for me, it started with bfmv and slipknot. i joined a facebook group about metal, said that slipknot was teh best band evaa! i was flamed so hard my grandsons will feel the burn lol.
anyway, this girl tells me that those aren't metal, i say the opposite, she added me, and 2 days later, i erased every fucking trace of those gay bands, replacing them with the big 4, cannibal corpse, and death. i refused initially to listen to black metal (i am a muslim after all!), but after i started to play in a band, black metal is a fucking must in my life.
what about you guys? did you start being posers with disturbed and a7x? or were you born that way? i'm curious =S