The Day Metalcore Ruined My Life

[@NikNocturnal]

Comment your first Metal experiences below and smash like for FUN metal things!

[@marvincenth.5781]

Linkin Park hit me hard. It was cool impressing 25 year olds when you're like 8 years old singing along to Faint and In the end. It's an overplayed song nowadays but it's a certified banger

[@cloudyplacebo7456]

4 Words to Choke Upon on Madden 05 (I think it was 05) was got the curiousity going for me, stuck to BFMV, A7X and ATR for a while. Then I heard Meddler by ABR. Everything changed at that point lol

[@Dario__]

Its been like 3 years since i started listening to bands and metal artists, and my mon still scares the sh**t out of it when i play my favorite songs, and cant even look at single video. "Scary kinda creep vibe ambient intros" are reserved for the headphones but at least she got over that satan related thing and staff.

[@Maedaflow]

Sitting front row at TGI in Toronto and looking at you side stage just wishing you were going to come do some guest vocals. first metal experience ever

[@DannySeven]

probably neighbour friends that showed me Faint by Linkin Park

[@jasonrivero2939]

my mom was awesome. She introduced me to Sepultura, Pantera, Metallica, Megadeth, & more. She laid my musical foundation since I was 7. Miss you mom.

[@TheMetalGaia]

Awesome story. Your mom sounds amazing. Thank you for sharing!

[@VampyWorm]

Sounds like my dad he introduced me to kid rock, metallica, megadeth, iron maiden, motley cru, slipknot, korn, lp, and so many more. We still jam out together when I help him with his outside projects. Sorry for your loss

[@jaredbrooks1651]

That's a great story, she sounds awesome! Thanks for sharing!

[@billc7480]

I was 18 when that album came out. A friend and I drove to the record store and we were like "Oh hey this one looks cool." We were fuckin blown away listening to it on the drive home. Ive been a lifelong fan since then.

[@psychecellic]

this is amazing

[@davidrojas6457]

Similar experience, I was 16. I went back to the store the next weekend looking for more, and picked up KSE's End of Heartache cuz the cover looked sick. Definitely one of the best musical decades of my life after that point.

[@DJBauer]

Yeah, I started DJing at 19 in 2006, and The Darkest nights would get requested loads. Still DJing at the same club today, but the kids all want Slaughter To prevail and Lorna Shore now lmao

[@playboikenny7474]

At first I read this as “I was 18 when I came out”

[@Deathlylollipops]

@@DJBauerthat’s not bad at all. At least they want heavy music. Instead of shitty pop music

[@chilldamage6741]

My first real metal experience was from my super-conservative homeschooled cousin. She gave me Underoath's Define the Great Line on CD and told me to hide it from my parents. One of the top five best decisions of my life.🤘

[@lukelyall5879]

When I saw “conservative” I was expecting ffdp “way of the fist”

[@SlyHikari03]

@@lukelyall5879hehe.

[@AsAugustSleeps]

Ironically that album was heavily Christian

[@benliftin4awhile]

Same album made me the metal head I am today

[@joshuawassink8138]

Underoath is metal to you?...that's cute

[@Sztojko]

First metalcore band for me was also As I Lay Dying. Their song "Forever" and "94 Hours" still to this day gives me a heavy nostalgia trip!

[@sixpath]

forever will never age.. like the name implies lol

[@joelmacdonald6994]

Yup, this dude just aged me. He was 9 when Shadows came out? Frail Worlds wasn’t my first metalcore, at least I don’t think, but it was definitely among the first.

[@matthewboik421]

Came in to post this, leaving satisfied.

[@YenShively]

Same! Those two and Forsaken play in my head constantly

[@TheBlueSinclair]

I grew up on country and it wasn't until I was 14 that a friend brought over Linkin Park's Live in Texas album and I heard screaming for the first time. My mom also thought I had gotten into demon music until I accidently got her into Bullet for my Valentine somehow...

[@Drhoward2890]

Best live album ever!

[@Ep1cRainbow]

which Bullet song?

[@dammitimmad6503]

Same. All these things got my mom in bullet.

[@TheBlueSinclair]

@@Ep1cRainbow Hearts Burst Into Fire was the gateway song. All downhill from there.

