Ozzy Osbourne...bark at the moon...

oh the memories!

Written by D on 02.01.2013 at 04:03

Ozzy Osbourne...bark at the moon...

oh the memories!

I love this album.

Alice Cooper - Brutal Planet

To metal it was Metallica's And Justice for All. To music in general it was Run to You (Bryan Adams) and The Final Countdown (Europe)

From age 1 to 13 my dad shoved Metallica's Master of Puppets in my face. But, when I heard Slipknot's Self titled album I couldnt stop listening to the rest of their albums. Even at age 12 my dad showed me Six Feet Under's True Carnage and Body Count's Self Titled. After all of that I was hooked.

The album that got me into Metal would be Iced Earth's Dystopia.

To metal in general? That would be something from Dream Evil I guess. Listened more to hard rock before, and I think that Dream Evil is the first band I listened to, who can be classified as metal.

The Number Of The Beast, about age 12, courtesy of my brother. Still a great listen now.

Written by Lady Eternity on 21.01.2013 at 07:09

The album that got me into Metal would be Iced Earth's Dystopia.

The metal has you hooked not long ago hehe =) By the way great album, i'm not fan of Iced Earth, but this particularly, i love it.

Metal has always been a part of my life because of my Dad, but the one album that sticks out in my mind is Judas Priest's Metalworks. Such a good collection.

Slipknot - Slipknot. My dad introduced to Six Feet Under though.

Sonata Arctica - Ecliptica.

Yep.

Well if Evanescence doesn't count as a metal band, then 'Once' from Nightwish. Have been addicted to symphonic metal ever since

Omg I read alot of ''My dad, My Brother, My...'' Am I the only one of my generation who found Metal by himself

Written by Guib on 22.02.2013 at 22:56

Omg I read alot of ''My dad, My Brother, My...'' Am I the only one of my generation who found Metal by himself

Yeah that surprised me as well all that ''My dad, My Brother" but I discovered it because of a class mate in primary school in Singapore who just arrived from The Netherlands and was a big Kiss and Van Halen fan in 1979.

Written by Guest on 22.02.2013 at 10:35

'Once' from Nightwish. Have been addicted to symphonic metal ever since

strangely enough i from "Once" went directly to black metal (Mostly Dimmu Borgir at first)...

For me it was when I heard a classmate play the intro of Fade to Black, that took me to search for Metallica and I also found out of Fear of the Dark. Fade to Black and Master of Puppets introduced me to metal... since that day, I love metal.

Black sabbath master of reality and sabbath bloddy sabbath.

Quite a funny story really, I was playing Need for speed underground and the song 'The Only' by Static-X popped on, I was hooked onto the Industrial metal band like a duck to water and so inevitably bought the album the song was from, 'Shadow Zone'.

9 years on and I'm a Business Management student and freelance music journalist, it would be great if fellow metal fans could check out http://globalmetalapocalypse.weebly.com/37/post/2013/03/are-heavy-metal-lyrics-the-musical-textual-form-of-education-part-1-eastern-front.html

As this is forming part of one of the modules I have to do at University.

Written by ANGEL REAPER on 23.02.2013 at 19:48

Written by Guest on 22.02.2013 at 10:35

'Once' from Nightwish. Have been addicted to symphonic metal ever since

strangely enough i from "Once" went directly to black metal (Mostly Dimmu Borgir at first)...

haha, that's a pretty big change... but I see you still like Nightwish well, I prefer female vocals to male vocals in metal (strange, I know ), so I mainly stayed with those bands. Although I like Dimmu too.

Written by Guest on 02.03.2013 at 20:12

Written by ANGEL REAPER on 23.02.2013 at 19:48

Written by Guest on 22.02.2013 at 10:35

'Once' from Nightwish. Have been addicted to symphonic metal ever since

strangely enough i from "Once" went directly to black metal (Mostly Dimmu Borgir at first)...

haha, that's a pretty big change... but I see you still like Nightwish well, I prefer female vocals to male vocals in metal (strange, I know ), so I mainly stayed with those bands. Although I like Dimmu too.

i still prefer female vocals ... just with more "aggressive" approach

Well, mostly Appetite For Destruction and Kamelot's Karma

I had been listening to individual songs and some compilations before hand, but the first metal album i bought was Polaris by Stratovarius. I Thought the cover art was cool, and the songs i listened to on Youtube were pretty impressive, so i bought it. I've been hooked on metal ever since.

My first proper introduction to Extreme Metal was In The Nightside Eclipse by Emperor. Again, the cover was awesome, and "I Am The Black Wizards" was a badass song. It Took a couple of listens to get into it, but It became one of my favorite albums.

Metallica - Ride the Lightning. Second CD I ever bought.

Although.... I suppose technically it would be the Transformers: The Movie soundtrack. Love that album! First got into it when i was six.

Essentially it was cartoon series and video games that introduced me to metal.

Series like Biker Mice From Mars:


Video games had metal and rock influenced soundtracks:

Maaan I loved the intro to that game so much, I could have it in the background just to hear that song...

The video game music made the transition to Amorphis' song Black Winter Day easy, because of that strong moog synth sound, which reminded me of video game music somehow.
That made me check out the entire Tales From The Thousand Lakes album, which really won me over and made me curious about metal.
A very long answer to a short question, but I felt like sharing it.

1919 Eternal by Black Label Society

Iron Maiden - 'Powerslave'

Written by Skøllgrim on 10.03.2013 at 22:15

Essentially it was cartoon series and video games that introduced me to metal.

Still i have this amazing cartridge from Megadrive =)

First album I ever heard and really liked was Justice for all by Metallica. Frayed ends of sanity being still my favorite Metallica-song. Though it´s been just a few years that I´ve listened more extreme and not so mainstream styled metal like Iron maiden, Korn, Slipknot and stuff like that. I´m having kinda like second wave to metal music. And the first that kind of album was when I bought Monotheist by Celtic frost. What a unique and monstrous album gotta say.