Dream Theater was my first musical obsession as a child. Avenged Sevenfold - City of Evil (the clean Walmart version) Dream Theater - Black Clouds & Silver Linings Megadeth - Rust in Peace I wasn’t really into metal until I got into Iron Maiden at 13, I got into a lot of classic bands and thrash metal. Iron Maiden - Piece of Mind Metallica - Master of Puppets Overkill - Horrorscope Death Angel - Killing Season Testament - The New Order Anthrax - Among The Living Symphony X - The Divine Wings of Tragedy At 15, I discovered the second most important album in my journey, Trivium’s Shogun, not only the album that got me into harsh vocals, but the album that made me pick up a guitar. I started getting into death metal and metalcore. Trivium - Shogun Vektor - Terminal Redux Death - Symbolic All That Remains - The Fall of Ideals As I Lay Dying - An Ocean Between Us Killswitch Engage - As Daylight Dies Opeth - Blackwater Park Sonata Arctica - Silence At 16, I wanted heavier stuff, I started getting into black metal (my favorite subgenre) Obscura - Cosmogenesis Cattle Decapitation - The Anthropocene Extinction Emperor - Anthems to the Welkin At Dusk Cradle of Filth - Cruelty and the Beast Revocation - Existence is Futile BTBAM - Colors Agalloch - The Mantle Periphery - Periphery II: This Time it’s Personal More recently (18+) I’ve been rediscovering bands and listening to more 70s prog rock, also learning to appreciate other genres of music more. Pink Floyd - Dark Side of the Moon Porcupine Tree - In Absentia Ne Obliviscaris - Urn Wolves In The Throne Room - Celestial Lineage Panopticon - Autumn Eternal The Mars Volta - Amputechture Haken - The Mountain Yes - Relayer Black metal and prog are my favorites, and Porcupine Tree/Steven Wilson, Trivium, Emperor, Agalloch, Opeth, Dream Theater, Haken, Periphery, The Mars Volta, and Panopticon are the bands that stuck with me the most.
My journey: 1) Guns n roses - Appetite for destruction 2) AC DC - Highway to hell 3) Led Zeppelin - Led Zeppelin IV 4) Metallica - Master of puppets 6) Megadeth - Peace sells 7) Judas priest - Painkiller 8) Pantera - Cowboys from hell 9) Slipknot - Iowa 10) Porcupine tree - Fear of a blank planet 11) Opeth - Blackwater park 12) Death - Symbolic 13) Morbid angel - Blessed are the sick 14) Obituary - Cause of death 15) Cannibal corpse - The bleeding 16) Nile - Annihilation of the wicked 17) Dissection - The somberlyn 18) Bathory - Bathory 19) Burzum - Burzum 20) At the moment I'm listening to Vektor & Havok
first album i ever remember hearing was somewhere in time by iron maiden. my dad is a massive iron maiden fan so from a very early age, i had heard all the iron maiden albums before i even know what metal was!
Here's a rough timeline for mine: The first heavy music I remember liking alot was from the sound track of Need for Speed Most Wanted (2005) which had Bullet for My Valentine, Avenged Sevenfold and Disturbed. I also really enjoyed Hard Rock Hallelujah by Lordi when they won Eurovison (2006). Borrowed Prisoner of Society by the Living End from my Uncle (never gave it back) when I was 12. Had a friend who made me a best of led Zeppelin when I was 12. Bought my first cd: AC/DC - Highway to Hell when I was 12. Some big albums in my teens: Disturbed - Ten Thousand Fists in the Air (probably the first metal album I bought). Metallica - Black Album. Avenged Sevenfold - Waking the Fallen (this was the first album I listened to which had 'extreme' vocals). Rage Against the Machine - Rage Against the Machine. After School (pretty much listened to all of the following bands stuff): Bring Me the Horizon - Sempiternal. A Day to Remember - Homesick. Trivium - Ascendancy. Iron Maiden - Number of the Beast. Judas Priest - Painkiller. Parkway Drive - Horizons and Killing With a Smile. Then one day I just felt tired of listening to the same stuff. So I decided to scour the internet for 'classic' metal albums which invariably led me to top albums list and RYM. From here my metal music listening blew up. This was just over 2 years ago. Some key albums in my 'catching up on the classics' were: Black Sabbath - Paranoid and Master of Reality (ye... somehow I hadn't heard them before then) Burzum - Filosofem (the first black metal album I ever heard). Bloodbath - Nightmares made flesh (the first death metal album I enjoyed). Cryptopsy - None So Vile. Insomnium - Winter's Gate. Nokturnal Mortum - Голос сталі. Demolition Hammer - Epidemic of Violence. There's been many more but to put it roughly, I listened to hard rock, Metalcore and Heavy Metal when I was teenager/early adult and only recently I've been listening to all sorts of metal. Now I listen to new releases in the 'metalsphere'.
Niice, almost the same beginning for me! I used to listen to Red Hot and Pearl Jam and knew I liked the more aggressive songs from them but I didn't know metal. Until I met Disturbed, BFMV and Avenged Sevenfold. Instantly met Metallica and all the big bands and bought a guitar
Breaking Benjamin’s Dear Agony was basically the album that started it all for me, and that’s the album that got me into hard rock/alternative metal. Demon Hunter’s Extremist got me into metalcore and were the band that opened up my mind to heavier music. Metallica’s Master of Puppets got me into thrash and more classic metal in general. I believe Dream Theater got me into Prog... which is probably my favorite sub genre of metal! Nice list here!
Back in Black (ACDC)... Appetite for Destruction (GnR)... Black Album (Metallica) Paranoid (Black Sabbath)... Book of Heavy Metal (Dream Evil)... Coat of Arms (Sabaton)... Powerslave (Iron Maiden)... Screaming for Vengeance (Judas Priest)... Overkill (Motorhead)... Wheels of Steel (Saxon)... Ghost Revelries (Opeth)... Images & Words (Dream Theatre)... Morningrise (Opeth)... Sons of Northern Darkness (Immortal)... Anthems to the Welkin at Dusk (Emperor)... Filosofem (Burzum).... With Oden on Our Side (Amon Amarth)... Above the Weeping World (Insomnium)... New Moon (Swallow the Sun)... Tonights decision (Katatonia)... Leprosy (Death)... Those Once Loyal (Bolt Thrower)... Annihilation of the Wicked (Nile)... Blessed and Possessed (Powerwolf)... Legacy of Kings (Hammerfall) ... Somewhere Far Beyond (Blind Guardian)... Once (Nightwish)... Desgine Your Universe (Epica) So basically from hard rock, to classic metal, to some power metal, then traditional metal, to progressive metal, then to black metal, to melodic death metal, and on to doom, then old-school death metal, then to power metal and ending with the two albums that got me into symphonic metal. So yeah!
Cool video idea, I liked hearing about your experiences with these. Here are some of mine, broken up by years just because that's how I think of things: 2012-2016 - Rock & Metalcore Red "Until We Have Faces" - The album that got me into rock, and helped pave the way for me to become a metalhead later on. As I Lay Dying "An Ocean Between Us" & Demon Hunter "True Defiance" - Got me into metalcore and started my journey with metal as a whole. 2016-2018 - A little bit of new stuff Amon Amarth "Twilight of the Thunder God" - Got me into melodeath and helped me dip my toes into more extreme metal in general. Immortal "All Shall Fall" - Helped me start to appreciate black metal, even though I didn't get heavily into it until a couple years later. Sabaton "The Last Stand" & Powerwolf "Blessed and Possessed" - See above, but for power metal. Insomnium "Winter's Gate" - Actually changed my life. To this day it's still arguably the only album I've ever heard that I consider 100% perfect. 2018 - Getting into extreme metal & classic heavy metal Behemoth "The Satanist" - Helped me get more heavily into both death metal and black metal. Bell Witch "Mirror Reaper" - Introduced me to doom metal. Iron Maiden "Powerslave" & "Seventh Son of a Seventh Son" - Got me interested in the classics, since I'd never really gotten into them. 2019-now - Further expanding my horizons Devin Townsend "Empath" - Like "Winter's Gate", changed my life. It really made me think of music in a very different way than I used to. Ne Obliviscaris discography - Furthered my interest in prog and gave me another favorite band. NF "The Search" - It's a rap album, but it helped me start appreciating other genres of music more than I had in years. Rush "2112" - Made me more interested in classic rock and prog rock. Alcest "Ecailles de lune" - Made me fall in love with blackgaze and made Alcest one of my all-time favorite bands. Twilight Force, Majestica, Gloryhammer, Rhapsody of Fire discographies - Ignited my recently found love for power metal.
Black Sabbath is that band for me..since the age of 8. I used to have to hide the albums from my parents. In 1992 or so, I bought a Black Sabbath tribute album titled ‘Masters Of Misery’ featuring bands on Earache. That was my introduction to death metal, and it took off from there as I explored Earache’s entire catalog. My introduction to Black Metal was Mother North by Satyricon.
