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We're pretty similar then, Judas Priest are my second favourite band, my first being Motörhead, I also love Black Sabbath, although I do really love Iron Maiden so that is something we differ in, my main genres of metal I enjoy are Traditional Heavy, Thrash and Power Metal, I do enjoy other genres (pretty much all except Glam) but I mainly listen to good old Heavy Metal.

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I had my breakthrough this last summer...however when I was 14 I was very ill and spent a lot of time off school stuck in bed. A mate of mine who was a few years older would bring me different Metallica albums and I grew to love them (however I never really got into metal other than them). I then returned to school and because metal was not seen as 'cool' I didn't listen to it preferring indie and rock and roll. Fast forward 10 years and I was off work with a torn ankle ligament laid up on the couch, I randomly read a review of the new Mastodon album so searched them on Spotify and ended up listening to Leviathan. It totally blew my mind and since them I have been vivaciously listening to any type of metal I can. It has really been a crash course over the last 9-10 months and it lately seems that all I listen to is various branches of the metal tree. My current favourites would be Iron Maiden, Black Sabbath, Opeth, Lamb of God, Amon Amarth, At the Gates, In Flames, Machinehead and Insomnium. However everyday I seem to find a new band or a new type of metal that I like. I WISH I had done this years ago...however your never too old to jump in with both feet!

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Growing up in the 70s and 80s I liked Sabbath,Priest,Maiden and Motorhead among others but I think my real breakthrough came much later when I went to the Milwaukee Metalfest around 2000. I never really got into harsh vocals until I saw it live and I've never looked back. It flipped a switch for me and opened a whole world of music exploration. I saw Nasum, Macabre, Einherjer, Amon Amarth and tons of other bands that weekend. It really has been a journey since then. I'll be 50 this year and my listening habits only seem to be getting heavier. Saw Enslaved a few weeks ago and going to see Bolt Thrower in June. Metal is my life

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Growing up in the 70s and 80s I liked Sabbath' date='Priest,Maiden and Motorhead among others but I think my real breakthrough came much later when I went to the Milwaukee Metalfest around 2000. I never really got into harsh vocals until I saw it live and I've never looked back. It flipped a switch for me and opened a whole world of music exploration. I saw Nasum, Macabre, Einherjer, Amon Amarth and tons of other bands that weekend. It really has been a journey since then. I'll be 50 this year and my listening habits only seem to be getting heavier. Saw Enslaved a few weeks ago and going to see Bolt Thrower in June. Metal is my life[/quote'] Right on dude, cool story.
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I think I was twelve, the last grade of primary school. I had a crush on someone much older and he started sending me music from Cradle of Filth and Dimmu Borgir. I hated it, but I really wanted to impress him so I listened to it 24/7 and pretended to like it. From there I found bands I actually liked. I think one of the first albums was Sirenia or maybe Tristania. I often listened to bands like My Dying Bride and Opeth too, but now I only listen to them when I feel gloomy. I try to keep to the "happier" bands now, although that must be a terrible thing to say on a metal forum :D 

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To each their own. The cool thing about metal is there's so much variety it allows for radical differences in tastes. You go more for bands like Tristania and Nightwish (IIRC), I tend to favour bands like Mournful Congregation and Ahab, H34VYM3T4LD4V3 (who you've not yet met) prefers Motorhead and Judas Priest.

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Back in 1998 I was 15/16 and into Britpop (Oasis, Blur), Nirvana, The Offspring etc. Then I picked up Total Guitar magazine and they had a track on the cover-mount CD by a British rap-metal band called One Minute Silence. That was it. I had literally heard nothing like it before, massive funky bass, razor sharp guitars and killer drums topped off by the vocalist's trademark Irish brogue spitting out these extremely politicised lyrics (OMS were likened to a British RATM for those of you who haven't heard of them), I was instantly hooked.

 

From there it was a continuation into the popular nu-metal of the day, Fear Factory, Korn, System of a Down, Deftones, then heavier stuff; Will Haven, Iron Monkey, Raging Speedhorn, then Decapitated, Mayhem and At the Gates. My journey has been a continuing evolution alongside metal, post-metal, more sludge, a shed-load of grind, a brief and mostly regrettable dalliance with deathcore and a huge, huge appreciation for mathcore/early metalcore bands like Converge, Botch, Coalesce and Cave-In.

 

I will listen to anything with a bit of edge, a bit of bite. I loathe boring, anodyne music of any genre, but One Minute Silence's "Stuck Between a Rock and a White Face" kickstarted me into the world of metal and for that I will always be grateful.

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It's interesting that my first footsteps down the extreme metal path were followed by a hasty retreat (mostly because my gf at the time was scared shitless by bands like Cradle Of Filth, Dimmu Borgir, and Cannibal Corpse). I stayed away for years before joining this place and giving that side of metal another chance. I'm hooked on it now. Don't have much time for math metal bands like Dillinger Escape Plan though. Also haven't done much exploring into the worthwhile side of metalcore. As I've said many times my breakthrough was back in 2002 when my cousin showed me Pantera.

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