Metal Reviews

Yeah, I started caling the music I like "angry and depressing, but with cool rhythms" because thats how most people describe it if I play it for them. And disliking Maiden makes up for never having liked any gay bands like Slipknot or Korn

Oh, well don't you mean not liking Slipknot or Korn makes up for not liking Maiden? That makes more sense.

Word.

Def Leppard - Hysteria.

I'd say Pyromania as I heard that one first and it made me buy Hysteria, but Hysteria is the album that put wind in my sails.

Metallica(Master of Puppets) -> Sepultura (Chaos AD/Arise) -> Unleashed -> Edge of Sanity -> CoF -> Dying Fetus -> Lots of br00tal death -> In Flames/Dark Tranquillity -> More melodic stuff ->

and now I listen to a mixture of all of the above.

.:crast:.

The first Metal album that I bought was Courting Tragedy and Disaster by Himsa, which is what pretty much got me hooked. I also listened to Rammstein and Cradle Of Filth.

I guess I started with Led Zeppelin and AC/DC, but they didn't really get me on the track to liking metal...odd as it is, the first metal band I ever liked was Dream Theater. From there, I got into Maiden and went heavier and heavier.

Edguy and especially the song Vain Glory Opera got me to really start listening to metal and then a few years later I heard In Flames - Borders and Shading on the radio and started listening to other then clean vocals

Metallica, I listened to them constantly for about a year and the following year I slowly started to mix in Blind Guardian, Iron Maiden and Iced Earth, stuff like that.

A friend of mine gave me a loan of Brave New World in 2000. This led to me buying Best of the Beast at the end of that year. I had a very brief flirtation with idiotic stuff like Papa Roach and Slipknot, mainly because I had no idea what I really wanted to listen to. Then I bought Lost Horizon's debut album in 2002 and the rest, as they say, is history. I got into harsh vocals through Bodom, possibly - I had liked the odd bit of BM I heard before then, but I think Follow the Reaper was the first entire harsh vocal album I listened to in its entirety.

Poison - Look What the Cat Dragged In

I started listening to Rage Against the Machine and that opened my ears to more heavier music. Then a friend of mine exchanged cds with me (i gave him ratm and he gave me a iron maiden/metallica mix) and i loved it. It really started to open up once i heard dream theater and symphony X.

Metallica was the first for me, in 89.

For a whole decade I only listened to, let's say, giants of the industry. Stuff you could see on MTV. Maiden, Megadeth, Metallica, Priest, Pantera.

Then AUDIOGALAXY came and to me, metal would never be the same. Through the wonders of audiogalaxy I got to know bands like Iced Earth, Nightwish, Stratovarius, Sonata Arctica, Gamma Ray, Children Of Bodom, Lost Horizon ... stuff you would NEVER hear on the radio or see on MTV. Man, I miss Audiogalaxy.

Iron Maiden, Rainbow & Scorpions.

Slipknot

But then i moved up the metal food chain, i swear.......

After Slipknot you'd need to first move onto the Metal foodchain.

Right, Ken?

I think Slayer and CoF were my first, that was about 3 years ago. Before that I listened to Linkin Park, Papa Roach and Blink 182

From Blink to Burzum was completed in a year's time. I listened a lot of extreme metal thereafter and moved onto kvlt black metal a bit later. Lift Your Skinny Fists Like Antennas To Heaven regained my interest in non-metal and after a short post-rock and black metal period, I started listening to freejazz and quickly all sorts of other styles. That was about the time when I didn't listen to metal anymore, with some exceptions. This was around the beginning of 2006. My tastes have grown much broader now.

And you're more of an elitist now than ever.

Someone start a "What band got you out of Metal?" thread.

Oh yes, certainly! But I'm also much more of an open mind. These things don't oppose eachother.