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when were you turned on to metal?
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| ODIN User Info... | It's late and I'm bored so I thought I'd start a thread. What year and what grade were you in when you first got into metal? Do you remember what album or song that sparked your first head bang or raise the horns? I remember I'd been listening to metallica and megadeth for about a year. It was gr. 10 and I was at long and mcquade, when someone told me about in flames. They suggested CLAYMAN and COLONY. Since then its been all up hill and I've gone from thrash to melodic death to death to grind and back. From local teen sensations mitochondrion to necrophagist,cryptopsy and deeds of flesh. Now it's your turn to share with the class :) Brag and confess asshole! - Fri, 1 Apr 2005 2:01am | ||
| Nik Olaz User Info... | i was jerking off one day and i ejaculated the word "BLASTBEATS" on a mirror. and so i started listening to metal. i can tell you how the rest of Mitochondrion decided to play metal too. shawn isnt a real person so we'll skip him. i forced nick to play metal, before he just sat in his basement staring at a wall for the first 15 years of his life. and jesse we found in a puddle of dog blood outside of the blue pearl in langford with a stryper shirt on. - Fri, 1 Apr 2005 2:14am | ||
| Mutilashawn User Info... | yeah I'm actually just a Hologram like that dude from Red Dwarf. I mystically appeared one day and am impervious to all blastments. Nik is a cat that has evolved into a man over time. However, I believe it was in my 14th year that a horrid genre called nu-metal invaded my and my only carbon-based life form friend Mr. Olaz's lives. Then Cannibal Corpse/Napalm Death/Morbid Angel came along and obliterated the weakness of the likes of Korn/Slipknot/Mudvayne. Then we met up with a cyborg also named Nick and some man named Jesse, and had crazy adventures throughout the galaxy. - Fri, 1 Apr 2005 9:39am | ||
| ML7Mike User Info... | in 1983 a friend of mine traded me Number of The Beast and a Helix album for some shitty cassettes I had that he wanted. he didnt like his metal tapes. From there I spent the next two years discovering Sabbath, Priest etc. Then in 1985 Jake (of Remanes) moved to the sticks where we lived (Cobble Hell) and brought with him his 'big city' metal records (and tapes) which consisted of such greatness as Bathorys s/t (my instant favorite) all of Razors albums, Exciter, Megadeth, Destruction, Kreator, Metallica, Slayer, Venom etc all the early 80's metal albums. He also brought a shitty guitar which he still uses till this day ( actually its not shitty :D )and taught me how to play Smoke on The Water so I would stay outside while he got it on with some farmer girl he was hot for. - Fri, 1 Apr 2005 11:50am | ||
| Nik Olaz User Info... | mutilashawn is a fucking LIAR it happened the way i said it. and his name is ARNOLD J. RIMMER. - Fri, 1 Apr 2005 4:53pm | ||
| jay brown User Info... | Yes I do, Captor Of sin, by Slayer. I loved Motorhead well before that came out but they dont count everyone loved Motorhead. I am not counting bands like Iron Maiden because I got into them way earlier but it wasnt until Slayer came along that I was willing to give all metal a chance. - Fri, 1 Apr 2005 4:57pm | ||
| ROSS B AY User Info... | 1987. Among The Living. Before that, old Sabbath since the day I was whelped. - Fri, 1 Apr 2005 5:24pm | ||
| Mr. Hell User Info... |  This dude who lived near me {whom Acorn Hell have written MANY songs about} put on Alive! II and from the first intro of that crazy roadie telling the L.A. Forum {and the studio they overdubbed in} that they wanted the best, they got the best...and from the crushing start of Detroit Rock City, and from the picture of Gene drooling blood with an eerie blue tinge to his face I knew that this was THE shit! Some of my earliest after that were Metallica, Megadeth, Anthrax, Slayer, Venom, Motorhead, Darkthrone, Sacrifice, Disciples Of Power, Napalm Death and the list goes on and on. The Power Hour/Power 30 had a big influence over what I discovered back then. - Fri, 1 Apr 2005 6:43pm | ||
| D ROC User Info... | 1989 Sepultura - Beneath The Remains - Schizophrenia Slayer - Reign In Blood that's where it all started - Fri, 1 Apr 2005 7:27pm | ||
| Robnoxious User Info... | The intro to Scorpions "Dark Lady" off the In Trance album with Ulrich Roth and the heavy duty Whammy bar cutting through my neighbours speakers circa 1978 really warped my young mind. I made my own Scorpion patch to wear to Lansdowne school soon after. - Fri, 1 Apr 2005 7:31pm | ||
