What did you listen to growing up?

[d a m n ation!!!]

I was raised on what I knew what was called "fusion ".
I thought everyone listened to it, because it was just what was readily available at home. And then I found out that there are people that don't listen to ANY music whatsoever. Not a fucking thing!
I found that to be almost, well actually, pretty unsettling.
:

Rush, Frank Zappa, Aerosmith, Steve Vai, Alice Cooper, King Crimson, Yes, Asia, Pink Floyd, The Beatles, Al Di Meola, Genesis, Joe Satriani, David Bowie, Jimi Hendrix, Van Halen, Heart, Missing Persons, Eurythmics, Living Colour, Def Leppard, Peter Gabriel, Steve Morse, The Dixie Dregs, Todd Rundgren, Utopia, Stevie Ray Vaughan, Chick Corea, Thomas Dolby, Dream Theater, The Who, The Scorpions, Stu Hamm, Steve Hackett, Tommy Bolin, Jethro Tull, Eric Johnson, Steve Howe.

Well, not all of it is "fusion".
But this is what I grew up around. I don't like them all, but in that certain way I respect them all.

Anyone?

[blast_tyrant]

i was raised on my old mans blues collection.
Stuff like Stevie Ray Vaughan, BB king, John Lee Hooker, Dizzy Gillespy, Muddy Watters. I could speil on for hours.

But later found Abramelin and Damaged, and now here i am.

[Nazartum]

From the age of ten, I started listening to Berzerker, In Flames and that kinda stuff. And here I am. Two years... two fuckken years of metal.

From 6-9 I listened to rap and other that kinda stuff (oh yes thank you my brother). It was horrible, volume max, 2-Pac yelling "nigga shooting tha nine mm" for atleast 30min for his "preparation to getting out to party". And when he got home, he waked me by playing Snoop, Notorious B.I.G etc. 2m away from my bed.

And Im not a rap-racist or nothing. That's just how it is.


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[Skin Bed]

I was brought up on Carcass, Morbid Angel, and Cannibal Corpse.

[Bestial_hero]

No matter how hardcore you think you are, there is someone who wants to smash your head with a cinder block.

when i was a wee lad i listened to Bob Dylan and Paul Simon quite a bit. then i went on to listen to Metallica and Rob Zombie through elementary school. i discovered Cannibal Corpse and Napalm Death in Junior High.

[HumanWaste]

Steve Vai, Rush, Megadeth, Metallica, Slayer, Anthrax, Testament, Rush, Blue Oyster Cult, Aerosmith, KISS, Motley Crue, Poison, Whitesnake, Cinderella

[Braintechnician]

i grew up on rap.still listen to like 1 or 2 rappers but mostly this one rapper too short.ive been listen to metal since i was like 7 or 8.it was more like nu-metal/trash metal mostly korn,limp and slayer.damn i was listening to slayer at that age but i never like metallica never really shook my fance.hehehe:D

[SSJ2 Vegeta]

I'm only 15, so I'm still growing up technically, lol

I wasn't big on music as a kid, but what I did listen to was rap, being as how I lived in a black neighborhood, that was the top kind of music there.

But now, I listen to bands like Slipknot, MuDvAyNe, Stone Sour, Twisted Method, The Berzerker, DevilDriver, Mushroomhead, Pantera, DamagePlan, some Metallica and KoRn, and this local band called Shrowd kicks ass too.

[Braintechnician]

Originally posted by SSJ2 Vegeta
I'm only 15, so I'm still growing up technically

I lived in a black neighborhood, that was the top kind of music there.
im 14 so metal has been around with me porbably a couple of months less than half my life.shit rap was because i lived in a black neighborhood 2 but im like after a few years rap wasnt my thing

[berzerker bass]

Killer VR sig, HumanWaste.

Started off when I was a kid making tapes of music from games off my friend's commodore64 - stuff like parralax, monty mole, last ninja, etc. Got a load of shit from people for listening to "computer music"!! Funny one to look back on.

Hit a big gangsta-rap phase at 15...mostly NWA.

Got into Aerosmith's 'P.U.M.P' soon after. Then Slayer's ''Reign in Blood'. Then Kreator's "Coma of Souls". Then Metallica. Then I heard Morbid Angel's "Blessed Are The Sick" and that's when it all started.

[SSJ2 Vegeta]

Yeah, I got into metal about last summer, maybe early fall. I started with Disturb's "The Sickness" and then Drowning Pool's "Sinner".

