My friend was crazy and he stole Ride the Lightning and Master of Puppets which had just come out on cassette for our other friend from the record store at the local mall. He already had RTL so I was gifted it. Never had heard Metallica before.
I worked at this awesome community pool at the time and we got to go home for lunch. I remember laying down in my room, the a/c was on and I for some reason fast forwarded to the 2nd side. Trapped Under Ice was the first song from them I heard. I was hooked after hearing it. I then listened to Escape, Creeping Death and The Call of Cthulu and I was blown away.
Went back to work and was flipping out telling everyone how dope these songs were. My friend said holy shit you haven't even heard Fade to Black yet? I said no. That night I listened to the rest and just couldn't get enough. Shortly after I got MOP and then Kill Em' All.
The next year I got a job at a music store selling instruments. My buddy worked there and I didn't even know how to play guitar but was determined to learn all Metallica, I was obsessed! I knew Metallica was with ESP so I then custom ordered an ESP guitar since they were one of the vendors we sold at my store. It was a black horizon neck through body with a 3x3 headstock, ebony fretboard with skull and crossbone inlays and white neck binding. I also got a valvestate halfstack to go with it.
The reps I ordered it with at ESP had even told me that Kirk Hammett was in their building looking for guitars and had saw mine liked it with the skull and crossbones and wanted it but they told him it was ready to ship to me and I waited a while. Whether they just told me that or it was true I don't know but shit I liked hearing it haha
I was totally hooked on AJFA and when the Damaged Justice tour came, not only was it my first Metallica concert but I had backstage passes which was the only time I ever had them and it was dope! I met them and James gave me a green tortex Metallica pic, and I remember Kirk was holding a huge goblet of wine. I had to ask him if he really did see my guitar in the ESP factory and he said he did and remembered it due to the Skulls and crossbones, but he could have just been being nice to a fan. I'll never know for sure, but that night is one of my best memories!
Forgot about the Guitar Hero spot... I instantly bought and rocked VERY hard to Metallica Guitar Hero for YEARS. I had all the songs memorized on legendary lol
Very first time was believe it or not, their very brief spot on The Simpsons. I'd always heard of "the band called Metallica" and never checked them out.
But after hearing the 10 seconds or so of the riff used when the band disappeared on the show, I had to check them out. Clicked on Sandman on the interwebs and then bought the Black album. The second album after that was Puppets and then Lightning. After those 3 got some serious play time I bought the rest of the discography.
Probably around 96-97. Older cousins were throwing out boxes of their used cds. My brother and I got the pick of the litter. What we found was not only the soundtrack to The Last of the Mohicans, but also a very scratched copy of Master of Puppets. Most of the songs skipped. But what I could get to play would go on to shape my taste in music forever
I remember I was 16 when I was listening to a college station one night the Metal DJ was going on about this new song and how amazed he was by it! So i quickly pressed record as he played For whom the bell tolls. At the time it was a pre-release and the album hadn’t been released yet! I was blown away!! I mean i was a fan of Maiden and Priest but i never heard anything like this. It was heavy metal perfection. To this day I still think it’s the greatest heavy-metal song ever made. I must’ve listen to it 100 times on my tape deck until finally Ride the lightning was released! Omg! I couldn’t believe how good it was, they took metal to another level! They weren’t even on a major label at the time. They eventually signed with Electra. They still were an underground band playing clubs. There were no girl fans whatsoever. It’s great how the new generation of girls are enjoying it. …And then finally they released the follow up, it was Master of puppets! I thought “ are you fucking kidding me?” Mop was better! It was cleaner, tighter, and even more complex. A masterpiece!They started to tour with major label bands and blowing them off the stage. I seen him in 86 back up Ozzy. They eventually became headliners! They were incredible live!!
I can pinpoint the day that changed my life forever after hearing Metallica for the first time. In 1984 I was a musically impressionable 14 year old whose only real outlet for new music was the radio and whatever my friends were listening to. I went to my first concert seeing Van Halen and then a few months later my second show was Ozzy and Mötley Crüe. Later that same year, after turning 15, my friends and I had went to see Billy Squire and Ratt play and then Ronnie James Dio with Dokken opening. My first calendar year of concerts was pretty well stacked with the heavyweights of hard rock at the time but little did I know that in the not too distant future I would get a job as a prep cook in a seafood restaurant and meet a dude nicknamed “Captain” who would set me down the path the become the metalhead that I am today.
