What band/album/song got you into Metal? For me it was Ride The Lightning and man when I first heard that album in 1984 I was blown away by it. I just had never heard anything like that before. I was listening to mainly classic rock and radio stuff. It was so powerful and so emotional that I had to search out more of this music called Heavy Metal. Since then it's been a long time collecting and thousands of records later... I'm still as excited and blown away by the music as I was on that day I first heard Ride The Lightning. My, how the mighty have FALLEN!!

I should be getting off here and finish packing for Milwaukee but I'm addicted to the board now... arrrghhhhh... LOL

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Well.. The first heavy metal album that got me into the scene was Master of Puppets (Metallica). What an album THAT turned out to be! Before that, I listened to Twisted Sister and a tiny little bit of Ozzy Osborne. Oh, and I can't forget S.O.D.! Oh, and wait. I can't forget Iron Maiden (Number of the Beast) either. *BUT* I was not a MetalHead yet.. So Metallica got me into the whole metal scene. From there, I got into Anthrax, King Diamond, and then, ultimately, Death (the band that is)!

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I first discovered metal with Metallica's black album. The Unforgiven did it to me. My mom and I would listen to that tape so often that it actualy got worn out and we had to buy another one. Hehehe, I think that's pretty bad.

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Wowzers Skyklad, I can't believe what I just read! it was Ride The Lightning that broke me in as well - this is just too freaky! but it wasn't back in '84 when it came out, it was '87 for me - I had just started playing bass, and a friend of mine gave me a tape with Ride The Lightning on it, and I was hooked! I listened to it every night after school and although I couldn't play anything yet, I'd turn up the stereo and do the old 'air guitar' manouvers - the music was so different from what I listened to previously - it was distorted!it was loud! it was fast! my parents hated it! It made me want to grow my hair long! /ubb/smilies/smile.gif it turned me into a metal monster! I had a frenzy on it after that and went out and bought Master and Kill 'Em All (on vinyl mind you!) - I still have them, and I will always remember
what they did for me, regardless of what they turned out to be

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Wow, either I'm older than most of you or I got into metal at a younger age (I'm going to convince myself that the latter is true). It was the late 70's, the only thing I truly knew was disco sucked!!! I was into AC/DC, Zeppelin, Kiss, and some Sabbath (I thought they were a little weird back then). Then, I heard Judaas Priest's Stained Class and Unleashed in the East...!! I discovered a whole underground of fast, heavy music that was bustin at the seams. I didn't immediately jump on Metallica's bandwagon, but when I seriously listened to them, they blew me away!! This was aroun Master of Puppets, I backtracked and really goy into Ride the Lightning and an earlier EP (can't remember its name) that a friend had given to him!! They were every bit as badass as everyone thought they were!!! What the hell happened to them? The Priest's last couple of cds aren't as good as their earlier work, but it took them 3 decades to slip! It only took Metallica what 5 years!! Pansies!!!!!!!

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The Priest's last couple of cds aren't as good as their earlier work, but it took them 3 decades to slip! It only took Metallica what 5 years!! Pansies!!!!!!!

ROTFLMAO! /ubb/smilies/00hahaha.gif

I guess my first taste of if you want to call it metal was Kiss. I was about 12 and some kids in my sixth grade class put an a little Kiss concert complete with makeup. The first real metal probably was Metallica's Kill'em all.

I respect your opinion Amy but I have to laugh you must really be young if the black album was your first taste. /ubb/smilies/smile.gif /ubb/smilies/biggrin.gif

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My First Taste Of Metal Was "Number Of The Beast" And "Piece Of Mind" By Iron Maiden.
Then I Went Out And Brought "Master Of Puppets" By A Band That Sold Their Souls To The Record Company Devil.

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Well ive only been into metal for about two years now, but the first album i heard that got me into metal was " Best of the Beast" by maiden - such a excellent best of album eh?
But the album that transformed me from Hip hop to "good" music would have been Led Zepplin 4. Which is another cool album.
I have to say im more than pissed off with the napster closing down thing - infact im downloading wat will be my last song from nalster-it sucks big time .

