Manowar and Kreator are better than the crap you listen to.

Extreme was the band that got me into metal. Most people dog them for being just another hair band of the 80s, or for not really being METAL in the classic sense of the word, but they were so much more than what people dismissed them as to me. They have such a cool style, and their songs like "kid ego", "pornograffitti", "it's a monster", "he-man woman hater" etc... Are pure rock/metal songs that have very funky and flashy style. That made me want to learn how to play guitar. I just listen to the metal that is in vogue today and I just can't really get into it. It's just too obnoxious for me. Just a chugalug fest. There doesn't seem to be much melody and dynamic to most of it. I guess thats why I'm kind of partial to bands like Extreme, and Van Halen, Iron Maiden, and other true hard rock/metal bands who actually give the genre other dimensions beyond just the drop C, power chord slammin, growlin, snarlin genre people make it into today. That's just my take on metal. Even though it has nothing to do with the forum. Lol

Please Satan, have mercy on this nonbeliever. He knows not what he says.

Literally ever since I was born I've been exposed to metal. It was essentially all that was ever played in my family's car. The first band I ever really liked was Korn, and still today, they're my favorite band. After I started looking up all their stuff, I found System of a Down, then Marilyn Manson, then Rammstein, and other bands of the sort.

Oh, and some Evanescence, can remember listening to them when I was like 5 (rock they may be, but they're closely related genres) Still like them.

3/10. To make it seem more serious eliminate the emoticons and put eclipses after your sentences. Use correct grammar and decent vocabulary too.

No

I would of responded the same way if someone said such an obnoxious thing.

I find Manowar lame by the way.

thats why i always mention Manowar IMO in terms of the sound they are a true "Metal" sound good or bad it is what it is now we all know tho there are many different styles of metal

I love Manowar. They are just the embodiment of all that is fun about metal. They may not be the brightest bulbs in the bunch, but they know how to turn boneheaded retard metal into an art form. You just have to unhook your brain first.

Lame! The band are the symbol of real metal. No pansy nu and rap metal crap for these boys.

They just seem like an overdone fantasy epic metal band. It's cringeworthy in my opinion.

I like epic or fantasy metal sometimes but Manowar just kill it for me.

I'm a classicist. So is my pappy. The first metal thing I ever heard was Black Sabbath's self titled track and I thought it was magic in my ears. Their whole two disc best of is immense and was my gateway.

I also loved Maiden and Priest, but Sabbath have been my favorite all along and I imagine that's why Stoner/Doom styled Metal is my favorite to listen to.

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Well, duh. You're not supposed to take it seriously. You're supposed to indulge your inner dork (fantasy and/or metal) and put a shit eating grin on your face. They just make me happy. Their obvious passion for metal just brings back that feeling of when I was fourteen and just discovering metal and everything was new and magical and I was just giddy about listening to new bands all the time. I love music even more these days, but I can't help but be a little jaded more often than not, and Manowar makes me feel like a kid again.

I grew up listening to the same stuff my dad listens to, so I liked Metal (more specifically Iron Maiden) from an early age. But apart from them, I think it was Manowar that introduced me to Metal. It was after I got into them that I decided to explore that world. I still listen to Manowar occasionally, and my favourite album is Gods of War.

Basically this down to a T. It scares me how similar this is to my story.

The only downside is that I listened to metallica so much that now I can't stand them.

I had gotten a Dragonforce album years ago, and one day I listened to it. Changed my life.

Luckily I do not have this problem. I still bust out my old Metallica records on occasion.

Don't take this the wrong way, but...I love you. There. I said it.

:eek: That better not happen to me! I'd curse the Metal Gods for that one. :band:

Hey, what did I do?

AC/DC, Blue Oyster Cult, Boston were some of my first albums in this genre.

Especially AC/DC's Let There be Rock, Highway to Hell, and Back in Black.

Dunno. Are you a metal god?


Which album, may I ask?

Ratt and Poison? RATT and POISON? Are you kidding me? That's like saying "What got you into bonging marijuana? Cab Calloway's Minnie the Moocher?"

Just jesting... Although it could be true, if you knew the song facts...

Among the first bands that got me interested in Metal were Disturbed and DragonForce. I still like them both to this day, but I dont actually listen to them much anymore.

