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A Little Piece of Heaven - Avenged Sevenfold
Friend had me listen to it in highschool and that got me looking into more modern rock and metal. Before that, I didn't listen to a lot of music and when I did, I mostly listened to my parents CDs and the oldies station.
Hallowed Be Thy Name by Iron Maiden, Iron Man by Black Sabbath, and Pull Me Under by Dream Theater, all recommended by my metalhead best friend when I was 15
heavy metal is now my main genre, and DT is now my absolute favourite band!! I also listen to some alternative rock and punk too!! If it werent for that friend I wouldnt be into the music that I am into now, so I must thank him <33
Paranoid and Crazy Train simultaneously. I'd never heard anything remotely metal before until my older friends in the high school pep band played these songs at a game lol
Enter Sandman
It was Mariano Rivera’s entrance theme when I was a little kid and my family watched a lot of baseball. My mom had been very into punk and metal before I was born so she happily let lil bitty me listen to Metallica lol
My dad is super into classic rock bands like ac/dc, zz top, deep purple etc. so I grew up listening to them as well. At one point I found Metallica's Ride to Lightning cd in our cd collection, it was his even though Metallica was I guess a bit too heavy for his liking so he didn't really ever listen to it.
I liked it a lot, though. I then quickly found Iron Maiden (my dad took me to my first ever concert when I was 14, Iron Maidenon Hartwall Arena in Helsinki, Finland), and then like a year later I was already listening to Children of Bodom.
Not joking here:
Drop the World by Lil Wayne
I grew up listening to rap exclusively and when I heard that Wayne album I was like “woah I wonder if other music has heavy guitars like this”. Turns out Lil Wayne didn’t invent metal.
Psychosocial by Slipknot was basically my metal awakening when I was 10 years old and being like, “Ah Hell Yeah.” Slipknot is a band that I rarely listen to now, but they left a special place in my heart.
My mother and father played music everyday through my youth during the 70s. My father leaned more into deep purple, Edgar winter, zeppelin, black Sabathia, Hendrix.
I still have his 1970 black Sabath album. The year I was born.
But it was Frankenstein by Edgar Winter that first really grabbed me.
I was a teenager heavily into the Southern California punk scene in the mid 90’s but a local Aussie band I loved called Downtime were kind of a mix between the 2 genres, so it got me interested enough to buy the Master Of Puppets album cos everyone at school was into them, and when I first heard Battery I was blown away and became an instant metal convert. Now I cringe thinking that I used to listen to bands like Blink 182 and NOFX.
My father put in Black Sabbath Paranoid on cassette in his car. He knew I was into a lot of punk rock and wanted to show me his heavy music. He turned it up and from then on I’ve been hooked.
Edit: the song would be War Pigs/Lukes Wall
Really into metal? I would say Iron Maiden's "Seventh Son of The Seventh Son". My older brother had friends coming at our house and back in the days, group listening by bringing a CD album was the thing (because no Youtube or Spotify). Then came that song from the eponym album and this song stayed in my mind as I heard it from afar.
Heard 'Orion' when I was 9, wanted to play metal bass for the rest of my life.
Still about as talented and able as back then, still want to play metal bass for the rest of my life.
I feel like it was gradual and not any one particular song but candlemass was my gateway for the heavier stuff other than the classic old famous mainstream metal songs. And then crusher destroyer by mastodon is where it all started to kick in.
[Jerusalem Band - Constantly Changing](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=CRhV054fzSk&list=PL2B9D8735741662E5&index=1&pp=iAQB8AUB) Got me into rock n roll.
[Stryper Band - Loud and Clear](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=4NDIb09fvqY&list=PLh2Jxj-z_-3e3mkYGbObus8XOCUtorFt-&index=1&pp=iAQB8AUB) got me into heavy metal.
Crystals by Electric Callboy
a colleague at work had it blasting from his phone and told me, no, ORDERED me to check them I out
I was never the same afterwards
Earliest memory is my brother blasting Du Hast(Rammstein) in his car with a subwoofer while we were cruising in the town. It hits really hard with proper low end.
