I got my sprout listening to metal by saying "When we listen to metal, we eat cheese" So when we listen to metal, I give him cheetos.

Last night (he's only 26 months old), he kept bugging me to listen to metal. My iPod only synched up random C-named bands, but I had him listen to cephalic carnage. Of course when I came back, a cradle of filth track was playing, but I think I found my in.

When are you gonna start listening to metal?

Trick? I don't trick him. Trolling kids is inappropriate.

my daughter's favorite song is neon knights. she wants to listen to it every time we're in the car.

Start them off with power metal. That's my plan, at least. Teaches good values lol

I went to a Duck Duck Goose game and a Cradle of Filth show broke out.

Beat them when anything but metal is playing

I started him out on classical music and movie themes. He first got into Star Wars (he's obsessed now) because of the music I showed him. Granted, I only see him on weekends now so my musical input is limited. He doesn't quite understand black metal yet, so I'm holding off on that for now. I generally play atmospheric stuff now, like Kauan and Dark Sanctuary. Every now and then I toss in some thrash.
Keep in my I don't want to force anything on him, because he should decide what he likes.
His favorite bands right now are Doomriders and The Black Keys (not my doing) and I told him not to be a hipster and he asked what that was. LOL

hahahaha

Frequent trips to uncle dwyer's house...

great idea. They are going to have to know how to fight off ice dragons sooner or later. I might finally have a use for my large collection of blind guardian.

Have him watch you play Skyrim while he listens to the music, and teach him to yell Thu'um! whenever he sees a baddie.

Forcing music on your kid is like forcing religion down their throat. DO NOT SUPPORT

I somewhat agree. Which is why I'm going to have my child use last.fm to discover music on his own, based on what his like-minded toddler friends enjoy.

I play stuff. If he likes it, awesome. If not, so be it.

When my kid is older and understands more about stuff, hell yea. But young kids are bound to like anything they listen to. My kid hates reggae for some odd reason, though. He has musical skill, so I'm trying to keep his mind open.

Force him to practice piano for 7 hours a day.

His new thing is getting on youtube on the iphone. clicks through things and searches. ridiculous. Especially when momma says "I don't want you clicking around" and then I look and the suggested videos for his humpty dumpty search are all about girls getting hot and heavy.

I would advise going the traditional route of forcing him to listen to radio bullshit his entire childhood, throwing out his Guns N Roses and Naughty By Nature tapes, and letting his cousin introduce him to Sepultura Beneath the Remains somewhere around age 13.

More importantly, when are you getting him his first rifle?

^niiice

You're describing me, only without the cousin/brother/etc. feeding the metal to me, I found it on my own, being an only child and all.

Sad. Metal is either in the blood, or it isn't. It is a personal awakening into a world of fighting denouncing the oppressive forces our fathers and their fathers before them tried to pass onto us.

To try to pass the values of metal onto an offspring by force is the very thing that metal is supposed to rebel against.

I hope your kids rebel and listen to Phish when they grow into adolescent and resent your trying to brainwash them, morons.

Exactly, Mano. If he wants to listen to metal, I won't force it on him. I only expose metal, among other types of music.
In b4 I'm accused of being you again.

Just do what my dad did and dump all your hair metal tapes on him when he gets sick of listening to A Whole New World on loop. Then get ready for his mom to get pissed that their kindergartner is running around the playground singing Kickstart My Heart

Alternately, hide all of your vinyl in the basement and let him discover a crate full of Pentagram around age 11.

I loved that contest.

Despite your dubious tastes, you tend to be one of the few people who has repeatedly displayed the values that metal is supposed to be about. I can respect that, if perhaps not your tastes.

Freedom, individuality, and choice are central to the ideals of metal. Forcing metal onto your children undermines these two core values, and makes you an idiot.

I got him singing queen. it's a beginning.

And I'm Margaret Thatcher.

Hey, not everyone who claims to be into "metal" is going to understand this or live their lives according to the actual values that the metal culture has cultivated since its inception.

Just makes you another poser, not Margaret Thatcher.

Mano, I do indeed have some dubious tastes now.

