[masters_throne]

[CR99]

[DESECRATOR777]

IM 36 YEARS OLD.
FIRST METAL LP'S I HEARD [I WAS 7] BLACK SABBATH PARANOID, KISS DESTROYER, RAINBOW RISING, DEEP PURPLE BURN.

[Guest]

24. My mother's favorite band has been Metallica for as long as I can remember (in fact, for her 50th birthday recently my sister and I bought her tickets to go see them for her first time. Even though there was a lot of garbage played, they opened with "Battery" and this pleased her greatly). I remember my mom's stoner buddies teaching me and their own sons what it meant to "air guitar" and "headbang" when I was about five, while listening to Blizzard of Ozz. When I hit puberty, there was this other kid in my neighborhood who gave me a Pantera cd, and not long afterward my mom came home from the grocery store with the December '96 copy of Metal Maniacs (which I had never heard of and had never asked for) with the explanation that it looked like something I would like. Inside I found out about mailorder distros and read about this guy named Quorthon. And it just continues getting bleaker every fucking year!

[CR99]

hey my father played in a thrash band when i was 5,6 and i was in their room, sometimes i was allowed to play on the drums for fun he he. he was into slayer and metallica a lot.
that was pretty cool i still remember one part of one of their own songs their practised, it was ok from my view today but unfortunately i forgot what the bands name was.

[Nocturnal Deathstrike]

[kängnäve]

I'm 34. I'm mostly into hardcore/punk these days, but I still listen to old school metal and I used to be heavily involved in the death metal tape trading scene of the late 80s/early 90s.

The metal album that changed my life was Slayer's "Reign in Blood" back when it came out in 1986. I was 13, and I can't think of a better record as an introduction to extreme/underground music.

[The_Elite]

29 years young, and like most Englanders I got into metal through Maiden- mainly through a friends brother and his mates who were a few years older and had long hair/ leather jackets etc (when I was about 13/14).

There are plenty of you out there that put my metal knowledge to shame, and are a lot younger than me. Bastards.

[dronevil]

i turned 18 about 2 weeks ago

[thrashbeast]

29 here.

[illomen]

[Guest]

i'm 16

[Mitch339]

im 19...was always mostly into punk rock and got into metal from watching Skate Videos and liked what I heard (I was about 12 at the time and heard stuff like Dimmu Borgir) eventually searched for more and more dark stuff, ended up being obsessed with Black Metal for about 3 years (Emperor, Mayhem, Darkthrone, Graveland, Krieg, Absurd, Burzum), but as time has gone on, I have broadened my interest into mostly all types of metal and some non-metal aswell. (Dark Ambient, Neofolk, etc..)

[Guest]

Hails, I'm 29 and my first taste in Metal was in '84 when I saw the Twisted Sister video for "We're not gonna take it" and it changed my life. I was only 6 but I swore I would one day look and be like the people in the video. I guess it was the whole rebellious thing or something but then again even as a kid I was always into the dark side of things, even my favourite cartoons I always cheered for the bad guys. I would eventually start to listen to Metal for real around mid '87 with stuff like def leppard and crap like that but within a couple of months I've been introduced to Iron Maiden, King Diamond, Slayer and stuff. Been in the scene for 20 years and counting....No I don't think I'll ever grow up or out of it. Unfortunately I grew up in Guatemala which means exposure was hard and buying things in the 80s was out of the question for me, so as soon as I moved to Canada in Oct. '91 I started my collection for real.

[Guest]

23 but I have the same problem of Avenger eheh