What was the first metal band you ever listened to?
 

I remember during summer camp a friend of mine gave me some Maiden to listen to...since then I'm a typical metalhead :thumb:

Iron Maiden-live After Death 1986

Probably Black Sabbath or Judas Priest or Thin Lizzy if they count.
Oh and Rush.

Come to think of it, Paranoid seems to have been around forever.
Every time I hear that song, it amazes me how long it's been going and still doesn't sound out of place.

Black Sabbath. Only metal band I still really listen to besides Led Zeppelin

Metallica. But I never liked them much.

Only metal bands I listen to now are Opeth, Mastodon, and Agalloch. I like some releases here and there by other acts, though wouldn't say I like the bands.

sabbath

Since when are Rush, Thin Lizzy and Zeppelin metal? O_o

First metal band I listened too would have been Black Sabbath or Iron Maiden.

My next door neighbour had an Ian Gillen Band single which he stuck on a tape for me. I think that was the first metal I ever heard.

I am embarrassed to say this, but the first metal band I ever listened to was POD. I came a long way from that terrible phase.

I was just thinking about this before you posted it. I think the fact is that the meaning of "Metal" has simply taken an extreme turn since the late 80s. In modern terms, of course, those bands are simply hard-rock, but at the time, or so I'm led to believe, Heavy Metal could easily incorporate those kinds of acts. In fact, even Michael Bolton (!!) came under the banner of metal once upon a time.

It's more about how you conceptualize metal. A parallel can be drawn with contemp r&b: with only exposure to the modern hip-pop scene, you wouldn't hear a rhythm and blues song of the 60s or 70s and think to yourself "that's r&b" without some necessary explanation being given to you first. Same really goes for metal. Some kid brought up on Slipknot ain't gonna believe in a million years that Led Zep could be called metal.

I was brought up on Zeppelin, and I still find some of their albums "heavy" for a lack of a better word, but even the bands mentioned don't want to be labeled as metal, and neither do I. Rush, Thin Lizzy and Zeppelin all do fit into their own niches in the classic/progressive rock spectrum, not to say they don't incorporate some stylistic similarities to metal.

the first metal band i ever wanted to murder was probably Iron maiden

It was undoubtedly Metallica, followed by Pantera and Maiden. I never went through a nu-metal phase.

I think it's obvious most of us listened to Maiden or Sabbath for the first time :yeah:

Metallica. I'm happy to say I never had a nu-metal phase either.

Believe it or not................Motley Crue - Shout At The Devil

That and the self-titled are still great albums that I will listen to for a bit of nostalgia.....................the rest are nothing short of embarrassing

my first taste of metal came in the form of Pantera....later on I went through my Nu-metal phase....I'm not ashamed to say that I still hold onto some Nu-metal bands and listen to them purely for nostaglic reasons

I never really got into metal, mainly due to metalheads wanting to kick the shit out of me in my teens.
I did have a friend who was into it and he got me listening to Rush - 2112 and Van Halen.
2112 was probably the first entire album I sat and listened through properly. Apart from that and the odd obvious high profile metal...not much else, though I did like Hanoi Rocks for a while.
I also own a Queensryche album...Operation Mindcrime(?), which I don't even remember buying.

.......... Enough to get a Michael Monroe haircut

Ha!...I'd rather stick cocktail sticks up my japs eye.

In Flames - Embody The Invisible

I think.

something like Black Sabbath or Metallica.

The best
 

Black Sabbath

Sabbath. (though it was not called metal then)

System of a Down... (hangs head in shame)

Iron Maiden. A friend of mine brought over their Powerslave CD one time and I was hooked. Currently I don't really like much metal. Maybe once a month I will want to listen to some.. But I find it interesting that the 1st I heard (or at least that i was actually listening to) ends up being my favorite and the only Metal band i can handle for the length of a CD... Most metal just gets too repetitive after 2 or 3 songs, in my opinion.

Only gotten into metal recently but I think the band that got me into metal was Mastodon, never appreciated how good they really were until recently also...

Well, first heard Trivium's Pull Harder on the Strings of your Martyr over a year ago in an online pop up (strange advertising music). I thought it was super cool, so I checked into more of their songs. Then over a year later, i checked into it again, then decided to buy an album of theirs. And thats how i got into it.

Black Sabbath, probably. Or Metallica. My first metal album was by Cradle of Filth though.

That is because Maiden is one of the best bands!!

Black Sabbath/Metallica.
Love them both to this day.

Guns N' Roses, and ever since then I have been hooked on metal.

I can't really remember a time when metal wasn't around. I guess its hard to say what the first I listened to and thats why its taken me so long to post here. I can remember growing up and my dad would stay up late at night listening to bands like Rush, Dio, Triumph, Sabbath, Bread, and Rainbow among a lot of others. My uncle used to take me all over the Puget Sound area and there was always good music playing. I guess I was born to listen to rock and metal. The first band that I was obsessed with was Guns n Roses. My sister used to listen to a lot of hair metal in the 80's, and not the decent stuff either. Her fav was Bon Jovi. A friend of hers passed along a copy of Appetite and she didn't like it enough and left it laying around. I must have been about 8 or 9 when I snagged from her. It was the most amazing thing I ever heard. I think I still have that cassette in a box somewhere. I've strayed from metal a few times, but always come back after a few weeks.

Don't tell me you still like GnR...

Yes I do, I still have every album. I can't say that I like every song, but I still have memories attached to a lot of them. There are also many songs that I still like.

What do you mean by that...? Are you insinuating that Guns and Roses is bad??

If you replace bad with a much stronger word, then yes.

Why O.o