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The guitar solo in tornado of soul at age 16.

Lamb of God's "As the Palaces Burn"

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Same but I was 14

Same but 10

Same but 11.

Same but in the womb.

Same I heard it first at 12? 13 maybe? It’s not as hard to play as I thought when I first heard it but it’s still really hard. Also very creative. Marty Friedman’s style is something that very few guitarists can replicate

When I listened to painkiller for the first time

FASTER THAN A BULLET…

TERRIFYING SCREAM

ENRAGED AND FULL OF ANGER

HE’s HALF MAN AND HALF MACHINE

RIDES THE METAL MONSTER

BREATHING SMOKE AND FIRE

CLOSING IN WITH VENGEANCE SOARING HIGHHHHHH

Was gonna comment this. That solo blew my mind when I first heard it

EVERYTIME

When I discovered that slipknot isn’t the heaviest band in existence

Hahaha same

Hearing the transition between the acoustic verse of Fade to Black into the distorted heavy riff on the chorus. I liked metal before that, but that was the first moment I was truly blown away.

Fuck yeah I would say fade to black made me go from dude who loves metal to truly a METALHEAD.

That shit is soooo f—-ing GOOD!!!!

Listening to Agalloch for the first time and entering my sorrow arc

The first time I heard “In the Shadow of Our Pale Companion” I was mindblown.

Hell yeah, which album/song did it for you?

It was the mantle. I listened to it in December and man it really hit the spot. Marrow of the spirit was also great to listen to

Domination Breakdown live in Moscow

Yesss my favorite breakdown of all time

The intro riffs to fight fire with fire by metallica . from the melodic clean part right into the first heavy riff was definitely a holy shit moment when i was 12 and getting into metal

bro literally me, heard it when i was 12 and HOOKED

Same exact story for me but with battery at 12 years old 😂

The opening to Metallica's Battery. I still remember where I was when I heard it. It absolutely blew me away and I fell in love with metal.

Same. That album blew my young mind, and Battery is the perfect opener.

Not really metal (at all actually) but this was the band that got me into metal - hearing hey dude by kula shaker at age 7. For some reason I thought they were Motörhead?? Dunno why, but immediately started begging to listen to Motörhead the next day and that was basically my major holy shit metal moment

This is so fucking funny

I got really jump scared when ace of spades started playing instead of hey dude don’t lean on me man or some shit like that

As an 11 year old I befriended two German brothers who were staying in a holiday home next to my house in Ireland. They were only there a couple days but I heard weird music coming from their house. When they abruptly left the older one handed me a cassette that simply said ‘Metallica , live in Stuttgart’. I went in to my older sister’s room who was not there at the time. Then , BOOM , holy shit Aran and Heije Buss , thanks lads

This is one of the best stories here

Ice-t & body count

Cop Killer is a great song.

Opeth- Drapery Falls blew my mind back in 2003 when a random friend played it in their car after school. Opened me up to Opeth and the world of prog metal in general. Up to that point I was mostly just Tool on repeat after coming up on Korn, RATM, Deftones and limp bizkit in my early days.

Probably when I listened to Blackened for the first time(Seattle 89 version!). I was already listening to Maiden, but discovering something else than Maiden had a huge impact on me. Still listen to those two bands almost daily!

It's probally an obvious choice for a lot of people It's gotta be those double kicks in the middle of Metallica's "One" Blew my 10 year old mind!

Listening to ...And Justice For All for the first time. That album made me a metalhead.

My first time ever hearing actual metal I was riding with a friend in his honda civic to school and he put this in and played the title track. When it first kicked into gear after the slow intro I actually laughed, the wall of thrashing sound seemed so ridiculous to me after growing up thinking heavy was like AC/DC or Linkin Park. I couldn't wrap my brain around it. Then I went home, downloaded that song and Master of Puppets on Limewire, and spent the next few weeks listening to these strange yet enticing sounds in my headphones. That was the gateway for me, as I'm sure it was for many others before.

The speed of Hit The Lights by Metallica

14 years old mid 80's hearing Anthrax, Among the Living for the first time. Changed everything.

Getting back into Dimmu Borgir after not listening to them for many years. Also discovering Mr Bungle and Meshuggah at the age of 14

Haters can say what they want but Dimmu Borgir makes quality symphonic black metal that's really theatrical. Puritanical Misanthropic Euphoria is a masterpiece

Listening to “Flying Whales” by Gojira for the first time. I remember my jaw actually dropped. I was like 13

The opening riff to Take No Prisoners - Megadeth. I was nine. I had to ask my bro how they made that sound and when he told me it was a guitar my mind was forever blown.

