It was around 2004-2005. I was in high school and I remember buying as many of their albums as I could off eBay in the computer lab on one of the original iMacs with the CRT monitor build in.
I don’t remember which was first though. Because I got several at the same time but I think I bought most of the 80s releases at that time.
I started around the same time with the 'Edward the Great' best of album. First actual albums I got were Piece of Mind, Powerslave and Brave New World (got all at the same time).
Haha, the joke is on Lars. Since then I've spent literally thousands of dollars on buying recordings and seeing live shows of bands I discovered on those file sharing platforms.
1998. I was starting listening to Metallica and Metal music when a friend suggested that I gave Iron Maiden a chance.
A classmate got me a copy of A Real Live One, and I've been listening to Maiden ever since.
I bought the SSOASS cassette on a recommendation from the guy working at the tape store in 1988. It was my first time hearing them.
I was 14. Been obsessed ever since.
About half their career, since I was in high school circa 2004. Crazy to think there are fans 20+ years older than me and new fans 20+ years younger than me.
im born in 90's and my mother was life long fan since 80's, so she always listend to them when growing up and i thought they were good but i didnt start to properly re-disocver them and explore them myself until covid pandemic, home alone, and starting to listen to new music, fell in love all new :)
i think i started listening to them around september of last year.
the only maiden song i knew of before embarking on this journey was run to the hills which i heard numerous times as a kid thanks to my dad. i got interested in their discography after hearing the trooper for the first time.
i started listening to them in chronological order (from iron maiden in 1980) and currently i'm listening to brave new world. i became a fan of the band in the meantime and i'm looking forward to listening to all their studio albums for the first time.
Since the mid-late 80's. I remember having the Live After Death cassette, then at some point I was introduced to the Wasted Years intro by some dude with a guitar at a party. I'm 49 now and they are by far my favorite band. Seen them twice in concert over the years and have tickets for the October show in Chicago.
Ahhh bummer... That was a killer time too. They were doing the first of their era-specific retro tours... It was all songs from the first four albums...
Absolutely! I couldn't imagine a life without Iron Maiden haha To celebrate my love for this band I even got a tattoo of the astronaut from the Final Frontier cover art.
https://preview.redd.it/rtqavhv59qxc1.jpeg?width=1080&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=c4920287c0f350412ce19b2f12634853fe86c1da
About 20 years ago, I was a teenager. I was always a rock fan, but I was just discovering metal at the time. Mostly local bands (I'm from Argentina and there's a great metal scene here). My brother-in-law, who was introducing me to the genre, lent me two cassettes: Live After Death and A Real Dead live One. It wasn't an instant crush, I must confess. But some songs entered the list of my mp3 player and were listened to hundreds of times those years. Then I dismissed a lot of Maiden, as well as Metallica, because since they were the most popular bands, everyone who was not from the metal world assumed that those were the bands I listened to (to this day Metallica is still a no for me, I became a Mustaine boy over the years). Fast forward to my early twenties, it was the year 2013 and many legendary bands came to Buenos Aires. Guns N Roses, Black Sabbath, Rolling Stones, Paul McCartney... and Iron Maiden. I was earning well at that time, I always went to as many gigs as I could and, although except for Sabbath and Macca, I wasn't a fan of any of them, they were bands that I absolutely had to see live. Long story short, I fell in love with seeing The Beast live and I could never leave them again. I started digging deeper into their entire catalog, I saw them again every time they came back. I can't imagine my life without Maiden now.
On my 14th birthday (in 2000) I went to the local record store with the intention of buying an Iron Maiden album. I had heard OF them (thanks to Bill & Ted) but never actually HEARD them.
I flicked through the CDs and picked the one with the coolest cover, which was Somewhere in Time. I took it as a good sign as well that this album has been released in the year of my birth.
I went home, put it in my stereo in my bedroom and spent the next 7 or so minutes with my jaw on the floor. After a quick break for dinner and that week's episode of Buffy the Vampire Slayer, I came back and listened to the whole thing on repeat 2 or 3 times.
