What band opened the door to Symphonic Metal for you?

Epica - Cry for the moon

Friend of mine sent me a link for Epica's songs "Cry for the Moon", and "Never Enough." I fell in love with their sound and bought "The Divine Conspiracy" almost immediately. She sent me a link for WT's "Our Solemn Hour" a few days later, (I buying "Mother Earth", "Our Sileng Force" and "The hart-, hart of Everythng" soon after) so those two bands are really the two that got me into the genre.

Nightwish. The first song I heard was Wish I had an Angel. Then Epica with "Never Enough".

Within Temptation :)

Nightwish with the song Nemo.

Well, the first band I found was Evanescence through a Lego video but I was much younger so I want into them. Then a Nightwish song on a HMHS Britannic video. That's what kicked it off for me. But now I love Evanescence :D

Within Temptation too 😊

In reality I started with Rhapsody ( Rhapsody of brand ). They really have a lot of awesome songs then I heard Nightwish and Epica and I started being so interested in symphonic metal.

For me, it was actually my mum and her collaboration partner. They write prog rock mostly but once did a song that qualified as symphonic metal, despite both of them being unfamiliar with the genre beforehand!

I suppose u could say that the first famous band that got me into the genre was Within Temptation, because their work was the first symphonic metal my mum's songs got compared to. She bought a couple of their CDs and we both got into it pretty quickly, and I started exploring the genre meer from then on.

But yeah. It all started when my mum and her collaboration partner apparently "invented" the genre, only to find out it already existed. XD

Either Nightwish of Within Temptation for me here

WT was the band that did it for me as well, and I've been thankful for that ever since I found them because they're an amazing band, and no other genre of muziek has been so consistently wonderful to me. This is the first WT song that introduced me to it all.