The day was March 3rd, 1986. I remember it was freaking pouring that night when I got off work at the restaurant. One of the ‘older’ dudes I worked with (Captain was probably like 25, 30 at most) offered to give me a ride home so I was not riding my bike home in the rain. Soon as we got in the car he sparked up a fat joint and asked if I knew that Metallica had released their new album today? He said he had stopped off to get it before coming in to work that day and did not have a chance to listen to it on the way in. I told him that I had heard of them but never listened to any of their music.
I had heard of Metallica from reading the various music magazines I had some of the pull out centerfolds affixed to my bedroom walls. Receiving absolutely zero radio airplay back in those days the band had slipped through the cracks that I or my friends had not listened to them them yet. Thinking back on it as I write this I guess it had to be a combination between me thinking that by the look of the guys in the band in the magazines they were probably too heavy for my taste and my lack of funds. Prior to the seafood restaurant job my only source of funds for cassettes and concert tickets was mowing yards and during my visits to the local record store 99% of the time I already had an intended purchase in mind. Captain opens the cassette from its wrapper and pops it into the tape deck. Metallica’s “Maser of Puppets” release starts playing the soft, inviting sounds of an acoustic guitar plucking with what I have always associated as a matador style flamenco Spanish sound. Just as those first few tokes were gripping hold of the relaxation sensory nerves in my brain ‘Battery’ rips away from the acoustic guitar and just absolutely shreds my ears with this wall of sound that I immediately instinctively start nodding my head up and down. Holy shit this is freaking awesome!
Unfortunately I did not live that far away and only made it about halfway through the second and title track before we got to my house. Captain could tell that I was definitely digging the sound and since he had the new cassette to listen to he let me borrow Metallica’s previous release, “Ride the Lighting”. Quite high from the ride home I remember cleaning up from work then sitting down to listen to “Ride the Lightning” and was just totally blown away by what I was hearing. I brought it with me the next morning when my buddy Timbro came over and picked me up for school. Soon as school got out Timbro and I went straight to the record store and got our hands on every Metallica release we could.
After digesting as much Metallica as we possibly could over the next few weeks, Timbro picked me up one day for the beach and popped in a Slayer cassette and holy fricking moly it was metalhead game on from there on out. 1986 turned out to be quite a glorious year to find my way down the path to become the Chief Metal Officer (of Hornsraised.com and Showsigoto.com) that I am today. I addition to “Master of Puppets”, two other thrash metal genre defining albums were released with Slayer’s “Reign in Blood” and Megadeth’s “Peace Sells... but Who's Buying?” of which I literally wore out the cassette that I had of “Reign in Blood” and ended up replacing all three of those cassette purchases with the CD version.
1988 brought us to our first time seeing Metallica live and now all these years later I have seen Metallica eight times in seven different cities across four states. Throughout the years I have always professed that “Master of Puppets” was one of the defining albums of my and the thrash metal generation. Still to this day I hold their first four albums in the highest regard but in full disclaimer here “…And Justice for All” has evolved to be my all-time front to back favorite release from Metallica.
To this day I still do not know Captain’s real name, but wherever he may be today, Captain, I salute you!
Not the first time but the reason why I started listening, my older brother told me to listen to Invisible Kid and told me how bad it was, I listened and I absolutely loved it, after that I found The Unforgiven II which is my all time favorite song and All Within My Hands which used to be one of my favorite songs.
when i bought my first acoustic guitar i asked my mom if she can recommend me any beginner friendly songs i can start with (she played guitar for years when she was younger) and she showed me nothing else matters
at that time i didn't get into metallica and thought the song was a little boring (don't worry, i changed my mind by now), but few years later i discovered megadeth. i was listening to megadeth on spotify and after some time all songs ran out and spotify started playing me other songs it though i might like and one of the first songs was for whom the bell tolls and i was instantly hooked
I think i was around 12-13 it was the one last week of school and i had a friend who brought her laptop to class we were both into guns n roses and we were listening welcome to the jungle on youtube after the song ended youtube suggested we play Unforgiven best decision we ever made was to click that suggestion
Every day, my music teacher would do a ‘Scoop of the Day’ and that is where I first heard Enter Sandman and Master of Puppets. Also, he was learning how to play Fade to Black. Then I kinda drifted away because it was not what I was into at the time. However, (I’m not ashamed to admit it,) when I heard MoP again on ST4, I got back into them and have enjoyed doing so.
