How'd you get into metal?

I searched to see if there was a thread about this and i didnt find one.

How did you people get into metal? Which bands really inspired you to listen to more bands?

For me...i grew up listening to AD/DC, Metallica, and other 80's rock bands, so I was always around rock music. when I got into junior high there were a lot more kids to be friends with and there were kids who listened to rock music so i would hang with them. I think it was probably Iron Maiden who got me into metal...a friend of mine made me listen to them. I didnt really get head over heels for Maiden, but i did like the feel of the metal so i looked up some other bands. By high school...i was one of like 20 metal heads who went to my high school of like 2000+ kids. local shows and national shows quickly became a typical weekend activity. One of the first metal bands i saw was lamb of god. it was right after new american gospel was released so nobody knew who the fuck they were. that show sealed me as a metalhead. Since then ive grown to know and like many many different genre's and bands related to metal. i love it. i'm pretty excited to see where the future of metal is headin...it should be interesting.

 

my brother was a metalhead throughout the 80s and 90s so I learned about all things metal my entire life.

 

very cool...you and bro seem like 2 dudes id definitely rock out at a show with

 

Friends.
I always dissliked guns and roses, ac/dc and metallica- which most people get into metal by listening to.
I just started listening to the epic symphonies of dimmu and emperor and whenever I heard vocals I would instantly switch songs lol.
But then I just got used to vocals and I mostly ignore them.

 

korns debut album back in grade school, like 3rd or 4th grade. which led to slipknot and eventually MM.

 

i cant stand cookie monster vocals - or worse yet "nails on a chalkboard vocals". thats why i dont listen to that crazy metal.
thrash and speed and power metal is where its at.

 

^Haha yeah- cookie monster Vokills, I hate them to. Although there is just one thing I like about them- I cant hear the lyrics. Im sure if I heard what they are singing about then I would be put off even more. This is probably the reason why I mostly listen to Norwegian and Russian metal.
But yeah- Power metal lyriks FTW

 

power metal = dragonforce = a shitty fuckin band.

they suck live too.

i like some cookie monster vocals...i guess i'm just more metal than you guys are haha i kid i kid!

cookie monster > cookie monster vocals though

 

Power metal does not only sounds like Dragonforce :tongue:

 

my older cousin who only was thirteen at the time introduced me to iron maiden and metallica (..and justice for all) took a few years before i finally bought master of puppets myself

 

stratovarius...isnt that another power metal band? stuff sounds like it should be in some video game like legends of zelda or something...its all whimsical and shit.

 

Through nu metal and mainstream rock clips on tv, haha.

 

Stratovarius and Dragonforce are not the most intruiging power metal bands to me neither . I can easily understand that death/thrash metal fans see nothing interesting in power metal though. It's generally too happy and stuff.
I'm a bit out of it now, but I still appreciate some power metal bands. When I first seriously started listening to music around age of 13 I think, it was metal. More the heavy metal genre at first, the Black album of Metallica was one of my first cd's, haha. A few years later I broadened my taste from the upcoming black metal genre to power metal. Never really was into bands like Hammerfall and Stratovarius though. Nowadays I rarely listen to but dig folk, doom and black metal most.

 

I got given black sabbath's first album at age 11 and it blew my mind I fucking loved it and still do and yeah I guess that started my metal journey which is still going and will be to the day I die, Im a fan of most styles of vocals weather it be power metal or deep guttural growls as long as they've got power in their voice its all good by me.

 

Started with Metallica, AC/DC, like the OP. Went on to Rage Against, and from there I got really into Iron Maiden and Judas Priest, which introduced me to Slayer, Anthrax, Megadeth, Motorhead. Then it was kind of a flurry of thrash and groove metal until I found Pantera. And then it just got harder, and harder, and blacker and blacker, and a bit gothier. And then, my friends, I became ADDICTED to cheeeeeesy 1980s hair metal like Dokken, Queensryche and Grim Reaper. But of course I'm not strapped to one genre, so my track list goes something like:

Cradle of Filth
Cannibal Corpse
Peter Tosh
Dokken
Dokken
The Beatles
Cradle of Filth
Burzum
Emperor
Emperor
Grim Reaper
Iron Maiden
Waste Basket
Cradle of Filth
Dokken
Dokken
Dokken
Dokken

 

my aunt listened to hair metal and thrash in the 80's and my dads friends all jammed judas priest and metallica and shit. but i was a kid then and didnt pay any attention to it. when i was 11 or 12 i bought White Zombies- Astrocreep 2000 and Marilyn Manson- Portrait of an American Family. from then on i listened to all the basic "mainstream" metal bands. then i stopped listening to metal for like 4 years lots of weed and vitamin E. I just recently got back into metal 2-3 years ago Belphegor, Benighted, Aborted, all shall perish, Dawn of Demise, Suffocation, Crotchduster, Blood Freak whatever i love it all.

 

all shall perish is fuckin rad dude. im glad you got back into it

 

My brother is 7 years older than me. He was a metalhead all throughout his teens, so I pretty much grew up listening to Maiden, Metallica, Sepultura, Pantera, and the rest of the classics.

When I got to college I branched off into doom/death/black metal, some drone, sludge, and crust through friends.

Metal isn't my favourite genre (I'm much more into experimental and psychedelic rock), but I sure do love my metal.

 

good. metal is the way to go babe

 

i have always loved rock, and when i heard about metal i listened to a few bands and i have been hooked and loving it ever since

though my personal favorites are

death metal
black metal
power metal
symphonic metal


and loads more i cant think of