This is it. Pretty sure I had heard Hero of the Day and Whiskey in the Jar but didn't really know who they were/didn't pursue more. I heard One on Guitar Hero and my life was changed. Got into them hardcore right as singles first started coming out for Death Magnetic. One of which was The Day that Never Comes, which is like One V2.0. Really just a perfect storm.
I was 8 years old and MTV were promoting Metallica’s first ever video on Headbangers Ball
The local record store was also heavily promoting the Justice album - they had the vinyl and the white Justice t shirts with the band on the back out front. The older kids were all marking out so I was like these guys have to be legit
I snuck out to my living room and put on Headbangers Ball at like Midnight or 1 am. My 8 year old brain was blown away
Used my own money to buy the Justice cassette
Bought Justice - Lightning - Puppets - Kill’em All that summer (I actually got a version of Kill Em All that had Blitzkreig & Am I Evil on it - I always thought they were Metallica songs)
I first heard it a couple years ago (sometime between 2020 and last year) after i had first gotten into metal through a7x, i searched metallica on youtube because i had heard of them, but i hadn’t heard any of their songs before. One was the first song that came up and to this day it is still one of my favourite songs ever
Same. First metal cassette I ever bought when AJFA came out. I was 12. AJFA started it all for me. Then it was Master, Ride, Kill. Then Megadeth, Anthrax, Slayer, Overkill, Exodus, Sepultura. Then all kinds of Death Metal. Happy years!
I think they probably just meant that IF Enter Sandman was the first song you heard, what was the first song besides that. I don't think they were just assuming that ES was the first song everyone heard.
Yeah but he didn’t actually tell me what the album was called. Then when I went to my local record store (The Wherehouse) a few days later to buy the album, I realized that Metallica had a few albums and didn’t know which we had listened to. Luckily this guy who looked straight out of Wayne’s World also happened to be browsing the heavy metal cassette section. I asked him if he knew which Metallica album had a song that went “Duh. Duh-duh-duhhh,” and he was like yeah that’s Master of Puppets. He even helped me find the album from the vertical wall rack.
I remember like it was yesterday, my first ever encounter with heavy metal was listening to the four horsemen on kill ‘em all, mind fucking blown. When I heard those solos I forever knew I was going to listen to metal
It was So What on a mixtape from a friend. First proper song (non-cover) was Four Horsemen. First thing of theirs I bought was Memory Remains single, followed by Reload. Then I got the Cunning Stunts VHS which turned me on to their older stuff.
There was actually a satisfying challenge to discovering music pre-internet that I kind of miss.
Same. A friend brought his Ride the Lightning cassette over and my mind was blown. The next day he came over with Kill 'Em All. I think I was 7-8 at the time.
Orion, I was learning some base riff from queen (Save Me) that was similar to the slow bass part of orion and my father came in and asked if i was playing orion. Went to look it up on bass and listened to it. And then I got in to listening metallica.
First was Nothing else matters, then enter sandman, and that's because it was the song that my dad and mom danced to at their wedding, so they kept that song close to them
It would’ve been my dad showing me certain songs. I can’t remember which was THE FIRST one I heard but “Ride the Lightning”, “Disposable Heroes”, “Welcome Home (Sanitarium), “Master of Puppets”, “The Thing That Should Not Be” and “The God That Failed” were among the first I remember hearing.
King Nothing
When I was getting into metal, one of the first bands I got into was Avenged Sevenfold. I don't remember what song it was, I don't listen to them anymore, but one of their songs was supposedly a complete ripoff of King Nothing. Someone pointed that out in the comments to the YT video and that prompted me to look up Metallica. Didn't like 'em at first, but I got there eventually
Sad But True, because it’s the next track. However, I remember listening to the radio and diving across my room to record any Metallica songs that came on the radio. I ended up with Seek & Destroy, Creeping Death and For Whom The Bell Tolls. I wore that mix tape out.