These were the main game changers in my musical journey in chronological order: 1. Bryan Adams - Run To You 2. Europe - The Final Countdown 3. Guns n' Roses - Appetite for Destruction 4. Metallica - ...And Justice for All 5. Iron Maiden - Powerslave 6. Megadeth - Rust in Peace 7. Sepultura - Arise 8. Slayer - Reign in Blood 9. Judas Priest - Painkiller 10. Paradise Lost - Gothic 11. My Dying Bride - Turn Loose the Swans 12. Mayhem - De Mysteriis Dom Sathanas 13. Cradle of Filth - The Principle of Evil Made Flesh 14. Candlemass - Nightfall 15. Morbid Angel - Altars Of Madness 16. Neurosis - A Sun That Never Sets 17. Katatonia - Last Fair Deal Gone Down 18. Tool - Lateralus 19. Cult of Luna - Salvation 20. System of a Down - Toxicity Honorable mentions: Opeth - Still Life, Iced Earth - Alive in Athens, Type 0 Negative - World Coming Down, Pantera - Cowboys from Hell, Therion - Theli, Nevermore - Dead Heart in a Dead World, At The Gates - Slaughter Of The Soul, Death - Symbolic, Arcturus - La Masquerade Infernale, Tristania - Widow's Weeds, Dark Tranquillity - Projector, Kamelot - Karma, Symphony X - The Odyssey, Nile - In Their Darkened Shrines, Mastodon - Remission, Lost Horizon - A Flame to the Ground Beneath and Watain - Sworn to the Dark.
Piece of mind and Defenders of faith. These two came to me in school. Actually, there were a lot of tapes, that we rerecorded and shared between eachother, but these two that I really loved in first sight and still love.
Started with Metallica, link park, Korn, limp Bizkit and I started listening to black metal about 2 years ago, thats when I found out your channel and discovered Burzum, thank you very much kind sir.
For me: 1.) Nevermind - Nirvana 2.) Antichrist Superstar - Marilyn Manson 3.) KoRn - KoRn 4.) Master of Reality - Black Sabbath 5.) Master of Puppets - Metallica 6.) The Sound of Perseverance - Death 7.) Vulgar Display of Power - Pantera 8.) Suici.De.Pression - Thy Light 9.) Descending Further Into Nothingness - Exiled From Light 10.) All Hope is Gone - Slipknot 11.) Marshall Mathers LP - Eminem 12.) Piece of Mind - Iron Maiden 13.) Slipknot - Slipknot 14.) Mechanical Animals - Marilyn Manson 15.) Transilvanian Hunger - Darkthrone 16.) Devil's Got A New Disguise - Aerosmith 17.) Pink Floyd (in general) 18.) Damnation - Opeth 19.) Jar of Flies - Alice in Chains 20.) Paranoid - Black Sabbath
The 20 albums that influenced my music taste, in order: 1. Big Band Greatest Hits: A CD that compiled many of the funnest songs from jazz bands in the early-mid 20th century. 2. First Circle by Pat Metheny Group: My dad gave me this album when I told him I liked jazz. It blew my fucking mind and is still the standard for me. 3. Behind the Mask by Chick Corea Elektric Band: I bought this album from a used-book store. I was blown away by the talent and intensity of jazz fusion. I was introduced to Chick Corea. 4. Romantic Warrior by Return to Forever: I explored Chick Corea's older music and came upon this album from the 70's. Probably my favorite album from that era. 5. Dreams Beyond Control by Spyro Gyra: Another album given to me by my dad. This is an uber melodic jazz fusion album from the 90's. 6. Boston - Boston: When I got my first car, the cd player was jammed so a bunch of CD's were stuck in there. This album was on one of those CD's. Boston introduced me to the melodic side of rock. 7. The Dark Side of the Moon - Pink Floyd: This was another CD stuck in the player. This introduced me to prog. 8. Pyromania - Def Leppard: Yet again another CD stuck in the player. This introduced me to hard rock. 9. Skid Row - Skid Row: I explored hard rock and proto-metal albums. I really liked Sebastian Bach's voice. 10. Rust in Peace - Megadeth: I came across this album which was really my gateway to heavy metal. I loved the blend of technicality with heavy metal. I thought I had discovered the Holy Grail of music. Megadeth was my favorite band for a while. 11. Ire - Parkway Drive: I came across metalcore and I really liked the positive, upbeat nature of Parkway Drive's songs to counter the political negativity of Megadeth. 12. Eonian - Dimmu Borgir: In 2018, I really started to explore more extreme bands and started doing "top albums of the year" lists which meant that I went out of my way to look up bands on Metal Archives. 13. The Nightingale - Trees of Eternity: At this point, I was depressed and angry with life. I lost my faith, friends, and purpose in life. This album was played on repeat while I was going through a very bad time. 14. Det Som Engang Var - Burzum: I needed something edgy and I was tired of organized religion and government. Varg's screams echoed my sentiments. 15. Portal of I - Ne Obliviscaris: I remember this album because my friend was getting married and I was a part of the ceremony. I remember playing this album during that period of time. It had black metal edge, melodic beauty, and technicality out of your ass for days. 16. Deicide - Deicide: I wanted to explore the old school extreme metal sound. It involved Deicide, Morbid Angel, and Immolation. I was getting used to extreme metal without melody or harmony. 17. Morningrise - Opeth: This is my favorite album of all time. I finally discovered what I wanted this whole time. It satisfies all of the polarities and contradictions my heart desired from music. The bipolar nature of the songs on this album including the jazzy aspects that I longed to hear were a key in the lock for my ears. I listened to the whole Opeth catalogue and fell in love with this band. 18. Akroasis - Obscura: I explored more progressive death metal looking to fulfill the itch. While no one satisfies the itch like Opeth, bands like Obscura, Behemoth, and Revocation blew me away. At this time, I was going to concerts for these bands. 19. Liminal - Exivious: I wanted jazz metal that would more directly be a cross between the weirdness of jazz and sonic explosiveness of heavy metal. 20. The Bleakness of Our Constant - Eneferens: I wanted more bands like Opeth that weren't necessarily death metal oriented. I'm really into post-metal and experimental oddities (like Arcturus). Anything that combines other music genres with extreme metal and has a definite theme (like Opeth manages to do with each album) attracts my attention.
In extreme metal I am a "late bloomer". Took me till I was 35-40, until I really appreciated Opeth, Gojira & co. Also I listen to a lot of other stuff, like 60s psych, 70s prog, 90s alternative... So Metal was always there, but not the only thing. Starting with 2020 I am discovering a lot of new and old stuff: Sojourner, Testament, Enslaved, Borknagar, Iapetus, Moonsorrow, Solstafir, Myrkur, Vektor, Amorphis, Vvilderun, King Diamond, Ne Obliviscaris, Primordial... Queen - A night at the opera (1990 First Album bought) GnR Use your Illusion II (1991 First Hard Rock/Metal Album) Helloween - Best the Rest The Rare (91 first 'real' Metal album) Metallica - Black Album (91 first Album, I bought a T-Shirt for) Pink FLoyd - The Wall (92 first Prog/Concept Album) Iron Maiden - Live at Donington (92 First Maiden Album) Dream Theater - Live at the Marquee (first Prog Metal Album) Tiamat - Wildhoney (94 First "Extreme" Metal album) Saxon - Dogs of War (95 first Metal concert) Apocalyptica - Plays Metallica (1996 first really weird album. Love weird) Savatage - Ghost on the Ruins (1996) Blind Guardian - Mr Sandman (1996 Holy crap, Power Metal is great) Porcupine Tree - in Absentia (2004) Opeth - Ghost reveries (2005 couldn't stand the singing at first, never listened to it. Now one of my fave bands) Amon Amarth - Twilight of the Thunder God (2008 first melodic death) Baroness - Blue Record (2009 First Sludge) Gojira - L'enfant sauvage (2012) The Ocean - Pelagial (2013) Insomnium - Winter's Gate (2016 renewed my interest in Metal and brought me to Edge of Sanity and others) Nile - What should not be unearthed (2016 first real death) Alcest - Ecailles de lune (2018 first dip into Black Metal, opened a whole new world with Les Discrets, Agalloch...) Moonsorrow - Viides Luku Hävittety (2018) Havukruunu - Uinuos Syömein Sota (2020 first black metal album) Enslaved - Everything (2020 new discovery, blew me away) Panopticon - Everything(2020 see enslaved :-) ) Saor - Everything (2020 see...) Wardruna (2020)
My musical journey on metal was this : Everything from early metallica, Guns an roses and some basic metal and rock like iron maiden and kiss , green day , all of that when i was a kid Then i strictly just listened to the main thrash metal bands (slayer,megadeth,metallica etc) and some power metal and grunge by pearl jam and nirvana. Next i heavily got into Nu metal with korn and slipknot still listening to the previous bands a bit Then i joined black metal but not for long , so i listened to death metal with cannibal corpse and Death, and started to listen to various genres to recognize them, but for now i just got strictly on Death metal and everything beyond it ( Brutal death, Grindcore, techincal DM etc.) But to choose specific albums that made it for me trough my life in cronologicaly order, it could be this: 1.Master of Puppets-And justice for all 2.Guns and roses every album 3.Nevermind-nirvana 4.Iowa-slipknot 5.Take a look in the mirror-Korn 6.Secret of The runes by Therion 7.Filosofem by Burzum 6.Tomb of The mutilated 7.Non so vile - cryptopsy And last was DECHRISTIANIZE by Vital Remains. Now i listen to a shait ton of bands thanks to those bands 🤘
1. Three Days Grace, Korn, and Linkin Park 2. Iron Maiden, AC/DC Loudness,and Judas Priest 3. Metallica (favorite band) 4. Megadeth, Pantera, and Anthrax 5. Celtic Frost, Sodom, Alice In Chains, Black Sabbath, Testament, Slipknot, and Sepultura 6. Morbid Angel and Carcass That’s about how far my journey has been
Here is my list Opeth - Orchid.. first Opeth song I ever heard was In the Mist she was Standing. It got me into extreme metal. Iron Maiden - Brave New World. Got me into heavy metal. Dissection - Reinkaos. Got me into black metal. I heard black metal songs before, but this got me into it. Saturnus - Martyre. Got me into doom/death. Type O Negative - October Rust.. got me into gothic Metal/rock. Deafheaven - Sunbather - got me into black gaze
I could talk about this for hours but: *My Dad had showed me bands like Led Zeppelin and the Jimi Hendrix Experience when I was younger and also once played me Ace of Spades (the song) age 7, that changed everything* 1. Queens of the Stone Age - Songs For the Deaf (First Rock album to really feel heavy that I'd listened to) 2. Metallica - Black Album (1st metal album I bought) 3. Ride the Lightnint (1st Thrash album I ever enjoyed) 4. Megadeth - Rust in Peace (First metal album to really impress me) 5. Pantera - Vulgar Display of Power (Really heavy album that made me want to head bang) *fast forward 2 or so years* 6. Death - Spiritual Healing Then it was Behemoth, Morbid Angel, Gojira and now I like most genres other than Power Metal and some Black Metal I guess
frst heavy metal album i ever heard and then like the next 19 i remeber they all were over about 6 weeks in the summer of 2001 as i just kept buying cds from cd warehouse ,before then i had never even heard anything but gospel music ,u2 and classical music Megadeth Rust in Peace,Iron Maiden -Number of the Beast,Alice in Chains-Dirt, Metallica-Ride the Lightning , Pantera-Cowboys from Hell,Iced Earth-The Dark Saga, Testament -The New Order, Judas Priest -Painkiller,Slipknot-Iowa, Dark Tranquillity -the Gallery, Death-Sound of Perseverence, At the Gates -Slaughter of the Soul, Venom -Welcome to Hell, Children of Bodom -Follow the Reaper, Celtric Frost -To Mega Therion, Dissection-Storm of the Lights Bane, Bathory-Hammerheart, Emperor -Anthems to the Welkin at Dusk, Mercyful Fate -Dont break the Oath, Jag Panzer -Thane to the Throne. by the end of the year i had bought around 150 cds and a metalhead was born.
