i started when i was 14 when my brother brought a copy tape of maiden s fear of the dark!the fun is that i had told him what crap he had brought...only if i knew...then manowar,metallica and the story begins...

Do you class Rob Zombie, Coal Chamber and Korn as metal?? In that case, I was 9.

If not, Slipknot, Drowning Pool and Slayer at 13. Are probally the first semi-metal bands I was into (Not Slayer)

very early 80's... in '82 Judas Priest's "You've got another thing coming" was the first video I ever saw on MTV. My brother and I liked the song, but were like, "WHOAAA!!!!" when the dude explodes at the end.

Around that time, my 4th grade class was being held in a high school, thanks to overcrowding, and we all got exposed to what the high schoolers at the time.

By 1983-4 it was Iron Maiden.

Later 80's got into Metallica, Megadeth (via Peace Sells), and Anthrax (via the "I'm the Man" e.p.)

Joined the Navy and got into death metal in 1991 after reading an article in Spin magazine and finding a promo copy cassette of Napalm Death's "Harmony Corruption" at the base exchange. When I was stationed in Guam, for some reason that I am sure NO ONE knows, the Air Force Base Exchange carried all the classic albums that Earache released. Godflesh, Entombed, Bolt Thrower, Napalm Death, Cathedral...

weeee

now you know, and that's half the battle.

The first time I listened to metal was along long way back when i was about 11 or 12 years old!! I was visiting some of my relatives. They had a big apartment in a nice district! I was the youngest person that evening! I got soooo bored, so, i decided to go out and descover the nieghberhood.. I took off and wallked alil bit infront of the house.. Suddenly, i saw something brown under the tree, it was square-shaped little box!
I took a look at it, it was a CD box.. for some people called Metallica! wut the hell is this! i said... then I opened the box .. it was a double CD .. then I descovered that it was a music CD... I wnt to house again to find out wut is this cd all bout!

I played the album... It is a cocert for metallica called "garage nights" , I was shocked by the music! IT WAS AMAZING!!!

After that. acouple of years later, i found what really Metallica represents.. and what is metal!!!

The album contained many old songs for metallcia, and i think that it was released before 1988 coz the song "one" is declared in the concert as a new song in a the next album! It aslo contained some covers performed by metallcai for iron maiden "Run to the hills" and black sabbath " Sabbath Bloddy Sabbat, and Symptoms of the universe"..

This album introduced me to metal !!! I still own the album! and will never ever lose it someday! Actually, I put it inside a glass box in my room!

Hail METAL...

Well , I was with 7 years old... I listened classic rock ..ex Queen, Metallica, Bob Dylan, Pink floyd ... after I started to metal with 17years ... but is one long history

Started listening to metal when I was about 11, I happened to flick across TV channels and disccovered Kerrang, back in the days when it was decent, at first I got into heavy metal Motorhead and the like, my eldest brother is heavily into Iron Maiden and gave me some CDs, and at least I have the marbles to admit that I was once into Cradle of Fluff.
When I got the internet I researched into more heavier forms of metal and if it wasn't for that I wouldn't have had a more varied taste of metal genres and been into the bands I'm into today.

It all started when i started buying cd's because i whent towards the ones that had parental guidance on them so it was like marilyn manson, slipknot etc. Started buying metal hammer then moved on to stuff like dream theater,slayer,metallica then from that into brutal crap like vader,death etc. Also my metal was aided by playing guitar as i liked playing metal

well i was 13 years old and i went to my cousin's home and he was listening speed of light and i was like wtf? thats so fucking awesome, and then he change the song to kissing the shadows - children of bodom and i was like fuck !! and in that times i litened metallica, chlidren of bodom, stratovarius, and rhapsody, now i dont like thrash and i like melodic death and diferent bands like norther, mors principium est, dark tranquillity, etc ....lol... .good old times as a metal noob

Enter the story of my stepdad and his collection of classic Iron Maiden records. I literally locked myself in my room listening to everything up to Seventh Son Of A Seventh Son. Well, it's better than the birthday of my most hated aunt that my mom tried to force me into going to, eh?

Mmh, wow. That's only some 4-5 years ago...