[@Terron35]

Hand of Blood by BFMV is the one that got me. I had heard Scream Aim Fire on Guitar Hero and my buddy and I decided to look up some of their other stuff and still remember hearing Hand of Blood for the first time

[@alymetallic]

I'm so glad As I lay dying got mentioned!, Not many people speak about them in this modern world. I dislike the band member changes though but honestly AILD are one of the best if not the greatest Metalcore band in history. Josh gilbert also made their songs sound 100% better!

[@AsAugustSleeps]

When he joined the band they went full god tier. The melodic choruses he added on top of the amazing guitars are still unmatched to this day.

[@isajmody2344]

I remember that year. It was the year As I Lay Dying, Norma Jean, Demon Hunter, and Underoath were all on the cover of Rolling Stone.

[@afterstars]

Yessssssssss!!!

[@kevindie]

*_I discovered Metalcore through As I Lay Dying, but by complete accident. When I was in high school, Every Time I Die’s “Ebolarama” released in the spring and everyone was hyped for the album to drop that summer. So July 1st, 2003 comes around and I end up at Best Buy to buy it. I get there and I totally forget the name of the band I’m looking for. I knew it had something with death or dying in it, so I should be good. I go to the “new releases” section and to my surprise, I find myself in a bit of a pickle; one of the new releases is an album called “Hot Damn!” by Every Time I Die. The other new release is an album called “Frail Words Collapse” by As I Lay Dying. These albums released on the SAME DAY. Not knowing exactly the name of the band I was looking for, just that it had something to do with dying, I chose As I Lay Dying. I put it in and “94 Hours” comes blasting out of my Plymouth Neon’s barely functioning car stereo. I knew instantly this wasn’t the album I came to purchase, but I knew I made the right choice. No one knew who this band was at the time, and that simple mistake ended up exposing As I Lay Dying to a whole high school community. A bunch of us went and saw them at the Cornerstone festival that summer. They played in a large tent (there’s video of this on KZbin). It was great to follow their success and see their fan base grow. When they finally got to play the Main Stage at Cornerstone in 2006, it was a special moment to be apart of. Sorry for the long winded comment, but I didn’t know Nik’s introduction to Metalcore was through the same band, although it really isn’t much of a surprise, I guess._*

[@GuyLovesAnOnion]

Everytime I Die slaps especially The Big Dirty and Low Teens! As I Lay Dying is Metalcore at its peak

[@caspertheemoghost534]

Why is your comment in an entirely different font

[@dixinears8004]

That AILD album changed everything. Hearing them soundcheck at the Pantages in LA was monumental.

[@justpassingthrough7990]

All of a sudden, Nik's crazy music skills make sense. Your family is amazing.

[@type0p0sitiv3]

3 key moments that really got me into metal: Hearing "Enter Sandman" on the radio, my friend showing me Slipknot, and my dad playing Du Hast from his Rammstein CD.

[@ledarbyromeo9667]

Tool's Vicarious on the radio changed my world at 16.

[@AsAugustSleeps]

I remembering hearing double bass on the local college radio station when I was a kid and I had to have it. I think they were playing some Nile.

[@EPÏKUS.MUSÏC]

"Shadows Are Security" was my introduction to the 'cores as well, in 2007, then I listened to "Ocean Between Us." Went from there to other bands since. Started with more traditional metal from eras like 80s Metallica, 90s Pantera, Korn, Fear Factory, Slipknot, etc. 🤘😁

[@chadhenry961]

In 2007 metal elitists would've flipped out over someone calling Korn and Slipknot traditional metal, times have really changed

[@le_unclebear]

It was definitely A7X's Nightmare for me. My mom was a little surprised by what I was listening to and encouraged me to "listen to how I feel and if it makes me feel bad to stop". Anyway, fast forward to today and she's jacked my favorite Amon Amarth tee and she's always asking about which concerts I'm going to. Love my mom.

[@Erik.Fernandez__]

This was like the opposite of my mom - I went from hip hop and r&b to metalcore in the 2000s. She couldn’t/wouldn’t accept the change. 15 years later, she still doesn’t like the music I listen to and doesn’t care about what I make/try to do. Kudos to your mom man for coming around!

[@TheDoooden]

My mom showed us kids Linkin Park and listened to it herself all day. Through a friend we later then discovered AILD, BFMV, KE and so on. We proceeded to go to concerts and Rock am Ring with her. When I'm going to any band she didn't know she always listens into them and says "oh man I would've loved to be there".

