What was the band that got you into metal?

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#101 Solid_Tango
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linkin park
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#102 ArmoredCore55
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Metallica, unfortunately. I moved on to better stuff pretty quickly though.

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Can't go wrong with their first 4 albums. Ride The Lighting is such a masterpiece.
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#103 tenaka2
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Lead Zeppelin :P

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#104 poovannaorcbane
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@BuryMe lol :) :D heheheh hahah mj - metal ??? lol good one
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#105 poovannaorcbane
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@Solid_Tango u have to be the funniest guy here in the forums judging from ur sigs and profile pic/gif lol beiber death lol which movie/show is ur pic/gif based on?
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#106 poovannaorcbane
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the first metal song i heard was METALLICA'S I DISAPPEAR when the movie MI2 came out, after several years when i turned 16 i listened to metallica's unforgiven and fade to black and everything else like IRON MAIDEN and NIGHTWISH, INSOMNIUM I BEEN listening to since then!!!
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#107 soapman72
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Slipnot and AidsWolf look em up on youtube

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#108 nikola96
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Jimmy Eat World got me into rock and then AC/DC got me into metal.

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#109 Sunfyre7896
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As for getting into Metal, it was Metallica, the Black Album; especially Enter Sandman. I was told not to listen to it, but they played on some music awards show with that song and I like it and wanted to hear more, so I would listen to it with my friends. That was back when it was new.

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#110 immortality20
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Like many others, Metallica's Master of Puppets.

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#111 wiifan001
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I was a fan of Linkin Park for some time before, but the band that converted me to metal was Metallica.
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#112 Another-World
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[QUOTE="Another-World"]

Metallica, unfortunately. I moved on to better stuff pretty quickly though.

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Can't go wrong with their first 4 albums. Ride The Lighting is such a masterpiece.

Yeah, I am sorry for not being clear. I was referring to the black album. Ride the lightning is great, so is Mop and KTA is quite under-appreciated. However AJFA was mightily overrated imo. the only songs i liked in that album were one and blackened. And after that the albums pretty much went the rock path, the nadir being load and reload. Death magnetic was a spark of hope though.
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#113 NukaNuked
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Saint Vitus and Sleep, they were slow and groovy (thats what I loved at the time still do) but then I kept looking into the side projects of other doom bands and eventually got up to more heavy and fast stuff such as Converge/Dillinger Escape Plan.

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#114 Roushrsh
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I think it was BFMV
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#115 KH-mixerX
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Killswitch Engage.

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#116 Saturos3091
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In Flames and Shadows Fall eight years ago.

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@Solid_Tango u have to be the funniest guy here in the forums judging from ur sigs and profile pic/gif lol beiber death lol which movie/show is ur pic/gif based on?poovannaorcbane
His sig is based on CSI when Justin Beiber plays as a guest character and that character gets killed by cops. The guy shooting him in the sig however is Thom Yorke of Radiohead in the music video for "Lotus Flower". Guns were cropped in to a weird dance move. It's funny stuff for sure
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#118 SaintLeonidas
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Metallica, used to be my favorite band, but I'm not really into them or the genre any more.
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#119 deactivated-5c9b4fe90f2f5
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August Burns Red about 4 years ago.
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#120 hippiesanta
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I know band like "THE WHO" is another rock genre... but it lead me to metal culture...... maybe The Who is just a portal for me to love Bathory, Morbid Angel...ect
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#121 Lance2500
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Bullet For My Valentine. These days I'm into much heavier stuff and I've actually begun to dislike the band. When ever a friend puts on one of their songs I ask them change it.

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#122 wildjango64
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Bring Me The Horizon got me into metalcore

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#123 hippiesanta
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Bullet For My Valentine. These days I'm into much heavier stuff and I've actually begun to dislike the band. When ever a friend puts on one of their songs I ask them change it.

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bullet for valentino is like metalicca.... radio friendly towards pop culture... better listen to necrophagia
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Bullet For My Valentine. These days I'm into much heavier stuff and I've actually begun to dislike the band. When ever a friend puts on one of their songs I ask them change it.