For me the progression was 90’s radio with grunge/alternative and then Korn, the Mortal Kombat 2 soundtrack exposing me to industrial in middle school, and finally my friend having me listen to the s/t Slipknot album. It was off to the races from there.
Here's my top 15 metal band/albums that i like the most: 1. Metal galaxy - babymetal 2. Rust in peace - megadeth 3. Unbreakable - primal fear 4. Souls of black - testament 5. Thousand men strong - tokyo blade 6. Reinventing the steel - pantera 7. Far beyond driven - pantera 8. Long live rock n roll - rainbow 9. Machine head - deep purple 10. British steel - judas priest 11. Blackout - scorpions 12. St. Anger - metallica 13. Arise - sepultura 14. Magma - gojira 15. Red before black - cannibal corpse
I did something similar a while ago, not as in depth, but I covered my favourite nostalgic bands, and then a separate video about the one album that shifted the direction of my journey through metal, which was the soundtrack to the movie Gummo, which first introduced me to extreme metal, and got me to dive into black and death metal like Bethlehem and Mortician
My first real metal band was Avenged Sevenfold in 2019 thanks to their appearance in Call of Duty: Zombies (specifically Shepherd of Fire on the map Origins) . In 2018 I did discover Motley Crue. Then I discovered Metallica around late 2019. That opened the gates for Megadeth. Flash forward to the latter half of 2020, when I started collecting cds. I discovered so many more bands. I’m a pretty new metalhead but I love this music so much.
1. The Beatles- Sgt. Pepper's lonely hearts club band (Classic rock phase) 2. Led Zeppelin- Houses of the holy (light hard rock phase) 3. David Bowie- Ziggy Stardust (more artsy rock) 4. Black Sabbath- Paranoid ( metal revelation) 5. Jimi Hendrix- Are you experienced? (Guitar heaven phase) 6. Iron maiden- Number of the beast (legit metal phase) 7. King Crimson- In the court of the crimson king (Prog revelation) 8. Megadeth- Peace sells... But who's buying? (New hight of songwriting standards in thrash metal) 9. Metallica- ...And justice for all (prog mixed with thrash in a mind-blowing way) 10. Frank Zappa- Hot rats (Jazz fusion love at first sight situation) 11. Genesis- Trespass ( new appreciation for acoustic playing in prog) 12. Dream theater- Images and words (Prog metal orgasm) 13. Death- Sound of perseverance (more extreme metal phase) 14. Opeth- Still life (melodic death in a way never heard before) 15. Marillion- Script for a jester's tear (New appreciation for lyrics and poetry) Still a teenager though so my taste will probably keep changing and evolving a lot
For me I've only been a metalhead for around about a year or so now, so I'm fairly new to it, but yet still fucking loving it. if I had to say when it started it was when I first listened to Metallica whiplash on this amv video for jojos because also a proud weeb. I remember at first not taking a liking, keep in mind that I was listening to jazz at the time, so it was only natural I guess. For some reason I kept coming back to because it was stuck in my recommendations and slowly I started to love the duck out of it. I then finally lost my metal verginity listed to whole album its glory and got addicted to it. I had no idea what metal really was at this point, it was only when I listed to ride the lighting I knew that this was for me. I got into the heavier side when I listed to slayer for the first time. I rember coming across raining blood in my recommendations while I was laying in bed at like 2 or 3am. Having never even heard of the name slayer I listed to it out of morbid curiosity and had my mind blow as well as scared shitless, but still mindblown of course. Right now I'm just too lots of sodom, with agent orange and tapping the vein being some of the best metal I think I've heard so far. I'm also listening holocosto, particularly War metal massacre which fucking rules.
Loving the channel, thanks for introducing me to other bands I havnt heard. New purchases today 👌 Death - Symbolic Mercyful Fate - In the Shadows Bolt Thrower - Relam of Chaos Carcass - Heartwork
This would be so hard for me to do just bc when I got into metal it was like the skies opened up and rained down all this music that I had never heard. But Number 1 the very first thing I heard was the purple cassette with the band called The Misfits. I was ten and it blew my brain into another dimension.
Aerosmith- Gems Nirvana- Nevermind Metallica- The Black Album Morbid Angel- Covenant Pantera- Vulgar Display of Power Deliverance- Stay of Execution The Offspring- Smash Eminem- The Slim Shady LP Iron Maiden- Number of the Beast
I was a shitty little pop kid. I was 12 and at a fishing camp and some older boys were listing to the Classic Megadeth album ‘Peace sells’ I hated it. I told them I hated it. They told me I was stupid (but in a nice way) The next day, I asked them to play it again and I was hooked. I went straight to the rest of ‘Big 4’ and spread out from there. Then Death and Black Metal came along… and I hated it for a small lifetime. Of all the things that got me into Death, it was Dethklok ( 😂🤷♂️😂 ) And then Cradle of Filth. Now I’m full on into it all. I absolutely love Death and Black and all it’s weird variants.
A7x was my gate opener to extreme metal. Albums such as waking the fallen are just so incredible that they made me want to go deeper and deeper into the rabbit hole.
I remember stumbling across the song "One Step Closer" by Linkin Park on a Napster-like service (Bearshare I think it was called) when i was 8-10 or so. For the next year or two, all I listened to was Linkin Park and System of a Down, occasionally listening to some other bands like Slipknot, Rammstein, Disturbed etc. You know, the usual. I especially liked Meteora and Mesmerize. I remember that my Mother also showed me some Metallica and Iron Maiden songs (Master of Puppets, Fear of the Dark..) and my Dad listened to Black Sabbath, Deep Purple and Led Zeppelin. Then for another 2 years, I completely stopped listening to any music at all, until I remembered Metallica. Kill 'em All got me *hooked*, and ...And Justice for All even more so. Next album that I vividly remember listening to is Ashes Of The Wake by Lamb of God. I found it particularly strange that there were no clean vocals, only screaming (lol). Next came a prog metal phase. Tool and Dream Theater, Opeth until I stopped being 13 year old (Opeth is still cool tho). I had a friend who liked Dying Fetus, and he recommended me an album from them from 2012 or so. I liked it but never checked out similar stuff until I saw a meme about a band called "Bolt Thrower" being Sabaton, but good. I liked Sabaton at the time so I checked them out and holy shit. The Killchain got me hooked with the whole groove aspect, but once I listened to the rest of the album, it became clear to me that *death metal is the way*. Other essential albums for me were Symbolic and Human by Death, and a Paysage d'Hiver ripoff along with Eschatology of War by 1914 (greatest band ever) which got me into Black Metal. Now I listen to everything that the metal genre has to offer (Agalloch, Dismember, Celtic Frost) maybe except those awful bands I used to listen to like Linkin Park, Sabaton, Rammstein and Dream Theater.
Yeah the huge/big name bands get a lot of hate now because they got popular and commercial but they also started a lot of people's musical journeys. Metallica & Linkin Park were probably my two 'gateway bands' into rock and metal.
