How did you get into metal?

yossi1986 wrote: if pink floyd are consider as metal, then it becouse of them

 



Edited by MAVIIIVAM - 02 Sep 2012 at 3:14pm

^Even with "Astronomy Domine"? Tun-tun-tun...

if pink floyd are consider as metal, then it becouse of them














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I was in a record store with some extra money and I bought Judas Priest's Painkiller just because I really liked the artwork... I never looked back...

Not an original answer:

I listened to Black Sabbath once when I was like 11-12.

Well, I was in middle school and this foreign exchange student from Guatemala named Sergio was like, "your music blows, this is what we listen to in Guatemala." And he handed me "Metallica." I put the cd on random, and "Wherever I May Roam" came on. It wasn't the sitar--believe me, at this point in my life I already thought it was such an overused "token ethnic" instrument--but when the 8 snare hits came in, it was like an epiphany. My eyes got huge and I existed, for a moment, in perfect clarity........heavy is awesome.....

Since then never looked back!

My cousin and brother listened to it, and it started creeping into the videogames and television I was playing/watching at the time. I liked enough of what I heard from these various sources (the gradual rise in interest built momentum constantly around 11-13 years old) to develop an interest in metal in general, buy magazines etc and become a metal fan.

It was a mixture of easier stuff like hearing Black by Metallica, Vulgar Display by Pantera from relatives and Limp Bizkit, Papa Roach, RATM and metal-world-associated stuff like Marilyn Manson, Green Day, Kid Rock in things wrestling and Tony Hawks or whatever as well as the very interesting and imagination capturing Slipknot that all started it off and built up the momentum.

Once you've got the gateway of bands like that, you can find out about stuff like Iron Maiden and Black Sabbath and go from there.


Oh and in the hard-living-hard-banging part, I grew out of all the drinking etc, cut off the hair and never got into the tattoos etc in the first place, but I like the music the same as if I was still 14. I still generally like to be in bands whenever possible too.

I used to love The Sweet and Kiss. But wanted something heavier. After hearing the metal radio shows and hearing Metallica I was hooked. I used to tape the radio show on cassette and listened to songs over and over till i finally got enough money to go out and buy one album after another. During the 80s the metal radio show was absolutely the definitive way of hearing new bands. They played anything! 

LittleBig wrote: As a kid, I was "exposed" to my older brother's musical taste  - a lot of rock music; and at some point he was listening to Iron Maiden - SSOTSS, Malmsteen - Trilogy, Metallica  - Kill'em All and many more so that's how it started.  Around '93-'94 I kinda gave up on metal for a little while, I was listening to classic rock from 60s and 70s, and discovered progressive rock. Discovering Dream Theater turned me back to metal. Progressive metal has remained since mid 90s my favourite metal subgenre.

It's a little of the same with me. First, I got into prog through the Beatles and Led Zeppelin. Then through that I got into DT, and from there to PoS- Perfect Element in particular-, and then from there to more extreme stuff.

The first Metal album I ever bought with my own money was Pyromania. It was 1983 and I was 12.