Then I watched the Slipknot "My Plague" video on my Resident Evil DVD, and lsitened to some stuff my friend has on her comp such as Wait and Bleed. I then went off to buy Iowa and loved the album, and I still do. Then I just started to explore more with metal to see what other bands there are, and her I am, lol.

[OldMetalHead]

*sigh* Well...time to show my age!

It started with Black Sabbath, Deep Purple, Led Zeppelin, etc.

I was around 3 to 5 years old when this was the "extreme" stuff. I also listenend to the Beatles, Stones, the Who (RIP Ox). Also got into the commercial crap of the 70's.

Then in '77 or '78, my brother bought an album from some group called the Ramones. He hated it, I could not stop listening to it! This was incredibly fast, intense, hardcore stuff for a 7 year old!

So, the '80s brought all the punk, the early HC bands, the NWOBHM invasion, electronic overload and new wave. I can't even begin to list all the bands!

If I can claim any one band that got me into what was, is, and will be metal...I would say the Ramones. Sure, it wasn't lyrically complex or musically challenging, but it was just intense, fast, and a d@mn good time.

/steps off the soap-crate

PS: I'm going to be 35 this year. Considering the majority of people I run into on the 'net are under 25, I feel like the old man mos times!

[Illuminati]

0 to 7
-Garth Brooks
-Alan Jackson
8-9
-KC and Jo Jo
-Backstreet Boys
-Spice Girls
10-12
-Korn
-Morbid Angel
-Pantera
-Aaliyah
13-now
-the "extreme" stuff

[Braintechnician]

oh yeah dudes and dudettes i cant forget bout techno ive been listening to it since i was like 5.than i stopped for like a year before i turned 14 dont know why then berzerker popped up and it got me back into techno but im not into it like u was before

[Rhan-Tegoth]

0-8
I started out listening to classical music. I was really big on film scores and was always listening to John Williams, Danny Elfman, and Basil Poledouris.
9
I got into rap music.
10
I discover heavy metal.
14
I started listening to Rob Zombie, Powerman 5000, Staind, and Static-X (atrocious, I know).
15
I started listening to Fear Factory, Sepultura, and Slipknot (slightly better).
16, I got into death metal and black metal.
18
I've currently been listening to The Berzerker, Napalm Death, Kataklysm, Deicide, Morbid Angel, Cannibal Corpse, In Flames, Dark Tranquillity, At the Gates, The Haunted, Opeth, The Crown, Terrorizer, Bolt Thrower, Mayhem, Immortal, Cradle of Filth, Children of Bodom, Dimmu Borgir, Bathory, Emperor, Nightwish, Lacuna Coil, Sinergy, Nuclear Assault, Slayer, Megadeth, Sepultura, Otep, and Necromicon.

[Sledgehammer]

Hail to my old man who was constantly listening to Deep Purple, Led Zep, Black Sabbat and all that stuff.

Then it was Metallica and Sepultura (I didnnt quite like Slayer back then)

But in 1991 I heared Unleashed and that was it:

Morbid Angel
Napalm Death
Deicide
Suffocation

But I heared Blind Guardian and it has become the fuckin best band for me ever since.

[d a m n ation!!!]

Wow, I forgot Danny Elfman, he's the shit. The Sleepy Hollow soundtrack is really good, but my first one was Batman, I was 8 years old. I wish I still had the Danny Elfman volume 1, the Face like a frog song, I used to love, I haven't heard that song in years, (wacky).
Good shit.

My first cd was in 1987 I think, and it was Def Leppard's Hysteria. When cd's used to come in big paper/cardboard boxes.

I was in a Queen phase for almost 3 years in middle school. Thank you Wayne's World.

I heard a lot of Industrial stuff I suppose, in High School. The usual. Nine inch nails, Front line assembly, Laibach, Front 242. Then other stuff, Marilyn Manson, Prick, PIL, shit I can't even remember now. It all got really boring though, I was disappointed that I wanted a specific sound, that I could never find.
I liked some metal, but I dreadfully hated excessively long guitar solos, and Ronnie James Dio vocals. I suppose I just couldn't handle it. And death metal sounded like a bunch of noise to me, I didn't like it either. I didn't yet have the ear for it.
I think the first really cool thing I ever heard was Ministry's Psalm 69, it was that sound that I was looking for, almost.

I can go on, but another day...

Seeing Rush this summer though, i've never seen them before! It will be awesome. And this time i'm not getting trashed, like at King Crimson, and becoming a fool. Sometimes, it's not the greatest thing to know the bartender...:p

[Iron_Chamber]

I'm only 15, so im still growing up.
my dad got me listening Judist Preist, Metallica,
Infa-Riot,Gonkulator, Naplam Death. Then i discoverd Black Metal at the age of 13, what a magical time that was. So now my im in to Death Metal, Black Metal and Industrial.

