What band/song started it all for you

[Emphyrio]

Mad reading all the responses here and realising just how integral to the metal scene that Def Leppard and Bon Jovi were.

While Bon Jovi didn't do it for me at the time, I knew they were adjacent to what I was looking towards.

[Carnage]

Slippery When Wet and New Jersey are still great pop/rock albums, none of the rest did anything for me though.

[Sworntothecans]

Slippery When Wet and New Jersey are still great pop/rock albums, none of the rest did anything for me though.

Runaway, Wanted Dead Or Alive & Bad Medicine would be the only three I'd listen to then and now. Feckin' choons!

[Pat Twisted Wrath]

Limp Bizkit's Rollin. 10 year old moi didn't know the first thing about anything rock related until I flicked on Kerrang one day.

An older cousin of mine then took it upon himself to fill up about 5 cassettes worth of Metallica, Maiden, GnR and Megadeth, and the rest was history.

[Petardo]

In the early 80's I was into stuff like U2, Dire Straits & Billy Idol via my older brother. Then Appetite For Destruction landed and I was hooked. Around the same time I got into The Sex Pistols.

One evening I was watching a rerun of The Young Ones episode where they go on University Challenge, and Motorhead appear in their sitting room playing Ace of Spades.

It blew my mind completely. As soon as I had the cash, I bought the No Remorse double vinyl in a second hand shop, and listened to nothing else for weeks.

Then a lad at school told me I should try Metallica. He didn't even listen to metal, but he had heard they were the heaviest band in the world.

So I did. Hearing Master of Puppets involved a change of underpants. I was delighted to soon discover, they were not in fact the heaviest band in the world, upon hearing Slayer. Then I went down the rabbit hole and I've been there ever since.

Probably the best advice I even taken.

[Anvil]

Def Leppard's first two albums still hold up for me.  Must stick on Pryomania. 

[Ducky]

Mad reading all the responses here and realising just how integral to the metal scene that Def Leppard and Bon Jovi were.

I have no clue who the modern equivalents are (if they exist at all) Linkin Park? Ghost?

I'd say for the few younger heads I know, Slipknot seems to be their ground zero.

[Sworntothecans]

Mad reading all the responses here and realising just how integral to the metal scene that Def Leppard and Bon Jovi were.

I have no clue who the modern equivalents are (if they exist at all) Linkin Park? Ghost?

I'd say for the few younger heads I know, Slipknot seems to be their ground zero.

Deftones seems to be another one as they're all over Instagram & Tik Tok.

[Maggot Colony]

Gas seeing all the War of the Worlds comments. That album was a huge part of my childhood. The aul fella only owned that one tape and used to play it constantly in the car and when he was on the exercise bike.

[Barrytron]

There's no blasbeats or pointy guitars but it is heavy and features monsters/horror I guess. Scratches a certain darker itch maybe.

[astfgyl]

I know a fella who used to start crying whenever his older brothers would play This Love on the old cassette player and the cunts did it to him every night.

I actually think he still listens to the heaviest possible shit as a sort of coping mechanism lol

[91/30]

ZZ Top - Gimme All Your Lovin'.
On Vincent Hanley's MT-USA when that show was airing.

Same.  Then Welcome to the jungle on the cork city cable network TV channel