Viscount Alex of the Horse People from Mars I couldn't agree more! My favorite subgenre is power metal. In fact many of the fantasy themes that they sing about are things that kids really love and enjoy.
I’m 14 and love death and black metal, this had led to me being told that the music will destroy my “young, impressionable” mind by a random woman who saw me in the street wearing a cannibal corpse t shirt. I don’t think age dictates who should and shouldn’t listen to metal, it depends on maturity and who can appreciate the music.
I'm 19 now, I've been listening to metal since I was 10 man....no one ever gave me shit about it....maybe it's because they thought I was a Satanist due to listening the music I love....yeah it started with Nickelback at around 8, it escalated so quickly hahaha
LOL, im in my 50's. Weaned on alice cooper,acdc, and so on. In last year have taken my 13 year old granddaughter to see kiss, alice cooper, and motionless in white, we are planing on going to the warped tour . Her dad has taken her to some very heavy shows to. She is polite, kind, caring,,helpful, little goth/hm kinda girl, so proud of her
today's kids listen to trap songs about hardcore drugs and sex wrote by people who actually look like criminals, to a parent, it probably makes metal look like a much better route
I agree with you man but dont say they look like criminals. Never judge someone based on their looks and its not that they look like criminals its that criminals look like them. They arent trying to look like criminals with face tats and stuff but people who commit crimes tend to be of this type
Today's kids... Every decade it's always today's kids. They were saying the same thing in the 80's and 90's and how the rappers "look like criminals". They just look like normal people to me. We know many of them are black and that is the only thing people see which is why racial profiling is a thing. What does a criminal look like? A guy in a suit is more likely to be a criminal. People love throwing one genre under the bus, drugs and sex aren't exclusive to one genre. They've been in music before any rap was around. Video games also have them and they're much more influential as you get to interact. There's games that have you taking drugs and selling them. Lots of games are sexual. Then we have TV shows. Breaking Bad is all about the drugs and people are rooting for a guy who gets rich off making drugs for people to get hooked on. Nobody is complaining about that though.
I listen to metal most days, my daughter just formed her own taste within metal and likes most of it. From Maiden to Iced Earth...I mean, I could go on.
Glimrande Sir I'd not consider ACDC as a band that should be first shown to a kid, especially considering their lyrical themes and album covers, there are a lot of bands out there that would be better, Dragonforce, Blind Guardian, Helloween, Judas Priest, Deep Purple and Metallica would be better bands to start off with IMO
Well, I think that as long as kids understand how to interpret it and that a fraction of metal is fictional, it shouldn't be a problem. My argument over the years has always been to look at hip-hop. It is FULL of profanities, sexuality, and English that isn't even English, yet they have kids doing hip hop in gym class. I find that hypocritical, personally. When I was growing up as a teenager several years ago, metal helped me improve my vocabulary. The language used in metal is really good. But in pop songs and rap songs, it is all slang. And, metal challenges certain things at an intellectual level which gets people thinking, which is good I say. I think it is a double standard all together. Metal needs to be appreciated more in society. It's been around for almost fifty years.
To be honest, this hatred for rap and hip hop pisses me off (I distinguish between rap and hip hop because hip hop is the style of music, rap is the style of vocals). And not all hip hop is the same drug and crime glorifying gangsta rap just like not all metal contains graphic depictions of slaughter just because that happens to be the case with some bands, especially in death and potentially black metal. And I'd say that a lot of rap uses really complex language with a focus on complicated rhyme schemes largely not consisting of slang. For an example, I'd recommend Stan by Eminem. Beautifully dark with beautiful storytelling.
Well said! When I was in 5th grade, I got in trouble for bringing a Rob Zombie CD into to school and listening to it on the school bus. Yet some of my classmates brought in rap CD’s and that was overlooked. I mentioned that hypocrisy to the principal.
I am a mother. My daughter is 4 years old. I listen to Metal ALL the time. Always. She hears more curse words from me and my family, than she does Metal. (Yes we make sure she doesn't go around cursing at people tho) I think kids can handle Metal for sure. Mine can. She throws up the horns whenever it's on. Even headbangs but she also listens to shitty pop, and I'm okay with that. It's whatever she's feeling. I'd rather she listen to Metal than be exposed to porn. I personally feel like most of hip hop and rap talks too much about drugs and sex. I think that would affect them more than Metal would. So as a "Metal Mom" I think Metal is completely okay. 🤘 Stay brutal!
There’s more to hip hop than sex and drugs not that it’s not a theme it can be and a lot of popular music in the genre goes that way but hip hop can be a hell of a lot more as can metal
I’m 16 and I became a metal head when I was 3 when my dad showed me Iron Maiden in my 16 years I have seen many bands live and I don’t think that there is any band that my parents don’t like me listening to, Cos after all they were the ones that showed me them in the first place
@@nonamerenegade7395 yeah I never understood that like the song could have the singer asking for gods help and people will still call it satanic I’m not religious so it doesn’t bother me but some verses in the bible are darker than metal at times
I'm a metalhead who's planning to have children quite soon with a girl not into metal. We together agree that our children will have a mind of their own, and they can listen to whatever music they like. We're not the ones to decide that, as music is of no harm to anyone with no tendency of thinking fictional stuff is real. I obviously am going to play metal since that's my music of choice, so our children will be hearing that from a very early age. They will soon realize that even with the aggressiveness it's just music.
I say it depends on the band. Obviously, vands like Vulvodynia or Cannibal Corpse are not child friendly by any means. But others, like Iron Maiden, I think are perfectly fine. The genre as a whole isn’t necessarily inappropriate.
Honestly cannibal corpse is so absurd in a way to children you could tell them it’s fiction so not that-I am a child and thought “this is stupid” when I found cannibal corpse anyways
My sister is 10 years old and she loves Iron Maiden , I started listening to metal since I was 7 .Now when I growed up people think that I am a monster couse I like metal since I was child......
I was at a fleshgod apocalypse show last month and there was an 8 year old kid with his father. He was wearing a slayer shirt and a battlevest full of extreme metal patches with a little behemoth backpatch. The dad was wearing a behemoth shirt too so it was awesome to see the two long-haired metalheads headbang together haha \m/
My parents showed me hair metal when I was 4. 10 years later my favorite genres are Death and Thrash Metal. My mom hates it, and has tried to stop me. My dad likes it, and takes me to concerts all the time.
Depends on the kid. I was 10 and found out about metal. 13 years later still strong into it. The harder stuff you might keep away some kids wanna be edgy and wanna do what the black metal acts did early on. Burn churches etc without much context why. Or kids who take shit too far and wanna human sacrifice etc.
megaman exe I actually discovered metal through black metal lol. At that time my brothers friend showed me Transylvanian Hunger and I loved it. I must’ve been around 14, but we didn’t have internet in the 90s so idk what I would’ve done knowing similar musicians burned down churches lol.
They burnt churches because they were built on sacred Pagan ground. They rebelled in favor of pre-Christian European cultures. So they did have reason, just so you know.
My son is 2 years old and I play metal when we are driving in the car all the time and he enjoys it. One of the moments I am very much looking forward to is taking him to his first metal show when he is older. If he grows up not being a metalhead that is fine too, but I know both his mother and I being metalheads will be playing metal around him throughout his life 🤘🏻
Well, if u show extreme metal to a kid who has never been exposed to that kind of music it should shock or scare atleast. But, for example, if a kid grows up with parents who listen extreme music all the time, thats when young kids could actualy like it cause they are used to hear it
lol i remember when I first saw Slipknot I was like "what the fuck" *that was back when the horror tag was enough to scare me, oh those days I do not want to recall*. Now I have their entire self titled album and half of Vol. 3 and Iowa on my playlist.
