Your Theatre origins?

Frozen

Location: Brooklyn, NY

Sunday, January 27th 2002, 12:56am

When and how did everyone first get into ToT? For me it was relatively short time ago in the big picture, only about a year ago. I was talking with a friend and we were recommending music back-and-forth to each other. He told me to try 'Black as the Devil Painteth' and 'Machine', and noting the contrast between them. they were the first two ToT songs I heard, and have been a huge fan since. It's funny because I'm so much more of a fanatic then he is now. He mainly listens because he's in love with Liv :roll: and I'm constantly suggesting stuff to him now <!--emo&

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sinthetik

Frozen

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Location: USA (Maryland)

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Sunday, January 27th 2002, 5:05am

to tell the absolute truth, my boyfriend told me about them (while getting me into so much of his music.....) and after about a year, and for my birthday last year he bought me musique (plus sameal "eternal") ever since then I've been collecting all the albums <!--emo&

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danju

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Sunday, January 27th 2002, 10:26am

they played one song (cant remember which) on local radio (triple j for the ozzies) and that was it! looked on net and got velvet darkness and aegis improted from the states. never really looked back have all albums bar singles (cant see why). brilliant :!:

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Hanzan

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Location: Sweden

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Sunday, January 27th 2002, 2:55pm

Well, I was getting more and more inte the whole gothmetal genre... But I didn't know what bands that played the music I wanted.
 
 So, I took a catalog from a synth/goth mailorder company, and basically went over every CD that was described as "gothmetall" and I could find in the record store and I listened to them.
 
 Three band made big impressions on me, Paradise Lost (One Second), Tiamat (A Deeper Kind Of Slumber) and then there was TOT that I listened to (Velvet Darkness They Fear)... It had a TERRIBLE male singer, but a lovely female, so I looked after other records by the same group and found AEGIS. And behold, the guy had learned to SING! And I got that album, and loved it.
 
 When Musique was released I was suprised, but I did love it too, after a while. I will probably give "VDTF" another chance, someday, but I happen to like a clean voice that is actaully singing and not grunting

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Ambrosius

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Location: Elsewhere

Occupation: Raving lunatic

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Sunday, January 27th 2002, 8:46pm

An ex girlfriend got me into ToT. Guess bad things always have some sort of good turnout.

I'd give my right arm to be ambidextrous.

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DarkAshes

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Location: Michigan, USA

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Sunday, January 27th 2002, 9:22pm

my friend got me into them. in one of our classes together she would always listen to her music and she let me listen to some of the stuff, mostly goth and jrock, and i think the first song i heard by them was Lorelei and then i checked them out later and loved them.

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PAZ

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Posts: 461

Location: Sweden

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Monday, January 28th 2002, 5:32pm

my brother's girlfriend lent me Aégis, and said that she thought I'd like it..
 
 I listened to it constantly for weeks. I almost got allergic to it, but I couldn't stop listening. Nowadays I can only hear it once a month or something... I ruined it

I bought the other albums, and I longed for the day when they'd release another one.
 I came here, listened to some samples, and thought they were ok, so I bought musique, but I didn't like it.

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Zack

Frozen

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Location: Brooklyn, NY

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Monday, January 28th 2002, 8:06pm

"my brother's girlfriend lent me Aégis, and said that she thought I'd like it..
 
 I listened to it constantly for weeks. I almost got allergic to it, but I couldn't stop listening. Nowadays I can only hear it once a month or something... I ruined it "
 
 ...you mean...it gets old??? lol I've been listening to it at least a few times a week since at least June. I still love it...if that album ever gets to the point where I don't want to listen, I don't know what I'll do.

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PAZ

Frozen

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Location: Sweden

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Monday, January 28th 2002, 10:12pm

I never told you how long I listened to it before I got sick of it..
 
 
 
 you have some weeks left <!--emo& :lol:

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Martin

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Location: Sweden

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Thursday, January 31st 2002, 11:54am

I saw the Theatre Of Tragedy album in a store... and thought it was a cool name for a band. So I bought the record... <!--emo&

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Azrael

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Location: germany

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Thursday, January 31st 2002, 2:13pm

a frind of mine just gave me aégis and told me to listen 2 it ... and i never wanna miss it anymore <!--emo&

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 i just love the album :!:

[: Azrael ][: sorry 4 the bad english ][: just a little german ]

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Xetro

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Posts: 274

Location: Space

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Thursday, January 31st 2002, 11:28pm

I've always listened to Rock, Gothic, Hard Rock (Let's keep it at this).
 
 I got this url from a mate at work here in Denmark, we are booth Norwegian. He said that it was a shame that Theatre Of Tragedy were almost unknown back in Norway. I said what kind of music are these, he showed me this site. And from the first moment I looked at the Image video I were hooked.

Per se verabo.......

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Carpe Noctum

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Location: SWEDEN

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Friday, February 1st 2002, 2:23pm

I just searched on the word gothic + music on the net.
 Followed a hit to a guy who had made a list of his favourite goth bands.
 From there I got to this page and was hooked.

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Rosentod

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Location: Germany

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Friday, February 1st 2002, 7:09pm

Saw one of their Aégis gigs on tv. I was so impressed by this angel singing there that I had to go to a store and buy it the very next day. After listening to Aégis for some days I ordered Velvet darkness and their debut and a new fan to gothic metal was born :) Thanks guys and girl:)

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Lost

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Posts: 100

Location: Bulgaria

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Friday, February 1st 2002, 11:59pm

I got into them... hmmm, let's see... as far as I remember, it was during some vacation... I was 13 then and I was studying for exams... I was bored of listening to all the things I'd got with me, so I needed something completely new...

"... no arrival"

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Aisha

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Location: sweden

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Saturday, February 2nd 2002, 7:22pm

it was somwhere around the time when velvet.. came.
 I just fell in love and have been ever since!

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~~~Spectral Eve~~~

Revolution

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Location: Albuquerque, New Mexico, U.S.A.

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Saturday, February 2nd 2002, 7:50pm

I first fell in love with "ToT" when I heard the song "Seraphic Deviltry" off of a Century Media sampler. I had always wanted to listen to the band because, and this sounds kind of funny but....I just liked the name of the band "Theatre Of Tragedy". It was an appealing name. Now I can't stop listening to them...I'm addicted!!!

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I'm hungry...

Revolution

Posts: 1,545

Location: Greece/Athens

Occupation: Large-scale Marijuana Smuggler

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Sunday, February 3rd 2002, 2:55am

I Just downloaded every album from DC - nice source...
 I heard the name some months ago when I last saw my bro (he is a famous (in Athens) underground quitar player) I told him like 'When is this guy (his friend) going to give me my Theatre back (Meaning my Dream Theatre 'Images and Words' Vinyl)?? And he replies 'Theatre? You mean Theatre of Tragedy?' and I said 'no I mean DREAM Theatre!!!'... And this is not really all, but I'm hungry now and my memory is bad when I'm hungry...
 The first song I heard was Cassandra from Aegis... Fucking amazing song (like all the album of course)...