I first "discovered" music late in middle school, which is probably pretty late for a lot of people on this site. I got into it pretty quick, but it wasn't until I really became a Metallica fan and learned about thrash metal that my obsession began. Ever since, the vast majority of music I've listened to has been metal, and most of that of the eighties variety. I've since branched out to a lot of different kinds of metal, but that kind of eighties metal will probably always be the core of my musical Bible. For a while I was a metal-only guy, but around my early twenties that dam broke, especially after I started posting on this site, and I've been opened up to a lot of alternative and the kind of art rock and proto-punk that was alternative before "alternative" became a thing. Lots of stuff other than that: hip hop, pop (the ****tier the better), punk, classic rock, and even a bit of country and electronica/techno/industrial/whatever more recently. But metal is still my mistress, with alternative running a respectable second.
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Originally Posted by Briks
When did you discover your genre of choice?
I try to listen to as much different stuff as possible, but mostly it's metal and indie/alternative. I discovered metal when I was eleven, I think. Not really sure. My dad and I were at a mall, and I think we were discussing music or something, I don't remember. Suddenly he asked if I liked Metallica (even though he's not the biggest metal fan himself), to which I replied "no". He asked me if I liked rock music, I did (Queen and Springsteen), so we went into a music store and he spontaneously bought me the Flight 666 live album by Iron Maiden (my dad's cool). It was the heaviest shizz I had ever heard, but at the same time it was hella catchy. I didn't start listening to metal for real until a couple of years later, though.
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I call bull**** on your dad. I remember you saying that your parents were all anti-devil music. Now I find that your dad tried to get you into metal on the sly? I'm gonna guess that your mother is really the anti-metal one and your dad's a closet headbanger. Next time you're both home alone you should blast some Judas Priest and see what happens.