I got into SOAD when I was first 8. I like their most popular songs and I went expanding. I'd say that it makes kids more mature because things in metal are things that exist. Maybe monsters might not be real but the symbolic things cannot go overlooked. It's better to know and understand darkness and suffering than believing you will not live thorough them
i'm a kid and that suitable for me,i'm a 13 years old kid and i always bullied in my school(not just with verbal,they even bullied me with physical bullying)i was so lonely and does'nt have any friend,but when i found out Exodus and Slayer,i think they are pretty good,so every single day when i come back from school i always searching and listening to metal song(except nu metal and hardcore,they sucks)i use metal to be my Painkiller,im inspired from this channel and some other channel(like killbot and gor gor attack,and thulean perspective)thank you black metal werewolf
I grew up with metal. My dad is a metalhead and he showed me all the great bands. One of my First bands was slayer and after that came rammstein. At the age of 4 or 5 i was always singing metal songs in my kindergarten. Good old times. Now i'm 15 and i'm still a metalhead. I own some battlevests and i have a huge CD collection. Also the lyrics never scared me or did something to me. I'm pretty "normal" i guess. Haha PS nice vid
I started out growing up with GnR, then in 8th grade a girl got me into skillet, foo fighters, bring me the horizon, etc. Then from there I went on my own. I later discovered Death, Lamb Of God, Gojira, Warbringer, Slayer, Metallica, Ice Nine Kills, Slipknot, Tool, Municipal Waste, etc.
Just like horror movies or scary movies or whatever - some of it is a bit more widely accessible, but some of it, children probably shouldn't be privy to!
I got into metal when I was around 11. I told my mom I wanted to listen to metal bands, so she bought me a few CDs of bands that she knew were considered metal when she was in college (Judas Priest, Black Sabbath, etc.) She was not into metal at all, so it meant a lot that she went out of her way to do that. If a parent can be cool with modern pop music, I don't see why metal should be an issue. Both can contain lyrical content that is questionable. Hell, I saw a 6 year old at an Amon Amarth show who was having the best time!
Sure, if they start with the soft bands like Maiden, Judas Priest or Metallica. (Ghost could be a great starting band) Lyrics doesn't really matter, because when you're a kid you don't care about the text (at least I didn't) they just sing along to what they like. For example I loved Bounce by System of a Down lol and I didn't have a clue what it meant.
Ardek omg my parents blew their lid when they heard me listening to ghost but god forbid my younger siblings are listening to shits like lil pump and 69 lmao the irony
Ailene Perez if they don't like the satanic stuff, listen to the newest album! I think there is only one song (Pro memoria) that uses Lucifer in the lyrics, the album is about the plague.
Ailene Perez I forgot to mention the song faith, its about the devil but it is the most heavy song, the rest is pretty much hard rock and not metal (to me, but ghost is a difficult band to give one genre to)
Is this seriously a question? I was a metalhead in utero! Some of us are just born this way. My father died when I was five, so death in music was obviously only a literary device. I dress like a preacher's wife, most of the time, simply because it's practical. "Even then, I was suffering for my art" Rob Halford admits sporting "the look" can be quite uncomfortable. For those who assume Metal is a distilled version of Rock music, and therefore ultra-misogynistic, it is always my pleasure to inform them that I've experienced waaay more assault at country and rock shows that I ever have at metal gigs. I will happily and confidently walk into a Metallica, or Pantera show alone, but I wouldn't dare let a friend go to a Zac Brown Band or Florida/Georgia Line show by herself (that's how I ended up going).
My dad used to play me slipknot and black sabbath when I was still in the womb😂 I’m 13 now and I have loved this music since I was born. When I was 4 I knew the lyrics to most of the Metallica discography. Yes, at school I get picked on because of my love of metal. Most narrow minded people at my school say that it’s all based on gore and death, and to some extent it is, but that’s only a minority. Metal has so many layers and so many different meanings. Music like pop is so superficial and there is nothing beneath the surface of it. Pop music is like scissors, it always gets beaten by rock😜🤘
I started listening to maiden and all the 80s when I was like 10 now I’m 14 and like harder metal. Just got my battle jacket and I’m still waiting for my first first patch. It’s the trooper back patch.
As a parent, I'll say that it depends. I've always had my son around metal (he could do a pretty great death metal growl of twinkle twinkle little star when he was 2 or 3). Most music, I've never had any real issues. There's some black metal that i didn't play around him until he was a teenager, but, it was kind of like there's some movies you don't watch around children depending on their maturity at the time. Have to say though, family road trip from Calgary to Vancouver during the middle of the school year to go see Sabaton, Nightwish, and Delain when he was 9 or 10 was pretty great. Even his teachers were really excited about him going. Big part of being a parent is helping and encouraging your child to grow, explore, and follow their own paths. At a younger age, just have to hold the reigns a little more. As for myself, I was raised with musically opposite parents, much like my son is. I grew up on a solid foundation of Metallica, Megadeth, Kenny Rogers, and Johnny Cash, and really, can't remember my parents ever ever yelling at me with the exception of a little bit of Offspring and Guttermouth.
Im 13 and i listen to amon amarth, slayer, watain, megadeth, metallica, cannibal corpse, death and anthrax and i have great grades and tbh im doing really gd and i owe it to metal
I started with metal music when i was about 14 years old. My parents were always against it because they thought that metal will make me a bad person and so on and so on... After a while they kinda accepted it because they saw i was still me if i can put it that way and now that i finished school and i am already working for a few years they are totally fine with it. Keep up the good work and cheers from Slovenia! \m/
I'm 14 and I started listening to metal a few months ago. My dad actually introduced me to Motörhead and Black Sabbath, as well as the movie Deathgasm. He also has vinyl's of some suicidal tendancies album's from when he was younger. So I'd say he was pretty happy about my interest in metal
I started listening to metal when i was about 10 ( im 13 ) and i started with iron maiden, black Sabbath Then i started listening to metallica, slipknot, KoRn, cannibal corpse, megadeth, etc.
I first started listening to soad at 10, then in middle school I got really into post hardcore or screamo or whatever with bands like Bring me the Horizon, Asking Alexandria, Escape the Fate etc. Then towards that end of middle school at 8th grade I got into deathcore with bands like Chelsea grin and rose funeral. I remember sometime in that grade I listened to cannibal corpse and really liked it. The rest is history pretty much. Nowadays I'm into heavy, thrash and black metal.
i went to a alestorm concert the other day in tilburg and there was this little young girl next to me on the most front row and she was around 7 or 8 and she absolutely loved it, it gave me the biggest smile ever and after the concert was done i talked with the family and we had a great chat super awsome
When I was at 8th grade i was walking with my friend down the hall during the break, some 2nd graders walked past us and they used more curses in 15 seconds than I would hear listening to 10 metal albums.
Way too long of a story of how I discovered and how I got into metal, but I was 10. I had just moved to St. Catharines from Brantford and Metal was brought to my attention. I loved it, my parents didn't mind that I was listening to metal. I started with 80's Hair Bands and gradually got into heavier and heavier bands. So, metal started for me when I was 10 in 1984. In my years I did meet and know some kids who weren't allowed to listen to metal because of their religious parents and that made no sense to me, so I started asking questions about religion and it just pissed me off. I'm 44 now and have been listening to metal since I was 10. Besides my ADHD (which gives me hyperfocus with music) my Severe Anxiety and Mild Depression, metal didn't affect me in a negative way, it actually acted as a therapeutic tool for me. The themes in metal can actually help kids feel that they aren't alone and others can relate to them. I could go on forever about metal, but I don't want to bore you. I see that your mailing address is Brantford, I was born in Brantford, most of my family lives in Brantford, like I mentioned in my long ass paragraph I lived in Brantford till I was 10 years old and I visit family a few times a year. Your PO Box is listed as West Brant, I lived in West Brant, down the street from RIverview Elementary School. Brantford still holds a special place in my heart.
Power and Symphonic Metal are what I would use with children. It always appeals to them because of the magical themes and fantasy it entails. I think it's best to start them on such genres (even old school). Around 13, when they begin to deal with heavier problems like bullying, peer pressure: Just generalizing the high school issues, then I'd introduce them to genres that treat with darker and heavier topics.
