^ I don't get it. Are Priest, UDO, and Entombed not metal?

maybe they are now "early" metal

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Jeez. No wonder most of you have to pretend to be into so much obscure unlistenable shit these days. Trying to counterbalance your MOR/Eurotechno pasts. Huey Lewis... Phil Collins... 2 Unlimited...

This is the best thread ever. No newbie on the forum need ever feel musically intimidated again.

I lurves ya, Billeh.


So, to answer a question raised, "How did you get to Dev":

Pink Floyd to Ozzy Osbourne to Europe to Steve Vai (important link...) to Dokken to Metallica to Pantera to Strapping Young Lad.

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WHAT IS THE MAGICKS?!?!?!? IT MAKES ME EARS SING!!!

You know, I mentioned Huey Lewis and The News earlier, and they were the first band I truly "followed," but really thinking back I have to credit Michael Jackson's "Thriller" and Prince's "1999" as being the two albums that really brought music to the forefront in my life. My parents raised me on country and classic "soft" rock. Later I learned my mom was into Zeppelin, Hendrix, Cream, and KIss, but my dad couldn't stand any of that, so I never heard it in the house.

My older brothers first turned me on to hard rock and metal, but I just wasn't interested in music until I saw Michael Jackson on tv, and saw how people reacted to him, and I then realized music could be more than just pretty noise. I realized it can affect people on a deeper, more personal level. I bought "Thriller," and the clerk at the record store recommended Prince, and from there I started to "discover" music.

I could write pages about my musical "growth," but I will stop now.

I think the first real band i got into was Metallica. I got Master of Puppets when i was about 8, and i remember walking around at primary school wearing an ...and justice for all tshirt. Then at the start of high school i got into Nirvana and soundgarden and all that 90's alternative scene. Then when i was 15 i got heavily into Vai and Satriani and for 5 years all i listened to was instrumental guitar stuff. All that changed when i discovered the Tea Party, Edges of Twilight changed the whole way i play guitar. I started getting back into heavy stuff when a friend showed me Animosity by Sevendust. Shortly after that i bought Accelerated Evolution, since then i haven't looked back. I wouldn't call myself a metalhead though, i don't listen to much metal cos most of it bores me. But i'll listen to anything once so, meh.

I got into metal when I was 10, after hearing Green Jellö and (later on) Metallica.
But before that it was 80's pop and what my mother listened to, which was 70's rock, power ballads and Bette Midler.

I was listening to whatever my parents would listen to. Which was The Beatles, Led Zeppelin, The Rolling Stones... the list goes on and on with Classic Rock. I did listen to some other stuff like Collective Soul, Extreme, Van Halen.... But that was pretty much it.

I got into metal when I was 15 and 16. I would say Fear Factory peaked my interest with Obsolete.