Which albums mean the most to you?
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Posted by Warman, 19.07.2006 - 21:14
My list:
Metallica - Master of Puppets, Metallica, Load, ReLoad, S&M
MoP has been my favourite song ever since I first heard it when I was 12. That album changed my life and fully got me into Metal, it made me know that Metal is everything for me. The Black Album was a very early album for me, helped me got into the genre and was the second album I bought. The two follow-ups are maybe not the best albums ever but when my family went to Greece and drove around the country in a car my mom had a walkman and a tape with those two albums on, which she gave me. I listened to it and loved it and this was before I got into Metal. S&M was my first live album and I'm such a sucker for both Metallica live and orchestras.
Iron Maiden - Dance of Death, Brave New World, Rock in Rio, Somewhere in Time, Killers
DoD was the very first album I bought. BNW and RiR was the first Metal I liked, the first step to a Metalhead. SiT was one of my first albums and Killers... well, it's such a magical album which was there for me many times.
Children Of Bodom - First four studio albums
All their first four albums helped me become a Metalhead and appreciate more extreme metal. These albums are classics to me and this band means so much for me.
These three bands and their albums are listed first for many reasons. They remind me of a much easier and happier time in my life. But the main reason is because they were the only, and I mean ONLY Metal, I listened too for like 4 years! I thought it didn't exist any more good bands, seriously. But then this band came:
Norther - Dreams of Endless War
Since I heard that these guys would sound like CoB there was no doubt if I should get an album. So I bought DoEW and it changed everything. It made me realise that there exist more bands and so much better Metal out there!
I guess that Norther really helped me become the person I am today, or maybe the Metalhead I am today.
Now the list goes on without any special order.
Dream Theater Images and Words, Metropolis Pt 2: Scene from a Memory
These albums made me see that Metal has so much to offer. DT played music and made me feel in a way I didn't thought was possible.
Cradle Of Filth Damnation and a Day
Because this one made me get into Black Metal. (Don't cry all Black Metal fanboys, I know it's not a Black album... at all
)Nightwish Oceanborn, Wishmaster
Got me into female vocals.
| Elfeder Posts: 262  |
Where Lovers Mourn - Draconian: this is a really dark and emotionly strong album that makes me depressed even if I am happy, I really like the energies in there. agalloch discography: because I can also sleep with it and it is gloom cold and dark ambient that makes me imagine that I am wondering alone in a forest. Ensiferum discography: saga of battles > death > valhala > legends >good music
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| Piranha_Kill Posts: 11  |
I'd say Dark Tranquillity - Skydancer / Of Chaos And Eternal Night, I'ts just one of those albums that can be kept in the stereo for months without getting stale. Just a classic album all round for mine. The drums ROCK! The bass ROCKS! And the guitar - ohhh, the guitar ROCKS! Check it out! CHECK IT OUT! - Dick Knubbler.
---- What do ya mean, booze ain't food! I'd rather chop off my ding-dong than admit that. 44 mins of target practice, all hell's breaking loose........Firefight with a Pocketknife...
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| Haddonfield Chucky's Bride Posts: 1993  |
Metallica - Ride the Lightning, simply my all time favorite album. Korn - Life Is Peachy and Marilyn Manson's Antichrist Superstar, these are the two albums that really made me look at metal. Cradle of Filth - Cruelty and the Beast, the album I've probably listened to the most in my life with Ride the Lightning, so many hour's spent chilling out on my bed with this album. In Flames - Reroute to Remain and Soundtrack to Your Escape, listened to these loads as I was driving to Uni, they always remind me of the good old Uni years. Ill Nino - Revolution Revolucion, I remember when I first got my driving license I only had a casette player in my car and I had just bought this album so copied it to casette and because I couldn't be arsed making many more cassettes this is one I listened to a lot, it always reminds of summer driving round the countryside with the windows wide open. White Zombie - Astro Creep 2000, when my parents were divorcing this is an album I seemed to listen to a lot for an unknown reason. The Ramones and White Zombie seemed to help escape the bad vibes created by the separation. Funny though, I don't associate the album with bad thoughts today.
----  "Seasons don't fear the reaper. Nor do the wind, the sun and the rain (we can be like they are)."
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| Metal For Life Posts: 10  |
Metallica- S&M, the reason why i love metal today Iron Maiden- Rock In Rio , discovered the imporatnce of melody and a perfect performance
---- Brother will kill brother, Spilling blood across the land, Killing for religion, Something I don't understand
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| whatsacow Posts: 2075  |
Shape of Despair - Angels of Distress Other albums have come and gone with the seasons, or according to my emotions, but i can chuck this album on at any time and still have the same effect. This album is so deep and drenched with emotion, i don't think i could live without it.
---- When God made up the golden rule, do you think he noticed that it condones rape?
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| DayFly Posts: 383  |
Probably Malteze - Count Your Blessings and Lords Of The Crimson Alliance - s/t because of the effort I put into hunting them down, not to mention that the results were actually worth it.
