i hate rap with a passion and metal is the opposite of that. Metal and rock everyone is actually talented where as in rap they dont write the lyrics usually, they beats are made by computers, and there voices are redone. Plus i have been playing guitar for a while and appreciate the speed and precision a lot of metal guitarists have. and i like the feeling it gives, the louder the music, the better it is!!!!
Honestly, I used to hate metal (with the exception of like, Iron Maiden). I really have no idea why... I just did. I also used to go on RP religiously, so I started to come across some really cool people who happened to listen to metal. They changed the perception I'd had of metal heads because I respected them and their opinions. I decided to give metal a chance mainly because I figured if they liked it, it couldn't be so bad. I liked the first songs I started listening to... though looking back they weren't all that great. They really only served the purpose of holding my interest in metal long enough for me to discover the first band I actually fell in love with, Ensiferum. And from there, it was a slow journey through folk metal, death metal, black metal, etc. that continues today.
I got into the the classic stuff a while back (before then I had listened to Indie sh*t, and realised the level of musicianship in metal was far higher). From the I mainly listend to classic metal and NWOBHM. Venom was the band that got me into the harder stuff - thrash metal. From Thrash I got into death and black metal, but my interest in black metal has largley dropped off (though there are still a few excellent bands).
Gradually as my music-taste developed, i felt the need for heavier, more raw forms of music. Then i got into Iron Maiden, Metallica, Slayer and i was hopelessly hooked up! And then on, from thrash and heavy metal, on to power/progressive/speed metal and slowly into extreme metal. Started off with Morbid Angel and Emperor. Those two have been my all time favorite bands ever since.
The two things that I enjoy the most in music are (1) power and (2) melody. Heavy metal is the genre I find that in. Personally, I don't pay much attention to the image that goes along with metal music in some people's minds. Most people I know don't listen to metal and don't even know that I listen to metal. Rebellion or appearing cool have nothing to do with it. I like what I like. BQ: Power/Prog metal. My favorite band at the moment is Sonata Arctica. BQ2: If you consider Bon Jovi heavy metal, my first album was New Jersey. BQ3: 11, but I had been listening to the glam stuff since I was 8. BQ4: I couldn't care less what other people's views of Metal are (if you couldn't gather that from the fact that I put forward Bon Jovi as a metal artist).
