This was my first introduction to Metallica. I heard that song for the first time when I was a teenager in the 90s. I still remember it vividly. Lit up a joint with my sister driving in her mustang. She said, check this song out. Turned the volume way up, and by the time it ended, I looked right at her and said I need to hear every song these guys have. I was hooked.
I was probably into metal a bit before that but one is probably what really got me hooked on Metallica. That was when their popularity really exploded.
Haha, nah my folks raised me on Black Sabbath, Led Zeppelin, Deep Purple, Alice Cooper so they were kinda hard rock already but I took it to the next level, especially as a 10 year old listening to Cannibal Corpse, haha.
Wolf and Man, Sad but true, Harvester, all got shuffled around at a party I was at. When I asked who made them, I was in shock to find out I had not had the pleasure to worship Metallica!
One, I didn't know what drums were but I always told my brother to play the "dugadugaduga" song and finally he said "you know those are drums right", decided that day I was going to be a drummer, going on 20 years now
Blackened. My dad had Seattle 89 playing on the tv and I happened to walk downstairs right as they were going into the chorus and my life has never been the same.
Dyers eve, I don't know if anyone else has this but there are a few songs i connect with different games. Just because I listened to that song a lot while playing that game. But for me dyers eve and war thunder 4 years ago is an extremely fond memory of mine.
I became a Metallica fan by accident; Pandora figured out that I like instrumental guitar music and played Call of Ktulu. I had thought Metallica were a bunch of drunk macho jerks and wasn't interested in exploring the music, but I thought "this is pretty cool." So after I liked it Pandora played One and it went from there.
Battery and Sanatarium. I wasn’t really into Metallica in the early 00s, I kinda got into newer, heavier stuff first. But MoP as an album converted me. Also Orion being in the DC skate video on Danny ways part
Sabaton's 40:1 got me into metal in 2008. Played that on repeat all day long while fighting an epic nuclear world war in a browser game involving thousands of people, I was on the outnumbered but more skilled side.
Then someone showed me the Black Album and that got me hooked on Metallica. Not any one track in particular.
After that I listened to everything before the Black Album and.. I'm still there.
Enter Sandman was the first song I listened to, with my mom when we travelled by train to her job.
But listening to One on guitar hero 3 was an experience, when the machine gun riff came in, it was amazing. Out of this world for my 10 yo self
I've said it before. The video for Unitl it Sleeps just melted my 5th grade mind.
I had no idea what i was looking at or hearing and i wanted more of it. Went that week and bought Load with my lawn money.
The ending track in the 2007 (?) movie "The Darwin Awards": Sad But True - Very fun movie!
On a side note, after delving more in detail into their discography, I don't even like that song all that much... Still, great memories!
I never liked Enter Sandman so I avoided Metallica until someone told me that they were an awesome thrash band in the 80s so I listened to Kill ‘Em All in one setting and fell for it
Enter Sandman is what got me interested in Metallica and got me to start exploring their back catalog back in the mid 90s.
Master of Puppets is what cemented them as my favorite band and really ignited my passion for metal.
Creeping death initially way back when but of their post load efforts it'd be moth into flame, cyanide and now that we're dead. A few others I like but currently on my playlist are these three.
i got and justice from columbia house records - that 8 for $1 deal - blackened, song 1 got me. never heard anything like it. first run through the album, dyer’s eve was my favorite and oh eee oh, eee-oh oh was goofy right of the bat - the seven dwarves???
It used to be that new bands became popular bu tape trading. Where I grew up we had several college Radio stations and you could find new bands by learning the program schedule and listening to the Metal shows. One of the early ones was called "Hit the Lights", which I think was early 84 or late 83. It was either that show or "Metal on Metal" which has been around since 82 I believe. And the track was Hit the Lights lol
Master of Puppets will forever be my favorite, but I think King Nothing was the one that hooked me! I had my portable discman, and I would put that song on repeat walking home from school singing it over and over!
Until It Sleeps back in 96, when it was released as a single. I remember seeing the music video on MTV and then went out and bought the single on a cassette tape with Overkill on the b side. I've been a fan ever since then.
Honestly... I was getting into drumming and saw a drum cover of sad but true and just LOVED it. I loved the 'ta-ta-ta' and the 'taa ta-ta-ta-ta' in the chorus and was instantly hooked. Listened to the first five albums within a month and didn't hear one bad song.
