Oh boy, do I have a story for you.
19 years me and some new friends I made when I had just finished school were sharing some of our favorite song files and I probably developed most of my musical taste that year. One friend send me a few songs by Dargaard and two by Theatre of Tragedy. I liked them all and over the next months bought all four Dargaard CDs. But somehow never looked any further into Theatre of Tragedy than those two songs.
Until two days ago, when I found the files while cleaning out my computer and spontaneously thought to look them up. Now I got Aegis, and it's soo damn good! I would have loved it back then. As much as I love it now. I usually don't like new music when I hear it the first time and only start to appreciate it on the third or fourth time around. But this immediately became one of my new favorites.