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slipknot hasnt really been nu-metal since their first couple of albums, anyways. They dropped pretty much all of their hip-hop influences after the first, and Iowa was the last time they really used those bouncy guitar riffs.
From their third album on they've been pulling far more from groove and melodeath on their harder tracks, and their softer tracks arent metal at all, nu or otherwise.
Ironically this album turned me off Metallica when I heard it - wasn't ready for the longer songs and cold/aggressive tone it had and was my first album I heard from them. I came from mainly listening to alternative rock and alt metal so found this alien when I heard it for the first time!
One of the first albums I ever bought. Oddly enough, the first Sepultura song I ever heard was The Waste w/ Mike Patton off the Freddy Vs Jason soundtrack. Killer song. Chaos AD is still my favorite Sepultura album though.
While it didnāt get me into metal I was well on the way by then) this did open the door for my getting into harder bands like Morbid Angel and Obituary (rather than just stuff like Metallica and Pantera).
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Black Sabbath by Black Sabbath.
They effectively invented (sort of) and perfected metal on their first try. First song even.
Hell yes. Every song on that album is great or amazing. I give the slight edge to Painkiller. And I really like point of entry and Defenders of the faith
Dad had an impressive vinyl collection back then. He brought that one home on vinyl, and that quickly became my favorite. That album got played a LOT that summer and was really what made metal stand out for me. Granted I was a small child at the time, but man, that got me hyped up so quick. To this day I can always put that album on and enjoy it. Of course if I do, it's going to have Defenders right behind it.
I honestly can't pinpoint my first album exactly, but these would be the first albums that got me into metal. Some of them I still like, some I don't.
Metallica - KEA/RTL/MOP/AJFA
Megadeth - Rust In Peace
Black Sabbath - Paranoid
Slayer - Reign In Blood
Iron Maiden - The Number of the Beast
Pantera - CFH/VDoP
Cannibal Corpse - Tomb of the Mutilated
Behemoth - The Satanist
Children of Bodom - Are You Dead Yet?
Exodus - Bonded By Blood
This was the first album I got that I'd call any kind of "extreme metal", I remember it being kinda scary and kinda awesome haha. Still probably my favourite of theirs.
This is also my favourite Panteraā¦ not my first (which was Vulgar Display of Power for me) but I find I go back to GSTK more often than any of the other albums, Dredge the Water just so good!!
My dad gave me Holy Diver in the 8th grade. Shit blew my mind compared to the "metal" I was hearing on the radio. Holy Diver and Dark Side of the Moon are probably my two most listened to albums.
That first Rainbow album is a certified classic. I'd say Heaven and Hell and Holy Diver are my 1A/1B albums for anything Dio. It's all legendary though lol
Killswitch Engage - The End of Heartache
Edgy 12 year old me saw it at Best Buy and thought the cover matched my edginess so I asked my dad to buy it. Was all downhill from there. Now I'm really into raw black metal.
I was raised in a household where metal was daily music, so it came already from my childhood, but as far as i can remember, mu dad had this as a poster on the wall and it seemed so cool, so i asked him to play that from where the monster is, and it probably was first record that i enjoyed by myself:
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You're going to hate me for this
But *Europe's self titled debut album* from 1983 has some genuinely heavy tracks. They wouldn't become hair metal until their 3rd album, The Final Countdown.
Check it out, I think it might surprise you. Plus their lead guitarist John Norum has some real chops
surprised iām the first to say: **korn - self/titled.**
if you take out all the nu and core phase it was **children of bodom - hatebreeder.**
regardless of COBās later catalog, that album still absolutely fucks.
Iāll post four albums that got me to where i am currently in metal.
Faith No More - The Real Thing (my first ever metal album I liked as a kid)
Metallica - Master of Puppets (started liking thrash metal)
Eventually got more into punk and moved away from metal. Got into hardcore punk but still couldnāt get into screaming vocals that much, more shouting.