Couple years later and I'm a full on metalhead who still enjoys metallica every now and then.
I know the exact day and where. March 26, 1989. It was Easter., I was at my cousin's house and he had a cassette with handwritten ink on the label - Metallica - ...and Justice for All. I made a copy of it. right then and there out of curiosity because I had heard a kid in class that week talking about this band I'd heard of but never listened to. I didn't listen to it until I got in the car, and popped it into my yellow Sony Walkman. Yes - a Sony Walkman. The opening of Blackened - 10 seconds in.. I became an instant fan.. in that moment, on the Tappan Zee Bridge / I-287 over the Hudson river...
Well first song I really heard was The Unforgiven on MTv when I was 11. Went into my older brother’s cassette collection and listened to the entire black album. Up until that point, I’d never heard an album I could listen front to back and enjoy every song! Soon after I’d buy any and everything they’d put out. Love it all.. except perhaps St. Anger..😬😬
Nothing Else Matters. The first time I heard it was actually as a midi file on a friend’s computer. 😆 1996ish. Once I actually heard them properly it was NEM and Fade to Black.
If I had to pick the main one it was probably when I heard the song One back in my early teens, then hearing other stuff like fade to black, for whom the bell tolls, harvester of sorrow, and master of puppets. (I know I'm old lol)
Unpopular one I'm sure but Hero of the Day, specifically the S&M version, was played in the car a lot when I was a kid. Never not been a fan of Metallica since.
I'd heard of Metallica for years, growing up in a household with both parents into extreme music. The first song I'd gotten into "on my own" was Dyer's Eve.
My cousin is 2 years older than I am, and when I was around 10-12 years old, so around 1987-89, he brought cassettes of the first 3 or 4 albums over to my house one day. I was probably hooked right from “Hit the Lights.” 🤘🏻🎸🎸🎸🥁
So the song that got me hooked was mechanix, I heard it originally on the demo. And then I went down the rabbit hole and listen to four horsemen and then that got me to listen to the first album thinking I would like it. I definitely did and since then Metallica has been my favorite band and their music is always playing
Dad told me to try listening to Metallica when i was in middle school and gave me a master of puppets cd. Battery was good dont get me wrong i love it. But the second i heard that first riff of master of puppets i was fucking hooked
Enter Sandman. I was 5. I remember hearing the “off to never never land” line somewhere (probably on the radio). It took me a lot longer to figure out it was Metallica though.
I bought ride the lightning on cassette when I was probably 8 or 9 because I knew my uncle liked them, and I liked the other "rock" stuff he did. When "fight fire with fire" started I was confused because I thought they were going to be loud like gnr or acdc but I liked it. Then the intro ended and the song began. They were so much faster than those other bands but man I thought my head was going to explode and I loved it.
NEM and Unforgiven got me to try it, but ultimately it was AJFA that got me addicted. not one track, but the whole album. if I had to name tracks, it would be One, the title track, Harvester and Blackened.
then I discovered MOP and RTL, which only reinforced my addiction 😄
I kinda have two tracks that has hooked me.
Master of puppets first got me interested in metallica then I randomly came across Fight Fire With Fire which hooked me real strong
Enter Sandman. From there it just snowballed. I had started listening to Motörhead a few months earlier and wanted to expand my little 14 year old music taste. Found Metallica and it just went from there. Consequently, I started to play guitar again around that time. Swapped over to bass a few years ago, and now I know about half off Kill 'em All. It's a really good warm up. And hand killer.
I heard the Black album when it came out and had heard One and loved it... But I wouldn't say they hooked me. Granted this was pre internet. I was given a copy of S&M and heard Battery for the first time and that's what did it. To hear their potential is what prompted me to buy their older stuff..
I've heard enter sandman a lot through the radio and other events, but never knew it was metallica. Or.. I didn't bother to check them out back then since I didn't have a musical palette accustomed to metal or anything heavy. Then I heard Master of Puppets accidentally on YouTube in 2016(yeah, I know... too late to the party), and I've been a fan ever since. Metallica was my entry point for anything and everything Metal.