Oh well i'll c u all later.

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I got into hard rock and metal kinda by accident. My buddy lived across the road from this guy, we thought was totally cool. He was a few years older than we were but actually very cool to us. One day we ovr, and he showed us his music collection. This was 1980,so I was ten or eleven. Anyway I kept on looking at his Alice Cooper albums. He saw me staring at them alot, and told me about lice and who he was. Then he handed me a cassette and said take it home and give it a try. Well I did, and loved it! I have been an Alice diehard since then, and he still is my favorite performer to this day (if you haven't bought Brutal Planet,his new album yet,shame on you)After that I got into all kinds of different hard rock and metal bands, but Alice is still the first and my favorite.

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For me, I grew up in a family of music lovers. Granted we all liked different types of music. I got my 1st KISS record from my mom at age 4 (Ace Frehley's solo album) but it was "Shout At The Devil" at age 9 that really did it for me. Since then, I've been a full-fledged music junkie!


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My first introduction to metal was Jimi Hendrix' "Bold As Love" and Cream's "Disraeli Gears". My brother was into these bands, and I'd hear him playing the records as a tot. Then along came Zeppelin, Sabbath & KISS...and I was completely hooked.

Two things...annual mayhem, you think Priest's last few albums weren't good? Have to disagree with you there..."Painkiller" and "Jugulator" are some of the Priest's most brutal albums! Although the lyrics on "Jugulator" are kind of corny, the music rocks!

And Hamish....you used to listen to hip hop and now you're into metal? PRAISE THE LORD-A....YOU HAVE BEEN SAVED-A!!!

Peace,
Pagan

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I didn't say Judas Priest doesn't still kick ass. They do! They are probably my favorite metal band!! I just thought their last 2 albums weren't as good as earlier ones. I can't wait for their new one, if they ever finish it.

BTW, Led Zeppelin fans, I found 2 new Zep cds tonight at (of all places) Walmart. They were greatest hits remastered for the cd. The first one was the early years, first 4 albums. The second one was from Physical Graffitti on. For me Led Zeppelin are the masters, the gods, all are quiet when a Zep song plays, they are hallowed ground!! /ubb/smilies/hammer.gif of the Gods!

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My first taste of metal was with Metallicas Master of Puppets. I guess I was like nine och ten then....after that I had kind of a slow development....I bought every record metallica ever gave out and I started exploring Iron Maiden....but I guess I didn't became a metalhead (saving my hair, getting leatherpants etc.) until I heard skid row at the age of fifteen.
Has Napster actually shut down? I'm downloading europe - rock the night....this very minute.

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It was about 1987 (I was born in 1981) I traded a copied tape of Michael Jackson - Thriller to one of my kindergarten friends for a copied tape of Metallica - Master Of Puppets. It seems a little late, but we didn't have cable back then....therefore I was an MTV-deprived little boy. After that, I bought a magazine with Metallica on the cover and over the next few years, starting buying tapes of other hard rock/heavy metal bands that I read about like Megadeth, Iron Maiden, Guns N' Roses, Poison, Motley Crue, Ozzy Osbourne, Judas Priest AC/DC, Kiss, Led Zeppelin, and Anthrax.

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I can remember beig in Kindergarten in like 1976 and our next door neighbor, who used to babysit us always wore a shirt that said KISS on it. I never really knew who/what that was, but that plain yellow shirt with that logo always had me fixated. When My parents gave me and my sisters thier old record player, that kind that was like a box, and you take the top off, and the speaker was attached to the top. ANYHOW, we had all my dads old records, elvis and crap like that, and my mom told us we could each have ONE record from the store (woolworths HAHAHAH!). My sister asked for the bee gees, my other sister wanted the 45 for DISCO DUCK, and I asked for a KISS album. Mom comes home with LOVE GUN!