1: Doom Eternal OST thinking about it now, for some reason I kinda cringe but I was obsessed with this OST, and it was really what got me into music in general. 2: Koloss by Meshuggah Somewhere with doom eternal I heard someone talk about djent and checked it out, god damn, this took a while to get into cuz of the vocals but eventually I got an addiction to meshuggah. Koloss was always my favorite, but eventually I really tired meshuggah out and nowadays I barely listen to them anymore. 3: Reign in Blood by Slayer Eventually during my meshuggah binge I wanted to explore some other metal and thrash was the genre I went with. I'd already heard a bit of slayer, but shit, listening to Reign in Blood in full is one of my most memorable music experiences in my life. I was constantly blown away by the unbridled intensity of this album, and it paved the way for me getting into extreme metal. 4: Awake by Dream Theater My dad actually bought this a while before I ever got into music but I always really liked this album, so later I listened to some more dream theater and my mind was blown. Nowadays DT is probably my favorite band, and they were for sure my gateway into weirder music. 5: Altars of Madness by Morbid Angel After tiring out thrash I wanted something heavier and death metal was just right thing. Altars wasn't the first death metal album I heard, that was Symbolic by Death and the first song was Hammer Smashed Face (which was way too much for me then). But altars really clicked with me and made me love death metal and it showed me death metal goes further than the stereotypes. 6: Effigy of the Forgotten by Suffocation Now this is where we get really heavy. Out of all of the albums on this list, this was the hardest for me to get into. The fact that the albums opens immediately with a super agressive blast beat and some insane vocals, really made it hard for me to get even 20 seconds into the album. After probably a dozen attempts I listen to the album in full and loved it. This is the album that got me into really harsh vocals and got me full on addicted to death metal, Effigy of the forgotten is still one of my favorites. 7: Obscura by Gorguts I randomly found Considered Dead while exploring death metal and really enjoyed it, then I heard about Obscura with people saying it's super weird and amazing. I checked it out and nothing could've prepared me for the pure mindfuckery I was in for. Obviously I didn't love it immediately, but after a few times I listened to it all the way through and fck me it changed everything for me. My entire perspective of what the purpose of music is was changed by Obscura. 8: Burzum by Burzum Okay so this one isn't really as interesting as the last one, this was just the album that got me into black metal, I loved the atmosphere, the rawness but above all the vocals. Seriously, the vocals in early burzum albums are some of the greatest vocals I've heard in all of music. 9: Consumed by Repugnance by Defeated Sanity Back with more brutal shit! I randomly came across this album in a vid and for some reason it really grabbed me. And man, this band is something else, Lille Gruber alone makes this band one of the best modern metal bands, his drumming is imo the greatest I've ever heard, but that's not all, you have some super cool bass playing by Jacob Schmidt, super heavy slams and some brilliant jazz and classical influences. Every album is amazing and unique in their own way, go check these guys out. 10: The Mantle by Agalloch Got these guys recommended and this album is just absolutely beautiful, there's not really that much to say, it just really made me appreciate atmospheric metal. 11: Molesting the Decapitated by Devourment By this point I'd already gotten into brutal death but devourment was a whole 'nother beast. Absolutely disgusting vocals, horrendous production, vile lyrics and unstoppable brutality encompass this album. This stuff got me into the super extreme stuff. 12: Monoliths and Dimensions by Sunn O))) This album is an indescribeable experience, I know a lot of people hate Sunn O))) because they think it's just noise, but seriously, check this album out, it will blow you away. 13: Uterovaginal insertion of extirpated anomalies by Cephalotripsy. Here's something on the complete opposite side of the spectrum. Because it's about as braindead and retarded as it gets, it's literally almost SOLELY slams for a whole album. But that's the fun. This album shows that it's okay to just have some stupid fun every once in a while, and this is about as heavy and low IQ as it gets. 14: Encenathrakh by Encenathrakh This is it. This is the dead end of metal imo. You know how people say that there's always a heavier band, well I'm pretty confident in saying this is the most brutal out of all of them. This album and band is so insane I can't even describe it. It's by no means a good album musically, in fact there's very little musicality at all. But this was needed to make it as spastic and hectic as possible. And this is where I'm at now
I was lucky. My dad gave me Paranoid and 2112. My friends dad was into Metallica, and had a lot of the early vinyls. There was a college radio station Lock 88.1 that played metal late at night, which is where I first heard bands like Morbid Angel, Death, and Cannibal Corpse. It quite a while before I bought albums of my own; by this time I was deep into metal. I bought Tales from the Thousand Lakes, Red In The Sky is Ours, and The Hordanes land split, all at a fucking Best Buy of all places. That was my first music purchase.
first metal album ever listened to = filosofem . fave albums nattens madrigal, colony, storm of the light’s bane, percees de lumiere, spiritual instinct, paracletus, the gallery, ashes against the grain, death before dishonor, H.A.Q.Q, still life, whoracle, jester race, all burzum, sunbather, carelian satanist madness, loveless, im wald, souvlaki, red light, the fool, la sanie des siècles, exercises in futility, slaughter of the soul, amesoeurs, ruines humaines. if any1 has recommendations they think i would like i would love to hear!
For me (not in any particular order): 1) Metallica - Black Album 2) Pink Floyd - Dark Side of the Moon 3) Type O Negative - October Rust 4) Korn - Follow the Leader 5) Iron Maiden - Iron Maiden 6) Opeth - Ghost Reveries 7) Gojira - Magma 8) Death - Scream Bloody Gore 9) Genesis - Foxtrot 10) Seether - Karma and Effect 11) Alice in Chains - Dirt 12) Meshuggah - Obzen 13) Trivium - Ascendancy 14) Code Orange - Underneath 15) Dillinger Escape Plan - Calculating Infinity 16) Tool - Lateralus 17) Sigur Ros - Takk 18) Nile - Annihilation of the Wicked 19) Static-X - Machine 20) King Crimson - Discipline
I would say my musical journey begins with hits and my buddies favorite rap albums, Eminem specifically is my favorite rapper and was back then 1) Appetite for Destruction - Guns N Roses, the first album I’d say I adored 2) Toys in the Attic - Aerosmith was a band I liked for Walk this Way but I heard this whole album and I was hooked 3) there a cluster of bands I’ll add here that got me into metal, Slayer, Slipknot, Black Sabbath, Pantera, but if I didn’t hear Megadeth these bands would’ve never clicked, specifically Rust in Peace 4) Red ~ King Crimson, all I heard was Starless and that got me into weird progressive rock 5) Bon Jovi in the 80s was like the greatest band for me when I was younger and Slippery When Wet rocks still 6) Infest - Papa Roach, Last Resort was one of my favorite songs back then 7) when I was younger I was definitely more into Nu Metal and Hybrid Theory is still great by Link Park 8) Nirvana I had always heard there hits but Nevermind was one of those albums that proved it takes multiple listens to get something and that’s what happened to me back then 9) Dr. Feelgood - Motley Crüe, Shout at the Devil is my favorite album by them nowadays but this one definitely got me into glam metal 10) Dirt - Alice In Chains, I heard all there albums and concluded there one of the best bands ever 11) Ritchie Blackmore’s rainbow, the first album I ever heard with Dio and I knew he was amazing 12) I had heard Crazy Train at like every sport event and Blizzard of Oz is still one of my favorite albums ever 13) I heard the Trooper and I was hooked on Iron Maiden, specifically Number of the Beast 14) I thought rap was cheesy once I heard all those albums but once I heard 2Pac he put excitement into rap I’d never seen before
Ive been listening to metal since the 90’s, mainly Numetal but I can only mention 1 album that really impacted me back then and hooked me into a deeper metal heaviness that album is The Great Southern Trendkill by Pantera. That was the first time I heard real heavy music.
Here's mine roughly in order Skrillex music videos Green day American Idiot Blink 182 dude ranch Hollywood undead Swan Songs Nirvana MTV Unplugged Mastodon The Hunter Iron Maiden Killers/powerslave A7x white album Misfits Famous Monsters Megadeth RIP Slayer Reign in blood Bathory Cannibal corpse Torture Meshuggah Obzen Death Sound of perseverance AxCx I like it when you die Carcass Symphonies of sickness Depeche mode Violator Atheist unquestionable presence AIC Dirt Igorrr Nostril
Dream Theater was my first musical obsession as a child.
Avenged Sevenfold - City of Evil (the clean Walmart version)
Dream Theater - Black Clouds & Silver Linings
Megadeth - Rust in Peace
I wasn’t really into metal until I got into Iron Maiden at 13, I got into a lot of classic bands and thrash metal.
Iron Maiden - Piece of Mind
Metallica - Master of Puppets
Overkill - Horrorscope
Death Angel - Killing Season
Testament - The New Order
Anthrax - Among The Living
Symphony X - The Divine Wings of Tragedy
At 15, I discovered the second most important album in my journey, Trivium’s Shogun, not only the album that got me into harsh vocals, but the album that made me pick up a guitar. I started getting into death metal and metalcore.