[dave salmon]

Well i started on stuff like Johnny C. Clark, George thorough-good, ELO, just the general stuff my parents listened to. Then i went on to a stage where i listened to nothing that went on for about 1-2 years until i was about 7-8. then i got in to iron maiden, old chillis, poisen, alice cooper (i know those two were out before i was born but my broter was listening ot them at the time so i stole his CD's!), early offspring, mac lads, madness, prodigy, skunka nansie, lots of oters. Then as i assume for many others here the shite hit the fan and the rap phase came in to play. I was listening to eminem, D12, Dr dre, cypress hill, all sorts. Well then i got to the age of 12/13 and i met a nice man called Dafunkmeister (as you may know him on this site). He got me in to deftones, slipknot, korn, inflames, deicide, the list goes on. Then finally i found all the rest of the extreme metal world (other than deicide that is) and now here i am at the grand old age of 16 going on 17 (pretty soon!). And that was my life story, hope you enjoyed it, yeah right...............:D

[restinpiss]

-Michael Jackson
-Guns N Roses
-Slayer
-Pantera

Then somewhere along the lines i got a hold of Cannibal Corpse Eaten Back To Life and it all took off from there!!

[Benihana]

I mostly grew up on Classical, Bach, Mozart, Chopin, Vivaldi (still into it), and I have no idea how I got into Death Metal...

[d a m n ation!!!]

It was January 1997, I had this friend at High School and he made me a mix tape of some metal stuff.

His name was David.

Thank you David.

A little Cannibal Corpse (tomb of the mutilated), Deicide (once upon a cross), Traces of Death 4 soundtrack. There was a song on there called "Hatework" by Morbid Angel off of Domination, and that is the song that started it all for me. And also "Brainpan Blues" by Pungent Stench. :p

[Plain Human]

Started with emperor,satyricon,ildjarn,isengar... mostly old norsk svart metal.Then i heard berzerker and carcass and fell in love.Now i listen many tipes of music,i still love old school black,nsbm,old school trash,grind,death and bands like Today is the day and Mastodon.Berzerker is my favourite band and temnozor

[d a m n ation!!!]

Mastodon is good stuff...

[Ne[r]d]

I grew up with my father's obsession with Bob Dylan and Led Zep, and some 70s hard rock from my mother.

I still remember stealing LPs from my parents' collection when I was 7 or 8 years old - in fact, I think the first album I ever bought was ACDC's "The Razor's Edge". From there it went onto Slayer, Metallica and a few other bands like that, and I've progressed from there.

[S.Y.L]

when i was 14/15 i was into cannibal corpse,the berzerker,dimmu borgir,carcass,nile,slayer,opeth now im 16 and into Slipknot,stonesour,strapping young lad,mudvayne,snot,alice in chains,metallica,nirvana,pink floyd.

[lil_andy]

My brother was into metal, so he infuenced my taste in music. Grew up on Brujeria, Brutal Truth, Nailbomb, Monster X. Speaking of Monster X, if anyone has a CD by them contact me! They are impossible to find.

[Thorshammer]

I started with hip hop and dance. Then it went onto GnR then Metallica then Sepultura. Then I discovered Nile and the whole metal scene exploded with bands like Morbid Angel, Mortician and The Berzerker which I only came across by accident, while surfing the net. There are loads of other bands I could name but that would take all day.

[Priest]

My chilhood is something im not prowd of. I had some backstreet boys and stuff around the age of 7. human nature aswell. i then got into regurgitator, mighty might boss tones(i think thats it) and similar bands. i progressed to blink 182 and after about 6 months found myself thinking i was fucking mad listening to rap.
I finally went to limp bizcuit and worked up to slipknot around the time iowa was released. i was introduced to the berzerker by a friend which was my introduction to death metal. i was into immortal and dimmu borgir for a little while but now am stuck on grindcore, death metal and gothenburg.

[emperadorXXIV]

I never bought cds till I was about 15. I started with... Coal Chamber. My best mate was a real metal head and forcibly made me listen to good metal. I love that dude so much. I mean, not Coal Chamber cos they're not real metal but I began with Coal Chamber.... then Pantera... now everything.

[Iron_Chamber]

i was born next to a amp, then i was stapled to it and kicked into a Venom concert, i then bled to death, so they cloned me and i lived a normal life.
the end.