I started listening metal when I was 12. Metallica, Iron Maiden, Korn were my first favourite bands. I discovered great broadcast in polish radio called "rock radio". While listening it I discovered a lot of rock & metal bands. I've been listening death metal for 6 years, in those days my friend lent me a few Vader and Behemoth CD's. That's how all has begun. Now I can't imagine my life without metal.

The first metal song that I really started to like was Rammstein - Du riechst So Gut when I saw the video (probably in 1998/99). An active metal listening period started in 2003 when I started listening to Helloween, Children of Bodom, Nightwish and various other mostly known metal bands.

I was around 8 or 9 when I was into Metallica and Black Sabbath, but never checked out Metal as a whole. In early 2006 is when I did. Started out with bands like Carcass, At the Gates, In Flames, etc and went from there. I never looked back.

"Metallica" at age 13-14 got me really involved to Metal..."thank you"...also rock band "Creed" and "Mudvayne". Few years later I became a thrash listener then Death then Technical and now I am all ears to the great bands and compositions of metal and other gender..."except rap, and cheap music"

Written by Uller on 16.06.2007 at 02:29

well i was 13 years old and i went to my cousin's home and he was listening speed of light and i was like wtf? thats so fucking awesome, and then he change the song to kissing the shadows - children of bodom and i was like fuck !! and in that times i litened metallica, chlidren of bodom, stratovarius, and rhapsody, now i dont like thrash and i like melodic death and diferent bands like norther, mors principium est, dark tranquillity, etc ....lol... .good old times as a metal noob

I find it odd that you say that being a noob constitutes liking Thrash and Melodic Death Metal, which the majority of metalheads on this site would most likely appreciate either one or both. So, despite liking metal since I was 8, that makes me a noob, if I apparently appreciate both of those subgenres and have done for years?

Unless of course you were referring to your limited knowledge of metal, as we all had when we first got into metal

My friend still claims that it was when were 14years old and painting warhammers and listening to Nightwish

Well before that i had listen to maiden and metallica from like 10 years old. Guess the first "black metal" song i heard was Puritania around 13 years old and from that i've started to like bands like Gorgoroth and Satyricon.....and so it has been ever since.

I guess i started listening to metal when i saw a clip by Metallica and plus mum also had a Black Sabbath cassette and i used to take and it and listen to it all the time. since i was a lil kid i liked the heavier stuff rather than the pop and rap shit.

I started to listen Rock music when I was 12 (thanks to Aerosmith). A year later I became the musician.

In 1998, I began to appreciate rock music with the Offspring's album called "Americana".
Then, I started to listen to metal with bands like Slipknot or Rammstein.

And after, in 2005, I sank into doom metal with My Dying Bride: THE revelation.

IRON MAIDEN CHANGED MY LIFE

I started listening to metal at about the age of 10 or 12 when i started listening to sabbath and van halen

Well I'm start to hear metal after a hear Another one Bite to Dust "Queen" & after this I hear Iron Maiden then SLAYER in 1983 "Show no Mercy" ANd I have all the Slayer CD's but I never had the oportunity to be in A SLAYER concert (firts for Money then fo time) and the last chance that I had was June/2006 in SanAntonio, Tx ( I live in Matamoros Mx, is ther border with Brownsville Tx), after this fucking letter I have 24 years listenning Metal, did you remeber all this bands...
Slayer, Pantera; Sepultura, VoiVod, DRI, S.O.D., Sodom, Anthrax, Celtic Frost, Cryptic Slaughter, Possessed, TransMetal, Hell Hammer, Dark Funeral, Death, Death Angel, Testament, Lepra, Morbid ANgel, Obituary, Pestilence, Carcass, Naphalm Deat, Destruction....... most of all of this are 80's bands.

Question, did somebody had heared WERMATCH apparently is Brasilian band, since I lost the Tape "Beermatch" (15 years ago) I never found a CD of this band.

I'll appreciate if some of you have info about this band.

Rage Against The Machine, Metallica, Pearl Jam...Then Death....
--->stolen tape

My first metal experience was Metallica, which was when I was 14 or 15, and I became pretty obsessed with them for a while. Then I got into Slayer, and from there I dove right into death metal, Dying Fetus and Decapitated being the main bands I listened to for a while. It just evolved from there into harder stuff. now almost 5 years later I'm obsessed with bands like Aborted, Pig Destroyer, Gorerotted, etc.. Although Dying Fetus is still one of my top favorite DM bands of all time.