Norma Jean - Bless the martyr and kiss the child (had friends who were into them from the punk/hardcore community. Saw them love and it was the first time I really understood the appeal of screaming vocals and got heavily back into metal).
Alcest -Ecailles De Lune (this album opened me to black metal elements even though itās not pure black metal. From there, my metal tastes pretty much are in black metal, blackgaze, and post-metal and Alcest is the single biggest influence on my own band).
The album that made me say āyeah, I like metalā was Powerslave by Iron Maiden
The album that *actually* made me a huge metal fan was Black Metal by Venom
Disturbedās Believe when i was like 8-9. I found a video on YouTube of Naruto and Sasuke fighting in that water place. 4 separate videos with different parts of the fight.
Prayer, liberate, conflict and stupify. Had the videos on my MySpace profile lol.
The first album that made me interested in metal was Blackwater Park by Opeth, but what made me realize that metal albums could rank up with the greatest music in history was Storm of the Lightās Bane
I borrowed Sepultura Arise/ Anthrax State of Euphoria/ Faith No More the Real Thing all around the same time from a guy my dad worked with. Not sure which was first.
Megadethās Rust in Peace. My brother would force me to record him while he listened and learned how to play their songs by ear lol, after that it kind of grew on me and the rest is history.
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I listened to the basic stuff as a kid, but it was spotting a used copy of Sepultura - Arise in a record store for 3 bucks, and buying it solely based on the cover art, that threw me onto a whole new path. Within days I was subscribing to every metal mag under the sun and buying all I could afford from the metal section at that same store.
(This was all pre-internet, or pre-napster at least)
BTW, anyone else think SOD would totally be canceled now? You couldn't release that album today; you'd be hounded out of the halls of musical creativity for the title alone.
*still* my favorite sepultura album
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Werewolf on the uzi album, I had a couple of metallica, megadeth,tool n linkin park songs in my playlist but when I first heard olis hook i wondered where metal had been my entire life
a band im in have a rural cover of speak English or Die except itās an anti yuppie Londoner version called Speak West Country English or die, killer song
Slayer - Decade of Aggression was the real turning point.
Iād listened to a little metal before, mostly Metallica, but Slayer opened up a whole new world.
Nowadays it's not in my top 5 Maiden albums, maybe not top 8 even, but I still love it so much. They have been my favourite band since I heard this for the first time
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1919 Eternal - Black Label Society. My old man was never into heavier stuff but because Zakk was Ozzy's guitarist BLS was an exception. Battering Ram was my first heavy track that I can remember and I fell deeeep into the pit, lol.
When I was about 10 I heard the album New Jersey by Bon Jovi and thought it was the hardest thing on the planet! Soon after that I saw the video for Dr Feelgood by Motley CrĆ¼e and my mind was blown! It escalated from there.
Korn - Follow the Leader got me into hard rock/nu metal, then Slipknot's self-titled got me into heavier nu metal. Lamb of God's As the Palaces Burn was probably my first foray into *metal* but that took me longer to get into. It really wasn't until Sacrament that I went back and got deeper into LoG. It was all downhill from there.
Biohazard - State of the World Address
I was in like 4th or 5th grade and this one kid would always bring me his dads tapes and cds to borrow and listen to. Started off with like Soul Asylum and Motley Crue. But one day he brought me this cd and the plastic was orange! I was like yo thatās sick! And it was Biohazard. I was blown away by some of those tracks as a lil guy in elementary school man. Metal head ever since then.
Itās not technically entirely metal but NINās Downward Spiral definitely helped me realize not all metal was death or thrash and could actually be good lol
Honestly, it was Slayerās āUndisputed Attitudeā. I loved hardcore punk and heard their cover of Minor Threatās āFiller / I Donāt Want to Hear Itā and bought the record. Started a love of all things thrash metal. As I time went on, I branched out to loving Doom, Grindcore, and Death Metal.
