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Post by Sponsored by Groose Wipes on Jan 16, 2015 12:25:23 GMT -5
My local rock radio station would always do a Metallica block every Saturday night from about 10-midnight. They even aired unedited versions of songs near the midnight block, f words and all. I have no idea how they did not get in trouble for that. Even back then being like 6 or 7 I could tell that Metallica was a band that was just on another level than what I've heard before.
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Post by PsychoGoatee on Jan 17, 2015 20:34:38 GMT -5
The black album, which my dad had on tape. A year or two later I got Master of Puppets, Lightning, and Justice on CD.
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Post by rand0mzer0 on Jan 17, 2015 20:37:37 GMT -5
The first time was going through my friend's CD book and seeing he had most of their studio albums in there. In class, one after another, I started listening to them and became a fan not long afterward. My first purchased Metallica album was St. Anger.
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Post by Dr. T is an alien on Jan 17, 2015 21:00:44 GMT -5
"For Whom the Bell Tolls", back in high school (Grade 10-11, so '85-86). Would hang out with a group of friends on weekends, one of whom was a metalhead and introduced me to the genre. Back then, around where I live, you had to know a little about the music or you'd get beat up at the bush parties for asking "Who is that?" I found out that there was a bit of a 'hierarchy' to the Big Four... knowing Metallica got you in the door, appreciating Megadeth got you a little respect, listening to Slayer kept the posers away, playing Anthrax made you a metal nerd. I preferred Anthrax. It was like Metallica was mad at the world, Megadeth was mad at... well, Metallica, and Slayer were like those weird kids that sat in the corner pulling wings off flies. Anthrax was the only group that were having fun and that's why I liked them. I also preferred Anthrax, pretty much for that reason. Seriously, a band that for shits and giggles makes a song about Judge Dredd on an album that references Steven King novels and has the creepy guy from Poltergeist on the cover? I'll have what they're having, please.
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Post by Viking Snad on Jan 17, 2015 21:26:47 GMT -5
I don't remember a time before listening to Metallica. I was born in 86, I assume as soon as I was able to walk my uncle was pelting my eardrums with Metallica and Pantera. So even though I was a bit late to the party, I have literally grown up with Metallica.
Good dude, my uncle.
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Post by adamclark52 on Jan 17, 2015 23:38:12 GMT -5
Sad But True on Muchmusic in 1991. I never liked Metallica until they released Until It Sleeps. I still don't like that song but I was listening to a lot of Slayer at the time. My friend played me Fight Fire With Fire and I fell in love with older Metallica, because it reminded me of Slayer and was so much better than their current stuff at the time.
Despite being a metalhead I've never really been into Metallica that much. I think it was because I was born too late (1980) and "coming of age" in the wrong decade (1990's). If I was a few years older I'd have been around for their rise and I'd probably look at them differently now.
I saw them live once on the 1997 tour with Jerry Cantrell and Days of the New.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 18, 2015 5:47:07 GMT -5
There was a point in my life when the Black Album seemed to appear out of nowhere. It was around 1999 or so, I was 13. I thought Enter Sandman was the baddest assed song that ever existed, and I took pride in knowing that Kid Rock's American Badass took the riff from Sad But True. Then I went back and got into the old stuff, wearing out my copies of Kill 'em All, Ride the Lightning (my favorite), and Master of Puppets. Never did like Justice though.
These days, for some reason a friend and I find them hysterically funny, to the point where we want to go see a Metallica cover band for the comedy.
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Post by 4real on Jan 18, 2015 8:44:03 GMT -5
Can't remember but it must have been when the U.K got the Kerrang music channel around 2000-01 so I'm guessing the first song I heard by them was either 'One', 'I Disappear', 'Enter Sandman' or 'Nothing Else Matters'.
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Post by JDviant on Jan 18, 2015 13:35:13 GMT -5
I'd heard them when I was younger, 10-11ish, but I didn't start listening to them alot until I was in high school and my buddies all loved them. I bought Black when I was 16 I think.
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Post by sebulba on Jan 18, 2015 17:01:57 GMT -5
I was given a really awful compilation tape of metal bands I knew very little about. On it was 'Whiplash'. Then the same friend gave me 'Ride the Lightning'. That was me, hooked. Later, I was lucky enough to go to see them on tour supported by Anthrax. Still love their early stuff...
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