WHOOO HOOOO, I was in heaven, I would play that thing, and stare at the album cover. I was in heaven. Then I never really listened to any other music other than what was on the radio until I was about 12 or 13. My family had moved from New Orleans to Philadelphia. My next door neighbor had SHOUT AT THE DEVIL. It was loud, it was angry, it was evil, I loved it. That was when I started hanign out with "those kids" There I was, the only guy in the 9th grade college prep courses with long hair, and a huge OZZY patch on my denim jacket. I was definately an odd site amongst all the pocket protectors and calculators!

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Originally posted by Pagan:
My first introduction to metal was Jimi Hendrix' "Bold As Love" and Cream's "Disraeli Gears".

That's nifty Pagan. When I was a little fella my parents used to play Disraeli Gears a lot and I think the Hendrix album they played was called Are You Experienced (could be just mixing it up with the song title).

First heavy album I owned (without the influence of my parents - LOL) was Sabbath's self-titled. I must have picked it up in 1979 or 1980. N.I.B., The Wizard and Black Sabbath are still some of my favourites. :)

I had to share a room with my step-bro back then, and he used to crank up his stereo with Sweet, Slade, Led Zep, Black Sabbath and stuff.

Guess that drove me right into the direction of Kraftwerk, Tubeway Army and Ultravox in the late 70´s. *lol* :D

My first metal record was the 12" of Sodom 'Ausgebombt', the first album was Type O Negatives 'The Origin Of The Feces'.

Judas Priest was the first metal I heard......"Livin' after midnight" I was shocked with amazement! I fell in love with metal eversince. :)

My first encounter with metal was at a young age. It was around '78 or '79 and this girl I knew in the neighborhood was into Kiss. She was already in her teens and had some of the bubble gum trading cards that came out of Kiss at the time. I heard a little of the music, but was too young to apprieciate it at the time.

I didn't really get into metal until years later in high school. Being around most of the people I hung out with they were into bands such as Wasp, Judas Priest, Maiden, Metallica, etc. That is when I really started getting into it.

Kiss was the first metal band for me, grade 6 in 76/77, only band i knew back then other than my sisters Bay City Roller collection. From Kiss I moved to Ozzy and Alice Cooper, I guess at a young age you like the bands your parents hate the most

My Introduction to Metal was Iron Maiden! :banger: as if anyone needed me to tell them that ;) :p

You can Thank my Brother for getting me into Metal, he bought the Album that changed my Life :) I heard "Hallowed Be Thy Name" off of "The Number Of The Beast" Album and fell in Love, I Never heard any other Metal before Maiden, but that Album opened my Mind to the Best Music Genre(In My Opinion) I've had the pleasure of listening to :banger:

Before Maiden my life was bleak and devoid of meaning, after Maiden my Life was complete, whole, it had purpose :D :lol:

...So It Shall Be Written, So It Shall Be Done.
-Iron Maiden 1988

UP THE IRONS!

uhm .... that would be slayer for me cause some other older guys listened to it , never heard something as exciting ........ few days before Sepultutra, but the Sepultura thing didn't last long ... started with trash, with Slayer, motorhead and the like ... again, nothing tremendous to say, but big impact on my life .....
just kicked me in the head real hard ....

TGND " Short haired Metalhead "

I was turned to the dark side just after "Master of puppets" was released. I was taken totally off guard :devil: Then it went fast to Slayer, Sepultura, Kreator, Death etc. During that period, I became hooked on the "older" bands aswell, such as Rainbow, Black Sabbath, Ozzy and DIO solo, Led Zeppelin - so it ended up with most of the metal genres :mwaha:

But as stated - Metallica was the catalyst :cool:

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I can hear it screamin' in my mind
Long live rock and roll
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I had a babysitter that used to listen to Led Zeppelin.
I remember that she went to a concert and told me all about it the next day. I must've been about 9 years old, she was like 16. Her name was Raylene. And she showed me how Robert Plant sang, using my hairbrush, and she made her hair go wild.
I thought Raylene was so cool!
Before she came into my life, I was in love with Donny Osmond!
Time for a change!

