What was your first encounter with metal?

ohiogrinder said:
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.
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Heh...Stryper...

I saw one of the guys from Stryper on a VH1 show about the 'Top 20 (or some freakin' number...) Least Metal Moments' and I thought it was very ironic. In fact, I thought the whole show was very ironic.
 
I've been into Ozzy and Black Sabbath since I was literally 5 years old, and Metallica since about 3rd grade, but besides for Metallica and Ozzy (I don't think they count, because EVERYONE has had some experience with them, being that they get so fucking much radio play...they are way too mainstream for me to consider them "my first metal encounter"), I will have to be honest and say...Fear Factory was my first real metal experience.

-------what follows is a little off topic, but...eh...read it if you wanna-------

Actually, before Fear Factory, I was getting into shit like Limp Bizkit and Deftones (aaaaa!!!...don't make fun of me!), but I don't consider them real metal. Fear Factory, though, considering their speedy double bass, and hard vocals, I consider to be real metal, although by my standards today, they aren't very good metal.

And very soon FF led me into liking bands like Pantera, Skinlab (I know, Skinlab is uberghey), Machine Head, and Pissing Razors (also uberghey). Somehow, without ever hearing those bands before, I had a gut feeling that they would be similar to FF, and lo, and behold...they were.

Next came Death, then by accident, one day, whilst out looking for another Death album, I accidentally bought the compilation CD called "Death...Is Just The Beginning Vol. IV". Apparently, I missed the "...Is Just The Beginning Vol. IV" part, and mistook it for a Death album. And then the rest followed...COB, Agathodaimon...etc.
 
Metallica the black album. Somebody in my 8th grade class kept playing it in class during breaks. Initially I thought it was too dark and depressing but eventually I really liked it. From there I got into death metal and Slayer, etc.
 
Thoth-Amon said:
Metallica the black album. Somebody in my 8th grade class kept playing it in class during breaks. Initially I thought it was too dark and depressing but eventually I really liked it. From there I got into death metal and Slayer, etc.
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thats cool dude and thats how it is:kickass: :kickass: :kickass: :kickass: :kickass: :kickass: :kickass: :kickass:
 
I used to be into modern rock until last year. Then, I downloaded some scattered Judas Priest, Iron Maiden, and various death and black songs. When the main modern rock radio station was changed to a rap station, I switched over to one with a harder rock format. This got me more into Priest, Metallica, Maiden, etc. I then got a recommendation to check out Slayer, and basically progressed from there
 
I would have to say I heard Black Sabbath and Deep Purple around 1980 and that was it. I bought some Sabbath,AC/DC,Judas Priest etc... bunch of cassettes and have been a Metalhead since.

:headbang: :kickass: :D

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bt9x
 
I heard Van Halen 'panama' on the radio last weak then realizing i've been a poser for the last 5 years of my life, thought van halen are rockstars and I want to be one. I threw my sepultura beneath the remains cds in the fire along with hell awaits.
 
I've only recently gotten into "real metal". I've liked bands that I thought were metal since August, 2005. Atreyu and Avenged Sevenfold were the first sorta metal bands that I've gotten into. Yet, back then I had horrible taste in music. I used to listen to fucking emo and pop-punk, because I was retarded. It wasn't until late December/early January that I started to like good metal. By January, I started to like bands such as Pantera, Old Metallica, and Megadeth. I also started hating emo by then. Frozen Stormrider had actually introduced me to these bands. If it weren't for him, I'd probably still be listening to emo. I don't think I like enough good bands yet to consider myself a full metalhead. Probably by next year I'll be able to claim that. :p
 
IWP said:
I've only recently gotten into "real metal". I've liked bands that I thought were metal since August, 2005. Atreyu and Avenged Sevenfold were the first sorta metal bands that I've gotten into. Yet, back then I had horrible taste in music. I used to listen to fucking emo and pop-punk, because I was retarded. It wasn't until late December/early January that I started to like good metal. By January, I started to like bands such as Pantera, Old Metallica, and Megadeth. I also started hating emo by then. Frozen Stormrider had actually introduced me to these bands. If it weren't for him, I'd probably still be listening to emo. I don't think I like enough good bands yet to consider myself a full metalhead. Probably by next year I'll be able to claim that. :p
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The ultimate success story
 
my first step into heavy stuff was made under Linking Park and P.O.D. signs... (yea, I know, I know). Before it i was listening to some Scorpions, Metallica (ballads) and Queen.
 
My first metal was with Guns & Roses when I was about 4 or 5 and some of the 70's and 80's metal and rock that my parents listened to at their parties getting all drunk. Then when I was in 5th and 6th grade I got into Korn, Mudvayne (Mudvayne more in middle school), Disturbed and the whole nu metal regime. After that for a few years my music got a lot more varied and I went through all kinds of different music before coming back to being a metalhead in high school mostly because of Slayer :headbang:
 
Guns & Roses when i was about 7 or 8. I remember thinking i was kickass because i was listening to music my parents would not have liked. Grown up music for cool people.

After that, it was metallica when i was 10 or so. Heard the song Master Of Puppets and shat myself and have loved metal ever since.
 
Blessed by the evil priests, born to be excluded from the curse of grunge or nu-metal, my story is like most of the older metallers. First taste was Kiss and then progressed from heavy metal to thrash, death to black metal (insert crossover,grindcore, punk/hardcore somewhere around the thrash/death period). It was great to bear witness to the development of those styles.

I find it interesting how alot of the younger ones on here talk of how they sourced metal by downloading it from the net. With the digital/multimedia age its not hard to become knowledgeable in metal or gather an astounding collection these days, is it? I hope its followed by actual purchases of metal, online or elsewhere.
 
^ Now that was fucking too much.

Slayer and Sepultura were probably the first real metal bands I got into and the first bands that I actually enjoyed of my own volition. Before then all my mates were into grunge and I sheepishly followed, and then I found metal and I have been an angry hermit woman ever since.
 
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