My mom listens to several genres, my favorites were the doors, deep purple, pink floyd and alice cooper. (Guess some michael jackson-mostly the songs with a deeper meaning like earth song, they don't really care about us, human nature, to name a few, and from madonna I still enjoy frozen.) When I was 8 my favorite song was poison from alice cooper, I further explored the metal genre after I turned 13, I fell in love with the music, later on I discovered some punk bands, some goa and reggae, jazz/bluess, folk music (irish, scotish, american,). I just really enjoy music, but if you think about it the top40 lists that are played on the radio are also quite sexual lyric wise, but that is fine since it's all on the same beat and progression in general. (In the mind of the mainstream person) my mom never made an issue about what music I would listen to. (Plus when I was a kid I was allready contemplating about the universe, our exsistence in it, why there was so much hate and wars shown on the 18:00 news. Everyday. I wondered why so many had to suffer while others don't, I didn't want protection from reality, I wanted to understand reality. And listen to different genre's of music is helped me a great deal in my search, though I'm still not close to an answer. I think kids should be exposed to a bit more extremer stuff instead of being overprotected and sheltered from the outside. The real world is a harsh and cruel place, and people should be prepared for that as much as possible. I was given a lot of responsibilty as a child and even I feel like I went from the kiddipool right into big scary ocean in the blink of an eye. I don't want to know what people who have been overprotected by their parents felt when they had to transition to the real world.
Started listening to Deep Purple and Led Zeppelin in the age of 12. One year later I would get into metal through Metallica (first thing I actually listened to was Kill em all) and shit like this. Actually back than my mom was _strongly_ against Metallica and metal in general. She got mad at me a few times, worse than ever before. She was and is nearly always chill and not strict at all, but she thought that music would fuck me up. Well now she's totally okay with it, supports me being myself and also let's me visit concerts and festivals.
Im 12 rn and my dad showed me slipknot and black lable society when i was 2 or 3 and it was the most awesome thing I've ever seen and heard. I've always listened to metal and will always listen to metal. I thank my dad for showing me and getting me into metal.
There are a lot of happy and not dark metal songs. First metal song I ever heard was Iron Man when I was like 4 along with Paranoid. Then Enter Sandman. There is tons of stuff that is perfectly fine. I’m not going to hide the world from my kids, I’m so glad my parents didn’t do that to me, Dyers Eve captures that point perfectly.
I got in trouble for playing Iron Maiden and Black Sabbath in front of my little cousins I was trying to save them from the christian pop their mom plays
I was little when my mom introduced me to metal music. Back in the 90’s. I didn’t get into extreme metal until I was 14. I grew up on the older metal bands some of the current day 90’s bands when I began.
My parents don't care about me listening to heavy metal music and I always bore them like asking them if they will listen to it, and they will reply a big NO!😢 Not everyone likes heavy metal music unless you're open minded to it. I enjoy it everyday and all the time!
I startet listening to metal at 9. Nightwish just Release the Single Nemo and there were still music Videos on music channels. They and within temptation were my gateway into metal. I came from a bit of a classical background thanks to my aunt and music school. Though I was also into a whole lot of different stuff from Girl groups, eurodance and Pop to Rock and Jazz. My parents were quite supportive especially my father since he was is and has been a Fan of Rock nroll, blues, classic rock etc since He was a teen. But mom was not far behind. And really it was Karma since she used worked for the label/record company that had doro, the scorpions metallica etc around 1990.
Me and my fiance plan to have kids and we'd let our kids play M rated games, watch horror movies, and listen to because that's how we grew up. We both listened to ghetto rap and classic rock growing up. We both watched horror movies and adult swim growing up.
This video was in my notification next to my little brothers email saying have you heard of infant anhilator they’re awesome 😂 he shouldn’t be listening to them it’s just ironic
I am 17. I started to listen to Metal with Maiden when i was 7-8 i believe. Maiden is still my favorite band but my favorite genre is black metal. I also like a lot of death metal and other metal bands. My mom like some metal but she didn't understand why i listened to extreme metal, but now she dont care that i do. Dad didn't like metal at all and thought my IM - Final Fronter poster should been burned. But now he dont care and like a little metal sometimes. The problem is that almost all metal concerts, at least here in Norway, is 18+ so i miss a lot of stuff.
Sveino1000 I’m so sorry for your loss (yes not seeing bands live is a loss) dude when I saw Slipknot last week I went alone and 16 years old and I’ll do it again for Slayer at Hershey in November
I started listening to metal when I was about 13, luckily my dad is a huge old school metalhead - Motorhead, Rainbow, Deep Purple,Sabbath, preist etc. He really encouraged me when listening to metal, since before we didn't really have a lot in common I feel like metal has improved mine and his relationship 10x. I also found out the other day that he is starting to get into Immortal, which is cool coming from someone 50+.
My father was introducing me into metal (especially power and folk) since I was born. He was showing me all the Nightwish's music videos, which were beautiful btw, and anywhere we were going by car he always played some CD's of Nightwish or Korpiklaani. By now, I am introducing my younger brother who is in the age of 13 to folk and melodic death metal bands like Eluveitie, Amon Amarth or Dethklok. For me, without metal in my life I would have grown up as a typical teenage alcoholic listening to Polish rap (yes, I am Polish). In my country there are tons of kids which already are addicted to alcohol, or worse - drugs. I am really glad for my dad for getting me into metal and funfact: when I was coming to this world, my dad was listening to some heavy stuff in the corridor :-)
Thanks to my dad, I've been listening to metal pretty much my entire life. I think that he was pretty reasonable with with how much he exposed me to ( skipping certain songs, not giving me direct answers to questions I had about them, turning off music videos if I found them scary, etc. ). I think part of that comes back to what you said about kids understanding what they feel like they should or shouldn't be seeing. Now that I've gotten older and started exploring the scene on my own I think it's interesting to look back on. From 3rd grade onward I would be wearing shirts to school he got me at concerts and listening to the music he put on an mp3 player for me. Now I'm in college and making my own battle vests and discovering bands on my own. I still surprise him every now and then when he learns what I've started listening over the past few years. 😂
Some if the earliest things I can remember is Metal Law by majesty and Prayerin the Dark by powerwolf being my two favorite songs when I was around seven or eight.
I grew up with my parents making me listen to things like gospel music (mostly Jeremy Camp), old Taylor Swift, and country music. I never really enjoyed music until I got into classical music when I was 12 and metal when I was 17 (which was only almost 2 years ago). Although I’ve only listened to metal for 2 years, I’ve loved it so much. I wish I’d known that it existed before then
I think you’ve made some pretty good points in this video, also, I was into WWII a lot when I was 10 and I still am. Also, I started listening to Metal when I was 9, my dad showed me ...And Justice for All by Metallica and it was awesome.
That's really an interesting topic... I'm 17 and I do listen to metal, I used to listened it when I was a child but it wasn't heavy bcs I wasn't used to a really heavy rhythm... Thanks a lot 4 the video!!!
My mom often told me that when I was little and whenever she played Motley Crue in the car I loved it. Obviously I don’t remember that but that’s Mom’s story. I was into other genres when I was in middle school. Then when high school came around I started liking metal (again?). I’m still into metal in it’s many sub-genres and I still like the other genres I got hooked on.
I have been a metal head my whole life. I grew up hearing my mothers version of metal...I've always listened to metal...me ex husband is a metal head...and our 12 year old son is...you guessed it...a metal head. His first concert was knotfest this year. I am pretty sure he is the youngest fan that can sing spit it out all the way through. Makes me so proud.
I was 6 years old when I've first listened to Metal, and It was Run to the hills by Iron Maiden. I liked it from the first that I've listened to, and now I'm 22 years old dude who loves Metal and any other good music genres too.
Excellent topic BMW. I have a seven year old son and I've listened to metal tracks with him and watched metal videos. He particularly liked Sabaton's 'Primo Victoria'. But with some of the songs that featured harsh vocals he wasn't so impressed, "I can't understand what they're talking about dad.' Still, a little while later that day, he started doing 'harsh vocals' himself. I had to laugh ! He's exposed to bad language at school and at times on the internet but I take the time to remind him that it's not appropriate for someone of his age to be using bad language and he's fine with that. The horror aspect is fine with me. I loved horror when I was his age and we've even watched horror films together. I keep reminding him that it's all fake, that nobody dies and all the monsters are just guys in costumes or CGI. There are things I do shelter him from but metal isn't one of them.
