Summary by @tldr:
In this post, I only seek to inform and/or inspire those who have always wanted to give metal music a shot.
So, from that point on, I delved into the rock and metal genres throughout my upbringing with such pure ferocity that I simply couldn't get enough.
Metallica, Slayer, Megadeth, Triumph, Stryper, Testament, Danzig, Helloween, Manowar (these crazy fuckers were my Ma's favorite band during that time and she even got to meet them!
Most of my influences were of the thrash variety, but I was a lover of all types of metal sub-genres, depending on what struck my interest at the time.
10 choices just didn't seem like enough, but at the risk of ridicule, it only seemed appropriate to try not to overload you with too many things to look up (if you so choose to), but still manage to give you a good variety of metal ranging over 20 years of "old school".
:p Regardless, I hope you enjoyed these suggestions, and I look forward to connecting with other metal heads on here in the coming days, assuming anyone finds this posting!
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