Your First Metal Band

[omentremor]

Hey
Title says it all really. First metal band I really got into was Opeth. Still probably my favourite they are just such an awesome band. Also inspired my guitaring a lot.

 

[Mr. S]

mine was Korn waaaaaay back in the day

i know people bitch about them loads but they were my gateway into the world of heavy metal i still enjoy listening to them to this day even with all the more technical and heavier stuff i listen to these days

 

[Metal Ken]

Black Motherfucking Sabbath.

 

[Alpo]

Iron Maiden

 

[distressed_romeo]

Iron Maiden

 

[Ancestor]

Sabbath, I guess. Paranoid to me is more hard rock, but that was my first album ever.

 

[Blexican]

Megadeth. Countdown to Extinction used to be my dad's favorite record to blast in the car when I was a young'un, and Sweatin' Bullets is still one of my favorite songs ever.

 

[Jarrett]

Iron Maiden

 

[Karl Hungus]

Metallica. When I was 8. Used to stay up and watch Beavis & Butthead, and it all went downhill from there.

 

[XEN]

Deep Purple - not metal by today's standards, but back then... YEAH!

Then it was Iron Maiden.

 

[Korbain]

Korn! for fucking sure. Even though i ain't a bad ass if i say i got into metal by korn. lol. If i wanted to be really fussy i could say first real rock/metal band i got into was easily nirvana, but then they're in their own sorta thing. So i'll stick with korn!

 

[metalfiend666]

Pantera, specifically The Great Southern Trendkill album

 

[JJ Rodriguez]

When I was a young kid (like 6-7) my uncle bought me an Iron Maiden tape. It was ok then, but I didn't have too much interest in music until I was 15 or so, when I heard Cannibal Corpse - Stripped, Raped, and Strangled. I was/am very morbid and the lyrical content gave me a hard on, so I had to have more, it was all down hill from there. Funnily enough, heavier music was my gateway into lighter stuff. After listening to death metal, I progressed into black metal, and after awhile I got into Slayer and other thrash and power metal bands. I think I still prefer black/death metal, but stuff like Blind Guardian is cool once in awhile, I'm really picky with my power metal and I hate real singing, but the guitars are way too good to pass up in BG.

 

[Sebastian]

First metal band.. its still my favourite - FEAR FACTORY.... the first song i heard it was Shock!!!!! ...

Yes....

 

[Alpo]

I hate real singing

 

[The Dark Wolf]

Man, some of you are so YOUNG!

For me, the first metal band I ever liked, as far as a song went, was Quiet Riot, back in 1983, with Bang Your Head (Metal Health). I was 9.

After that, the first band I really got into was Guns N' Roses in '87. I listened to stuff here and there before that, especially Def Leppard's 'Pyromania' album, but like most kids, I didn't really get into metal until my teen years. Right after that, my foster brother introduced me to Metallica, specifically 'MoP' and RtL'. I was a soid fan of metal in general, and Metallica in particular, when 'AJFA' ame out.

 

[JJ Rodriguez]

It's a personal preference, can't argue taste.

 

[omentremor]

wait I forgot. Although Opeth was the main one my mum told me that when I was really young 2-5 age I used to listen to metallica (music vids on TV) like enter sandman and actually try and dance to it. Aaaahhhhh innocence. When you think you can dance to metal.

 

[Nats]

mine was Korn waaaaaay back in the day

i know people bitch about them loads but they were my gateway into the world of heavy metal i still enjoy listening to them to this day even with all the more technical and heavier stuff i listen to these days

agreed

 

[maliciousteve]

Black Sabbath. I got given an 8 inch picture disk from my Nan (she kept it in her attic for a while). It had Paranoid on one side and Iron Man on the other. I was obsessed with it.