When did you get into metal?

E.J. Diarrheaspray · Post by **E.J. Diarrheaspray** » Sat June 10th, 2006, 11:56 am

I was in middle school (around 1990!) and 2 years later heard all the Death Metal stuff that was out. I was like

. A year later my mom took me to see Suffocation.

Post by **Metalfreak** » Sun June 11th, 2006, 2:48 pm

E.J. Diarrheaspray wrote:I was in middle school (around 1990!) and 2 years later heard all the Death Metal stuff that was out. I was like . A year later my mom took me to see Suffocation.

wow. your mom is cool.

E.J. Diarrheaspray · Post by **E.J. Diarrheaspray** » Sun June 11th, 2006, 8:06 pm

My mom has been to a lot of shows over the years

TheKshatriya · Post by **TheKshatriya** » Mon June 12th, 2006, 12:42 pm

My mom took me to see Cannibal Corpse and Incantation for my 14th birthday. Fun night. My mother used to have to take me every where.

ProstheticHead12 · Post by **ProstheticHead12** » Mon June 12th, 2006, 3:58 pm

I started with Korn and Limp Bizkit. I guess I was just a late bloomer. I moved on to Slipknot, Fear Factory and other RoadRunner stuff before finally discovering the extreme stuff and I haven't looked back. That's the main reason I try not to be too harsh about metalcore. We all have to start somewhere and I'm sure I was an ignorant jackass for a while before I discovered what was truly heavy and truly talented.

ratanda · Post by **ratanda** » Mon June 12th, 2006, 8:01 pm

I was 13, around 1987. The big thing on MTV at the time was glam rock. I dug it, and a friend of mine down the street wanted to help me explore more rock and metal bands. He set me up with a Columbia House account. Is it still around? Anyway the initial offer was 12 tapes for a penny, and my friend would get like 5 for referring me. That's probably the only reason he wanted to expose me to heavier music.

And I started picking up metal magazines, and remember seeing the ad for And Justice For All which just came out. Headbangers Ball did a lot in exposing me to thrash, starting around 1988, and a kid from high school introduced me to death metal (1989).

Mike · Post by **Mike** » Mon June 12th, 2006, 8:53 pm

ratanda wrote:I was 13, around 1987. The big thing on MTV at the time was glam rock. I dug it, and a friend of mine down the street wanted to help me explore more rock and metal bands. He set me up with a Columbia House account. Is it still around? Anyway the initial offer was 12 tapes for a penny, and my friend would get like 5 for referring me. That's probably the only reason he wanted to expose me to heavier music.

And I started picking up metal magazines, and remember seeing the ad for And Justice For All which just came out. Headbangers Ball did a lot in exposing me to thrash, starting around 1988, and a kid from high school introduced me to death metal (1989).

Hey Gramps!
I was like 3 then.

Anyway, funny how MTV actually used to be decent.

E.J. Diarrheaspray · Post by **E.J. Diarrheaspray** » Tue June 13th, 2006, 11:03 am

Yeah, they used to play Anthrax, Megadeth, Faith No More and Metallica regularly during the day around '91-'92. I remember we had a TV in our World History class for watching history movies...one day we had a sub and someone put it on MTV, and "Symphony of Destruction" by Megadeth was on. I thought it was cool at the time, nowadays if you did that you'd see Road Rules or Fall Out Boy or something equally as gay

ratanda · Post by **ratanda** » Tue June 13th, 2006, 2:18 pm

Yeah, some of the bands Headbangers Ball turned me onto were Nuclear Assault, Overkill, Voivod, Sanctuary, Forced Entry.

I would tape the show every Saturday night (or was it Friday?) and the next day fast forward through all the glam rock until I saw something with headbanging in it. At one point they reserved the last hour (of 3 hours) for only thrash. They never formally said they were doing it though. At the time, the host was a guy named Adam Curry, who was a regular daytime VJ also.

Then around 1991 they started playing these other rock bands who weren't glam rock, and soon these bands started getting regular airplay on daytime MTV. These were Nirvana, Stone Temple Pilots, Alice in Chains. They all started off on Headbangers Ball as regular hard rock bands, before the word "grunge" appeared.

Then Riki Rachtman became the new host and it all went to shit.

AmoebicDysentery · Post by **AmoebicDysentery** » Tue June 13th, 2006, 4:05 pm

I remember one time during the Rachtman years they played Blind Melon...thats when I think Headbangers Ball officially jumped the shark (It was probably wayyyy before then but I wasn't around to see it)

Post by **BlazeTSU** » Tue June 13th, 2006, 11:50 pm

rikki got screwed!

WREKage-Paul · Post by **WREKage-Paul** » Thu June 15th, 2006, 12:03 am

ratanda wrote: I would tape the show every Saturday night (or was it Friday?) and the next day fast forward through all the glam rock until I saw something with headbanging in it. At one point they reserved the last hour (of 3 hours) for only thrash. They never formally said they were doing it though. At the time, the host was a guy named Adam Curry, who was a regular daytime VJ also.

Despite his glammy appearance, Adam really was a metal fan. Way back in the mists of ancient time I used to call the BBS he ran from his house, in Verona, NJ. Really cool guy, very fan-friendly to us. He was into home computing loong before most people and he actually registered "mtv.com" before the network had any clue what the Web was all about. Later, they had to fight to get it from him.

I'll never forget the gleam in his eye when he announced that Queensryche's "Eyes of a Stranger" video had placed just barely off the Top 20 Countdown that day, and he damn near begged for fans to keep trying. The rest of the countdown was pop-music shiite, and metal videos on the countdown were scarce...so when the video finally placed the following day and then moved up a few slots, it was cause for celebration in metaldom.
I was calling in after school to 'vote,' and they took a thousand calls each day. I got through a lot...15 times in one particularly memorable afternoon. 'Course, the countdown was probably not based on actual call numbers, but they used the calls as a gauge for what to play.

Adam C. quit MTV in disgust one day during his Top 20 Countdown taping (!) because during his drive into NYC, he realized that he had to promote crap shows like The Real World and Road Rules and Remote Control, that had NOTHING to do with music or music videos. The final tape never made it to air, of course, but I've heard there are copies floating around.

Post by **Metalfreak** » Thu June 15th, 2006, 2:01 pm

yeah, MTV fuckin sucks now!

E.J. Diarrheaspray · Post by **E.J. Diarrheaspray** » Thu June 15th, 2006, 2:06 pm

The only good things on MTV now are Blowin' Up, Parental Control and Next...they hardly play music videos anymore, and when they do, it's the same crap over and over

egg yolkeo · Post by **egg yolkeo** » Thu June 15th, 2006, 2:10 pm

Aw come on MTV has the Sucka Free Countdown,Wurd

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