| deuce User Info... | I was at a party when I was about 13 in London, and I was pretty loaded and I stole "Ride The Lightning" from this house party we were at. I tried learning every song off that album on guitar then moved onto the others (still cant play em properly, but bahhh) I soon got hooked on Megadeth and Slayer. I somehow discovered At The Gates and pretty much fell in love with melodic death metal ala In Flames, Haunted, Opeth. - Fri, 1 Apr 2005 9:43pm | ||
| Anonymous User Info... | I can't remember the day that I was turned on to metal. All I know is, I've hated metal ever since that day. - Fri, 1 Apr 2005 10:41pm | ||
| SickFuk User Info... | I dunno..... probably the first metal I ever got into would be Quiet Riot - Metal Health.... but then again, that was like 1983.... What I'd have to consider my first real metal would be Metallica - Master of Puppets, and to this day I still love that album...And into the evolution of death metal.... Cannibal Corpse - The Bleeding I've got a billion other oldschool influences that people would wanna smack me for... Then again, right now I'm listening to Alice Cooper, who has done every form of music I know of... but enough rambling 'ere - Sat, 2 Apr 2005 1:49am | ||
| Zippgunn User Info... | I was 11. My older "cousin" had bought a copy of an album by some new band from England called Black Sabbath (their 1st). We listened to it REALLY LOUD (his record player was pretty wimpy so we piped it through his buddy's GUITAR AMP). He would pretend to play the guitar solos using a vacuum cleaner hose as a prop. I used to describe the sound of this record as "earthy" whatever that means. Later I discovered Hawkwind (the band that actually coined the term "heavy metal" on the jacket of their "Space Ritual" album and the first band Lemmy was in). The only records I was allowed to play at parties during my high school years were Hawkwind records, especially the song "Orgone Accumulator". When bands like Priest and Maiden showed up I thought they were lame chickenshit and I still do. Motorhead was always more my style, that and punk rock like Black Flag, stuff that really could be scary. Most metal to me is like bad comic books. but there are notable exceptions and I cherish every one of them. - Sat, 2 Apr 2005 1:58am | ||
| Masturbating The War God User Info... | I traded a GOB CD for Carcass' "Wake Up and Smell The Carcass" in grade 8. I'm still laughing at the idiot who I switched with. - Sat, 2 Apr 2005 8:38am | ||
| Cheeky User Info... | I was 11 years old and was painting crows for the local festival and these really hot guys came to help. After the second day they brought their portable cd player with them along with Metallica, Black Sabbath, Motorhead and Rammstein. To this day we are still exchanging cds, etc. - Sat, 2 Apr 2005 11:28am | ||
| Trican User Info... | i was listening to theset and i heard their br00tal song Lv. 46 Charizard... the song just made me want to wear corpse paint from then on... - Sat, 2 Apr 2005 11:37am | ||
| Nat User Info... | when i heard that hardcore mental band SIMPLE PLAN. - Sat, 2 Apr 2005 12:42pm | ||
| Connlinguous User Info... | rod did it for me. - Sat, 2 Apr 2005 2:10pm | ||
| newwaver User Info... |  - the rest of my high school metal brothers in arms - Sat, 2 Apr 2005 2:19pm | ||
| H User Info... | grade 4 motherfuckers. My buddy dusty blasted slayer's skeletons of society. It all went down hill from there... now im a pop rocker. like jesus or stalin - Sat, 2 Apr 2005 2:41pm | ||
| dumpstermesh User Info... | Hmmmmm metal. Having grown up in Langford, I too discovered metal through the power hour/30 (I hated that they cut the power hour for a fukkin grunge show), and I think Metallica started it all for me when I was 14. Sepultura was a fast favorite once I started to really seek out metal. I moved into death metal listening to Carcass, Brutal Truth, and Napalm Death by 17, and later into the darker stuff. - Sun, 3 Apr 2005 3:50am | ||
| wordsaredumb User Info... | my uncles knee. Dr feelgood was playing. - Sun, 3 Apr 2005 7:07pm | ||
| $TIM$ User Info... | When I was 16 or 17 a buddy of mine needed a guitar player for his band. He gave me a Cannibal Corpse album, a Selpultura album and one disc that I still listen too, Entombed - Wolverine Blues. For a guitar player maxxed out on Guns N Roses, this shit was infinitely more fun to play. I had a blast, I learned to play the stuff and ended up playing in his band, covering all these metal tunes, most of which, regretfully, I don't remember. I went through a phase around then where I wore black and grew my hair long and learned every single note from Reign in Blood and South Of Heaven. It was great while it lasted, but shortly after I got kicked out of the band 'cause I wouldn't huff gas with the singer, and another buddy gave me NoFX-Punk In Drublic. I happily joined his band. - Sun, 3 Apr 2005 9:59pm | ||
