Who/what got you into metal?

DarkWolfen · Post by **DarkWolfen** » Thu July 29th, 2004, 11:01 am

</div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td>QUOTE (BlazeTSU @ Jul 28 2004, 03:33 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'> I listening to wrekage basically ever since 86 and i have tons of wrekage tapes that i would record and i love finding them and listening to them all over again. [/quote]
Damn and I thought I was the only one doing that. When I told BoB I did that, he acted like I was still starting my car with a hand crank in the grill. :wh4cky:

Andy · Post by **Andy** » Sat July 31st, 2004, 1:51 pm

dude when I started listening to wrekage late summer and into 1994 thats all I did was tape what I thought were the good songs from wrekage. it was fun. I actually kicked my sister out of her room and used her stereo to tape (she hada better one) the show.

my older brother got into metal, as so did I (but he just got into hair and prog shit, like queenswright, sp?) in late 1980's

It went from my 1st fav band of Guns N Roses then onto buying PANTERA's Vulgar display of power on a whim from BMG music catalogs.

PANTERA blew me away and is still my favorite band. and I saw my first concert PANTERA/SEPULTURA/PRONG in summer 1994 at Lakewood, I won free tix off of wrekage.

and continue to go to concerts, even though that might cease cause going alone is a drag. here's some of the shit Ive seen-

PANTERA x5
SUPERJOINT RITUAL x4
DOWN x2
SLAYER x4
STUCK MOJO around 12
TYPE O NEGATIVE x2
METALLICA (before they sold out 1994)
BIOHAZARD x3
311 x3
STOMPBOX Masq '94
OVERCAST (UTC 1998 OR 99?)
A DEATH FOR EVERY SIN (UTC)
ADAMANTIUM (UTC)
AGNOSTIC FRONT (Masq '03)
ALL OUT WAR
AVAIL (UTC 98)
ARCH ENEMY (Tabernacle 03)
AS FRIENDS RUST (gainesville fest)
AS I LAY DYING x2 (Masq 04, and mayb last yr at Masq)
AS THE SUN SETS x2 (UTC and 513 club)
ATREYU (Masq 03)
AVENGED SEVENFOLD x 3(great band!) (furnace fest 02,03 Masq 03)
BANE (utc)
between the buried and me (furnace fest 03)
BIRD OF ILL OMEN (Point 97)
BLEEDING THROUGH (utc 02)
BOTCH (utc 99)
BOY SETS FIRE (point 98)
BROTHER'S KEEPER x3
BROKEN HOPE
CANDIRIA
CATHARSIS
CEPHALIC CARNAGE
CAVE IN
CHILDREN OF BODOM
COAL CHAMBER
CODESEVEN
CONVERGE
COUNTERVAIL
CREATION IS CRUCIFIXION
CRYPTOPSY
DARKEST HOUR x3
DAWN OF ORION x5
DEFTONES x3
DIECAST
THE DILLENGER ESCAPE PLAN x2
DIMMU BORGIR x2
DISCIPLE AD x2
DISEMBODIED
DOWNSET
DYING FETUS x5
EARTH CRISIS x2
EIGHTEEN VISIONS x2
ENSIGN
EVERGREEN TERRACE
EVERY TIME I DIE x2
E-TOWN CONCRETE x3
FEAR FACTORY
FROM AUTUMN TO ASHES
FOR THE LOVE OF...
GENITORTURERS
GODSMACK
GOD FORBID x3
GRADE
HATEBREED x6
HOPESFALL
HOT WATER MUSIC x3 UNDER COUCH X2/GAINESVILLE FEST 98
HUM (a recent reunion show) aug03 FURNACE FEST
IN FLAMES x4 (maybe just 3) dec.00 MASQUERADE/aug02 FURNACE FEST/may04 MASQ/??
INCUBUS x4
INDECISION x2
ISIS
KILLSWITCH ENGAGE
KITTIE
KRISIUN x2
LAMB OF GOD x2
LACUNA COIL
LIVING SACRIFICE
MACHINE HEAD x3
MADBALL x2
MALEVOLENT CREATION
MARTYR AD (amazingly brutal band on victory records)
MASTADON x3
MISERY SIGNALS x2
MORBID ANGEL
MORNING AGAIN x2
MR. BUNGLE
NAPALM DEATH (shredded numerous holes in my ass when I saw them)
NEVERMORE x2
A NEW FOUND GLORY x2
NILE x2
NORMA JEAN x3
OBITUARY
ONE KING DOWN
ORANGE 9MM
ORCHID
OTEP x3
PAGE 99
POISON THE WELL x3
THE PROMISE
RACETRAITOR
RED ROSES FOR A BLUE LADY
REVERSAL OF MAN x2
SCAR CULTURE
SHADOWS FALL x3
SEPULTURA x2
7 ANGELS 7 PLAGUES
SHAI HULUD x4
SHUTDOWN
SICK OF IT ALL
SIX FEET UNDER
SKINLAB x2
SKINLESS x3
SNAPCASE x3
SNOT
SOULFLY x3
STATIC X
STRETCH ARMSTRONG x2
SUICIDE NATION
SWORN ENEMY x2
SYSTEM OF A DOWN
TRIAL
TRAINING FOR UTOPIA
TURMOIL
UNDYING
UNEARTH x2
VISION OF DISORDER
WALLS OF JERICHO x2
WHITE ZOMBIE x2
FILTER
REVEREND HORTON HEAT
BABES IN TOYLAND
SUICIDAL TENDENCIES
CANDLEBOX
MALAMORE
ZEKE
ZAO
OPEN HAND x2
CURL UP AND DIE
FORCE FED GLASS
PORTRAIT x3
CAPTURED BY ROBOTS
OSTIANO GROVE
STANDING TALL
AS THE SUN SETS x2
DUST TO DUST
SOCIAL INFESTATION
OTOPHOBIA
MAJORITY RULE x2
PROCESS IS DEAD
LEECHMILK
LOVE LOST BUT NOT FORGOTTEN x2
GLASSEATER
DRAGBODY
FURTHUR SEEMS FOREVER
DOWNPOUR x3
NO COMPLY (numerous times & UTC Sprockets cafe?)
A NEW KIND OF AMERICAN SAINT
NOT WAVING BUT DROWNING x2
NO INNOCENT VICTIM
HASTE
FIGURE FOUR
ZEGOTA
CAST ASIDE THE FALLEN
BLACK PAPER DIARY x3
CHIMARIA
DARK TRANQUILITY
DECEMBER
DRILL
STONE TEMPLE PILOTS
SUM 41
STONESOUR
FLAW
FULL BLOWN CHAOS
MESHUGGAH
MILLER'S TALE
THE RED CHORD
SPEEDEALER
TANTRUM OF THE MUSE
TERROR
TESTAMENT
TRUST COMPANY
FAR
OZZY OSBOURNE
NEUROSIS
EMBRACE TODAY
SCARS OF TOMORROW
HED PE
WAGE OF SIN