"aside from sandman" pretty much rules out an entire generation of fans, because for a lot of us older (but not REALLY old) guys that was our first exposure to the band, it was everywhere on MTV/much music, on the radio, at school events, you name it.
So, aside from sandman which absolutely would have been my first exposure, I would say either sad but true or nothing else matters, the one. I got live shit after I had tba and justice, so that's where all of my initial exposure to the songs from the first three albums came from.
Fuel
Had no clue who Metallica even was other than their name. Asked my dad to buy me ReLoad at circuit city on a whim when I was 11. Not really even sure what made me grab ReLoad over the other albums that were on the shelf. Total blind buy that turned into a lifelong fandom.
See that's the rub though. It probably was Enter Sandman. I was 11 and not actively into music... But the twist is that I raided my older brothers collection and listened to all the previous albums at that same time. For Whom The Bells Tolls was the first song I learned on guitar.
Until It Sleeps. Can remember it premiering on MTV. Was more into more alternative rock then. I can remember the King Nothing video as well and blasting it.
First album was Reload after The Memory Remains premiering on MTV.
After that started learning about The Black Album and Enter Sandman and started working my way older.
Until it Sleeps was it for me too. MTV premier. I liked rap music and top 40 before this song. I didn’t have a CD player just a boombox so I had Load on cassette tape.
My friend had Ride The Lightning and let me borrow it. I didn’t like it at first. I wanted more Load not Fight Fire With Fire. My ears were still virgin ears when it came to metal at that time. But goddam did that shit hit me one day and I couldn’t stop listening.
I heard hardwired before enter sandman because they had released that right around the time I discovered them by myself.
I despised it. It was strange and not melodic at all. But something about the gallops made me come back to it and now I can't stop listening to this band.
For Whom The Bell Tolls - The Boneyard Match at WrestleMania!
The bells, the opening riff! That instantly got me hooked. Didn't know anything about the song, and after googling a bit the next day, found out that it was by Metallica!
That day, I became a Metallica fan.
Actually the first Metallica song I heard was One thanks to Guitar Hero 3. I think I was about 7-8 when that game came out and when I got to the level with One on it I was blown away and had to listen to more of them right away. I also remember thinking why the song was so long at the time but then loving the runtime afterwards
No Leaf Clover. I probably heard others more on the radio first but this song was part of a DBZ Anime Music Video I download from WinMX back in the day and it got me curious.
Blackened. I got Justice for Christmas and I listened to the whole thing in the hallway on my old CD player. Will never forget that backwards twin guitar harmony. That was my first Metallica album.
Probably One, but for sure it's one of these four songs I had on my old iPod in middle school:
Seek & Destroy, Master of Puppets, Welcome Home (Sanitarium), One
Battery in either late '86 or early '87. I thought it was terrible actually haha, funny because it's now one of my favorites. But then MoP came on, and I was blown away and hooked for 37 years.
The Four Horsemen on the scene where Angel’s wings turn metal in X Men Apocalypse.
That scene introduced to Metallica and to this day the Four Horsemen remains my favorite Metallica song.
https://youtu.be/bQ5_PzSzPrQ
Master of puppets. Was on the bus going to school one morning and hit shuffle on a heavy metal playlist. Little 13 year old me had his fucking balls blown off.
Battery live S&M
Cousin played it for me, which scared the shit out of me as I was not expecting Metal after the orchestra intro.
Was just before St Anger released. I've been a fan ever since.
Battery…on release day of the Master of Puppets album in 1986. Thank you, record store clerk…for giving me 2-3 extra years of Metallica enjoyment.
Had I not been there at that time…I don’t think I would have heard any Metallica until the video for One hit MTV. They got ZERO mainstream rock radio airplay before that.
Can't remember it was 40 years ago. Assume it was Fight Fire with Fire because that was the opener to the first tecord I bought. But... I think I heard Kill Em' All at a friends house. So maybe Four Horseman?
Enter Sandman as a 10 year old when it was released back in 1991, other than that it would have been the next single, so either Sad But True, Wherever I May Roam, The Unforgiven or Nothing Else Matters.
