How long are you listening to metal?

For me, it's been about 22 to 24 years. My parents divorced when I was a young age and so my mom eventually remarried to a man in the Navy. We would sit in his truck and listen to stuff like Metallica, Iced Earth, Megadeth, etc. A few years later, I started getting into other stuff like Dying Fetus, Slipknot, Deftones, Tool, etc. When they divorced, my brother and I separated homes (I went with my mom and he went with our dad). When I went to go move in with them years later, my brother introduced me to things I never knew existed before like Blind Guardian, Old Mans Child, Nile, Cradle of Filth, and these bands along with DirectTV music channel, helped me discover more bands like Children of Bodom, Devin Townsend, Soilwork, Disarmonia Mundi, Mirrorthrone, etc. Then went through my weird 15 to 18 year old phase where I didn't listen to much anything good. I kinda cut out Metal, not entirely but I fell into my Scene phase. Eventually when I finished school, I kinda went back to Metal where I left off but started to research and experience unknown and unique shit. That leaves me where I am today where a lot of those old bands I still admire but I also enjoy stuff like Heretoir, Astronoid, Drewsif Stalin's Musical Endeavors, Utopian Visions of Earth, Wolfhorde, Twelve Foot Ninja, Shades of Black, Rolo Tomassi, etc.

The last year of high school was the year I became a metalhead. It was '96 and "Until it Sleeps" and "The Beautiful People" were on MTV. MTV was so important back then and really helped to shape my tastes, my earliest memory of noticing proper metal was Slayer's "Seasons in the Abyss" video. I started buying metal magazines. My first proper metal album was Dusk & Her Embrace by Cradle of Filth. I bought a copy of Machine Head's Burn My Eyes from a kid at school. I remember Evil Empire by RATM being the best thing ever. The Nu Metal boom was on the horizon. The next year me and my mates would be going to the local rock night. First concert was in '99. It's a bit mental to think it's been so long.

I'm coming up on twenty years now.

It's been about 24 years now for me.

For me, 37 years (since 1982) of ear bashing and still as fresh and exciting as day one.
Couldn't live without it..
It really is 'fuel for life' !

Since 1983

Since 2002

Written by Tymorn on 23.02.2019 at 16:57

For me, 37 years (since 1982) of ear bashing and still as fresh and exciting as day one.
Couldn't live without it..
It really is 'fuel for life' !

I grew up on "Hair Metal". I was a metalhead as a teenage girl. From early 1988 until early 1994. My favorite bands were Cinderella, Poison,Guns N Roses, Warrant, Winger, Bon Jovi, Def Leppard, Slaughter, Skid Row, Ratt, FireHouse, Motley Crue and Aerosmith. My older sister( 4 years older than me) was into hard rock and Heavy Metal so i always heard things around the house like Ratt , Motley Crue , Def Leppard, Quiet Riot , Dokken , Judas Priest , W.A.S.P., etc. .

So i started listening to bands like aforementeioned , as well as bands like Bon Jovi, Poison , Cinderella , Whitesnake ( i absolutely loved Jon Bon Jovi when i was 11 year old). Alot of teenagers were into Heavy Metal back than so it wasn't hard to turned onto new bands all the time. I went to my 1st Motley Crue concert with my older sister when I was 14. You can call me old all you want but these kids today will never know what it's like to see your favorite band for 11bucks in a sold out stadium or the thrill of buying your favorite album. loved Sebastian Bach and still do he's a bombshell, and had a life like poster on my door in the bedroom yummy, I also was in love with Vince Neil, Bret Michaels , Axl Rose, Mark Slaughter , Jon Bon Jovi , Kip Winger , Tom Keifer , Jani Lane ...

As of the beginning of this month 40 years.
Damn, that's a long time.

I have been listeniong to metal since college, so it has been 6-7 years now.
At first i only listened to power metal, then two years ago I started to really enjoy death vocals, so now I listen to a lot of bands of different subgenres
It is thanks to the adults I got around me during sport trips when I was around 9-10 yrs old that i got into metal. they were listening to bands like Nightwish and Within Temptation, so for me metal was the real music. I was lucky.

Hi everyone!

My research partner is a huge metal fan and has recently introduced me to some music that i'm starting to warm up to! We are interested in research about metal musicians and have created a study to investigate this interest. We are researchers from the University of British Columbia (Canada). If you are interested in participating please take the survey (linked below) where you will be asked you about your favourite musicians. It's a fun and interesting study, and should take no more than 10-15 minutes to complete. Thanks in advance for your participation, and please feel free to share with other metal fans!

Link to Survey:  https://ubc.ca1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_06ssfxGEhZ7Kr7n

- BAR Lab research team, UBC

A couple of months. Like Fabiano, Nightwish was my gateway band.

Its been 9 years.

I mainly remember my introduction to thrash metal most, I think my first introduction was to Metallica Saint Anger when it was released, I think I was about 13? a friend of mine in school said Metallica were amazing so I should get that album, and I remember listening to it for the first time and thinking this is rubbish!, luckily I delved deeper into their discogrophy a few years later, at the time I think I was about 16, and my opinion on them changed once I heard Ride The Lightning, after that I started listening to Megadeth and Slayer. I never really got into their album's released around that time, I always had a thing for the 80's era.

Hello everyone, share with me the best albums that you have heard in your life.