Trivium - Shogun
Vektor - Terminal Redux
Death - Symbolic
All That Remains - The Fall of Ideals
As I Lay Dying - An Ocean Between Us
Killswitch Engage - As Daylight Dies
Opeth - Blackwater Park
Sonata Arctica - Silence
At 16, I wanted heavier stuff, I started getting into black metal (my favorite subgenre)
Obscura - Cosmogenesis
Cattle Decapitation - The Anthropocene Extinction
Emperor - Anthems to the Welkin At Dusk
Cradle of Filth - Cruelty and the Beast
Revocation - Existence is Futile
BTBAM - Colors
Agalloch - The Mantle
Periphery - Periphery II: This Time it’s Personal
More recently (18+) I’ve been rediscovering bands and listening to more 70s prog rock, also learning to appreciate other genres of music more.
Pink Floyd - Dark Side of the Moon
Porcupine Tree - In Absentia
Ne Obliviscaris - Urn
Wolves In The Throne Room - Celestial Lineage
Panopticon - Autumn Eternal
The Mars Volta - Amputechture
Haken - The Mountain
Yes - Relayer
Black metal and prog are my favorites, and Porcupine Tree/Steven Wilson, Trivium, Emperor, Agalloch, Opeth, Dream Theater, Haken, Periphery, The Mars Volta, and Panopticon are the bands that stuck with me the most.
My journey:
1) Guns n roses - Appetite for destruction
2) AC DC - Highway to hell
3) Led Zeppelin - Led Zeppelin IV
4) Metallica - Master of puppets
6) Megadeth - Peace sells
7) Judas priest - Painkiller
8) Pantera - Cowboys from hell
9) Slipknot - Iowa
10) Porcupine tree - Fear of a blank planet
11) Opeth - Blackwater park
12) Death - Symbolic
13) Morbid angel - Blessed are the sick
14) Obituary - Cause of death
15) Cannibal corpse - The bleeding
16) Nile - Annihilation of the wicked
17) Dissection - The somberlyn
18) Bathory - Bathory
19) Burzum - Burzum
20) At the moment I'm listening to Vektor & Havok
Just listened to ascendancy by trivium, what a masterpiece, all the riffs are awesome
first album i ever remember hearing was somewhere in time by iron maiden. my dad is a massive iron maiden fan so from a very early age, i had heard all the iron maiden albums before i even know what metal was!
Here's a rough timeline for mine:
The first heavy music I remember liking alot was from the sound track of Need for Speed Most Wanted (2005) which had Bullet for My Valentine, Avenged Sevenfold and Disturbed. I also really enjoyed Hard Rock Hallelujah by Lordi when they won Eurovison (2006).
Borrowed Prisoner of Society by the Living End from my Uncle (never gave it back) when I was 12.
Had a friend who made me a best of led Zeppelin when I was 12.
Bought my first cd: AC/DC - Highway to Hell when I was 12.
Some big albums in my teens:
Disturbed - Ten Thousand Fists in the Air (probably the first metal album I bought).
Metallica - Black Album.
Avenged Sevenfold - Waking the Fallen (this was the first album I listened to which had 'extreme' vocals).
Rage Against the Machine - Rage Against the Machine.
After School (pretty much listened to all of the following bands stuff):
Bring Me the Horizon - Sempiternal.
A Day to Remember - Homesick.
Trivium - Ascendancy.
Iron Maiden - Number of the Beast.
Judas Priest - Painkiller.
Parkway Drive - Horizons and Killing With a Smile.
Then one day I just felt tired of listening to the same stuff. So I decided to scour the internet for 'classic' metal albums which invariably led me to top albums list and RYM. From here my metal music listening blew up. This was just over 2 years ago. Some key albums in my 'catching up on the classics' were:
Black Sabbath - Paranoid and Master of Reality (ye... somehow I hadn't heard them before then)
Burzum - Filosofem (the first black metal album I ever heard).
Bloodbath - Nightmares made flesh (the first death metal album I enjoyed).
Cryptopsy - None So Vile.
Insomnium - Winter's Gate.
Nokturnal Mortum - Голос сталі.
Demolition Hammer - Epidemic of Violence.
There's been many more but to put it roughly, I listened to hard rock, Metalcore and Heavy Metal when I was teenager/early adult and only recently I've been listening to all sorts of metal. Now I listen to new releases in the 'metalsphere'.
Niice, almost the same beginning for me!
I used to listen to Red Hot and Pearl Jam and knew I liked the more aggressive songs from them but I didn't know metal. Until I met Disturbed, BFMV and Avenged Sevenfold. Instantly met Metallica and all the big bands and bought a guitar
Breaking Benjamin’s Dear Agony was basically the album that started it all for me, and that’s the album that got me into hard rock/alternative metal. Demon Hunter’s Extremist got me into metalcore and were the band that opened up my mind to heavier music. Metallica’s Master of Puppets got me into thrash and more classic metal in general. I believe Dream Theater got me into Prog... which is probably my favorite sub genre of metal!
Nice list here!
Back in Black (ACDC)... Appetite for Destruction (GnR)... Black Album (Metallica) Paranoid (Black Sabbath)...
Book of Heavy Metal (Dream Evil)... Coat of Arms (Sabaton)...
Powerslave (Iron Maiden)... Screaming for Vengeance (Judas Priest)... Overkill (Motorhead)...
Wheels of Steel (Saxon)... Ghost Revelries (Opeth)... Images & Words (Dream Theatre)...
Morningrise (Opeth)... Sons of Northern Darkness (Immortal)... Anthems to the Welkin at Dusk (Emperor)...
Filosofem (Burzum).... With Oden on Our Side (Amon Amarth)...
Above the Weeping World (Insomnium)... New Moon (Swallow the Sun)...
Tonights decision (Katatonia)... Leprosy (Death)... Those Once Loyal (Bolt Thrower)... Annihilation of the Wicked (Nile)...
Blessed and Possessed (Powerwolf)... Legacy of Kings (Hammerfall) ... Somewhere Far Beyond (Blind Guardian)...
Once (Nightwish)... Desgine Your Universe (Epica)
So basically from hard rock, to classic metal, to some power metal, then traditional metal, to progressive metal, then to black metal, to melodic death metal, and on to doom, then old-school death metal, then to power metal and ending with the two albums that got me into symphonic metal. So yeah!
First metal album I heard was ride the lightning but fear of the dark was the first album I heard and enjoyed which made me like metal
Cool video idea, I liked hearing about your experiences with these. Here are some of mine, broken up by years just because that's how I think of things:
2012-2016 - Rock & Metalcore
Red "Until We Have Faces" - The album that got me into rock, and helped pave the way for me to become a metalhead later on.
As I Lay Dying "An Ocean Between Us" & Demon Hunter "True Defiance" - Got me into metalcore and started my journey with metal as a whole.
2016-2018 - A little bit of new stuff
Amon Amarth "Twilight of the Thunder God" - Got me into melodeath and helped me dip my toes into more extreme metal in general.
Immortal "All Shall Fall" - Helped me start to appreciate black metal, even though I didn't get heavily into it until a couple years later.
Sabaton "The Last Stand" & Powerwolf "Blessed and Possessed" - See above, but for power metal.
Insomnium "Winter's Gate" - Actually changed my life. To this day it's still arguably the only album I've ever heard that I consider 100% perfect.
2018 - Getting into extreme metal & classic heavy metal
Behemoth "The Satanist" - Helped me get more heavily into both death metal and black metal.
Bell Witch "Mirror Reaper" - Introduced me to doom metal.
Iron Maiden "Powerslave" & "Seventh Son of a Seventh Son" - Got me interested in the classics, since I'd never really gotten into them.
2019-now - Further expanding my horizons
Devin Townsend "Empath" - Like "Winter's Gate", changed my life. It really made me think of music in a very different way than I used to.
Ne Obliviscaris discography - Furthered my interest in prog and gave me another favorite band.
NF "The Search" - It's a rap album, but it helped me start appreciating other genres of music more than I had in years.
Rush "2112" - Made me more interested in classic rock and prog rock.
Alcest "Ecailles de lune" - Made me fall in love with blackgaze and made Alcest one of my all-time favorite bands.
Twilight Force, Majestica, Gloryhammer, Rhapsody of Fire discographies - Ignited my recently found love for power metal.
Black Sabbath is that band for me..since the age of 8. I used to have to hide the albums from my parents. In 1992 or so, I bought a Black Sabbath tribute album titled ‘Masters Of Misery’ featuring bands on Earache. That was my introduction to death metal, and it took off from there as I explored Earache’s entire catalog. My introduction to Black Metal was Mother North by Satyricon.
These were the main game changers in my musical journey in chronological order:
1. Bryan Adams - Run To You
2. Europe - The Final Countdown
3. Guns n' Roses - Appetite for Destruction
4. Metallica - ...And Justice for All
5. Iron Maiden - Powerslave
6. Megadeth - Rust in Peace
7. Sepultura - Arise
8. Slayer - Reign in Blood
9. Judas Priest - Painkiller
10. Paradise Lost - Gothic
11. My Dying Bride - Turn Loose the Swans
12. Mayhem - De Mysteriis Dom Sathanas
13. Cradle of Filth - The Principle of Evil Made Flesh
14. Candlemass - Nightfall
15. Morbid Angel - Altars Of Madness
16. Neurosis - A Sun That Never Sets
17. Katatonia - Last Fair Deal Gone Down
18. Tool - Lateralus
19. Cult of Luna - Salvation
20. System of a Down - Toxicity
Honorable mentions: Opeth - Still Life, Iced Earth - Alive in Athens, Type 0 Negative - World Coming Down, Pantera - Cowboys from Hell, Therion - Theli, Nevermore - Dead Heart in a Dead World, At The Gates - Slaughter Of The Soul, Death - Symbolic, Arcturus - La Masquerade Infernale, Tristania - Widow's Weeds, Dark Tranquillity - Projector, Kamelot - Karma, Symphony X - The Odyssey, Nile - In Their Darkened Shrines, Mastodon - Remission, Lost Horizon - A Flame to the Ground Beneath and Watain - Sworn to the Dark.
