I grew up in the '90s with a step brother who is 7 years older than me. He introduced me to the world of metal, and my journey continued when I got my first guitar when I was 10.

Thks to my older brother, when I was little I used to go to his room and played some of the albuns! He was a Thrashahollic and from that I became one also. I still know the first album I bought: Sepultura -> Arise! Fuck what a great album!!

Saw the video of Ich Will from Rammstein. Bought the Mutter and Sehnsucht albums some weeks later. Later I discovered Children Of Bodom and Nightwish, thanks to them my music taste changed. Think I was 14 -15 years old back then. I really don't know why metal became my favourite music. Probarly because of the agression, atmosphere and the strong feelings.

Written by [user id=29088] on 04.02.2008 at 11:21

hm ... since i started to listen to "real" music back when i was 12 or 13, i've always listened to nearly all kinds of music.
and i still do ... otherwise it would be boring ... i don't understand this narrow-minded thinking of the most metalheads, sayin' black metal -or whatever- is the only kind of music for example
don't get me wrong please ... i hope you know what i mean

Good for you, same here! I stopped paying attention to MTV after the cable company ripped the channel off of our TV, and I questioned the genuinity (if that is even a word) of the stuff they were putting on that channel. So, I started finding other types of music that would suit my liking. Then, I found bands like Within Temptation and Cradle of Filth, and damn was I pleased.

I think I always had an inclination to metal, since i was a child, and i didn't know what metal was.
I was 12 years, and i listened to Evanescence. Ok, they're not metal, but they were different from italian singers (like Tiziano Ferro, Gigi D'alessio...Do you know them?), they played the most "extreme" music that i was able to listen to.
Then a friend, when i was 14 made me listen "Running up that hill", a remake by Within Temptation. This friend after a couple of day disappeard. So i thinked it was destiny. He was someone instructed to give me the start.
And i started to listen to easy bands like within temptation and avenged sevenfol (sigh)
And now i'm here.^^

I started listening to real metal with Metallica when I was maybe 14 or 15, After that I was in A metal pergatory listening to mainstream shit like Slipknot and Disturbed. I got into the real stuff when Listened to my brothers Slayer, and In Flames Cds. From there the sky was the limit and I got into Death, Black and more progressive things like Opeth.

Well I started to listen metal music when I was 13 (8 years ago).One day while I was listening to radio and waiting for a radio show on which they played half an hour of one band to tape it(mostly the music I listened then-some pop or smth like that) I heard-and taped some different music:3 songs which I really liked and which I listened like 1000 times in next few days.Later I met a guy who was listening to metal and he told me that it was Metallica and the songs were Master of Puppets,Of wolf and a Man and No Leaf Clover,and that he can give me more music like that if I would like to listen.I said why not and next day he gave me more Metallica stuff,Helloween's Master of the Rings and all albums of Iron Maiden,and I liked it a lot and thats how I started to listen metal.

I started with listening to Lou Bega, kinda happy music, then i started to listen to heavier and heavier music. Now I mostly listen to Death and Black Metal only. Hm all the bands before the first Black Metal song I've heard was from my brother, then some sent me Dark Funereal - Satanic Blood (Von Cover) and after that I gave up all the music I was listening to and started to listen to Black Metal only. Then I discovered Death Metal and Grindcore. I still love that song... Satanic Blood

I stumbled on it by finding my dads Ozzy album (think it was ozmosis) which I loved, when I was about 15. Didn't really listen to much because I knew nothing about music and I had no idea who the hell Ozzy was, I just had an album with a few pictures of him in it. Then at 17 I started talking to a few guys at school who told me more about Ozzys albums, and including Black Sabbath. They lent me a few albums, and later reccomended me more similar bands. And it started from there, I went through some nu-metal on the way (we all start from somewhere), but in the end I found that I loved thrash, along with quite a few other genres.

I'll try to think and remember. when I was younger and before go to school my father used to play Greek Rock in his car at the vacations. I loved it but never searched more. later at MTV with Hip Hop first and later Nu Metal bands like Linkin Park and Limp Bizkit were my favourite so I started searching more in stores and actually buy them. I still have their cds original! after school I got into more extreme metal, starting with Arch Enemy and Cradle of Filth till rotten uber shit like Enbilulugugal for example...nowadays I'm tired of the metal and especially black metal scene, still listening offcourse but not all these crap that every kiddo can release. rarely I'm trying new bands, and mostly orthodox / religious black metal and industrial black metal.

Well, since i was a little child, 9 or 10 years old, i started to listen to led zeppelin, deep purple, black sabbath, the beatles, and so on, and then when i got 14 i guess, somebody gave me a Judas Priest Album called "Sin after sin", yeah that disc is not their greatest album,. but i enjoyed and then i got a lot of heavy metal albums, and well now i am listening to Black music at the office, with a friend in my job, he listens to metal too, but he prefers death metal, i prefer black and heavy, aqnd well we have a day for black, another for death, and so on!