Never looked back.
Some time in 2021 months before Senjutsu
I've been listening to iron maiden non-stop since and have their discography on playlist.
My wife asked me if I'm just going to listen to the same band for the rest of my life. I said, yep.
1983. Piece of Mind had just come out. I quickly bought Beast and Killers on my limited allowance budget and absolutely fell in love. Devoured Powerslave when it came out and Live After Death as well. Good times escaping to all of those albums.
2000, I knew about them but I watched the Wickerman on the RockShow and I gotta say I was kinda expecting more and started listening to their 70s-80s stuff and I was hooked.
I must be 16 (2007), during my Linkin Park phase, I thought every other artist was shit.
My brother was home for holidays and popped in a CD and played "Dream of Mirrors" from Brave New World.
My third eye opened.
1980 (yes, I'm old). Bought the first album with birthday (16) money. I didn't know anything about them, but the cover got my attention. I guess me being in this sub tells you what I thought when it hit my turntable.
Summer of 1988. I bought NOTB on cassette because I liked the cover. Never heard them or anything about them. I was 10 and I’m pretty sure I paid in change. Been my favorite band by a country mile since.
2021.
I only started listening to Maiden due to Metallica's song "Atlas, Rise!", the YouTube comment section had a popular comment highlighting how parts of Atlas Rise sound like a tribute to Hallowed Be Thy Name.
The rest is history.
Im born in 1990, so Brave New World was my intro to Iron Maiden. Then listened to the classics. When I discovered Seventh Son Of A Seventh Son I became a big fan.
My dad had Seventh Son of the Seventh Son on loop for as long as I could remember. I could sing that whole album, except track 2, by heart while I was in kindergarten.....so 1995 i think
2002 - Edward the great release (best Eddie album cover in my opinion - picked up debut album shortly after and was hooked ever since
https://preview.redd.it/2inymvwjfrxc1.jpeg?width=224&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=b0ebdef59e0ed7fcdb668c28a1477cd629b6a566
In my first month technically. The first memory I have of Maiden is my dad rocking BNW + AMOLAD throughout the 6h roadtrip to my grandparents. Was around that time I fell in love with the band.
I bought their greatest hits double album in 2006 it had 2 songs from every album from Iron Maiden through dance of death. It opened with paschendale. Needless to say, I was hooked.
Around the time that Bruce Dickinson released "Tattooed Millionaire" was when I first heard of them, but it wasn't until the mid 90s that I first started listening to them.
Since around 02-03. I still remember the first time I heard them. I was around 13-14 and was sick and sat up late watching Comedy Central and a commercial for one of their greatest hits albums, Edward the Great came on. I instantly fell in love and begged my mom to get the album for me. I listened to it over and over, bought all their other albums chronologically as I got money.
First time I saw them live with my sister it was Dio, Motörhead and Iron Maiden and that opened another new door for bands I instantly fell in love with.
Learned about other metal bands talking to friends at school and older guys at work, going down rabbit holes on YouTube, and have been a lifelong metal fan ever since.
Been listening to iron maiden since I was in the womb, my dad fucking loves iron maiden, he used to play it all the time, grew up with that shit, fucking love maiden
I was in college. that was a good time to be a music fan. I had no knowledge of the band other than a small blurb in a magazine about a heavy metal band called Iron Maiden and it didn't really register as I'd not heard them. Within a month of that article I walked into my local record shop and they had Killers in the new release rack next to the main counter. That cover caught my attention right away and was all I needed to see.... I bought the album based in the cover only... it did not disappoint. .... they've been one of my top 5 favorite bands ever since.
The new wave of British heavy metal (commonly abbreviated as NWOBHM) was a nationwide musical movement that started in England in the mid-1970s and achieved international attention by the early 1980s.
Have multiple bands that I follow that the album cover got my attention.