Lance2500
Awful band. They're so freakin' mainstream. Most of their fans listen to Pop music as well and couldn't tell you the name of any other "Metal" band
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#125 PatchMaster
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Started with nu metal then got into metalcore. Metalcore lead to thrash and groove metal. Those allowed me to gain an appreciation for classics like Sabbath and Deep Purple. Now I listen to a range of different metal. Depends on the band of course.

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#126 hippiesanta
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japanese band sabbath?...(which is awesome btw)
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#127 TheShadowLord07
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Mastodon

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#128 imaps3fanboy
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[QUOTE="Lance2500"]

Bullet For My Valentine. These days I'm into much heavier stuff and I've actually begun to dislike the band. When ever a friend puts on one of their songs I ask them change it.

DmadFearmonger
Awful band. They're so freakin' mainstream. Most of their fans listen to Pop music as well and couldn't tell you the name of any other "Metal" band

And Dream Theatre IS mainstream? Besides what's wrong with being mainstream? Since when are bands like Iron Maiden and Black Sabbath bad because they're mainstream? I don't understand you.
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#129 DmadFearmonger
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[QUOTE="DmadFearmonger"][QUOTE="Lance2500"]

Bullet For My Valentine. These days I'm into much heavier stuff and I've actually begun to dislike the band. When ever a friend puts on one of their songs I ask them change it.

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Awful band. They're so freakin' mainstream. Most of their fans listen to Pop music as well and couldn't tell you the name of any other "Metal" band

And Dream Theatre IS mainstream? Besides what's wrong with being mainstream? Since when are bands like Iron Maiden and Black Sabbath bad because they're mainstream? I don't understand you.

Dream Theater isn't "Mainstream" so much. My definition of mainstream is anyone who tries to make music as radio friendly and poppy as possible. BFMV do just that. Dream Theater, however, do not.

And to be honest I can't justify that Sabbath and Maiden point. You're right there. I guess we could say Mainstream was the quality once but It's not anymore.

Also, why do always have to correct me on everything?

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#130 inyourface_12
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I don't like a lot of metal but right now I'm enjoying Liturgy's new album

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#131 imaps3fanboy
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[QUOTE="imaps3fanboy"][QUOTE="DmadFearmonger"]Awful band. They're so freakin' mainstream. Most of their fans listen to Pop music as well and couldn't tell you the name of any other "Metal" bandDmadFearmonger

And Dream Theatre IS mainstream? Besides what's wrong with being mainstream? Since when are bands like Iron Maiden and Black Sabbath bad because they're mainstream? I don't understand you.

Dream Theater isn't "Mainstream" so much. My definition of mainstream is anyone who tries to make music as radio friendly and poppy as possible. BFMV do just that. Dream Theater, however, do not.

And to be honest I can't justify that Sabbath and Maiden point. You're right there. I guess we could say Mainstream was the quality once but It's not anymore.

Also, why do always have to correct me on everything?

Lol, I get bored playing rift so I have to do something, what are your thoughts on Foo Fighters? Decent mainstream band imo
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#132 DmadFearmonger
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[QUOTE="DmadFearmonger"]

[QUOTE="imaps3fanboy"] And Dream Theatre IS mainstream? Besides what's wrong with being mainstream? Since when are bands like Iron Maiden and Black Sabbath bad because they're mainstream? I don't understand you.imaps3fanboy

Dream Theater isn't "Mainstream" so much. My definition of mainstream is anyone who tries to make music as radio friendly and poppy as possible. BFMV do just that. Dream Theater, however, do not.

And to be honest I can't justify that Sabbath and Maiden point. You're right there. I guess we could say Mainstream was the quality once but It's not anymore.

Also, why do always have to correct me on everything?

Lol, I get bored playing rift so I have to do something, what are your thoughts on Foo Fighters? Decent mainstream band imo

Not a fan personally, they're alright but I wouldn't buy their music
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#133 blueboxdoctor
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I think it was system of a down, but the first band that made it my favorite genre was Leaves' Eyes. Everything about their album Vinland Saga was pretty much perfect, and showed how diverse metal could be.