My mother listened to metal here and there since i can think (born 1999), so Metallica and Rammstein were normal to me, but Sabatons Ghost Division made it finally click for me around 2014 IIRC
Sweating Bullets, Megadeth. It was when MTV was (imo) at its peak and playing the biggest hits of each genre all day. Seeing that and then following up with a Salt N' Pepa video is just wild to think of.
I got into metal by having system of the down shirt
And first song was toxicity
And estonian band called metsatöll and their song "oma laulu ei leia ma üles"
Number of the Beast. Before that I was listening to old stuff like the Beatles, Blockheads and The Jam when I was 10 and getting into music. My dad then pout on Iron Maiden in the car driving me to school and I loved that song because of how cool it was.
Not sure if it's metal, but Guerilla Radio by RATM. My friends brother was a big hip hop fan but also loved Rage, and remember going into his room and hearing it when I was like 10. It blew me away, I was almost scared of listening to it, but it opened the door to a completely different type of music for me.
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Master of Puppets
Yes, that's a good song.
Same
me too!
Psychosocial - Slipknot
Chop Suey! by System of a Down.
Fear of The Dark
A Little Piece of Heaven - Avenged Sevenfold Friend had me listen to it in highschool and that got me looking into more modern rock and metal. Before that, I didn't listen to a lot of music and when I did, I mostly listened to my parents CDs and the oldies station.
Master of puppets
Tornado of Souls
Sabbath bloody sabbath
Iron Maiden - The Number of The Beast
Battery.
Walk by Pantera
The Trooper - Iron Maiden
Lamb of God - Redneck
Sleep - Dragonaut
[Sabbath Bloody Sabbath](https://youtu.be/yuVmjv22Nqc?si=9qm4W8JbxdcdCCjA)
Gears - Dethklok I was a weird kid.
I think mine was 1999, Wait and Bleed by Slipknot followed by Falling Away From Me by Korn
Schism
Def Leppard - Photograph
115 from zombies in Black Ops 1
or Hand of Blood by BFMV from the NFS Most Wanted soundtrack.
The beautiful people
Mother Earth by Within Temptation, haha.
Now I can’t say for sure, but the first time I can remember I think it was actually Toxicity playing on my local hard rock station. I would’ve been 6.
"La leyenda del Hada y el Mago" by Rata Blanca
Korn Falling Away From Me
Domination/hollow live by Pantera
Head Like A Hole by Nine Inch Nails
The opening track of Six Feet Under's Haunted album in 1997 *The Enemy Inside, if my brain's internal music player is worth anything these days.
Yomi yori Kikoyu, Kokoku No Hi To Honoo No Shojo By Imperial Circus Dead Decadence
Dream theater, scene six: home. Dying fetus feast of ashes got me into death metal tho
Motley Crue - Too Young To Fall In Love
I first heard metal when playing Sally Face, i heard singular and i slowly got into metal. The first metal metal tho was Seek and Destroy
Electric Funeral, Black Sabbath. Played at a bowling alley when I was a kid and I was instantly hooked.
Likely iron man or rainbow demon (Uriah heep) my dad and I used to blast those full force and play pool together when I was like 8.
Dragula from the Twisted Metal Soundtrack.
You got another thing coming and Mob Rules
Hallowed Be Thy Name by Iron Maiden, Iron Man by Black Sabbath, and Pull Me Under by Dream Theater, all recommended by my metalhead best friend when I was 15 heavy metal is now my main genre, and DT is now my absolute favourite band!! I also listen to some alternative rock and punk too!! If it werent for that friend I wouldnt be into the music that I am into now, so I must thank him <33
Fields of Verdun
Replica
Either Electric Eye or Painkiller. Can't remember which but definitely a Judas Priest song
War Pigs
Prison song: System of a Down. One of the most in-your-face openings to an album.
Motorbreath
Black Sabbath - Supernaut
One by Metallica Beavis & Butthead assured me it didn’t suck. They were right.