OZZFEST 1997, 2000, 2002
FURNACE FEST 2000, 2002, 2003
GAINSEVILLE FL FEST 1998, 1999
CRANK FEST 1998?

KITTIE/CANDIRIA/36 CRAZYFISTS/TWELVE TRIBES JULY 29, 2004 @ MASQUERADE PAID 16.00

MASTADON/BURNT BY THE SUN JULY 2, 2004 @ MASQUERADE PAYED 10.00

AS I LAY DYING/IN FLAMES/KILLSWITCH ENGAGE MAY 21, 2004 @ MASQUERADE (GOT IN FREE AND SOLD MY EXTRA PASS FOR 10.00)

DYING FETUS/MALAMORE/PIT FIEND/BURIAL RITES MAY 7, 2004 @ MASQUERADE PAID 12.00

SUPERJOINT RITUAL/ZEKE/ORGAN/LEVEL/BURIAL RITES/REVOLVER @ MASQUERADE MARCH 31, 2004 paid 16.00

WuDi, w/o competition · Post by **WuDi, w/o competition** » Sat July 31st, 2004, 9:17 pm

That's quite a catalogue. Isn't everybody impressed?

Post by **BoB** » Sat July 31st, 2004, 11:00 pm

I just can't believe Andy paid $16 to see Kittie... dude, really!

btw: welcome! :wh4cky:

but getting back on topic, somewhat. I was already into metal but in 1988 I visited Atlanta to scout out Georgia Tech. I arrived on a Thursday night and started flipping thru the radio. I hit a station playing Slayer and other thrash - 91.1FM. I thought it was an all metal station. I think that actually influenced my decision to move to Atl and attend Tech. I later found out that what I heard was WREKage - it was hosted by Tim Bennet and aired Thursday nights for about 1 or 1.5 hours...

WREKage-Paul · Post by **WREKage-Paul** » Mon August 9th, 2004, 3:15 am

Okay, this is my story.

I grew up with classic rock and all the stuff that 96rock used to play back in the day. Most was good, some was great, some was dreck, but hey, it's what was there to listen to.

I'll never forget the night when, during a period while 96rock had quit playing any "heavy" metal (they were airing supposed listener comments like some chick whining "hey, cool it with the heavy metal"), they played "Paradise City" by Guns'n'Roses. They played it on their old nightly "Smash or Trash" feature, where listeners would call in and rate the song. It was much heavier than the stuff they were playing at the time, listeners loved it, and it changed the face of rock-radio for a decade, making it possible for a band like Metallica to achieve commercial airplay. (Much later, 96rock played the actual first single from Appetite, which was "Welcome to the Jungle.")