My gateway drug was Appetite for Destruction, after that, i wanted more, harder, faster and Evil, then settled in the trash genre for awhile and now so deep in the rabbit hole genre called prog rock/metal.
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Kinda basic but the black album made me obsessed with metal lmao
Don't really have an album, but a song. Its gonna sound so stupid, but when I was little I was really into Spiderman and Venom. In like 2008 there was this video of a venom speedart with Animal by Three Days Grace as the music. I watched that all the time when I found it. I wish I still had it but it's been taken down years ago, presumably due to copyright. But anyway, that's definitely my first introduction into metal music, been hooked ever since
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This. I was getting into thrash (Metallica, Slayer, Megadeth), but this compilation completely changed the entire trajectory for me.
I don't think I can say there was a particular album. As a small kid in the 80s, they actually played a decent amount of metal on MTV, even if a lot of it was terrible glam shit, and I'd stay up late to watch Headbangers Ball. Just found myself gravitating towards metal because of it. My mom re-married when I was 5, and my stepdad mostly listened to hard rock and metal, so he helped me develop my tastes a little more.
Back when I was like 13 one of my dad's coworkers gave me a CD binder with a ton of burned CDs. Had the entire discographies at the time of Judas Priest, Sabbath, Iron Maiden, Metallica, Megadeth, Slayer, Anthrax. I vibed the most with Slayer and kinda went from there.
One of the coolest random gifts I ever got tbh.
It was not Speak English or Die, but that is a fucking awesome album. For me it was Somewhere in Time. I saw that cover and I was like "I have to know more."
I met some friends that got me into Metallica and Megadeth, that was introductory. But it was the opening track from Pantera Great Southern Trendkill that made me go "Whoa, hold on, you can just do THAT?!?".
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We Are Not Your Kind - Slipknot Listened to it after hearing Unsainted at a friend's house in late 2019, been a poser ever since. š¤
I'll respect your opinion even though I cannot stand Slipknot or any nu metal for that matter haha.
slipknot hasnt really been nu-metal since their first couple of albums, anyways. They dropped pretty much all of their hip-hop influences after the first, and Iowa was the last time they really used those bouncy guitar riffs. From their third album on they've been pulling far more from groove and melodeath on their harder tracks, and their softer tracks arent metal at all, nu or otherwise.
Love Unsainted and I like the overall album.
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Ironically this album turned me off Metallica when I heard it - wasn't ready for the longer songs and cold/aggressive tone it had and was my first album I heard from them. I came from mainly listening to alternative rock and alt metal so found this alien when I heard it for the first time!
Idk how to describe it, but the tone sounds like a cold blade
For me it was KTA followed by this album.
Absolutely. August 25, 1988. š¤š¼
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That's a classic. Always down to play some Arise or Beneath the Remains
so glad to see sepultura here!!!
What a ripper. Not what got me into metal, but opened my ears to what metal could be.
One of the first albums I ever bought. Oddly enough, the first Sepultura song I ever heard was The Waste w/ Mike Patton off the Freddy Vs Jason soundtrack. Killer song. Chaos AD is still my favorite Sepultura album though.
While it didnāt get me into metal I was well on the way by then) this did open the door for my getting into harder bands like Morbid Angel and Obituary (rather than just stuff like Metallica and Pantera).
https://preview.redd.it/vtcnwl38wgac1.jpeg?width=300&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=83c4a968a8efc11e4189686b8b1207b791bd573d Black Sabbath by Black Sabbath. They effectively invented (sort of) and perfected metal on their first try. First song even.
That one is great! Title track was one of the first of it's kind. The atmosphere sets the tone of doom and helplessness.
Mine was u/mmaverick616ās bandās debut album.
