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System of a Down. Specifically their albums "System of a Down" and "Toxicity"

Before them I did not really listen to music, like at all. I really didn't know anything, just listened to whatever was around.
I first heard SoaD my freshman year of HS. 2002. It was the song "Shimmy" which was on Tony Hawk 4.
Really liked it and listened to a few other songs. Thought they were awesome. Inspired me to listen to some other metal bands, one was Slayer. Reign in Blood really influenced my love of thrash. Some others I liked were Fear Factory, Static X, Megadeth.

On a band trip in Washington DC we were in a mall killing time. I ducked into some store and bought SoaD and Toxicity. Listened to them until my CD player died. From their I branched out a lot into extreme metal. Lots of thrash and death metal. Of course from there I ventured into prog metal which had another permanent impact on me.

So yeah, SoaD got me into metal, and really music.




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Megadeth, Metallica, Slayer and Testament. The real Big Four of thrash metal!



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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! 
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It all started late one night when 11-year old me decided to stay up and listen to the radio, when all of a sudden this strange song comes on called "Run to the Hills" by some band called "Iron Maiden"...

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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.


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My older sister was "cool" (i.e. a Deadhead) so she had some good stuff in her collection like Pink Floyd, Back in Black, Van Halen I, Hendrix, Deep Purple, Jethro Tull, Mountain, Aerosmith, and Led Zeppelin. From there I evolved into Maiden and Priest, etc.  
I was extremely lucky age-wise in that when I started thirsting for heavier music, along came thrash!. From there it was death, and then black, and so it goes. Now I pretty much like every kind of heavy music (as well as almost all other kinds), with the exception of "nu-metal" or whatever the hell Limp Bizkit and the Deftones, etc. are.
 
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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.....

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When I was 13, I've seen the video of "Back on Earth", by Ozzy, in the MTV (!). Later, I've listened to the compilation The Ozzman Cometh, and repeating Nick Dilley above: "Since then never looked back!"
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Not an original answer:

I listened to Black Sabbath once when I was like 11-12.
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My first metal-related band was Led Zeppelin. My mom was really into their music so I was listening to them since I remember but started to really appreciate their stuff when I was 7 or 8 years old. I love them to this day. 

Then I got the first album of System of a Down as a kid's day gift, and I was really hooked ! I still think SOAD is a good band. Then my girlfriend [ex-girlfriend, obviously Tongue] got me into Slipknot. I was 14 or 15 at the time and I really liked their insane aggression ... got bored with them a year or two later, when I discovered some REAL metalWink

Then I started to get into bands that I still listen to. Tool was the first one, then I discovered Opeth's Ghost Reveries, just a few days after the premiere. Some death metal bands like Cryptopsy or Nile. That's the whole story, more or less.
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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...
Yeah its dumb but it make my way into heavy and NWOBHM then thrash and then progressive.
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 I barely got into rock when I was in 6th grade...before I was your average Usher loving preteen. But I fell in love with Linkin Park (they fell so low!) and then slowly started listening to more hard-core stuff. Friends got me into Manson and Guns n' Roses, BFMV, Metallica and somewhere along the lines I decided I wanted to listen to more hard-core stuff ( Maybe it was part of my rebelling stages playing all that hard-core shit getting my super religious mom pissed) and well now here I am loving the heavyness of metal purely for its amazing "get you pumped" ways ^^
 not much of a story but hey that type of music scared me when I was younger so yep came a long way!
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if pink floyd are consider as metal, then it becouse of themWink














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well they are not
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This is probably the closest Pink Floyd ever came to Metal:
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Originally posted by yossi1986 yossi1986 wrote:

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

 


No . . .

Thats "Meddle"   Tongue  Wink

Or . . .










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I'm waiting for someone to explain how metal get into him/her.

By the way, I have to blame either Guns'n'Roses and the 'You Could Be Mine" video (which I saw when I was 13) or my parents who had records and tapes from Deep Purple, Blue �yster Cult, AC/DC, Scorpions and even Moutain.
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