We interrupt our South American Metal Tour for this week, for a very personal week in the Song Of the Day.
This week, yours truly reaches it's 35th birthday and I though it was nice to do something more personal, with songs that represent moments of discovery in my relationship with Metal music.
I acquired the taste for Metal pretty late on my life.
My youth, in early eighties, was spent listening to music my parents had at home, and discovering that the seventies weren't my thing, but the sixties were ok. And then seeing the music shows I could get on TV (Top Disco from Portugal and Countdown from Music Box with Adam Curry and later with Nino Firetto) that introduced me to eighties Pop and Rock - nothing heavier than Europe or Bon Jovi at this stage.
Then I went into high school and had in friends a new source of musical input. At this time I found Hard-Rock, Punk and witnessed the appearance of Grunge. DAD, Clash, Transvision Vamp, Guns n' Roses, Nirvana, Pearl Jam and Alice in Chains were the bands I listened to.
It was only in 1993 when I went to college that I became a Metal head. I had rented an apartment with two colleagues in a building that was completely empty during the day, and we had a small stereo. Someone put the sound in the max and slipped in ...And Justice for All from Metallica.
Metallica - Blackened
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