I’m turning 19 this year, and I’ve been listening to rock and metal for almost a year and 1/2, I have two brothers who are 4 and 6 going in 5 and 7 and they love it
I instantly became a metalhead the summer between 5th and 6th grade. Both sides of my family are into country so I was brought up with names like Conway Twitty, Alabama, Oak Ridge Boys, etc. My favorite at the time was Kenny Rogers. Then I listened to my first metal song ever. I still consider it to this day to be one of the most beautiful works of music regardless of genre. It's super-kid-friendly being that it's an instrumental. "Into the Lungs of Hell" - Megadeth - "So Far, So Good, So What"
One of my favorite bands my dad showed me growing up as a kid was slipknot. The funny thing is that it was on guitar 3 one of my favorite games, I was only 10. I remember him showing me Slipknot's first album, and it as fascinating, to see the just the cover art itself, and the just the music itself was a thrill to listen to.
My dad got me into Pantera and System of a Down when I was 5 and I’m 18 now so whenever I look back I see those two bands have given me a lot of good memories
I was 12 when i first started listening to metal. i would often see the videos for metallicas 'enter sandman' and mudvaynes 'dig' (this was like 2002ish) when mtv2 would come over on the antenna at my grandmothers house. I remember my mom giving me shit for wanting a manson cd once but she still bought it for me haha.
Hey I'm a new sub to your channel. And I am a parent of 3. my two youngest kids love metal and love a good head bang. My eldest child likes her mainstream music, which I ain't fussed about least she is happy. So yeah I ain't that fussed about my kids listening to metal. and by the way amazing video and channel. \m/
I started with metal with my friend who was and is a big Marilyn Manson fan, I remember a long time ago, we went into shops with The Beautiful People playing and people wondered where the sound was coming from, but I independently listened to metal in 2009 when the same friend let me borrow some magazine CDs, there was 2 she gave me, one had Enter Shikari's No Sssweat and the other had their song Kickin' Back on the Surface of Your Cheek, from those two songs I had to listen to more by them and too this day they are my favourite band, and a year later I got into Escape the Fate when they released Issues and Massacre, the latter being my first introduction to metalcore, then came Bring Me the Horizon, heard Anthem, Diamonds Aren't Forever, Rawwwrr!!! and loved the energy in the songs.
I started to listen to metal when I was 12 and this year I'm 17. 🖤 🤘🏻 I started with gothic metal... Now I still like gothic metal but I'm more into black, folk, doom...
I showed my little cousins Power Trip and all hated it but one. That one, was the youngest girl, about 5. She got a burst of energy and started doing air guitar.
My collection is a little over 20,000 CD's and 200 Vinyl and around 80 cassettes and I'll admit about 30% has harsh cursing. I started collecting as a 10 year old kid with the money from my paper route. So fuck anyone who says that kids shouldn't listen to metal, I wouldn't be alive today without metal in my life. Kept me sane.
I was 11 when I first started listening to metal and 11 years later am still happy to be a part of the metal community. Hopefully my kids someday will enjoy metal just as much as I do :)
I think my first metal experiences as a (dutch) boi were around 10 years old with Heidevolk? I still love heidevolk and i was interested initially because they sang about history very local to me, and it felt good to have songs about the place i'd lived my whole life. Metal turned me into a reasonably respected/feared (not that i'd hurt a fly) kid in high school which left my largely unaffected by bullying and overall i'd say it's been a very positive thing for me. As long as the kid doesnt become too much of an elitist it'll be all good imo.
My kids have always listened to what I listen to and have their own likes on music. My dad started me out on Black Sabbath don’t know when I just know it was when I was young. I became a full fledged metal head at around 13.
Good stuff, I've got kids im trying to get into heavy metal, and i agree with all your points, nothing wrong with it at all, just bring them up with good valuesand all will be good.
My dad showed me the black album and ac/dc when i was 3-4 years old. If a kid starts with this or even something more speedy (like metallica's first albums) it's a great thing! Because specially in my country (bulgaria), the most trending stuff right now are *opens trending section* a song called "photoshop", "anaconda" and some pieces of shit, who sing for cocaine (literally there's a song called that way). Everything here has something to do with curse words, sexually explicit content, singing for innappropriate things and other.. In my opinion metal is -much- billions times better than pop and chalga in Bulgaria, for everyone, not only kids.
Started listening to Iron Maiden and Sabaton when I was 14. I quickly grew to love a bunch of metal bands, and eventually I fell in love with black metal aged 15. I let my mom listen to it, she hates the sound of it but totally encourages me to enjoy myself going to shows with friends and listening to extreme music. She thinks it's my taste and that I should choose for myself what I listen to, what shirts I wear and so on. As long as I like it, she supports it. I'm lucky I guess ;)
Lots of old school bands hardly curse if at all. Power metal and heavy metal tends to be clean.
Viscount Alex of the Horse People from Mars I couldn't agree more! My favorite subgenre is power metal. In fact many of the fantasy themes that they sing about are things that kids really love and enjoy.
Viscount Alex of the Horse People from Mars I listened almost all songs from Sabaton.I haven't found one curse.
Just don't show them Pantera or Megadeth, because they are very profane. Haha!
Mate Pavić I only found one in Metal Machine but most of that song is refrences.
IKR
Modern pop and rap is way more unsuitable its too hyper sexual and superficial
GrayWoIf u right
ikr
also much more cursewords in those songs
GrayWoIf Thank you
And that is the stuff being played on the radio
I’m 14 and love death and black metal, this had led to me being told that the music will destroy my “young, impressionable” mind by a random woman who saw me in the street wearing a cannibal corpse t shirt. I don’t think age dictates who should and shouldn’t listen to metal, it depends on maturity and who can appreciate the music.
Shay B you are me:)
I'm 19 now, I've been listening to metal since I was 10 man....no one ever gave me shit about it....maybe it's because they thought I was a Satanist due to listening the music I love....yeah it started with Nickelback at around 8, it escalated so quickly hahaha
A couple weeks ago I was also was wearing a cannibal corpse shirt and this guy said he is too young to listen to cannibal corpse and I'm 15
Dax Bradshaw nice profile picture. Chuck is my hero dude
that was about how old i got into metal i am 21 now
Hell yea metal is suitable for kids. I started listening to metal when I was around 12-13, and my parents hated it! They still hate it lol.
I was 8
And how old are you now?
Nevermore 17
LOL, im in my 50's. Weaned on alice cooper,acdc, and so on. In last year have taken my 13 year old granddaughter to see kiss, alice cooper, and motionless in white, we are planing on going to the warped tour . Her dad has taken her to some very heavy shows to. She is polite, kind, caring,,helpful, little goth/hm kinda girl, so proud of her
David Ayubi I was 8 too my dude
today's kids listen to trap songs about hardcore drugs and sex wrote by people who actually look like criminals, to a parent, it probably makes metal look like a much better route
Majority of them listen to love songs man. Metal is way more abrasive than that
I agree with you man but dont say they look like criminals. Never judge someone based on their looks and its not that they look like criminals its that criminals look like them. They arent trying to look like criminals with face tats and stuff but people who commit crimes tend to be of this type
Today's kids... Every decade it's always today's kids.
They were saying the same thing in the 80's and 90's and how the rappers "look like criminals". They just look like normal people to me. We know many of them are black and that is the only thing people see which is why racial profiling is a thing.
What does a criminal look like? A guy in a suit is more likely to be a criminal.
People love throwing one genre under the bus, drugs and sex aren't exclusive to one genre. They've been in music before any rap was around. Video games also have them and they're much more influential as you get to interact. There's games that have you taking drugs and selling them. Lots of games are sexual. Then we have TV shows. Breaking Bad is all about the drugs and people are rooting for a guy who gets rich off making drugs for people to get hooked on. Nobody is complaining about that though.
