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No.3095
Tell us a bit about yourself. What do you listen now, what did you listen before, how did you find this music, etc. Friend told me that metal is much like drugs where you just keep looking for something heavier and stronger.
As a kid, i always loved "rock'n'roll". Even though i didn't know a single song, i'd love to listen some of the tapes my brother had. Then when i started taking guitar lessons, the guy that was teaching me mainly got me into instrumental rock, Joe Satriani and all that shizz. The band that got me into metal was Hammerfall. From there, i listened to more power metal bands, then got caught up with Wintersun thinking Jari was god.
Did listen to Iron Maiden the whole journey through. So i got tired of melodic death, so now it's Judas Priest and Iron Maiden, along with some classic rock mixed in.
What about you?
No.3097
>Marilyn Manson
>Le slapknuts is the one and only true metal band
>Heard Cannibal Corpse for the first time
>All the classics and standardized decent stuff mostly, Slayer, Death, Early Cannibal Corpse, etc. Also some grind core.
>Mostly Slam and Death and Stoner
>Black metal, Drone, Sludge
>Branched out a bunch, don't listen to mainly metal at this point.
No.3099
As far as metal goes
>I guess grunge was the launch pad for me getting into heavier
>big four and some "classic"
>crossover thrash, was in a black metal band despite hating most black metal
>grindcore, crust, hardcore
>sludge, funeral doom, drone, stoner, still listening to a lot of crust,grindcore and hardcore
>some oldschool heavy metal, but mostly non metal stuff mostly goth and post punk
>black metal
No.3185
>>3095>be born>immediately start listening to NSBMWhat are you, gay?
No.3187
I also started out as a rawker since my dad was also into hard rockin' music. There was also some heavy and power metal music in there too. When I got a bit older I pretty much started listening to deafkore and shitty mellowdeaf thinking that it was "the real deal". However, I got better when I was 16 or so, probably because I started learning about music theory and shit which made me unable to listen to radio pap dressed up as metal. Nowadays as far as metal is concerned I like all established metal genres and I don't really favour one over the others.
No.3191
>>3185BM is the worst genre out there. Prove me wrong.
No.3198
>>3191You're a faggot that probably enjoys pure shit like hammerfall.
No.3202
>>3198What the fuck is wrong with Hammerfall? What's so great about Black Metal? I have listened to some of it, i just can't hear what everyone is playing.
No.3203
>>3202Hammerfall is meh, they're not terrible, just boring
BM>>>power metal (except Blind Guardian)
No.3204
>>3203Okay i tried finding different BM than the old stuff such as Mayhem, ex. Dissection. It's ok, but i guess not my slice of bread. As for power metal, yeah, most of it is shit but i find Hammerfall one of the few bands that are good. Blind Guardian too.
No.3208
The first remotely hardcore bands that got me into metal were bands like Linkin Park, Evanescence, etc. Gradually, I ended up discovering melodic death metal, which was and still is one of my favourite genres. Nowadays though, Amon Amarth is one of the only melodeath bands I enjoy. Most bands I like are black metal or DSBM. Lately I have been listening to Xasthur and Forgotten Tomb.
I've never gotten into death metal for too long. The metal I enjoy generally has a good melody, rather than just bashing everywhere at once. I like imagining things while I listen to music, which tends to be medieval fantasy d&d related stuff.
>tfw amon amarth got me into norse mythology
No.3216
>>3202Mediocre crap that powerfags high on their own farts enjoy.
No.3244
Loved me some blues and rock and roll as a kid, as a teen I listened to thrash, proto-black metal, punk and stoner rock. Now I listen to some black metal, death metal, and very rarely some thrash, but the majority of my listening time has been dedicated to sludge/doom/stoner metal for a while now.
No.3277
I started listening to metal back in middle school, mainly bands such as Avenged Sevenfold, Bullet for my Valentine, and Disturbed.
In high school I listened to bands like As I lay Dying and other metalcore bands until I discovered Thrash and it completely blew that out of the water (Slayer, Sodom, Pantera [if you consider them thrash])
Now I mainly listen to Death Metal Bands like Death, Cannibal Corpse, Bolt Thrower, and a few others.