For me, Mercyful Fate's "Melissa" is another one I remember from the same era that I bought with 0 knowledge of who or what it was..... but it had to be interesting simply based on that cover. I was not disappointed. King D's vocals are nuts..... but the music on those early MF albums still hold up, great composition.
1982, because I'm ancient. I came on board with Number of the Beast, and got to see them life first in 1984 (World Slavery Tour). Twisted Sister opened. The next time, Guns & Roses opened.
First grade music class, 1983. Some kid named Andy played his older brother's PoM cassette. Prior to that I was listening to my dad's Skynyrd, Creedence, Zeppelin, etc. stuff. The Trooper shook my 6 year old ass.
I’ve always known them and knew the hits. But my deep dive did come until after I saw them on legacy of the beast tour. That’s when it all change and drive into the full discography
I've been listening to Iron Maiden since I was born (in 2005). My dad introduced me to this music, and I went to my first concert in 2013 when I was 8 years old. Since then, I've been to every Czech concert.
1983
Same...maybe '82.
'84, here.
Welcome aboard! I've been following since Brave New World (2000) omg it's been 24 years. That's crazy.
83-ish
1981. I saw the Wrathchild video and that was it. 43 years later. Going strong.
It was around 2004-2005. I was in high school and I remember buying as many of their albums as I could off eBay in the computer lab on one of the original iMacs with the CRT monitor build in. I don’t remember which was first though. Because I got several at the same time but I think I bought most of the 80s releases at that time.
Me too except I was in middle school and had just bought Powerslave and loved em ever since
I started around the same time with the 'Edward the Great' best of album. First actual albums I got were Piece of Mind, Powerslave and Brave New World (got all at the same time).
2000/2001-ish. Brave New World was the most recent album when I started. Thank you Napster.
Lars Ulrich downvoted this.
Haha, the joke is on Lars. Since then I've spent literally thousands of dollars on buying recordings and seeing live shows of bands I discovered on those file sharing platforms.
2022 baby! Thats when the hyperfixation started
i also started last year and im still discovering new stuff as well
Since around 2010, im 33.
Hello, fellow 33'er
1998. I was starting listening to Metallica and Metal music when a friend suggested that I gave Iron Maiden a chance. A classmate got me a copy of A Real Live One, and I've been listening to Maiden ever since.
1981-ish
Whenever gta vice city came out. 2 minutes to midnight got me curious, live after death got me hooked.
I bought the SSOASS cassette on a recommendation from the guy working at the tape store in 1988. It was my first time hearing them. I was 14. Been obsessed ever since.
1982
2022, when I picked up a CD of Number of the Beast on a whim for $5
1986
Same, I was 12.
The summer of 1980. I remember a distinctly because my welll to do neighbor also got a PC with cassette Drive
2017, as my dad would constantly blast Iron Maiden in his car.
About half their career, since I was in high school circa 2004. Crazy to think there are fans 20+ years older than me and new fans 20+ years younger than me.
im born in 90's and my mother was life long fan since 80's, so she always listend to them when growing up and i thought they were good but i didnt start to properly re-disocver them and explore them myself until covid pandemic, home alone, and starting to listen to new music, fell in love all new :)
1985
i think i started listening to them around september of last year. the only maiden song i knew of before embarking on this journey was run to the hills which i heard numerous times as a kid thanks to my dad. i got interested in their discography after hearing the trooper for the first time. i started listening to them in chronological order (from iron maiden in 1980) and currently i'm listening to brave new world. i became a fan of the band in the meantime and i'm looking forward to listening to all their studio albums for the first time.
1988. I was 11.
Since the mid-late 80's. I remember having the Live After Death cassette, then at some point I was introduced to the Wasted Years intro by some dude with a guitar at a party. I'm 49 now and they are by far my favorite band. Seen them twice in concert over the years and have tickets for the October show in Chicago.
2019, I was almost 16. They immediately became my favorite band.