[Carcass]

well i used to listen rap 'till i was 13. then i bought a guitar and got into Metallica, after that Cannibal Corpse and berzerker.

Around 14-15 came Hardcore Techno and grindcore.

And 16-17 Came some Thrashy hardcore punk.

[berzerk]

INTERESTING !!...
many people listening Rap

I never liked Rap.

[assimilate]

well started off when i bought an iron maiden tape for a pound when i was 8 and never stopped listenign to it, then grew up listening to things like that motorhead and then the prodigy when fat of the land came out, at school just went ontot hings like korn slayer slipknot and machine head and slowy progressed to things like cradle carcass and the more obscure industrial side!!!!

[Incendius]

For me i grew up with pretty much Sepultura and Fear Factory. Now i listen to so much shit i can name them all. No rap what so ever. No Emo or Punk or w/e that other crap is that sound like little girls

[Choronzon]

Born in '81, which makes me 24.

As a kid I listened to mostly pop/rock sort of stuff: Aerosmith, Bryan Adams, etc.

From my twelveth I got into commercial punk, bands like The Offspring, early Green Day. Quickly grew tired of that as it lacked a certain amount of aggression I was looking for.

Around my 14th I got introduced by Metallica through my older brother (who was growing towards a more alternative/grunge interest). Early Metallica instantly hit off with me, Slayer, Pantera and Sepultura were bound to follow. Got through that.

Few years later accidently I got two badly recorded tapes through a friend. One containing "World Demise" (Obituary) & "Breeding the Spawn" (Suffocation). The other: "Dream Deceiver" (Dead Head) and "Turn Loose the Swans" (My Dying Bride) - hardly surprising to say, I was hooked now to the more extreme forms of metal out there.

Been into death metal ever since. The last years my interest in extreme forms of doom has grew geometrically.

[KillYourMother]

since i was born till i was like 11, i used to listen to classic rock n roll (zeppelin, sabbath, floyd, etc..) thanks to my mom and old thrash/death thanks to my cousins. then i got into newer bands like guns n roses and rammstein (big fan of both). then just got into death and black metal when i was around 13 and then it all opened up for me :D

[Raziel4707]

Listened to AC/DC since i was five (Thanx mum), Sabbath, The Offspring, Guns and Roses and Wycleff Jean since i was about 11 or twelve, then got into Slipknot, slayer, dimmu Borgir, Soulfly and The Berzer when i was about fifteen. always liked all kinds of music, mainly metal but i listen to Frank Sinatra quite often too

[LittleThrashGirl]

i was brought up on the classics, like the eagles, the beatles, richard marx ect, i sorta stumbled on metallica about 7 years ago and from there it was a slippery slope, it went onto such as pantera and slayer, then found my Slipknot obbsession about 1999, , but what really lead me to my current tastes of Carcass, decapitated and morbid angel type stuff was someone sending me cannible rights i think about 3 -4 years ago. Fucking awesome, my dad still hates the fact i listen to it lol

[Sledgehammer]

My flat is facing the railway, all the childhood I played on the railway and that's why I love metal : ))))))
Around '89 (when I was 6) I my elder bro brought a tape with Schizofrenia and Master of Puppets on each side - and that was it.
Then in '91-92 there were Unleashed and Napalms, my first DM bands.

[Carcass]

Originally posted by berzerk
INTERESTING !!...
many people listening Rap

I never liked Rap.

I used to like rap. then the "music" just started to sound like absolute shite and the ideology of the rappers seemed wrong to me. drugs and shit.

[Lord Julian]

I was brought up with a lot of classic rock and classical.

[Carcultura]

Well it all started with Korn really, I nicked my brothers copy of the self titled, this was at age 9. Then I got into slipknot when I heard them on some Dragonballz music vids. Than in about 2001 when I was about 10/11 I saw a review that said This band THe berzerker is heavier than slipknot and Im like "I MUST HAVE THIS" and I bought and from there I got into carcass, Morbid angel. I also got heavily into old school sepultura aswell, and slayer. After that I met a bloke from sydney who got me into all the good shit, Disgorge, Zyklon, Exhumed, Nile, Hate Eternal, Immortal etc etc
I gradually got myself into other bands like Mastodon, lethargy ( technical metal band with brann dailor and Bill) Immolation and a heap of other shit. Now I'm getting into as much different stuff, listen to anything from Dillinger escape plan to Enslaved to the berzerker. BRUTAL !