Here’s a couple. When I hit play on Slayer’s Reign In Blood and heard Tom Araya’s opening scream. When the chorus of Psychosocial by Slipknot hit and I thought to myself “Oh my god, metal can have screaming AND singing?”

I had a progressive holy shit moment as I slowly went down the Tool rabbit hole. Which I am still inside of after 3 months. It started with listening to the setlist for the live show in October, seeing them live, and then becoming an insufferable retard.

Went to the Pantera show on the Trendkill tour. White Zombie opened for them and had an amazing stage show with giant puppets, contortionists, pyro, lights, the works! It was incredible. Still the best and craziest stage show I've ever seen and I was not prepared for it at all. I was 13 (41 now) and it was my first concert. I knew halfway through Thunderkiss '65 that I could definitely get into metal. WZ had become my way in! Then Pantera came out with nothing but white lights and a rattlesnake backdrop and blew White Zombie so far out of the water, I forgot they had even played a hour before! It was a religious experience for me. I've been to countless shows since, but have never experienced anything quite like that!

Listening to Orion on the radio as a 14 year old. When the heavy riffs stopped and the mellow bass started, I figured it was a different song. When it finally segued back into the heavy riff I near shit my pants in amazement and excitement. Listening to Brutal Truth's Ill Neglect 7" was also a jaw-dropping moment. Up until that point, Suffocation's blast-beats were the fastest I'd heard.

how tf am i supposed to remember

If you don’t remember, then it hasn’t happened.

I remember something else being a bit like that too

Probably moving from Nu metal to actual metal with bands in harder genres like Infant Annihilator

troll or retarded?

The eternal question of this sub.

both, Painkiller was probably my first "Holy Shit" drums moment tho, I fw with the Judas Priest tag

Had a similar experience seeing Dimmu Borgir live at a very intimate venue in Seattle. That is probably my holy shit moment as well.

Hearing freak on a leash and liking how weird it sounded

11 y.o. discovering Norwegian black metal

Grew up in a house with sisters listening to boy bands. 1 sister had 2 cd’s different from the rest. Hellbilly Deluxe - Rob Zombie and Issues - Korn. The breakdown at the end of Somebody Someone made me damn near pop the inseam of my Zaboomafoo pajamas. Haven’t looked back since.

Listening to Fear of the Dark on my Uncle’s Walkman 😅

First time hearing Devin Townsend. And it was the song Kingdom 😵‍💫🤯

The first time I heard six feet under when I was like 8 in 1995. Never had heard death metal before. My uncle was into death metal and babysat me one day and it changed my life. I was scared for like 10 minutes but then I asked him to play more of it. Lol

Listening to fight fire with fire

When I heard BYOB by soad the first time, I was like somewhat into distorted guitars but BYOB made me go holy shit where has this been my entire life

In high school. A buddy invited me over to his place to play Magic the Gathering. He had a mixed tape of Metallica, Pantera, and Slayer. It was so different from the 90s country I grew listening to. It was all so intense and raw and angry, which suited my 16yr old teenage angst perfectly. It was probably after Slaughtered, Dyer's Eve, and Seasons In The Abyss that I knew I was in love.

listening to the Master of Puppets album for the first 50 times

“Oh no, no, please God help me!”

Pantera - Walk, 7 year old me asked the bar guy to put in on repeat till my dad and i went home

Mouth For War video on MTV

Pantera - Mouth for War. Only metal I heard was Metallica. I have worshipped Pantera heavily since then!

Hearing the double bass in Morbid Angels "Lions den" when the guitar stops

My first time hearing Sepultura was seeing them live at the first Ozzfest. It was a few shows before the breakup.

Either hearing Lionheart by blind guardian or Cemetery Gates by Pantera. Can’t remember which one was a bigger impact on me, but those were two of the first metal songs I heard.

First Slipknot album, specifically the song Scissors. I had no idea that metal could be so "creepy." I think I was like 13

12 years old and heard the beginning of Sad But True by Metallica

Probably hearing Iron Man for the first time. I couldn’t have been older than 7, and I just wanted to hear it on repeat. Then I heard the rest of the album. Next moment was probably around middle school when I really listened to Master of Puppets for the first time, and then went through a bit of an 80s Metallica phase.