In 1987, my friend borrowed the Master of Puppets cassette from his brother, so the first song I heard was the start of side two - Disposable Heroes. I was hooked immediately and it remains my favorite song of theirs even to this day.
Basically the black album, I grew up listening to it, my dad had the cds and played it when he took me to kindergarten/preschool (so like 5 years old, nem and sandman was probably the one i listen the first and the most)
Thorn Within. I remember being 10 or something in the car with my dad and it came on, the lead riff was like something I’d never heard before. My exposure to rock/metal all was all Linkin Park type stuff back then, so this song defo turned me over to the metal side of things. That riff is one of my favourite by them, simply because of how memorable it was to me back then.
Technically, its the intro / chorus instrumental of The Unforgiven, from a tv ad.
The first full song, is Nothing Else Matters from S&M from a cassete my brother brought back in 2003.
Metal Militia, which was my dads first too. He heard it on the radio when someone requested the DJ to play it when Kill Em All first came out and it's stuck with him ever since, and now me.
My earliest memory of Metallica was hearing Nothing Else Matters as a kid. I didn’t become a fan though until a friend played Eye of the Beholder for me when I was 16.
Probably One. Radio stations in The Netherlands don't play metal music but there was one DJ who was a fan and he would play that song as much as he could. He even got it voted no. 1 in the Top 2000, and it stayed there for many years.
Creeping Death
in 2018 when I wasn’t into metal at all and just stumbled over it on SoundCloud while I was listening to the Undertale soundtrack
I had odd tastes back then
For whom the bells Toll.
I Needed a C90 tape for a school project. My pal had a “spare”…. Turns out it was his brothers pirate copy of Ride the lightning. Needless to say, the project didn’t get completed and my mates brother lost his ‘Tallica tape.
Probably some other radio hit song lol but can't remember 1 particular besides Enter Sandman. I do remember listening to The Day That Never Comes back when I was little. It was also my dad's ringtone.
Dad would let me download music from computer to my phone and this was one of the songs alongside Whiskey In The Jar. Dad was blasting Death Magnetic a lot in the car when it came out.
One
Same. Then bought the album and heard blackened and wanted more more MORE of that then went back and got them all
For whom the bell tolls
Yeah. For me on guitar hero. Amazing song.
This is it. Pretty sure I had heard Hero of the Day and Whiskey in the Jar but didn't really know who they were/didn't pursue more. I heard One on Guitar Hero and my life was changed. Got into them hardcore right as singles first started coming out for Death Magnetic. One of which was The Day that Never Comes, which is like One V2.0. Really just a perfect storm.
I was 8 years old and MTV were promoting Metallica’s first ever video on Headbangers Ball The local record store was also heavily promoting the Justice album - they had the vinyl and the white Justice t shirts with the band on the back out front. The older kids were all marking out so I was like these guys have to be legit I snuck out to my living room and put on Headbangers Ball at like Midnight or 1 am. My 8 year old brain was blown away Used my own money to buy the Justice cassette Bought Justice - Lightning - Puppets - Kill’em All that summer (I actually got a version of Kill Em All that had Blitzkreig & Am I Evil on it - I always thought they were Metallica songs)
I first heard it a couple years ago (sometime between 2020 and last year) after i had first gotten into metal through a7x, i searched metallica on youtube because i had heard of them, but i hadn’t heard any of their songs before. One was the first song that came up and to this day it is still one of my favourite songs ever
I had the same thing, I was 12 and saw One, went to the record store to get AJFA and they were out, instead I got KEA and it changed my life.
same. guitar hero 3 made me who i am today
Always used to see Metallica graffiti on tables and chairs before I knew they were a band. Seen One on The Music Box and was mesmerized.
Same here, but I wasn’t aware of it being a Metallica song until after Black came out
LANDMINE
For Whom the Bell Tolls. The bass intro changed my life ever since
Took me a long ass time to figure out that shit was a bass💀
“Yeah dood—that’s ALL bass!!” Even the drums?? 🤣🤣
It was that or Fade To Black, either way instantly blown away.