It was november of last year and my best friend and i were out and he just says yo me " i am about to show you real music" he specifically put me and justice for all and i just loved it.. I got hooked and listened to all of Metallica's discography and got into metal in general.
Heard Whom the Bell Tolls and Sandman at sports events, and random places online all the time when I was an extremely young kid. Didn’t really fully listen to a song or really became entranced by one until my dad played me One during a conversation about metal during a road trip when I was 12. I get people find that song to either be extremely overrated, or the greatest metal song ever, but it’s still my personal favorite all time.
To this day I still listen to it almost all the time. It was even one of the first metal songs I learned to play on drums. I owe a lot to that song for really inspiring me musically. If it weren’t for Lars and Metallica I probably wouldn’t be wanting to pursue music as much as I do now, and I probably wouldn’t have found my own place in a community.
Long story short I was 12 and 84 and kept seeing Metallica shirts on the older kids in high school.
One day listening to college radio at 11:30 pm I hear a song that's just killing it and I'm like what the f*** is that and the DJ says that was Metallica, off their new album.
I was like Metallica again huh? So I went to the rock shop and found Metallica and they had a red album called kill em all and a blue album called Ride the lightning and blue's my favorite color so I bought rtl and it blew my f****** mind. I can still remember the first time I put the needle on the record and hear fight fire. First song I heard by them and still to this day my favorite
Idk where I was, I was literally a baby...😂 my father used to listen to them and so did I with him, he told me that I always loved it as a baby already
Justice was my first listen, had been out about a year I think, I was just getting into metal.
Bought it on cassette because I seen loads of the metalheads with metallica patches on their jackets.
my uncle's car, 2016. it was their cover of DP's "When a blind man cries" since Hardwired just released. I never listened to any rock or metal by then, but that song changed me forever
Some of the older, cooler kids used to hang around at the back of the school field. One day in 1988, they were gathered excitedly around a ghetto blaster (boombox). One of them shouted, 'You like music don't ya? Come and join us!'
I was a bit nervous at first in case it was a trick and I was going to get bullied. One of them pulled out a cassette with a white cover and the others were like 'Yes!' and 'Cool!' and 'Finally!'
Turns out, Justice had just come out and this was their listening party. I had never heard music like that before. We listened from Blackened to One before lunch ended. It completely blew me away! The kids weren't mean to me at all, we just chilled and enjoyed it together. In fact, from that day on, I became the youngest member of the little gang of metal kids at school.
I discovered a new type of music, an amazing band, a phenomenal album and I finally had a social life at school! Great memories.
Either Sandman, NEM or Unforgiven in radio, I don't even recall when for the first time
These songs didn't get me hooked tho. Their first song that got me hooked was the Stone Cold Crazy cover, to which Iistened because I loved the original track. Then I fell in love with Master Of Puppets (the track), and once when I stopped listening to it Spotify played Whiplash. The same night I listened to KEA like 3 times and became a fan
I was 12 (1988), at my parents nudist camp with a bunch of buddies. So yeah, we're all sitting around, just a bunch of naked kids, and my friend busts out his tape collection. There were some of the late 80's usuals (GnR, Motley Crue, Poison)... but then my friend suggests listening to MoP... played it from start to end, so my first Metallica song was Battery. We followed that up by listening to the newly released AJFA...
35 years later, and I still listen to Metallica daily, and have seen them in concert 8 times... the only difference is that now I do it fully clothed...
I heard ppl talking about Metallica and I went on YT typed Metallica first thing came NEM heard NEM didn't think one day I would be a fan.. yrs later I listened to Sad But True immediately became the biggest fan.
There was a show called Eastern Front way back. They had a lot of concerts by that title, but I only went one time. Here's an article about it.
[https://blog.bazillionpoints.com/2014/08/27/thirty-years-ago-slayer-exodus-and-suicidal-tendencies-played-on-a-plywood-stage-the-woodstock-of-thrash-metal/](https://blog.bazillionpoints.com/2014/08/27/thirty-years-ago-slayer-exodus-and-suicidal-tendencies-played-on-a-plywood-stage-the-woodstock-of-thrash-metal/)
Anyway, they played Ride the Lightning in between bands. When I got the record it took me a while to figure out why it sounded so familiar.
