The game DOOM got me into metal how bout you?

[MaleficSounds]

Well to tell you the truth guys I would have to say the game DOOM got me into Metal. Seriously, There's some mad sweeps in the begging song!!!! hahahaha. Back then i never ever listened to music cause i could never find any that i really liked. But partly what glued me to that seat to Blast apart dudes with my rocket launcher and chainsaw those pink bulls was the MUSIC!!! Granted its corny. But i was never exposed to such evil sounds until Doom. Gotta give respect to the midi file guru's that made Metal possible for me. TRUE STORY lol.

[MaleficSounds]

Oh yeah if you don't know where I'm coming from then check this site out, it has all the midi Doom files on one site. http://www.doomworld.com/music/index.shtml I thought it was cool, just sharing

[kfoll]

Well to tell you the truth guys I would have to say the game DOOM got me into Metal. Seriously, There's some mad sweeps in the begging song!!!! hahahaha. Back then i never ever listened to music cause i could never find any that i really liked. But partly what glued me to that seat to Blast apart dudes with my rocket launcher and chainsaw those pink bulls was the MUSIC!!! Granted its corny. But i was never exposed to such evil sounds until Doom. Gotta give respect to the midi file guru's that made Metal possible for me. TRUE STORY lol.

I believe it. It happened to my brother.

[Strange]

My brother being into early Metal (along with Rock and Punk) before I was even born got me into Metal. I was listening to Sabbath, Priest and Alice Cooper before I could walk. I don't remember any of this obviously, but by all accounts I loved it!

Cradle to the grave, baby!

[theRothstanator]

I have no fucking clue what got me into metal. I even skipped that Metallica phase. Somehow I was just like Carcass-Heartwork hey what's up?

[Matt]

I have no fucking clue what got me into metal. I even skipped that Metallica phase. Somehow I was just like Carcass-Heartwork hey what's up?

not me, fist for me was like metallica, then pantera, then slayer, then the first death metal cd i ever bought was obituary world demise, even though i bought marylin manson - antichrist superstar that same day.

[Vhyle]

Metallica, to Pantera, to Cannibal Corpse... the rest is history.

[jswift]

As a wee young lad, the only music vestige in a twenty mile radius was the local Wal-Mart, and this being pre-Intranet days, basically, you just had to waltz in and predict how heavy a CD was going to sound based solely on the cover art. Utilizing that methodology, I was introduced to a lot of bands (Iron Maiden, Megadeth, Hatebreed, etc). Sadly, I also ended up purchasing a few Jackyl and MxPx albums in the process. I never said it was an EXACT science.

I also think ECW had a lot to do in exposing me to bands like Metallica, Pantera and Prong.

It's really a linear progression. After that, I got into the slightly heavier thrash bands (Slayer, Death Angel, Kreator), but absolutely HATED death, black and grindcore for the longest time. I started listening to WREKage my senior year in high school, and eventually, those genres started to grow on me, and listening to bands like Gorguts and early Cryptopsy, for whatever reason, helped me study a bit more effectively.

Now, before finals week, I break out the Cynic, Borknagar and mid 90s Nile. Maybe I should send Gene Hoglan a letter of gratitude for my 4.0?

[Metalfreak]

I grew up listening to the classic stuff like Sabbath, Ozzy, and Judas Priest. When I was 11, my aunt took me to a Metallica show and from there, I fell in love with that band! When I was 16, me and the same aunt were driving somewhere in Massachusetts and a metal show came on the radio (this was May of 2003)...we kept it on and that's when I first heard death metal. That summer, I went apeshit and bought a bunch of metal CDs, discovered WREKage and my show (obviously before I even thought about hosting it), this forum, and all the great shows that come through here! In August of 2003, I was on MARTA and I had on an old In Flames shirt...some guy came up to me and said in really broken English "Do you like In Flames?" Turns out that guy was one of the many hispanics we see at every show and for a few years after that, we traded CDs all the time and I burned all the ones he lent me. He was the one who got me into black metal. (He moved to Texas a while back which sucks btw) Anyways, it was history from there!

[Snowblind Sodomy]

I thought I'd see more replies similar to my personal story, but I guess not.
I got into metal, I thought, pretty stereotypically. I climbed into the wrong backseat of an old Pontiac Firebird, and was kidnapped and driven around for a half-hour while my ears bled from too-loud Anthrax.

[Brian]

nu-metal > power metal > death/black/thrash/etc

[neomanguy]

i think freshman year of high school i told my friend to download me some cd (was a p2p noob at the time), but he ended up sending me BtBaM's "The Silent Circus", thought it was kinda cool. Got into a bunch of core shit for awhile there, grew out of that when someone introduced me to Pantera junior year, and it just grew from there.

[kamal]

A beer commercial got me into metal.

When I was a kid there was some beer commercial featuring a giveaway where you got to go to like Canada or somewhere cold to see Metallica. I think 'Enter Sandman' was on the commercial and as soon as I heard it I knew this music was for me.

It took a few years later for me to become a fully fledged metal fan and I was into plenty of alternative/nu-metal stuff until I pruned my collection in my late teens.

[DeathfareDevil]

Holy shit, this thread is making me feel old.

When I was six or seven, in (sigh) 1979 or 1980, I had a KISS Love Gun jigsaw puzzle and a giant Rock and Roll Over sticker on a bucket I kept all my toys in -- so those are the first "metal" images I can remember. Naturally the first albums I bought, in my early teens, were KISS: Destroyer and the Best of the Solo Albums, actually. Mainly I got into that kind of music because that's what my older cousin listened to; he introduced me to AC/DC's Back in Black (when it first came out, double-sigh), so a few years later I was following in his footsteps. I think the first tape I bought was Cinderella's Night Songs. I did the glam thing for a few years, till I saw (in a Hit Parader, haha) a full-page ad for King Diamond's Abigail, and that cover art completely converted me to the dark side.

After several years of listening to thrash and the hair stuff (WASP was a favorite), I sadly followed the herd and transitioned to and through every musical fad of the Nineties: grunge, goth, industrial, electronica, whatever. At the time I had no idea that such a thing as black metal even existed (or that death metal had gotten so much heavier -- all I'd known previously was stuff like Possessed and Death, which, aside from the shock value, did very little for me). Then I saw another ad in a magazine, this time one for Mortiis in an Alternative Press, which led me to Emperor, which led me to my pleasantly blackhearted fascination with all things grim, frostbitten, and grammatically awkward.

Oh, and what simultaneously re-introduced me to death metal was a tour diary in Metal Maniacs (which I'd picked up in a Barnes & Noble more out of curiosity than anything else) written by Karl Sanders of Nile. Something about his attitude inspired me to buy the Nephren-Ka disc, which to this day is one of my favorite death metal albums.

Incidentally, the first black metal album I bought was Emperor's Anthems. My first listen, totally unprepared for that style of music, produced almost total incomprehension. There were a few months during which I failed to explore black metal any further, because the stuff made no sense to me whatsoever. At some point, though, I found myself half-consciously singing to myself that clean-vocal part in "Ye Entrancemperium" ("suddenly I memorize, asking what I left behind," etc.), so I went back to the album, managed to penetrate it, and voila.