Written by metalvletal on 24.09.2021 at 14:34

Hello everyone, share with me the best albums that you have heard in your life.

All you need to do is check my list of favorite albums

(Copied from a previous post I've made on this site):
I've been a metal fan since 2018 or 2019.
Here's more background about how I got into metal:
Up until about 2015 I listened mainly to contemporary pop music. Although I also enjoyed some rock music like One Republic and Linkin Park.
But then I happened to come across the band Arctic Monkeys (alternative rock/ indie rock) That was my first exposure to more underground/not-so-well-known music - so basically away from the radio-music. After listening to the similar band Last Shadow Puppets, I discovered Muse, which is a bit closer to metal music, I'd say. After the movie Guardians of the Galaxy came out, I started researching older music. That led me to hard rock such as AC/DC, Blue Oyster Cult, Nirvana, etc. I probably heard at some point songs like "Enter Sandman" or "The Trooper", but they hadn't clicked with me yet. I think someone had even shown me the awesome riff of Raining Blood but I didn't look further into it.
Finally, one day in late 2018/early 2019, one of my friends at school showed me the songs "Electric Eye" and "(Take These) Chains" by Judas Priest. That sparked my interest in metal. I looked up the Screaming for Vengeance album on YouTube, and soon was recommended Defenders of the Faith. I absolutely loved the fast pace, the wild yet melodic guitar playing, the energetic vocals - and the overall fun that was in every song!
After that, I listened to individual classics such as Holy Diver, Heaven and Hell, For Whom the Bell Tolls, Hallowed Be Thy Name. Interestingly enough, I didn't like Iron Maiden at first. Their songs were too long for me. So I basically sticked to Metallica, Judas Priest, Dio, and Black Sabbath for the rest of 2019. I also discovered Pink Floyd, which I really liked - especially their instrumental work like on Shine On You Crazy Diamond, Echoes, and the solos on Time and Comfortably Numb.
In summer of 2020 there was another turning point when I discovered Megadeth's Rust in Peace album. Megadeth suddenly became my new favorite and I devoured their classic songs. I also gave Iron Maiden another chance and fell in love with Somewhere in Time and Powerslave.
At the end of 2020/beginning of 2021 I researched what the greatest metal albums are to see if I was missing anything. That's how I found Metal Storm, where I saw that bands like Death and Opeth, which I'd never heard before were among the top ten... the rest is history !
By using both YouTube recommendations and the Metal Storm lists, I started discovering more albums and bands that I had previously never heard of (Crimson by Edge of Sanity, Storm of the Light's Bane by Dissection, IVth Crusade by Bolt Thrower, Beneath the Remains by Sepultura, At the Heart of Winter by Immortal, Jester Race by In Flames, etc etc).
In conclusion, I'm really glad I discovered Metal - now it's basically the only type of music I ever want to listen to... and it was all thanks to a chance occurrence at school.
I hope you (and who ever else reads this) liked my long anecdote. Cheers

Since 2002, about 23 years.

I was born in '82. Loved Guns and Roses as a kid. Although more Industrial, NIN's March of the Pigs (94) was the first CD single I purchased. Cradle of Filth's Dusk and Her Embrace (96) was the first proper metal album I bought on CD brand new... the same day I got Rated Next (97) by Next from the local CD shop - so, this was 97. I remember buying a second hand copy of Burn My Eyes (94) around that time. I think the next new metal CD album I got was Rob Zombie's Hillbilly Deluxe (98). After that it was mostly nu metal for the next decade.

But, yeah, it's weird when you realise how long you've been listening to some bands for. I'll be seeing Machine Head live for the Nth time this summer. I've been listening to Opeth for well over two decades. Time marches on.

Going on 14 years now. Love it more every day.

At the summer camp of 1987 I've heard the real music for the first time. Accept's Metal Heart. It blew my teenage mind. Thru cassette tapes came german gems (Kreator, Tankard, Destruction, Protector), england's best( Carcass, Napalm Death, Sore Throat) and america's sweethearts( Death, Cannibal Corpse, Slayer, of course Metallica) and scandinavians (Entombed, Bathory, Grave...)
We had only few subgenres and we argued about them ferociously. Few decades later, last year, by chance I stumbled on Metalstorm.
I never thought possible that so many subgenres existed. Some are silly, some are cool. Thanks to Metalstorm I discovered bands that I should have known long time ago but for some reason did not. Some became my new favorites( like Wolfheart)
Kudos to Metalstorm!!!

I suppose my introduction to heavy rock was Bon Jovi's Slippery When Wet in 1986 and then I'd advanced to Deep Purple, Maiden and Metallica by 1987. I'd have been 14 in '86.

So it's been 20 years this year that I've been a metalhead. Time goes by, a lot has changed but the love for metal music remains.

I have been listening to metal for about 25 years. My tastes expanded well beyond metal over the years, but I always come back to it. My life has had a lot of ups and downs, but it's one thing has remained consistent.

I've been listening to rock music since the early 80s. My first metal album I heard was Anthrax - Fistful Of Metal in 1984.

I have been listening to hard rock and metal since I was a baby in the early 90's. Back then we didn't have internet and our access to information was very lousy, so the bands were whatever we happened to come by, like Scorpions, Dio, Ozzy, Metallica, etc. It wasn't until early 2000's when the world opened and I found thrash metal and later all the rest. That's why thrash is so special to me personally.