When and How did You start listening to Metal?
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Posted by Unknown user, 26.01.2007 - 14:44
. (Hope it wont be locked or deleted though).I'd like to know when you guys have started to like metal. I think it reveals many things about people's personality, as in my opinion, Metal is not a kind of music you can listen to "by chance". I think there is a kind of... evolution, which eventually makes you listen to this music.
Personally, I started being into Metal only 3 years ago, in 2003, (which is kinda late,) thanks to Rammstein, I was about 14, but even then, I was more into Industrial and Rock. Even if I've been raised with a big brother who used to listen to classic Metal bands such as Iron Maiden and Metallica for instance, I've never thought I would regard myself as a "metalhead" one day.
I guess I wasn't mature enough to understand what Metal could really mean. But we all grow up. I've never really had a "happy" life, and I found in Metal things that helped me much. There were feelings I couldn't name, and Metal enabled me to understand more things about my own life and about people in general.
I think I wouldn't have started listening to this kind of music if I wasn't forced to leave the place I had been living in for years, for the second time. That special event, when I had to move and leave everything behind, made me start listening to Metal. And now i know i cant live without it.
Its your turn now
, I'd like to know how and when you started listening to Metal. It might be really interesting I think, and I'm sure there is a lot to say 
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| +{Jonas}+ I R Serious Cat Posts: 4955  |
2001 I got Metallica "...And Justice For All" and "Metallica" and that's when all began... I listened to some Nu for a while (KoRn, Slipknot, Linkin Park) and I still like it, but I moved into other subgenres. I'm pretty open-minded. Specially since mom listens to glam, power, folk, heavy, prog rock, and a little, only a little Nu.
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I stardted listening metal music with the song"keine lust" of Rammstein 2 years ago.;) and i discovered other bands,cradle of filth ,children of bodom,amon amarth,burzum,trivium,converge,bloodbath ...i'm glad to listen to metal bands 
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| heresiarch Forever Dead Posts: 1473  |
I started to listen metal at new years eve 1978-1979  there was Motörhead performing in TV and I told my mom that I want that band's album for my 7th birthday , and I did , it was Bomber album , I got it somewhere in my house After that it was like Tsunami wave 'til this day I spent all my pocket money for albums , (not anymore though) I got over 1700 albums
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my bro pushed me....like.....(if you not listen this music youre not my bro) he was serious really.... first time i didnt like so much but now im a headbanger  i cant live without this music  my first favourite album was iron maiden somewhere in time.i guess i started with this album i still love that album 
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| Bitter Dawn Ave Sathanas! Posts: 843  |
I'd say probably in '96 when Sepultura's album "Roots" came out, just prior to that I had really got into White Zombie. I was about 12 years old I think.
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| MetalGoddess Posts: 50  |
hmmmm  well... it was summer '96 ... my birthday.... my brother gave me as a present "Iron Maiden- The X-Factor" ... I listened to it almost all day... for about 2 months... and then I started to buy other albums 
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| Danny Thomas Posts: 552  |
well i listened to bands like adema, disturbed. then moved up to spineshank, then Shadows Fall. the next big step was when i bought Wages of Sin by Arch Enemy. this triggered a long series of purchases from Inflames, to dark tranquillity, and it just progressed from there. now i lsiten to jsut abotu any genre, folk metal being my favorite
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My friend introduced me to Black Sabbath when i was 12 and ever since then i've been hooked on metal. Before that I listened to punk  .
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| RhaegarTargaryen Telcontar Posts: 389  |
I got some CD, with some Mettallica, Iron Maiden, FireHouse and Dream Theater songs on it.. I got it cause I heard "Unforgiven" at my friends place, and I liked it. But it became serious when I first heard Nightwish, and one day after that Sonata Arctica, Kamelot, HammerFall and Blind Guardian (all in one day)
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| Sunioj Posts: 3894  |
Great idea for a thread, I was waiting for this Well, when I started listening to extreme metal...I have this friend who is in a local band who I usually get stoned with and he always used to make fun of me because I listenend to nu-metal and he would always show me morbid angel and other bands to get me into extreme metal. But one day, I was really wasted and I was almost passing out, my friend put on pure holocaust by immortal and it just clicked. Strange experience, I suddenly liked the music and there wasnt a reason why I shouldnt.