[@Aaronixon2000]

My introduction to metal was through Need for Speed Most Wanted (2005). Fell in love with "Blinded in Chains" from A7x and listened to every Album ever since! (Of course "Hand of Blood" and "Decadence" were also phenomenal tracks in the game)

[@ididntmeantoshootthatvietn5012]

Hell yeah, it was these games that introduced me to metal too, GTA SA, NFS MW, Prostreet, these games had the perfect soundtracks

[@C.C.Sinclaire]

my first memory of metal is getting driven to kindergarten by my dad and sonne by rammstein is on in the guitar. made an impression. he also made sure my first own cd was metallicas black album

[@tirabee]

From Autumn to Ashes and Atreyu were my first adventures in heavy music. Still feel a lot of nostalgia listening to their old stuff. 🥺

[@MiniMagit]

I think my first metal experience was when I was 9 years old, and I found some Linkin Park songs saved on my mom's laptop. Then my dad had one of Disturbed's albums on his iPod that I'd listen to, he also introduced me to Metallica and Black Sabbath. So yeah, ever since then I've been a metalhead

[@kevinyambor7433]

The black album got me into metal but shadows are security got me into the heavier shit. I had the same experience listening to meaning and tragedy.

[@KeltskiSmrz]

My first experience was my mom playing Metallica in the car when I was like 5. I've been loving all sorts of metal since.

[@crispy_338]

My first Metal experience was the classics like Metallica, AC/DC etc then in 7th grade a girl had an iPod with Slipknot and A7X on it. Scream and Before I Forget were my gateway drugs lmao

[@BlackSun6393]

My first experience with metalcore was in highschool. My best friend was into it and tried to show me some Killswitch. At the time I was a big classic rock guy and didn't really "get" metal. He showed me In Due Time. I liked it a little so I decided to download it to show interest in it. Later on I saw the music video for Arms Of Sorrow on TV. Howards vocals intrigued me but I still wasn't in to metal. A few years later I was listening to iHeartRadio and Desperate Times came on and it finally hit me. I bought the album and listened to it from beginning to end and realized it was one of the best albums I had ever heard.

[@erniecornedy]

Shadows is unreal! Banger every single second of that album. Riffs were so damn amazing.

[@ThorsShadow]

"Shadows are security", still one of the best Metalcore albums ever. I only discovered this band and album in my mid-to-late teens (am 31 now). It was such a beautiful day.

[@MVFalco]

My metal awakening was Mudvayne: Dig. We were going on a family car trip and my brother gave me his headphones to listen to the new LD50 album and I was absolutely addicted. Soulfly was another huge influence on me. And my mom referred to metal as "kill your mother in her sleep" music 😂

[@Phantommmx]

When I was like 5-6, my dad gave me this little mp3 player, and I'd walk around with like Bullet, Avenged, Metallica, and way more just BLASTING. I'd have it full volume, and just run around the house

[@AlexPerience34]

Waiting for “Chelsea Grin in 30 seconds” video day 17

[@Trent2002W]

Dang consistent respect, he should do Whitechapel in 30 seconds

[@prime406games]

I agree because this is the second day in a row I’ve seen you comment😂

[@theabsenceofi31]

Archspire

[@honcdagoose604]

Idk if this counts, but did you hear him and Will Ramos cover recreant

[@samwardonline]

How about the “Ice Nine Kills in 30 seconds”

[@joshlavallee4116]

This album and Ascendancy from Trivium were the two big ones for me regarding Metalcore. Then found Killswitch, Shadows Fall, Unearth, etc. History from there.

[@christopherweltmer4227]

That album and killswitch engage and I was hooked!! Alive or just breathing is such an amazing album

[@bobrutledge54]

Nik, I'm old so it was a steady progression from the discovery of Master of puppets to reign in blood to all the KSE and LOG and stuff I listen to today. Love it as much today as when I was in 6th grade.

[@WorkingfromWork]

Iced Earth isn't metalcore, but that's the band that was the gateway to all things metal for me. I remember that's the first time I realized that a full album can tell a unique story. Fun video, SMASHING the like button as hard as FKn can!

[@joshuasmith4643]

Iced Earth is an amazing band, Violate live goes stupid hard lol.

