What made you like Metal music?
 

Sorry if this thread has been done before got a bad habit of doing that since i started here lol :bonkhead:

So yeah what influenced you to come over to the dark side? :hphones:

Cradle of Filth, tbh

i was born into a family of folk who liked rocking music, that'll be why i like metal reaally my mum was a punk back in the day and my dad liked status quo lol

Mother fucking Led Zeppelin.

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Spending countless hours in junior high hanging out in friends' basements listening to the likes of Metallica, Slayer, Anthrax, Sacred Reich, Mercyful Fate, Death and Obituary just kind of sold me on it after a while.

What person under 30 hasn't spent hours loving Metallica? Although the band members....ehhh not so much. Noone has mentioned the classics yet that everyones heard. For instance the most baddass metal band that has a lead flute, Jethrotull.

I'm over 30. :p:

Yeah as much as I hate to admit, Metallica played a large role in me getting into metal. Also 'Back in Black' was the first album I ever owned.

My mate's an enormous metalhead and it rubbed off on me in the end.

I got really good headphones.

I don't hate to admit that at all. Back when Metallica were getting me interested in metal they were still making good music. :)

Growing up I always liked punk for whatever reason. I got into metal via bands like Napalm Death and Carcass. They sounded raw and punky enough to get my attention while providing a fresh sound I hadn't heard.

Thats not so bad then, I was into them around 98' 99' timeframe. Same time the Napster cry baby fest went down, I also though S&M was a good album. I had issues.

Meshuggah.

Something in the music just resonated with me. There were times when I could swear my heart was beating in sync with the double bass drum of Death and Deicide. In my younger days (12-13) I was huge into the "Big 4" (Metallica, Slayer, Megadeth, and Anthrax) as well as the more popular newer metal bands like Slipknot, System of a Down, and Avenged Seven Fold. When I was 16 I kind of had a bit of a falling out with metal as I quickly jumped on the alternative rock bandwagon where I stayed til I was about 18, then I started getting back into the more extreme metals and paid little to no attention to the mainstream music. A lot of my music was coming from interent forums and my older friends who were always into the underground extreme stuff.

The thing I find most fascinating about metal is that it and hip hop are the two most prevalent genres of music you'll find throughout the world. If anyone has seen the documentaries "Metal: A Headbanger's Journey" or its' predecessor "Global Metal" will agree with this.

You nitpicking bastard. :yikes:

Well theirs an expected over/under margin of error included in that for special cases like yourself. :rofl:

metallica got me into metal, and bfmv got me into metalcore ( which is now my favorite genre )

Yeah it was Metallica's self-titled album that did the damage :D i saw the video for Enter Sandman on Kerrang! tv when i was 14 and though it was the coolest thing ever at the time.

Well that couple extra years means that it was ...And Justice for All that got me into Metallica, not the black album. So there. :p:

my youth, and that iron maiden album art were just so cool...where did the years go...?now I'm old and can't handle the noise anymore...

When my dad started putting on KISS and Van Halen and Led Zeppelin on his stereo to hear around the whole house.

Many years back, around the time I was hardly 13 I used to play alot of videogames, and so I'd join videogame communities to discuss my inherent interest. Around the time, back in middle school, it became 'cool' to follow the role of a mal goth and I couldn't help but admire the breakthrough in my previous idealized aesthetics of cool. From this enthused ignorance, I started paying more attention to the more alternate musical interests of people on the internet, that I had misjudged as having lived the same alternate lifestyle. I started off listening to H I M, Cradle of Filth and Iron Maiden but by the time I got to high school my taste evolved into various power / progressive / folk metal artists such as Ensiferum, Porcupine Tree, Tool, Kamelot and Helloween. I don't think I ever truly got sucked into metal until my senior year, when I finally gave death / black metal a fair listen. I got seriously attached to bands such as Death, Nile, Arcturus, Quo Vadis, Shining, In Flames among countless other bands.

Very lame, but so it goes.

Black Sabbath and Judas Priest got me into metal.......basically recommendations from my Stepdad that plays Bass

If anyone says Jack Black or Kyle Ghas Ill ****ing stab your heart.

My father beat me until i was thirteen so i went through the guthic stage now i skate and listen to hardcore mhmm

The Devil

the intensity of it, plus the riffs and technicality alot of the bands possesed. plus the only other music i could find where i lived was spanish music and and hip hop

The first metal band I got into was Rammstein after seeing the music video for "Du Hast" on MTV back in '97.

They are quite intense. And love saying there own name.

The first album I ever bought was Alice in Chains' Dirt when I was 8, which was the same year I started playing bass. Some people consider them a metal band. I don't. I just threw that out there for those who do. After that, Metallica, when I recorded a staticy Welcome Home (Sanitarium) from the local college radio on cassette on my family's only CD player. This was '94 or '95. I was really into Metallica from then until about 14. While they were releasing Load, ReLoad and Garage, Inc., I was sticking with the first four or five albums, my favorite still being Master of Puppets, although I did buy Load first.
After that, I discovered Pantera when I ripped off Official Live 101 from a Columbia House disc order. They were so ****in' fast. When I first listened to the live versions of Sandblasted Skin and Suicide Not pt. 2, it was the fastest music I had ever heard, so naturally, I listened to it as loud as possible on my DiscMan everyday at school. That was 13.
And then I discovered Slayer through some friends. They pretty much replaced Metallica as my "second favorite" band after Pantera took the helm.
Since then, a lot of good bands have kept me into metal: namely Opeth, Nile, Between the Buried and Me, Cradle of Filth, Dimmu Borgir, and a rash of hardcore bands like Burnt by the Sun, Car Bomb, Psyopus, Dillinger Escape Plan, and The Black Dahlia Murder.

System of a down

Surprising answer!

Oh dear, another member named after a band...
I much as I love them, SOAD's fanboys are awful.

I love SOAD too, but what got me into metal was Linkin Park. (I'm prepared for jokes)

SOAD did get me into metal, but i kind of grew out of liking their music

This

^One of my all-time favorite Motorhead songs right there.

I miss the days when metal was filled with ugly greasy bikers & hard nuts.

It's all musos & pretty boys in make up now :(

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Still going and JH still listening :D

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