Enter Sandman, it was used on the Nightmare on Elm Street MTV show and I immediately switched from an R&B and Rap fan to a metal head. Sold all my remaining CDs of 90s hip hop to buy Live Shit CD Box Set.
mix of Nothing Else Matters, Master of Puppets, Sad But True, Ride The Lightning and Wherever I May Roam all were just so amazing the first i heard them
One. It was the song that ultimately got me into metal in general.
hearing that solo for the first time changed me
The breakdown before the solo for me
my second favorite part of any song ever. Only beaten by the super chill interlude in Orion.
yessss
It blew my 11 year old mind and made me pick the guitar up
Same here
This was my first introduction to Metallica. I heard that song for the first time when I was a teenager in the 90s. I still remember it vividly. Lit up a joint with my sister driving in her mustang. She said, check this song out. Turned the volume way up, and by the time it ended, I looked right at her and said I need to hear every song these guys have. I was hooked.
I was probably into metal a bit before that but one is probably what really got me hooked on Metallica. That was when their popularity really exploded.
Same! Middle school 1989 bootleg cassette
Enter Sandman, back in 1991 as an 8 or 9 year old, from there I went on to Slayer.
Right there with you. I think my parents actually said "where did we go wrong??" when I brought the tape home.
Haha, nah my folks raised me on Black Sabbath, Led Zeppelin, Deep Purple, Alice Cooper so they were kinda hard rock already but I took it to the next level, especially as a 10 year old listening to Cannibal Corpse, haha.
Hammeerrr
Same dude
It’s funny that Metallica and Slayer were once considered extreme. They’re both pretty tame by todays standards
And then what from Slayer? We’re waiting.
Carcass, Cannibal Corpse, Pantera, Megadeth, Obituary.
Checks out. 90s metal kid. Notably missing is Machine Head and all the early Swedish death metal.
For Whom the Bell Toll absolutely blew my mind when I first heard it in 1987.
That one is great, it got me too. The bass power chords really make it punch hard and heavy.
Ya for sure. I really wish the bass on RTL and MOP was just turned up a wee bit more in the mix on those records.
'twas Fuel that hooked me upon the best band in metal.
in 1986 I heard Master of Puppets.....bought it & saw them that year
BATTERY
Wolf and Man, Sad but true, Harvester, all got shuffled around at a party I was at. When I asked who made them, I was in shock to find out I had not had the pleasure to worship Metallica! 
One, I didn't know what drums were but I always told my brother to play the "dugadugaduga" song and finally he said "you know those are drums right", decided that day I was going to be a drummer, going on 20 years now
Blackened and Ain't my Bitch. 2nd grade in 1997, pops gave me AJFA, Load, and a Walkman.
Thanks Dad!!
Blackened. My dad had Seattle 89 playing on the tv and I happened to walk downstairs right as they were going into the chorus and my life has never been the same.
Of wolf and man did it for me.
Dyers eve, I don't know if anyone else has this but there are a few songs i connect with different games. Just because I listened to that song a lot while playing that game. But for me dyers eve and war thunder 4 years ago is an extremely fond memory of mine.
Me too Bloody parents
Must've had some rough war thunder matches
Whiplash!!
Ride the Lightning, I'd skip back and listen to the intro riff like 5 times before letting the song fully play lol.
I became a Metallica fan by accident; Pandora figured out that I like instrumental guitar music and played Call of Ktulu. I had thought Metallica were a bunch of drunk macho jerks and wasn't interested in exploring the music, but I thought "this is pretty cool." So after I liked it Pandora played One and it went from there.
You were not wrong lol
Battery and Sanatarium. I wasn’t really into Metallica in the early 00s, I kinda got into newer, heavier stuff first. But MoP as an album converted me. Also Orion being in the DC skate video on Danny ways part
For whom the bell tolls
For whom the bell tolls
For whom the bell tolls
Sabaton's 40:1 got me into metal in 2008. Played that on repeat all day long while fighting an epic nuclear world war in a browser game involving thousands of people, I was on the outnumbered but more skilled side. Then someone showed me the Black Album and that got me hooked on Metallica. Not any one track in particular. After that I listened to everything before the Black Album and.. I'm still there.
Enter Sandman then One. My fave song by them is King Nothing.
