when did you start seriously getting into metal?

[Generation_Speedkill]

what age did you start to seriously listen to metal, particularly underground stuff? im 15 and im still fairly new to the genre. i mainly listen to opeth, in flames, soilwork, arch enemy, syl, morbid angel, and older thrash, but i dont know anybody my age who doesnt listen to mallcore, rap, punk, ect.

 

[nergal_S]

i got into cannibal corpse at 14

got into more under ground stuff like Mayhem and Dark Throne at 15

 

[Catharsis]

I first started listening to Metallica at 14, after one of my friends relentlessly played their CD's to me all day ever day for about a month.

As far as more underground bands go, I first started listening to Gothic Metal at 16 I think (TSOTB were my first band). Then, at 17 I finally realised DImmu Borgir were not the be all and end all of Black Metal, and began to listening to the likes of Mayhem and Darkthrone.

 

[AndICried]

Tool, got me into prog metal, last year. So when I was 14. Now I am properly into all (most) forms of metal.

 

[Life Sucks]

I started seriously getting into metal when I was 13 and 14, listening to thrash bands such as Metllica, Testament, Megadeth, Slayer, etc. (I listened to 80s hard rock before that). Then when I was 15 and 16 death metal became my favorite genre. From 19-24 I was listening to more metalcore than dm. Now I'm 26, and I like all metal, with death metal being my favorite again. So I've been a true metalhead for 13 years.

 

[Psychonaut]

I guess I was 13 or 14. I started out listening to Motley Crue and their ilk but keep in mind, there wasn't much else around in those days. I quickly moved on to Judas Priest and Iron Maiden, then graduated to bands like Hellhammer, Celtic Frost, Slayer (keep in mind that this is back around the Haunting The Chapel days), and Venom. Now, 17 years later, I still play the stuff and don't listen to anything else. It appears that there are quite a few of us old fuckers up here so I guess once this shit gets in your blood, it doesn't wash out.

 

[asphyXy]

around age 12. i'm 16 now.

 

[Incendiare]

I grew up listening to Metallica and Black Sabbath. Stuff like that. But I started getting into underground when I was 13, and I'm 15 now.

 

[metu]

24, bitches. If you mellow out, you've lost touch.

 

[Nightmarez]

I'm fifteen now, and consider myself a 'serious' metal listener. I suppose I started when I was 13, and heard Metallica's "Fade to Black". From then on I was a full-fledged Metalhead.

 

[Bryant]

I bought "Back in Blcak" when I was 12 years old. After I bought that, I didn't instantly get into metal as I was a fan of classic rock like Boston, Kansas etc. and listened to it as well, but when bands like Quiet Riot started hitting the market, it really made me get back into the heavier style, so I started looking for heavier stuff like Dio and Accept.

Bryant

 

[None_So_Vile]

i was listening to nu-metal and light rock and actually a bit of megadeth when i was about 13-14 and then from about 15 and a bit i moved onto proper metal, im 18 in august

 

[Thanatopsis123]

Around 15.

 

[Ol' Dirty Bastard]

A few hours ago.

 

[Mr Bungle]

Around age 12...Black Sabbath

 

[maynard420]

When I was about 12 I was shown Cannible Corpse album, "Butchered at Birth" and it contiuned from then on.

 

[Life Sucks]

It appears that there are quite a few of us old fuckers up here so I guess once this shit gets in your blood, it doesn't wash out.

Yeah, no shit. I listened to metal for as long as some of the youngest members of this board were alive. I'm 26, and started listening to hair metal at 11 before switching to the heavier better stuff at 13, and am still an avid death metal freak. I hate those people that think the metal is something you outgrow. Some idiots have even implied to me that I am too old to be listening to metal.

 

[Aggressor]

Maiden was the band that got me into listening to Metal when I was about 13...when I was 14, a friend of mine discovered Black Metal, which he then passed on to me...and it was then that I got into the more underground stuff...
Im 18 now by the way...

 

[Alex78]

Some idiots have even implied to me that I am too old to be listening to metal.

that's a very interesting point, I think. I'm 24 and I often wonder whether someday I'll stop listening to metal, and if so, when. but the stuff I'm listening to these days is more extreme than what I liked, say, 5 years ago. and somehow I'm simply in love with huge distorted guitar riffs.
so well, no mellowing out so far, although I recently started to listen to prog rock and some classical music.
I also wonder if the reason to a certain extent may be that my life in the past isn't really what I want it to be and so metal is a possibillity to get some aggressions out. but that's only sometimes...I also listen to metal if I'm all happy and stuff...
ah crap, who knows...

 

[LuminousAether]

I've never been a metalhead, per se... but I started listening to underground metal of the non-industrial type when I was 17 in 1998. Before 1998, I mostly hated metal, because all I had heard was thrash and power metal, and I still hate those styles more than pretty much any other types of music.

Of course, I loved bands like Ministry, Godflesh, early Pitchshifter, Treponem Pal, November 17, and Rorschach Test... basically a lot of industrial metal.

After 1998, I heard My Dying Bride and Anathema, and I started listening to doom and black metal very often. I still do, but now I also listen to a lot of other styles of music I didn't listen to back then, like emo and country.