No.3282
When I was a kid, I had this game on my computer "Jets'n'guns". The music in the game is 100% metal. I used to stay up all night playing the game just to hear the music again and again. At that time I didn't even know about the internet, my sister showed me Green Day and Linkin Park. My cousin showed me Slipknot (didn't really like it but it was br00tal to a kid like me). After some time of GD and LP, I started using the interwebs. Always listened to JNG music on Youtube and than discovered Iron Maiden, Iced Earth and Megadeath. Absolutely loved them. After that I discovered folk, than power, technical brutal and finally black metal. Today, I am a metalhead, my favorite band is Anal Mandica (croatian) and Forest stream (atmospheric black metal). Never liked any form of music except metal, ever (not counting GD and LP, I was a child back than).
No.3311
When I was about 7 years old, my babysitter would put on music. The two albums I loved most were Led Zeppelin I and Paranoid. I remember insisting on hearing "War Pigs" and "Iron Man", and could sing the latter from memory as an 8 year old.
I heard modern metal/metalcore in middle school, but I thought it was shit compared to Sabbath, so I didn't get into any more bands until Priest, Metallica, and Ozzy & Dio's solo work when I was 15. I kinda just branched out and got into more subgenres and more obscure bands from there.
Now I listen to a shitload of 70s metal/hard rock & NWOBHM, I also listen to a lot of folk metal, power metal, oldschool death, thrash (especially the proggier stuff), and of course doom/stoner metal.
No.3351
I used to think metal was either nu-metal Disturbed, old shit like Accept, or Death.
I didn't care much for any of that, mostly listened to classic rock on the radio, if ever.
>Kalmah
Found these fuckers in some stupid youtube video. They had some great riffs in their earlier stuff and I still like them now. First few steps into metal.
>Dragonforce
I'm very ashamed that I ever listened to them, but they did keep metal as a thing in my mind.
>Guy at work tells me all the metal he likes
He mostly liked Pantera, can't stand Phil, but I ended up picking up some Priest and Maiden songs, kinda liked them.
>Megadeth
I didn't really like Megadeth at first, but I came around to it after hearing Peace Sells. Helped me get into lots of Thrash stuff. Call me a faggot but I seriously love Metallica's first two albums.
>Suicidal Tendencies
Got into them because of their later thrash albums, and I followed them back to their punk/hardcore roots and found some other stuff I like too.
Can't say I really like Black/Death Metal, I've always preferred the extreme, hyperactive solos of other genres than anything depressive or melancholy.
No.3353
in order
>started off with classical only
>dragonforce got popular with that guitar hero thing, not bad
>some wulfgar as background music for a vid, too "rough" at the time
>amon amarth for a few months, that was the gatewayest shit
>somehow get into skalmold
>falkenbach is posted in some /tv/ threads
>burzum from /tv/ and /vg/ only the clean stuff like umskiptar
>varg recommends bathory, just listen to hammerheart
>starting to move away from skalmold with their latest album
>falkenbach revisited, get into the early black stuff
>deeper in to burzum, fallen, daudi baldrs, sol austan mani vestan
>listen to bathory's nordland I and II, v nice
> more burzum, ea, lord of the depths a new discovery.
right now i just listen to a mix of falkenbach, burzum and bathory, and im thinking of adding some iron maiden tracks and todewalzer by windir to my folder. old skalmold is getting too melodic for me
No.3361
>>3353
>right now i just listen to a mix of falkenbach, burzum and bathory,You should definitely listen to Ulver and Enslaved.
No.3645
>>3202>can't hear themwtf? Just because you've listened some shitty mayhem demos doesn't mean that all black metal sound like them.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w43bcaw2TJ4 No.3647
For me, baby's first metal was middle Avenged Sevenfold and Bullet For My Valentine which showed me I didn't hate all music. That got me into some classic rock and Disturbed, and when I got into A7X's earlier stuff I got used to harsh vocals. I moved onto Killswitch Engage, Disturbed, Slipknot, As I lay Dying and Five Finger Death Punch.From here, I got into less mainstream metal. (no I'm not a hipster, but most everything after this would never be played on the radio)
I started listening to All That Remains, and Children of Bodom. Children of Bodom was what really got me into darker and heavier music. From there, I started listening to Eluviettie, Parasite Inc., Turmion Kätilöt, and The Agonist
I'm mostly into the heavier bands, but I'll always have a soft spot for Nightwish.