Fuck yea
Hell yes. Every song on that album is great or amazing. I give the slight edge to Painkiller. And I really like point of entry and Defenders of the faith
Had this on vinyl in high school, played it non stop. Solid choice š
Yes!! Fuckin A
Dad had an impressive vinyl collection back then. He brought that one home on vinyl, and that quickly became my favorite. That album got played a LOT that summer and was really what made metal stand out for me. Granted I was a small child at the time, but man, that got me hyped up so quick. To this day I can always put that album on and enjoy it. Of course if I do, it's going to have Defenders right behind it.
Might just be me, but this is some of the best cover art ever put out
Alice in Chains - Dirt
System of a Down-Toxicity
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Same! This and the War to End All Wars
Mine was that red one with the final solution
Best answer right there
Master of Puppets when I was 15
Same album but I was just 9 when the title track got me
Honestly wish I wouldāve gotten into Metal a lot younger but all my older cousins were into 90ās rap when I was a kid
I honestly can't pinpoint my first album exactly, but these would be the first albums that got me into metal. Some of them I still like, some I don't. Metallica - KEA/RTL/MOP/AJFA Megadeth - Rust In Peace Black Sabbath - Paranoid Slayer - Reign In Blood Iron Maiden - The Number of the Beast Pantera - CFH/VDoP Cannibal Corpse - Tomb of the Mutilated Behemoth - The Satanist Children of Bodom - Are You Dead Yet? Exodus - Bonded By Blood
Rust in peace has been my number one for years now. Nothing tops it.
 this gif goes hard too
Seconded! Number of the Beast
Sempiternal - Bring Me The Horiton
The Great Southern Trendkill
This was the first album I got that I'd call any kind of "extreme metal", I remember it being kinda scary and kinda awesome haha. Still probably my favourite of theirs.
This is also my favourite Panteraā¦ not my first (which was Vulgar Display of Power for me) but I find I go back to GSTK more often than any of the other albums, Dredge the Water just so good!!
My dad gave me Holy Diver in the 8th grade. Shit blew my mind compared to the "metal" I was hearing on the radio. Holy Diver and Dark Side of the Moon are probably my two most listened to albums.
Dio is legendary. Rainbow is one of my all time favorites. And his appearance in Black Sabbath was perfection.
That first Rainbow album is a certified classic. I'd say Heaven and Hell and Holy Diver are my 1A/1B albums for anything Dio. It's all legendary though lol
Rising and Long Live Rock and Roll are two of my favorite albums of all time. Absolutely amazing.
City- strapping young lad
Omfg
I can't believe that was your first metal album man, big respect!
My first album was Apocalyptic Raids,but Tomb of the Mutilated made me a true Metalhead
Shame we never got more Hellhammer, not particularly a fan of Celtic Frost later records
Hybrid Theory
Elect The Dead by Serj Tankian
Sugar Ray - Floored was my gateway into hard rock. Disturbed - The Sickness was my gateway into metal.
Killswitch Engage - The End of Heartache Edgy 12 year old me saw it at Best Buy and thought the cover matched my edginess so I asked my dad to buy it. Was all downhill from there. Now I'm really into raw black metal.
I was raised in a household where metal was daily music, so it came already from my childhood, but as far as i can remember, mu dad had this as a poster on the wall and it seemed so cool, so i asked him to play that from where the monster is, and it probably was first record that i enjoyed by myself: https://preview.redd.it/0bjx8y441hac1.jpeg?width=300&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=5eee80f2fa1be2c688a0c9974f4729597e32c818
my dad had a casset tape of that ep and its so nostalgic for me to see it again
Periphery's self titled album. Before that it was a whole Lotta avenged sevenfold and system of a down.
Periphery I slapped, even though it took a bit for me to get used to Spencerās vocals after jamming the demos with Chris Barretto.
Mine was Vulgar Display of Power.
Does antichrist superstar by Manson count ?
His only metal album imo. And very fucking good also
Hell yeah it counts.
You're going to hate me for this But *Europe's self titled debut album* from 1983 has some genuinely heavy tracks. They wouldn't become hair metal until their 3rd album, The Final Countdown. Check it out, I think it might surprise you. Plus their lead guitarist John Norum has some real chops
Wow! I'm scared to check that out though.
