First metal moment

Maybe I'm crazy but I think there is a very special distinguising time when everyone is first introduced to heavy metal. For me it was when I was a freshman in high school and I was reading a issue of Revolver magizine in creative writing and there was this article about Blind Guardian rereleasing Battalions of fear and follow the blind. I was so enchanted by the cover art that I was imediately interested in the style of music( and for some reason I thought it was really cool for a metal band to come out of Germany singing about dungeons and dragons). At that point, I couldnt care less what it sounded like. This sparked my love for power metal which grew to loving thrash, death, and hardcore as well.

So, whats your first moment in metal?

I heard Stryper. That's all that I need to say.

Another One Bites The Dust - 1980 - I was 6 and fell in love with this song

Twisted Sister - Motley Crue - Quiet Riot - 1983 Kids in the neighborhood blasting tunes from their new albums! It felt so evil but man they were good songs!

Rez Band - Hostage especially the tune Attention 1984 - My first knowledge and exposure to Christian hard music.

Rush 1972 Fargo, ND!

Wargod48

Kiss/Rush/Mott/Alice Cooper - Emmaus, PA 1974

My best friend from 2nd grade turned me on to these artists and the rest is history.

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Rush 1972 Fargo, ND!

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Kiss/Rush/Mott/Alice Cooper - Emmaus, PA 1974

Uh....nevermind.......

Evile 2007 nuff said

I was in fifth grade and a friend's older brother was HUGE into Metallica and he gave his brother a two tapes (black album and a mix of Ride/Master) and I was hooked! Ah '94-'95 great year!

scottmitchell74 wrote:

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Rush 1972 Fargo, ND!

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Kiss/Rush/Mott/Alice Cooper - Emmaus, PA 1974

Uh....nevermind.......

These youngins ain't go no respect for their elders!

One guess what the 74 in my 'handle' means, Pops!


I was still a Zygote and you're headbanging. Rush in 1974! I can't even imagine!

well, the first metal album I ever heard was Killers by Iron Maiden

For a really great moment, one time I was listening to Sacrifice's Torment In Fire, and my mom came and out and smacked me upside the head, told me it was annoying as smurf poo haha

I was 18 months old and i broke the thermometer and sucked the mercury out clean...............

that was my 1st metal moment albeit a rather distasteful one at that!

I got into general rock at around age 13 through bands like Evanescense, Nickelback and especially Alien Ant Farm, and then a few months later, having been exposed to the epicness of 'Run to the Hills' and 'War Pigs' I was a devoted metal convert.

Getting KISS Destroyer as a new release in 76!

It was a bicycle spoke. I was 13. I was home alone.

The year was 1981. I was 11 years old and my parents' cable TV system added a new channel called "MTV" that had just gone on the air. My brother and I sat down to watch it for a while and Judas Priest's video for "Headin Out To The Highway" came on...

...that was all she wrote!!

I was at Creation '91 and my mom of all people got me the VHS tape HOT METAL IV from Intense Records. Good stuff. Go mom!

Hearing Turbo Lover by Judas Priest

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Creation '91

Is that the PA one?

I used to go to one at Clay's Park in Ohio - can't remember the name! 3 day long weekend! Loved that!

The first thing that comes to mind is hearing KISS-I Was Made for Lovin You when I was about 6.

my first metal moment was playing my parents AC/DC live album on a ghetto blaster in the basement thought Hells Bells was the coolest thing ever

after that it was when i first listened to Metallica's "Enter Sandman"
That was the only song I listened to for like a month i was just so awesome to me

man i'm gotta go listen to enter sandman now

it was only yesterday that i discovered how metal i was. i'm over it now though.

spectrefate wrote:

It was a bicycle spoke. I was 13. I was home alone.

ThrashedOutCobra33 wrote:

Hearing Turbo Lover by Judas Priest

So you guys were together? I'm confused.

wtf