[@lakabaka]

Alive in Athens blew my mind

[@SIenderplier]

Matt Barlow, the absolute gigachad.

[@seansterling5322]

I think shadows are security was one of my first. I fell in love with confined. I was hooked ever since

[@erixouther]

Shouts to Guitar Hero 2. All That Remains' Six blew my mind and I never went back

[@footsoljier6468]

Through Struggle was my first introduction to As I Lay Dying and it actively made me happier as a person

[@Infinifry55]

Shadows are Security is an amazing album, 3rd metalcore CD I owned, but it's the metalcore album that brought me into the genre 100%, that & Alive or Just Breathing

[@rickyscreativecorner8107]

Dude!! Shadows are Security was one of the best riffing albums of its time and was a huge influence on my guitar playing and song writing!!! It’s so wild how different this album was compared to the previous album. My first Metal experience was Mudvayne LD50 edited version lol. And a Christian metal band called Fasedown which had no right to be that good!! Check out Fasedowns self titled album!! Amazing especially for the time!! Similar story here lol. I could only listen to edited albums or Christian metal!! Found a lot of hidden gems though.

[@AsAugustSleeps]

Demon Hunter absolutely changed my life. I couldn’t believe they had music that heavy at a Christian bookstore hahaha.

[@plantifulalexandra]

Haha, great story. My first "heavy" (😄) cd was Fallen by Evanescence. My dad put the cd in the player. My mom was rather shocked when Going Under started, my dad was like "You like that, yes?" He listened to Rammstein at that point.

[@curtisd8162]

Mine was also AILD. Frail words collapse. Started with the screamo stuff like Atreus, Thursday, Senses Fail, and A Static Lullaby. Then it was As I Lay Dying, Killswitch Engage, The Devil Wears Prada and Unearth. Then came Suicide Silence in my life and I became a deathcore kid. Been hooked ever since.

[@LuigiRBG]

Great story Nick , and you have got a really cool deep voice

[@joeregrets18]

Your reaction to hearing through struggle for the first time is pin point accurate. That riff is so stanky

[@AsAugustSleeps]

Their riffs could make me headbang like no other. I think that’s due to some Pantera influence that a lot of people don’t realize they have.

[@flattheraccoon6463]

So I've been around rock and metal for my whole life, but I never listened to it as much as I do now until around high school, the closest I've gotten to metal as a kid was stuff like Linkin Park and Crush 40 back then Come high school, I get introduced into metalcore by an IRL friend of mine who started me with things like ADTR, August Burns Red, and Of Mice & Men, and I was in it for the long haul. Now I'm into stuff through Metalcore, Deathcore, some Melodeath stuff, kinda all over the place with it

[@tsholts5173]

I mean, I grew up with the older rock and metal that my parents listened to, and I kinda grew up on stuff like Linkin Park (well, their non-screaming songs) and Green Day. But it wasn't until like 2014 or '15 where I found Avenged Sevenfold in high school, and they've been my gateway to pretty much all things modern rock and metal all thanks to their different styles on each album. And my parents don't like the screaming either lol, but they do know what I listen to and I've had to make separate playlists in case if they're in the car with me or something

[@thekwast]

Same!

[@jasonorme3500]

Still one of my favourite albums.. made me want to play guitar.. and after 3 years of learning I can just jam along to the whole album.

[@lopanreturns7085]

My first experience of metal was Black Sabbath and Danzig, but when I heard them I was so young I didn’t consider them metal, but rather “halloween music”. Edit: also Type O and Nirvana’s Bleach

[@Durkhead]

Danzig is Halloween music but black sabbath is not

[@Zeylo89]

>halloween music lol

[@ethanskelly467]

I once got excited to show my grandparents my new favorite song when I was 7. They were horrified when I put on this is how I disappear from MCR and they complained about the singer yelling too much. (They raised me on the Beatles and other 60s music, much more mellow stuff that I never really enjoyed that much) I’m 18 now and still love mcr as well as lots of metalcore bands like avenged, asking, and bullet.

[@reinhardtwilhelm5415]

Incredible song, still my second favourite from them - this one breakdown almost singlehandedly got me into heavy music.