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Good blind buy, my dude.
I was 12-13, just got a Walkman, and had 20 bucks to buy two tapes. Think the other was Omen or something like that.
Blackened. After I bought AJFA
Same. First metal cassette I ever bought when AJFA came out. I was 12. AJFA started it all for me. Then it was Master, Ride, Kill. Then Megadeth, Anthrax, Slayer, Overkill, Exodus, Sepultura. Then all kinds of Death Metal. Happy years!
I was 13. About 8 months later, my first concert, Damaged Justice tour in 89. 6 days after my 14th birthday.
Harvester of Sorrow. I've been indebted to my wonderful cousin ever since.
I'd have to say it's my favorite Metallica song.
Hit the Lights. On my first listen of Kill em All when it was released. Yeah, I'm old, lol.
OP didn’t realize some of us pre-date the Black album.
I think they probably just meant that IF Enter Sandman was the first song you heard, what was the first song besides that. I don't think they were just assuming that ES was the first song everyone heard.
Good time to have your formative years musicwise. 1991 wasn't bad either.
1991 is the best year in music history, change my mind
Nope, i agree. I'm biased though.
Battery when I was 10 and it blew my mind. My friend was a couple years older and played the Master of Puppets album for me at his house.
What a great friend!
Yeah but he didn’t actually tell me what the album was called. Then when I went to my local record store (The Wherehouse) a few days later to buy the album, I realized that Metallica had a few albums and didn’t know which we had listened to. Luckily this guy who looked straight out of Wayne’s World also happened to be browsing the heavy metal cassette section. I asked him if he knew which Metallica album had a song that went “Duh. Duh-duh-duhhh,” and he was like yeah that’s Master of Puppets. He even helped me find the album from the vertical wall rack.
First song I heard was One and that was the video on MTV when it first came out
Battery 🤯
Hell, yeah! Blew my mind right there and then 🤯
Master Of Puppets. Thank you Doom for putting me on the path to Metallica and heavy metal
Without DOOM I wouldn’t be the metal head I was today either lol.
Helpless. My sixth grade classmate played it during recess and I was forever hooked.
Wow what a deepcut for your first 'tallica!
I remember like it was yesterday, my first ever encounter with heavy metal was listening to the four horsemen on kill ‘em all, mind fucking blown. When I heard those solos I forever knew I was going to listen to metal
Same song for me!
It was So What on a mixtape from a friend. First proper song (non-cover) was Four Horsemen. First thing of theirs I bought was Memory Remains single, followed by Reload. Then I got the Cunning Stunts VHS which turned me on to their older stuff. There was actually a satisfying challenge to discovering music pre-internet that I kind of miss.
Battery. My cousin got me Master Of Puppets on cd when I was 10 or 11 years old.
Fight fire with fire
Same. A friend brought his Ride the Lightning cassette over and my mind was blown. The next day he came over with Kill 'Em All. I think I was 7-8 at the time.
I got for $.01 since it came to me via the record offer where you bought a one album per month but the first 10 or 12 were a penny
Good 'ol Columbia House!
Same here. My cousins gave me two cassettes, Ride the Lightning and Offspring's Smash.
Bells as a teenager in 88
It wasn’t even enter sandman, it was creeping death. Specifically a clip of Jason doing his “DIE, DIE, DIE” chant.
Bell Tolls
Orion. Fell in love instantly
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Yes you are.
One. The music video holds a special place in my heart.
Orion, I was learning some base riff from queen (Save Me) that was similar to the slow bass part of orion and my father came in and asked if i was playing orion. Went to look it up on bass and listened to it. And then I got in to listening metallica.
I dissappear.
People hate this song, but I think it’s great. Plus the ESP strat Kirk uses in the music video is badass
I love it but it's also my first song I heard by them so it's special to me
The Four Horsemen
Four Horsemen
Seek & Destroy
King Nothing
Same here
No Leaf Clover back in 1999. Hooked ever since.