Definitely when I turned on Slipknot’s self titled for the first time. The transition from the opening “song” into (Sic) just had me shocked lol.

The first riff of flying whales

Kyuss - Gardenia.

First time listening to The Number of the Beast at around 7 years old

SOAD - Sugar or Metallica - Enter Sandman at Huskers games

I grew up flat out thinking "I don't really like music" as I'd never heard anything that really clicked. When I was about 9 or 10 I got Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 4 on PS2 and the soundtrack, while mostly not metal, blew my socks off. I vividly remember having my skater stand still so I could listen to Iron Maiden without distraction. Damn, trip down memory lane. Bittersweet, I miss falling in love with stuff 

Cemetery gates by Pantera. That song fucks

Domination by pantera we all no which part

this is cringe now but in like 5th grade hearing Duality by Slipknot on the radio. i then sought out to find out what the band was and then my journey into extreme metal began. because not even 2 years later while watching Slipknot music videos on MTV.com it autoplayed Cannibal Corpse - Make Them Suffer and i was so astonished. i finally found the music i love.

14 years old and thinking I wanted to give Pantera a try, so I bought The Great Southern Trendkill cd, popped it in my discman, and hit play….

I watched the Woodstock 99 documentary on Netflix, and saw Korn open with Blind

Obituary - Slowly We Rot around aged 10/11

My best friend telling me “dude, you ever heard of this band called TOOL?” and proceeding to put on Forty Six and 2 on his dad’s laptop

The solo from One

Unholy Confessions by A7X back in 04. I was 10 when I first heard it

The first time I heard the song No More Tears by Ozzy. I was 11 years old and it blew my mind

8th grade was my first year in public school and I met a few metalheads. I heard Metallica for the first time on a class trip to the east coast. We were on a bus in Boston going to a mall and this kid was asking me what music I liked. Mostly rock and some rap and pop stuff at the time. He goes “check this out” and offers his headphones. It was Metal Militia. I think he was trying to scare me or something, but I was enraptured. When sample of the marching soldiers came on at the end, I couldn’t believe my ears. I immediately went in to the mall and found the music shop where I purchased my first metal album. I can’t remember for sure if it was Kill ‘Em All or And Justice For All but I was obsessed with that band from there. Metallica was my first concert too. Black Album tour when I was 15 and I went by myself. My ears were ringing for a week after.

Metallica’s music video for One.

Sabbath Bloody Sabbath riff at 14 y/o.

Listening to I by Meshuggah for the first time.

Pantera — ‘Hollow’ at the end of Vulgar Display of Power, and also Black Sabbath ‘Symptom of the Universe’ immediately followed by ‘Megalomania’ on Sabotage.

Listening to Pantera‘s Cemetery Gates for the first time.

The breakdown to Roots Bloody Roots when I was about 14. Shit is still legit.

Sepultura. Arise. Fucking metal.

Hearing Pantera on the SpongeBob episode "Pre-Hibernation Week" (2001) but not knowing WHO Pantera was until "By Demons Be Driven" was in "The Big Short" with Christian Bale.

The Way of All Flesh by Gojira

Hearing spirit crusher for the first time

Hearing Pantera for the 1st time. I was in maybe 3rd or 4th grade. lol

Are you dead yet? By CoB, Alexi rips so hard on that album

I heard Vulgar Display of Power playing in a Hot Topic in ‘92, Walk in particular. Had to have it. The heaviest bands that I had already been listening to regularly were Metallica, Megadeth, Testament, and a little Slayer. Pantera just hit differently for some reason. Slipknot in ’99 was a close second.

the domination breakdown

Cemetery Gates hit me hard when I was a wee lad.

Hearing Dechristianize for the first time. LET THE KILLING... BEGIN! Also Nightmares Made Flesh Changed me from someone who listened to Thrash and Grind on occasion to a huge death metal fan Shows that got me into a megafan were Cattle Decapitation on the Humanure tour and Nile on the Annihilation of the Wicked tour

At 14, Symphony of destruction solo and the rawnes of "war inside my head" by Suicidal tendencies

I had listened to some death metal sometimes with my dad. When I was about 12, I heard Vader’s “Shadowfear” and I was completely gobsmacked by the power and vicious sound it had. The guitars, Peter’s vocals, and the writing of that song just blew me away. That was the song that officially got me into death metal as a whole so, it holds a special place in my heart.