People who "actually look like criminals"?
Well, just start kids of whit some Maiden, Sabath or AC/DC and let them develop their preferens in metal from that like the rest of us!
Or don't start them out with anything so they can listen to what they want
I listen to metal most days, my daughter just formed her own taste within metal and likes most of it. From Maiden to Iced Earth...I mean, I could go on.
Glimrande Sir I'd not consider ACDC as a band that should be first shown to a kid, especially considering their lyrical themes and album covers, there are a lot of bands out there that would be better, Dragonforce, Blind Guardian, Helloween, Judas Priest, Deep Purple and Metallica would be better bands to start off with IMO
Garybaldo Like kids listen to the lyrics, it's fucking AC/DC the kids bop of rock and roll
Glimrande Sir Yup that’s me
Nursery rhymes are darker than metal.
Steven Davis Nursery Cryme.😆
you're correct about that ,Steven.. London bridge is burning down ( the great london fire) & mulberry bush ( the plague)...
Andreia Reminiec I mean they're are metal bands that talk about fucking babies
Unknown 72826 what bands?
Devourment, they're really the only ones I can think of right now, and I meant killing my bad lol It gets pretty fucked. The song's called Baby Killer
Well, I think that as long as kids understand how to interpret it and that a fraction of metal is fictional, it shouldn't be a problem. My argument over the years has always been to look at hip-hop. It is FULL of profanities, sexuality, and English that isn't even English, yet they have kids doing hip hop in gym class. I find that hypocritical, personally. When I was growing up as a teenager several years ago, metal helped me improve my vocabulary. The language used in metal is really good. But in pop songs and rap songs, it is all slang. And, metal challenges certain things at an intellectual level which gets people thinking, which is good I say. I think it is a double standard all together. Metal needs to be appreciated more in society. It's been around for almost fifty years.
Adem Can Vaner i was thinking about behemoth the entire time reading this and I don’t know why
besides it isnt for WHO the bell tolls its for WHOM the bell tolls
To be honest, this hatred for rap and hip hop pisses me off (I distinguish between rap and hip hop because hip hop is the style of music, rap is the style of vocals). And not all hip hop is the same drug and crime glorifying gangsta rap just like not all metal contains graphic depictions of slaughter just because that happens to be the case with some bands, especially in death and potentially black metal. And I'd say that a lot of rap uses really complex language with a focus on complicated rhyme schemes largely not consisting of slang. For an example, I'd recommend Stan by Eminem. Beautifully dark with beautiful storytelling.
Well said! When I was in 5th grade, I got in trouble for bringing a Rob Zombie CD into to school and listening to it on the school bus. Yet some of my classmates brought in rap CD’s and that was overlooked. I mentioned that hypocrisy to the principal.
I am a mother. My daughter is 4 years old. I listen to Metal ALL the time. Always. She hears more curse words from me and my family, than she does Metal. (Yes we make sure she doesn't go around cursing at people tho) I think kids can handle Metal for sure. Mine can. She throws up the horns whenever it's on. Even headbangs but she also listens to shitty pop, and I'm okay with that. It's whatever she's feeling. I'd rather she listen to Metal than be exposed to porn. I personally feel like most of hip hop and rap talks too much about drugs and sex. I think that would affect them more than Metal would. So as a "Metal Mom" I think Metal is completely okay. 🤘 Stay brutal!
🤘🏾🤘🏾
There’s more to hip hop than sex and drugs not that it’s not a theme it can be and a lot of popular music in the genre goes that way but hip hop can be a hell of a lot more as can metal
@@camwad1238 baso all i hear is "yeah yeah n word fucking bitchs drugs on that weed shit yeah yeah n word n word look at me im so cringe"
I’m 16 and I became a metal head when I was 3 when my dad showed me Iron Maiden in my 16 years I have seen many bands live and I don’t think that there is any band that my parents don’t like me listening to, Cos after all they were the ones that showed me them in the first place
Jordan Strang same man, and i am 15
Same! I’m 17 now
Same but I think I was 4 or 5 and it was lamb of god my dad showed me
My son is almost 2 months and loves Sabaton 😁
Cute.
Epic
Nice
Show him candlemass
Show him Kraanium
Jk
In terms of lyrical content, most modern pop music is way more inappropriate for kids than metal (not counting extreme metal subgenres).
No no no, when a Pop singer says fuck it's okay but when a person that listens to Metal say those words it's the satanic end of the world ;)
@@nonamerenegade7395 yeah I never understood that like the song could have the singer asking for gods help and people will still call it satanic I’m not religious so it doesn’t bother me but some verses in the bible are darker than metal at times
I'm a metalhead who's planning to have children quite soon with a girl not into metal. We together agree that our children will have a mind of their own, and they can listen to whatever music they like. We're not the ones to decide that, as music is of no harm to anyone with no tendency of thinking fictional stuff is real. I obviously am going to play metal since that's my music of choice, so our children will be hearing that from a very early age. They will soon realize that even with the aggressiveness it's just music.
I say it depends on the band. Obviously, vands like Vulvodynia or Cannibal Corpse are not child friendly by any means. But others, like Iron Maiden, I think are perfectly fine. The genre as a whole isn’t necessarily inappropriate.
Weird because would be expecting Vulvodynia to be death metal Zelda, though it's probably because it reminds me of Volvalgia from Ocarina of Time.
Lol, I'm not sure I get it, though I'm also not a Zelda fan. And the name of the band is a medical term for chronic pain in the vulva.
Honestly cannibal corpse is so absurd in a way to children you could tell them it’s fiction so not that-I am a child and thought “this is stupid” when I found cannibal corpse anyways
I agree
whats wrong with Vulvodynia?
My sister is 10 years old and she loves Iron Maiden , I started listening to metal since I was 7 .Now when I growed up people think that I am a monster couse I like metal since I was child......
*grew
I was at a fleshgod apocalypse show last month and there was an 8 year old kid with his father. He was wearing a slayer shirt and a battlevest full of extreme metal patches with a little behemoth backpatch. The dad was wearing a behemoth shirt too so it was awesome to see the two long-haired metalheads headbang together haha \m/
My parents showed me hair metal when I was 4. 10 years later my favorite genres are Death and Thrash Metal. My mom hates it, and has tried to stop me. My dad likes it, and takes me to concerts all the time.
Before watching I have an answer - yes
HELL NAH IT SOUNDS GOOD
Depends on the kid. I was 10 and found out about metal. 13 years later still strong into it. The harder stuff you might keep away some kids wanna be edgy and wanna do what the black metal acts did early on. Burn churches etc without much context why. Or kids who take shit too far and wanna human sacrifice etc.
As long as you're not Scandanavian...
lol yeah
megaman exe I actually discovered metal through black metal lol. At that time my brothers friend showed me Transylvanian Hunger and I loved it. I must’ve been around 14, but we didn’t have internet in the 90s so idk what I would’ve done knowing similar musicians burned down churches lol.
They burnt churches because they were built on sacred Pagan ground. They rebelled in favor of pre-Christian European cultures. So they did have reason, just so you know.
I discovered metal because of Slipknot, but didn't became edgy and dark. I was like 10.
My son is 2 years old and I play metal when we are driving in the car all the time and he enjoys it. One of the moments I am very much looking forward to is taking him to his first metal show when he is older. If he grows up not being a metalhead that is fine too, but I know both his mother and I being metalheads will be playing metal around him throughout his life 🤘🏻
Well, if u show extreme metal to a kid who has never been exposed to that kind of music it should shock or scare atleast. But, for example, if a kid grows up with parents who listen extreme music all the time, thats when young kids could actualy like it cause they are used to hear it
i strongly agree to this...my son is 8 and loves nu metal band slipknot and power metal band like dragonforce...im so proud to be his mom! LOL!
lol i remember when I first saw Slipknot I was like "what the fuck" *that was back when the horror tag was enough to scare me, oh those days I do not want to recall*. Now I have their entire self titled album and half of Vol. 3 and Iowa on my playlist.