Piece of mind and Defenders of faith. These two came to me in school. Actually, there were a lot of tapes, that we rerecorded and shared between eachother, but these two that I really loved in first sight and still love.
Started with Metallica, link park, Korn, limp Bizkit and I started listening to black metal about 2 years ago, thats when I found out your channel and discovered Burzum, thank you very much kind sir.
Metropolis PT 2 absolutely got me into prog as well. Fantastic album!
For me:
1.) Nevermind - Nirvana
2.) Antichrist Superstar - Marilyn Manson
3.) KoRn - KoRn
4.) Master of Reality - Black Sabbath
5.) Master of Puppets - Metallica
6.) The Sound of Perseverance - Death
7.) Vulgar Display of Power - Pantera
8.) Suici.De.Pression - Thy Light
9.) Descending Further Into Nothingness - Exiled From Light
10.) All Hope is Gone - Slipknot
11.) Marshall Mathers LP - Eminem
12.) Piece of Mind - Iron Maiden
13.) Slipknot - Slipknot
14.) Mechanical Animals - Marilyn Manson
15.) Transilvanian Hunger - Darkthrone
16.) Devil's Got A New Disguise - Aerosmith
17.) Pink Floyd (in general)
18.) Damnation - Opeth
19.) Jar of Flies - Alice in Chains
20.) Paranoid - Black Sabbath
The 20 albums that influenced my music taste, in order:
1. Big Band Greatest Hits: A CD that compiled many of the funnest songs from jazz bands in the early-mid 20th century.
2. First Circle by Pat Metheny Group: My dad gave me this album when I told him I liked jazz. It blew my fucking mind and is still the standard for me.
3. Behind the Mask by Chick Corea Elektric Band: I bought this album from a used-book store. I was blown away by the talent and intensity of jazz fusion. I was introduced to Chick Corea.
4. Romantic Warrior by Return to Forever: I explored Chick Corea's older music and came upon this album from the 70's. Probably my favorite album from that era.
5. Dreams Beyond Control by Spyro Gyra: Another album given to me by my dad. This is an uber melodic jazz fusion album from the 90's.
6. Boston - Boston: When I got my first car, the cd player was jammed so a bunch of CD's were stuck in there. This album was on one of those CD's. Boston introduced me to the melodic side of rock.
7. The Dark Side of the Moon - Pink Floyd: This was another CD stuck in the player. This introduced me to prog.
8. Pyromania - Def Leppard: Yet again another CD stuck in the player. This introduced me to hard rock.
9. Skid Row - Skid Row: I explored hard rock and proto-metal albums. I really liked Sebastian Bach's voice.
10. Rust in Peace - Megadeth: I came across this album which was really my gateway to heavy metal. I loved the blend of technicality with heavy metal. I thought I had discovered the Holy Grail of music. Megadeth was my favorite band for a while.
11. Ire - Parkway Drive: I came across metalcore and I really liked the positive, upbeat nature of Parkway Drive's songs to counter the political negativity of Megadeth.
12. Eonian - Dimmu Borgir: In 2018, I really started to explore more extreme bands and started doing "top albums of the year" lists which meant that I went out of my way to look up bands on Metal Archives.
13. The Nightingale - Trees of Eternity: At this point, I was depressed and angry with life. I lost my faith, friends, and purpose in life. This album was played on repeat while I was going through a very bad time.
14. Det Som Engang Var - Burzum: I needed something edgy and I was tired of organized religion and government. Varg's screams echoed my sentiments.
15. Portal of I - Ne Obliviscaris: I remember this album because my friend was getting married and I was a part of the ceremony. I remember playing this album during that period of time. It had black metal edge, melodic beauty, and technicality out of your ass for days.
16. Deicide - Deicide: I wanted to explore the old school extreme metal sound. It involved Deicide, Morbid Angel, and Immolation. I was getting used to extreme metal without melody or harmony.
17. Morningrise - Opeth: This is my favorite album of all time. I finally discovered what I wanted this whole time. It satisfies all of the polarities and contradictions my heart desired from music. The bipolar nature of the songs on this album including the jazzy aspects that I longed to hear were a key in the lock for my ears. I listened to the whole Opeth catalogue and fell in love with this band.
18. Akroasis - Obscura: I explored more progressive death metal looking to fulfill the itch. While no one satisfies the itch like Opeth, bands like Obscura, Behemoth, and Revocation blew me away. At this time, I was going to concerts for these bands.
19. Liminal - Exivious: I wanted jazz metal that would more directly be a cross between the weirdness of jazz and sonic explosiveness of heavy metal.
20. The Bleakness of Our Constant - Eneferens: I wanted more bands like Opeth that weren't necessarily death metal oriented. I'm really into post-metal and experimental oddities (like Arcturus). Anything that combines other music genres with extreme metal and has a definite theme (like Opeth manages to do with each album) attracts my attention.
In extreme metal I am a "late bloomer". Took me till I was 35-40, until I really appreciated Opeth, Gojira & co. Also I listen to a lot of other stuff, like 60s psych, 70s prog, 90s alternative...
So Metal was always there, but not the only thing. Starting with 2020 I am discovering a lot of new and old stuff:
Sojourner, Testament, Enslaved, Borknagar, Iapetus, Moonsorrow, Solstafir, Myrkur, Vektor, Amorphis, Vvilderun, King Diamond, Ne Obliviscaris, Primordial...
Queen - A night at the opera (1990 First Album bought)
GnR Use your Illusion II (1991 First Hard Rock/Metal Album)
Helloween - Best the Rest The Rare (91 first 'real' Metal album)
Metallica - Black Album (91 first Album, I bought a T-Shirt for)
Pink FLoyd - The Wall (92 first Prog/Concept Album)
Iron Maiden - Live at Donington (92 First Maiden Album)
Dream Theater - Live at the Marquee (first Prog Metal Album)
Tiamat - Wildhoney (94 First "Extreme" Metal album)
Saxon - Dogs of War (95 first Metal concert)
Apocalyptica - Plays Metallica (1996 first really weird album. Love weird)
Savatage - Ghost on the Ruins (1996)
Blind Guardian - Mr Sandman (1996 Holy crap, Power Metal is great)
Porcupine Tree - in Absentia (2004)
Opeth - Ghost reveries (2005 couldn't stand the singing at first, never listened to it. Now one of my fave bands)
Amon Amarth - Twilight of the Thunder God (2008 first melodic death)
Baroness - Blue Record (2009 First Sludge)
Gojira - L'enfant sauvage (2012)
The Ocean - Pelagial (2013)
Insomnium - Winter's Gate (2016 renewed my interest in Metal and brought me to Edge of Sanity and others)
Nile - What should not be unearthed (2016 first real death)
Alcest - Ecailles de lune (2018 first dip into Black Metal, opened a whole new world with Les Discrets, Agalloch...)
Moonsorrow - Viides Luku Hävittety (2018)
Havukruunu - Uinuos Syömein Sota (2020 first black metal album)
Enslaved - Everything (2020 new discovery, blew me away)
Panopticon - Everything(2020 see enslaved :-) )
Saor - Everything (2020 see...)
Wardruna (2020)
HIM is great and propably was a gateway for many people
My musical journey on metal was this :
Everything from early metallica, Guns an roses and some basic metal and rock like iron maiden and kiss , green day , all of that when i was a kid
Then i strictly just listened to the main thrash metal bands (slayer,megadeth,metallica etc) and some power metal and grunge by pearl jam and nirvana.
Next i heavily got into Nu metal with korn and slipknot still listening to the previous bands a bit
Then i joined black metal but not for long , so i listened to death metal with cannibal corpse and Death, and started to listen to various genres to recognize them, but for now i just got strictly on Death metal and everything beyond it ( Brutal death, Grindcore, techincal DM etc.)
But to choose specific albums that made it for me trough my life in cronologicaly order, it could be this:
1.Master of Puppets-And justice for all
2.Guns and roses every album
3.Nevermind-nirvana
4.Iowa-slipknot
5.Take a look in the mirror-Korn
6.Secret of The runes by Therion
7.Filosofem by Burzum
6.Tomb of The mutilated
7.Non so vile - cryptopsy
And last was DECHRISTIANIZE by Vital Remains. Now i listen to a shait ton of bands thanks to those bands 🤘
1. Three Days Grace, Korn, and Linkin Park
2. Iron Maiden, AC/DC Loudness,and Judas Priest
3. Metallica (favorite band)
4. Megadeth, Pantera, and Anthrax
5. Celtic Frost, Sodom, Alice In Chains, Black Sabbath, Testament, Slipknot, and Sepultura
6. Morbid Angel and Carcass
That’s about how far my journey has been
Didn’t know death metal even existed until I saw your channel so props to you!🤘
@Autistic Dolphin54 Lol I was new to metal so that’s probably why
Here is my list
Opeth - Orchid.. first Opeth song I ever heard was In the Mist she was Standing. It got me into extreme metal.