| wordsaredumb User Info... | let me get this straight.... you passed up huffing gas for Nofx? what were u thinkin? - Wed, 6 Apr 2005 12:56am | ||
| SickFuk User Info... | ahhh the memories..... Me and a couple of old buddies, {Bill from Throne of Ashes being one of them]..... sitting the old apartment, with a 26 of Jack Daniels, a Flat of Canadian and and 1/8th of weed.... and Wolverine Blues cranked up on the stereo Other shit from then was Obituary - The End Complete, and Pantera - Vulgar Display of Power.... waaaaay too many drunked nights with those albums 'ere - Wed, 6 Apr 2005 2:06am | ||
| donkey User Info... | I was taking a shit, and I got thinking, what would be worse then eating this shit. I then found a music that was worse then eating shit, metal. - Wed, 6 Apr 2005 4:50pm | ||
| ODIN User Info... | I'd be offended but looking at your influences makes this post humourous. - Thu, 7 Apr 2005 6:12pm | ||
| XY-SATAN User Info... | I was 9-10 in grade 4 or 5 , that would be Deep Purple- Machinehead, Alice Cooper -Love It To Death ,Black Sabbath- Master of Reality, Alice being my first LP . I should say I hung out with my cousin and his brothers who were listening to these bands and CCR, Mott the hoople, T-rex,Pink, Slade and tons more but everthing was called rock and roll back then. So hearing these bands plus always being into ALL music at a young age ( playing classical guitar and carrying a radio everywhere from at the age of 6 ) it made an impression . I remember bringing my electric axe into school quite often in grade 6 and 7 and playing in the halls stuff like Smoke on the water and CCR shit, pretty basic. - Thu, 7 Apr 2005 7:45pm | ||
| Mutilashawn User Info... | Slade rules, them, the ALMIGHTY Queen, Uriah Heep, and The Sweet are easily my favourite 70's rock bands. - Thu, 7 Apr 2005 9:57pm | ||
| XY-SATAN User Info... | Fucking A ! Where would Quit Riot be without Slade ? I forgot about Sweet & Uriah Heep and I'm a dumb motherfucker I also forgot Zappa ! - Thu, 7 Apr 2005 11:08pm | ||
| Nothingface User Info... | I grew up with a brother 10 yrs older than me and when I was about 5 until I was about 8 or 9 he was listening to alot of Black Sabbath, Rush, Kiss etc....which led me to start buying AC/DC albums,then came Judas Priest and then somebody at school brought Kill Em All and things changed. Next up was Show No Mercy and Hell Awaits and I decided to expand my metal horizons so I took the # 27 Gorden Head into town to Lyle's Place. I met this really cool guy named Jamie and he told me to check out this german thrash metal band named Destruction. At the time they only had their first album out, so I bought the tape, took it home and I guess that was in about 1984 somewhere. Boy did I shit my pants when Infernal Overkill was released. Then I bought some Sacrifice and Exodus and Kreator and Celtic Frost and the list goes on and on. My mom to this day says " I always thought you'd grow out of it...... but now its just a part of your life. " Till Death Mom - Thu, 7 Apr 2005 11:49pm | ||
| _Griphin_ User Info... | I think I've listened to metal since I was 14, but here's a funny story. Me and a bunch of friends one day had "Kill 'em All" cranked in my ghetto blaster (cause it's a cool album). This is in 1986 I believe when they wanted close to $25 for the tapes (which I paid). Heading up to the arcade in Sooke, those apparent metal heads asked us to turn the punk shit off, upon which I told them within 10 years you'll all be listening to Metallica. They laughed and then around 10 years later The Black Album was released, and well the rest is history. BTW: I heard "Cowboys From Hell" over at a friends place on his dad's stereo that was rather loud and that intro riff sent chills down my spine. Oh and Slayer used to scare the heck out of me when I first heard the band, go figure. - Tue, 12 Apr 2005 3:57pm | ||
| Tragedy User Info... | I'm from the Sooke. I took the Renfrew Bus to school. Nuff said. - Tue, 12 Apr 2005 7:58pm | ||
| bringer User Info... | Well I got into metal and old school nu metal in the mid 90's. Then I grew up and got out of it and even music for awhile, but now I'm back cause now I know what metal is really all about. The first real metal I bought was Pantera, Machine Head, Anthrax, Sepultura and Fear Factory. - Wed, 13 Apr 2005 8:47am | ||
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