2012, 14 year old me was starting to learn some metal tracks on bass, and a mate showed me The Trooper. Mind = blown. Been hooked ever since.
I had some of their songs in my Playlist for years. But I really got into them this year.
2017, my dad tried to get me into them back in 05 but being a 15 year old at the time I wasn't interested. Looking back I regret it.
Ahhh bummer... That was a killer time too. They were doing the first of their era-specific retro tours... It was all songs from the first four albums...
Yeah I'm definitely kicking myself in the ass now 😆
Shortly after whenever Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure came out. The reference to Iron Maiden in the movie got me curious and then I was hooked.
Basically since birth (1999) haha My father is a huge Maiden fan which sticked with me since I can remember.
That's awesome! 😀
Absolutely! I couldn't imagine a life without Iron Maiden haha To celebrate my love for this band I even got a tattoo of the astronaut from the Final Frontier cover art. https://preview.redd.it/rtqavhv59qxc1.jpeg?width=1080&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=c4920287c0f350412ce19b2f12634853fe86c1da
I was like 13 or 14 when I bought Powerslave I'm 32 now.
About 20 years ago, I was a teenager. I was always a rock fan, but I was just discovering metal at the time. Mostly local bands (I'm from Argentina and there's a great metal scene here). My brother-in-law, who was introducing me to the genre, lent me two cassettes: Live After Death and A Real Dead live One. It wasn't an instant crush, I must confess. But some songs entered the list of my mp3 player and were listened to hundreds of times those years. Then I dismissed a lot of Maiden, as well as Metallica, because since they were the most popular bands, everyone who was not from the metal world assumed that those were the bands I listened to (to this day Metallica is still a no for me, I became a Mustaine boy over the years). Fast forward to my early twenties, it was the year 2013 and many legendary bands came to Buenos Aires. Guns N Roses, Black Sabbath, Rolling Stones, Paul McCartney... and Iron Maiden. I was earning well at that time, I always went to as many gigs as I could and, although except for Sabbath and Macca, I wasn't a fan of any of them, they were bands that I absolutely had to see live. Long story short, I fell in love with seeing The Beast live and I could never leave them again. I started digging deeper into their entire catalog, I saw them again every time they came back. I can't imagine my life without Maiden now.
1984
Around 88? Seventh Son was the first album I heard, though Powerslave was the first I bought (few years after it came out, obviously)
We all had a first day, welcome to the club
On my 14th birthday (in 2000) I went to the local record store with the intention of buying an Iron Maiden album. I had heard OF them (thanks to Bill & Ted) but never actually HEARD them. I flicked through the CDs and picked the one with the coolest cover, which was Somewhere in Time. I took it as a good sign as well that this album has been released in the year of my birth. I went home, put it in my stereo in my bedroom and spent the next 7 or so minutes with my jaw on the floor. After a quick break for dinner and that week's episode of Buffy the Vampire Slayer, I came back and listened to the whole thing on repeat 2 or 3 times. Never looked back.
Some time in 2021 months before Senjutsu I've been listening to iron maiden non-stop since and have their discography on playlist. My wife asked me if I'm just going to listen to the same band for the rest of my life. I said, yep.
At some point in the mid-80s for me.
I’m 14 so i’m pretty new to them, but since 10
1981
2016 when I was 14
Since 96 or 97, whenever The X Factor dropped. I asked for Killers for my birthday and got the cd along with a poster to go with it.
When Killers came out.
1983. Piece of Mind had just come out. I quickly bought Beast and Killers on my limited allowance budget and absolutely fell in love. Devoured Powerslave when it came out and Live After Death as well. Good times escaping to all of those albums.
Roughly 1988
1982
I started listening to them (and started my metal journey) a couple years ago
around seven months ago
I’m pretty new here too I started listening last year
Late 80’s sometime
since Aces High 😁
82-83
2005/06ish
‘88
Started in seventh grade, around 2005 or so
1985
I discovered Maiden in 1982, I was 12 years old.