No.3648
>all of my friends listen to metal
>be the only one that doesn't
>one friend shows me Dragonforce
>slowly get into power metal
>another friend shows me Korpiklaani
>get into folk metal
>begin finding bands of other types
I now listen to a mix of Folk, Thrash, Power, and Melodeath
Pic related. The album i'm listening to right now
No.3657
>Started getting into Rock music in general with Queen and AC/DC
>Listened to this for a good couple of years.
>Then found Metallica, listened to stuff from The Black Album.
>Found Iron Maiden
>Got incredibly hooked
>Then Sabbath and Motorhead. Out of all three I still prefer Maiden
>Then got into heavier genres of metal. Death, Black Metal etc.
>Started to get into Black with Dimmu Borgir.
>Dimmu were a launch platform for me going into bands like Darkthrone and Primordial (one of my favourites) and my current favourite Norwegian Black Metal band, Mayhem.
>Got into Slayer.
It's much more complicated than this in fairness, but that's it shortened down.
No.3973
>be 5
>older cousin brings >pic related over to my house
>begins playing the CD on stereo
>like it
>the BM vocals are weird
>school keeps me busy for years, never able to listen to music
>6th grade, I get my own computer
>get into synthPop because i was edgy
>tell a friend about it, he sends me a link to something "Better"
>slipcock, I liked it, it suited my edgy teenager style
>branch out to thrash metal,death metal, heavy metal, etc
>grow out of my mallcore phase, shun slipkock, abandoned synthpop
>re-Discover >pic related get back into Black metal
>cut my hair
>collect metal Albums
>pick up guitar, write my own Metal
No.4162
When I was a kid, my mom played nothing but Pink Floyd on our car rides, of which there were many. So I guess I started there. When I was a young teen, like 10-12, I was into punk rock and ska, basically whatever the punk-o-rama and other, similar, CD's would put out. I remember Operation Ivy being a personal favorite. In late middle school and early high school, I was into KMFDM, Wumpscut, Skinny Puppy, and other such bands, alongside other things, like (old-style) Electro, Synthpop, and Italo Disco.
I went into a House and Trance phase in the military, crossing into things like Shibuya Kei and J-Tek, as well, mostly in a feeble attempt to offset the obvious internal issues associated with being in the military. When I got out, I went towards electro, space disco, and of course, dubstep, because that was the popular shit at the time. I was mostly an electrofag, though.
I did, however, take a particular interest in shoegaze. My musical tastes waxed and waned quite a bit, at some point, I realized that other countries had Youtube too, so I got into Russian, Ecuadorian/Colombian, North Korean, Iranian, and Palestinian music. That "phase" still hasn't really ended.
My interest in metal came mostly from an interest in Thrash. I'd listened to the Painkiller album in the military, and I'd listened to some Dragonforce back in High School, along with a couple of various prog-rock bands, and Mars Volta, and of course, the aforementioned industrial stuff.
My first introduction to Black Metal came during my first winter in Romania. I'd started drinking a lot, and I think somebody posted some atmospheric stuff on a chan that I was browsing. Between the drunkenness, the general depression, and the unrelenting snow, I fell in love with atmospheric black metal. I've stuck with it, and although I don't listen to it every day, I probably do have more AtmoBM CD's at this point, than any other genre. I download a lot of singles off Youtube, but when it comes to full CD's, AtmoBM is most of what I end up downloading.
No.4163
>>4162
I'd like to add, by the way, that most of my BM ended up just being whatever was most recent on the AtmoBM channel on Youtube, or whatever was most recent on MortuusInSomnis. Sometimes I'd just go on soulseek's BM room, pick a random person, and just download random CDs from them, and listen to those. I still don't have any real understanding of what the AtmoBM 'classics' are. Half the time, I don't even know who I'm listening to.
My Romanian winter involved a lot of depression, a lot of cheap wine and liquor, a lot of not going to work, and a shit-ton of AtmoBM.
No.5800
>>3277
>I started listening to metal back in middle school, mainly bands such as Avenged Sevenfold, Bullet for my Valentine, and Disturbed.