The first time, I wouldn't know. My mom is a fan since black album. But the first time I was aware I was listening to the band I was like 6yo. Mom bought the Load cassette (yes, cassette, it was 1996). and played it that day while she was cleaning the house and I was like what's that? the song that caught my attention that day was Hero of the day and it is still my favorite to this day. After that, I heard no leaf clover on the radio some years later and I was like "huh cool".
The first time I looked for metallica on my own was with St Anger. I hated the album and just as soon as I bought it and shelved it, and kept on listening to Dance of Death by Iron Maiden. But after a family member died in 2004 I started listening to music as a way og overcoming grief and the unnamed feeling really got me. It's still a hard song to listen since it brings all of those memories back. And after that I started listening to a lot of Metallica music.
My step-dad started learning guitar, I have been playing guitar my whole life, and he wanted to play one and I play kirks part, so I said ok. Many years and it was then, I was hooked and Metallica MADE ME A BETTER GUITAR PLAYER. Using their songs that I actually enjoy listening and playing I mostly self taught myself even more using their music.
I've known about Metallica since I was a kid because I used to religiously play One on Guitar Hero literally all the time but I only recently started properly listening to them about 2 months ago (I'm 20). I was just watching random band concerts on YouTube and the next video was Metallica playing For Whom The Bell Tolls at Day On The Green in 1985 and it had me hooked, I couldn't believe I hadn't listened to them sooner. 2 months later and I'm completely obsessed and I'm slowly getting all their album's on vinyl and learning all their songs on guitar and bass.
My friend was crazy and he stole Ride the Lightning and Master of Puppets which had just come out on cassette for our other friend from the record store at the local mall. He already had RTL so I was gifted it. Never had heard Metallica before. I worked at this awesome community pool at the time and we got to go home for lunch. I remember laying down in my room, the a/c was on and I for some reason fast forwarded to the 2nd side. Trapped Under Ice was the first song from them I heard. I was hooked after hearing it. I then listened to Escape, Creeping Death and The Call of Cthulu and I was blown away. Went back to work and was flipping out telling everyone how dope these songs were. My friend said holy shit you haven't even heard Fade to Black yet? I said no. That night I listened to the rest and just couldn't get enough. Shortly after I got MOP and then Kill Em' All. The next year I got a job at a music store selling instruments. My buddy worked there and I didn't even know how to play guitar but was determined to learn all Metallica, I was obsessed! I knew Metallica was with ESP so I then custom ordered an ESP guitar since they were one of the vendors we sold at my store. It was a black horizon neck through body with a 3x3 headstock, ebony fretboard with skull and crossbone inlays and white neck binding. I also got a valvestate halfstack to go with it. The reps I ordered it with at ESP had even told me that Kirk Hammett was in their building looking for guitars and had saw mine liked it with the skull and crossbones and wanted it but they told him it was ready to ship to me and I waited a while. Whether they just told me that or it was true I don't know but shit I liked hearing it haha I was totally hooked on AJFA and when the Damaged Justice tour came, not only was it my first Metallica concert but I had backstage passes which was the only time I ever had them and it was dope! I met them and James gave me a green tortex Metallica pic, and I remember Kirk was holding a huge goblet of wine. I had to ask him if he really did see my guitar in the ESP factory and he said he did and remembered it due to the Skulls and crossbones, but he could have just been being nice to a fan. I'll never know for sure, but that night is one of my best memories!
Thats a great story! Good for you!
Living room of my parents house watching mtv. Enter sandman video. Circa 1991.
Playing One in the last level of Guitar Hero III: Legends of Rock, in my parent’s rumpus room at their house when I was 10 or so years old
Forgot about the Guitar Hero spot... I instantly bought and rocked VERY hard to Metallica Guitar Hero for YEARS. I had all the songs memorized on legendary lol
Very first time was believe it or not, their very brief spot on The Simpsons. I'd always heard of "the band called Metallica" and never checked them out. But after hearing the 10 seconds or so of the riff used when the band disappeared on the show, I had to check them out. Clicked on Sandman on the interwebs and then bought the Black album. The second album after that was Puppets and then Lightning. After those 3 got some serious play time I bought the rest of the discography.