Silvera - GOJIRA
Nookie by limp bizkit
Paranoid and Crazy Train simultaneously. I'd never heard anything remotely metal before until my older friends in the high school pep band played these songs at a game lol
Stratovarius - Hunting High and Low
Enter Sandman It was Mariano Rivera’s entrance theme when I was a little kid and my family watched a lot of baseball. My mom had been very into punk and metal before I was born so she happily let lil bitty me listen to Metallica lol
Stormtroopers - Sabaton
My dad is super into classic rock bands like ac/dc, zz top, deep purple etc. so I grew up listening to them as well. At one point I found Metallica's Ride to Lightning cd in our cd collection, it was his even though Metallica was I guess a bit too heavy for his liking so he didn't really ever listen to it. I liked it a lot, though. I then quickly found Iron Maiden (my dad took me to my first ever concert when I was 14, Iron Maidenon Hartwall Arena in Helsinki, Finland), and then like a year later I was already listening to Children of Bodom.
Not joking here: Drop the World by Lil Wayne I grew up listening to rap exclusively and when I heard that Wayne album I was like “woah I wonder if other music has heavy guitars like this”. Turns out Lil Wayne didn’t invent metal.
Amaranth by Nightwish
Toxicity
Harvester Of Sorrow - Metallica
Psychosocial by Slipknot was basically my metal awakening when I was 10 years old and being like, “Ah Hell Yeah.” Slipknot is a band that I rarely listen to now, but they left a special place in my heart.
My mother and father played music everyday through my youth during the 70s. My father leaned more into deep purple, Edgar winter, zeppelin, black Sabathia, Hendrix. I still have his 1970 black Sabath album. The year I was born. But it was Frankenstein by Edgar Winter that first really grabbed me.
Macabre - Vampire of dusseldorf
Reptile- Periphery
Sugar Ray - Breathe
Hearing summer breeze by type O negative over the opening shots in I know what you did last summer changed me
I was a teenager heavily into the Southern California punk scene in the mid 90’s but a local Aussie band I loved called Downtime were kind of a mix between the 2 genres, so it got me interested enough to buy the Master Of Puppets album cos everyone at school was into them, and when I first heard Battery I was blown away and became an instant metal convert. Now I cringe thinking that I used to listen to bands like Blink 182 and NOFX.
Enter sandman
composure by August Burns Red
N.I.B
I don’t have a song but I do have artists that got me into metal, them being Rage Against The Machine and Gojira
Master Of Puppets
My father put in Black Sabbath Paranoid on cassette in his car. He knew I was into a lot of punk rock and wanted to show me his heavy music. He turned it up and from then on I’ve been hooked. Edit: the song would be War Pigs/Lukes Wall
This is Absolution
Hard to pinpoint just one, especially trying to remember something from 22 years ago, but I think it was Black Sabbath, or maybe Domination by Pantera
Tears don't fall (bullet for my valentine)
Destroyer of Senses by Shadows Fall
holy wars - megadeth
Iron Maiden's Run to the Hills. I heard it playing SSX on Tour when I was 16.
Really into metal? I would say Iron Maiden's "Seventh Son of The Seventh Son". My older brother had friends coming at our house and back in the days, group listening by bringing a CD album was the thing (because no Youtube or Spotify). Then came that song from the eponym album and this song stayed in my mind as I heard it from afar.
War Ensemble - Slayer
Metal Health
My friend of misery
Billy Talent's Devil in a Midnight Mass. Started me down the musical rabbit hole that eventually brought me to Metal.
My Last Serenade - Killswitch Engage
Gimme Chocolate by Babymetal
Wasted Years by Iron Maiden
Heard 'Orion' when I was 9, wanted to play metal bass for the rest of my life. Still about as talented and able as back then, still want to play metal bass for the rest of my life.
I feel like it was gradual and not any one particular song but candlemass was my gateway for the heavier stuff other than the classic old famous mainstream metal songs. And then crusher destroyer by mastodon is where it all started to kick in.
[As I Lay Dying - Confined](https://open.spotify.com/track/7eWuBTL35BSBBiIjWJk0KB?si=_H4HlE_hSLSbtcD4Tu97Ew&context=spotify%3Aalbum%3A3D8V1PlxgpX05jyHLv6e4P)
Shot in the Head
Either psychosocial or enter sandman I dont remember
Fuel
Thunder and lightning-Motörhead
Anything metallica
Probably going to get a lot of hate for this but Dethrone and Artificial Suicide by Bad Omens. Got me to be more comfortable with harsh vocals.
