Extorris

I was most definitely a "special" child with a propensity to enjoy 'shock value' growing up all over the states. I will admit I found it odd at first until he played several more songs and I was just hooked.

This was clearly pure luck, so do not feel ashamed

The Batlord

So, do you generally enjoy more "evil" sounding or atmospheric metal bands?

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Extorris

That's the main reason I love Mayhem! That drummer, man. I got into Vomitorial Corpulence/Antestor/Horde-esque bands afterwards (Yep. I was a thumper at one point), then found a good niche with melodic death metal. Omnium Gatherum are my favorite in that genre at the moment along with Arsis to scratch that "black vocals" itch.

What are your favorite bands/genres?

To be honest, I digressed into "core" (embarrassingly enough) by the time I was 15-16ish, and slowly built myself up to "elitist" metal when I was 19. I do love atmospheric metal, but take it easy on the "evil" because it just becomes a monotonous message of "THINK FOR YOURSELF! OMG SATAN!" Dimmu Borgir is a bit of a guilty pleasure, however. :P

Musicfanatic

I can see you in line at the mall during Christmas to see Santa Claus and you tell the kid in line with you, like Ralphy in Christmas Story: "I like Mayhem," right after you said that you liked the Wizard of Oz. I just wonder, did anything like that happen to you when you were a child? Or was it the other way around with the kid next to you that told you that "he" liked Mayhem?

Rjinn

Mayhem are a pretty interesting metal band to start with. Which direction did it lead you in terms of other bands you got into?

Mayhem are ok. Some songs are a hit and miss for me. They have a pretty good drummer though.

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The Batlord

Same here. The atmosphere on De Mysteriis Dom Sathanas makes me think of the old black and white Dracula movie. It's sorta creepy, but it's got this B-movie goofiness to it that you can't take entirely seriously. "Freezing Moon" is a pretty amazing song though.

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bakerman34

ac/dc back in the early 80's..if you want blood is still one of my favourite live albums

Rjinn

Tool are still my favourite band. Can't shake 'em off. Otherwise it's difficult to really pick certain top of my list artists or genres. Going down more of a prog/metal road lately though.

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Vertigo

It was 1987 and four albums were doing seriously heavy rotation:

Def Leppard - Hysteria
Bon Jovi - Slippery When Wet
Guns n' Roses - Appetite For Destruction
Whitesnake - s/t (aka Whitesnake '87).

It seemed that wherever I went there was always one of those albums playing. And that was pretty much all I listened to until I heard 'Harvester of Sorrow' on the radio just after '..And Justice For All' was released. From there, I fully immersed myself in metal although, admittedly, with the exception of Metallica and Megadeth it was at the lighter sounding end of the metal scale.

richtom

Metallica, Dream Theater and Megadeth are my favorites buy it was Metallica which got me into metals!