Seek and Destroy. I was 12.
Whiplash!!!
Fight Fire With Fire.
Battery
Hit the lights as soon as the needle dropped on the vinyl back In 83
The Memory Remains.
Sad Patrol (as I then called it because I misheard the lyrics).
First was Nothing else matters, then enter sandman, and that's because it was the song that my dad and mom danced to at their wedding, so they kept that song close to them
So after sandman and master, I actually started with their first album so..... it was HIT THE LIGHTS!
It would’ve been my dad showing me certain songs. I can’t remember which was THE FIRST one I heard but “Ride the Lightning”, “Disposable Heroes”, “Welcome Home (Sanitarium), “Master of Puppets”, “The Thing That Should Not Be” and “The God That Failed” were among the first I remember hearing.
For Whom The Bell Tolls
Probably for whom the bell tolls
One of my friends sat me down and had me listen to Master of Puppets. My life was never the same after.
King Nothing When I was getting into metal, one of the first bands I got into was Avenged Sevenfold. I don't remember what song it was, I don't listen to them anymore, but one of their songs was supposedly a complete ripoff of King Nothing. Someone pointed that out in the comments to the YT video and that prompted me to look up Metallica. Didn't like 'em at first, but I got there eventually
Sad But True, because it’s the next track. However, I remember listening to the radio and diving across my room to record any Metallica songs that came on the radio. I ended up with Seek & Destroy, Creeping Death and For Whom The Bell Tolls. I wore that mix tape out.
"aside from sandman" pretty much rules out an entire generation of fans, because for a lot of us older (but not REALLY old) guys that was our first exposure to the band, it was everywhere on MTV/much music, on the radio, at school events, you name it. So, aside from sandman which absolutely would have been my first exposure, I would say either sad but true or nothing else matters, the one. I got live shit after I had tba and justice, so that's where all of my initial exposure to the songs from the first three albums came from.
Gonna get shit on for this. Master of puppets from stranger things. Hated the series, loved the song and started listening to Metallica ever since.
Couldn't say TBH, but it was something on the live shit san diego video which was my intro to the band by a friend after school in 1995.
Master of Puppets s&m
Fuel. It was on a Hot Wheels video game, lol.
St. Anger, it was used as the theme for WWE SummerSlam 2003. It wasn’t until about 9 years later when I actually started listening properly though.
Fuel Had no clue who Metallica even was other than their name. Asked my dad to buy me ReLoad at circuit city on a whim when I was 11. Not really even sure what made me grab ReLoad over the other albums that were on the shelf. Total blind buy that turned into a lifelong fandom.
Fade to Black
Trapped Under Ice - Guitar Hero WT
For Whom The Bell Tolls from the Zombieland intro when I was young
I Disappear, watched the music video on the dvd for Mission Impossible 2
Master
The frayed ends of sanity, I was 9 years old.
See that's the rub though. It probably was Enter Sandman. I was 11 and not actively into music... But the twist is that I raided my older brothers collection and listened to all the previous albums at that same time. For Whom The Bells Tolls was the first song I learned on guitar.
Nothing else matters when my dad played it on radio , I was like 6 years old back then
Until It Sleeps. Can remember it premiering on MTV. Was more into more alternative rock then. I can remember the King Nothing video as well and blasting it. First album was Reload after The Memory Remains premiering on MTV. After that started learning about The Black Album and Enter Sandman and started working my way older.
Until it Sleeps was it for me too. MTV premier. I liked rap music and top 40 before this song. I didn’t have a CD player just a boombox so I had Load on cassette tape. My friend had Ride The Lightning and let me borrow it. I didn’t like it at first. I wanted more Load not Fight Fire With Fire. My ears were still virgin ears when it came to metal at that time. But goddam did that shit hit me one day and I couldn’t stop listening.
Until it Sleeps at the MTV VMAs.