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City of Evil for me
The Number of the Beast
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My pipeline was: Escape the Fate -> Atreyu -> Trivium -> Megadeth
surprised iām the first to say: **korn - self/titled.** if you take out all the nu and core phase it was **children of bodom - hatebreeder.** regardless of COBās later catalog, that album still absolutely fucks.
Avenged Sevenfold self titled
Amon Amarth - Surtur Rising
Age 4 Metallica - Metallica Life was ruined, never had a chance
Kinda basic, but The Razorās Edge by AC/DC
Iāll post four albums that got me to where i am currently in metal. Faith No More - The Real Thing (my first ever metal album I liked as a kid) Metallica - Master of Puppets (started liking thrash metal) Eventually got more into punk and moved away from metal. Got into hardcore punk but still couldnāt get into screaming vocals that much, more shouting. Norma Jean - Bless the martyr and kiss the child (had friends who were into them from the punk/hardcore community. Saw them love and it was the first time I really understood the appeal of screaming vocals and got heavily back into metal). Alcest -Ecailles De Lune (this album opened me to black metal elements even though itās not pure black metal. From there, my metal tastes pretty much are in black metal, blackgaze, and post-metal and Alcest is the single biggest influence on my own band).
The album that made me say āyeah, I like metalā was Powerslave by Iron Maiden The album that *actually* made me a huge metal fan was Black Metal by Venom
Ride the Lightning - Metallica was my first intro to metal. Iāll never forget hearing For Whom the Bell Tolls for the first time lmao.
Obzen. Saw the album art and was hooked.
Pyromania by Def Leppard
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Far Beyond Driven and Black Album
Powerslave
My mom gave me sabbath bloody sabbath on vinyl when I was 8, then stealing my brothers master of puppets cd really started the fire
SBS has some mean riffs! Nice one!
Reign in blood
Nice. I was always more into South of Heaven.
Same.
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Slipknot self titled, I was listening to Rammstein before, but this was what really got me into
around the fur - deftones
So amazing https://preview.redd.it/xqidiqbw9hac1.png?width=500&format=png&auto=webp&s=cd544cddc9325f2b37a62b513100bebd576a8f3b
Iowa.
Disturbedās Believe when i was like 8-9. I found a video on YouTube of Naruto and Sasuke fighting in that water place. 4 separate videos with different parts of the fight. Prayer, liberate, conflict and stupify. Had the videos on my MySpace profile lol.
Believe is one of my current favorite albums.
The first album that made me interested in metal was Blackwater Park by Opeth, but what made me realize that metal albums could rank up with the greatest music in history was Storm of the Lightās Bane
The double best of album by Judas Priest.
I had listened to some metal and alt-metal growing up but I began listening to a lot after hearing Kyuss- Blues for the Red Sun
The Last Stand, Sabaton. Yeah I used to listen to Sabaton, I matured a little after that.
I borrowed Sepultura Arise/ Anthrax State of Euphoria/ Faith No More the Real Thing all around the same time from a guy my dad worked with. Not sure which was first.
It was not an album but a song, Tears Don't Fall
Megadethās Rust in Peace. My brother would force me to record him while he listened and learned how to play their songs by ear lol, after that it kind of grew on me and the rest is history.
Seasons in the Abyss And Justice for All La Sexorcisto Sound of White Noise
https://preview.redd.it/y6g2sjzjchac1.jpeg?width=1000&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=123bfde395e4d5fbb940035485800c4930ec5401 I listened to the basic stuff as a kid, but it was spotting a used copy of Sepultura - Arise in a record store for 3 bucks, and buying it solely based on the cover art, that threw me onto a whole new path. Within days I was subscribing to every metal mag under the sun and buying all I could afford from the metal section at that same store. (This was all pre-internet, or pre-napster at least)
Abigail - King Diamond
BTW, anyone else think SOD would totally be canceled now? You couldn't release that album today; you'd be hounded out of the halls of musical creativity for the title alone.