>metal
Haha okay
No.5818
>pep pep always played dadrock during car trips and interstate family holidays
>sisters got me into emo shit when it was big, which got me into metalcore which was the gateway drug
>then I think I might have started listening to death metal or just went straight into black metal
>listened to the trad kvlt shite then got a taste for the avant garde (thank you based Frenchies)
>eventually stopped listening to metal altogether cos I felt like I exhausted the whole genre and there was nothing left to push the boundaries.
>then I started listening to other shit and now I'm here now, rarely listen to metal anymore but sometimes I get a urge to blast Portal or some blackgays
No.5819
>>5818
Totally forgot about Terrorizer magazine, the cd's that came with it were fucken golden. I remember when one came with Omnipotent Crawling Chaos, the first time I listened to it my brain couldn't comprehend what the fuck I was listening to. It took quite a many listens until it clicked.
No.5823
Father loved it, got me into shit like Sepultrua and Metallica young
Branched to Sacred Reich, Pantera, D.R.I., Doro, Slayer
Got older and discovered nu metal bands like slipknot, disturbed, otep, ffdp and such
Got into Meshuggah and Dimmu Borgir, really began to love Scandinavian Anger
Eventually found ATR the only metalcore band enjoyable and shit like trivium
No.5913
>older brother was into grunge
>uncle was into classic rock
>played a lot of Doom as a kid
I think Doom (and to a lesser degree Quake 2) ended up being what got me into metal i guess.
No.5931
>>3095
>used to listen to rap when I was a kid
>then linkin park
>then stuff like disturbed or avenged sevenfold
>after that got into thrash, although mostly technical, like megadeth or artillery
also Cacophony and some solo guitarists that I still listen to to this day. Probably part of what got me into classical
>later got into black metal
>started getting into classical music
Now I mostly alternate between stuff like Dissection and Chopin.
No.5932
I grew up on a steady diet of Hip-Hop and R&B (what a combo), but on occasion, I'd listen to some Alt. Rock or Grunge (born in '88). Bell Biv DeVoe, Machines of Loving Grace and a few other things I can't recall. I never developed a taste for music until much later.
At age 12, I rented Detroit Rock City and loved it, so I then bought the soundtrack which featured Van Halen, Kiss, Pantera, David Bowie and, most importantly, Black Sabbath. The song "Iron Man" left such a strong impression. From that point up to about 15, I started listening to game soundtracks with licensed music (Revolution X, Way of the Warrior, Spider-Man & Venom: Maximum Carnage, Twisted Metal 4, BMX XXX, et cetera). Rap, Nu-Metal and more generic Alt. Rock. I even got into The Cure courtesy of South Park. Other favorites from that time: Korn, NWA, Dr. Dre, RBX, Cypress Hill, One Minute Silence, Green Jelly, Aerosmith, Metallica, White Zombie, Rob Zombie. I was one confused kid.
The first album I bought was Blue Oyster Cult's "Some Enchanted Evening," where "Godzilla" and "Don't Fear the Reaper" became classics. After reading about Punk in some encyclopedia, I then went out and bought "Never Mind the Bollocks" by The Sex Pistols, which got me into Punk for a short period of time. At 15, Slipknot and Slayer made their way into my CD player, and my taste for the extreme grew. I then purchased "Piece of Mind" by Iron Maiden and I listened to it until it got scratched to shit. At the time, I was less than careful with the CDs I owned.
Of all things, I stumbled upon a White Power website while googling Rap lyrics. At the time, I considered myself anti-racist (all kids did to please the adults), so I quickly left. Then I revisited the site and discovered RAC. From there on, I actively sought out White Power bands and started listening to crappy mp3s, but while the songs sucked, I read interviews with the bands and wanted to seek out the music that inspired them. I can thank Grinded Nig for helping me discover better Death Metal bands.
No.5965
>one friend listen metal, we are 13.
>he shows me Helloween, love it
>then started to listen the mainstream: Metallica, Maiden, Motorhead, Slayer etc
>liked power metal as well: stratovarious i remember and that's all.
