Who started your love of METAL?

Well, Impediment pretty much set the standard for his own thread by stating 5 metal bands albums. If this were Df's thread, then I'd understand.

Thank you. When I say METAL, I mean everything from Iron Maiden, Metallica, Judas Priest, Slayer and Ozzy to Cannibal Corpse, Deicide, Pantera, Clutch, and even Slipknot, for the younger fans (not that I dont like slipknot). If you like bands like Oasis, Offspring, and all that, its certainly your perogative. but I hardly think those are basis for loving METAL music. but then again I, myself, was heavily influenced by the Ramones, Sex Pistols and the Misfits.

But the title asks, "Who started your love of METAL?". Odd as it may seem, I used to like Linkin Park, and from there I started listening to heavier (and not as heavy but still better) music. I can't stand them now, but they were the first band in the "progression" that got me interested in metal.

Though if we're only allowed to list metal bands... These were the first few:
SOAD
Korn
RATM
In Flames

my first metal band were pantera-vulgar display of power is still my fav album of all time
then it went on to more gothic stuff(my dying bride,tiamat,nightwish) but im still a massive fan of thrash/death/black/pure heavy metal.I LOVE IT!

Limp Bizkit - Take A Look Around, yes i may get some grief for it but we all gotta start somewhere.

Originally posted by Darth Revan

Though if we're only allowed to list metal bands... These were the first few:
SOAD
Korn
RATM
In Flames

Well, no. You may list any band you want to. But I would think that if you love today's METAL music, then an earlier metal band or a classic rock group would have influenced you to like the music you listen to now. I mean, I grew up listening to my dad's music like The Doors, Eagles, Grateful Dead, Skynyrd, Hendrix, Floyd, C.C.R., etc, etc. But when I was 12 years old and still clueless as to what music moved me the most, the bands that made me realize that I LOVE metal are Pantera, Type O, Sepultura, Fear Factory, Ramones, Misfits, etc etc. If you have an earlier influence who is not neccessarily metal, by all means tell us. I would love to hear it. 😉

i first started listening to rap and stuff back when i was young lol . but then my cousin was playing Korns first CD and since then i been hooked ( not to korn )

It may seem a bit gross but seeing James Hetfield with a bit of spit hanging from his chin did it for me. Real passion from a real musician, passionate about his art.

It all started off with black sabbath, believe or not when i was about 3!

then when i was a young teenager, maybe 15, i started getting proporly into music, and thats when i first discovered Korn. From there on i discovered all my favourites, like metallica, slayer, dream theater, iron maiden, pantera, all that stuff.

so my overview, Black sabbath was the original band that got me into metal age 3, and Korn was who opened my eyes to music age 15

Originally posted by Impediment
Well, no. You may list any band you want to. But I would think that if you love today's METAL music, then an earlier metal band or a classic rock group would have influenced you to like the music you listen to now. I mean, I grew up listening to my dad's music like The Doors, Eagles, Grateful Dead, Skynyrd, Hendrix, Floyd, C.C.R., etc, etc. But when I was 12 years old and still clueless as to what music moved me the most, the bands that made me realize that I LOVE metal are Pantera, Type O, Sepultura, Fear Factory, Ramones, Misfits, etc etc. If you have an earlier influence who is not neccessarily metal, by all means tell us. I would love to hear it. 😉

Well no, I sorta went backwards, like I already said, I started with crappy modern pop-rock stuff like LP and blink. Then, I bought SOAD's "Toxicity" and pretty soon after that "Issues" by Korn... 😄

I listened to it moderately but it wasn't until I saw a concert headlined by Godsmack that I started liking hard rock/metal over alternative rock.

I think it was Simple Plan "me Against the World" that made me love metal 😛

ha I'm just kidding

Bump.

I was very nostalgic and I decided to add another musician to my list of metal inspirations:

Ozzy. I just listened to the live album, Tribute, and I remember listening to this when I was about 10 or 11. It made me an instant Ozzy fan.

The band that probably got me into metal was Deep Purple's "Deep Purple In Rock" and "Machine Head". They are obviously highly influential in creating it and I started looking at the bands they influenced because I liked the stylings. So I pretty much followed the history of metal, first NWOBHM with Iron Maiden's "Number of the Beast" being the first truly metal album I dug. Then I went into the next progression, which was speed metal where I started to dig Cacophony and Helloween. That took me down three roads:
1) Cacophony into thrash with Metallica, then into harder thrash like Slayer and Kreator which led to my liking of some death metal (though very selective), especially Hypocrisy.

2) Cacophony's technicality is what pushed me into progressive metal, where Queensryche's "Operation Mindcrime" probably being the first metal album I truly loved and really made me focus more on metal. This led to Dream Theater, Porcupine Tree, Spiral Architect and the like.

3) Helloween's "Walls of Jericho" brought my liking of power metal with bands like Blind Guardian and Symphony X.

My five favourite metal albums with my traditional feelings in mind are probably in no order:

Anacrusis - Screams and Whispers
Megadeth - Rust in Peace
Metallica - Ride the Lightning
Cacophony - Speed Metal Symphony
Spiral Architect - Sceptic's Universe

I never digged Metal 2 B honest.

White Zombie - La Sexorcisto: Devil Music, Vol. 1
Rob Zombie - Hellbilly Deluxe
System of A Down - Toxicity
PanzerChrist - Soul Collector
Slayer - God Hates Us All and Reign in Blood

As a kid, my Dad and I always listened to White Zombie, as far as I remember, it was a band I loved. And when they split, I think I liked Rob Zombie even more.

In middle school, I really liked System of A Down's Toxicity, I think I borrowed that from my dad without asking.

Then PanzerChrist and Slayer were the two bands that got me into the harder stuff. My dad gave me two CDs when I was in 7th grade I believe, God Hates Us All and Soul Collector. I hated both at first, but then I grew to love them just a year after.

There were only two bands responsible for starting my interest in metal....,Metallica and black sabbath

Sabbath-We sold our soul for rock and roll
Metallica-Puppets

Zombies song, more hume than human deserves a little credit too

I stick by my original answer, but of late (as in the last couple of years), Opeth, Norma Jean, Meshuggah and Willhaven have been almost entirely responsible for my rekindled love of it.

Don't love metal.

Really have to think about this one.
First time I really encountered metal was when I was about 12 years old. I was at one of my friend's houses. The guy was into hiphop but he owned some 'The best of Iron Maiden' CD. I liked it more than any of the cd's he owned. So he gave it to me, because he never listened to it anyway.