Metal Reviews

Well, had a friend who listened to Maiden, he gave me a loan of Brave New World (yeah, I'm a relative n00b) which was all good. Then I bought Best of the Beast and realised this was the stuff for me. I spent the next year and a bit finding my way without learning too much (no interweb), but it all kicked off when I picked up Lost Horizon's first album.

Fucking double-post.

Hehehe. I had similar situation. Bought Virtual XI and later Best Of The Beast

I used a catalogue with all sorts of punk rock, nu-metal and metal stuff. I had it for the punk and the nu, but I got interested in the metal, and bought some. I really got turned down by Metallica (black album), but I didn't give up and got into Slayer and CoF. I moved on to wannabe black and melodeath, and death metal thereafter. Then came real black, and then followed more genres. First post-rock, then noise and math, then space and some traditional, and thereafter art and prog. Now just recently jazz and world were added to my listeningrepertoire, thanks to Stefan.

toch niet de Large? :shock:

anyway..my older brother always listened to various NWOBHM bands and old school thrash so i got my metal obsession from that

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Tangerine Dream?? You know, I always liked the stuff they did for the soundtrack to "Risky Business" and thought about listening to more stuff they might have done. Do they generally sound like that or how would you describe them?

-Tyrion

Started getting into music such as Britney Spears on radio, got annoyed with how bland and boring it all was, until one day I heard this awesome song by this new band called Evanescence. I was hooked, bought the album, loved it. Then, late one night whilst listening to a radio rock show, heard a song called "Killing In The Name Of" by Rage Against The Machine. It was the heaviest thing I'd ever heard, so I bought that album too, then worked my way to Maiden (random purchase in a 2nd hand shop, Powerslave, still one of my fave albums ever), then I discovered SOAD and Toxicity, then Sepultura - Roots, then gradually worked my way up to Black/ Death / Grind.

Found this place after searching for metal reviews too, funny.

I'm afraid so.

Iron Maiden, Metallica, TestAment, All the fuckin' classics.

...And then Emperor :twisted:

I got into metal at a very early age. And it's all because of Iron Maiden record covers!

When i was in preschool, my best friend had an older brother who was a metalhead. The walls of his room were covered with posters of Iron Maiden and Metallica and stuff like that.
Iron Maiden's record covers looked awesome to me, and they became my favorite band. Iron Maiden still have a special place in my heart, and the covers of their records still look awesome (except for DoD. What the fuck were they thinking?!?).

Anyway... In my preteen years i was anxious to hear some new metal bands but i couldn't afford to buy a shitload of CD's. So i used to loan a bunch of them from the library's record collection and make tape copies of them. Through stuff like Venom's Welcome to Hell and Earache records' Grindcrusher compilation (fantastic stuff on this one: Carcass, Repulsion, Terrorizer, Morbid Angel...), i got big time into extreme metal.

There were some years in my teens when i didn't really follow what's happening in metal, because i didn't find the majority of new bands all that interesting, but i've become more active again in the last few years (although most new bands still suck).

Well, that was sorta stream-of-consciousness (it's still 8:38 AM!) but yeah, i got into metal through the killer artwork of Derek Riggs.

Chop Suey! by SOAD. I first heard it on the radio in 2001, then I heard Enter Sandman by Metallica, and although I thought they were cool, i continued to listen to rap. what a fool i was. then, about two years later, I heard Iron Maiden for the first time. My uncle is into them and had a few of their CDs. that was where my addiction started. I then bought SOAD's Toxicity, and after that, I never went to the rap section at the record store again.(i still havent)

One of my childhood friends and I used to 'borrow' his big brothers metal records. In the beginning it was mostly because of the cool looking covers, haha... The artists in question was Slayer, Iron Maiden, King Diamond, Black Sabbath and Mercyful Fate. After I started to actually like the music I went digging and discovered the likes of Kreator, Celtic Frost and Sodom.. From there the transition to black and death is quite logical. I still listen to my first records and tapes though. My tastes is in a state constant evolution so the story is not over yet.


At the same time I have my 'parallel taste' witch started in my father and mothers records. That part of my taste consists of artists like Tower of Power, Larry Graham (who was the main cause of me starting to play my first instrument - the bass), Graham Central Station, Genesis and King Crimson and evolves from there.

Technically, Load (by Metallica) was my introduction to metal. Though the first "real" metal album I bought was Master Of Puppets. For about a year, all I really listened to was Metallica and the occasional classic rock bands (Billy Joel, Queen, Ted Nugent, Aerosmith, etc). But then I bought Countdown To Extinction by Megadeth. And the rest, they say, is history.

I can totally relate to this statement. When I first got into metal, I too was trying to get into radio music (I actually bought The Marshall Mathers LP by Eminem :oops: ). Most of it totally bored me.

Iron Maiden-Iron Maiden

I was 11, liked the cover, got into it...Well, I got into it about 2 and a half years later but whatever.

strange..i couldn've sworn you said Powerslave, in the previous threads like this one :?

Mortal Kombat's soundtrack was number one on my Christmas list. I got it, and my metalhead cousin (in his 20's) went in my basement to listen to it with me. He realized Napalm Death was on it, and I enjoyed the song... Twist the Knife is pretty catchy, even to a 7-8 year old. Anyway, he noticed Load was in my very small, very spotty music collection of albums I'd (My mom) bought for one song I saw on TV.

Basically, he was down with seeing metal seeds planted in my life, and bought me a new thrash or grind album for all my B-days and Xmas celebrations. Nowadays, I buy him new metal, because his old ass doesn't know where to start anymore! :twisted:

That was Zad.

(skipping the bits about pop, rap and rock like the offspring)

limp bizkit, who i thought were totally hardcore with their excessive swearing, korn and rammstein. then Metallica (i loved S&M, and then listened to their older stuff).

when i was 15-16 i thought Metallica and Sepultura were the be all end all metal band (and i thought spineshank and static-x were really badass), but some more charitable metal heads on irc offered to show me a few bands (and one of them told me to check MR.com ). after that it was slayer and iron maiden and stuff, i was still kinda "scared" of black and death metal, until i heard Children of Bodom. after that (and after i got broadband internet) things were never the same again...

Some rap is good. I suggest that you never turn your back on something you once liked. I still listen to Run DMC and I love it, I still crank out the 80's rock and I love it.