I haven't watched you in so long. I see you're still rocking the sick goatee! Glad to see you're still making great content.
I got into SOAD when I was first 8. I like their most popular songs and I went expanding. I'd say that it makes kids more mature because things in metal are things that exist. Maybe monsters might not be real but the symbolic things cannot go overlooked. It's better to know and understand darkness and suffering than believing you will not live thorough them
i'm a kid and that suitable for me,i'm a 13 years old kid and i always bullied in my school(not just with verbal,they even bullied me with physical bullying)i was so lonely and does'nt have any friend,but when i found out Exodus and Slayer,i think they are pretty good,so every single day when i come back from school i always searching and listening to metal song(except nu metal and hardcore,they sucks)i use metal to be my Painkiller,im inspired from this channel and some other channel(like killbot and gor gor attack,and thulean perspective)thank you black metal werewolf
I grew up with metal. My dad is a metalhead and he showed me all the great bands. One of my First bands was slayer and after that came rammstein. At the age of 4 or 5 i was always singing metal songs in my kindergarten. Good old times. Now i'm 15 and i'm still a metalhead. I own some battlevests and i have a huge CD collection. Also the lyrics never scared me or did something to me. I'm pretty "normal" i guess. Haha
PS nice vid
I started out growing up with GnR, then in 8th grade a girl got me into skillet, foo fighters, bring me the horizon, etc. Then from there I went on my own. I later discovered Death, Lamb Of God, Gojira, Warbringer, Slayer, Metallica, Ice Nine Kills, Slipknot, Tool, Municipal Waste, etc.
Just like horror movies or scary movies or whatever - some of it is a bit more widely accessible, but some of it, children probably shouldn't be privy to!
I got into metal when I was around 11. I told my mom I wanted to listen to metal bands, so she bought me a few CDs of bands that she knew were considered metal when she was in college (Judas Priest, Black Sabbath, etc.) She was not into metal at all, so it meant a lot that she went out of her way to do that. If a parent can be cool with modern pop music, I don't see why metal should be an issue. Both can contain lyrical content that is questionable. Hell, I saw a 6 year old at an Amon Amarth show who was having the best time!
Exactly
I am 12 and love death black and thrash metal
metal zombie665 rock on brother🤘
Same, totally get you!
metal zombie665 same, im 16 now i started listening to metal around that age
That's awesome, man.
Hell yeah dude
Sure, if they start with the soft bands like Maiden, Judas Priest or Metallica. (Ghost could be a great starting band) Lyrics doesn't really matter, because when you're a kid you don't care about the text (at least I didn't) they just sing along to what they like. For example I loved Bounce by System of a Down lol and I didn't have a clue what it meant.
Ardek omg my parents blew their lid when they heard me listening to ghost but god forbid my younger siblings are listening to shits like lil pump and 69 lmao the irony
Ailene Perez if they don't like the satanic stuff, listen to the newest album! I think there is only one song (Pro memoria) that uses Lucifer in the lyrics, the album is about the plague.
Ailene Perez I forgot to mention the song faith, its about the devil but it is the most heavy song, the rest is pretty much hard rock and not metal (to me, but ghost is a difficult band to give one genre to)
Sabbath
I loved S.O.A.D at a super young age too!!
I've listened to metal my whole life bands like prong, slipknot, korn , megadeth, Metallica, ect. And I'm 12 as we speak
Is this seriously a question? I was a metalhead in utero!
Some of us are just born this way. My father died when I was five, so death in music was obviously only a literary device. I dress like a preacher's wife, most of the time, simply because it's practical. "Even then, I was suffering for my art" Rob Halford admits sporting "the look" can be quite uncomfortable. For those who assume Metal is a distilled version of Rock music, and therefore ultra-misogynistic, it is always my pleasure to inform them that I've experienced waaay more assault at country and rock shows that I ever have at metal gigs. I will happily and confidently walk into a Metallica, or Pantera show alone, but I wouldn't dare let a friend go to a Zac Brown Band or Florida/Georgia Line show by herself (that's how I ended up going).
TheFilthyApostate well you can't walk into a Pantera show anymore :'(
Sad, but true
im 13, favorite bands are Death, Iron Maiden.Havok,Metallica,Anthrax,Slayer,Megadeth, Ozzy,BLS, and Sonata Arctica, still gets straight A's at school!
My kids are gonna absolutely love fantasy-themed power metal.
My dad used to play me slipknot and black sabbath when I was still in the womb😂
I’m 13 now and I have loved this music since I was born. When I was 4 I knew the lyrics to most of the Metallica discography. Yes, at school I get picked on because of my love of metal. Most narrow minded people at my school say that it’s all based on gore and death, and to some extent it is, but that’s only a minority. Metal has so many layers and so many different meanings. Music like pop is so superficial and there is nothing beneath the surface of it.
Pop music is like scissors, it always gets beaten by rock😜🤘
I loved heavy metal since I was a kid,, the first heavy metal song I heard was when I was 6, and I loved it so much, and i still do!
I started listening to maiden and all the 80s when I was like 10 now I’m 14 and like harder metal. Just got my battle jacket and I’m still waiting for my first first patch. It’s the trooper back patch.
As a parent, I'll say that it depends. I've always had my son around metal (he could do a pretty great death metal growl of twinkle twinkle little star when he was 2 or 3). Most music, I've never had any real issues. There's some black metal that i didn't play around him until he was a teenager, but, it was kind of like there's some movies you don't watch around children depending on their maturity at the time. Have to say though, family road trip from Calgary to Vancouver during the middle of the school year to go see Sabaton, Nightwish, and Delain when he was 9 or 10 was pretty great. Even his teachers were really excited about him going. Big part of being a parent is helping and encouraging your child to grow, explore, and follow their own paths. At a younger age, just have to hold the reigns a little more. As for myself, I was raised with musically opposite parents, much like my son is. I grew up on a solid foundation of Metallica, Megadeth, Kenny Rogers, and Johnny Cash, and really, can't remember my parents ever ever yelling at me with the exception of a little bit of Offspring and Guttermouth.
Im 13 and i listen to amon amarth, slayer, watain, megadeth, metallica, cannibal corpse, death and anthrax and i have great grades and tbh im doing really gd and i owe it to metal
I started with metal music when i was about 14 years old. My parents were always against it because they thought that metal will make me a bad person and so on and so on... After a while they kinda accepted it because they saw i was still me if i can put it that way and now that i finished school and i am already working for a few years they are totally fine with it. Keep up the good work and cheers from Slovenia! \m/
Any fellow metalhead girls out there? \m/
Here! \m/
Yup! Hi!!!
Wolf_Metal Here! 😊
Hell yeah!
No.
I'm 14 and I started listening to metal a few months ago. My dad actually introduced me to Motörhead and Black Sabbath, as well as the movie Deathgasm. He also has vinyl's of some suicidal tendancies album's from when he was younger. So I'd say he was pretty happy about my interest in metal
I started listening to metal when i was about 10 ( im 13 ) and i started with iron maiden, black Sabbath
Then i started listening to metallica, slipknot, KoRn, cannibal corpse, megadeth, etc.
I first started listening to soad at 10, then in middle school I got really into post hardcore or screamo or whatever with bands like Bring me the Horizon, Asking Alexandria, Escape the Fate etc.
Then towards that end of middle school at 8th grade I got into deathcore with bands like Chelsea grin and rose funeral.
I remember sometime in that grade I listened to cannibal corpse and really liked it. The rest is history pretty much. Nowadays I'm into heavy, thrash and black metal.
Hevysaurus from Finland !!!!
i went to a alestorm concert the other day in tilburg and there was this little young girl next to me on the most front row and she was around 7 or 8 and she absolutely loved it, it gave me the biggest smile ever and after the concert was done i talked with the family and we had a great chat super awsome
Just don’t let them listen to Limp Bizkit TBH
When I was at 8th grade i was walking with my friend down the hall during the break, some 2nd graders walked past us and they used more curses in 15 seconds than I would hear listening to 10 metal albums.
