Did you have a Nu-Metal phase?

[Crimson_713]

My high school was very immature. The majority of "metalheads" there listened to bands like Marilyn Manson, Static-X, Korn, Slipknot, and the really shitty ones, like Limp Bizkit and stuff. I was a Limp Bizkit fan *shudders* for a while, then got into slightly heavier nu-metal, like Godsmack, Korn, Disturbed, etc. I still like Disturbed, Static-X and Godsmack, mostly because they moved past the nu-metal kind of sound and became more like rock bands (save for Static-X), and I'll listen to the occasional Slipknot song, but I've moved past the nu-metal phase.

My parents and Ender are really the biggest influences I've had in metal, my parents were headbangers back in the 80's, so they love stuff like Maiden, Crue, old Metallica, etc, and a LOT of glam (pisses Ender off when I play that shit), and Ender got me into more progressive/heavy stuff, like Opeth, Nile, Behemoth and the like.

[AchrisK]

No, but I am sure anyone who knows anything about me already knew that. I was lucky enough to be a teenager in the 80's, so I got into metal by metal. If there were "gateway" bands for me, then it was Black Sabbath and the Scorpions.

[Zephyrus]

The heaviest stuff my parents ever listened to was Led Zeppelin and Aerosmith, so I owe it to nu-metal for setting my path towards metal. Before I got into nu-metal, all I liked was classical music because (1) my parents raised me on nothing but that and (2) the fact that my rival sibling, my older sister, listened to all the mainstream garbage like Blink-182 and Jay-Z naturally made me despise all forms of popular music.

Luckily my stint with nu-metal was my only involvement with the mainstream, and since I drifted to heavier, less accessible and more extreme music, metal, where I once again assumed the position I was raised upon, that being good taste.

[mutantllama]

I used to listen to bands like Linkin park and other mainstream rock bands. Around this time my brother would play Pantera and I would like it when I was in 5th grade. My brother got me The Black album a year later and then I started to get more into metal. I also heard Iron Man when I was younger and I would make up random words to go along with it.

[Crimson_713]

I live in a hallway full of African-American gang-bangers...ah hell, they're niggers. There's a difference between African-Americans and niggers, and these are niggers. All I hear is gangsta rap all goddamn day. This alone makes me hate modern mainstream music. We have noise wars all the time, and every time, we've won.

EDIT: In response to Zeph's post.

Metal = awesome
Rap = chauvinistic garbage that I would rather sandpaper the asshole of an alligator in a phone book than listen to.

[mutantllama]

Not all rap is bad. The underground stuff is good.

[Tyrael]

+1

[Zephyrus]

Originally Posted by mutantllama

I also heard Iron Man when I was younger and I would make up random words to go along with it.

I am Afro Man,
Running through the woods from the Ku Klux Klan,
Scary men with pointy hats,
Chasing me with baseball bats.

[mutantllama]

Originally Posted by Zephyrus

I am Afro Man,
Running through the woods from the Ku Klux Klan,
Scary men with pointy hats,
Chasing me with baseball bats.

The lyrics I made didn't even make sense at all. They were like "Will he fall down a well or will he go to tell".