Seven Year Itch.

It's metalcore and therefore not 'real' metal to some people, but it's what made me start looking into and enjoying metal music and hardcore.

I haven't heard but a couple songs but from them I can't understand the appeal of their music, nor any metal influence.

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I got you dog!

It was without a doubt Judas Priest for me! About 27 years ago I heard my first Priest song and was hooked. They were also what inspired me to pick up playing the guitar. To this day I still listen to them alot and still learn tons of stuff on guitar from them. I listen to and like tons of different music from lots of different genres, but if I had to pick my number one all time band it would be them. If all you have ever had a chance to hear from them is their big albums like Screaming and British Steel then due yourself a favour and give some of their other stuff a try.

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Did somebody just compare High on Fire to fucking Rammstein?

I feel so violated.

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Yeah, Rammstein is terrible. That's what I'm saying. The album that High on Fire song is from, on the other hand, is one of the best metal albums of the past decade.

As far the "growling non-sensical demonic vocals" go, I find them fairly easy to understand with both bands and don't think they sound alike in any way aside from both vocalists being male.

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If you give that album a listen you're in for a treat because the song The Batlord posted isn't even close to being the best song on the album. :)

I'm gonna check them out for sure!

Blessed Black Wings is awesome as well. Snakes for the Divine is one epic metal ride. Check out SLEEP and ASBESTOS DEATH also if you're unfamiliar with them.

i would take Om over High on Fire any day.....

I am sad now.

Rammstein have nothing to do with the equation. I'd be flabbergasted to find out that either of those bands were even thinking about Rammstein when they made those songs. Growling vocals has been around for like thirty years, and started with bands like this:

Pillar, with the song Crossfire. Also Breathe Into Me by Red.

don't be sad.....it's a matter of taste

i love High On Fire....but i am more prone to the rambling long and somewhat pretentious OM

honestly i feel High On Fire is a better band out of the two....just dig that OM sound a bit more :)

I can see that honestly. My other homie loves Cisneros vocals and that is his primary reason for liking OM better.

i think that is also a factor....i love Al's voice

goes the same with the Shrinebuilder album....the best track were the ones he sang on

For the record, I'm planning on seeing High on Fire tonight as long as it doesn't sell out. :)

Awesome man. December 21st for me, waiting patiently. I saw them last year at a rinky dink venue in Pomona. They thoroughly kicked everyones ass. First time I felt like getting in a pit for years. Pike started out the show with a ten minute ear shattering solo.

i dont know about yall but for teens that grew up around the Nu-metal era 97-03

dapple in the hardest of hardest Metal like Berzerker and Malovent creation NIle etc etc etc but yet for me Im not like a die hard metal fan cause i like other type of music has well like Hip Hop and Pop/indie music

I started with Hard rock - Deep purple - Made in japan. It was in my uncle's house , looked a cool album so I put it on and it realy hit me... Then a friend of mine brought me a scary album called "The number of the beast" - Iron maiden. This was the gate to metal...

Sabbath, Slayer. Megadeath...yannooo

Originally Posted by slappyjenkins
Nothing seems to sound like Sabbath or even Metallica anymore.


More like a zillion clone bands SOund like sabbath and metallica

This is a really difficult question for me to answer. It didn't just happen. There were building blocks.

I was exposed to metal at a very early age via my cousins, who were really into groups like Iron Maiden and Judas Priest. As a little kid I loved the artwork associated these guys but always found the actual music, young as I was, not nearly as dark or scary or badass as I hoped it would be. When I was in junior high, I was exposed to a different generation of metal by my friends—stuff like Metallica, Slayer, Anthrax, Death, Obituary, Sacred Reich. This music had more of an edge I could get behind but still I didn't actively listen to much of it (though that would come a little later in life for me) because it lacked a certain weirdness I liked in my music. Nevertheless, these thrash and death metal metal bands, like the NWOBHM bands before them, were essential to me loving metal later in life.

Okay, I'll credit one band. It all changed for me in 1991 when I first Godflesh. I was already a fan of Minstry, Nine Inch Nails, Skinny Puppy, Front 242, My Life with the Thrill Kill Kult, etc. at this point, but Godflesh put a hard metal edge on that shit like no one I had ever heard before. It was a massive wall of sound. Impenetrable. Bleak. Cinematic. I loved it. They became one of my favorite bands and slowly they would influence me to check out more and more metal over the years.

This was the song that really, truly started it all for me:

Godflesh are amazing. Their music just exudes imagination. I've always been a sucker for metal with a cinematic feel.

The band first got me into metal was Dream Theater. Their music was just amazing, I liked the guitar and keyboard solos so much I fell in love with Progressive Metal in general.

Let me know which so I can track them down. Nothing sounds like Metallica. I heard Testament sounds an awfully lot like Metallica. I didn't think so. Nothing sounds like Kill 'Em All, Ride the Lightning, Master of Puppets ...And Justice for All. Okay, nothing can quite sound like them, but I cannot put my finger on anything that sounds even close.

Black Sabbath, on the other hand, I don't know about that one. Still enlighten me, if you can :pssst:

Well of course nothing can sound exactly like thoes two bands i meant similar in the same Music tree

i for one can hear very similar Guitar tones and Drum beats in alot of bands

Boom.

Linkin Park. Don't make fun of me.

Why not, they're a terrible band and you should feel ashamed!

This is the first band that got you into metal. I'm guessing you were a teen around when Linkin Park was popular, so it only stands to reason that they would be your first.

Just as long as you hate them now, ;)

Still am, turning 14 in a month, and I got into them when I was, what, 10? When I used to listen to Lil Wayne. You change a lot in the transition from child to teen, of course, considering you learn the most in your first 15 years than you do the entire time you're alive after that. From a brain-dead idiot to an A*-predicted pupil, changed more in a couple of years than most do in ten.

But if I'm honest, I don't hate them. I actually like a couple of their songs, most notably the more aggressive ones. The hate they receive is often unreasoned; it's usually meaningful music that's quite the therapy for the typical teenage angst.

Oh, in that case, trust me on this one. Your tastes will grow. I promise. :)

I can't believe that a rap artist was mentioned in a metal thread.

A lot of their songs don't have rap, and rap metal is still metal.

Rap metal is better then Metal :P


What is metal really Manowar .....Kreator ..???? LOL