Way too long of a story of how I discovered and how I got into metal, but I was 10. I had just moved to St. Catharines from Brantford and Metal was brought to my attention. I loved it, my parents didn't mind that I was listening to metal. I started with 80's Hair Bands and gradually got into heavier and heavier bands. So, metal started for me when I was 10 in 1984. In my years I did meet and know some kids who weren't allowed to listen to metal because of their religious parents and that made no sense to me, so I started asking questions about religion and it just pissed me off. I'm 44 now and have been listening to metal since I was 10. Besides my ADHD (which gives me hyperfocus with music) my Severe Anxiety and Mild Depression, metal didn't affect me in a negative way, it actually acted as a therapeutic tool for me. The themes in metal can actually help kids feel that they aren't alone and others can relate to them.
I could go on forever about metal, but I don't want to bore you.
I see that your mailing address is Brantford, I was born in Brantford, most of my family lives in Brantford, like I mentioned in my long ass paragraph I lived in Brantford till I was 10 years old and I visit family a few times a year.
Your PO Box is listed as West Brant, I lived in West Brant, down the street from RIverview Elementary School. Brantford still holds a special place in my heart.
Power and Symphonic Metal are what I would use with children. It always appeals to them because of the magical themes and fantasy it entails. I think it's best to start them on such genres (even old school). Around 13, when they begin to deal with heavier problems like bullying, peer pressure: Just generalizing the high school issues, then I'd introduce them to genres that treat with darker and heavier topics.
I started to listen to metal at 9 years old lol
My mom listens to several genres, my favorites were the doors, deep purple, pink floyd and alice cooper. (Guess some michael jackson-mostly the songs with a deeper meaning like earth song, they don't really care about us, human nature, to name a few, and from madonna I still enjoy frozen.) When I was 8 my favorite song was poison from alice cooper, I further explored the metal genre after I turned 13, I fell in love with the music, later on I discovered some punk bands, some goa and reggae, jazz/bluess, folk music (irish, scotish, american,). I just really enjoy music, but if you think about it the top40 lists that are played on the radio are also quite sexual lyric wise, but that is fine since it's all on the same beat and progression in general. (In the mind of the mainstream person) my mom never made an issue about what music I would listen to. (Plus when I was a kid I was allready contemplating about the universe, our exsistence in it, why there was so much hate and wars shown on the 18:00 news. Everyday. I wondered why so many had to suffer while others don't, I didn't want protection from reality, I wanted to understand reality. And listen to different genre's of music is helped me a great deal in my search, though I'm still not close to an answer. I think kids should be exposed to a bit more extremer stuff instead of being overprotected and sheltered from the outside. The real world is a harsh and cruel place, and people should be prepared for that as much as possible. I was given a lot of responsibilty as a child and even I feel like I went from the kiddipool right into big scary ocean in the blink of an eye. I don't want to know what people who have been overprotected by their parents felt when they had to transition to the real world.
I’m 13
Metal is great
What else can I say
Started listening to Deep Purple and Led Zeppelin in the age of 12. One year later I would get into metal through Metallica (first thing I actually listened to was Kill em all) and shit like this. Actually back than my mom was _strongly_ against Metallica and metal in general. She got mad at me a few times, worse than ever before. She was and is nearly always chill and not strict at all, but she thought that music would fuck me up. Well now she's totally okay with it, supports me being myself and also let's me visit concerts and festivals.
Yes it should be suitable for kids if they know who the hell the Paul brothers are
Im 12 rn and my dad showed me slipknot and black lable society when i was 2 or 3 and it was the most awesome thing I've ever seen and heard. I've always listened to metal and will always listen to metal. I thank my dad for showing me and getting me into metal.
I started listening to Metal when I was around 8 so...
I was listening to metal with 3 years old, i always loved eddie from Maiden, he looked cool, i went on my first concert with 11 year old
Always start your kids up w maiden
+Jose Lemus I personally started with Red Fang and Metallica. I have to agree though, Maiden is an awesome starter band for children
Jose Lemus amen
Damn... I started with behemoth
Or sabbath
There are a lot of happy and not dark metal songs. First metal song I ever heard was Iron Man when I was like 4 along with Paranoid. Then Enter Sandman. There is tons of stuff that is perfectly fine. I’m not going to hide the world from my kids, I’m so glad my parents didn’t do that to me, Dyers Eve captures that point perfectly.
I got in trouble for playing Iron Maiden and Black Sabbath in front of my little cousins I was trying to save them from the christian pop their mom plays
I was little when my mom introduced me to metal music. Back in the 90’s. I didn’t get into extreme metal until I was 14. I grew up on the older metal bands some of the current day 90’s bands when I began.
My parents don't care about me listening to heavy metal music and I always bore them like asking them if they will listen to it, and they will reply a big NO!😢 Not everyone likes heavy metal music unless you're open minded to it. I enjoy it everyday and all the time!
I startet listening to metal at 9. Nightwish just Release the Single Nemo and there were still music Videos on music channels. They and within temptation were my gateway into metal. I came from a bit of a classical background thanks to my aunt and music school. Though I was also into a whole lot of different stuff from Girl groups, eurodance and Pop to Rock and Jazz.
My parents were quite supportive especially my father since he was is and has been a Fan of Rock nroll, blues, classic rock etc since He was a teen. But mom was not far behind. And really it was Karma since she used worked for the label/record company that had doro, the scorpions metallica etc around 1990.
I'em 12 years old and I listen metal
Me and my fiance plan to have kids and we'd let our kids play M rated games, watch horror movies, and listen to because that's how we grew up. We both listened to ghetto rap and classic rock growing up. We both watched horror movies and adult swim growing up.
This video was in my notification next to my little brothers email saying have you heard of infant anhilator they’re awesome 😂 he shouldn’t be listening to them it’s just ironic
I am 17. I started to listen to Metal with Maiden when i was 7-8 i believe. Maiden is still my favorite band but my favorite genre is black metal. I also like a lot of death metal and other metal bands. My mom like some metal but she didn't understand why i listened to extreme metal, but now she dont care that i do. Dad didn't like metal at all and thought my IM - Final Fronter poster should been burned. But now he dont care and like a little metal sometimes.
The problem is that almost all metal concerts, at least here in Norway, is 18+ so i miss a lot of stuff.
Sveino1000 I’m so sorry for your loss (yes not seeing bands live is a loss) dude when I saw Slipknot last week I went alone and 16 years old and I’ll do it again for Slayer at Hershey in November
im 13 and my dad told me the day I was born and got out of the hospital he put in a Megadeth concert and I've been listing to metal ever since
I started listening to metal when I was about 13, luckily my dad is a huge old school metalhead - Motorhead, Rainbow, Deep Purple,Sabbath, preist etc. He really encouraged me when listening to metal, since before we didn't really have a lot in common I feel like metal has improved mine and his relationship 10x. I also found out the other day that he is starting to get into Immortal, which is cool coming from someone 50+.
Are drugs suitable for kids 🤔🤔
Jose Lemus What a stupid and pathetic question. You are seriously what’s wrong with this world. Ofc they are suitable for kids what a dumb question
Gonzalo Funes
I started drugs when i was 3 and now im ded. So of course it is.
I killed myself. Yes
What does that have to do with music? Grow up.
My father was introducing me into metal (especially power and folk) since I was born. He was showing me all the Nightwish's music videos, which were beautiful btw, and anywhere we were going by car he always played some CD's of Nightwish or Korpiklaani. By now, I am introducing my younger brother who is in the age of 13 to folk and melodic death metal bands like Eluveitie, Amon Amarth or Dethklok. For me, without metal in my life I would have grown up as a typical teenage alcoholic listening to Polish rap (yes, I am Polish). In my country there are tons of kids which already are addicted to alcohol, or worse - drugs. I am really glad for my dad for getting me into metal and funfact: when I was coming to this world, my dad was listening to some heavy stuff in the corridor :-)
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You beat me!