Metallica's Master of Puppets got me hooked. Some friends and I went to see Metallica in concert. It was my first time in a mosh pit as well. One of my friends actually slept through the whole concert. He was the only one to walk away from that concert uninjured. Since then, I have moved on to Pantera. I like their mosh pits better.

This is the only thing I thank MTV for... Head Bangers Ball...

I stayed up late one night, I was 8, that was '90
They were doing some sort of best of 80s stuff...

Caught Kiss, Motley Crue and Poison vids... got hooked ever since :)

When you're nine-ten years old in 1987 and the only music you hear is what's on the radio.... well, let's just say Bon Jovi and Poison were the "gateway drug" needed to start buying the metal magazines and learning about the other bands out there. There was a lull for a while but then in 1992 I won a CD player and went back to check out all those bands I remembered reading about.

havta say KISS ! but that waz just the start of hair and glam thing for me. the first major metal i ever lik'd waz A few bands about all at the same time. The few i can name off hand R Sl@yer, Overkill, King Diamond, Suicidal Tendacies. the thing that led me to it actually waz a Sl@yer patch on Sabatian Bach's jean jacket in a poster. got curious of who they were & the rest is History

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I don't really know...umm...when I was like five or six, my brother bought AC/DC live. I had no idea what the songs were really about, but I LOVED it. :D I'd have to say my brother got me into it, I'm not sure what was my first though. Probably AC/DC or Metallica. :banger:

Hmm..been searching the dusty corners of my mind to remember...well certainly Alice Cooper was one of my favorites..but I'm not so sure he would have been labeled as "metal" back in the day..he did however lead me straight to those evil doers Black Sabbath..lol :banger:

My first introduction to metal was from a friend when I was young. I heard Ozzy Osbourne's "Diary Of A Madman" and I was hooked from that point on. Have always been a metalhead since!

Can't believe I haven't replied to this before. It seems like it was ages ago, and it is by now! I'd have to say it was Ozzy in something like '83. It was just the beginning. In junior high I met a guy named Brian who would introduce me to Motley, and then later Metallica. It's all his fault! :p

Judas Priests Screaming for Vengance hooked me for good. Another band I heard at a party when I was way too loaded was Sampson, after that I was metal head for life.

Metallica's Master Of Puppets. I think most people discovered metal through Metallica. Even though they hve gone shit now, I will always be grateful to them for getting me into metal!

awesome thread..\m/!


I remember seeing Twisted Sister's "I wanna Rock" video and
Motley Crue's "Smokin' In the Boys Room" video around the same time when they came out on MTV (I guess it must have been '85)and that deffenitly pushed me towards metal. They looked so frickin' cool to me at the time and they ROCKED..all those bad ass spiked leather jackets and armbands really got my attention..

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My first introduction was from my sister who used to play AC/DC, Ozzy, Judas Priest, Iron Maiden and Black Sabbath albums all the time. Now she only listens to Yanni and Enya...she's changed a lot in the past couple decades :lol:

Originally posted by djdaffy1227
My first introduction was from my sister who used to play AC/DC, Ozzy, Judas Priest, Iron Maiden and Black Sabbath albums all the time. Now she only listens to Yanni and Enya...she's changed a lot in the past couple decades :lol:

now THAT'S dispicable! Go quick! Grab all of those enya cds from your sisters house and replace them with Iron Maiden! Quick! Before the damage is irreversable!!

:eek:

though my first metal concert was Guns n Roses and Metallica. My first intro to Metal was Alice Cooper and Led Zeppelin. My cousin chris who had several metal albums used to baby sit us and he would let me stay up and listen to the albums and just hang out. so i :bowdown: before him and say "I'm not worthy." "I'm not worthy."

