Metal Reviews

I guess I started at around 8-9, when I discovered a coupèle of vinyls my parents owned, namely Led Zeppelin II and Made In Japan by Deep Purple.

I still remember my excitement when I first heard Highway Star; never had I heard something so insanely fast and heavy, and right from the start I knew I'd found something special. Since then, I never stopped looking for heavier and darker stuff, and here I am now.

When I was a kid my brother and I had to share a room, and he would play AC/DC every night to go to sleep to :!: :?: . Plus he would play stuff like Metallica and Twisted Sister quite a bit. I never really understood or cared about the music until I was about 14 and picked up his dubbed tape of Manowar's Kings of Metal. Suddenly I was hooked and my ravenous appetite for metal kicked off from there. I suppose nowadays I've mellowed quite a bit. I still love my metal but don't have that tribal affiliation with it that I used to. That doesn't mean my musical tastes have changed, I still hate commercial shit. But right now I'm listening to a flamenco cd! Ole`!

I do that sometimes too, not with AC/DC, but with more heavier metal bands. It actually works, dont ask me how, but it really does the trick.

Seems like half of us who have posted here, needs to thank our older brothers for opening the gateway to heavy metal

Heh, I had that too, although I'm embarassed to say I liked it. That "Please Bitch II" track's pretty good (WAS pretty good, isn't any more!).

My introduction to metal was when I saw the clip for Bloodline by Slayer on MTV or some other music channel. Before, I had never really cared about music enough to go out and buy an album, but I decided to buy God Hates Us All. Pretty awful, in retrospect. Oh well. From there, I dug my way backwards through Slayer's discography, then joined a music chatroom via a friend where I was first called a horrid noob, kicked and banned several times, then finally got to learn something. I gradually got into such bands as Amon Amarth, Vader, Vomitory, etc., and from there on to Black Metal. My first Black Metal album was Ancient's Det Glemte Riket, I think. Thank god I managed to stay away from CoF and Dimmu...

I got scared from an Obituary cover (slowly we rot) and so i was interested in putting it in... I remember that i did not find it bad, just really scary..
But then my cousin told me i should listen to other stuff and gave me iron maiden and anthrax, i listened to those and liked them much more because they were very melodic...
But in the end my first listen of "Metal" was with a Death Metal cd.

Well, I was basically raised around Music. I'm the youngest of three metalhead brothers, and my dad owned an extensive vinyl collection of everything from Zepp and the Stones to Hank, Waylon, Merle and johnny. So I grew up in a house that would literally have a different album playing in every room.

When I was about 5 0r 6, I got to the age of being able to understand and appreciate shit. One day I snagged my dad's "Pyromania", and my brother's "Tooth and Nail" cassette tape. It all started there. I loved the shit right off of the bat, hell I still rank Pyro in my top 20. I then purchased Kix-Midnite Dynamite, Great White-Shot in the Dark, and AC/DC-Who Made Who the next day when my mom took me to Wal-Mart with her. So I started out with Classic Rock and 80's Rock and just kept exploring from there. My brothers only liked the 80's shit and some Thrash, and I went on to Death and Black on my own.

My first real metal album purchase was Megadeth-So Far, So Good, So What! and from the opening riff of "Set the World on Fire" I was hooked and never looked back.

Led Zeppelin-->Black Sabbath-->Ozzy Osbourne
-->Iron Maiden



and then it went from there...

One of the many steps towards it was Skunk Anansie. And yes, for a while they were what I took "Black Metal" to mean.