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On February 28, 2015 at 2:20 AM, jtb_brah said:

Hey guys, this is my first post here, but I've been lurking for a while now. Never posted before cause I never really had anything to say honestly. Metal hasn't always been my cup of tea, but since I started playing guitar around 7 or so months ago, my taste has gotten increasingly heavier. Before I played guitar, I had a friend that was what most people would consider a metalhead. He liked Metallica especially, but a little of all the the Big Four. He turned me onto metal, and Metallica has been one of my favorite bands ever since. I have a pretty eclectic music taste, but I still just could not get into the heavy stuff. For the past few months I have listened to basically nothing but Metallica and Slayer. I really liked it (more so than before), even though I used to hate Slayer. I kept searching, found this forum, and in doing so found some pretty heavy stuff, at least by my standards. I listened to some Amon Amarth, and that was it. The growling doesn't bother me any more, and I can start to hear some subtlety in the music. Hell, I even like a few Anaal Nathrakh songs, and they used to make my ears bleed. Looking for more songs and genres now, although from what I've heard I think I favor death/melodic death over black, doom, etc. I'm still open to anything though. Since a lot of you guys are veteran metalheads, try to think of some of the songs that turned you onto metal, if you don't mind. Almost forgot, Feel free to share your metal breakthrough. If (like most people) you didn't always like the hard stuff, what got you into it? What was some of the gateway music you listened to?

Since it's been more than a year now you might have heard these guys by now but if you haven't here are my favorite bands from my favorite genres,

black metal: dimmu borgir, dragonlord

thrash metal: havok, megadeth, testament, exodus, kreator, sepultura

death/tech death: Morbid angel, death, revocation, Amon Amarth, act of defiance

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I got my first metal album from my brother. It's Metallica's "...And Justice For All" on CD.  I was maybe 7, and I had just gotten a CD player. It was so exciting. I listened to it over and over again. 

As for the first metal album that I bought on my own, it was actually two CDS that I had bought at the same time-- Morbid Angel's "Altars of Madness" and Cannibal Corpse's "Butchered At Birth". Thus began my love affair with death metal :)

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8 hours ago, salmonellapancake said:

I got my first metal album from my brother. It's Metallica's "...And Justice For All" on CD.  I was maybe 7, and I had just gotten a CD player. It was so exciting. I listened to it over and over again. 

As for the first metal album that I bought on my own, it was actually two CDS that I had bought at the same time-- Morbid Angel's "Altars of Madness" and Cannibal Corpse's "Butchered At Birth". Thus began my love affair with death metal :)

Fuckin A!  What a great trio to start with!

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Mine was Saxon "Power And The Glory" which i borrowed from my cousin (all of his collection i took for about 3 months) - was fucking entranced by that record sleeve and the big bold band logo and colours.  First record I ever bought was Obituary "Slowly We Rot" - spent even longer looking at that artwork.

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Mine was Rust in Peace by Megadeth. I was just a kid when I bought it. I had a crush on the drummer in my brother's band and he always wore Megadeth t-shirts so I was trying to impress him. But I actually liked it and my love of metal grew from there.

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Mine was Rust in Peace by Megadeth. I was just a kid when I bought it. I had a crush on the drummer in my brother's band and he always wore Megadeth t-shirts so I was trying to impress him. But I actually liked it and my love of metal grew from there. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Did your efforts to impress him work?

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Nope : ( I guess he just saw me as the weird awkward little sister of a band member

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Mine was Rust in Peace by Megadeth. I was just a kid when I bought it. I had a crush on the drummer in my brother's band and he always wore Megadeth t-shirts so I was trying to impress him. But I actually liked it and my love of metal grew from there. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

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Nope : ( I guess he just saw me as the weird awkward little sister of a band member

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I would have loved to have a girl try to impress me like that, but most of the girls I went to school with were Mormon, so that was never going to happen.

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Mine was Rust in Peace by Megadeth. I was just a kid when I bought it. I had a crush on the drummer in my brother's band and he always wore Megadeth t-shirts so I was trying to impress him. But I actually liked it and my love of metal grew from there. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Did your efforts to impress him work?Sent from my HTC6535LVW using Tapatalk

Nope : ( I guess he just saw me as the weird awkward little sister of a band member Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

I would have loved to have a girl try to impress me like that, but most of the girls I went to school with were Mormon, so that was never going to happen.

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Try going to an 'all boy' school until you were 18.......

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Mine was Rust in Peace by Megadeth. I was just a kid when I bought it. I had a crush on the drummer in my brother's band and he always wore Megadeth t-shirts so I was trying to impress him. But I actually liked it and my love of metal grew from there. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Did your efforts to impress him work?Sent from my HTC6535LVW using Tapatalk

Nope : ( I guess he just saw me as the weird awkward little sister of a band member Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

I would have loved to have a girl try to impress me like that, but most of the girls I went to school with were Mormon, so that was never going to happen.Sent from my HTC6535LVW using Tapatalk

Try going to an 'all boy' school until you were 18.......

Did they try to "impress" you? Lol.

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On topic, I clearly remember that the first tape I bought with my "own" (allowance) money was GNR's "Appetite For Destruction", although I had one or two things including "RTL" given to me before that. Things moved pretty quickly, though, I was dubbing as many tapes as I could from friends, and once I started doing summer jobs, I bought a stereo and all the metal I could find.

Then I made a mistake: I sold a lot of albums when my tastes moved on to other styles. I wish I still had a lot of that, mostly early 90s DM. 

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