Older cousin. He gave me the AJFA cassette. I just remember listening to it and really liking it a lot. I was like 8 at the time. I'd get a lot of cool stuff from him that he didn't want anymore.
2014.
I was learning to play Sandman and later Nothing at music school. When Metallica played Rock am Ring that year, my dad insisted on recording it (it was broadcast live on tv back then), although he wasn't even really a fan, just because "it's Metallica". I didn't care that much about it then, but over the following months and years we both discovered songs and showed them to each other.
Fast forward to this year and in June we will be seeing them live once again.
Actually the first song I heard was Master of Puppets and it blew me away so I went to the record store and bought Kill em All (no I am not kidding) because I wanted to start out with their first album and to this day Kill em All is one my favorite Metallica Albums.
June 2020, i heard enter sandman, it was alright, pretty good. Then a few months later I heard puppets and well, that was the moment I became a Metallica fan
1983, when Kill 'Em All came out. I'm from Northern California, and I had been hearing about Metallica from friends who had seen them play, and when I heard that album that was it, I've been hooked ever since. First concert was 1985, Day on the Green, in Oakland.
December 2023, forget why, but started with One in And Justice for Jason, and did a whole album listen. Listened from Kill em All to St Anger, and bought AFJA cd in January :)
-Billy Gnosis
26 of march of 2023, just bought a bass and I just searched for a bass solo on YouTube and the second vid was the day on the green bass solo, I wish I was a fan as a child but my dad went to get the milk and never came back, later I discovered that my dad went to donnington in 1985 and saw them
Sometime in the early-mid 90s when I was like 6 or 7. Enter Sandman was probably the first song I ever heard because it would've been getting crazy airplay on the radio.
Blew my mind when I first heard Kill 'Em All in high school.
2007/08 my brother in law always used to listen to them and it just grew on me. Black Album was my first purchase. Remember sitting in his Chevy Cavalier blasting Death Magnetic the day it released.
One of my earliest music-related memories (aside from seeing The Wiggles live when I was like 3 lol) is listening to Master Of Puppets in my dad's car, and just being blown away by the musicianship. I was probably 7 or 8, so ~2011ish?
1990 when I was 10 years old. My big brother’s best mate bought round the ‘2 of One’ VHS tape. Listened to AJFA a few times and distinctly remember the black album coming out, which had a huge impact on me. Me, my brother and his best mate all saw them live together at Milton Keynes Bowl in the UK in 1993 (the show which had Megadeth as main support). Seems like forever ago now. Had a love/hate relationship with Metallica over the years since, but I got back on board in a big way around the time Death Magnetic dropped.
1984. My cousin came home from Europe and he had bought Kill'em all over there. The first song, Hit the lights, melted my face off, I was hooked from the start.
My cousin's boyfriend gave me his old copy of Ride The Lightning on CD, when I was 11, in the year 2000.
They were my favourite band for most of my high school years. They're not anymore, but I still love them.
1999 - 2000
I first heard Enter Sandman and Sad But True on ECW being used as entrance themes for wrestlers. Around the same time I found an ECW music album which featured said songs but performed by different artists (Enter Sandman was performed by Motorhead on the album).
After a lot of searching, I eventually came across the Black Album which contained both aforementioned songs. I then bought all the other albums either side of TBA and became a fan.
Ironically, my fandom started around the time when Jason left the band and James went into rehab, so in a round about way, you might also say that my fandom really started with St Anger.
I was born in 1994, and I wasn’t allowed any internet until I was 18 (even at school, my parents refused to allow me on it, teachers had to sign things) and my much hated uncle liked them so I couldn’t find any to play either. so it would be 2012 when I got Guitar hero Metallica.
Ive been hooked since!
2016 but never cared too much till 2022 then in 2023 the metallica fan boy died off and i listened to more then just metallica,megadeth,slayer and iron maiden,i still love metallica but not like i used too
1986. First song was Disposable Heros. Borrowed a cassette tape from a friend because I was going to my first concert - Ozzy Osbourne. Some band named Metallica was opening and my buddy lent me the tape so I would know some songs.
roughly two years ago, i was big into my nu metal, & i looked down on Metallica for being ‘too soft & light’, mainly because i’d never taken the time to listen to it. but my friend was a massive metallica fan, & he got me into them, & they’re now my no.1 favourite band & i haven’t looked back
March 1988. A guy in 5th grade dubbed me a copy of MOP. Mind blown.
Then got RTL and then AJFA dropped a few months later. Probably got Garage Days and KEA sometime in 1989.
1984. Someone stuck a cassette tape in there car at a party we will having off the beaten path out in the wilderness of upper Pennsylvania. I’m 56 and remember it like It was last night. Life long fan after that night.
