As i was saying in the previous message (just pushed some button,and it was gone,but here's tge rest of it.Metal's in your
Heart,and once it gets inside,it never gets out.
I think for me it all started in the seventies (I was born in 1970) with Alice Cooper's "Halo of flies".A niece of my mum who was about 16 years
Old made me listen to it,I guess I must have loved so much,because it seems I played the song about ten times
Again,and when people asked me what music I liked,I always answered that it had to be violent with lots of guitars.Then back in 1981,a friend's older brother mede me listen to Accept's "Breaker".I remember every little detail,from the
Old record player in a corner of the room to the album cover with barbed wire going through the ears of a nice young girl.The,the eery sound at the beginning of the record and the that guitar riff of "Starlight".Man this was it...Son of a
Bitch and most certainly "Burning".Oh,"Burning" was just massive...and it was
Live,with thousands of fans cheering (probably mixed in the studio).Then "Restless and wild","Fast as a shark",fuck,it just got better and better.Later I heard Judas Priest's "British steel",Ted Nugent's "Double
Live Gonzo".Then tragedy struck : peer pressure at school forced me into new wave,but luckily there was a nerd in my class with tiny little glasses on his nose who wrote the names "metallica","slayer" and "anthrax" on his writing books,I just couldn't resist to ask
HIM a tape,he gave me "Ride the lightning" and "Master of Puppets" and after listening to that I was sold....that nerdy guy was just proof that metal was in the
Heart,and not in your "garderobe".
Then "Slayer" followed,Yngwie J.Malmsteen's Marching out with the fabulous "Disciples of Hell".Then I bought my first guitar,I payed a 3000 francs for it (Belgian francs),then a Hohner EX Devil (an copy of the gibson explorer James Hetfield played).The first song I managed to play was "For whom the bell tolls",which was very simple.My guitar playing just got better,but then over in 1991 I had a terrible car
Accident that left me in a coma for three months and the left half of my body paralysed.I managed to recover in 2 years and now I'm doing really fine,I work in a factory.Needless to say that
Heavy Metal played a large role in my recovery.Afterwards I got myself a BC Rich
Warlock and a Gibson SG,and a little Marshall
Amplifier of 10 Watts,but it enables me to get the right sound,and that's sufficient.Now, I'm 39 years
Old,married with children and I play everyday,I even compose my own songs.I am married to an African woman,from Guinea,who used to be married to a son of Guinea's former president Lansana Conte,who sadly passed away a few weeks ago.She normally listens to music where black guys that are banging on bottles like chimpansees (I think it was Dire Straits' Mark Knopfler who said that) and dancing like...erm Africans,but I managed to make her listen to
Metallica,starting with the S and M classical versions,and she digs it...it's a beginning.
I think that's the real metal way of life.
.I agree that metal is in our hearts and souls.They may Kill us but they will never defeat our spirit.You started listening to metal because of Alice Cooper?I never thought that he could inspire someone to start listening to our music. 