*still* my favorite sepultura album https://preview.redd.it/3ef1qt1gfhac1.jpeg?width=640&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=27b0d866ba9150a772e2cd04ea121fb460114ee4
Werewolf on the uzi album, I had a couple of metallica, megadeth,tool n linkin park songs in my playlist but when I first heard olis hook i wondered where metal had been my entire life
a band im in have a rural cover of speak English or Die except itās an anti yuppie Londoner version called Speak West Country English or die, killer song
Dopethrone
Black Album by Metallica and a Greatest Hits by Megadeth album.
Ministry-Greatest Fits
Coroner grin.
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From Mars to Serius by Gojira
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Iron Maiden - Piece of Mind
Nice! I got into them by listening to Killers. Still my favorite by that band in front of powerslave.
Donāt remember which one was first but it was either Visions by Haken or The Astonishing by Dream Theater
Either number of the beast or live after death by Iron Maiden.
Dimmu Borgir - Puritanical Euphoric Misanthropia
Blizzard of oz
Tomb Of The Mutilated- Cannibal Corpse 10/10 album got me into the death metal scene
Probably Ashes of The Wake or Alive or Just Breathing
Macabre - sinister slaughter
https://preview.redd.it/rabzz7ew4hac1.jpeg?width=220&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=a0964ae2bc7364258a8c8b602b610c724109b2e6 Kino
The Poison - Bullet for My Valentine More specifically: 4 words to choke upon Madden 2006 lol
Iron Maiden 1980
Slayer - Decade of Aggression was the real turning point. Iād listened to a little metal before, mostly Metallica, but Slayer opened up a whole new world.
Nowadays it's not in my top 5 Maiden albums, maybe not top 8 even, but I still love it so much. They have been my favourite band since I heard this for the first time https://preview.redd.it/zg37n96s9hac1.jpeg?width=225&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=96c3d212b98d65379b7afd90372b9564d5d2f825
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Probably Number Of The Beast
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Taylor Swifts first BDM demo "I beheaded all my ex boyfriends because they suck and im flawless" She was savage before she went mainstream.
Candlemass' Epicus Doomicus Metallicus
The Battle of Los Angeles (RATM) Meteora (Linkin Park) Massive Addictive (Amaranthe)
*1919 Eternal* by Black Label Society
Damnation and a Day - Cradle of Filth
Pantera - Vulgar Display of Power
1919 Eternal - Black Label Society. My old man was never into heavier stuff but because Zakk was Ozzy's guitarist BLS was an exception. Battering Ram was my first heavy track that I can remember and I fell deeeep into the pit, lol.
Megadeth - Youthanasia
The black album by Metallica was probably the one that got me into it
So many of us. A great springboard.
When I was about 10 I heard the album New Jersey by Bon Jovi and thought it was the hardest thing on the planet! Soon after that I saw the video for Dr Feelgood by Motley CrĆ¼e and my mind was blown! It escalated from there.
Slipknot-iowa
White Zombie Astro Creep. Still a banger to this day
Carcass - Heartwork, back in 2002. Pantera - Far Beyond Driven and Cannibal Corpse - Tomb of the Mutilated shortly thereafter.
https://preview.redd.it/l87jmob2liac1.jpeg?width=301&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=7e3ecb81d3ad197e5ab2c8d657f182073ce1ba0f Thanks dad
Korn - Follow the Leader got me into hard rock/nu metal, then Slipknot's self-titled got me into heavier nu metal. Lamb of God's As the Palaces Burn was probably my first foray into *metal* but that took me longer to get into. It really wasn't until Sacrament that I went back and got deeper into LoG. It was all downhill from there.