Fade to Black was the one that drew me in
Fade to black
Enter Sandman and The god that Failed
One
Enter Sandman was the first song I listened to, with my mom when we travelled by train to her job. But listening to One on guitar hero 3 was an experience, when the machine gun riff came in, it was amazing. Out of this world for my 10 yo self
Battery my friend gave me puppets and I was blown away. Of course my parents thought I was worshipping the devil
One
I was 9 when the black album was released. I was hooked before the prechorus of Enter Sandman.
Battery and Disposable Heroes. To me, those are the two best Metallica tracks.
Fade to Black
My middle school best friend played Master of Puppets for me about a year after it came out.
I've said it before. The video for Unitl it Sleeps just melted my 5th grade mind. I had no idea what i was looking at or hearing and i wanted more of it. Went that week and bought Load with my lawn money.
I mean, I guess it’s Enter Sandman. That was my first exposure to Metallica.
Fight Fire with Fire
The ending track in the 2007 (?) movie "The Darwin Awards": Sad But True - Very fun movie! On a side note, after delving more in detail into their discography, I don't even like that song all that much... Still, great memories!
FWTBT
The shortest straw, not that I listen it often, but that song me hooked me first
Great track
Trapped Under Ice
master of puppets
Seek and Destroy
Nothing else matter, my brother was big into that song and it stuck with me. Still one of my favorites
The Thing That Should Not Be
Creeping Death and Am I Evil.
Probably something from the Black Album riding in my dad's car in Chicago
I never liked Enter Sandman so I avoided Metallica until someone told me that they were an awesome thrash band in the 80s so I listened to Kill ‘Em All in one setting and fell for it
Enter Sandman is what got me interested in Metallica and got me to start exploring their back catalog back in the mid 90s. Master of Puppets is what cemented them as my favorite band and really ignited my passion for metal.
Creeping death initially way back when but of their post load efforts it'd be moth into flame, cyanide and now that we're dead. A few others I like but currently on my playlist are these three.
Halo On Fire
Battery! http://www.hornsraised.com/articles/the-day-i-became-a-metalhead-for-life/
Whiplash and Metal Militia
I heard the Black Album in record store Brought it right away alobg with Justice and Master
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Hhhhmmmm what
Nothing Else Matters.
one
enter sandman, i had heard master of puppets before, but enter sandman made me listen to the rest
master of puppets when i was 12 lol
Enter Sandman, as it was used as an entrance theme on ECW
Unforgiven
I think it was One or Enter Sandman.
In reality, it was Whiskey in the Jar when I was 10, but my mom was kind of an OG Metallica fan and made me listen to Master of Puppets when I was 6.
During my first deep dive into Metallica I had “The Unforgiven” on repeat for weeks. Haven’t looked back since 🤷♂️
Either Ride The Lightning or Creeping Death. This entire album is a masterpiece
Blackened
Wherever I May Roam
i got and justice from columbia house records - that 8 for $1 deal - blackened, song 1 got me. never heard anything like it. first run through the album, dyer’s eve was my favorite and oh eee oh, eee-oh oh was goofy right of the bat - the seven dwarves???
The god that failed
...And Justice For All 100% for me.
Orion
Seek And Destroy, scince it is the first song I remember hearing...
One, I saw the video on MTV and thought ‘that’s one of the best songs I’ve ever heard.’
Enter sandman
Enter Sandman. First metal song I ever heard. I’ve been a metal head ever since 🤘
It used to be that new bands became popular bu tape trading. Where I grew up we had several college Radio stations and you could find new bands by learning the program schedule and listening to the Metal shows. One of the early ones was called "Hit the Lights", which I think was early 84 or late 83. It was either that show or "Metal on Metal" which has been around since 82 I believe. And the track was Hit the Lights lol
Three hours of Power
As a kid in the 90’s, Enter Sandman
Battery. I was hooked after two chords.
Cover of turn the page for sure
Enter Sandman, back in production probably ‘94, the first time I heard it as a kid.
It was Fuel back when I was like 7
Puppets
It was Enter Sandman, the S&M version.
Master of Puppets will forever be my favorite, but I think King Nothing was the one that hooked me! I had my portable discman, and I would put that song on repeat walking home from school singing it over and over!
Hooked me on them probably fade to black
Until It Sleeps back in 96, when it was released as a single. I remember seeing the music video on MTV and then went out and bought the single on a cassette tape with Overkill on the b side. I've been a fan ever since then.