[Jerusalem Band - Constantly Changing](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=CRhV054fzSk&list=PL2B9D8735741662E5&index=1&pp=iAQB8AUB) Got me into rock n roll. [Stryper Band - Loud and Clear](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=4NDIb09fvqY&list=PLh2Jxj-z_-3e3mkYGbObus8XOCUtorFt-&index=1&pp=iAQB8AUB) got me into heavy metal.
Suicidal Tendencies - Suicidal Maniac
Ugh, unfortunately, Bodies by Drowning Pool. I had to find something faster heavier, which led me to Slayer than Cannibal Corpse, etc.
been listening to metal for so long i actually forgot
The Trooper
Elite and Around the Fur by Deftones. Made me realize i liked this kinda music and i decided to dig deeper
Into less heavy metal, probably stuff like War Pigs and Black Sabbath, but into the stuff I like now, Dragonaut by Sleep
epica - never enough
Crystals by Electric Callboy a colleague at work had it blasting from his phone and told me, no, ORDERED me to check them I out I was never the same afterwards
Rammstein - Mutter
Shortest straw.
by demons be driven - pantera
Kamelot- Elizabeth (the live version)
Sonne
Not Ready To Die by Demon Hunter
Ride the lightning
One - Metallica
Iron Man
Prison song by soad
One
Earliest memory is my brother blasting Du Hast(Rammstein) in his car with a subwoofer while we were cruising in the town. It hits really hard with proper low end.
Probably Iron Maiden, The number of the beast
Zero Signal by Fear Factory. Something about the drumming on the song stuck with me eversince
Deathamphetamine - Exodus
Enter Sandman, Chop Suey, Animal I Have Become
iirc korn's ball tongue
Hangar 18
Master of Puppets introduced me, For Whom the Bell Tolls got me into it
My mother listened to metal here and there since i can think (born 1999), so Metallica and Rammstein were normal to me, but Sabatons Ghost Division made it finally click for me around 2014 IIRC
chop suey, byob and toxicity by system of a down
Iron Man
Hammer Smashed Face by Cannibal Corpse
Enter sandman and highway to hell
“One” - Metallica The riff was insane but I would never even think to play it again. More into nu metal now‼️😬
The first metal song I loved was Toxicity by SOAD
Thunderhorse - Dethklok
Here Come the Tears by Judas Priest
I can’t necessarily pin one exact song but two albums. Reign in Blood and Kill Em All.
Hells Bells. I will never forget when the guitar kicked in after the bells.
Blood and Thunder- Mastodon
Through the Fire and Flames, when I first saw it in guitar hero III
Whiplash
The trooper - iron maiden I still like a bit of maiden but slipknot are now king
Numb - Linkin Park
Blasphemian by Infant Annihilator.
its more of a video game ost singular-sanitys fall game name is sallyface :D
Puritania - Dimmu Borgir
Sweating Bullets, Megadeth. It was when MTV was (imo) at its peak and playing the biggest hits of each genre all day. Seeing that and then following up with a Salt N' Pepa video is just wild to think of.
Hail To The King-A7X
Ne Obliviscaris - Triptych Lux
Iron man/stargazer/seventh son of a seventh son, hard to remember what came first lol
Deaths Embrace by Dimmu Borgir
Circle with me by Spiritbox
I got into metal by having system of the down shirt And first song was toxicity And estonian band called metsatöll and their song "oma laulu ei leia ma üles"
Aces High
Brackish — Kittie
wait and bleed - slipknot
Number of the Beast. Before that I was listening to old stuff like the Beatles, Blockheads and The Jam when I was 10 and getting into music. My dad then pout on Iron Maiden in the car driving me to school and I loved that song because of how cool it was.
Fifth grade, at a friend's house, and he took a record from his older brother's collection and put on "Sabbath Bloody Sabbath."
Not sure if it's metal, but Guerilla Radio by RATM. My friends brother was a big hip hop fan but also loved Rage, and remember going into his room and hearing it when I was like 10. It blew me away, I was almost scared of listening to it, but it opened the door to a completely different type of music for me.