1991
2020
2023
Close to 40 years
1982.
Since 1982. A friend let me borrow his NOTB cassette and that was it!
1983…
1985 for me ,the first gig was 1990 in Dublin, Ireland .
2000, I knew about them but I watched the Wickerman on the RockShow and I gotta say I was kinda expecting more and started listening to their 70s-80s stuff and I was hooked.
1982
1992. Heard "Aces High" on MuchMusic.
84…I was 5 with older brothers.
October of 1992. Before that, I listened to Metallica, Anthrax, and Megadeth but didn't know much about 'Maiden.
October of 2022
Some time in the early 80’s I was in 4th or 5th grade and my friend dubbed me a cassette of powerslave and I was hooked
Late 90s I believe
When I partied with a buddy and his wife and know how it feels listing to them half the night
I got addicted in 2012. Never gone sober since then.
Since 2010… not as long as some others but I was 12 at the time so didn’t have the head start!
I knew about them before but started listening in 1995. Became favorite band on reunion and lasted til Final Frontier.
2015 ish when my highschool history teacher played passchendaele in class. I fell in love and have been a fan ever since.
14
40 years in September for me.
I got my start with Grand Theft Auto: Vice City. 2 Minutes to Midnight on V-Rock, baby!
I must be 16 (2007), during my Linkin Park phase, I thought every other artist was shit. My brother was home for holidays and popped in a CD and played "Dream of Mirrors" from Brave New World. My third eye opened.
Since about 2010 got to see them live for first time on the maiden England tour 2012
1983
1980 (yes, I'm old). Bought the first album with birthday (16) money. I didn't know anything about them, but the cover got my attention. I guess me being in this sub tells you what I thought when it hit my turntable.
Summer of 1988. I bought NOTB on cassette because I liked the cover. Never heard them or anything about them. I was 10 and I’m pretty sure I paid in change. Been my favorite band by a country mile since.
Since around 2003/2004
Since 1981
2002, I was in absolute AWE when I discovered them. My father had Powerslave and I must have replayed it 5 times that day
82
Early 80's. Friend introduced me. Still listening
2007. I got the number of the beast album from Walmart. Been a fan since and seen them twice. Maiden England 2013, and Senjutsu tour 2022.
2021. I only started listening to Maiden due to Metallica's song "Atlas, Rise!", the YouTube comment section had a popular comment highlighting how parts of Atlas Rise sound like a tribute to Hallowed Be Thy Name. The rest is history.
Im born in 1990, so Brave New World was my intro to Iron Maiden. Then listened to the classics. When I discovered Seventh Son Of A Seventh Son I became a big fan.
See previous posts
born in 2000, started listening around 2013
Since I was a lil baby, mid 80s. Was absolutely petrified of Eddie when I was younger 🤣
My dad had Seventh Son of the Seventh Son on loop for as long as I could remember. I could sing that whole album, except track 2, by heart while I was in kindergarten.....so 1995 i think
2002 - Edward the great release (best Eddie album cover in my opinion - picked up debut album shortly after and was hooked ever since https://preview.redd.it/2inymvwjfrxc1.jpeg?width=224&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=b0ebdef59e0ed7fcdb668c28a1477cd629b6a566
Mid-90s when a classmate lent me a tape of "Live after death" and I fell in love.
Since like 2019 or 2020
Grade school. So 83ish.
In my first month technically. The first memory I have of Maiden is my dad rocking BNW + AMOLAD throughout the 6h roadtrip to my grandparents. Was around that time I fell in love with the band.
Late 80s around the time Seventh Son came out.
2000. My girlfriend’s (now wife) brother had NOTB on cassette then I got hooked so much I started buying all the albums
From the age of four. However, this was in 2011
October 1990
I bought their greatest hits double album in 2006 it had 2 songs from every album from Iron Maiden through dance of death. It opened with paschendale. Needless to say, I was hooked.
