re: Song that got you hooked to metal

My song isn't metal but it led to it. Little bit of a story here. I was in 9th grade in 1998 and was finally starting to get into rock. In middle school it was top 40 because that's what the girls liked and that's what they played at all the middle school dances. We were all all in class one day talking about our favorite songs and bands, I only knew a handful and had just discovered Smells Like Teen Spirit so I said that and Nirvana. One of my friends said The Unforgiven by Metallica and I thought that was the coolest sounding shite I'd ever heard in my life. Just the song name and the name "Metallica" sounded like some kind entity instead of a band. I couldn't afford to just run out and buy CDs so I started listening to the local rock station every free minute to hear this song. I still remember sitting in the parking lot of the Winn Dixie while my dad was inside and the DJ announced that Metallica was coming up. It wasn't The Unforgiven, it was Turn the Page and from that opening Em chord I just thought oh frick. Hetfield's voice came in and I remember thinking yeah Cobain is cool but this is a grown arse man right here. The main verse came crashing in and from there Metallica became a lifelong hobby and not just a favorite band. I worked my way backwards until I discovered the first 4 which led to the Big 4 and every other kind of metal on the planet