What makes you become a black metal fan

High five on the Master of Puppets thing. that was my first "Extreme' metal album as well.

also on your Ariana Grande comment (Haha) i was a huge The Weeknd fan in High School and still listen to some of his early albums today (for the nostalgia thing that you mentioned)
but thankfully i never really went into the abyss of commercial Melodeath or Nu metal! (though i enjoyed some SOAD)

yeah specifically the song was the Save Your Tears thing she did with the Weeknd

actually i haven't listened to any modern/mainstream pop since 2016-2017 but i will check that out! i really dig his early albums. (TRVE CVLT ALERT!)

haha

I was the youngest child in our family. My Brother is 6 years older the me and he listen bands like ac/dc, accept, dio, metallica and helloween. I was round about ten years in this age and i like the sound of accept - princess of a dawn and also dio - Holy diver. The hardest Band who i know in this time was metallica. I liked to listen creeping death and blitzkrieg. But my brother doesent want a harder music and so i have to wait when i was round about 12 or 13 when i buy my first record. i hear som storys from a stanic-band who was very evil and all tolds me, its the harder band ever. I have to try it, so i buy Slayer - Hell Awaits when i was 12. O man i was scared of this albumcover. with demons and hell. in this moment i dont like the sound not really but i want to be a fan of the hardest band on earth :-D A few years later ( think i was 15 - 1990 ) i got a little motorbike and drive evry day to the other guys in my town. In one of the bars i joined a metallica-Fanclub and they show mit at first time metallica ...and justice for all. I was exited and i become a great metallica-fan. The other Members show me more ( Anthrax, Megadeth, Overkill, Kreator ) but i want more ! one one day ( hell awaits doesent care me ) i hear the Slayer - South of Heaven and this Album blows me mind away. In this Age beginns also the first Death-Metal Reviews, but we didnt know any about this Genre. I decide know to buy a death-metal album and my first was "morbid angel - altars of madness" and again my mind expand to a harder band like Slayer ! In this Time released Slayer Seasons in the Abyss and now i was maybe a greater slayer fan like metallica. But now it just beginns... now scool was over for me and i go to munic to learn a job. every day when jobs out, i drive with train to munic in World of Music ( WOM ). It was a Paradise for me. So i got piece by piece new death albums ( Unleashed, Entombed, Asphyx. Grave, Benediction... ) And then i buy 1991 Cannibal Corpse - Butchered at birth. In this thime the Cover was censored and i must have it ! Now my mind blows away again. But i lime it really. On NOvember 1991 then the next great impression. i was now 16 jears and it was allowd to visit my first metal-Konzert. It was Slayer in Munic ( Seasons in the Abyss - Tour ). I see there only Boys and Guys like me with long hairs and patches on his jeacket, and studded-belts and t-shirts from death-bands...
In this Age nobody from us know "Black-Metal" ? We all are here Death or Doom (Obituary, cathedral, morgoth ) there was just no needs for an other genre. Death, Doom was in this Age very very hard. We doesent know "Melodic-Death" It was very brutal like "Incubus" and progressive like "Pestilence or Death" So, and now released "Nirvana - Nevermind" and my mind was changing again. First i dont wana test Nirvana, because there are not brutal enough but in the clubs they play it again and again. I like it really really and i let me drift with the Grunge-Wave and Bands like Red Hot Chilli Peppers, Soundgarden, Faith No More, Life of Agony. But i also heard Sepultura, Fear Factory and some Death Stuff also. I begann now to smoke weed and it doesent matter what is "Black metal" 1995 we drive to Dynamo. I see Atrocity and one song means about "Adolf Hitler" and "jesus Christgenres and szenes. Rave, tecno and breakbeat also like Classics of the 1970er.
In 1996 i startet with a friend of mine a bar together for 3 Years. In this Time i beginn with drumming and joind my band "soul sacrifice". At most we playd Trash-Metal and sometimes coversongs from metallica and slayer and some other classics. after this 3 jears i was a father and married. know i only play in my band and thats it. One time we played togehter with wolfchant. I think this was my first Pagan-Viking-Black Band i hear sometime. Then comes the time with SOAD and Korn... The first Black-Metal-Album who impress me was Dimmu Borgir - Enthrone Darkness Triumphant but i hear it many years after releases". Maybe it was the first similar Blackmetal thing i heard. but in the next years i try many other e round about 2012. Bevore i know in flames but sense of porpuse was Melodic-Death in my opinion. for the next years i doasent find a album like this dimmu borgir and i try Post Rock, Progressive Metal and Djent in the next time ( periphery, monuments, the algorithm, micic... ) but i never forgott Dimmu Borgir and i desired to try other Black-Metal-Musik. The first Black-Metal Album after Dimmu Borgir was behemot - the satanist, then satyricon, God Dethroned, Burzum.... Now i really like it but i like Atmospheric-Black-Metal more then the old swedish bands. My Last two Albus i buy was 1914 and Kanonenfieber. Puhhh ! Finish !!!

well, weirdly my love affair with primitive black metal started with Prog Rock/Metal (!). i was (and still am) an avid prog listener and always tried to listen to different kinds of experimentation and avant-garde music other than the usual Jethro tull 15 minute long flute solos!

(it's nice to mention that i already entered some of the classic 80s and 90s Thrash and death metal stuff when i was around 14-15 but i was always afraid to venture into more obscure and occult stuff since i was forever told that they would make me go to HELL! also some of my early "top 10 Black metal bands" searches on google resulted on some goofy immortal corpse paint photos which was a massive turn off for me HAHA! a couple years later i tried to give a chance to Transilvanian Hunger but i didn't get the "NECRO" sound back then so i immediately checked if i downloaded the album in".ogg" format rather than the usual ".mp3" format!)

anyway, when i was in high school i came across an article which included the "top 10 Unconventional Prog Metal albums" (yeah, i used to be obsessed with all kinds of shitty top 10 lists back then!). i don't remember all of the albums and the website that i saw this on but i remember that there were some albums by Enslaved and Ihsahn and,... . but the labum that caught my eyes was Bathory's "Twilight of the Gods" album cover. i checked that album and immediately fell in love with it. (it is still my favorite album of all time!)

after that i listened to some of the earlier Bathory albums and started to understand this more primitive side of metal mainly thanks to "The return....." album.

fast forward a little bit i came across this famous documentary which was called "Until the light takes us" (after watching some Sam Dunn documentaries!). while i was watching that documentary, some of the stuff that Varg said about the ideology of the "necro" sound and some of the cool stories like the headset as a mic thing, i started to get the appeal of this terrible sound haha. moreover when i saw Varg wearing the T-shirt of "Twilight of the gods" on the trial scene of that doc i just said " fuck i gotta check this dude, he is wearing the t-shirt of my fav album!

i have to say, the first listens to the Burzum albums were quite challenging but i didn't give up until it grew on me! (i was obsessed with that T-shirt, man!).
countless listens to Burzum albums changed my mind about Music generally. then i started to check the other bands interviewed on that documentaries and other documentaries and MetalArchives blah blah,....

the rest is even less interesting than the story that i just told but i'll keep you out of my boring life haha!