Quick Survey: How long have you been listening to metal?

[lurch70]

Hey Scott ... you going to the Suffocation show at The Downtown in early January?

 

[Ayeka]

2nd October 1999

Iron Maiden - The Number Of The Beast

Had listened to bits of Maiden and Slayer before, but that was the definitive date and there was no turning back.

 

[Crimson Velvet]

1984, No Life 'till Leather, but didn't get interested until '86 when I bought Master of Puppets.

I'm so old...

 

[Henrik Main]

2002. I had heard quite a lot of Metallica and other metal bands before that, but I didn't like it much at all. Extreme metal, however, appealed to me. The records that got me into extreme metal were Dimmu Borgir - Enthrone Darkness Triumphant, Borknagar's "The Archaic Course", "Quintessence" and "Empiricism", Satyricon - Dark Medieval Times, Aeternus - .... And So The Night Became and Mayhem - De Mysteriis Dom Sathanas.

 

[spaffe]

1996: Metallica - Load (twelve years old btw)

Then I went astray and listened to hiphop for a few years (1999 to mid 2001 I think) and into metal again via Slayer - God Hates us All. Pretty uncommon albums to be lead into metal by I guess

 

[Henrik Main]

Heh, I remember I used to dig "Until It Sleeps" and "Hero Of The Day" back in 1996. Punkrock was my main thing back then, nowadays I like metal just as much as I like punk.

 

[MFJ]

2001 : Opeth - Blackwater Park

 

[spaffe]

Heh, I remember I used to dig "Until It Sleeps" and "Hero Of The Day" back in 1996. Punkrock was my main thing back then, nowadays I like metal just as much as I like punk.

Well I still do, played that records perhaps a week ago, it's just as good as when I first heard it Yes I was really into Offspring in those days as well, and Rage Against the Machine

 

[speed]

Hm 1990- or 1991. It was Ac Dc's The Razor's Edge. a few years later I heard metallica's and Justice, and then I got into all the old thrash bands.

I have had some lapses along the way, but none since 2000.

 

[Krilons Resa]

Somewhere in the late 80's. I was listening to a lot of hair bands at that age (LOL) then I discovered Metallicas's Master of Puppets and And Justice.. and probably some Megadeth or Maiden I believe and I was hooked.

 

[SonOfNun]

2003
Opeth-Deliverance

 

[NAD]

I just rememebered the first metal album I bought was Twisted Sister - Come Out and Play in 1987 (I think), but the Black Album a few years later is what really converted me.

 

[Dev]

1997 (?) Megadeth - Cryptic Writings , dug the Megadeth catalogue then

 

[General Zod]

1983

Motley Crue's "Shout at the Devil". This is without question, the CD that started it all for me, in respect to my love of music. Around this same time I remember listening to AC/DC's "Back in Black", Iron Maiden's "Number of the Beast", The Hooter's "Nervous Night", Duran Duran's "Seven and the Ragged Tiger", Def Leppard's "Pyromania" and Quiet Riot's "Mental Health".

Zod

 

[Hell Mike]

RTL when I was eleven

 

[mousewings]

1995. I was 11 and obsessed with Corrosion of Conformity. I still love them.

 

[lizard]

I can't remember. older cousins playing classic rock and metal. But I do distinctly remember one cousin who owned one of the building blocks of metal, Cream's Wheels of Fire.

 

[Thanatopsis123]

I think I started in 98, give or take a year.

 

[NAD]

Pantera was one of the bands that made me totally fall in love with metal, sometime in 1992. They deserve a second mention in this thread.

They will probably be brought up in the next 300 posts I make. Generally metal is relatively safe from this bullshit type of violence it seems. Gah, I'm so fucking pissed and bummed about this shit. God fucking dammit man, ultimate ballz.

 

[unhinged]

1980 age 11 bought angelwitch debut album

ha! take that you bunch of sprogs

bought b.sabbath vol4 the week after that but didn't really understand it