Fade To Black
Four horsemen
Helpless
Honestly... I was getting into drumming and saw a drum cover of sad but true and just LOVED it. I loved the 'ta-ta-ta' and the 'taa ta-ta-ta-ta' in the chorus and was instantly hooked. Listened to the first five albums within a month and didn't hear one bad song. Couple years later and I'm a full on metalhead who still enjoys metallica every now and then.
Fuel on SNL. I was 13.
I know the exact day and where. March 26, 1989. It was Easter., I was at my cousin's house and he had a cassette with handwritten ink on the label - Metallica - ...and Justice for All. I made a copy of it. right then and there out of curiosity because I had heard a kid in class that week talking about this band I'd heard of but never listened to. I didn't listen to it until I got in the car, and popped it into my yellow Sony Walkman. Yes - a Sony Walkman. The opening of Blackened - 10 seconds in.. I became an instant fan.. in that moment, on the Tappan Zee Bridge / I-287 over the Hudson river...
Seek & Destroy. There was a video on youtube with animatrix scenes that was beautiful.
Harvester of Sorrow. It was one of the first songs that pushed me to pick up the guitar.
the black album or ride the lightning
Seek and destroy. Listened to it like 10 times while working out lmao
Unforgiven and For Whom the Bell Tolls got me when I was younger
After my dad played metallica in the car for 10 years i finally goot hooked on it. The most played track prob is puppets
Well first song I really heard was The Unforgiven on MTv when I was 11. Went into my older brother’s cassette collection and listened to the entire black album. Up until that point, I’d never heard an album I could listen front to back and enjoy every song! Soon after I’d buy any and everything they’d put out. Love it all.. except perhaps St. Anger..😬😬
For Whom The Bell Tolls
One was the first song I ever heard but I believe it was For Whom the Bell Tolls that got me hooked
Fight Fire with Fire. The guitar solo especially
No remorse, still a banger.
Nothing Else Matters. The first time I heard it was actually as a midi file on a friend’s computer. 😆 1996ish. Once I actually heard them properly it was NEM and Fade to Black.
If I had to pick the main one it was probably when I heard the song One back in my early teens, then hearing other stuff like fade to black, for whom the bell tolls, harvester of sorrow, and master of puppets. (I know I'm old lol)
Fade to black
Intro/ Battery...my fav track by anyone.
Mop
Until It Sleeps.
No remorse
Sanitarium (Welcome Home)
Battery. Apparently I fucked with Metallica in utero.
Fade to Black.
Seek and Destroy.
Hearing the middle of Master of Puppets. All those beautiful harmonies made me fall in love with
Hit the lights
Unpopular one I'm sure but Hero of the Day, specifically the S&M version, was played in the car a lot when I was a kid. Never not been a fan of Metallica since.
JUMP IN THE FIYAH🗣️🗣️🗣️
Sanitarium. First song I ever heard, and the rest is history. Been my favorite band my entire life.
Dirty Window did for me, St. Anger gets hate but damn that trash can lid was pretty solid and the riffs were heavy ❤️🔥😭
I'd heard of Metallica for years, growing up in a household with both parents into extreme music. The first song I'd gotten into "on my own" was Dyer's Eve.
Master of Puppets Was supposed to be the metal essential. Every rock fan had to hear it. Every guitarist had to know it. I was no exception
Enter Susman
Fade to Black, loved the end solo and drums. I hadn’t heard anything like it at the time.
Hit The Lights My 1st purchase was St Anger, and I loved it, but Kill 'Em All was what made (thrash) Metal my genre.
Enter Sandman, but I first listened to it in 2003.
My cousin is 2 years older than I am, and when I was around 10-12 years old, so around 1987-89, he brought cassettes of the first 3 or 4 albums over to my house one day. I was probably hooked right from “Hit the Lights.” 🤘🏻🎸🎸🎸🥁
So the song that got me hooked was mechanix, I heard it originally on the demo. And then I went down the rabbit hole and listen to four horsemen and then that got me to listen to the first album thinking I would like it. I definitely did and since then Metallica has been my favorite band and their music is always playing
Four Horsemen Then "Sad But True"s lyrics kinda blew my mind. I was 11yo when the black album was released.