So Metallica started to get some well-deserved airplay from -- at the time -- the Justice album. A friend of mine I knew out in Washington wrote me and suggested a band from his area called Queensryche. I won a free tape from 96rock from some contest and picked up Operation: Mindcrime at a store. I was so astonished I had to pull off the road and listen to it without road-noise. This was before they had achieved any commercial success. I was blown away. When the video for "Eyes of a Stranger" came out I dutifully called MTV's Top 20 Countdown every day, trying to get it played. Of course the calls don't determine what gets played that day...but each call was charted, and on some days I'd get through 14 or 15 times (out of 1,000 calls they said they took). Eventually Adam Curry announced, with a gleam in his eye, that QR had placed just off the countdown. "Keep up the calls, Queensryche fans"...and then QR made it, later that week. They were on their way to getting some attention.

I really wanted to see QR, and they were opening for Metallica on tour. A friend of mine met both bands in Florida and befriended Kirk Hammett a few days before the show at the Omni, and promised to hook me up with a backstage pass. I already had a ticket. At the will-call window they didn't have anything for me. I explained the situation to the unusually-nice older lady behind the window. She called downstairs, talked to someone, who spoke with someone else. She grinned and gave me the thumbs-up. "They checked with Kirk, and the passes are on the way!" Cool! Then she went home -- it was well into QR's set by now, and I was freezing my nadz off in leather jeans and that chill between-buildings downtown breeze. I saw the carefully innocuous will-call ticket courier cross from the Omni over to the will-call window with the passes. I went up to the window, but the sole remaining lady there couldn't find the passes. I still don't know what happened, but I went inside. I'd managed to miss Queensryche -- the band I'd wanted to see -- but holy shit, this Metallica band was great! I'd heard a little of their stuff from Master before, but I was hooked. Later on that tour I befriended Kirk myself, and from then (1989) up until 1994, I was treated like royalty at their shows. (WREKage-Tim, who I met during this period, befriended Jason as well.) That's how I first got into the metal "scene."

Ironically, I got into modern prog-metal in a similar way to QR. I'd heard a song on 96rock called "Pull Me Under" by Dream Theater and liked it a lot. I had made friends with a cool deejay at 96rock, metalhead Alan Ayo, and when he heard I had a Metallica rarity on a CD-single ("Breadfan"), he asked me to bring it by the studio so he could record it on broadcast cartridge -- CD recorders were just a gleam in some inventor's eye back then. In exchange he offered me my choice of CDs from their freebie/promo closet. "I'll take these two CDs, but....do you have any Dream Theater?" "Just a cassette tape, but it's yours. Great choice, too! I'm a drummer and they really smoke!" On the way home, I had to pull off to the side of the road again. I was blown away.

Dream Theater's online fandom (back then, just email lists, this was before the Web) got me into bands like Symphony X and Superior and Fates Warning.....and the rest was history.

I'm still not sure how I got into "extreme" (death- and black-) metal, my favorite genre now, but osmosis through WREKage helped. I'd started hanging around the studio with Tim back in the Wreck Room days (1994-5 or so), and by 1998, when I did my first 'official' shows on WREKage, I was already into some extreme stuff. I've been there most weeks since then. :b4ldm3t4l:

badcarburetor · Post by **badcarburetor** » Fri July 2nd, 2010, 3:06 pm

It was about January 1982. I was ten years old lying bed listening to the radio. The opening chords to Highway to Hell came on the air and I knew that my life was forever changed. I saw AC/DC at the Omni just a couple months after I first heard them and that was it. I started picking up metal mags in the convenience store and hitting the record stores in the malls and used book shops. I dug deep. The crazier shit looked the better. I ended up with Agnostic Front, Abattoir, Steeler and other shit early on.

My folks didn't have cable, but we could get the local video channel on UHF 69. That channel was so rad and filled full of local personalities including the metal show hosted by "The Butcher" who actually played in the Replacements worshipping Swinging Richards. Everyday was videos by Saxon, Motorhead, Girlschool, Hanoi Rocks and all kinds of other shit. So cool.

The first bands I was obsessed with were AC/DC, The Who and Joan Jett/Runaways. By digging into what influenced those bands I learned about all the cool forms of music, punk, metal, English glam, soul, blues, fifties rock n' roll, blue beat, on and on...But through all of those influences, I still maintained my love of metal.

Thank you Channel 69. Thank you MacKenzie Scott and late night radio on 96 Rock. And thank you Wrekage. I loved college radio and got into it hard by seventh or eighth grade.