My parents always listened to stuff like Metal Church, Piledriver, Judas Priest, Metallica, Savatage and other stuff like that so I always liked classic metal stuff. When I was in middle school I started liking radio metal/rock (Korn, Disturbed, Stone Sour and that kinda crap). Not long after that I picked up a complition CD someplace that had a Slayer song (Here Comes the Pain) and fell in love with it and set me on the path for what I listen to today.

I was 4, I liked the cover art of "Keeper of the Seven Keys II" and they had "cool pumpkin heads" as there banner on top of the shop, I asked my mom to buy it. And here I am...20 years later, with over 2k albums owned, and a die hard metal fan. Who would've figured...

For my 5th birthday, 5 years ago, my dad bought me Zeppelin's 4th album and Santana's greatest hits.
Then for my birthday he bought me Stevie Ray Vaughan: Live Alive.
Then he bought me Rush's A Farewell to Kings

I really caught on with the rush.
I bought like half their albums and all of zeppelins.
Then I listened to a lot of other classic rock.

My uncle bought me back in black and highway to hell. Somehow I linked AC/DC to black sabbath, with all the hellish themes and such.

I got a Black Sabbath Greatest Hits.
Then I got Machine Head by Deep Purple.
Then I got Blizzard of Ozz.
Than I got Master of Puppetts.

Master of Puppetts made me a big Metallica fan.
From Metallica I started going back into NWOBHM, since I mistook bands like Pantera and Slayer for Hair Metal (somehow)
Then a friend corrected me that no, Slayer is not hair. I bought some Slayer.
Than I bought pretty much all the 'Classic' metal albums. Some Megadeth, some Metallica, some Slayer, some Motorhead.
Pretty much anything that was a small 'hit' in the metal world.

That's where I am now.
Still kind of uneducated. Standing in shallow water in the metal world.

I have a band. If you're curious it's myspace.com/hangar18kicksass

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Well, i started listening to Metal when i was about 7 years old (1986)... My neighbour's older brother was listening to The Number of the Beast album in his bedroom while we were playing in the living room... I'll never forget that moment when i heart the 1st chords of TNotB. i just left my friend playing alone, threw away my Optimus Prime and when i got in his brother's room and checked the album cover... that was the coolest thing a 7 years old could ever think of!! Since then, i never looked back. Almost 22 years of love for Metal.

I started out listening to only hard rock and nu metal, then after I heard Clayman by In Flames, I started progressively getting into heaveir stuff (this was about 2 years ago). I was never happy listening to hard rock and nu metal bc there was always something heavier and thats what I wanted.

This is actually one of the questions I am researching for my final year project at university. It'd be great if you could have your say in my "metal questionnaire". This is the link:


http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.aspx?sm=S9wJt_2fg3S_2fXhcVKYzanw7A_3d_3d

Thanks for your help

I started listening to metal for about 3-4 years ago, when I was 12-13 years old. My dad used to play music like Black Sabbath, Queen, and rock to hard rock in general, before and after I was born. If he didn't do that, I wouldn't be listening to metal today, and that I'm pretty sure about.
The same thing with my older sister, she eventually started listening to all those kind of bands like Guns'N'Roses, Alice in Chains etc. because of my fathers interest in such music. Now shes together with a metalguy, and he kinda dragged me into metal, since he listen to it, and plays death metal.
And as most people as far I've seen, I also started out with bands like Slipknot, System of a Down, and later I kind of "evolved" into other genres and heavier stuff, and then discovered a lot of great bands.
My life wouldn't be the same without metal, and I'm very grateful that they got me into metal.

I was 7 years old, my older sister had her boyfriend and his mates around.. They put on Metallica Black and .... And Justice For All. Never looked back since

I guess when I was 14 or 15 becuz in that time I maturity with music , I need sth that show my inner gusto

Written by [user id=31282] on 15.03.2008 at 15:42

This is actually one of the questions I am researching for my final year project at university. It'd be great if you could have your say in my "metal questionnaire". This is the link:


http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.aspx?sm=S9wJt_2fg3S_2fXhcVKYzanw7A_3d_3d

Thanks for your help

i was bored so i figured i'd take your survey. i see the sociological aspect that you're trying to convey for your project. well done, and good luck!

Coming from a household that listens to stuff like Cliff Richard, Julio Iglesias and italian/french romantic singers of the 60's, my chances of ending up in Metal weren't so good.

Still, when I was around 13/14, my ears landed on an album that had just recently hit the charts: Nirvana's "Nevermind". That was the necessary 'click' to turn me to some heavier sounds. From then I moved to stuff like Guns n' Roses, Aerosmith and the sorts... An then one day I stumbled upon Metallica's Black Album, and I never was the same again. At age 15 I made 600Kms to see them live on my own and then I knew where I belonged: in Metal. No matter what detours I might've made a few years later, I soon returned 'home'.
No point in searching elsewhere, Metal's what I want. And I keep finding new things within it everyday.