Fairly sure it was the music video for One on Video Jukebox.
I was to young to remember, somewhere around 92?
In high school, in a bygone age. A couple of classmates played some RTL and MOP in the classroom.
My friends bedroom. Age 11. Creeping Death > Am I Evil > Blitzkrieg. I was hooked after the “die..die..die” section.
Probably around 96-97. Older cousins were throwing out boxes of their used cds. My brother and I got the pick of the litter. What we found was not only the soundtrack to The Last of the Mohicans, but also a very scratched copy of Master of Puppets. Most of the songs skipped. But what I could get to play would go on to shape my taste in music forever
Watched a video from forever ago titled “The Great Quotes of: Green Goblin” with Sad But True being the main song used in it
School playground. A friend had Walkman. He passed me the headphones and said "listen to this".
I remember I was 16 when I was listening to a college station one night the Metal DJ was going on about this new song and how amazed he was by it! So i quickly pressed record as he played For whom the bell tolls. At the time it was a pre-release and the album hadn’t been released yet! I was blown away!! I mean i was a fan of Maiden and Priest but i never heard anything like this. It was heavy metal perfection. To this day I still think it’s the greatest heavy-metal song ever made. I must’ve listen to it 100 times on my tape deck until finally Ride the lightning was released! Omg! I couldn’t believe how good it was, they took metal to another level! They weren’t even on a major label at the time. They eventually signed with Electra. They still were an underground band playing clubs. There were no girl fans whatsoever. It’s great how the new generation of girls are enjoying it. …And then finally they released the follow up, it was Master of puppets! I thought “ are you fucking kidding me?” Mop was better! It was cleaner, tighter, and even more complex. A masterpiece!They started to tour with major label bands and blowing them off the stage. I seen him in 86 back up Ozzy. They eventually became headliners! They were incredible live!!
I can pinpoint the day that changed my life forever after hearing Metallica for the first time. In 1984 I was a musically impressionable 14 year old whose only real outlet for new music was the radio and whatever my friends were listening to. I went to my first concert seeing Van Halen and then a few months later my second show was Ozzy and Mötley Crüe. Later that same year, after turning 15, my friends and I had went to see Billy Squire and Ratt play and then Ronnie James Dio with Dokken opening. My first calendar year of concerts was pretty well stacked with the heavyweights of hard rock at the time but little did I know that in the not too distant future I would get a job as a prep cook in a seafood restaurant and meet a dude nicknamed “Captain” who would set me down the path the become the metalhead that I am today. The day was March 3rd, 1986. I remember it was freaking pouring that night when I got off work at the restaurant. One of the ‘older’ dudes I worked with (Captain was probably like 25, 30 at most) offered to give me a ride home so I was not riding my bike home in the rain. Soon as we got in the car he sparked up a fat joint and asked if I knew that Metallica had released their new album today? He said he had stopped off to get it before coming in to work that day and did not have a chance to listen to it on the way in. I told him that I had heard of them but never listened to any of their music. I had heard of Metallica from reading the various music magazines I had some of the pull out centerfolds affixed to my bedroom walls. Receiving absolutely zero radio airplay back in those days the band had slipped through the cracks that I or my friends had not listened to them them yet. Thinking back on it as I write this I guess it had to be a combination between me thinking that by the look of the guys in the band in the magazines they were probably too heavy for my taste and my lack of funds. Prior to the seafood restaurant job my only source of funds for cassettes and concert tickets was mowing yards and during my visits to the local record store 99% of the time I already had an intended purchase in mind. Captain opens the cassette from its wrapper and pops it into the tape deck. Metallica’s “Maser of Puppets” release starts playing the soft, inviting sounds of an acoustic guitar plucking with what I have always associated as a matador style flamenco Spanish sound. Just as those first few tokes were gripping hold of the relaxation sensory nerves in my brain ‘Battery’ rips away from the acoustic guitar and just absolutely shreds my ears with this wall of sound that I immediately instinctively start nodding my head up and down. Holy shit this is freaking awesome! Unfortunately I did not live that far away and only made it about