What got you guys into metal?

Lauren Morales · Apr 10, 2019

Hi
Growing up I have always been into rock and metal. My dad always listen to rock and the first metal band that I really got into was Avenged. My love for metal progressed to listening to heavier bands. What are your stories of how you got into metal?

Calvin Phillips · Apr 10, 2019

Always listened to whatever my sister listened to til grade 11 ish? Got into the wwe and started listening to entrance music. Then I joined rp forum to write matches. And needed my own music. So my friend gave me a bunch of bands to try out. Also found other entrance toon songs. Chapter 4 and darkness surrounding were two songs I found. Also had dimmu borgir as those were my toons music.
Anyways.. I met friends who I reduced me to fear factory which is one of my biggest influences in my later bands.
The next year I was Introduced to the more scream core side of metal. From first to last.. and punk emo bands like saved the day. And a lot of underground bands that didnt make it.
From there I just sorta met friends who listened to avenged and they gave me other bands that were kinda like then.

Jaylen Owens · Apr 11, 2019

For me my dad and uncle always listened to metal, My dad was always playing it on on guitar or through speakers. I heard was carry on by A7x at the end of Bo2 And I was like ok new genre I like it progressed. To Heavier things. That’s my story I have a longer version but I have school see you guys.

Isaac Moss · Apr 11, 2019

I used to freaking love video games specifically Call Of Duty and I heard Shepard Of Fire on Origins and fell in love with it. Now I’ve fallen in love with guitar and haven’t touched a controller in over a year.

Filip Tomiša · Apr 11, 2019

System of a Down back in 2009. when I was in 4th or 5th grade. The older kids introduced us to them and we all started listening to them.

AGA · Apr 11, 2019

A lot of people have a Metal phase when they are teenagers and then move on as adults, but for me it was the opposite.
I first got into Hard Rock like Guns and Zeppelin as a teen and I would occasionally listen to a bit of metal here and there but it wasn’t really my cup of tea. I remember only genuinely liking Symphonic Metal, like Nightwish. As an adult I’ve explored a big diversity of music genres and discovered that there are a lot of “flavours” in metal. I found some that I love like Doom Metal, (I recommend Anna Von Hausswolff, Chelsea Wolfe, early Black Sabbath) some Alternative/Nu like System of a Down.
Another thing that played a role in that was that I saw Metallica and Avenged live. My brother is a huge Metallica fan and I liked Avenged, but after seeing them live…Shit! That was the best concert any of us have ever been to! Even my dad said that, and he doesn’t even like metal.
In conclusion, I like metal a LOT more now than I ever did as a teen. Lol.

Ed Seith · Apr 11, 2019

I started my “adoptive” phase when I was about 10. One of my best friends got me into Billy Joel. The cool kids at school were all about AC/DC and Pink Floyd, and other stuff like that. I didn’t get it and it didn’t do anything for me.
When I was about 13, watching Night Tracks (the basic-cable music video show for people who couldn’t afford to have MTV), I started hearing Def Leppard and Quiet Riot, and that’s where it started. A short while later, Dio’s video for The Last in Line hit, and then Powerslave, and holy shit, I was all in by then.
Oddly enough, it wasn’t metal that made me want to play guitar. That was Dire Straits (Sultans of Swing) and REO Speedwagen (the solo in “Keep on Loving You” with the mega-reverb and the arena-sized pick scrape).
My tastes stayed there, and didn’t really get heavier than Maiden until Metallica threw out Master of Puppets, and that was the LIMIT for a lot of years. I still remember the moment I’d heard that Cliff had been killed in a bus accident, but I really wasn’t “attached” to Metallica yet, even. Late bloomer.
It wasn’t until I moved out west, to Arizona in 1997, that I started developing a taste for heavier stuff like Sevendust, and then Nu-metal and metalcore (KSE) brought my tastes harder still.
I still don’t care for like death metal or anything that has poor sound quality – I like solid, clean production.

Adin Shepherd · Apr 11, 2019

It was more an evolution for me, the first cassette tape I owned had a couple of Kiss songs on it, which I listened to over and over. From there I got into Maiden, Def Leppard, among others, then I heard Puppets, and it exploded from there.
Initially it was early thrash stuff, Slayer, Megadeth, Anthrax, Testament, etc, then I got into the more extreme grind and death bands like Carcass, Napalm Death, Cannibal Corpse, Morbid Angel and Deicide.
I still listen to all these bands today, more than 30 years after hearing Kiss for the first time, even though my mother insisted it was just a phase that I would grow out of. My tastes are much more varied these days though, spanning many genres, the only constant being those sweet guitar riffs.
It is so much easier to be exposed to new music these days, which is a great thing.

This reply was modified 6 months, 3 weeks ago by Adin Shepherd.

Ed Seith · Apr 11, 2019

@Adin I didn’t realize you were a fellow Old…

Adin Shepherd · Apr 12, 2019

Haha, yeah Ed, I’m a fellow old.
Still closer to 40 than 50…….for a couple more years at least.

Ed Seith · Apr 12, 2019

Just a kid, really. I’ll be 49 in a few months. Not looking forward to 50.

Sayonil Mitra · Apr 12, 2019

Megadeth – Holywars was the it. I remember being blown away by the sheer energy and technicalities of that song. That opening riff ….

Calvin Phillips · Apr 12, 2019

I didnt include my childhood but so a child my dad played a LOT of country and soft rock. I never got to experience the aggressive rap metal phase until I got out on my own like I said up there in my last post.
Alan Jackson garth brooks and my all time favourite brooks and Dunn.
Then the soft rock was hard to really pick up on cause it changed all the time.
Back when country was gold. Those were the days.

Noah Berends · Apr 12, 2019

It was more of a steady progression. My first ever exposure to rock was listening to The Beatles on the family PC after I found all my dad’s CD files. After that, it was basically going down the rabbit hole into heavier and heavier music. I really liked it, and it felt natural to me, so I would always be trying to find the next heaviest band. From AC/DC I would move to Dio, to Metallica, just going down the rabbit hole. It also sorta moved in a chronological progression too, I would get into more and more modern bands as my tastes evolved.
But the big turning-point band for me as far as truly getting me into metal was actually In Flames. They were my first real exposure to basically everything you could fit under a “-core” subgenre (which is probably my favorite umbrella of genres).
Now, 10 years later, metal is my go-to for just about everything. I found some very interesting bands along the way, and my friends always find it funny to go to me when they wanna hear the “heaviest” songs possible. Slowly working on converting them into metalheads too.

Andrew Fernandes · Apr 12, 2019

I don’t know if this is wrong saying green day did and then hearing bat country on mtv in 2006

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