I've been educating myself on the history of metal, and that made me wonder if anyone here is much older than I am (early thirties here) and has seen some of that history.

How did you get into metal? How old were you?

Any interesting experience you'd like to share? Things that have changed?

How were metal and metalheads perceived where you lived?

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[–] Wytch@lemmy.zip 4 points 4 months ago (2 children)

I started listening to Metallica, Megadeth, Slayer, etc in grade school back in the early 90s. My friends and I were a small group of outcasts, most kids were listening to hiphop or pop music.

My metal tastes have slowed way down. Speed and thrash metal as a kid, these days I'm listening to doom. Sludge, acid, atmospheric... slow and heavier than a neutron star.

[–] teamevil@lemmy.world 3 points 4 months ago

I took went from speed/death/thrash metal and find myself listening to Desert/Doom/Stoner mostly now

[–] Danquebec@sh.itjust.works 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

"Acid", this is acid rock? Or Acid the band? Though they're not slow at all...

[–] Wytch@lemmy.zip 2 points 4 months ago

stoner doom if it's a better term