alright everyone, i dont listen to nu metal (except Slipknot... i know you all hate them, but i like them). However, my first exposure to anything near metal was Korn, quickly followed by any other nu metal u could think of. soon, i got into the heavier side of nu metal (slipknot, older staind) then from there, i discovered real metal. i have since grown to dislike nu metal, but i have to admit that it brought me into metal! the softer, catchy shit got me hooked, and i evolved into heavier shit. and i can guarantee at least half of you are the same way. nu metal sucks and all, but it brings people into the realm of good music. so i respect it.

Get ready, you're about to recieve alot of hell from your fellow tabbers.

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oh i know.. im gonna die

I agree with andrew, i started off with Limp Bizkit, Linkin Park, then got into Slipknot, Korn, $Tallica, then within a week or so, i was listening to Opeth, Slayer, At The Gates, Brujeria, The Haunted. All thanks to a mate, so cheers collyer

EDIT: i now find nu-metal repulsive, but andrew did bring up a good point, that it's the gateway into real metal.

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I used to listen to korn, as much as i dislike them now...

And i still listen to the murderdolls. they make me laugh. *nods*

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Before I listened to music at all (rap is not music), it was my birthday and I recieved a Korn cd (it wasn't even a good one, Untouchables). And I LOVED it! Later, I was sitting in my cousin's car and he put on a band that is now my fav. (Dystopia) and that was when I started listening to REAL metal. I slowly got out of my nu-metal phase and realized it was all bullshit. And now I am the person I am today.

And the funny thing is, the person who put on the Dystopia tape is the same person who gave me the Korn cd.

it was all part of the plan...

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i hardly ever liked nu metal.
i only ever truely enjoyed 2 nu metal cds (those were 2 years ago as well). that was "dark days" by coal chamber, and "toxicity" by system of a down.

i liked limp bizkit at one point in the fifth grade, but i didnt actually think they were metal and i still dont. i thought they were just rock. also i only liked one or 2 songs from them as well.......

Nope, never went through that phase. Sorry.

yeah i knew the murderdolls and shit werent metal, but that didnt stop me from listening to it. The korn phase didnt last long. a month or so. didnt own any of their shit anyway, as i have mentioned somewhere else on this site, i've never bought a cd. and i never downloaded more than 3 korn songs.

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hey, i never said it happened to everyone. there are some who were raised on metal and live and breath metal. the rest of us had to find our own way to the promised land

nope......never listened to nu metal..went from rock straight to thrash

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"there are some who were raised on metal and live and breath metal"

hehe, my little brother is 6 years old and he listens to akercocke, black sabbath, led zep, cannibal corpse, dark tranquility, mithotyn, alice cooper... the list goes on.

SIX YEARS OLD!!! im raising him quite nicely

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i sadly listened to limp bizkit and slipknot before hearing pantera and finding forums about real metal which made me listen to all the bands they were talking about and realizing how much better they were than numetal

eh the nu metal i listened or listen to is few and far between, i went pretty much from classic rock like zep, deep purple, tull, and sabbath, to grunge (it was big in my formative years), then into normal metal like old metallica, maiden, type o negative, hammerfall, and it just went from there, the only stuff that I personally consider nu metal that i ever really like or still like was um, coal chamber and vision of disorder, i listened to disturbed a bit, but never owned anything by them, and if you wanna call white zombie (not rob) nu metal thats about the extent i went in that direction

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my mates sister is 3 years old and she listens to burzum, mayhem, mithotyn, sigh, ancient rites and darkthrone. the guys an absolute black metal nut. she wont be very warped wen shes older

i used to listen to Judas Priest religiously when i was 8 (i would get the CD myself and play it ), then i went to metalica, so sorry, i wasn't reared on nu-metal

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I never knew what nu-metal was until I started moderating the old Pantera forum. My first real CD was Vulgar Display of Power, a looooooooong time ago.

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my first contact with metal cam with Cowboys from Hell

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He isn't a tabber. Death8699 is a tabber. Inverted is a tabber. But back to the topic, I grazed nu-metal on my way to real metal (I would listen to it on the radio), but I didn't own any nu-metal albums other than Metallica's Load. That's it. I never liked it enough to buy an album. Any part of it that I ever liked disappeared when I started playing guitar and realized how talentless it was.