Iron Maiden - Brave New World. Got me into heavy metal.
Dissection - Reinkaos. Got me into black metal. I heard black metal songs before, but this got me into it.
Saturnus - Martyre. Got me into doom/death.
Type O Negative - October Rust.. got me into gothic Metal/rock.
Deafheaven - Sunbather - got me into black gaze
I could talk about this for hours but:
*My Dad had showed me bands like Led Zeppelin and the Jimi Hendrix Experience when I was younger and also once played me Ace of Spades (the song) age 7, that changed everything*
1. Queens of the Stone Age - Songs For the Deaf (First Rock album to really feel heavy that I'd listened to)
2. Metallica - Black Album (1st metal album I bought)
3. Ride the Lightnint (1st Thrash album I ever enjoyed)
4. Megadeth - Rust in Peace (First metal album to really impress me)
5. Pantera - Vulgar Display of Power (Really heavy album that made me want to head bang)
*fast forward 2 or so years*
6. Death - Spiritual Healing
Then it was Behemoth, Morbid Angel, Gojira and now I like most genres other than Power Metal and some Black Metal I guess
frst heavy metal album i ever heard and then like the next 19 i remeber they all were over about 6 weeks in the summer of 2001 as i just kept buying cds from cd warehouse ,before then i had never even heard anything but gospel music ,u2 and classical music Megadeth Rust in Peace,Iron Maiden -Number of the Beast,Alice in Chains-Dirt, Metallica-Ride the Lightning , Pantera-Cowboys from Hell,Iced Earth-The Dark Saga, Testament -The New Order, Judas Priest -Painkiller,Slipknot-Iowa, Dark Tranquillity -the Gallery, Death-Sound of Perseverence, At the Gates -Slaughter of the Soul, Venom -Welcome to Hell, Children of Bodom -Follow the Reaper, Celtric Frost -To Mega Therion, Dissection-Storm of the Lights Bane, Bathory-Hammerheart, Emperor -Anthems to the Welkin at Dusk, Mercyful Fate -Dont break the Oath, Jag Panzer -Thane to the Throne. by the end of the year i had bought around 150 cds and a metalhead was born.
For me the progression was 90’s radio with grunge/alternative and then Korn, the Mortal Kombat 2 soundtrack exposing me to industrial in middle school, and finally my friend having me listen to the s/t Slipknot album. It was off to the races from there.
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What a coincidence! Appetite for Destruction was also the album that got me into heavier music, GnR was my first band t-shirt as well
Here's my top 15 metal band/albums that i like the most:
1. Metal galaxy - babymetal
2. Rust in peace - megadeth
3. Unbreakable - primal fear
4. Souls of black - testament
5. Thousand men strong - tokyo blade
6. Reinventing the steel - pantera
7. Far beyond driven - pantera
8. Long live rock n roll - rainbow
9. Machine head - deep purple
10. British steel - judas priest
11. Blackout - scorpions
12. St. Anger - metallica
13. Arise - sepultura
14. Magma - gojira
15. Red before black - cannibal corpse
Wow. Those are the first two albums that shaped my musical journey as well.
I did something similar a while ago, not as in depth, but I covered my favourite nostalgic bands, and then a separate video about the one album that shifted the direction of my journey through metal, which was the soundtrack to the movie Gummo, which first introduced me to extreme metal, and got me to dive into black and death metal like Bethlehem and Mortician
My first real metal band was Avenged Sevenfold in 2019 thanks to their appearance in Call of Duty: Zombies (specifically Shepherd of Fire on the map Origins) . In 2018 I did discover Motley Crue.
Then I discovered Metallica around late 2019. That opened the gates for Megadeth. Flash forward to the latter half of 2020, when I started collecting cds. I discovered so many more bands.
I’m a pretty new metalhead but I love this music so much.
Dance Of Death by maiden got me into metal and they are still my favourite band.
1. The Beatles- Sgt. Pepper's lonely hearts club band (Classic rock phase)
2. Led Zeppelin- Houses of the holy (light hard rock phase)
3. David Bowie- Ziggy Stardust (more artsy rock)
4. Black Sabbath- Paranoid ( metal revelation)
5. Jimi Hendrix- Are you experienced? (Guitar heaven phase)
6. Iron maiden- Number of the beast (legit metal phase)
7. King Crimson- In the court of the crimson king (Prog revelation)
8. Megadeth- Peace sells... But who's buying? (New hight of songwriting standards in thrash metal)
9. Metallica- ...And justice for all (prog mixed with thrash in a mind-blowing way)
10. Frank Zappa- Hot rats (Jazz fusion love at first sight situation)
11. Genesis- Trespass ( new appreciation for acoustic playing in prog)
12. Dream theater- Images and words (Prog metal orgasm)
13. Death- Sound of perseverance (more extreme metal phase)
14. Opeth- Still life (melodic death in a way never heard before)
15. Marillion- Script for a jester's tear (New appreciation for lyrics and poetry)
Still a teenager though so my taste will probably keep changing and evolving a lot
For me I've only been a metalhead for around about a year or so now, so I'm fairly new to it, but yet still fucking loving it. if I had to say when it started it was when I first listened to Metallica whiplash on this amv video for jojos because also a proud weeb. I remember at first not taking a liking, keep in mind that I was listening to jazz at the time, so it was only natural I guess. For some reason I kept coming back to because it was stuck in my recommendations and slowly I started to love the duck out of it. I then finally lost my metal verginity listed to whole album its glory and got addicted to it. I had no idea what metal really was at this point, it was only when I listed to ride the lighting I knew that this was for me.
I got into the heavier side when I listed to slayer for the first time. I rember coming across raining blood in my recommendations while I was laying in bed at like 2 or 3am. Having never even heard of the name slayer I listed to it out of morbid curiosity and had my mind blow as well as scared shitless, but still mindblown of course.
Right now I'm just too lots of sodom, with agent orange and tapping the vein being some of the best metal I think I've heard so far. I'm also listening holocosto, particularly War metal massacre which fucking rules.
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My First Album was Metallica Ride the Lightning, but i think Iron maiden Powerslave as well
I think everyone started with Metallica, mine was Master🤘.
Yeah right, nice m8😆
Loving the channel, thanks for introducing me to other bands I havnt heard.
New purchases today 👌
Death - Symbolic
Mercyful Fate - In the Shadows
Bolt Thrower - Relam of Chaos
Carcass - Heartwork
This would be so hard for me to do just bc when I got into metal it was like the skies opened up and rained down all this music that I had never heard. But Number 1 the very first thing I heard was the purple cassette with the band called The Misfits. I was ten and it blew my brain into another dimension.
Aerosmith- Gems
Nirvana- Nevermind
Metallica- The Black Album
Morbid Angel- Covenant
Pantera- Vulgar Display of Power
Deliverance- Stay of Execution
The Offspring- Smash
Eminem- The Slim Shady LP
Iron Maiden- Number of the Beast
I was a shitty little pop kid.
I was 12 and at a fishing camp and some older boys were listing to the Classic Megadeth album ‘Peace sells’
I hated it. I told them I hated it. They told me I was stupid (but in a nice way)
The next day, I asked them to play it again and I was hooked.
I went straight to the rest of ‘Big 4’ and spread out from there.
Then Death and Black Metal came along… and I hated it for a small lifetime.
Of all the things that got me into Death, it was Dethklok ( 😂🤷♂️😂 )
And then Cradle of Filth.
Now I’m full on into it all.
I absolutely love Death and Black and all it’s weird variants.
Nice, i'm a metallica base fan also but i also listen to different kind of metal genres out there. Proud to be a metal head., 😁 👍 💪 🤘
A7x was my gate opener to extreme metal. Albums such as waking the fallen are just so incredible that they made me want to go deeper and deeper into the rabbit hole.
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@@gillaliglaou2840 they arent extreme metal but I used to hate screaming and such and they were the first band that made me like screaming
I remember stumbling across the song "One Step Closer" by Linkin Park on a Napster-like service (Bearshare I think it was called) when i was 8-10 or so. For the next year or two, all I listened to was Linkin Park and System of a Down, occasionally listening to some other bands like Slipknot, Rammstein, Disturbed etc. You know, the usual. I especially liked Meteora and Mesmerize. I remember that my Mother also showed me some Metallica and Iron Maiden songs (Master of Puppets, Fear of the Dark..) and my Dad listened to Black Sabbath, Deep Purple and Led Zeppelin. Then for another 2 years, I completely stopped listening to any music at all, until I remembered Metallica. Kill 'em All got me *hooked*, and ...And Justice for All even more so.
Next album that I vividly remember listening to is Ashes Of The Wake by Lamb of God. I found it particularly strange that there were no clean vocals, only screaming (lol). Next came a prog metal phase. Tool and Dream Theater, Opeth until I stopped being 13 year old (Opeth is still cool tho). I had a friend who liked Dying Fetus, and he recommended me an album from them from 2012 or so. I liked it but never checked out similar stuff until I saw a meme about a band called "Bolt Thrower" being Sabaton, but good. I liked Sabaton at the time so I checked them out and holy shit. The Killchain got me hooked with the whole groove aspect, but once I listened to the rest of the album, it became clear to me that *death metal is the way*. Other essential albums for me were Symbolic and Human by Death, and a Paysage d'Hiver ripoff along with Eschatology of War by 1914 (greatest band ever) which got me into Black Metal. Now I listen to everything that the metal genre has to offer (Agalloch, Dismember, Celtic Frost) maybe except those awful bands I used to listen to like Linkin Park, Sabaton, Rammstein and Dream Theater.
