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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| BurbotsRevenge Foetal Butchery Posts: 1603  |
well my firend gace me a burnt metallica CD, and i loved it, thus i expanded my collection and evntually got from thrash to melodeath (still love thrash though). And now, METAL FOREVER!! 
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| Bash' :) Posts: 531  |
My cousin brought me a Nightwish sample, it was Everdream, I was shocked, that I never imagined there were music like that ever existing! so that, after then my path started.. ahh just to tell .. before that in a year, I tried Metallica -as it's like one of the most wellknown bands- for the needs to explore that what so called metal so I tried them, but I didn't went on...
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| RhysTerk Posts: 161 |
Well, kind of new to metal, but i discovered it when i was listening to Lordi in Eurovision song contest (have moved over to imo better bands now). But the time i really falled in love with it was when i heard Metallica for the first time 
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| Imraghil Posts: 146  |
First i listend to red hot chili peppers. A year after that i heared Kamelot and Masterplan from my dad, i was totaly surprised... so great so good... i was 3 years ago The Black Halo was just out for a few weeks. Now i listen Power, Black, Gothic, Progressive and somethimes Death. My favo band? Kamelot I've seen it live twice and in 2008 again in het Hof ter loo! :d
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| Pegasus Posts: 19  |
5 or 6 years ago...i listened to "Toxicity" of SOAD and it converts me from hard rock fan into metal fan ...later i started to listen to new,power then m-death and m-black and recently doom
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Ooh, I think it was my mate that got me into metal. We both didn't really have a taste in music or a real interest until I went around to his house one day and he had long hair and a Metallica t-shirt on. He used to stick Master Of Puppets on constantly even though he knew I hated it, while we played games or something. Eventually the music grew on me and I'd say they were the first band I really got into and now I listen to anything. ...and he's a bigger Megadeth fan now.
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| Replicant Posts: 83  |
As I grew up, I just naturally progressed from rock onto metal, not that I have disregarded rock entirely. There wasn't really a single moment when I started listening to metal, I suppose I just was introduced to it through friends and media and explored it more. As for death and black metal, this was from my own desire to seek out more styles, upon truly realising how huge and diverse metal as a genre really is.
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| Smurfophagist Posts: 1069  |
When i was younger i only listened to punk and rock. I pretty much couldn't stand metal until about 3 years ago. As my guitar playing skills progressed, i found myself in search for more 'demanding' music styles. And so I found metal, and i gradually started to like it. Now metal is my favorite genre, although there are still certain sub genres of metal i don' t like at all.
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| Piro Posts: 301  |
I used to LOVE rock and Punk. I just about only listened to Mainstream stuff, then I heard some stuff but Blind Guardian, and was overwhelmed by the power of the music and vocals. I loved them instantly. Of course, since then, I've basically listnened to everything from power to melodeath, to black, to doom. Now when I try to listen to rock, it just feels like there is something missing. Metal, in retrospect, seems to fill that emptiness with pure energy. Its a kick to listen to.
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| Demonmayonnaise Posts: 362  |
I bought Black Sabbaths greatist hits... It changed my life, thats all Im gonna say... Fuckin changed...
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| RockeRoy Posts: 641  |
My bestfriends big brother always listend to Metallica,sepultura, pantera! so i gues thats where i got it from!!! i was around 13-14 years! an i tell you it's the singel moast importent thing in my life! because it kicks so much ass and have the emotion to!
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| Valentin B Iconoclast Posts: 10094  |
there are a number of factors: -my dad used to listen a lot to queen, ac/dc, deep purple, led zeppelin etc so i had a pretty solid foundation -by the age of 14 or so i began to reject the sinthy pop music and went to pop-rock, in the vein of Linkin Park -in the summer of 2005 a friend of my sister's gave me a CD with Hammerfall, Slipknot, The 69 Eyes, Tiamat and Lake of Tears, HammerFall kickstarting my descent into HEAVY FUCKING METAL
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| LostSoul Posts: 35  |
my friend brought one metal cd to the school. An he played it to me, I loved it! I've been into metal ever since and we're kind of best friends. Nobody else in our class likes metal but we do, and we announce it to everybody loudly
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| IllNiñoSweden Posts: 331  |
2 years ago. I begin listen on a Swedish rock radio channel. My first metal band I like was Seether. They came from south-africa. And my cousin influence me, for metal.
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| ainalolsen Posts: 8  |
I started to listen to metal about 5 years ago, when I was 12. A friend of mine recommended some bands for me to hear my opinion about them. Since then I have been hooked.
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| Taktsekte Your Ad Here! Posts: 2808  |
My first metal albums were Rammstein's Mutter and Mägo De Oz's Finisterra, the former given to me by a Taekwondo classmate and the latter lent to me by my cousin, which means that I started listening to metal when I was 13-14 years old. Both albums are still among my favourites today.
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| ArcanaHereticae Posts: 169  |
When I was 6 years old, I was watching Ace Ventura: Pet Detective and I saw an unknown band at the time playing on stage when he went backstage to visit the guy in the computer room. Turned out that was Cannibal Corpse. (I wouldn't know this until years later.) Well, I dug Chris Barnes' vocals because at 6, I had never heard anything like that before. Like the majority of moms, I was forbidden to listen to that kind of music. Well, when I was about 12, I had this friend who wqas really, really into old-school Punk. We were hanging out one day and he let me hear Slayer's Show No Mercy. I was sold. I listen to that, Metallica and Megadeth for a couple of years until a guy at school one day, who I later joined a band with, gave me a CD and said, "Listen to something good." It was Nile's In Their Darkened Shrines. I've been hooked ever since. Thanks to two stoners in middle and high school and Ace Ventura, I am a Metal fan. Wow.
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Account deleted Written by [user id=18405] on 30.01.2007 at 01:36 This is interesting. What do you mean by "can't go further"? What measurement are we using here? Why can't we go down? 
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| X-Ray Rod Skandino Staff Posts: 18374  |
When I was about 7 or 8 years old. My step-brother who was 7 years older than me liked metal. And he "teach me"... It was something very nice. Because I was the little boy big that follow his big brother and they spend the time together... good memories The first metal song that I heard was "One" by Metallica. That song is very especial to me because of that.[and is the best metallica song IMO] I liked Clasic music as well. So my step-brother told me about Rhapsody. And this band became the first metalband that i REALLY LOVED. Is not my favorite band anymore... but it still has some good memories.
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. Lets just hope it goes on that way 
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