Steppenwolf (yeah, I know they aren't metal) were the band that got me into metal and yes it was their song "Born To Be Wild" that did so.

As I recall - Metallica's Master of Puppets and Iron Maiden's Longest Day back in the days of 8th grade. ps woooo first post l00o0o0l

It would have to be Maiden as well, back in the 1980's on vinyl. Cant even remember the album now but I desparately wanted to play fast and I figured that by listening to fast guitar playing, that would do it. What a knob!

A combination of thrash and black ("hipster") metal got my feet wet. Specifics were Metallica, Maiden, Mastodon (who I am aware do not reflect either of the previous labels), Alcest, Amesoeurs, Liturgy. I've come to not be that into most of those bands, what with my black metal listening getting dominated by Master's Hammer and my main metal loves becoming grindcore (some people lump this with punk; i think it's a pretty cool synthesis of the two [at least better than metalcore! :p]) and drone doom.

It's not so much taking it seriously than just music being overdone. Sure, I can see how they're fun and passionate, but to the point that sounds somewhat corny. I like listening to fun metal, I guess Manowar don't fit the kind I can stomach.

To really be honest, it was Van Halen that started me towards the metal genre. I know they are not really Metal but they were allot harder than anything else I had been listening to at the time. I think Ozzie was my first real metal experience, that led me to all the rest.

I think the only album I actually really like from early metal bands is The number of the Best from 1982, its just so catchy and great vocal performance from bruce dickinson. But thats pretty much the only Iron Maiden album that I like. That and Metallica's first 4 albums.

Metallica was my entryticket, after years of loathing anything vaguely metal. And "Load" was the entry-album, hehe. After I became a fan of almost everything they ever had released up to that point (1997/1998) I got into Iron Maiden. The rest, as they say, is history, though I completely stopped being a metalhead around 2005 and turned to other genres, being completely sick of the metal. These days I include it in my diet, though, and it will probably always be a part of me.

WEll to me it depends on what I want to listen to......If I want something aggressive and heavy I'd listen to metal, but if I want something soft and gentle then Country or Pop would be good choices for me. I never stopped being a "metalhead" or whatever it is called though. How can I, Metal is such a good genre eh?

I grew up with parents that loved Black Sabbath and Deep Purple, Black Sabbath's self titled album got a thrashing in our house hold on LP so I absolutely love that record, from there I got into Metallica when I first heard Enter Sandman on a morning music show, bought the self titled album and went on from there, from there I got into Megadeth, Slayer, Sepultura, Pantera, Cannibal Corpse and as I got older I listened to the stuff that those bands grew up on like more Black Sabbath, Deep Purple, Led Zeppelin, Jimi Hendrix, The Doors, but also with a Pop that was a jazz musician I'm starting to get into that side of music now and have an appreciation for it.

Albums that I remember buying and really stood out to me were:

Metallica - Metallica
Metallica - ...And Justice For All
Slayer - Decade of Aggression
AC/DC - Razors Edge
Megadeth - Rust In Peace
Cannibal Corpse - The Bleeding
Sepultura - Chaos A.D.

I have a hard time finding metal albums these days, I mean, to me nothing that comes out now is as good as what it used to be, there are some metal bands I like now, but not love like the names above.

Alice cooper was the earliest thing i can remember, other then KIX at like 5 and 6 years old.

SLAYYEERR and Rage Against the Machine, gotta love their take on rap/rock, everyone else fails

I don't know if you guys consider AC/DC to be Metal, but if so they got me into it.

I'd consider AC/DC to be heavy metal but more hard rock. They certainly established a lot of its traits which became a catalyst. They didn't really have that root of punk rock sensibility which became a part of forming metal later on, though. More blues kind.

My first experience with metal was Down With The Sickness by Disturbed, however this wasn't really what got me into metal. I would say a random suggestion from a friend in the form of Hammerfall was what really started the passion for metal, at which point I started enjoying other bands like System Of A Down and a more in-depth enjoyement of Disturbed.

Also, I've always enjoyed bands like AC/DC which was kind of a stepping stone from the kind of Rock genre to the Metal genre.

Now I'm VERY much into my Power metal; Hammerfall, Manowar, Rhapsody, Blind Guardian, the list just goes on.