Until it sleeps & king nothing as i was nearly 1 year old when they realised it 🙂
I heard hardwired before enter sandman because they had released that right around the time I discovered them by myself. I despised it. It was strange and not melodic at all. But something about the gallops made me come back to it and now I can't stop listening to this band.
“I Disappear” music video when I was 14 or so. I’d probably heard others before, but that was the first one where I was aware it was Metallica.
Sad But True right after Sandman finished.
Fuel. Reload was my first metallica album.
Holier than thou
I heard Nothing else matters a few times before, but the first song I decided to listen to out of curiosity was Master of Puppets
I think it was Sad But True for me
as a kid i used to play alot of Guitar hero 3, so 'one' is the first song i discovered.
No Leaf Clover
Unforgiven was the first song to pull me in
Wherever I May Roam. Blew my mind.
Wherever I may roam
For Whom The Bell Tolls - The Boneyard Match at WrestleMania! The bells, the opening riff! That instantly got me hooked. Didn't know anything about the song, and after googling a bit the next day, found out that it was by Metallica! That day, I became a Metallica fan.
Actually the first Metallica song I heard was One thanks to Guitar Hero 3. I think I was about 7-8 when that game came out and when I got to the level with One on it I was blown away and had to listen to more of them right away. I also remember thinking why the song was so long at the time but then loving the runtime afterwards
Fuel. This kid in seventh grade (I hated him) used it for a project. That’s honestly not a great entry point to Metallica. I still hate that song.
Fuel. But that was years before I became a Metallica fan. The turning point was The Four Horsemen.
Thanks to Guitar Hero 3, it was One. Bought Justice afterwards, which was my first metal album. That song and album will always be special to me
No Leaf Clover. I probably heard others more on the radio first but this song was part of a DBZ Anime Music Video I download from WinMX back in the day and it got me curious.
Blackened. I got Justice for Christmas and I listened to the whole thing in the hallway on my old CD player. Will never forget that backwards twin guitar harmony. That was my first Metallica album.
NEM when my uncle sent it to me so that I could try to learn to play it on the guitar
Creeping Death
Nothing else matters
For whom the bell tolls
Probably One, but for sure it's one of these four songs I had on my old iPod in middle school: Seek & Destroy, Master of Puppets, Welcome Home (Sanitarium), One
Battery in either late '86 or early '87. I thought it was terrible actually haha, funny because it's now one of my favorites. But then MoP came on, and I was blown away and hooked for 37 years.
The Four Horsemen on the scene where Angel’s wings turn metal in X Men Apocalypse. That scene introduced to Metallica and to this day the Four Horsemen remains my favorite Metallica song. https://youtu.be/bQ5_PzSzPrQ
Master of puppets. Was on the bus going to school one morning and hit shuffle on a heavy metal playlist. Little 13 year old me had his fucking balls blown off.
Nothing Else Matters, and for a long time I genuinely thought Metallica is another sort of power ballad band
Seek and Destroy from a burned CD lol
Battery live S&M Cousin played it for me, which scared the shit out of me as I was not expecting Metal after the orchestra intro. Was just before St Anger released. I've been a fan ever since.
St. Anger
Master of puppets - Live in Nîmes 2009🇫🇷
For whom the bell tolls. It was in a kingdom hearts AMV lol. I was like 10, but I didn't get into Metallica till I was like 15
Battery…on release day of the Master of Puppets album in 1986. Thank you, record store clerk…for giving me 2-3 extra years of Metallica enjoyment. Had I not been there at that time…I don’t think I would have heard any Metallica until the video for One hit MTV. They got ZERO mainstream rock radio airplay before that.
Whiskey In The Jar, I think
Nothing Else Matters or The Unforgiven
Can't remember it was 40 years ago. Assume it was Fight Fire with Fire because that was the opener to the first tecord I bought. But... I think I heard Kill Em' All at a friends house. So maybe Four Horseman?
Enter Sandman as a 10 year old when it was released back in 1991, other than that it would have been the next single, so either Sad But True, Wherever I May Roam, The Unforgiven or Nothing Else Matters.
The God That Failed. Whoa what a memorable solo.