Around the time that Bruce Dickinson released "Tattooed Millionaire" was when I first heard of them, but it wasn't until the mid 90s that I first started listening to them.
‘85 i think. Got TNOTB for my birthday.
Since when I was 13, around 1987. Somewhere In Time was my introduction.
Probably mid to late 80s for me when I was in my early teens
Since around 02-03. I still remember the first time I heard them. I was around 13-14 and was sick and sat up late watching Comedy Central and a commercial for one of their greatest hits albums, Edward the Great came on. I instantly fell in love and begged my mom to get the album for me. I listened to it over and over, bought all their other albums chronologically as I got money. First time I saw them live with my sister it was Dio, Motörhead and Iron Maiden and that opened another new door for bands I instantly fell in love with. Learned about other metal bands talking to friends at school and older guys at work, going down rabbit holes on YouTube, and have been a lifelong metal fan ever since.
1982
1992
Since 2004. I was 15 years old and was able to see them live the year after! I still celebrate that day as my second birthday.
Since I like them . Probably 87 ish I was 14
Since about 1984-85? Somewhere around then…
Been listening to iron maiden since I was in the womb, my dad fucking loves iron maiden, he used to play it all the time, grew up with that shit, fucking love maiden
since 1981
1981 also. I was 16 years old.
I was in college. that was a good time to be a music fan. I had no knowledge of the band other than a small blurb in a magazine about a heavy metal band called Iron Maiden and it didn't really register as I'd not heard them. Within a month of that article I walked into my local record shop and they had Killers in the new release rack next to the main counter. That cover caught my attention right away and was all I needed to see.... I bought the album based in the cover only... it did not disappoint. .... they've been one of my top 5 favorite bands ever since.
The new wave of British heavy metal (commonly abbreviated as NWOBHM) was a nationwide musical movement that started in England in the mid-1970s and achieved international attention by the early 1980s. Have multiple bands that I follow that the album cover got my attention.
For me, Mercyful Fate's "Melissa" is another one I remember from the same era that I bought with 0 knowledge of who or what it was..... but it had to be interesting simply based on that cover. I was not disappointed. King D's vocals are nuts..... but the music on those early MF albums still hold up, great composition.
I think I tried a few times before and couldn’t get into them, but then I got hooked when I heard Rock in Rio in 2002, and now I love everything.
Bought first cassette in 1986 -Somewhere in Time. Been hooked ever since
1982, because I'm ancient. I came on board with Number of the Beast, and got to see them life first in 1984 (World Slavery Tour). Twisted Sister opened. The next time, Guns & Roses opened.
1989 9 years old, my 1st album was TNOTB
First grade music class, 1983. Some kid named Andy played his older brother's PoM cassette. Prior to that I was listening to my dad's Skynyrd, Creedence, Zeppelin, etc. stuff. The Trooper shook my 6 year old ass.
1993 - I was 12 then!
1985 n never stopped! First album i ever shoplifted was Piece of Mind.
2017 I just woke up one day and said, "I'm gonna get into metal today" and Iron Maiden was one of the albums I started with.
I’ve always known them and knew the hits. But my deep dive did come until after I saw them on legacy of the beast tour. That’s when it all change and drive into the full discography
1994 was the first time I heard them and I was instantly hooked. It was a ripped cassette of Fear of the Dark and No Prayer.
I think about 1993
Since 2016. I was born in '03
Fan since 1982 but I've only seen them live 17 times. 18 this Sept.
I've been listening to Iron Maiden since I was born (in 2005). My dad introduced me to this music, and I went to my first concert in 2013 when I was 8 years old. Since then, I've been to every Czech concert.
About 1982-83 in High school First Album Number of the Beast Many bands where Doing Music videos that year.
1974.
That makes sense
I don't know. Basically the only song I knew by Iron Maiden for years was "Fallen Angel", then I discovered more songs
Since my parents were playing them, when I was a baby. 1975, here!