I'm sorry, but your posts have been anything but inspirational of those three things. You're a falsehood.

I'm too drunk (and also at work) to read through this thread.

You don't trick 'em. They're either gay or they're not.

Only from your narrow view, which is hopelessly tainted by what is hip and accepted.

Only hip metal is real.

sounds like manowarrior has some unresolved issues with his father.

I bet he has a mediocre gun rack.

true. though josh my dad DID tell me bout AC back in the day......

Indeed, he died before I had the pleasure of wringing the life from him with my own two hands.

ya i bet that happened.

No, it didn't happen, thus the unresolved issue.

If it had happened, it would be resolved now, wouldn't it genius?

^ ITT: Manowarrior is Luke Skywalker

LOL

You really are fucking dumb, Luke didn't even kill his father.

I believe in a truly civilized society, every son should have the opportunity to kill his own father. Firstly, as a means of controlling population, secondly, as a test of his manhood and fitness as a human being.


Someday I hope we evolve that far, obviously you backwoods lot will never make it.

I grew up with an older sister who loved everything madonna, and NWA. my dad bought me the Black Sabbath s/t cassette when I was 7. my mom found it and said I couldnt have it back until I was 18, so I stole my sisters "straight outta compton" tape. my mom did not like that either, so music was taken away from me. my dad bought me master of puppets and ride the lightning on tape just to spite my mother.

Funny thing is, parents back in the 80s wanted their kids to NOT be into metal. My how the times have changed!

If you have a daughter, mangle one of her hands and give her tremendous inadequacies about being a girl in metal. Then she'll namedrop Graveland and amass a large picture lp collection.

don't train your kid like a dog. that cheese shit i just read is retarded. like full on retarded.
getting into liking metal is supposed to be part of adolescent rebellion. unless you're cool with this whole attack attack radio disney bag of dicks-core shit we have now.

I just watched Avantasia.The.Flying.Opera.Around.The.World.In.Twenty.Days.2011.1080p with my guitarist (the only other person I know who likes that band as much as I do), and I feel like a kid again.

Most parents still don't want their kids getting into metal. I think extrapolating one thread on the whole internet over the entire population of parents is probably foolhardy.

^ implying rttp isn't representative of the population as a whole

Hard rock is chill

tricking your children into liking metal by telling them it has candy and will take you to disney world in order to deter would be kidnappers from forcing their will on children since they will no longer believe candy and disney world trips come from a person, but a genre of music while you finger your pisshole in front of your cats who are in heat and acting rather suspicious in such a way that they may find your secret stash of cocaine laced with psychedelic bread mold

NSBM OR GENDERFUCK PROGENY

hahaha this is almost exactly how it was for me. my older sister was into the same stuff, and my parents wouldn't allow me to listen to "Doggystyle". so a friend gave me a copy of Master of Puppets, but they didn't have a problem with that since it didn't have any "bad language". or so they thought.

some of your rantings and ravings about the core values of metal are a bit obnoxious, however i am an elitist and do agree with most of them. this in particular is one of them. my girls son is 9, but i'm not going to make him choose what he wants to listen to. i have metal playing in my house regularly, if he chooses to pay attention to it, great, if not, that is his choice and i'm not going to "trick" him or "convert" him.

however the other day i was listening to Twilight of the Thunder God, and he was playing with Legos in the same room. i heard him mutter under his breath "yeah, that's cool, your destiny awaaaits".

Ostelio likes Nu Metal.

Facebook says so

ostelio also says so... oh well, maybe I can get him to learn history instead. First off, the movie 10,000BC.

then, apocalypto and braveheart.

Why don't you show him the future while you're at it.....MOTHERFUCKING 2012

INVINCIBLE JOHN CUSACK IS INVINCIBLE....and lame

Then the patriot and world trade center. All in a days work.

back to the future, history of the world, and bill &ted are all you need

Papa, can I have php training while listening to The Sword?

only steel panther is real



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I didn't have to trick him. I just play the music I like. He doesn't consider it to be music for outsiders just that nobody in his class knows who Ministry is except him. He does like some stuff I hate but I think that's how it goes.