I was 10 and I started with IRON MAIDEN
I was enchanted first by their covers and t-shirts, then by the music......... after that I discovered thrash with METALLICA, MEGADETH and TESTAMENT, then I've gone forward to the extreme shores (death, black, grind) and (with the passing years) going back to the origins: SABBATH, ZEPPELIN, PURPLE, PRIEST, power and glam from the 80s and now that I'm not so young I listen almost everything and every kind of metal (and not only metal).........
Looking back, I say that it was really a good evolution to follow, something that I would recommend to every child that opens his eyes to the music for the first time