In 2008, a handful of friends with a shared love of metal decided to take their fandom to the next level and start getting involved in the scene. January 1, 2009, KnucklesFirst.com went live, and so began our magical journey.
Andyman:
I grew up listening to The Jester Race, Colony, and anything/everything by Metallica or Tool, but I didn’t really dive headfirst into extreme metals until last year…now I live and breathe the stuff, trying to listen to as much metal as possible to desperately make up for the past two decades of not doing so. Some current favorites: Arsis, Job For A Cowboy, Exhorder, Lamb of God, Gorod, The Black Dahlia Murder, The Sword, Slayer. My first album was The Sign on cassette tape…at least Ace of Base is from Gothenburg.
Butters:
I guess I will follow Andyman’s lead on this one. I grew listening to Eric Clapton, Pink Floyd, Stevie Ray Vaughn, Eddie Money. High School is really when I started listening to heavier music. I’m totally do not want to inform you of my musical selection, it’s a shame that I listened to the following. Limp Bizkit is the by far the worst ever, and I was such a huge fan. I also listened to Disturbed, Slipknot, and a slew of other awful bands. But I can clearly remember the song, that totally changed the way I looked at music. I was laying on my parents couch at 2am in 2001ish (I really don’t remember the date), and I was passing out until I heard the very distinct china crash at the beginning of Fixation on the Darkness by Killswitch Engage. And from that day on it has been metal, metal, metal, metal. And here I am today, trying to help get the word of awesome metal out.