Written by Nazeef on 14.07.2007 at 17:40

Rage Against The Machine, Metallica, Pearl Jam...Then Death....
--->stolen tape

Nothing better than listening to metal on stolen tapes

When I was pretty young I find out how to enter into neighbour's basement, well, O sneak through the window and found some paper box full of tapes, Sepultura, Slayer, Iron Maiden, Megadeth, Possessed...

I stole them all, but after some time he found out and forced me to return all tapes I took, anyway, he let me record them on my tapes

I was in 2000 and my cousin got this random CD it was Iron Maiden Brave New World and I was like fuck man what is this its fucking cool and I expanded my Knowledge from there it was destiny I think the music choose me

In seventh grade, I used to hang out at my best friend's house constantly. Her stepdad was always crankin' Pantera and Ozzy and I totally fucking dug it. I've been a metalhead ever since.

I am probably considered to be one of the older people on this forum - but still very proud to be listening to metal and the old age of 37.

It all started for me when I was 6 years old. I went over my cousins hose (i can still remember the day like it was yesterday!) who played drums - he put Xanadu from Rush's masterpiece A Farewell to Kings and played drums along with it. It was at that moment, I knew that I wanted to play drums in a rock band. Rush was like my gateway drug - i just kept craving more and more hard rock music. I was captivated by the musicianship that went into hard rock (not reallt a whole lot of "metal" at that time). As I got older, i just kept getting into more and more different types of metal. To this day, I still enjoy it more than anything. Even though i'm "grown up" now and have a career and a wife etc, I will always listen to metal. Its actually kind of funny - working in corporate America, all my co-workers think I'm crazy and "dark" because I'm still so into it. I laugh at them because they are listening to BS thats forced down their throats by FM radio and don't know how to think for themselves. So, thats my story.....

My whole life I had listened to classic and progressive rock. Even as a young child I was an elitist in music of this sort. It was like nothing could ever compare. One day when I was about 12 years old my sister showed me this video on her computer. All I saw were these guys with long hair and they were screaming. I couldn't even tell if it was English or not..I really didn't care though. I was put into some sort of trance when I was watching this..it was the most amazing melody I had ever heard in my life. I couldn't stop staring at the screen. I had really never seen or heard anything so beautiful in my life..I found out it was Children of Bodom singing Follow the Reaper live. So as my sister was exploring metal I really couldn't admit to liking it. I thought it was such a far departure from everything I had ever listened to. I was embarrassed to tell her I liked it. I would secretly listen to her CDs and research the bands. I started getting captivated by Iron Maiden, Rhapsody, Ayreon, Kalmah, Candlemass..I really didn't know what to do with myself. Finally I realized that I could listen to metal and listen to everything I had before. I came to peace with it. I think being a part of this subculture is one of the best things in my life. I think that I never would have met some of the people I have met if I had never been into metal. I fell in love with this lifestyle and not just the music. I have realized that metal is like a family heirloom or something..we pass it down to our metal brothers and sisters. That is how I found out about it and I am so glad I did. My sister and I are so close from it. I just became infatuated with metal and how many subgenres there were and how endless it was. Anyways I'm rambling so I think I'll stop.

I started to listen Metal when I was 12 years old. I started with Metallica and Iron Maiden.

But it was only some years after that I was a metal addicted. for me Blind Guradian was a sort of revelation and make me crazy about metal. And month after month, I listened melo death, then pure death and black metal, I started slowly and finish brutal.

Now my musical universe is 90% of metal and 10% of orchestral classic music. And it's now impossible one day without hear metal even I was at work (hehe, cool to have own office ).

The most important thing with metal music for me still all those different sub-style you can find on it.

This is probably so lame, But I was watching TV one day when I was 12, And I flipped thru the digital music channels, I stopped on the metal one, All I hear is "ON AND ON SOUTH OF HEAVEN!" So I listened on.. I liked what I had heard, So I just kept listening to the channel every day after school.

Eventually, when I got a job, I started to buy Albums, And it's been the same ever since then.,