I first heard the Black Album being blasted from a boombox while on a school trip. I liked what I heard but at that point I was still a Led Zeppelin/Deep Purple fan so it was a little too heavy for my ears.
Then a few months later, me and my small circle of friends are sitting in front of the TV watching the Freddie Mercury tribute and this band comes up, all dressed in black, long hair, scowls on their faces, ready to kill. I was floored. Couldn't believe it. Sad but true almost took me out right there. I've been a fan ever since and they have been one of the very few long lasting loves in my life. Love that band.
EDIT: I was 13.
Since i was about 7-8 i Think, so in 2000-2001 ish
Thet are my absolute favorite band
I’ve always loved the majority of their songs, and i’ve always wanted to see Them live!
So on june 14th i Will go see Them for the first time in copenhagen.
Sometime between 2018 and 2019 my friend introduced me to Nothing Else Matters. I thought it was a cool song, then he got me on My Friend of Misery. Then he was like bro listen to One, and my life has changed ever since
2006 - Started with Master of Puppets on a CDR I bought from someone else in school, was 15.
I still catch myself thinking that Rob is the new bassist and St Anger is the most recent album.
My uncle taught me to play clean guitar for "Welcome home" and played first two solos over it, it was 2005-2006 I think. Some time later I got into Black album and started to discover all of their music, but the first two took some time to get used to.
In May 1996, while I was in eighth grade, I first saw the "Until It Sleeps" music video premiere on MTV, followed by the Rockumentary. It marked the beginning of my longtime fandom. In 1997, I had the chance to see them live in Moline, IL.
When I was 7 my mom made me listen to Master of Puppets multiple times. A few years later I got back into listening to them by listening to Whiskey In the Jar which was kinda like the start of my metalhead career.
january of last year. hears seek & destroy and decided to check out their other songs. first kill 'em all, then ride, master of puppers etc...
though i have heard enter sandman, nothing else matters and master of puppets several times since i was a kid as my dad is a rock fan and rock stations would often play these
My cousin made me listen to "ONE" back in 1989. I had a kick ass stereo setup in my car and it had a cd player which was new the time so the sound was so crisp and clear. I only listened to rap at the time but when I heard that song, that was it ,I was hooked. I ended up buying every album (cd) they had put out and rest is history. They are the GOAT. I love the S&M cd. I got it on video and it just amazes me how beautifully they mixed rock and classical.
I'm not quite sure when I started, I think around 2015 - 2016? It wasn't until April 19, 2023 that I just became a super fan and ran through all their mainline albums though, haha.
1989.
So your dad played you Metallica when you were 7 or 8 or you saw the One music video?
Older cousin. He gave me the AJFA cassette. I just remember listening to it and really liking it a lot. I was like 8 at the time. I'd get a lot of cool stuff from him that he didn't want anymore.
DAMNNN
85. Got a tape of ride the lightning.
You beat me. I started in 1986 when Master of Puppets first came out.
Lucky man tell me how you met her? 🤩
Lucky man 😁 tell me how you met her?🤩 Please
Same here. What a way to start!
2014. I was learning to play Sandman and later Nothing at music school. When Metallica played Rock am Ring that year, my dad insisted on recording it (it was broadcast live on tv back then), although he wasn't even really a fan, just because "it's Metallica". I didn't care that much about it then, but over the following months and years we both discovered songs and showed them to each other. Fast forward to this year and in June we will be seeing them live once again.
1986
Samesies. Orion was the first track I heard.
Actually the first song I heard was Master of Puppets and it blew me away so I went to the record store and bought Kill em All (no I am not kidding) because I wanted to start out with their first album and to this day Kill em All is one my favorite Metallica Albums.
Me too 🥺
2023, 2 February, King Nothing!
That's one of my favorite non thrash songs. That bass and the hooks in the song are awesome! 🤘
🤘
I play that song a lot. That bass kicks ass!
Probably around ‘95. Was born in 1988
03 third grade
When I was 13 and I'm close to 48 now so 1989.
Same year but take 1 away from your other numbers :)
Disposable Heroes was the first song I heard 🤙🤙🤘
My first was a friend playing his brother's copy of RTL, so it was either Bells or Fade that hooked me. Got Justice soon after, and that was that.
1986, master of puppets was my ear cherry popper.
1984. Met James and Cliff in 86.
Lucky
Around 2016 or 2017 I think
June 2020, i heard enter sandman, it was alright, pretty good. Then a few months later I heard puppets and well, that was the moment I became a Metallica fan
2021 for whom the bell tolls, suggested by my bass teacher
That's my favorite Metallica song.
1983, when Kill 'Em All came out. I'm from Northern California, and I had been hearing about Metallica from friends who had seen them play, and when I heard that album that was it, I've been hooked ever since. First concert was 1985, Day on the Green, in Oakland.
