What was your first encounter with metal?

[Lies and Perfidy]

Used to listen to shitty nu-metal in middle school–Korn, Limp Bizkit, the like. I heard "No Leaf Clover" on the radio and decided to buy some Metallica. Reload was the first album I picked up, and while comparatively shitty, it was way above and beyond anything I was listening to at the time.

Then I bought Kill 'Em All, and that changed, well, everything. My reaction was along the lines of "OH MY GOD, WHAT THE FUCK IS THIS SHIT?!...I LOVE IT!" And so it began.

 

[AlphaTemplar]

Creed--> Alice in Chains --> Metallica --> In Flames

 

[Nag]

Judas Priest like 1985 or sommat.. I was 2 but I remember my uncle playing them all the damn time while in Texas.. he moved to Vegas after we moved back there the day painkiller was released.. I listened to a lot of priest cause of him.

 

[Perdition's Light]

While I would like to say my first exposure to metal was Judas Priest or Morbid Angel, it was...of course, Cradle of Filth. I was 14, the year was 1999, and my friend (15 at the time) played "From the Cradle to Enslave" and "Funeral in Carpathia (Be Quick or Be Dead Version)" off of the "From The Cradle to Enslave EP" that had just been released. I quickly discovered Therion, Opeth, Tristania, Moonspell, Tiamat, and other such "easy-listening" bands. The crossover point for real death metal (not counting Opeth) was hearing s little band called Asphyx (The Rack), after reading a review of it online. It wasn't at all what I expected it to sound like...I had no idea what to think, but it intrigued me. I wanted to see what people saw in this music, so I downloaded more bands and just listened constantly and fell in love with death metal. It was all I listened to for months and then I checked out Immortal's At The Heart of Winter. If that isn't one of the best introductory albums to black metal for a death metal fan, I don't know what is...downloaded more black metal, blah blah blah

Then I found out a local indepedent record shop around here was carrying underground black and death metal albums and I started buying like crazy. I would get strange looks sometimes for having short hair and not wearing torn jeans or a denim jacket covered in patches, but fuck it, I knew what I liked.

Only within the last year have I let my gaurd down concerning classic heavy metal and speed metal like Iron Maiden, Manowar, Mercyful Fate, Judas Priest, etc. and I can now say I truly appreciate all genres of metal except for fucking prog and lame ass "beauty and the beast" goth metal bands.

Sorry, it's 3:28 AM, I'm really bored...and studying is gay.[/lifestory]

 

[Mercy/Severity]

demon of the fall by opeth.... first metal song i heard

 

[PDantesco]

Judas Priest's Screaming for VengancE, Iron Maiden's Number of the Beast and Black Sabbath`s Heaven and Hell.

But: That only gave my preference to Rock (all subgeneres exept pop) over Latin Music,R&B or Soul. Also helped to increase my interest in becoming a musician. And now, I have to go back in time and listen to all this missed stuff from Latin, soul and R&B. That's life!!!

 

[PDantesco]

demon of the fall by opeth.... first metal song i heard

Holy sh... I mean, stuff.

 

[Perdition's Light]

Latin Music,R&B or Soul

Now THERE'S something you don't see on metal message boards every day.

Holy sh... I mean, stuff.

WOAH! Good thing you caught yourself there, buddy. We ban people who use naughty words around here.

 

[MURAI]

what band, song, event or whatever got you into metal for the first time?

I ask because I think it can have an interesting effect on the evolution of your tastes, or maybe it doesn't really effect the direction your tastes are now.

e.g. if the first band you fell in love with was Pantera, you might have more positive views now for bands like Black Label Society and so on, just to suggest an example.

For me, the first encounter with proper metal was Iron Maiden. I had dallied with bands before, thinking I liked the bands people liked at school like Limp Bizkit and fucking Staind, but I think that only ever went as far as getting 2 CDs. Maiden is where it started for me.

God, I used to like that terrible Korn and Limp Bizkit kind of shit too when I was 15-16 years old. Then I got into Slipknot, Soulfly and Sepultura. They got me into more actual metal like Pantera, Slayer, Obituary, Morbid Angel etc etc. And I guess I'll always like the bands that got me started in actual metal like Obituary and what not.

 

[necromancy]

That's such a sweet story. You had a lot of guts for an 11 year old. Do you know what ever happened to the boy?

The guy is singing bloody popular songs (like from Enrique Iglesias, Marc Antony, Robbie Williams and some local stuff) in a night bar with classical guitar (to earn money)... But till then, for like 13 years, I've been listening to metal and I am happy )

 

[Terrordome]

Megadeth- Go to Hell. 5th grade

 

[DreamerInHeaven]

Sepultura, Iron Maiden and Metallica

 

[Prowler121]

I remember when I considered Girls, Girls, Girls to be a dark and heavy album back in the 80s when I was a pre-teen.

 

[Cheapliquid]

i went over my friends house across the street from me when i was in like 6th grade.

they showed me metallica, pantera, hatebreed, coal chamber, sepultura, fear factory, amazing i tell you.

 

[TylerTheNuke]

I had an early love affair with NIN when I was about 14. I turned to oldies afterwards however, so that doesn't count. One day, I was browsing internet radio, and I heard the death metal station and thought it sounded really awesome. So, I go out and buy the sound of perseverance by death, and from there, its history.

 

[Flesh_pedal]

Metallica seek and destroy
But about the time i REALLY got into metal it was
System of a down Needles

 

[OfManAndMetal]

for me it was anthrax "madhouse", then my taste for metal evolved now i listen to practically all 80's metal bands(metallica is my favorite)

 

[Horus]

My first true encounter with metal that changed my life.....

Many years ago, I was at sleepaway camp. I'd just started playing guitar and was looking for some cool stuff to play, and one of my counselors showed me Metallica's Master of Muppets album. I thought it was the greatest thing I'd ever heard. I was all metal from then on.

 

[UndyingDarkness]

A friend of mine sent me a few Tool songs, not metal I know. Then he sent me a few Dry Kill Logic songs, and then some Slipknot(I wouldn't listen to them for a while because I felt they were too crazy for me) I heard the song Wait and Bleed and fell in love, eventually he got sick of recommending me stuff. So I just went on metal sites and checked out what everyone was listening to....I started out listening to metalcore, now I listen to melodeath/death/black mostly.

 

[Nico]

I got into metal through a few phases. Started to get into music when I was introduced to Pantera, Korn and Nirvana, then Metallica, Cradle of Filth, Deicide, Children of Bodom, etc. Bought a comp. called "Death is Just the Beginning" (5 I think it was), which had some CoB, Death, Dimmu, Covenant, Hypocrisy, etc.

This was all when I was about 13. Then I got bored of it all. Started getting back into alternative and rock (Rage Against the Machine, System of a Down, Dandy Warhols) 'till I was 15 or 16. Rediscovered metal with Opeth, then Naglfar, Astriaal, and onward from there.