Three years ago, I saw Megadeth on an episode of Duck Dodgers. Until then, I didn't know music could be that awesome. After that I started getting into Metallica, Testament, Black Sabbath, Early Metal. I only got into newer Metal when my friend showed me Children Of Bodom, then introduced me to Metalocalypse. Ever since then nothing seems to be heavy enough.

This is my first post on this forum so...Hi everybody!

I listened to very little popular music till I was 14 years old. Nobody else in my house really likes any popular music style. However, I used to play a lot of video games and I noticed that I liked nice aggressive-sounding tracks from the ambient music for various games (Command and Conquer games, mostly.) However, I can also remember that when our neighbors played really loud electric guitar music of any kind, it sounded annoying and insane at the same time. (Which is how our neighbors were). Starting at 12 I listened to classical music, then at 13 and 14 I listened to all kinds of oddball music (more classical as well as folk music, bagpipes & military music, film soundtracks, etc).

When I was 14 I bought a computer game called Operation Flashpoint and really enjoyed it. The soundtrack for the game was done in part by a group called Seventh, who played a kind of loud, gothic alternative rock. That was the first loud electric guitar rock music I listened to. One of their songs scared the living crap out of me when I first heard it (specifically "Lifeless" for anyone who's played that game). It took me several attempts at listening before I could get through hearing that song all the way. Then I liked it as well as the other Flashpoint songs.

(I'm getting there, guys, I just like to write...lol). Just before I turned 15 I started listening to the radio, downloaded a couple interesting songs from Itunes. They were mostly rap cause that's what everybody else liked. Couple months later two older friends got me interested in Rammstein. I liked them partly for the sound and partly because I was very interested in the German language at that time. (Is it just me or have quite a few people here gotten started on Rammstein?) And it seems like from there I just started to listen to various bits of harder and harder rock music. The same friends also liked Disturbed (nu metal band), so I picked them up too.

Bout nine months ago, when I was 16 (has it been that long?), I started listening to the radio again after a bit of a break. I liked a bunch of rock tunes, including some from Metallica. I noticed from surfing the internet that some people (more of the actual "rock music" types) liked Metallica's later work, but the older Metallica fans thought it was a sellout and their earlier stuff was better. That, plus hearing a little grindcore and metalcore music, got me interested in underground, speedy, extreme metal. I got interested in it around September last year, and I'm 17 now. I only own a couple albums (Itunes again) and most of my exposure comes from Internet radio, so I guess I'm a little n00bish.

So...I guess that should answer the question! lol

When I was about 12 years old someone gave me Immortal's BITN. Since then metal is a part of my life

I got started in Metal back in the 80's, when I was about 14. I was really into hard rock at the time, especially bands like Rush And Van Halen. Quiet Riot came out then, and I kind of dug that - it took what I was listening to and kicked up the aggression a notch.
Now in my neck of the woods, we had a radio station called 97X -WOXY, which broadcast out of Oxford, OH. This was one of the last truly independent radio stations in the U.S., and has always been known for playing alternative and punk. (It now broadcasts as a web-only station.)
Anyhow, 97X had a weekly show on Saturday nights for three hours called "Massive Metal for the Masses." I happened upon it one night while listening to the radio in my room, and I was hooked immediately. There was all of this great music that I had never heard because it got no airplay - bands like Accept, Celtic Frost, Sacred Reich, Metallica, Slayer - bands that were doing what they were doing because they liked it, not because they thought it would sell. What an epiphany!
Also be aware that I was not exactly popular in high school, so this music that was being made without concern for whether or not anyone liked it naturally appealed to me.

I began to listen metal in age of 14 ! The first band was Metallica

When I was about 5-6 my dad would play Black Sabbath, Led Zeppelin, Van Halen, ZZ Top, CCR, Stevie Ray Vaughn, and various other hard rock bands on vinyl or me to listen to until I was about 8. For many years I just listened to whatever, not really finding something I loved since my parents divorced and I lived with my mom and she listens to pop and 70s music. Yeah.

When I was about 12-13 after being tired of not finding what I was really looking for and listening to the same three albums over and over again, I bought Metallica's Black album. Then I bought Master of Puppets. Then Ride the Lightning. Then Kill 'Em All. Then I listened to ...And Justice For All. I was hooked. I started to look up all the bands I knew but never really listened to (Slayer, Megadeth, Shadows Fall, Dream Theater, etc).

Almost eight years and a dozen shows later I've only grown to discover more bands and that I have a fondness of Thrash and Gothenburg metal. But I will always remember my roots in hardrock music, Metallica, and most important of all, Black Sabbath.

Thanks to a friend who show me the Keeper of the 7 keys from Helloween i enter the world of power metal! God bless him!

I started listening to metal when I was 15. A Friend show me Iron maiden, then I knew metal was the music for me and Iron Maiden is still my favorite band.