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| Valentin B Iconoclast Posts: 10094  |
i really started about november 2005, around the time i joined metalstorm actually. basically, i listened to some led zeppelin, iron maiden's stuff in the summer and liked it, likewise with old metallica and guns n roses. but the big break(i think it was early july 2005) was when a friend of my sister's gave me a cd with lake of tears, slipknot, hammerfall, the 69 eyes and tiamat. i liked most of what i heard there, and for a time i thought slipknot was fucking brutal EDIT: i used to be a hardcore swat kats fan when i was little, and just..listen to that intro. it's pure IRON fucking MAIDEN and my dad was a big ac/dc, led zeppelin, deep purple and uriah heep fan, so that influenced me too.
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| Bitch Boy Posts: 1353  |
Well I started to listen to metal when I was about 15 y.o. My first metal band was Metallica and they're still my top favorite. I used to listen a lot to classic, hard and alternative rock such as The Beatles, Led Zeppelin, Pink Floyd, Bon Jovi, Aerosmith, Guns n Roses, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Nirvana, Pearl Jam, and Metallica was among these bands. Then I began to listen to other metal bands like Pantera, Tool, Rammstein, Korn, Rhapsody, Apocalyptica and some others, and that's how I got into metal.
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| Demon Hunter Posts: 13  |
I started to listen to metal at the age of 13.I heard on radio metallica's Of a wolf and a man,Master of Puppets and Unforgiven and I really liked it.After that I listened to Helloween,Hammerfall and Iron Maiden.Then Rhapsody,Nightwish,Kamelot,Cruachan and other band similar to this. At the end to say I'm happy to listen to metal and be a part of this great music.
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| selken Irreligious Posts: 949  |
I was 12 when I listened my very first song it was Hard Rock from Metallica: "Fuel". In the neighborhood I lived there were some guys whose played the guitar, i became interested since my parents strongly dissagreeded.
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| iaberis Advice Troll Posts: 1698  |
Well, I got into metal by a poser friend of mine. He was trying to send away the geek image he had in the high school, so he started listening to metal, head banging and playing the satanic. So one day, he gave me some MP3s and some CD-Rs of some metal bands, like Iron Maiden, Helloween, Rammstein, Metallica, Megadeth, Demons And Wizards, Bush, Nightwish etc. and I liked it. It was in the middle of 2004 in my last year in high school... I later got deep into metal in my first year at the University, where I got a pc and the ability to chose the music I want through MP3s, internet and abandoning the commercialized radio stations which only played stupid stuff... So here I am, my 3rd year in University and I already know that much into metal... Of course MetalStorm helped into that direction
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I would say i started around 1995 ... i started listening to some old stuff such as Black Sabbath, Dio, Rainbow, Iron Maiden, Savatage, Megadeth, Metallica and Slayer. After that i started get more and more into it till here i'm standing as a metal head that have been into metal for around 12 years 
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| Fhuesc Posts: 1328  |
I started when i was in high school, my best friend one day said "listen this, its metal, the greatest music in the whole world", and the first song that i heard was Speed of Light, and when it finished, i was like wow, so that day when i return to my home, i download Black Diamond and Stratosphere, and that was the final step. At the begining i listen what my friend show me, which basically was trash (Metallica, Pantera, Slayer), nu (korn, sliknot, mudvaney) and power (strato, sonata). But one day everything changed, i was watching the Stratovarius homepage, and there was a link to children of bodom, and since that day i started to listen melodic death. Now i dont like trash or nu, i still like power but less than then.
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| Ellrohir Heaven Knight Posts: 8669  |
i became metal-adict sometimes around this year's New Year...i was bored of those still same comercial craps performed in radios or tv and searched for something more interesting...i have some Nightwish's songs already (think it was Ever Dream, Wishmaster and Dead Boy's Poem, maybe some else too) and because i liked those, i've started looking for more...and i have listened to the Ghost Love Score and it was done :-) later it came Rhapsody, Sonata Arctica and Turisas and then someone recommend me Metal Storm, so i am here
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