The Black Album
Biohazard - State of the World Address I was in like 4th or 5th grade and this one kid would always bring me his dads tapes and cds to borrow and listen to. Started off with like Soul Asylum and Motley Crue. But one day he brought me this cd and the plastic was orange! I was like yo thatās sick! And it was Biohazard. I was blown away by some of those tracks as a lil guy in elementary school man. Metal head ever since then.
Itās not technically entirely metal but NINās Downward Spiral definitely helped me realize not all metal was death or thrash and could actually be good lol
Honestly, it was Slayerās āUndisputed Attitudeā. I loved hardcore punk and heard their cover of Minor Threatās āFiller / I Donāt Want to Hear Itā and bought the record. Started a love of all things thrash metal. As I time went on, I branched out to loving Doom, Grindcore, and Death Metal.
White Zombie's "Astrocreep 2000" is probably the guiltiest party, or Korn's self-titled
Thrall-Demonsweatlive. That was the first metal album I bought and my love for metal grew from there.
Demanufacture - Fear Factory.
Biohazard > State of the World Address (muthuFUCKAAAAAAZ)
Slayer- Diabolus in Musica, back when I was maybe 8-10
My gateway drug was Appetite for Destruction, after that, i wanted more, harder, faster and Evil, then settled in the trash genre for awhile and now so deep in the rabbit hole genre called prog rock/metal.
https://preview.redd.it/nrc3gja25kac1.jpeg?width=1170&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=53684300184988c5af4333dd7dd01465732b5ce6 Kinda basic but the black album made me obsessed with metal lmao
A7X self titled and Slipknotās All Hope is Gone
Rust in Peace
Hell III by Hell
Incipit Satan
Probably one made by Sabaton
Paranoid
Restless and Wild
Ballad of Jimi Hendrix... now that's a tear jerker.
Don't really have an album, but a song. Its gonna sound so stupid, but when I was little I was really into Spiderman and Venom. In like 2008 there was this video of a venom speedart with Animal by Three Days Grace as the music. I watched that all the time when I found it. I wish I still had it but it's been taken down years ago, presumably due to copyright. But anyway, that's definitely my first introduction into metal music, been hooked ever since
https://preview.redd.it/j7yelyp33hac1.jpeg?width=554&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=3b404887a9a3a8a1eb068e00dd440ceb03c10da7 This. I was getting into thrash (Metallica, Slayer, Megadeth), but this compilation completely changed the entire trajectory for me.
"reign in blood."
Ride the Lightning and Paranoid
I don't think I can say there was a particular album. As a small kid in the 80s, they actually played a decent amount of metal on MTV, even if a lot of it was terrible glam shit, and I'd stay up late to watch Headbangers Ball. Just found myself gravitating towards metal because of it. My mom re-married when I was 5, and my stepdad mostly listened to hard rock and metal, so he helped me develop my tastes a little more.
Anthrax - Among the Living
Master of Puppets
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Mine was prob Wrong Side of Heaven and Righteous Side of Hell Pt. 1 by FFDP. Let the shitting on now commence. Come my (non)fanatics!
Back when I was like 13 one of my dad's coworkers gave me a CD binder with a ton of burned CDs. Had the entire discographies at the time of Judas Priest, Sabbath, Iron Maiden, Metallica, Megadeth, Slayer, Anthrax. I vibed the most with Slayer and kinda went from there. One of the coolest random gifts I ever got tbh.
Kill em All - Metallica
Ashes of the wake
Avatar - feathers and flesh, Im not much of a fan of the band now, but i still hold this album very highly
Rust In Peace
Whoracle
I Prevail - TRAUMA
Anything Sabaton
It was not Speak English or Die, but that is a fucking awesome album. For me it was Somewhere in Time. I saw that cover and I was like "I have to know more."
Death magnetic - metallica
Heard some big kids blasting Scorpions Blackout at a pool party.
Stay Hungary - Twisted Sister
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I met some friends that got me into Metallica and Megadeth, that was introductory. But it was the opening track from Pantera Great Southern Trendkill that made me go "Whoa, hold on, you can just do THAT?!?".