[oRe]

from... 4 to 8 or nine i listened to what my parents listened to. mostly things like queen or deep purple and so on.
from 9 i listened to rap. that was a bad time :(
when i was 13 or 14, i discovered that limp bizkit somehow sounded cool, so i bought the chocolate and so on cd. that drove me to korn, orgy, slipknot and so on.
with 15 i startet listening to bands like otep, soil, fear factory, little atrocity, machine head, coal chamber
and with end 16 beginning 17 i started listening to jack slater, the berzerker, iniquity, and so on...
now (nearly 18) i mostly listen to bands like in flames, dark tranquility, as i lay dying, six reasons to kill, killswitch engage etc.

[acculja]

Originally posted by d a m n ation!!!
Mastodon is good stuff...

Amen to that.

I started out with James Taylor when I was like three, then some Beatles, then the Offspring, then the Police, then Van Halen, then my friend's older brother got me listening to System of a Down when their first album came out, ...and then I started listening to Black Sabbath.

Ever since then, I've been listening to Rush, Deep Purple, Sabbath, Metallica, Slayer, In Flames, Ozzy, Black Label Society and everything else Zakk Wylde has done, Cannibal Corpse, Carcass, Morbid Angel, MASTODON!!!, BERZERKER!!!, Megadeth, NILE!!!, AC/DC, Guns N' Roses, Iron Maiden, Judas Priest, Jimmy Hendrix,Led Zeppelin, Pantera, Damage Plan, Rage Against the Machine, and Napalm Death.

[d a m n ation!!!]

Jesus, this thread, it still exists???

When I was in middle school, I liked some of the rap stuff. But little did I know that "Snap" wasn't really considered rap to that extent.
"I've got the power!"

I was in 7th grade. And I listened to Jesus Jones, I cannot hide, it any longer. I am not however, ashamed.

When I turned about 15 - 16 I decided that I didn't listen to that "shit" any more and sold/got rid of:
All my Queen cd's. This was more than one dozen. Even the imports, the fucking imports!
Any New Order or anything that might be gay. Not homo gay, just mostly gay spirited, or, happier that I as a human, am.
All my Def Leppard.
What else???...

When I turned 17 - 18 I decided again that I wouldn't listen to whatever it was I had:
Lords of Acid, Marilyn Manson, Nine Inch Nails halos 1 - 10, Prick, Pop Will Eat Itself, Skinny Puppy.

By the time I was 19 I had gained great cd's. What I thought was better, the best ever, Cannibal Corpse the bleeding/butchered at birth, Deicide once upon the cross, Sepultura beneath the remains. Etc.

Noticing any genre pattern?

But after all these years, I am sad that I sold most of that stuff.
I still have "Skinny Puppy's too dark park" which is scratched to hell, but still enjoyable.
Ten years I've had that cd.

Even though it fueled the cash to buy cd's I would receive in years to come, I miss much of it, even if one whole cd was terrible, yet had one great song.

Example: New Order's "republic". I just re-bought it for $3, and paid for one song on it called "avalanche". The rest I decided, I couldn't really listen to very much, if I did at all.

Now I listen to a lot of things. I like the eclectic mix, and not the same old only

one
style
of
music.

Because all that is really doing,
is minimizing your potential of finding something you might like even more than the norm...

[BerzerkCorpse]

I am still growing up also. My musical tastes are still changing.

When I was really young, my dad played a bunch of classic rock around me. I can remember rocking out to Space Trucking by Deep Purple. I didn't seek out to listen to my own music until I was 9. From 9-11 I was a rap fan. I got into System of a Down at 12 and I have been into metal ever since.

I thinks its really weird how most metalhead liked rap at some point.

[Raziel4707]

i did do a bit of an axe job on a lot of my cd's (i actually did shoot one of my old albums, republica or some shit like that) but ive always been into metal in some way, my tastes have just kept getting heavier, hence my presence here. all i know is that there were two kinds of cd's in my house as a child, ac/dc and sabbath or alison moyet and shania twain! i made my choice and dammit im sticking to it

[charlie]

being just 16 now.......

age 5 i got a free wheelin' tape from a woman called rose, with a bunch of old biker songs on it. my huge taste in rock and metal music started from that age in 1998 i started listening to "mate. feed. kill. repeat" by slipknot (the first EP before corey jonied and a few other members, when they were only a 5piece), i then heard paranoid by black sabbath on the radio and got that album some time soon, keep in mind i wasnt ten yet. by 2000 i was introduced to bands such as napalm death and carcass... up to the present day:

the berzerker, morbid angel, at the gates, gorgoroth, blood has been shed....

and some hardcore/screamo -------> real stuff not silverstein

so yea basically metal has been in my blood since age 5, 11 years