The First Metal Band?

[Caste]

the first metal band that i liked was stratovarius

 

[Kalmakoff]

Must've been WASP. Or Dio. Or Iron Maiden. Or Judas Priest. Hell, I can't remember.

 

[StormBlast]

metallica! eaueahu but the first good GOOD one was CoB...about the end of 98!

 

[Mocika]

my first band i liked on my own was Guns n Roses in 91... before that i was `forced` to listen metal by my older brother, so i grew up on Kiss, Iron Maiden and Judas Priest. Now he listens to stuffs like LL Cool J... but fortunately still like my Iced Earth cd

 

[Repi]

Stratovarius

 

[neal]

metallica when i was pretty young thanks to older brother.
-neal

 

[DirtyKing]

Metallica, too...

 

[ShaneBarnes1982]

Metallica here as well... seems to be pretty common

 

[Nordi]

Iron Maiden!

 

[TrueBeliever]

Anthrax. Didn't start listening to metal until a few years later with Testament.

 

[PrinnyD00d]

Yeah, Metallica.

 

[Lyndrodius]

I wish I could say something unique like Megadeth, Cacophany, Nevermore, Testament, Opeth or Maiden, but I'm afraid that the honest truth is that Metallica was the first metal band...hell...first band I listened to. But unlike the other contributors here, I continue to like them

 

[Kalmah]

The first song that really hit me at age of 7-8 was from Kiss Creatures of the Night -album. It was Low it Loud. The next step was Helloween, Judas Priest, Metallica, Megadeth. Then came trash and speed metal groups like Sepultura and Swedish death metal.

 

[Demonic]

AC/DC

 

[empiricism_8bk]

I had listened to metal on and off in the late 90's (I was about 12. . .) then I heard Kalmah's "Dance of the Water" on the metal channel on New Year's Eve (1999, i believe, age 12), and ever since then I've been hooked on the Scandinavian metal. I used to listen to bands like Tool and think they were metal, and then Kalmah opened my eyes to this whole world I never knew existed.
Thanks.

-Greg

 

[Aggressor]

It all started when I heard Iron Maiden's fantastic song-The Trooper, I was hooked and I havent listened to anything other than Metal after that.

 

[ukstin]

Iron 'fuckin' Maiden

 

[AFSilverstar]

COB and Covenant/Kovenant dont know if that counts more of idustrial, but I still love both!

 

[NaTaSMAI]

Metallica, when I was in elementary school. AJFA was my favorite tape alongside Fraggle Rock.

 

[Gadlor]

Metallica then older stuff like Black Sabbath, Iron Maiden, then finally discovered all this good stuff over in Europe.