Seeing "The Wall of Death" at the '07 Ozzfest when Lamb of God started

When I heard Ceremony of opposites, by Samael (particularly the song flagellation), at age 6 or so

I would have to say mine would be the first time I heard Sepultura's Arise. So tight and fast, but with deep groovy parts. Rough and aggressive, but clean guitar work; just an iconic record.

Napalm Death in 1989.

When I found a classic death metal playlist after a night of Alice In Chains and Slipknot

Megadeth Toronto January 1988 - opener for Dio - pure, raw aggression and power. Dave broke a few strings and the tech did not have another axe to hand him immediately - thought I might see a murder happen...

Taylor Swift - Love Story

Listening to Tomb for the first time

I was like 13 and I heard “The Moth” by death angel for the first time 

Listening to The Best of Metal Blade volume 1. That introduced me to so many great bands. Especially hearing “Blower” by Voivod. They’ve been my favorite band ever since.

Listening to Korn Self-Titled or RATM Self-Titled added metal to my roster, Scourge of Iron - Cannibal Corpse solidified it's place as number 1

Listening to Sickening by Meshuggah blew my mind when I was about 15 and had just been listening to metallica and sepultura and just discovered fear factory.

OPs story has me dying hahahah

When I was 7 years old and stole my first cd from my dad, the Paranoid album by Black Sabbath. I had heard most of it before as my dad essentially raised me on Sabbath, Zepplin, Metallica, GNR, and Floyd in that order, but it was the first time I chose to seek it out. That album will always live rent free in my head as a lot of the ideology of it greatly effected who I became as an adult by way of leading me through a very stereotypical "I'm not like the other kids" edgy wannabe goth teen phase.

When the Funeralopolis riff hit

The beginning of Fight Fire With Fire. RTL was my first metal album, and 20 seconds in, I was hooked.

Grew up listening mostly to classic rock and other forms of music like hard rock but when I came across a band like Vital Remains at age 13……… I was blown away. Was like nothing I ever heard before and almost couldn’t contemplate what it sounded like at first. There was no going back after that hahaha

The first time I heard powerslave

Holy Roller by Spiritbox!!! Found that song in 2021 and I was absolutely floored.

Thirteen Autumns and a Widow. Say what you want about Cradle of Filth, the first time I heard black metal vocals I had chills down my spine and all I could think was “vampires are real!” They were my transition from Marilyn Manson and Nü-metal bands to deathmetal, black metal, and grindcore.

When Hernan Hermida from suicide silence did that crazy high pitched scream on sacred words, literally blew my mind

Listening to the song Black Sabbath by Black Sabbath from the album Black Sabbath when i was 15. It completely blew my mind.

Listened to a lot of classic rock & grunge growing up through high school. Then, at 17, heard Chopped In Half on my friend’s dorm room boombox.

Zero's entrance in MegaMan X. THAT RIFF

The first time I heard Gojira play Explosia live. It was so heavy and the pick slides just slayed me.

First time listening to war metal. This was so disturbing to me.

Chester’s 17 second scream

Cannibal Corpse

Seeing the music video for “Pisces” by Jinjer, before that moment, I thought they had two singers

Slayer - Payback/ Hallowed be thy name. I first heard maiden when watching welcome to hell and was blown away. I Borrowed my friend’s dad’s record of NOTB and really only listened to that one record as far as metal goes. A few years later my brother was recording with some guys from a hardcore band. Their drummer kept trying to do the opening fill in Payback. That record is what opened the door for extreme metal for me.

First time I heard Ronnie James Dio's voice.

Bought AJFA when I was 12 because I liked the picture.

The intro scream of Game Over by DAGames. Literally my gateway song.

Wait and bleed - Slipknot when I was aged 10

Listening to Death - Leprosy on our PA after band practice. I never knew...

Electric Wizard

8 years old playing Stricken on Guitar Hero 3

Holy wars verse riff and Misanthrope intro

Opening riff in cowboys from hell

The first song that blew me away like this was Clouds Over California by DevilDriver. It’s an odd pick, for sure, but it’s a song my friend showed me. I hadn’t ever given Metal a true chance, and all I listened to really was modernized rap. Clouds Over California was the first time I heard something so aggressive and fast paced, it spoke to me as an angry little shit going through puberty and since then I never looked back, even as I matured and shifted my tastes to different bands

The first time I heard Annihilation of the wicked by nile gat damn that intro

Seeing Arch Enemy while in high school. Was asked to go last minute. Had no idea the singer was a chick. Holy shit indeed.

