Trollheart

Good man yerself! Downloaded, converted, and now reading on my phone! I owe ya man!

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The Batlord

Good yuck, to you ya. Took me long enough to find.

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Norg

I was born in the Mid 80's

my first album I ever bought with my own money was actually prodigy pretty far from metal but still had that aggressive feel before that I liked what my sister liked which was Hip hop and like seleana LOL

Anywho my dad pretty much got me into metal I started with the two corner stones like most people Led zeppelin and Black Sabbath Sabbath really turned me onto Pantera and Down and I pretty much Idolize Phill and living in east texas all that New Orleans music at the time was pretty much carrying over here Sabbath and Down pretty much turned me onto Doom metal Sludge stoner Speed Thrash and later on Black n Death and later Grindcore ...and the rest was history

since the start tho and has I got older ive always pretty much liked all music and just wanted to grow my ears to all the different sounds so I never stuck in one place for to long I was never one of these type of hardcore metal fans that didn't like Hip hop or country or electronic and jazz music or pop music

Mojo

I hated metal music. When I was first really developing a love of music in my early teens I was an indie kid and listened to The Strokes, The White Stripes, and a load of Britpop bands. I thought metal was all power chords and noodling and had zero respect for it.

My friend was also just starting to get into music, but he liked metal. We'd share our earphones with each other (often during classes, you just need to mask it with your hand while resting your head) and whatever minidiscs we had with us that day. I'd try and get him into whatever indie or Britpop or rock and roll I was listening to, and he would try some metal albums out on me. He wasn't doing well until the Black Album, and with the Black Album doors were opened. Mostly into some of the other big bases in the genre aswell as modern commercial giants. Sabbath and Ozzy, Motorhead, System of a Down etc.

Then came the current numetal, which arguably was even the most important transition, as the likes of Linkin Park, Limp Bizkit, Papa Roach etc were current, popular metal bands, unlike anything I had previously enjoyed, and I liked them.

Just 4 or so years later I started talking to a couple of guys at work. One of whom I often used to go on smoke breaks with and get into a conversation about music. He liked alot of metal I had never heard of and wasn't always able to instantly appreciate, but with Electric Wizard came an opening to extreme metal, all things doom and sludge, and led to a love of old school thrash and more recently black metal, as well as his own band, stoner doom band Bong. Just like that my mind was broadened. Around 2005/2006 I started this job and this all happened. I had tickets booked to see Trivium and was very excited, then by the time the gig came round months later I barely wanted to go, and left after 5 tracks because I hated every moment of it. My taste in music had changed for good.

With a love of extreme metal came a far greater understanding and appreciation of the 'genre' as a whole and a total, 100% rejection of what my opinion of heavy metal once was.

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Frownland

Whoa, you work(ed) with one of the guys from Bong? Nice.

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grindy

I grew up with (among others) Deep Purple, Black Sabbath and Judas Priest.
Although I liked some of the songs, it was generally too loud and messy for me.
When I was about 9-10, there was some kind of Marilyn Manson marathon on late night TV and although I was somewhat disturbed, the music also seemed kinda cool to me. This might have been the first time metal actually appealed to me.
When I was about 12-13 years old, I started to listen to stuff like Limp Bizkit and later Korn and Slipknot. The usual teenie stuff. That's when I also rediscovered MM and I was a huge fan throughout my teens.
When I was about 16, I started to get into stuff like Black Metal, Death Metal and Grindcore.
By the time I was twenty I mostly stopped listening to metal, because free improv and noise and all that 'pretentious' stuff rocked much harder and were overall more fun.
In the last years, partly thanks to MB, I've had severall metal phases, mostly with Black Metal, recently even with Thrash Metal (thanks Batlord), a genre I hardly ever listened to even back in my metal days.
I don't think I'll be someone who listens mostly to metal ever again, but I've made my peace with it and found lots of enjoyment there, after having scoffed at it for too long.

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Mojo

Yeah, two of them actually. I can pretty much credit Mike and Bong for my love of extreme metal. I've been to an insane amount of Bong shows. I was at their second ever gig, and I only missed the first cause I couldnt get out of my shift.

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