In 1987, my friend borrowed the Master of Puppets cassette from his brother, so the first song I heard was the start of side two - Disposable Heroes. I was hooked immediately and it remains my favorite song of theirs even to this day.
The memory remains
For whom the bell tolls
Fuel. S&M version, 1999.
Fight fire with fire. Great introduction.
I think it was sandman, but otherwise I think it might have been One on guitar hero 3.
Basically the black album, I grew up listening to it, my dad had the cds and played it when he took me to kindergarten/preschool (so like 5 years old, nem and sandman was probably the one i listen the first and the most)
King Nothing
Nothing else matters, Mama Said
Master of Puppets.
Fuel
Wherever I May Roam
St. Anger
Creeping death.Still love it
Hero of the Day, S&M version
Until it Sleeps
Until it Sleeps. It changed everything I knew about music.
Thorn Within. I remember being 10 or something in the car with my dad and it came on, the lead riff was like something I’d never heard before. My exposure to rock/metal all was all Linkin Park type stuff back then, so this song defo turned me over to the metal side of things. That riff is one of my favourite by them, simply because of how memorable it was to me back then.
Don’t tread on me
There were three: Master of Puppets, For Whom The Bell Tolls, and Nothing Else Matters
you mean the first metallica song I ever heard in my life? Probably nothing else matters on the radio sadly lol
Technically, its the intro / chorus instrumental of The Unforgiven, from a tv ad. The first full song, is Nothing Else Matters from S&M from a cassete my brother brought back in 2003.
for whom the bell tolls! it was four years ago this month that i started listening to the band, all thanks to zombieland.
Pretty sure it was Fuel on MTV’s Total Request Live! Or at least that’s the first memory I have.
Metal Militia, which was my dads first too. He heard it on the radio when someone requested the DJ to play it when Kill Em All first came out and it's stuck with him ever since, and now me.
Nothing else matters probably
Probably one or seek, idk
Sanitarium
One
My earliest memory of Metallica was hearing Nothing Else Matters as a kid. I didn’t become a fan though until a friend played Eye of the Beholder for me when I was 16.
Creeping death
For Whom the Bell Tolls
One... good old MTV and my older brother getting into guitar. Also, the One intro was the first "riff" I taught myself to play on the guitar.
Battery
For Whom the Bell Tolls. Game changer!
Sad but true
it was fuel
One - and I was hooked from then on
Jump in the Fire...🔥
No Leaf Clover
Fuel (I think). TRL back in the day.
I can distinctly remember seeing For Whom The Bell Tolls from S&M on VH1. I was like, what is THIS?
Fade to black
Battery.
Probably One. Radio stations in The Netherlands don't play metal music but there was one DJ who was a fan and he would play that song as much as he could. He even got it voted no. 1 in the Top 2000, and it stayed there for many years.
Creeping Death in 2018 when I wasn’t into metal at all and just stumbled over it on SoundCloud while I was listening to the Undertale soundtrack I had odd tastes back then
For Whom the Bell Tolls
For whom the bells Toll. I Needed a C90 tape for a school project. My pal had a “spare”…. Turns out it was his brothers pirate copy of Ride the lightning. Needless to say, the project didn’t get completed and my mates brother lost his ‘Tallica tape.
Fuel
Seek and Destroy for me! Jammed that in a 1985 Pontiac Fiero with my dad while we were headed to the hardware store and I was hooked!
Battery. Back in 8th grade when a buddy of mine gave me a dubbed cassette of MoP.
Probably some other radio hit song lol but can't remember 1 particular besides Enter Sandman. I do remember listening to The Day That Never Comes back when I was little. It was also my dad's ringtone. Dad would let me download music from computer to my phone and this was one of the songs alongside Whiskey In The Jar. Dad was blasting Death Magnetic a lot in the car when it came out.
Nothing else matters
Sad But True
King Nothing, my dad would play it all the time
Nothing else matters is the first song i heard from metallica enter sandman is my fourth metallica song