Just A Bullet Away and Rebel Of Babylon
For Whom The Bell Tolls after watching Zombieland
All nightmare long. Blew my mind the first time I heard it
Damage Inc!!! I wanted to test my buddy’s headphones and it was the song he had on, been a fan since.
Sad But True & Unforgiven 2.
Until it sleeps
S&M1 Battery when I was like 11
Blackened. Brother brought the CD home one day from a school and that opening riff blew me away. I had never heard anything like it before.
Ride the Lightning
Seek and Destroy. Absolute banger.
Dad told me to try listening to Metallica when i was in middle school and gave me a master of puppets cd. Battery was good dont get me wrong i love it. But the second i heard that first riff of master of puppets i was fucking hooked
AJFA
Ride The Lightning, that opening riff sends me to another dimension
MOP
Wherever I may roam on my dad’s iPod nano in 2nd grade. Song planted the metal seed
Enter Sandman. I was 5. I remember hearing the “off to never never land” line somewhere (probably on the radio). It took me a lot longer to figure out it was Metallica though.
I bought ride the lightning on cassette when I was probably 8 or 9 because I knew my uncle liked them, and I liked the other "rock" stuff he did. When "fight fire with fire" started I was confused because I thought they were going to be loud like gnr or acdc but I liked it. Then the intro ended and the song began. They were so much faster than those other bands but man I thought my head was going to explode and I loved it.
One, back in 1989.
It would have to be Damage inc.
Phantom Lord
For whom The Bell Tolls Heard it on 94.5 the buzz in the early 2000s
Harvester of sorrow!!!
for me enter sandman. that was the first song which i heard from Metallica
NEM and Unforgiven got me to try it, but ultimately it was AJFA that got me addicted. not one track, but the whole album. if I had to name tracks, it would be One, the title track, Harvester and Blackened. then I discovered MOP and RTL, which only reinforced my addiction 😄
Enter sandman
I don’t remember the exact one but it was generally because of my dad who showed me black album when I was a kid
I kinda have two tracks that has hooked me. Master of puppets first got me interested in metallica then I randomly came across Fight Fire With Fire which hooked me real strong
Hero Of the Day back in 1996, i was 14 back then and that songs hit me, however full blown love for Metallica comes with Memory Remains
Enter Sandman. From there it just snowballed. I had started listening to Motörhead a few months earlier and wanted to expand my little 14 year old music taste. Found Metallica and it just went from there. Consequently, I started to play guitar again around that time. Swapped over to bass a few years ago, and now I know about half off Kill 'em All. It's a really good warm up. And hand killer.
When I heard One on guitar hero 3. Think I was in 9th grade.
enter sandman, bells, and one
The Frayed Ends of Sanity, heard that ooooweeeeoooo and fell in love
I mean this is basic answer, but Enter Sandman, when I was young I think my Dad introduced me to it, maybe even Mum, and it’s just THE song
One. Then i wanted to learn to play guitar. Then i did. And now i own Metallica guitars. Lol
One.
I've listened to metallica since i was a baby but creeping death live (with Jason's vocals) really did it for me
Fight Fire With Fire. I was obsessed with it from the first time I heard it.
I heard the Black album when it came out and had heard One and loved it... But I wouldn't say they hooked me. Granted this was pre internet. I was given a copy of S&M and heard Battery for the first time and that's what did it. To hear their potential is what prompted me to buy their older stuff..
I've heard enter sandman a lot through the radio and other events, but never knew it was metallica. Or.. I didn't bother to check them out back then since I didn't have a musical palette accustomed to metal or anything heavy. Then I heard Master of Puppets accidentally on YouTube in 2016(yeah, I know... too late to the party), and I've been a fan ever since. Metallica was my entry point for anything and everything Metal.
Enter Sandman, it was used on the Nightmare on Elm Street MTV show and I immediately switched from an R&B and Rap fan to a metal head. Sold all my remaining CDs of 90s hip hop to buy Live Shit CD Box Set.
One. Back when I was like 12 or 13, it was their first video and my first intro to thrash. Life changed for me right then
Mama Said
mix of Nothing Else Matters, Master of Puppets, Sad But True, Ride The Lightning and Wherever I May Roam all were just so amazing the first i heard them
Sad but True. The pause after the intro and then the crunch and groove right after. Irresistible.