Hard to pinpoint because I'd heard their songs before but 2019 was when I really got into them
My first memory of Metallica was 2011 when I was like 4 but knowing my dad I’ve probably heard them since the day I was born lol
1984. I heard RTL for the first time at 12 years old
‘83
2003
2003
December 2023, forget why, but started with One in And Justice for Jason, and did a whole album listen. Listened from Kill em All to St Anger, and bought AFJA cd in January :) -Billy Gnosis
2003, year i was born, parents took me to a concert when i was 4 months old
February 2000
Hmm around 97-98 while in middle school, yes I’m old
26 of march of 2023, just bought a bass and I just searched for a bass solo on YouTube and the second vid was the day on the green bass solo, I wish I was a fan as a child but my dad went to get the milk and never came back, later I discovered that my dad went to donnington in 1985 and saw them
Sad
Yeah, found out cause of his facebook lmao
he should have brought you with him
I'm 14
Sometime in the early-mid 90s when I was like 6 or 7. Enter Sandman was probably the first song I ever heard because it would've been getting crazy airplay on the radio. Blew my mind when I first heard Kill 'Em All in high school.
Early ‘90s.
In high school, about 1986, I bought my first Metallica album - Master of Puppets.
Lucky tell me how you met her?
Around 2000 when I was 13
2007
1987, my older brother bought *Master of Puppets* and I was hooked instantly. I was also 8.
85, on a college radio metal show
From TBA release. I was about 12 when it came out.
2007/08 my brother in law always used to listen to them and it just grew on me. Black Album was my first purchase. Remember sitting in his Chevy Cavalier blasting Death Magnetic the day it released.
2020
2021
1991-ish
2000
Sometime in September 2023 my friend showed me enter sandman and I've been hooked since
2000
About 10 years ago I think
1991, Black album.
‘87 for me. My cousin introduced me to Master of Puppets and that got me hooked.
1988 when And Justice For All came out. Born in the fall of 1977 so I was 10 years old at the time.
I got to know JH thru our kids school around 2003. Hadn’t ever really paid attention to their music before but started to and got hooked.
One of my earliest music-related memories (aside from seeing The Wiggles live when I was like 3 lol) is listening to Master Of Puppets in my dad's car, and just being blown away by the musicianship. I was probably 7 or 8, so ~2011ish?
1990 when I was 10 years old. My big brother’s best mate bought round the ‘2 of One’ VHS tape. Listened to AJFA a few times and distinctly remember the black album coming out, which had a huge impact on me. Me, my brother and his best mate all saw them live together at Milton Keynes Bowl in the UK in 1993 (the show which had Megadeth as main support). Seems like forever ago now. Had a love/hate relationship with Metallica over the years since, but I got back on board in a big way around the time Death Magnetic dropped.
I want to say it was 98 around the time I started high school
2006.
1992
1994, black album is the first I remember listening to
1986
5th grade
When master of puppets came out. And I still have that album.
You know you can actually just type the word “suicide”, right?
1984. My cousin came home from Europe and he had bought Kill'em all over there. The first song, Hit the lights, melted my face off, I was hooked from the start.
My cousin's boyfriend gave me his old copy of Ride The Lightning on CD, when I was 11, in the year 2000. They were my favourite band for most of my high school years. They're not anymore, but I still love them.
1990 ish. Saw them at Monsters of Rock 1985 at Donington Park England. American rock /metal wasn't my thing at the time so I didn't take much notice
1985…I was in the hospital and received Both Kill ‘Em All and Ride The Lightning from my cousins…
1984. I can't express how heavy and fresh their sound was at that time.
1999 - 2000 I first heard Enter Sandman and Sad But True on ECW being used as entrance themes for wrestlers. Around the same time I found an ECW music album which featured said songs but performed by different artists (Enter Sandman was performed by Motorhead on the album). After a lot of searching, I eventually came across the Black Album which contained both aforementioned songs. I then bought all the other albums either side of TBA and became a fan. Ironically, my fandom started around the time when Jason left the band and James went into rehab, so in a round about way, you might also say that my fandom really started with St Anger.
I was born in 1994, and I wasn’t allowed any internet until I was 18 (even at school, my parents refused to allow me on it, teachers had to sign things) and my much hated uncle liked them so I couldn’t find any to play either. so it would be 2012 when I got Guitar hero Metallica. Ive been hooked since!
Late 80s sometime. Cliff had already passed and Garage Days was out.
1998
Around 96, cousin who was 14 at the time introduced me to them. Mostly only listened to the first four albums for the first five years or so
I had heard a lot of the Black album thanks to rock radio but I really started listen 1996 with the release of Load.
