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Europe! when I was 4 years old

iron maiden!!!

My dad bought me a Stryper cd when i was 10. Not because my dad is cool, but because he had no idea what the hell he was doing. That was the first time i heard metal...i liked it but wasn't exactly sure what to do with it.

I discovered Sepultura when i was 13....oddly enough, the manner in which i discovered them was because they were on a Mortal Kombat soundtrack. I made everybody within 20 feet of me listen to it and then i bought Against and Chaos A.D. Then, i listened to nothing but Sepultura for a year.

Then I found the local metal scene and that was the beginning of the end.

As I recall, I believe The First Ones to enlighten me with this great scene of music, metal (to be exact; powermetal) were Stratovarius and Rhapsody. Since then I have extended the favorite ones to Nightwish, Sonata Arctica, Hammerfall.. and so on..

Iron Maiden..when i was 12

HvyMtlClickWitch wrote:
My dad bought me a Stryper cd when i was 10. .

Stryper rules! same as petra, I heard those bands when I was 4 I think

Metallica
Iron Maiden
Slayer
Scorpions
Stryper
Helloween
Running Wild
Ozzy
Motorhead
Venom
Anthrax
And many more in the early '80s...

Stratovarius and Gamma Ray.

I think that for an year i have listened only strato because i wasn't a metal head anymore

Then i decided to listen at some others bands and i jut loved Gamma Ray...

then i continued with Blind guardian,helloween,manowar,metallica,maiden etc...

Black Sabbath, Iron Maiden and Metallica.

Talking about heavy metal: Iron Maiden
But talking about power metal it was Rhapsody... With Legendary Tales..
o no, i think it was Stratovarius with Episode.,.. well i dont remember.

Black Sabbath and Led Zeppelin. Man I am old

The first bands I remember (yes, I do ) listening to were Kiss and Pink Floyd when I was two (2) years old! I loved the video clips! Then I listened to Twisted Sister, Quiet Riot, Alice Cooper and a lot of Glam Metal bands in early 80's.

I evolved to a higher level when I discovered Iron Maiden and Helloween on mid 80's, but I still liked some speed/thrash bands like Megadeth, Slayer and Metallica back then.

My highest evolution were on the mid 90's (Since '94 and still on going) when I found out the brilliant world of Power-Epic-Melodic-Neoclassic-Prog-Symphonic-Metal (I guess you may know a lot of bands that match this genres ) THE BEST MUSIC EVER!

Children of Bodom was the first.
Then I heard about Stratovarius and finally I heard songs called Paradise and Black Diamond (does anybody know?) and that's it.

First post on this forum even if I read it since few month.

I think the first band I listened to was Metallica. Then came System of a down, Nightwish, Strato, Dream Theater, Children of Bodom and many more.... Not sure of the order they came after Metallica.

First was Blind Guardian, then Children of Bodom, Angra and STRATOVARIUS. (Funny, this groups are still my favourite)

Iron Maiden. started off with them when i was 5 i think...my sister and my uncle responsible for that, heh.

First thing I listened to was HammerFall.
Then came all Power / Melodic - Bands like Sonata Arctica, Stratovarius etc.

I have just start listening metal... My first bands :

1. Graveland

2. Stratovarius (0wnz)

I was starting to listen to
Ozzy Osbourne.. I bought all his albums and listen to it 24.houres a day..
I begun to be tired, so i found Stratovarius Im glad that i found them.. So it start to go from Heavy Metal to Power Metal

Administrator wrote:Black Sabbath and Led Zeppelin. Man I am old

Don´t worry, age is a state of mind Besides, those are great bands

Blind Guardian.

RATT

CD which I bought first is RATT.
When I was Junior high student.

I started with Rata Blanca, a classic metal band from here (Argentina), but I really get on the business with Metallica...

Fenrir wrote:WHICH BANDS DID YOU HEAR FIRST?

I began listen to the metal from NAZARETH & SCORPIONS.
Also It was ARIA (one of the greatest Russian band).

Now I listen to the many groups (but thrash and power like the most)

I started with Blind Guardian and then it all came up....but BG is still the best in my eyes

Metallica - black album right after that one came Iron Maiden - Somwhere in time (has been my favorit album for a long time).

My first Metal band was none other than Iron Maiden then I went to Dio and then to Power Metal music starting with Kamelot

When I first started listening to Metal, AC/DC's "Back in Black" was hot. Also Metallica's "Ride the Lightning" and Black Sabbath's "Mob Rules"... early eighties stuff.

I became a serious metal-head when Iron Maiden emerged with the beautiful "Somewhere in Time."

Back then my favorite groups were Metallica, TestAmenT, Helloween, Exodus, King Diamond, Anthrax, Heathen, Venom, etc.

Nowadays my faves are Gamma Ray, Iron Maiden, Helloween, Nightwish, Lost Horizon, King Diamond, Mercyful Fate, and so on and so forth.

I was 11 years old when I listened to Nothing Else Matters by Metallica ...

Also I used to listen to Iron Maiden , Nirvana and most of all Led Zeppelin ...

I started with Maiden and AC/DC in 1983 ( Piece of Mind, Killers and Number... were my first tapes). Then I got into metal with the rest of Maiden albums, AC/DC, Motorhead, Metallica and Saxon.