17:45 - tintinb I mean, if someone is above a certain age, say in the range of 25 and above, and has been listening to mostly other sort of music till now, the chances of him being converted into a fully fledged metalhead would be pretty slim.
17:42 - tintinb I also believe that most of us metal fans had some sort of external influence in our initial years of listening to this music. Maybe a friend introduced it to us, maybe a brother or dad was listening to it.
17:38 - tintinb I was stuck with this insight today. I think most of metal fans started to first listen to metal/rock in their formative years. In their teenage or maximum high school/college.
15:23 - Angel N. The difference is that I don't throw a comment devoid of anything insightful by adhering to some amount of ad hominem, Painkiller IS overrated album, NOT "shitty" ( in your juvenile vocabulary)!