For me, it was actually my very first boyfriend that got me into it. I'd always been a total bubblegum pop kind of girl (Like, we're talking Hilary Duff here, okay?), and had honestly only ever thought of metal as "That angry yelling stuff angry people listen to", having never heard any of it myself.
But then I met Patrick.
Patrick was a BIG music buff, and very much into metal. So one day, while I'd been hanging out in his dorm room and he'd insisted on playing his entire freaking collection. And, to be honest, I mostly humoured him by listening...I still thought it was all crap, and actually ended up falling asleep while he was playing...took him a few songs to notice I'd passed out.
Well, he took my ability to fall asleep amidst ridiculously loud metal music as a fondness for it, so from then on, every time I was in his car or the like, he'd be playing more and more metal. Even then, it still wasn't particularly my thing.
Until I heard Kamelot.
I'm pretty sure it was their song "Center of the Universe", or maybe "Moonlight" that got me, but either way, it was metal that was more than just screaming and insane guitar. It had piano, it had other instruments and a dynamic sound...even had a little Celtic influence in there! And it was
beautiful.
The next month, he took me to a Kamelot concert and I fell in love, not only with the band, but with the genre in general.
I still shy away from the really screamy death metal, gravitating towards power metal and symphonic metal, since that's what first got me into it, but you know, there's enough good power metal out there to keep me entertained for a lifetime.
