Heavy Metal

[VaDirt]

OK, I know there's at least one other guy on here that listens to Metal music. Show your hands, and list your favorites.

Mine, in no particular order:

Opeth
Judas Priest
Black Sabbath
Iron Maiden
Dio
Metallica
Iced Earth
Slayer

 

[mike honcho]

Pantera
Ozzy
Metallica
Dio

 

[FOURISIS]

rush
zebra
van halen
stixs

 

[#17D500winner]

I started listening to Sabbath and Ozzy/Rhoads in the early 80's (my parents didn't really care for that) and kind of progressed to hair metal bands of the decade.

Whenever I get in the mood I still toss on some Ozzy or Sabbath and every once in a while some early Metallica...maybe even Cinderella now and again.

I guess I should also add the Scorpions to my list.

 

[Bucky Badger]

Dokken
Twisted Sister
Dio
Jackyl
Skid Row
Def Leppard

 

[buckaroo]

My first heavy metal band was Jimi Hendrix. Next came Led Zepplin. Of course Black Sabboth. I guess I was into heavy metal before it was classified as heavy metal.

Speaking of which, I just watch the unauthorized bio of Led Zepplin tonight. Didn't get to hear any music but sure learned a lot.

On this same subject, what is you very first favorite heavy metal song? I guess I would have to say Purple Haze for myself.

 

[nascage]

In no particular order:

Disturbed
Sevendust
Van Halen (not Van Hagar)
Judas Priest
Dio
Ozzy
Whitesnake
Five Finger Death Punch
Iron Maiden
Queensryche
Pantera
Metallica
......and on, and on, and on ....

Someone put up a thread for country music, R & B, or whatever, and I could go on, and on, and on .....


I love everything!

 

[mike honcho]

I have to add
Kiss
Ted Nugent

 

[nascage]

Jethro Tull has Metallica's vote, I'm sure.

 

[Mopardh9]

Disturbed
Sevendust
All That Remains
Godsmack
System of a Down
White Zombie
Trivium
Static X
Just a few of them.

 

[Benevolent One]

I guess it depends on your idea of Heavy Metal (also in no particular order)

Red
Iron Maiden
Skillet
Ratt
Pillar
Cinderella
Dio
Scorpions
Guns n Roses
Motley Crue
Queensryche

I also like harder rock that I wouldn't consider "metal" myself like...

Staind
Three Days Grace
Creed
Nickelback
Joan Jett
Flogging Molly
Audio Adrenaline
Nazareth

 

[be9ak7ts16]

In 1972 I heard Sabbath's NIB for the first time. I was hooked. Wasn't to keen on the Hair Metal bands.

 

[VaDirt]

My first heavy metal band was Jimi Hendrix. Next came Led Zepplin. Of course Black Sabboth. I guess I was into heavy metal before it was classified as heavy metal.

Speaking of which, I just watch the unauthorized bio of Led Zepplin tonight. Didn't get to hear any music but sure learned a lot.

On this same subject, what is you very first favorite heavy metal song? I guess I would have to say Purple Haze for myself.

Scorpions, The Zoo. My high school had a smoking area (where not just cigarettes were smoked....) around 1980. There was a big kind over covered loading dock behind the building where the smoke area was, and someone had it playing on their boom box pretty loud, so that killer riff blasted out. I just thought it kicked absolute ass, and have been a metalhead since.

 

[VaDirt]

In 1972 I heard Sabbath's NIB for the first time. I was hooked. Wasn't to keen on the Hair Metal bands.

Hair/Glam Metal. Some of what was called hair metal was fantastic, some not so much. Poison...not so much.

 

[Benevolent One]

Hair/Glam Metal. Some of what was called hair metal was fantastic, some not so much. Poison...not so much.

I feel ya there. I was a big metal fan in the 80's, as you may be able to tell by the leftovers on the list I posted above. Motley Crue and those guys are why I learned to play guitar. The first concert I bought tickets for was Motley Crue opening for Ozzy around 1984 or so. I never could stand Poison or several of those bands though.

 

[Mopardh9]

Out all those you guys mention maybe a few would actually be condsidered Metal. Metallica, Doken, and Skillet I'd consider Metal, the rest are just rock bands, none of the hair bands of the 80s were heavy metal bands.

 

[VaDirt]

Out all those you guys mention maybe a few would actually be condsidered Metal. Metallica, Doken, and Skillet I'd consider Metal, the rest are just rock bands, none of the hair bands of the 80s were heavy metal bands.

Sure they were, it's called "Glam Metal." That's the great thing about metal, are the sub-genres. It's a pretty wide range

 

[buckaroo]

This reminds me of the year 1969. I was on a small island off the Okinawan coast, stationed in the Air Force. Okinawa had two English speaking radio stations, one military owned and the other a privately owned station. The privately owned station would play music that was popular with the GI's and mostly that was rock. However, during second and third shifts, the trend would change from time to time. One night while I was working the graveyard shift, the station asked for callers to say what they wanted to hear...heavy metal or country. My partner and I, able to sit at the telephone switchboard, called constantly and voted for heavy metal. If I remember right, we won. We would put the entire compound on the radio and now and then "turn it up". Got a few complaints from the old lifers, but even the commander of the detachment gave us the thumbs up. When the song "Ina Goda Divida" came on, the volume went way up. At that time, besides Hendrix, Led Zepplin, The Who and more were tops.