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#134 iaosoir
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Death of course. I am not into death metal any longer, though.
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#136 blueboxdoctor
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[QUOTE="Lance2500"]

Bullet For My Valentine. These days I'm into much heavier stuff and I've actually begun to dislike the band. When ever a friend puts on one of their songs I ask them change it.

DmadFearmonger

Awful band. They're so freakin' mainstream. Most of their fans listen to Pop music as well and couldn't tell you the name of any other "Metal" band

Lol, stereotypical metal fan comment, saying how their fans listen to pop so they're obviously not real metal fans. I'm not a fan of BFMV but I know people who are that are also into a lot of different metal bands. Now, Black Veil Bride fans, well that's a different story. They may be the most annoying fans (well ok not true, that goes to the singleminded fans who only listen to one genre). I actually used to like BVB, until their album came out and they basically sold out as much as they could just to sell records to high school girls.

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#137 kussese
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Mudvayne. Yeah, I realize they're not exactly quality metal (I'm sure most elitists on this board wouldn't call them metal at all), but damn it, when I listened to The End of All Things to Come in its entirety, I fell in love with it and the rest of the genre.

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#138 ArmoredCore55
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Mudvayne. Yeah, I realize they're not exactly quality metal (I'm sure most elitists on this board wouldn't call them metal at all), but damn it, when I listened to The End of All Things to Come in its entirety, I fell in love with it and the rest of the genre.

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Mudvayne's a good band, I've been a fan of their music since 11th grade. They have such an amazing bassist.
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#139 marcogamer07
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I'm not really a fan of metal, it really is a mood thing with me, though I do enjoy some heavy metal music once in awhile.

However, if I were to mention a band that opened me up to the genre...probably Metallica.

And my favourite music artist is Joe Satriani, believe it or not. Don't know if it's classified as real metal, I guess it would fit in the neo-classical side of things (some of his albums)...?

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#140 kussese
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[QUOTE="kussese"]

Mudvayne. Yeah, I realize they're not exactly quality metal (I'm sure most elitists on this board wouldn't call them metal at all), but damn it, when I listened to The End of All Things to Come in its entirety, I fell in love with it and the rest of the genre.

ArmoredCore55
Mudvayne's a good band, I've been a fan of their music since 11th grade. They have such an amazing bassist.

Yeah, he really gets into it. Their last two albums weren't very good, though :|
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#141 ArmoredCore55
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[QUOTE="ArmoredCore55"][QUOTE="kussese"]

Mudvayne. Yeah, I realize they're not exactly quality metal (I'm sure most elitists on this board wouldn't call them metal at all), but damn it, when I listened to The End of All Things to Come in its entirety, I fell in love with it and the rest of the genre.

kussese
Mudvayne's a good band, I've been a fan of their music since 11th grade. They have such an amazing bassist.

Yeah, he really gets into it. Their last two albums weren't very good, though :|

I agree, the self-titled album was better than The New Game, though.
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#142 battlefront23
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What got me into metalcore? Destroy the Runner. Still listen to them to this day.

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#143 X360PS3AMD05
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I think it was Metallica's Kill em All.
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#144 jjj13
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Iron maiden, the best way to get me into music!
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#145 joeryshadow-669
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i got from hard rock ACDC to metal i v started with linkin park and KoRn
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#146 KHAndAnime
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Iron Maiden, all the way. My introduction to each genre within metal went like... Iron Maiden (NWOHM) ---> Iced Earth (Thrash/Power) ----> Immortal (black metal) ---> Morbid Angel (death metal) ----> Gorguts (technical death metal) ---> Suffocation (brutal death metal)
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#147 OmenUK
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I think the first rock/metal bands I really liked were Deep Purple, Led Zeppelin and Black Sabbath, more so Deep Purple. Fromt here I starte dlistening to other British bands like Iron Maiden (still a favourite today), Motorhead, Def Leppard, Saxon, and then stuff like Anthrax, Helloween, AC/DC, Megadeth, Slayer, Faith No More, etc etc,

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#148 Celldrax
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Oh wow, here's another old thread. At least this one is only a year and a half old...

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#149 Los9090
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Metallica introduced me to that world
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#150 Mar_Sama
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For me it was Bullet For My Valentine that first met my taste. It has changed a little since then but i still love BFMV