Yeah the huge/big name bands get a lot of hate now because they got popular and commercial but they also started a lot of people's musical journeys. Metallica & Linkin Park were probably my two 'gateway bands' into rock and metal.
1: Doom Eternal OST
thinking about it now, for some reason I kinda cringe but I was obsessed with this OST, and it was really what got me into music in general.
2: Koloss by Meshuggah
Somewhere with doom eternal I heard someone talk about djent and checked it out, god damn, this took a while to get into cuz of the vocals but eventually I got an addiction to meshuggah. Koloss was always my favorite, but eventually I really tired meshuggah out and nowadays I barely listen to them anymore.
3: Reign in Blood by Slayer
Eventually during my meshuggah binge I wanted to explore some other metal and thrash was the genre I went with. I'd already heard a bit of slayer, but shit, listening to Reign in Blood in full is one of my most memorable music experiences in my life. I was constantly blown away by the unbridled intensity of this album, and it paved the way for me getting into extreme metal.
4: Awake by Dream Theater
My dad actually bought this a while before I ever got into music but I always really liked this album, so later I listened to some more dream theater and my mind was blown. Nowadays DT is probably my favorite band, and they were for sure my gateway into weirder music.
5: Altars of Madness by Morbid Angel
After tiring out thrash I wanted something heavier and death metal was just right thing. Altars wasn't the first death metal album I heard, that was Symbolic by Death and the first song was Hammer Smashed Face (which was way too much for me then). But altars really clicked with me and made me love death metal and it showed me death metal goes further than the stereotypes.
6: Effigy of the Forgotten by Suffocation
Now this is where we get really heavy. Out of all of the albums on this list, this was the hardest for me to get into. The fact that the albums opens immediately with a super agressive blast beat and some insane vocals, really made it hard for me to get even 20 seconds into the album. After probably a dozen attempts I listen to the album in full and loved it. This is the album that got me into really harsh vocals and got me full on addicted to death metal, Effigy of the forgotten is still one of my favorites.
7: Obscura by Gorguts
I randomly found Considered Dead while exploring death metal and really enjoyed it, then I heard about Obscura with people saying it's super weird and amazing. I checked it out and nothing could've prepared me for the pure mindfuckery I was in for. Obviously I didn't love it immediately, but after a few times I listened to it all the way through and fck me it changed everything for me. My entire perspective of what the purpose of music is was changed by Obscura.
8: Burzum by Burzum
Okay so this one isn't really as interesting as the last one, this was just the album that got me into black metal, I loved the atmosphere, the rawness but above all the vocals. Seriously, the vocals in early burzum albums are some of the greatest vocals I've heard in all of music.
9: Consumed by Repugnance by Defeated Sanity
Back with more brutal shit! I randomly came across this album in a vid and for some reason it really grabbed me. And man, this band is something else, Lille Gruber alone makes this band one of the best modern metal bands, his drumming is imo the greatest I've ever heard, but that's not all, you have some super cool bass playing by Jacob Schmidt, super heavy slams and some brilliant jazz and classical influences. Every album is amazing and unique in their own way, go check these guys out.
10: The Mantle by Agalloch
Got these guys recommended and this album is just absolutely beautiful, there's not really that much to say, it just really made me appreciate atmospheric metal.
11: Molesting the Decapitated by Devourment
By this point I'd already gotten into brutal death but devourment was a whole 'nother beast. Absolutely disgusting vocals, horrendous production, vile lyrics and unstoppable brutality encompass this album. This stuff got me into the super extreme stuff.
12: Monoliths and Dimensions by Sunn O)))
This album is an indescribeable experience, I know a lot of people hate Sunn O))) because they think it's just noise, but seriously, check this album out, it will blow you away.
13: Uterovaginal insertion of extirpated anomalies by Cephalotripsy.
Here's something on the complete opposite side of the spectrum. Because it's about as braindead and retarded as it gets, it's literally almost SOLELY slams for a whole album. But that's the fun. This album shows that it's okay to just have some stupid fun every once in a while, and this is about as heavy and low IQ as it gets.
14: Encenathrakh by Encenathrakh
This is it. This is the dead end of metal imo. You know how people say that there's always a heavier band, well I'm pretty confident in saying this is the most brutal out of all of them. This album and band is so insane I can't even describe it. It's by no means a good album musically, in fact there's very little musicality at all. But this was needed to make it as spastic and hectic as possible.
And this is where I'm at now
I was lucky. My dad gave me Paranoid and 2112. My friends dad was into Metallica, and had a lot of the early vinyls. There was a college radio station Lock 88.1 that played metal late at night, which is where I first heard bands like Morbid Angel, Death, and Cannibal Corpse. It quite a while before I bought albums of my own; by this time I was deep into metal. I bought Tales from the Thousand Lakes, Red In The Sky is Ours, and The Hordanes land split, all at a fucking Best Buy of all places. That was my first music purchase.
first metal album ever listened to = filosofem . fave albums nattens madrigal, colony, storm of the light’s bane, percees de lumiere, spiritual instinct, paracletus, the gallery, ashes against the grain, death before dishonor, H.A.Q.Q, still life, whoracle, jester race, all burzum, sunbather, carelian satanist madness, loveless, im wald, souvlaki, red light, the fool, la sanie des siècles, exercises in futility, slaughter of the soul, amesoeurs, ruines humaines. if any1 has recommendations they think i would like i would love to hear!
Day 19 of asking Quest to do a Led Zeppelin ranking (50 more days until the Mad Lad does it)
For me (not in any particular order):
1) Metallica - Black Album
2) Pink Floyd - Dark Side of the Moon
3) Type O Negative - October Rust
4) Korn - Follow the Leader
5) Iron Maiden - Iron Maiden
6) Opeth - Ghost Reveries
7) Gojira - Magma
8) Death - Scream Bloody Gore
9) Genesis - Foxtrot
10) Seether - Karma and Effect
11) Alice in Chains - Dirt
12) Meshuggah - Obzen
13) Trivium - Ascendancy
14) Code Orange - Underneath
15) Dillinger Escape Plan - Calculating Infinity
16) Tool - Lateralus
17) Sigur Ros - Takk
18) Nile - Annihilation of the Wicked
19) Static-X - Machine
20) King Crimson - Discipline
I just completed a series of these vids actually. 👍
I would say my musical journey begins with hits and my buddies favorite rap albums, Eminem specifically is my favorite rapper and was back then
1) Appetite for Destruction - Guns N Roses, the first album I’d say I adored
2) Toys in the Attic - Aerosmith was a band I liked for Walk this Way but I heard this whole album and I was hooked
3) there a cluster of bands I’ll add here that got me into metal, Slayer, Slipknot, Black Sabbath, Pantera, but if I didn’t hear Megadeth these bands would’ve never clicked, specifically Rust in Peace
4) Red ~ King Crimson, all I heard was Starless and that got me into weird progressive rock
5) Bon Jovi in the 80s was like the greatest band for me when I was younger and Slippery When Wet rocks still
6) Infest - Papa Roach, Last Resort was one of my favorite songs back then
7) when I was younger I was definitely more into Nu Metal and Hybrid Theory is still great by Link Park
8) Nirvana I had always heard there hits but Nevermind was one of those albums that proved it takes multiple listens to get something and that’s what happened to me back then
9) Dr. Feelgood - Motley Crüe, Shout at the Devil is my favorite album by them nowadays but this one definitely got me into glam metal
10) Dirt - Alice In Chains, I heard all there albums and concluded there one of the best bands ever
11) Ritchie Blackmore’s rainbow, the first album I ever heard with Dio and I knew he was amazing
12) I had heard Crazy Train at like every sport event and Blizzard of Oz is still one of my favorite albums ever
13) I heard the Trooper and I was hooked on Iron Maiden, specifically Number of the Beast
14) I thought rap was cheesy once I heard all those albums but once I heard 2Pac he put excitement into rap I’d never seen before
Ive been listening to metal since the 90’s, mainly Numetal but I can only mention 1 album that really impacted me back then and hooked me into a deeper metal heaviness that album is The Great Southern Trendkill by Pantera. That was the first time I heard real heavy music.
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I started with the Deftones and Tool and ended up with bands like Cock And Ball Torture and Bestial Warlust
Metallica was after Deftones
The only key album in my life is Chocolate Starfish and The Hot Dog Flavored Water.
An album for the ages
Here's mine roughly in order
Skrillex music videos
Green day American Idiot
Blink 182 dude ranch
Hollywood undead Swan Songs
Nirvana MTV Unplugged
Mastodon The Hunter
Iron Maiden Killers/powerslave
A7x white album
Misfits Famous Monsters
Megadeth RIP
Slayer Reign in blood
Bathory
Cannibal corpse Torture
Meshuggah Obzen
Death Sound of perseverance
AxCx I like it when you die
Carcass Symphonies of sickness
Depeche mode Violator
Atheist unquestionable presence
AIC Dirt
Igorrr Nostril