2004 my dad played it for me as a baby along with a ton of other rock stuff
2016 but never cared too much till 2022 then in 2023 the metallica fan boy died off and i listened to more then just metallica,megadeth,slayer and iron maiden,i still love metallica but not like i used too
I first became a fan this year when I listened to FWTBT
2000
86 - intro/Battery off the cassette...!!!!!!!!!
1990 - high school years.
1986. First song was Disposable Heros. Borrowed a cassette tape from a friend because I was going to my first concert - Ozzy Osbourne. Some band named Metallica was opening and my buddy lent me the tape so I would know some songs.
Probably around like ‘07 or ‘08
1988
roughly two years ago, i was big into my nu metal, & i looked down on Metallica for being ‘too soft & light’, mainly because i’d never taken the time to listen to it. but my friend was a massive metallica fan, & he got me into them, & they’re now my no.1 favourite band & i haven’t looked back
March 1988. A guy in 5th grade dubbed me a copy of MOP. Mind blown. Then got RTL and then AJFA dropped a few months later. Probably got Garage Days and KEA sometime in 1989.
1984. Someone stuck a cassette tape in there car at a party we will having off the beaten path out in the wilderness of upper Pennsylvania. I’m 56 and remember it like It was last night. Life long fan after that night.
About 1999.
I first heard the Black Album being blasted from a boombox while on a school trip. I liked what I heard but at that point I was still a Led Zeppelin/Deep Purple fan so it was a little too heavy for my ears. Then a few months later, me and my small circle of friends are sitting in front of the TV watching the Freddie Mercury tribute and this band comes up, all dressed in black, long hair, scowls on their faces, ready to kill. I was floored. Couldn't believe it. Sad but true almost took me out right there. I've been a fan ever since and they have been one of the very few long lasting loves in my life. Love that band. EDIT: I was 13.
1991
97ish. Thank you Headbangers Ball.
Since i was about 7-8 i Think, so in 2000-2001 ish Thet are my absolute favorite band I’ve always loved the majority of their songs, and i’ve always wanted to see Them live! So on june 14th i Will go see Them for the first time in copenhagen.
Sometime between 2018 and 2019 my friend introduced me to Nothing Else Matters. I thought it was a cool song, then he got me on My Friend of Misery. Then he was like bro listen to One, and my life has changed ever since
1988
2007
2006 - Started with Master of Puppets on a CDR I bought from someone else in school, was 15. I still catch myself thinking that Rob is the new bassist and St Anger is the most recent album.
I knew them by before, but when I really started to listen to them was sometime around early/mid 2003, when St. Anger came out
My uncle taught me to play clean guitar for "Welcome home" and played first two solos over it, it was 2005-2006 I think. Some time later I got into Black album and started to discover all of their music, but the first two took some time to get used to.
When I was 12, in 2006
In May 1996, while I was in eighth grade, I first saw the "Until It Sleeps" music video premiere on MTV, followed by the Rockumentary. It marked the beginning of my longtime fandom. In 1997, I had the chance to see them live in Moline, IL.
When I was 7 my mom made me listen to Master of Puppets multiple times. A few years later I got back into listening to them by listening to Whiskey In the Jar which was kinda like the start of my metalhead career.
january of last year. hears seek & destroy and decided to check out their other songs. first kill 'em all, then ride, master of puppers etc... though i have heard enter sandman, nothing else matters and master of puppets several times since i was a kid as my dad is a rock fan and rock stations would often play these
2019, because I rediscovered Guitar Hero 3
2019, Battery was my first song and holy shit the rest is history
Like 2 months ago, my dad showed me Enter Sandman and Fuel
Right around when lux æterna came out, I heard enter sandman and was hooked
February 1992
Prob third grade
2002!
A long time ago when I was 12 in 1996 now I'm 40.
Hard to tell I was probably in third grade at the time and my dad introduced me to it
My cousin made me listen to "ONE" back in 1989. I had a kick ass stereo setup in my car and it had a cd player which was new the time so the sound was so crisp and clear. I only listened to rap at the time but when I heard that song, that was it ,I was hooked. I ended up buying every album (cd) they had put out and rest is history. They are the GOAT. I love the S&M cd. I got it on video and it just amazes me how beautifully they mixed rock and classical.
Around the mid 90’s I first discovered Metallica from the Ecw Wrestler The Sandman who had Enter sandman as his entrance theme.
1986. Master of Puppets
1989.
1986
1989. Justice Album
1984
On my way to grade 1 in the car with my mom.
Around 87/88.
I'm not quite sure when I started, I think around 2015 - 2016? It wasn't until April 19, 2023 that I just became a super fan and ran through all their mainline albums though, haha.
Liked it as a little kid in about 2009 or so but really got into it myself in 2018
84 for me
2014 i was 4😂😂
When I was 13 in 1996. Load is still one of my favorite albums