...but it all started with that simple crunchy chord progression.

GameFreac · Post by **GameFreac** » Fri July 2nd, 2010, 3:17 pm

The solo in Sum 41 - The Bitter End ----> Shadows Fall - The War Within -----> Children of Bodom - Follow the Reaper

The rest is history.

V03GTLIN · Post by **V03GTLIN** » Fri July 2nd, 2010, 3:29 pm

WREKAGE!!!!

Knucklehead · Post by **Knucklehead** » Fri July 2nd, 2010, 3:32 pm

Sure, why not.

I remember going over to some friends' house in third or fourth grade -- probably '78 or '79. They were triplets and their older sister had a copy of Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap on vinyl that we listened to some. We giggled together over the lyrics of "Big Balls" . It didn't really stick, though.

I spent a lot of time the summer after 7th grade at one particular friend's house. That must have been '82. He had picked up a copy of
Paranoid and we listened to it over and over and over and over. Iron Maiden got introduced in there at some point, as well. I was a huge Maiden fan, for awhile. By '84 or '85, my friends and I had discovered Metallica and Slayer. It was all over, after that.

'84 to '88 was a magical time. Some of my friends had older brothers that listened to Kiss or Deep Purple or Cheap Trick or whatever. But the first wave of thrash and speed metal was our thing. It was new and real and dangerous. I remember being terrified for my mortal soul while listening to those early Venom and Slayer albums. That shit was scary, way back then. Times have certainly changed.

V03GTLIN · Post by **V03GTLIN** » Fri July 2nd, 2010, 3:38 pm

Knucklehead wrote: I remember being terrified for my mortal soul while listening to those early Venom and Slayer albums. That shit was scary, way back then. Times have certainly changed.

Yes sir. My mom found my Black Metal LP and a stack of D&D modules and started highlighting all the "occult" stuff in them. When I came back from my friend's house, she was like, WE DRINK THE VOMIT OF THE PRIESTS?! MAKE LOVE WITH THE DYING WHORE?! WHAT ARE YOU INTO?!

xforeverxmetalx · Post by **xforeverxmetalx** » Fri July 2nd, 2010, 4:34 pm

Basically it started with me wanting heavier and heavier stuff. From Radio Disney to rock to alternative [MCR and such] to metalcore on the radio. Then I heard Dragonforce from a friend and it was epic. From there I discovered Sonata and Stratovarius, and later CoB. During that time, I met some friends that were into Maiden, Slayer, Zeppelin, Pantera, etc. So I built on the metal history while discovering power metal, thrash, and melodeath. And then into everything else. It was a pretty fast process as I kept wanting more and more, I pretty much dove straight in.

Post by **Metalfreak** » Fri July 2nd, 2010, 5:24 pm

wow I just read my post from 2004...damn I can't believe it's been almost exactly 6 years since I posted that and 7 years since I've been listening to extreme metal! I know many of you have been into it since before I was even born but you know it's not a phase if I'm still listening to it several years later hittin my mid-20s after a great Immolation/ Grave show!

@forevermetal - I know that feeling of wanting something heavier. I remember listening to that nu-metal crap I used to like and just having those same exact thoughts.

Oh and, I'm proud to say that I never had a boyfriend who got me into metal. I found it on my own! (and have since introduced my current boyfriend to great bands

) I remember going to shows by myself back when I was a teenager still because I didn't know anyone at all. I went to so many shows back then (back then I could rival Tommy for the amount of shows he goes to now lol) and just met people because I would keep seeing them over and over again, then I found this forum and I'm still meeting people.

egg yolkeo · Post by **egg yolkeo** » Sat July 3rd, 2010, 12:26 pm

I seem to remember Quiet Riot Metal Health and Motley Crue when I was a kid

then got into Metallica Slayer Testament GnR Maiden followed by Pantera Sepultura Obituary........Wrekage has turned me on to countless bands since.

WREKage-Paul · Post by **WREKage-Paul** » Sat July 3rd, 2010, 1:11 pm

badcarburetor wrote: Thank you Channel 69. Thank you MacKenzie Scott and late night radio on 96 Rock. And thank you Wrekage.

"No, thank YOU!"

MacKenzie Scott ruled. I remember one night calling up and asking hefr to play some unusual, obscure Rush. She played "Cinderella Man." I was fucking amazed.

Alan Ayo was a great evening/nighttime op at 96rock, too.

badcarburetor · Post by **badcarburetor** » Sat July 3rd, 2010, 8:17 pm

I've often wondered whatever happen to Mackenzie. She played all the best shit and would tell crazy stories.

Remember when Alan Ayo played in Fairchild and had the mamoth hair?

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