>went full into Thrash and other stuff: Sodom, Destruction, Vio-lence, Kreator, Agent Steel, Morbid Angel, Possessed, Death, Obituary, Mayhem, Emperor, Bathory and of course Venom.
>discovered Destroyed666, Vulcano and discovered that you could buy tapes, CDs and Shit like that.
>went full into underground.
>my friend still listen the same 3 bands 10years later.
>the ride never ended for me.
No.5972
I used to listen to stuff like linkin park or foo fighters until i listened to manowar one day, I guess you could consider them my gateway band.
Since then I've been totally in love with speed/power metal, it's pretty much all i listen to aside from some 80s guilty pleasures.
No.5973
>Dad used to play a lot of "dark rock" (didn't find a better suited name) in the car, such as Nirvana, The Cure, Some Marilyn Manson, Interpol, System of a Down, Deftones, and the list goes on.
>I was really into Rammstein when I was 12/13 yo, got a friend who loved them (He know listens to things like A7X, KsE or BVB. Such a waste of potential.)
>At this period my dad also liked Rammstein so we listened to it almost everyday in he car, but sister got bored, so we went back to System of a Down, Nirvana, Sum 41's "Chuck"and *sigh* Indochine (she still love that crap).
>Went to High School, loosed my "nu-metalhead" friend. Started searching for bands like Rammstein (More Neue Deutsche Härte), found Eisbrecher, Heldmaschine, Old-Megaherz, Oomph! …(I still wonder how did I manage not to get into Slipknot at this time)
>Latter I found Reddit's /r/metal/, some French Metal Podcasts on YouTube (Metalliquoi, Reset Metal and 2guys1tv if you want to know. 2guys1tv is the best. I also like Infidelamsterdam). Started to got into mainstream bands (mainly Sabbath, Priest, and a shitload of other things lie Paradise Lot)
>Didn't like very much Death Metal (I already liked Black), but it interested me was so I listened to this genre all the summer and ended up liking it, pretty much because of Bolt Thrower. I ink I misundertood the way to appreciate the genre at start, but then found it.
>Found halfchan then 8ch, then recently endchan, which has the same metal community as 8ch…
Pretty comfy place, slow but it's like a lil home where we can discuss metal without being disturbed.
I still like Neue Deutsche Härte, the mix of nostalgia and spooky/dark synth melodies kind of calm me down when I re-listen to it. Rammstein and System of a Down may be the only bands that I think are/were great at what they do.
No.5986
I never really listened to much music (besides the odd classical, or rap), until I found Disturbed.
I then got into Linkin Park, papa Roach, and Korn. I really found that the "general metal feel" in music spoke to me.
After a month while I got into arch enemy, rammstein, various deathcore, and slayer, I exposed myself to more heavier genres.
I went from that nu/alt metal to the extreme satanic black, brutal detah, slam, djent, grindcore of all kinds, and the more extreme genres.
Now THE LIGHTEST stuff I listen to are deathcore, melo death, thrash, and doom.
Also I always had a thing for soundtracks like Old School Runescape, Natural Selection 2, and Subnautica.
No.5989
>born 1999
>psychedelic rock at around age 4 from dad playing the Toronto radio station Q107 in the car
>punk rock by age 7 or 8, mostly Green Day
>Guitar Hero 3
>nu metal and main stream thrash metal songs around age 12(Linkin Park, Three Days Grace, Iron Maiden - Fear of the Dark, Metallica's black album)
>electronic music till 14, got really into hard style, then "good rap"
>transition out of it with rap rock
>anything from old deadmau5 to metallica to nirvana during age 14
>Found Kyuss - El Rodeo at 14, didn't really listen to their other songs till I was 15 at the end of 2014
>blast stoner rock, stoner metal, stoner doom, doom metal, thrash, fuzz constantly during 2015(Kyuss, Karma to Burn, Clutch, Brant Bjork, Vista Chino, Sleep, Electric Wizard, Fu Manchu, Truckfighters, etc)
>still doing the same, recently found atmospheric black metal though Burzum.
Found out a month ago that I friend of mine that I've known for the past year listens to mostly the same music as me but hates the sound of most stoner rock lyrics, been finding a lot of new stuff from him the past few weeks like Witchhelm, Goya, Egypt, and a lot of other bands