[@WhiteFire01]

I had a similar story with my mom. Grew up listening to A7x but heard Six by ATR and was hooked on Core forever. However, my 13 year old ass asked my mom if I could go to a Disturbed concert. My mom wanted to look them up to hear what kind of music they were. Of course the first song she pulls up is not only Inside The Fire, but its also the music video. I got my CD player and Zune taken away for a month.

[@JimsMusicDungeon]

Deep Nik lore video, hope we'll get more of these :) I've started listening to metal and other genres 'cause of my siblings when I was like 3-4... what I liked about it was no boundaries... could listen to Limp Bizkit, Slayer, Death, The Prodigy, Napalm Death, Eminem and loved it all... still do :3

[@bobrutledge54]

Nik, I also have a story for you. When your video shorts started popping into my feed, I honestly didn't know how to take it, because you were doing these how to (insert band I love) in 30 seconds, and did them so well I almost thought you were showing how easy it was. It wasn't until I watched much more of your content that I realized you were paying homage to music you yourself love. Totally had the wrong first impression! Thank you for what you do.

[@TheMikeakers]

My sister got me chocolate starfish and hotdog flavoured water for Xmas when I was 9 because I loved the song rollin’, my mum saw the parental advisory sticker and wanted to listen to it first… imagine a family at Xmas opening presents as the first real track plays 😭

[@LasTortugasAzules]

Poison the Well's Opposite of December was my introduction to metalcore, but this was 2000 and the term metalcore wasn't really even being used yet

[@JaXuNioNz]

As I lay dying was the gateway to great music. That album is one of my all time favourites.

[@jamminkeys]

this was my experience with their previous album Frail Words Collapse, my gateway to metalcore \m/

[@ZZimaaa]

Shadows are security is perfection

[@badreligionmike]

I got into metalcore with as i lay dying in 2007 with an ocean between us when I was 16. I also got into bullet for my valentine, atreyu, miss may i, texas in july, august burns red, and parkway drive. I also got into slipknot when I was 13, then korn system of a down and linkin park.

[@DJTheMetalheadMercenary]

Dude I still have my OG CD copy of Shadows are Security, nice lol. First Metal experiences were fairly early on, heard Black Sabbath and Slayer and Subsequently Cannibal Corpse way back in the day and never looked back LOL. Always had music on in the household, Mom was a big AC/DC and 80's Hair bands fan, Dad was into Rush and Eric Johnson, so it stuck lol.

[@jakubtyrakowski]

I was 14 and into bike trial and someone has shown me a video that had KSE "My Last Serenade" as background music. Hooked for life

[@microchrist6122]

My dad snapped my Rammstein cd in half and threw it out the window of our moving car once… 🤷‍♂️

[@jaredbryce7964]

First metal experience: local bands at Higher Ground (when it was in Winooski, VT), like Day of Reckoning, Chainsaws and Children, and then my friend introduced me to Undying and Unearth, and it was over!

[@LidrPein]

I was introduced to metal through an online friend with stuff like Nightwish and Sonata Arctica 20 years or so ago. I remember jamming out to stuff like Ghost Love Score and Fullmoon and things like such. Granted, my father was always listening to more old school rock with some metal in there sometimes, but I first needed that symphony and melody to get hooked and then I have slowly got accomodated with more and more extreme metal. To the point where I am basically down with any sorta metal and/or core music. :D

[@user_abuser_o7]

That's really encouraging and cool to hear your mom's transformation as a metalhead for real. It's very hard to get people to give that kind of music a chance if they want to be stuck up about it but yeah we're not a true musician or someone that can at least appreciate composition and stuff listens to it and understands the talent involved, that's always cool and literally that's my only hope and faith in humanity left at this point there's still people like that

[@NosamasoN]

Back in 2007 I remember flipping through the channels and landed on MTV music videos and they were showing the latest of metal music. I started watching and all of a sudden As I Lay Dying- Nothing Left came on and it blew my mind. From that moment on, I was a Core kid.

[@AsAugustSleeps]

Meaning in Tragedy is one of the best album openers of all time. Goes so hard.