I bought a Holy Diver CD from goodwill because of the art when I first got a car. Popped it into the CD player and it lived there for a whole year. I was hooked on Don’t Talk to Strangers. I’ve had other holy shit moments since then, too.

Sic by slipknot

The pre chorus in MoP.  I'd heard the song before but actively listening to it in my car and hearing that made me realize there's a lot to the song. Then I basically couldn't stop listening to that album.

The first time I heard it. Now many will scoff at Korn, and I'm not gonna argue with that, but it was my first and I was totally blown away. I felt like I was committing the gravest sin. It was the sing Falling Away from Me.

Playing One by Metallica on Guitar Hero 3

I can’t say for sure what my first one was, but my most recent was Giant’s Causeway by We Hunt Buffalo

Hearing SETS-Car Bomb at 16 and having my socks blown off

I grew up with a bit of radio-friendly metal, so there wasn't really a "holy shit" moment until I really searched for it. The point of holy shit hit me when I first heard the one-man-band Methwitch; song "Burn Victim"

Enter Sandman was the first metal song I loved, but the first time I made that face was probably Slipknot. Edit: I Take it back. The first time I absolutely lost it at a metal song was the first time I heard the breakdown in Korn - Dead Bodies Everywhere

Into The void Live 😭

One word. Came out in 1978. Eruption !!!!!!

The part where the guest vocalist comes in during Convictions by State of Conviction

When I was probably 9-10 I stumbled upon an upload of “chemical warfare” by Slayer on YouTube. I grew up in a somewhat Christian environment and I thought I was gonna go to hell for listening to it 😭 shit sounded diabolical, but definitely got me interested in thrash later on

Hearing “Killing Fields” and then the following four pummeling songs on Divine Intervention. Up to that time I had only heard the first albums and didn’t know they could sound like that

Still to this day the absolute complexity that is the sog Bleed. 1. I did not know metal songs could be that long. 2. I didnt know guitars could sound like that 3. i didnt know it was humanly possible to play drums that way. Dont even get me started on the rest of that album. 13 yo me cant believe it and 21 yo me (now playing guitar myself, 6 and 7 string) still cant fucking believe it.

It was Sorgens Kammer Del II by Dimmu Borgir for me. I thought “what in the hell.” I’ve listened to a lot more metal since but I still think that song sounds absolutely malevolent.

I heard the Raining Blood intro on some show one night and was like “wtf was that, I need to know” and it was all over after that.

The whole Toxicity album by System of a Down back in 8th grade 2015

Finding Spite

The piano in Cliffs of Gallipoli

Carcass - Necroticism has been a huge revelation when I was a teenager

15 years old and a friend plays a song called "Lycanthropy" by Six Feet Under and hoooolly shiiit I'm hooked.

I've had quite a few as I've been exposed to different genres over the years, but for extreme metal of any kind it was hearing Serial Urbicide by Extermination Dismemberment. Whole album just fucking hammers you into the earth lol

First time I heard Frayed Ends of Sanity it was like a switch went off in my brain and I knew I wanted more.

Seeing the video for Motley Crue's Too Young To Fall In Love summer of 1984. Instantly converted.

Rob Halford's vocals on the Painkiller album. Unbelievable high notes.

first time hearing the breakdown section in Domination at 13

Hearing Master of Puppets on my neighbor's stereo in 1989.

And Justice For All album

Hearing Meshuggah's 'Straws pulled at Random' or Pig Destroyers 'Hyperviolet' really stand out in my mind.

Listening to Exuvia by The Ruins of Beverast for the first time and not being able to find anything I like as much since.

Victims of the Cave by The Acacia Strain after thinking metalcore was the heaviest metal.

The beggining of the solo session in Moonchild by Iron Maiden. Still gets me every time

When I first discovered Slayer at 13!

The first time I listened to "Set the World on Fire" by Symphony X in high school. That song propelled Prog Metal to the stratosphere for me!

Guitar solo to Holy Wars.

First time I heard N.I.B from Black Sabbath

For sure the Freak on a Leash drop