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| Mikyz Posts: 711  |
The ones I'm naming below, I consider "special" albums but I'm sure I could name easily 50 more :/ Dissection - Storm of the Light's Bane My favorite Black Metal album ever, if by some hazard I don't know what I'm in the mood for that's what I instantly listen to. System of a Down - Toxicity This is what got me into metal, and I'm pretty sure it has the highest play count on my itunes. Dream Theater - Images and Words One of my first experiences with metal, and I still think that this band is perfect in all the ways imaginable, flawless + Petrucci fanboy. Edge of Sanity - Crimson The Ultimate progressive death metal album, Opeth can go to hell >:( It also got me into Death Metal. In Flames - The Jester Race My first Melodic Death Metal or Gothenburg experience, and it remains one of my favorite, if not my favorite Gothenburg Metal release. An unforgettable and powerful release. Burzum - Filosofem I listen to this practically whenever I'm pissed off. It's also one of those albums that never get old. The most entrancing album ever. Deep Purple - Machine Head My father introduced me to them, and it's the first groundbreaking band I saw live and this album is my favorite one.
---- Laugh and the world laughs with you. Weep and you weep alone.
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| vangosh Posts: 26  |
Opeth: Morningrise and Damnation, these 2 albuns were like a revelation to me, when i hear that stuff I fly into good memories and i can't let it! Moonspell: Memorial, this one is a masterpiece from a PORTUGUESE band! I'm proud of being portuguese, god bless metal!
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| XV535Virago Posts: 78  |
Mortem - "Slow death" Arcturus - " The Sham Mirrors"/ "Sideshow Symphonies" Nefilim - "Zoon" Mayhem - " Grand declaration of war" Dimmu Borgir - "Godless Savage Garden" / "For all tid" Ophthalamia - "Dominion"
---- True norwegian Dimmu Burger : zero tolerance to pickles must be issued!
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In chronological order. Bryan Adams - Run to You The first record i bought back in 88. Yes, i was 8.  Europe - The Final Countdown Getting in touch with hard rock for the first time. Guns n' Roses - Use Your Illusion II The first gig i saw back in 1993 was Gn'R with Soundgarden and Faith No More supporting. Metallica - ...And Justice For All First metal album i heard back in 89, still is my fav Mets album. Metallica - Metallica Defined my generation. I remember listening to it from the moment i woke til late night. Slayer - Reign in Blood My introduction to extreme metal. Judas Priest - Painkiller Flawless album. Iron Maiden - Powerslave Masterpiece. Candlemass - Epicus Doomicus Metallicus DOOOOOOOOMMMM My Dying Bride - Turn Loose the Swans My all time fav album. It's depressive, agressive, raw and poetic. Cradle of Filth - Vempire My fav COF album. Mayhem - De Mysteriis Dom Sathanas The dark, blackest, eviliest album of all times. Arcturus - La Masquerade Infernale Pure fucking art!! The Chaos Path is incredible. Katatonia - Viva Emptiness Bleak urban metal ftw.
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Written by [user id=119833] on 30.08.2011 at 16:21 Immortal not in your favorite bands!
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| Sean 79 Posts: 218  |
Couldn't just pick one band and one album. Motley Crue- Girls Girls Girls for showing me that there was better music out there other than the AWFUL pop music that was flying about in the 80's.  Iron Maiden - Number of the Beast for setting me on my way to a life of METAAAAAAAALLL!!!!!!  Metallica - Jump in the Fire single for introducing me to thrash metal. Napalm Death - From Enslavement....../Carcass - Symphonies of Sickness - For introducing me to grind. Obituary - Slowly we Rot for my death metal obsession. Cradle of Filth - Principle of Evil.... for my journey to the darkside with black metal  My Dying Bride - Turn Loose the Swans for the misery Hammerfall - Glory to the Brave for the cheeeeeeese and reminding me not to take it all so seriously. Other important notable mentions, Anthrax, Slayer, Kreator, Morbid Angel, Cannibal Corpse, Deicide, Iced Earth, Immortal, Emperor, Darkthrone, Heloween, Gamma ray, Blind Guardian, WASP. These bands have never let me down (apart from Morbid....  ) and have been the corner stone of my listening for the last 20 something years.
