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Re: what got you listening to metal? My dad was a metalhead, so I have been listening to classic metal ever since I was a child. The bands that I remember the most are Metallica, Pantera, and several other bands that were popular during the 90's. (System of a Down, Stone Temple Pilots, stuff like that.) But mostly old Metallica and Pantera.

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Re: what got you listening to metal? first got into metal when my friend showed me bullet for my valentine and disturbed, i loved their albums and listened to them all the time, then i discovered guitarists like john petrucci and joe satriani, so then i got into instrumental music, from then on i became a talent obsessed musician, listening to things that i have no way in hell of ever achieving or understanding, and i'm so glad for it :L

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Re: what got you listening to metal? My cousin got me into Guns n' Roses and Metallica. It escalated from there with an embarrassing detour of liking nu-metal around 2000-2001. First "real" metal album I bought was Gorefests - False when I was 10 or 11 because I thought the guys looked cool on the cover. Then I listened to it and thought the vocals where crap. Found it 10 years later or so in storage when I was well into DM :)

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Re: what got you listening to metal? I started out with Queen, my parents definetly were not metal heads :roll: Then I got into Dimmu Borgir, Inflames, Iron Maiden and Dia Psalma when I made some nice friends in high school. My first metal gig I headbanged and got pushed into a pool of mud and I was hooked :D

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Re: what got you listening to metal? Metallica, actually. I don't like them much at all now but I heard Enter Sandman on the radio, which convinced me that metal wasn't that bad. I got an emusic card and bought me some Threshold and a lot of HammerFall...and the rest is history. Still haven't actually been to a metal concert yet, though.

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I grew up forced to listen to country music. It just didn't do it for me.........
New Mexico will do that to you. :| Ah well, I'm pleased someone's actively proliferating metal music around the Southwest.
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Re: what got you listening to metal? I first started listening to metal when a head banging beetle climbed into my skull through my ear canal... :D Seriously? My cousin Justin brought over a tape of Metallica's "Kill 'Em All" when I was about 3 and being highly influential, I listened. I don't think I got it at first to be honest...I was 3 for fuck sake...but I kept listening and metal became part of my identity.

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Not from NM transplanted here from California.
That's odd, I wouldn't have expected much country music in California...but then again, I suppose it is historically frontier and gold-mining country so it makes sense.
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Re: what got you listening to metal? I started off listening to mallcore stuff such as Slipknot and Linkin Park before graduating to Cradle of filth, and then thanks to Darklyrics.com, I looked up some band names such as God dethroned, Rotting Christ, Dark tranquillity, Cannibal Corpse, Hecate Enthoned, Deicide, Cannibal corpse and from there I began my descent into more extreme bands. That was near 8 years ago when I was fourteen, and now I feel versed in the music enough to deduce the good bands from the shallower ones.

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Re: what got you listening to metal? Ever since I was a small child, I have had a disturbed mind. At first, I was attracted to the heavy sounds of the guitars and their speed, but what I look for in a song is something that simply can't be achieved. I want a song that will strike fear into the hearts of the most corrupt and hate-filled beings in existence, something that will make Satanist cry and a normal person shit out their eyeballs. There is no set of lyrics, drum pattern, guitar riff, crushing bass rhythms, or solo that can possibly meet my standards, but metal is the closest thing there is.

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