What was your first encounter with metal?

[Manbient]

Metallica when i was about 11 or so. I heard the song Master Of Puppets and nearly shat myself. I didn't even like music before then, i found it very uninteresting. Now it's my full time obsession fyi that was about 1994.

 

[Drain]

Got Ride the Lightning back in 97 i think I was 12....

 

[Teh Grimace]

since i wouldnt count metallica, id say it was picking up a venom album when i was 10 or 11 after seeing jaymz wearing a welcome to hell shirt.

 

[Alter]

slipknot and nirvana....as in hard bands frist "metal" is six feet under

 

[Ender Rises]

sorry but...
nirvana as a gateway to metal? that's odd
nirvana as a gateway to grunge i can understand, they were my gateway to the genre, but now i see that they are shit
i guess you meant that as first fave bands? whatever floats your boat, im not condemning

 

[Teh Grimace]

^ender

is your name an "ender's game" reference or not

 

[Ender Rises]

^ender

is your name an "ender's game" reference or not

yes it is
i love that book, the whole series is awesome

 

[Impudent]

Probably some power metal band or melodic death metal band.

 

[Base Delta Zero]

Ozzy - Bark at the Moon
I was 11 and the year was 1987 and the rest is history.

The first death metal I heard was 'Harmony Corruption' in '90 though Obituarys 'Cause of Death' and Cannibal Corpses 'Eaten Back to Life' really got me into death metal in the same year. 'The Dying' was the Obituary song that stuck in my head and began my obsession.

 

[Ian747]

Playing GTA: Vice City, 2 Minutes to Midnight came on and it blew me away... UP THE IRONS!!!!!

 

[Nico]

Haha, that's the greatest story ever.

 

[necromancy]

Haha, that's the greatest story ever.

Ohh.. I agree..

 

[metal paddy]

slipknot and nirvana....as in hard bands frist "metal" is six feet under

??????????????????????????the first are they metal

 

[Magaly]

as far as i can remember, i always liked all the rock bands on the radio, but probably the first band was Baron Rojo, an spanish heavy metal band, in the metal pub that was situated next to my home

 

[dEaThToFaLsEmEtAl34]

I'm not gonna lie. Slipknot and System of a Down. Go ahead bash me. I still like those bands I just don't really listen to em anymore. My music taste evolved so to speak.

 

[metal paddy]

I'm not gonna lie. Slipknot and System of a Down. Go ahead bash me. I still like those bands I just don't really listen to em anymore. My music taste evolved so to speak.

OK FAIR SHOUT PADDY WILL LET YOU OFF BECAUSE HE THINKS YOU ARE ONE OF THEM EMOS

 

[GarinStone]

Dream Theater. I got recommended it because I was an aspiring guitarist back in my youngin days and was blown away by Joe Satriani and asked people for better guitarists than him.

And some dumb fucks said Jimi Hendrix. I went back and punched them in the face.

But I got Dream Theater out of it. That led to Cynic. Who still fucking kill.

 

[necromancy]

Dream Theater.. Such a good recommendation..

 

[Miss*Li]

I always listened to stuff like Deep Purple, Motorhead, Black Sabbath, Thin Lizzy, because of my dad. But the first bands I started to listen "by myself" were, namely, Pantera, Metallica, Sepultura, Slayer, Testament, Death, Anathema and Opeth.
I remember, 8 or 9 years ago, when I first bought an album of Testament!
I was so happy about it! It was The New Order album

 

[ohiogrinder]

my first encounter with extreme music happened in 1989 when I was seven years old. I witnessed seeing a Napalm Death video on Headbanger's Ball that my hair metal loving babysitters put on. Of course when she caught me watching it, she promptly turned it off. I remember her being a Stryper fan so it kind of makes sense.