[@EnoshII]

my first metal experience and the band that got me into Metal is Nightwish, the Wishmaster album. Almost 20 years ago... first or second week of starting high school, just walked into a local store that sold records, among other things, said to the guy working there "hey the classmate I sit with keeps on about this thing called "metal", what would be a good band to listen to?" and the guy hands me Nightwish. Love at first sight still in touch with the classmate and the guy at the store, who is also a metalhead

[@alftusha6295]

my first metal experience was a youtube rabbit hole in feb 2020 involving Jared Dines and this channel actually lmao. now i’m all over the place with my listening (metal, pop, hip-hop, R&B, etc) and i wouldn’t have it any other way

[@charlesdick1133]

Reminds me of my 16th birthday. Someone bought me Trivium Shogun and my mum said to put in on “in the background” when all the family were visiting the house. First track was Kirisute Gomen. Intro started off well then all hell broke loose

[@justinalexander5959]

Man I remember Underoath and Killswitch Engage they were so aggressive and melodic at the same time, I wanted screams with clean choruses 24/7 lol

[@AleksandarG]

The poison from BFMV was my first exposure. But what really hooked me was Overcome from All That Remains when it came out. Remember it like it was yesterday!

[@DivinityDown]

I'm just glad she didn't break the CD. I had a friend with parents like that.😂 I remember when I was teenager I bought a limp Bizkit album and at the time some places would require you to show your ID if the CD have parental advisory. But the guy sold the album to me anyway. And then when I got to the car my mom saw the CD and made me return it, lol. Also remember at the time you could buy the censored versions of albums at Walmart

[@xaviohl]

When I was 15 years old, I did some football (soccer) highlight videos for my YT channel and their intro music were "The Darkest Nights" and "Through Struggle" from that album. Those two intros blew my mind. I was an only child to, my dad's not really into metal or even hard rock, but my mother is a metalhead since she was very young and I went the same straight path, to the point that she taught me all about classic rock and heavy metal. And since I was 10 years old, I'm teaching her all the early 90's to post-2000's and recent metal stuff. She bought me my first black metal album when I was 10, but we listened to her records, since I have memory, heavy metal, glam, progressive, speed, thrash, classic rock... She's 55, I'm 31 and we're a perfect metal sinergy.

[@RelentlessXXV]

This is the album that got me into metalcore. Back when yahoo messenger was big and they had radio stations on there. That’s when everything I liked about music changed for me. Have never went back to what I listened before that time. Seems like forever ago..

[@MacPNW]

Frail Worlds Collapse came out when i was in high school and that seriously changed the trajectory of the music i listened to. 94 hours was all it took.

[@PandasFknRule]

That album came out right when I got back from a real bad deployment and I'm pretty sure it saved my life. I had retreated from everyone and that album pulled me out of that pit, it will always have a special place in my heart.

[@larcade1102]

My first metal experience was probably Linkin Park, cause i always listened to it in the car radio with my dad. But when i really picked up Metal was because of my English teacher in school who one day played a Bring me the Horizon song from That‘s the Spirit in a school lesson.

[@ryanross3824]

My metal journey started the day when I was laying in my bed after a green day concert and I was still riding the high from the concert and than, Much loud came on and and the first time video was 2 minutes to midnight by iron maiden, I couldn’t take my eye off the screen, that moment had a more profound effect on my life than the greenday concert.

[@kmajor312]

This takes me back, I first discovered Metalcore in 2002 or 3, I got a Trustkill sampler at a Sick of It All show. I used to borrow all my older brother's CD's, everything from Black Sabbath to Soundgarden to the Ramons. I went through the whole stange Nu Metal Korn and Limp Biscutt phase, then In Flames and Amon Amarth. I was 21, playing rhythm guitar in a psuedo hardcore band. I will never forget the first time I heard KSE Life to Lifeless, I was instantly hooked. Wasn't long after I saw KSE my first time. Wasn't long after that that our singer introduced me to As I Lay Dying, Shadows are Security is still one of my go to albums in the car. Good times man, thank you Nik!

[@Clay0124]

Bro this same album and August Burns Red- Constellations was my first metalcore experiences... I was hooked since then.

[@craigg8574]

Shadows is the first album ive learned fully. Picked up so many techniques learning all those songs. Confined def put me theough the paces, now it's so easy to do the chorus.😅

[@deaneriley]

Killswitch got me into it. But it really didn’t set in until I got my hands on shadows are security. I was probably 12 and had the same reaction you did. Just straight melted.

[@camsvideocollections9766]

AILD was it for me, my buddy and I found Confined, 94 hours, Through Struggle, and so on and its been for life since. My first metal concert was After The Burial in 2009 with Born of Osiris back with Jason and Tosin. Handful of other bands played that day too, Origin, Necrophagist, Darkest Hour, Battlecross, Winds Of Plague, Dying Fetus and Decrepit Birth.

