Just expanding on death metal a bit, I'd say Decapitated got me into tech death and Suffocation got me into brutal death metal. Two great bands that I still love.

I'm gonna sound kinda lame here, but my friend got me into Slipknot in year 6, I then started listening to Korn too..

 

 

 

Start of year 8, (last year) I heard Bullet for my Valentine, and got into metalcore, then I started to play GH3 around mid 08 and got into In Flames, and hated dragonforce, so now I'm into the gothenburg sound kinda/mostly.

Iron Horse got me into bluegrass today. Interesting that some bluegrass covers can take one down to the SOUTHLAND. Yeeee, haw.

I had an old Chicago CD that I'd listen to on trips... that set me into Elton John, then Fleetwood Mac, then Doobie Brothers... and so on.

I heard my friend play Seize the Day by Demons & Wizards 2 years ago while I was at his house. Hooked instantly, D&W is still my 2nd favorite band.

Linkin Park got me into...well...Linkin Park

 

 

 

But i branched out alot more into Metal/Rock/Alternative when started listening to System of Down :) Chop Suey at a party got me started XD

It started for me when Within Temptation's Ice Queen topped the charts in The Netherlands. It spawned a minor "goth" fad (I was too much of a dork to participate in that beyond the music :P), but after it died down I continued to listen to the album. Eventually I moved on to other metal bands, at first exclusively with female vocals, but later on other stuff to. Also, Within Temptation's first album (Enter), which I didn't hear until 2003, was probably what helped me learn to enjoy grunting vocals.

i was at a rave about a year ago and i heard 'f**k the millenium' by scooter whilst tripping and it was awesome. i got in to melodic death metal by having to learn the air that i breathe by ATR. and then i heard propane nightmares by pendulum and it was like a very trippy christmas, easter, and a few birthdays all rolled into one

ulver got me into metal in general and tiamat's wildhoney into softer music.

NightWish for metal (twas Planet Hell,specifically) but I really got hooked after Children of Bodom's Living Dead Beat.

 

Cascada for trance.

 

And of course,Jay Chou for chinese songs.

Guitar Hero :oops: Mainly 2/3 as it had more metal and rock and i was older.

R.E.M. got me interested in music and rock. i have been listening to them since i was 5 because my dad was a huge fan...and i haven't stopped either. R.E.M. introduced me to rock, but not really any new bands. The Beatles, another band i heard constantly throughout my childhood, were th eband that really introduced me to my classic rock interests...then Radiohead lead me appreciate Indie.

Its hard to say for me really.

 

 

 

The first metal I really listened to was DragonForce (and at that time, I hadn't played GH3), I like Operation Ground and Pound and Revolution Deathsquad. Didn't care much for TtFaF.

 

 

 

Of course, at that point I didn't listen too it much, then I checked out a few bands I had heard about on here (Alexisonfire and same others), or maybe I had heard Blinded in Chains by Avenged Sevenfold first, I don't really know.

 

 

 

Though generally, I'd suppose I'd say it was the Crimson Thunder album by HammerFall that started to get me more interested in Metal as a whole, perhaps even music as a whole (I had stopped caring for a year or two, before which I mainly listened to Eminem).

Warning Sign - Coldplay for that soft rock kind of music

 

The Future - Lee Haslam for trance

 

7 Skies - Kyau & Albert for electronica/euphoric trance

 

I don't like metal....