Adrian Tolentino thanks
but you can beat me
Slipknot sucks.
Fukken' brutal bruh! X-D
Yes, i was a kid during the early 90's when Metal discovered me through the radio.
Thanks to my dad, I've been listening to metal pretty much my entire life. I think that he was pretty reasonable with with how much he exposed me to ( skipping certain songs, not giving me direct answers to questions I had about them, turning off music videos if I found them scary, etc. ). I think part of that comes back to what you said about kids understanding what they feel like they should or shouldn't be seeing.
Now that I've gotten older and started exploring the scene on my own I think it's interesting to look back on. From 3rd grade onward I would be wearing shirts to school he got me at concerts and listening to the music he put on an mp3 player for me. Now I'm in college and making my own battle vests and discovering bands on my own. I still surprise him every now and then when he learns what I've started listening over the past few years. 😂
Some if the earliest things I can remember is Metal Law by majesty and Prayerin the Dark by powerwolf being my two favorite songs when I was around seven or eight.
I grew up with my parents making me listen to things like gospel music (mostly Jeremy Camp), old Taylor Swift, and country music. I never really enjoyed music until I got into classical music when I was 12 and metal when I was 17 (which was only almost 2 years ago). Although I’ve only listened to metal for 2 years, I’ve loved it so much. I wish I’d known that it existed before then
I think you’ve made some pretty good points in this video, also, I was into WWII a lot when I was 10 and I still am. Also, I started listening to Metal when I was 9, my dad showed me ...And Justice for All by Metallica and it was awesome.
That's really an interesting topic...
I'm 17 and I do listen to metal, I used to listened it when I was a child but it wasn't heavy bcs I wasn't used to a really heavy rhythm... Thanks a lot 4 the video!!!
My mom often told me that when I was little and whenever she played Motley Crue in the car I loved it. Obviously I don’t remember that but that’s Mom’s story. I was into other genres when I was in middle school. Then when high school came around I started liking metal (again?). I’m still into metal in it’s many sub-genres and I still like the other genres I got hooked on.
I have been a metal head my whole life. I grew up hearing my mothers version of metal...I've always listened to metal...me ex husband is a metal head...and our 12 year old son is...you guessed it...a metal head. His first concert was knotfest this year. I am pretty sure he is the youngest fan that can sing spit it out all the way through. Makes me so proud.
I was 6 years old when I've first listened to Metal, and It was Run to the hills by Iron Maiden.
I liked it from the first that I've listened to, and now I'm 22 years old dude who loves Metal and any other good music genres too.
Excellent topic BMW. I have a seven year old son and I've listened to metal tracks with him and watched metal videos. He particularly liked Sabaton's 'Primo Victoria'. But with some of the songs that featured harsh vocals he wasn't so impressed, "I can't understand what they're talking about dad.' Still, a little while later that day, he started doing 'harsh vocals' himself. I had to laugh ! He's exposed to bad language at school and at times on the internet but I take the time to remind him that it's not appropriate for someone of his age to be using bad language and he's fine with that. The horror aspect is fine with me. I loved horror when I was his age and we've even watched horror films together. I keep reminding him that it's all fake, that nobody dies and all the monsters are just guys in costumes or CGI. There are things I do shelter him from but metal isn't one of them.
I’m turning 19 this year, and I’ve been listening to rock and metal for almost a year and 1/2, I have two brothers who are 4 and 6 going in 5 and 7 and they love it
I instantly became a metalhead the summer between 5th and 6th grade. Both sides of my family are into country so I was brought up with names like Conway Twitty, Alabama, Oak Ridge Boys, etc. My favorite at the time was Kenny Rogers. Then I listened to my first metal song ever. I still consider it to this day to be one of the most beautiful works of music regardless of genre. It's super-kid-friendly being that it's an instrumental. "Into the Lungs of Hell" - Megadeth - "So Far, So Good, So What"
One of my favorite bands my dad showed me growing up as a kid was slipknot. The funny thing is that it was on guitar 3 one of my favorite games, I was only 10. I remember him showing me Slipknot's first album, and it as fascinating, to see the just the cover art itself, and the just the music itself was a thrill to listen to.
My dad got me into Pantera and System of a Down when I was 5 and I’m 18 now so whenever I look back I see those two bands have given me a lot of good memories
I was 12 when i first started listening to metal. i would often see the videos for metallicas 'enter sandman' and mudvaynes 'dig' (this was like 2002ish) when mtv2 would come over on the antenna at my grandmothers house. I remember my mom giving me shit for wanting a manson cd once but she still bought it for me haha.
June 1973 I heard Black Sabbath- Paranoid and it changed my life forever. I was eight years old then. Still listening to metal.
Hey I'm a new sub to your channel. And I am a parent of 3. my two youngest kids love metal and love a good head bang. My eldest child likes her mainstream music, which I ain't fussed about least she is happy. So yeah I ain't that fussed about my kids listening to metal. and by the way amazing video and channel. \m/
I started with metal with my friend who was and is a big Marilyn Manson fan, I remember a long time ago, we went into shops with The Beautiful People playing and people wondered where the sound was coming from, but I independently listened to metal in 2009 when the same friend let me borrow some magazine CDs, there was 2 she gave me, one had Enter Shikari's No Sssweat and the other had their song Kickin' Back on the Surface of Your Cheek, from those two songs I had to listen to more by them and too this day they are my favourite band, and a year later I got into Escape the Fate when they released Issues and Massacre, the latter being my first introduction to metalcore, then came Bring Me the Horizon, heard Anthem, Diamonds Aren't Forever, Rawwwrr!!! and loved the energy in the songs.
I started to listen to metal when I was 12 and this year I'm 17. 🖤 🤘🏻
I started with gothic metal... Now I still like gothic metal but I'm more into black, folk, doom...
I showed my little cousins Power Trip and all hated it but one. That one, was the youngest girl, about 5. She got a burst of energy and started doing air guitar.
My collection is a little over 20,000 CD's and 200 Vinyl and around 80 cassettes and I'll admit about 30% has harsh cursing. I started collecting as a 10 year old kid with the money from my paper route. So fuck anyone who says that kids shouldn't listen to metal, I wouldn't be alive today without metal in my life. Kept me sane.
I was 11 when I first started listening to metal and 11 years later am still happy to be a part of the metal community. Hopefully my kids someday will enjoy metal just as much as I do :)
I think my first metal experiences as a (dutch) boi were around 10 years old with Heidevolk? I still love heidevolk and i was interested initially because they sang about history very local to me, and it felt good to have songs about the place i'd lived my whole life. Metal turned me into a reasonably respected/feared (not that i'd hurt a fly) kid in high school which left my largely unaffected by bullying and overall i'd say it's been a very positive thing for me. As long as the kid doesnt become too much of an elitist it'll be all good imo.
My kids have always listened to what I listen to and have their own likes on music. My dad started me out on Black Sabbath don’t know when I just know it was when I was young. I became a full fledged metal head at around 13.
Good stuff, I've got kids im trying to get into heavy metal, and i agree with all your points, nothing wrong with it at all, just bring them up with good valuesand all will be good.
My dad showed me the black album and ac/dc when i was 3-4 years old. If a kid starts with this or even something more speedy (like metallica's first albums) it's a great thing!
Because specially in my country (bulgaria), the most trending stuff right now are *opens trending section* a song called "photoshop", "anaconda" and some pieces of shit, who sing for cocaine (literally there's a song called that way). Everything here has something to do with curse words, sexually explicit content, singing for innappropriate things and other..
In my opinion metal is -much- billions times better than pop and chalga in Bulgaria, for everyone, not only kids.
Started listening to Iron Maiden and Sabaton when I was 14. I quickly grew to love a bunch of metal bands, and eventually I fell in love with black metal aged 15. I let my mom listen to it, she hates the sound of it but totally encourages me to enjoy myself going to shows with friends and listening to extreme music. She thinks it's my taste and that I should choose for myself what I listen to, what shirts I wear and so on. As long as I like it, she supports it. I'm lucky I guess ;)