simply insane.

I know that I'm meant to be talking about A Perfect Circle but you really need to stop and listen to this song. And it's day 7 of this challenge so my final day. I MAKE THE RULES TODAY. And play this loud, don't worry about your ear drums... they'll understand.

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The Challenge Rules and Stuff

Thanks to @dennisauburn for nominating me for this challenge. I've been nominated for a few over the past couple of months but have failed miserably at completing them. But I'm pleased to say that I completed this challenge!

RULES:

• Choose one song from your high-school/college years.
• Write a few words about who made you listen to this song for the first time, what this song means to you (was it a breakup song? You blasted it at 100% on your audio system when you were partying with your friends?) whatever you want.
• Write your text while listening to the song. As soon as the song ends, wrap up what you where writing and submit it.
• Do this for 7 days in a row if you get nominated
• Mention one person who should do this on each day.

Tag it with #musicwaybackchallenge and include these rules at the bottom of your post.

Anyone! - show me your musical past! Seriously, I don't want to do nominations anymore.

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