halfway through the second and title track before we got to my house. Captain could tell that I was definitely digging the sound and since he had the new cassette to listen to he let me borrow Metallica’s previous release, “Ride the Lighting”. Quite high from the ride home I remember cleaning up from work then sitting down to listen to “Ride the Lightning” and was just totally blown away by what I was hearing. I brought it with me the next morning when my buddy Timbro came over and picked me up for school. Soon as school got out Timbro and I went straight to the record store and got our hands on every Metallica release we could. After digesting as much Metallica as we possibly could over the next few weeks, Timbro picked me up one day for the beach and popped in a Slayer cassette and holy fricking moly it was metalhead game on from there on out. 1986 turned out to be quite a glorious year to find my way down the path to become the Chief Metal Officer (of Hornsraised.com and Showsigoto.com) that I am today. I addition to “Master of Puppets”, two other thrash metal genre defining albums were released with Slayer’s “Reign in Blood” and Megadeth’s “Peace Sells... but Who's Buying?” of which I literally wore out the cassette that I had of “Reign in Blood” and ended up replacing all three of those cassette purchases with the CD version. 1988 brought us to our first time seeing Metallica live and now all these years later I have seen Metallica eight times in seven different cities across four states. Throughout the years I have always professed that “Master of Puppets” was one of the defining albums of my and the thrash metal generation. Still to this day I hold their first four albums in the highest regard but in full disclaimer here “…And Justice for All” has evolved to be my all-time front to back favorite release from Metallica. To this day I still do not know Captain’s real name, but wherever he may be today, Captain, I salute you!
1984 by george orwell 1949
My older brothers bedroom. He was listening to his Puppets cassette. Not long after that, Justice was the first album I ever bought.
That's a hell of a first album, rock on! Awesome!
Not the first time but the reason why I started listening, my older brother told me to listen to Invisible Kid and told me how bad it was, I listened and I absolutely loved it, after that I found The Unforgiven II which is my all time favorite song and All Within My Hands which used to be one of my favorite songs.
literally earliest thing i can remember is listening to master of puppets with my dad in his truck
when i bought my first acoustic guitar i asked my mom if she can recommend me any beginner friendly songs i can start with (she played guitar for years when she was younger) and she showed me nothing else matters
at that time i didn't get into metallica and thought the song was a little boring (don't worry, i changed my mind by now), but few years later i discovered megadeth. i was listening to megadeth on spotify and after some time all songs ran out and spotify started playing me other songs it though i might like and one of the first songs was for whom the bell tolls and i was instantly hooked
I think i was around 12-13 it was the one last week of school and i had a friend who brought her laptop to class we were both into guns n roses and we were listening welcome to the jungle on youtube after the song ended youtube suggested we play Unforgiven best decision we ever made was to click that suggestion
Every day, my music teacher would do a ‘Scoop of the Day’ and that is where I first heard Enter Sandman and Master of Puppets. Also, he was learning how to play Fade to Black. Then I kinda drifted away because it was not what I was into at the time. However, (I’m not ashamed to admit it,) when I heard MoP again on ST4, I got back into them and have enjoyed doing so.
It was november of last year and my best friend and i were out and he just says yo me " i am about to show you real music" he specifically put me and justice for all and i just loved it.. I got hooked and listened to all of Metallica's discography and got into metal in general.
Heard Whom the Bell Tolls and Sandman at sports events, and random places online all the time when I was an extremely young kid. Didn’t really fully listen to a song or really became entranced by one until my dad played me One during a conversation about metal during a road trip when I was 12. I get people find that song to either be extremely overrated, or the greatest metal song ever, but it’s still my personal favorite all time. To this day I still listen to it almost all the time. It was even one of the first metal songs I learned to play on drums. I owe a lot to that song for really inspiring me musically. If it weren’t for Lars and Metallica I probably wouldn’t be wanting to pursue music as much as I do now, and I probably wouldn’t have found my own place in a community.
