Sometimes I look back at what influenced my musical taste, it feels like he(Trent)as always been around the corner..
I always felt like I started a bit late, around 12/13 yo, truly listening to music. And by that I mean buying albums and getting interested in specific groups and not only liking what grown-ups would be listening to around me.
Of course, my older brother who was very into metal was a big influence at start, so my first album was Killers by Iron Maiden (eh funny how I chose my online name based on that, like around a year before KillBill, I was using bill everywhere but felt it was to simple so this and that.. but im side tracking..)
So way before that period, some songs in various media would stuck a lot with me. Like I was very into Command And Conquer growing up, and dayummm the music in those games... Frank Keplacki was my introduction to a more Industrial sound. Of course I loved the Quake OST a lot back then as well, was too young probably to notice both of them fighting for best soundtrack in 1996 haha.
I wonder if Frank was a big fan of TDS, because once I really got into NIN, feels like a lot of stuff clicked in my head, like Trent had been shadowy guiding my musical taster from the background all my life xD No wonder I am so much into electro techno ect, even if I was a big metal head in my teens