How Did You Get Into Metal?

[Orion Crystal Ice]

mmmmmmmmmmffff, Boston is.. I dunno, I would suggest checking out the 2 CD Styx best of or something if you want to really judge... cause Boston...meh, I just plain don't like that band. Irritating sounding vocals, every other song being about a rock n' roll party and calling your girlfriend 'mama', too much white bluesy strutting, etc, etc..................

 

[youdontknowme]

I used to hate them until I realized, "hey this is unprentitious 70s rock"

nothing trying to be something it's not. good rockin' tunes. don't set your expectations too high.

 

[Orion Crystal Ice]

Yes but I just illustrated I don't like what it *is*. ..empty white boy rock that makes my brain cells die. I certainly think you can be 'unpretentious' and 'rocking' without being completely stupid. Your vantage point is interesting and I want to ask what comprises pretentious in rock music.

 

[youdontknowme]

pretentious is writing 8 minute epics with tons of guitar masturbation and lyrics about aliens fighting barbarians, if you get my drift.

 

[Orion Crystal Ice]

Too vague..do you imply those things in of themselves are pretentious, and if so what of them, elementally, makes them that way? Or do you mean the combination of those things, and if so - again, why?

 

[Acdcpwns]

ac/dc from my friend/parents, worked my way up from there....

 

[Belligerent]

Styx is a band that gets way too much undeserved hate. I think they wrote some pretty good rock songs.

Off the top of my head i could name a good 20 classic rock/prog bands that are way more worthy of mention then Styx tbh

 

[seedofvengeance]

If you don't like the song Renegade, you don't like music.

 

[V.V.V.V.V.]

Yeah Renegade is fucking awesome.

 

[Belligerent]

"Lady" is a good one, partly because it was in the movie Old School when Vince Vaughn mimicked it but Styx for the most part are pretty goddamned gay if you ask me.

 

[RedinTheSky]

My dad stared me off on the music he liked best which was Sabbath, Mahavishmu orchestra, Zappa, and Rush, my best friend's father, who was a bit younger, was in to Iron Maiden, Metallica, and Megadeth. Then I caught a college radio station when I was young, and started hearing tunes off of Deicide, Morbid angel, Cannibal Corpse, and Death's early albums...

 

[~Derek~]

My dad stared me off on the music he liked best which was Sabbath, Mahavishmu orchestra, Zappa, and Rush, my best friend's father, who was a bit younger, was in to Iron Maiden, Metallica, and Megadeth. Then I caught a college radio station when I was young, and started hearing tunes off of Deicide, Morbid angel, Cannibal Corpse, and Death's early albums...

I wish my college radio station would play music like that, all we play is Top 40.

 

[Orion Crystal Ice]

"Lady" is a good one, partly because it was in the movie Old School when Vince Vaughn mimicked it but Styx for the most part are pretty goddamned gay if you ask me.

Lady = good but the rest of Styx = gay?


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Try:

Suite Madame Blue
Pieces of Eight
Boat on the Water
Blue Collar Man
Renegade
Miss America
Snowblind
Crystal Ball
Man in the Wilderness

etc, etc....


also Vince Vaughn sucks more than a whole lot of things tbqh.

 

[FJChaos]

My dad introduced me. I started with Classic Rock and Metal and eventually evolved through Thrash, then Slipknot, then Metalcore, and so on.

Once I discovered in Flames and Children Of Bodom, I was in a completely different world.

 

[Lateralus14]

Was already listening to Metallica, Tool, and Isis long before I was a metalhead, but brother showed me the opening riff to Opeth's Bleak so I put Blackwater Park on my iPod and fell in love with The Leper Affinity, then the whole album, then the band, then the genre..

 

[IntoPhagist]

Metallica of COurse...Still love them too...I'd take Master of Puppets and And Justice for all almost over any other Metal album.

 

[Doomguy]

Like a lot of other people, I was first introduced to nu metal in Grade 5. My older brother gave me his old Korn albums and I loved them. I then found out about two more nu metal bands: Slipknot and Disturbed, and also liked these bands very much. I then got into the classics, like Metallica, Iron Maiden and Judas Priest, and then found about black metal and death metal.

 

[EddyRX10]

I suppose I came into the Metal scene through The Offspring, they got me into the whole alternative music away from Mainstream, then I heard Children of Bodom in 2002. They just opened my ears to everything Metal.

 

[HeadbangerFromHell]

I've been a long time fan of Rammstein, so they were my first metal band. At first I was in the metalcore crowd, but then transgressed into metal

 

[IntoPhagist]

Rammtein - Reise Reise is a sick album