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| Yavanna Posts: 616  |
Well, I cannot choose only one so (and I could make a list from it) here it goes Aerosmith - Just Push Play ... ok, ok, one of their worst albuns maybe, but it made me wake up for rock, back in 2001, when I saw the videoclip of Fly away from here on Tv, Without that I would probably be posting in a Lady Gaga fans forum now... So it was a big deal Avantasia - The metal Opera, pt. 1 and 2 - possibly when I turned to METAL Dream Theater - Falling into Infinity - it really changed my life when I heard it for the first time, in 2006 Ensiferum - Dragonheads - When I turned to Folk
---- Carry me to the shoreline Bury me in the sand Walk me across the water And maybe you'll understand
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| dr.doom Posts: 42  |
Nachtmystium - Instinct:Decay Possibly my favorite album of all time, it kind of sets me into a trance with the mixture of raw BM and psychedelic influences. Dimmu Borgir - Spiritual Black Dimensions Yeah, I know "Dimmu sucks and are mainstream etc". But this is the only Dimmu CD i still listen to regularly, even though it really gets no attention among their discography. It has a very eerie vibe that they could never capture again. I still like everything they did up until Death Cult Armageddon though. Emperor - IX Equilibrium I feel like this and "Anthems to the Welkin...." is where Emperor's discography really found its "sweet spot". I prefer IX though. I also got my copy in Norway at Neseblod records Slayer - South of Heaven Nuff said Skeletonwitch - Beyond the Permafrost The first new thrash album I'd bought in a long time. It reminded me that thrash was still alive
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| Blackened_Lux Posts: 9  |
Metallica - Ride the Lightning - Favorite album. Simply perfect for me. Its heavy, it's thrashy, has amazing songs, great riffs and solo's... what else should be said? Its Legendary! Opeth - Deliverance - In that time I used to listen to a lot of shity music to be honest... but when I heard Opeth, especially the Deliverance album, which is the first album I've heard from them, I grew up in a musical way and became curious about more new stuff. I was simply amazed by the complex riffs and solo's, instrumentally they played perfect for me, but the thing I liked the most was Mikael Akerfeldt's voice. Back in those days I was not much into the extreme genre's, but the shifting from clean and pure vocals to amazing growling vocals was something new and amazing for me. Sepultura - Beneath the Remains - I remember I was hating Sepultura because of Roots Blood Roots, didn't find that song and Sepultura very great, simply because it was mainstream and I didn't get the point of the whole album. One day on youtube I was watching the top 100 Metal Songs, list made by some random metalhead I guess, and while I was watching something around, I heard one of the most aggressive intro riffs I've ever heard... Band: Sepultura, Album: Beneath the Remains, Song: Stronger than hate. I couldn't believe what I was seeing! Downloaded the album ASAP, listen to it like 7 times in a row that day and I was still handbanging as crazy on every song. With this I've learned that I must hear the whole discography of a band before I dislike or like them. Again, this album helped me a lot to grow in the musical way, but it also contains very good quality Thrash Metal songs, that explain the genre it self as it should be... Aggressive riffs, with inspiring and influential lyrics about society, social problems etc.
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| ANGEL REAPER Posts: 3687  |
Bathory Hammerheart It is an album that reflect my thoughts about this world the best.
---- "Cross is only an iron,hope is just an illusion,freedom is nothing but a name..." "Build your walls of the dead stone...Build your roofs of a dead wood..Build your dreams of a dead thoughts" 
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| lordchadi Posts: 102  |
They r many albums that mean most to me i cant even count em but as example manowar - kings of metal , triumph of steel , louder than hell iron maiden - piece of mind , powerslave ozzy - no rest for the wicked , no more tears metallica - and justice for all , master of puppets , ride the lightning megadeth - countdown to extension , youthanasia pantera - cowboys from hell king diamond - conspiracy , voodoo , graveyard , the eye mythological cold towers - Sphere of Nebaddon savatage - dead winter , handfull of rain , wake of Magellan slayer - all albums except the first 3 albums nightwish - century child , once amorphis - black winter day
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| Boxcar Willy yr a kook Posts: 9157  |
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| Ghostdancer Posts: 196  |
Slayer - Reign in Blood Death - Leprosy Coroner - No More Color Dark Angel - Leave Scars There are many others...but I've had these in heavy rotation for over 20 years.
---- "Bullshit! You didn't convince me!"
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| Sentinel65 Posts: 208  |
Hellbilly Deluxe - Rob Zombie When I was young my dad would play this horror themed disc, it really gave me a taste for the darker side of things. Anything by Rob Halford My father listens to anything Halford, so he was on heavy rotation, I was constantly hearing Two, Fight, Halford, and Judas Priest. Reign In Blood - Slayer First brutal album I had heard in my life, opened my eyes to a whole new world of heavier metal. The Black Album - Metallica My first introduction to metal that would be heavily repeated on my ipod.
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| bran Posts: 157  |
Black sabbath- heaven and hell blind guardian- a night at the opera mercyful fate- time death- spiritual healing sodom- agent orange
---- top 5 albums of 2012 so far. 1. wintersun- time I 2. woods of ypres- woods V grey skies and electric light 3. agalloch- faustian echoes EP 4. the slow death- II 5. kreator- phantom antichrist
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| thewaytonever Posts: 69  |
Album that got me into metal: Iron Maiden - Fear of the Dark album that got me into extreme metal: Dimmu Borgir - Spiritual Black Dimensions guilty pleasure that i really could care less what people think about it: Def Leppard - Adrenalize first hard rock/ heavy metal album ever: Skid Row - Slave To The Grind just to name a few
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| texture Posts: 3  |
First I got a mix cd from my dad with different AC/DC songs which made me start listening to hard rock/metal from the beginning, I was probably around 9-10. Then I realized that I love this music so my dad gave me Iron Maiden's Powerslave and there it begun.
---- The number is Six hundred and sixty six.
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