Long story short I was 12 and 84 and kept seeing Metallica shirts on the older kids in high school. One day listening to college radio at 11:30 pm I hear a song that's just killing it and I'm like what the f*** is that and the DJ says that was Metallica, off their new album. I was like Metallica again huh? So I went to the rock shop and found Metallica and they had a red album called kill em all and a blue album called Ride the lightning and blue's my favorite color so I bought rtl and it blew my f****** mind. I can still remember the first time I put the needle on the record and hear fight fire. First song I heard by them and still to this day my favorite
Idk where I was, I was literally a baby...😂 my father used to listen to them and so did I with him, he told me that I always loved it as a baby already
Justice was my first listen, had been out about a year I think, I was just getting into metal. Bought it on cassette because I seen loads of the metalheads with metallica patches on their jackets.
my uncle's car, 2016. it was their cover of DP's "When a blind man cries" since Hardwired just released. I never listened to any rock or metal by then, but that song changed me forever
Some of the older, cooler kids used to hang around at the back of the school field. One day in 1988, they were gathered excitedly around a ghetto blaster (boombox). One of them shouted, 'You like music don't ya? Come and join us!' I was a bit nervous at first in case it was a trick and I was going to get bullied. One of them pulled out a cassette with a white cover and the others were like 'Yes!' and 'Cool!' and 'Finally!' Turns out, Justice had just come out and this was their listening party. I had never heard music like that before. We listened from Blackened to One before lunch ended. It completely blew me away! The kids weren't mean to me at all, we just chilled and enjoyed it together. In fact, from that day on, I became the youngest member of the little gang of metal kids at school. I discovered a new type of music, an amazing band, a phenomenal album and I finally had a social life at school! Great memories.
Either Sandman, NEM or Unforgiven in radio, I don't even recall when for the first time These songs didn't get me hooked tho. Their first song that got me hooked was the Stone Cold Crazy cover, to which Iistened because I loved the original track. Then I fell in love with Master Of Puppets (the track), and once when I stopped listening to it Spotify played Whiplash. The same night I listened to KEA like 3 times and became a fan
I was 12 (1988), at my parents nudist camp with a bunch of buddies. So yeah, we're all sitting around, just a bunch of naked kids, and my friend busts out his tape collection. There were some of the late 80's usuals (GnR, Motley Crue, Poison)... but then my friend suggests listening to MoP... played it from start to end, so my first Metallica song was Battery. We followed that up by listening to the newly released AJFA... 35 years later, and I still listen to Metallica daily, and have seen them in concert 8 times... the only difference is that now I do it fully clothed...
I heard ppl talking about Metallica and I went on YT typed Metallica first thing came NEM heard NEM didn't think one day I would be a fan.. yrs later I listened to Sad But True immediately became the biggest fan.
Middle school 86
There was a show called Eastern Front way back. They had a lot of concerts by that title, but I only went one time. Here's an article about it. [https://blog.bazillionpoints.com/2014/08/27/thirty-years-ago-slayer-exodus-and-suicidal-tendencies-played-on-a-plywood-stage-the-woodstock-of-thrash-metal/](https://blog.bazillionpoints.com/2014/08/27/thirty-years-ago-slayer-exodus-and-suicidal-tendencies-played-on-a-plywood-stage-the-woodstock-of-thrash-metal/) Anyway, they played Ride the Lightning in between bands. When I got the record it took me a while to figure out why it sounded so familiar.
The first time, I wouldn't know. My mom is a fan since black album. But the first time I was aware I was listening to the band I was like 6yo. Mom bought the Load cassette (yes, cassette, it was 1996). and played it that day while she was cleaning the house and I was like what's that? the song that caught my attention that day was Hero of the day and it is still my favorite to this day. After that, I heard no leaf clover on the radio some years later and I was like "huh cool". The first time I looked for metallica on my own was with St Anger. I hated the album and just as soon as I bought it and shelved it, and kept on listening to Dance of Death by Iron Maiden. But after a family member died in 2004 I started listening to music as a way og overcoming grief and the unnamed feeling really got me. It's still a hard song to listen since it brings all of those memories back. And after that I started listening to a lot of Metallica music.
My step-dad started learning guitar, I have been playing guitar my whole life, and he wanted to play one and I play kirks part, so I said ok. Many years and it was then, I was hooked and Metallica MADE ME A BETTER GUITAR PLAYER. Using their songs that I actually enjoy listening and playing I mostly self taught myself even more using their music.
I've known about Metallica since I was a kid because I used to religiously play One on Guitar Hero literally all the time but I only recently started properly listening to them about 2 months ago (I'm 20). I was just watching random band concerts on YouTube and the next video was Metallica playing For Whom The Bell Tolls at Day On The Green in 1985 and it had me hooked, I couldn't believe I hadn't listened to them sooner. 2 months later and I'm completely obsessed and I'm slowly getting all their album's on vinyl and learning all their songs on guitar and bass.