What got you guys interested in Heavy Metal music?

UMUR wrote: My first experience with heavy rock/metal was through watching a Swedish music TV programme in the mid 80s and watching videos by Twisted Sister and Europe. I later got completely hooked on Bon Jovi (back when New Jersey was their latest album), but it wasn´t until my older Brother started playing Metallica, Iron Maiden, Slayer, Kreator, Danzig, Misfits...etc., that I got really hooked on heavy metal as a genre. The cover artwork for Iron Maiden´s albums also had a major impact on me. I used to have about 20 Iron Maiden posters on my 8 m2 big pre-teenage room.   From there I just got more and more interested in metal. Listening to all sorts of sub genres, and I started playing music myself too, which got me even more interested. I lost interest in metal for a couple of years around the time I went to college, but when I dropped out, got angry at the World, and became a mailman , I started listening to metal Again. It was like coming home

I suppose it was when I heard 'Crimson King' by Demons & Wizards...I had heard plenty of metal up until that point(or at least, a good amount of Metallica at any rate[and even then, mostly the s/t], but it was this song that really spurred my interest in what was to become my love of power metal. Having listened to the song over and over due to it's great chorus and epic dark subject matter I wanted to find out what kind of music it was and asked my friend who the song was by. He told me and eventually I searched them up and came across a term known only as 'power metal'. Henceforth, my obsession never died. It may have waned a few times but never truly died. Eventually I looked into other sub genres of metal such as thrash, death, and doom, and many others and it's been an up and down(mostly up!) interest since!!

I've enjoyed heavy metal my whole life, grew up on Iron Maiden, Judas Priest, Soundgarden, Godsmack, Anthrax, Metallica, and others.

Edited by Unitron - 31 Aug 2015 at 12:50am