Well, if KISS counts as metal, that would be it for me. If not, then it'd be "No One Like You" by the Scorpions. I was a pre-teen when I got into heavy metal, junior high school age. Then I got into Judas Priest, Iron Maiden, plus most of the 80s metal bands.

Wow, I missed out on this thread!
My first introduction to Metal was in the early 80's. My cousin played Black Sabbath "Black Sabbath" I was hooked. All it took was the first verse "What is this that stands before me" After that I made him play all of his albums for me. We listened to Rush, Def Leppard, Kiss, Ratt, Motley Crue. Then a few years down the line someone played SLAYER for me. That was the begining of the end. :lol:

Originally posted by Pagan
And Hamish....you used to listen to hip hop and now you're into metal? PRAISE THE LORD-A....YOU HAVE BEEN SAVED-A!!!


Hey Pagan,

You wanna hear a story about bein' saved from "Hip-Hop" or what old timers like myself still call "Rap", sit down and check this out.

In 1984 I was at that age when you really start to have your own taste in music, now being surrounded by a family that LOVED rock music, I found myself into the new and exciting music then called RAP. My parents raised me on a steady diet of Journey, Fleetwood Mac, Hendrix, Iron Butterfly, Dylan and Zeppelin. I also had a neighbor who was heavy into punk, hardcore and some metal, but he was mostly outcast in my neighborhood as a nut in the early 80's.

Anyhow.. me, my cousin and my best friend Javier would buy almost anything new that came out concerning rap. It wasn't until I got the 1985 single "King of Rock" by RUN DMC that I heard these mean guitar licks on the song that I had NEVER, EVER heard on any of my daddies rock and roll albums or any other rap song. Then my pal Javier got a copy of "No Sleep Till Brooklyn" which had some crazy guitar madman on it (we later found out he was in a band called Slayer) and that was it, we were hooked.

We went to our neighbor the "nut" for guidance and we were quickly given a copy of Venom's 1985 classic "Possessed" AND THAT WAS IT!!
I went on to devouring anything that was "REAL" heavy metal, going to shows, buying shirts, reading metal edge, watching headbangers ball and the heavy metal power hour, ALMOST GETTING ON THE VIDEO "THE ULTIMATE REVENGE" released by Combat Records (I got suspended that prior week in school and my dad gave my tickets to the "nut" upstairs!) etc. My cousin became a roadie for a Queens, punk hardcore group called "Murphy's Law" and Javier became close friends with Evan of Biohazard before they were signed and eventually appeared in 2 of their videos. He also became friends with a guy named Harley in a band called "The Cro-Mags" who taught him guitar, he now has his own band "Merauder".

And that's it, my testimony of how I was saved from "Hip Hop".
Praise the Lord.
I am very grateful I was because I would feel weird at 31 years of age wearing my pants off my ass and I wouldn't be able to afford all that BLING BLING. Shit, I kind of appreciate old RAP music like RUN DMC compared to the CRAP I catch here and there on MTV.

Oh, what happened to the "nut" you ask, the person who gave me my heavy metal baptism. He unfortunately was killed by a f*cking drunk while riding his Harley Davidson just three short years ago.

UP THE IRONS TO YOU Jason!!!!! R.I.P.

I found the door through my brother. I began listening to basic rock, Humble Pie, Diamond Head, Iron Butterfly. I then spent a short time in the glam era (who didn't?) only realy liking the heavier bands of it like Dokken, Lillian Axe, Leatherwolf, Lizzy Borden, Keel, and so on..When I heard Slayer / Haunting the Chapel. There was no turning back. I then devoted alot of my listening to bands like OverKill, Testament, Helloween, of course early Metallica also. And that's all folks!

Testament, Overkill and Helloween, damn...three of my all time favorites! Do you remember the first time you heard the "Legacy" album??? Damn chuck billy and alex skolnick were on fire!
Or how bout' Michael Kiske on "Eagle Fly Free"?? Or how bout the first time you heard Bobby belt out "Feel the Fire"?

Ahhhh, the good ol' days.