What band first got you into Metal?

The Batlord · 03-19-2014, 12:14 PM

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Originally Posted by Carpe Mortem

Definitely Static-X. I'm a 90's kid all over. I don't listen to them as much as I used to, but one of their songs was in this n64 snowboarding game I used to run the **** out of and I fell in love. Keep in mind I was really young at the time, so I'd pretty much only been exposed to christmas songs and Spice Girls.

I don't remember anything else they did but I used to totally dig Wisconsin Death Trip back in high school. I might have to revisit that album just to see if I still care.

Carpe Mortem · 03-19-2014, 12:42 PM

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Originally Posted by The Batlord

I don't remember anything else they did but I used to totally dig Wisconsin Death Trip back in high school. I might have to revisit that album just to see if I still care.

That was a good one, a lot of people's favorite as most debuts seem to be. But I was a big fan of the Machine album. First metal song I ever heard, age 10 or 11... this is what started it all.

SonicAnalysis · 03-21-2014, 10:56 AM

Mine would have to be Wintersun. I dabbled previously with bands like Opeth and and Metallica but when my friend encouraged me to listen to Wintersun's debut that's when I began delving deeper into metal.

Angleslam · 03-23-2014, 03:00 AM

Linkin Park if I trace it all the way back.. I know they are more rock than metal.

Nightwish, which is by definition metal is the first real metal band I got into.

Children of Bodom and Dimmu Borgir are the first extreme metal bands I got into.

Forward To Death · 03-23-2014, 11:27 AM

Not sure if I said it, but I was listening to nu metal when it was popular in the late 90s. I never really identified it as metal, though.

I first really started listening to metal after my cousin started playing a bunch of Buckethead, Primus, Iron Maiden, Faith No More, and Metallica. Good stuff. Up to that point I'd only really listened to popular music, rap, and my parents' classic rock/pop. Eventually I got my hands on the internet, and I've been exploring music ever since.

galt54 · 03-25-2014, 05:25 AM

I developed a crush on Blue Oyster Cult when I was in my late teens and in the early stages of recovering from a psychosis. Something about BOC´s weird music appealed to the psycho in me!

pedrodomus · 03-25-2014, 08:37 AM

Tool opened my eyes to the possibilities of what Metal could be. Then it all started flooding in: Pantera, Sabbath, Slayer, Meshuggah….

Carpe Mortem · 03-25-2014, 11:43 AM

If I counted things that aren't technically metal by definition, I was a big fan of Crazy Town and Eminem in elementary school because they were aggressive, violent rappers with hard beats.

Moss · 03-26-2014, 08:12 PM

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Originally Posted by Carpe Mortem

If I counted things that aren't technically metal by definition, I was a big fan of Crazy Town .

Yikes. Although I still think you have fine taste. But this...

Carpe Mortem · 03-26-2014, 08:42 PM

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Originally Posted by Moss

Yikes. Although I still think you have fine taste. But this...

Yeah they're that band I get a lot of sh!t for haha. But seriously dude... this song's pretty cool.

"A thousand cigarettes won't change the way we feel" always got to me.

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SonicAnalysis Groupie Join Date: Mar 2014 Posts: 11	Mine would have to be Wintersun. I dabbled previously with bands like Opeth and and Metallica but when my friend encouraged me to listen to Wintersun's debut that's when I began delving deeper into metal.

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Angleslam Groupie Join Date: Mar 2014 Posts: 3	Linkin Park if I trace it all the way back.. I know they are more rock than metal. Nightwish, which is by definition metal is the first real metal band I got into. Children of Bodom and Dimmu Borgir are the first extreme metal bands I got into.

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Forward To Death Trolier Than Thou Join Date: Mar 2012 Location: Minnesota Posts: 1,336	Not sure if I said it, but I was listening to nu metal when it was popular in the late 90s. I never really identified it as metal, though. I first really started listening to metal after my cousin started playing a bunch of Buckethead, Primus, Iron Maiden, Faith No More, and Metallica. Good stuff. Up to that point I'd only really listened to popular music, rap, and my parents' classic rock/pop. Eventually I got my hands on the internet, and I've been exploring music ever since.

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galt54 Music Addict Join Date: Dec 2013 Location: A suburb of Stockholm, Sweden. Posts: 133	I developed a crush on Blue Oyster Cult when I was in my late teens and in the early stages of recovering from a psychosis. Something about BOC´s weird music appealed to the psycho in me!

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pedrodomus Groupie Join Date: Mar 2014 Location: New Haven, CT Posts: 2	Tool opened my eyes to the possibilities of what Metal could be. Then it all started flooding in: Pantera, Sabbath, Slayer, Meshuggah….