[@ColinStandish-h7x]

Shadows are Security was what introduced me as well lmao. I remember being in my freshman year of high school and the guy who sat next to me handed my his headphones and let that album rip into my ears. Reflection was my favorite song at first.

[@NicholasStrout-b5s]

the moment as I lay dying was shown to by my pops, something snapped and I fell in love with metalcore

[@IAmCjcj11]

Through struggle was mine, at that point I had heard stuff like unholy confessions and maybe some bullet for my valentine stuff but I wasn't super crazy about heavy stuff quite yet. but then on spotify a radio started and through struggle came on and yeah, pretty much identical reaction to Nik. I immediately became obsessed with them. I believe it was slightly before awakened was released and then that got released and just continued to love them more. Then I think we all know what came next lol.

[@Jaepo33]

When i was around 12 or 13 i found asking alexandria right when the stand up and scream album came out. i absolutely fell in love with the album and that kind of music. I had a friend burn a cd for me and i held it so close at all times in fear my parents would find it and think differently about me. a few years go by and im all in. I go down the rabbit hole and find chelsea grin, whitechapel, and iwabo. Years later, my mom finds the cd with no idea that i listened to this music. Turns out she absolutely loved it! Ever since then shes been my concert buddy and even embraced the fact that i loved metal and bought me my first electric guitar! Long story short, she remains in the moshpit to this day

[@mrdragonboi]

A7X and Slipknot (I was around 8 or 9, and didn't like swearing at the time) were my first metal bands introduced to me. I also eventually listened to more in lockdown (around 2020), with some hard rock and punk like Rise Against, Linkin Park etc

[@travismcfarlin7057]

So crazy I came across this. I was going through my old stuff the other day and found my 15 year old shadows are security shirt, and yes it is a cuttoff

[@thedayidied]

It was My Last Serenade for me. That got me into the hXc stuff. Also, I was in high school when Shadows are Security came out... I'm getting so old.

[@Mexicutioner_117]

Yo same. A friend in high school was trying to get me to listen to more metal music and this album was the first one he burned for me. The whole album is dope. Confined is one of my favorite.

[@Mass5775]

I started on Disturbed, linkin park and Rammstein when I was 8. I was introduced to Shogun by Trivium just after it came out in 2008 and my love for screamy screamy music just exploded from there. 4 to 5 years later when I was 18 I went and saw Lamb of God and Meshuggah all the way back in 2013 and it was the best night of my life.

[@HuskyandStarch]

One of my favorite metal memories is seeing Trivium the day before Shogun dropped. They started the show with kirisute gomen and the place went nuts. Still had the song burned into my brain the next day when I bought the CD

[@Mass5775]

I got to see them in 2014. It was awesome.

[@Lttlegui]

My dad was a 80s metal head. Always dig the sound. Wasn't until finding killswitch/bullet that lead me to the plethora of metal core.

[@Jedan1806]

First time I got Into metal is when my friend and I were playing rockband and he put on Beast and the Harlot and my life had been forever changed

[@w1984t]

I played that intro over and over, for hours, imagining all the badass things that would starting happening if the sky just started playing it as my soundtrack.

[@JMPK23]

My first metalcore experience was between rose funeral and the devil wears prada. But the first song the got my attention in the genre was through struggle. I became obsessed with AILD. Opened the door to ATR and KSE along with the exposure guitar hero gave.

[@ayejimbae8068]

Through struggle was the track that cemented me as a metal fan as well dawg 🤙🏻

[@deadtwice6450]

I jumped from Zao to AILD on shadows are security. My parents lost their minds too. But pulling out lyrics sheets saved the CD. I too was also 9 at the time. This video made my day.

[@marcusinator1]

I remember playing amon amarth for my mother and she hated it, absolutely hated screaming. Now Avatar is one of her favorite bands and isn't against screaming anymore. A absolute 180 on it.

[@salty7346]

Same!!! I also got that same feeling from BMTH's Suicide Season's album & All That Remain's For We Are Many album.

[@zerikafox1595]

My first metalcore band was Killswitch Engage. A friend gave me a copy of Alive or Just Breathing, and I never looked back.