Cds' that changed your life

Iron Maiden - Killers > got me into metal
Yngwie Malmsteen - Odyssey > inspired me to play guitar
Ensiferum - Ensiferum > secured a love for folk metal
Behemoth - Satanica > helped progression in the world of metal
Children of Bodom - Hatebreeder > :kickass:
 
Aside from the influence of many many bands and albums, the album that probably made me want to "do" music I ashamedly have to trace back to Europe - The Final Countdown, or perhaps the video for Poison's Your Mama Don't Dance.:oops:

The last thing that made me go "Dayaaaaaam" wasn't a CD but a gig and that was Kill II This in 1998 on the Deviate tour. I'd seen the first line up supporting Megadeth in '97 and they were absolute poo. Went to one of their gigs in 1998 (totally different band to the year before) and within the first 10 seconds of Crucified, I wanted to be on the stage playing in that band playing that music.

So, if I had to limit myself to a top 5 list of landmark albums my first thoughts would be;

Europe - The Final Countdown
Guns 'n' Roses - Appetite for Destruction
Ozzy Osbourne - Blizzard Of Oz
Cradle of Filth - Total Fuckin' Darkness (demo tape)
Fear Factory - Demanufacture
 
In that chronological order:
Metallica - MOP
(this album made me a metal fan, and from there on I started to research bands and buy records on my own).

Opeth - Still Life
(still my fav band to this day, when I heard this I knew it was all I had ever searched for. I ordered all albums from them immediately. They also got me into growls...)

Death - Symbolic
(Chuck Schuldiner definitely has a special place in my heart and is much of an influence on me. I learned half of this record on guitar, shortly before I had my first audition. I still play in that band... :) )

Decapitated - Winds of Creation
(pretty much got me into brutal/technical death metal...)
Dark Suns - Existence
(an experience quite similar to getting Still Life, just to a lesser extent, because at this point I already knew so much great music. But it was the great feeling of again finding something so unique and mindblowing)
 
The Beatles - Meet The Beatles, The White Album, then all of them.
Once I heard them at age 10 I wanted to play the drums but quickly switched to guitar. The discovery of the love of learning and writing music had me saying bye, bye to sports. I've hated sports ever since.

The Police - Syncronicity
I remember sitting in my room one day listening to this around age 13 or 14 and suddenly thinking, What am I doing? I want to listen to something heavier. Van Halen was probably the heaviest band that I was into at this point. Thus came Zeppelin, AC/DC, Maiden, Priest.

Pink Floyd - The Wall
Roger Waters concepts & lyrics just blew me away. Something I've always tried to achieve is his level of lyrical genius. Plus this album and movie (which is my all time favorite movie) I feel shaped me into who I've become which is probably a bad thing.

Metallica - Master of Puppets
Used to see metal mags in stores with them on the cover ALL THE TIME and this drove me nuts. Someone on the school bus used to listen to it regularly so I got him to let me check it out. This started me on the whole speed metal/thrash thing which included some progressive metal, hardcore and crossover and early death/black metal stuff.

Obituary - Cause of Death
When I first heard this I thought it was just a Slayer rip off band. Didn't even know James was a part of it. If I had, I would have been more open minded about it since I had already become a fan from Death's Spiritual Healing. Anyway, gave it another chance several months later which opened up the death metal door much wider for me. John Tardy's voice and vocal style is possibly the best imo for that genre. Simply, brutally amazing.

Nirvana - Bleach
I can't really pin point a specific album here but there is something about Bleach. It's just so raw. Not a lot of reverb or chorus, not polished but sounds very good, drum timing is off once in a while, lol. (pre Grohl era)
Just pure stripped down, angry, screaming, distorted rock.
I didn't like them until right before Kurt died, then I couldn't get enough of them. Introduced me to the grunge movement + early punk & post punk. Filled the void well for the lacking metal scene at the time.

Nevermore - This Godless Endeavor
&
Arch Enemy - Doomsday Machine
Came back to metal shortly before these releases. They re-introduced me to the thriving metal scene that I've been missing out on for the past 10 years. As did this forum.

I gotta give a mention to Faith No More and Tool also. No real specific reason other than their pure song writing and vocal talents.
 
Radd said:
Obituary - Cause of Death
When I first heard this I thought it was just a Slayer rip off band. Didn't even know James was a part of it. If I had, I would have been more open minded about it since I had already become a fan from Death's Spiritual Healing. Anyway, gave it another chance several months later which opened up the death metal door much wider for me. John Tardy's voice and vocal style is possibly the best imo for that genre. Simply, brutally amazing.
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Not to mention how a whole album can have so few actual lyrics/words on it. I remember when I first saw the CD Booklet and read those couple of lines of lyrics and thought WTF? Only that many words on a whole album? Maybe this CD booklet is printed incorrectly.:zombie:
 
rotten sound - murderworks
slayer - god hates us all
nasum - helvete
entombed - wolverine blues
carcass - symphonies of sickeness/necrotism: descanting the insalubrious
pig destroyer - prowler in the yard
regurgitate - deviant
fantomas - director's cut
 
Iron Maiden - Every album to Seventh Son
Manowar - Kings Of Metal
Accept - Restless and Wild
Helloween - Walls Of Jericho
Gamma Ray - Heading For Tomorrow
Blind Guardian - Tales From The Twilight World
Blind Guardian - Somewhere Far Beyond
Rage - The Missing Link
Children Of Bodom - Hatebreed
In Flames - Colony
Rammstein - Reise Reise
Pain - Dancing With The Dead
 
I hate to admit it but when I was a kid and dance and indie was all we would see it Tv and radio the first band that made me aware of guitar based music was Bon Jovi when Living on a Prayer came out and Poison by Alice Cooper. I went from there to Maiden and then Metallica.

Im not sure if these albums have influenced me most but when I hear new stuff it doesnt stand a chance if it doesnt give me the feeling I got when I first heard Master of Puppets or Burn my eyes.

I think the life changing moment has to be listening to Donington 1990 on Radio 1 to catch bands like Thunder, Poison and Aerosmith and hearing Tommy Vance play Battery and just thinking holy fuck Ive never heard anything like that ever before!!
 
Well i must say some of them are still Vynil....the first ones
Here goes by no special order:
Carcass - necroticism
Kreator - Extreme agressions
Napalm Death - Harmony corruption
Ratos de Porão - Brasil
Sepultura - Beneath the remais & Arise (gotta love those!!)
Megadeth - so far so good, so what...
Testament - Pratice what u Preach
Dead Kennedys - Fresh fruit for rotting vegetables
D.R.I - Violent Pacification
Suicidal tendencies - 1.º one
---------CD
Butthole Surfers - Independent Worm Saloon
Mr. Bungle - =
Cop Shoot Cop - Consumer Revolt
Einsturzende Neubauten - Haus der Luge
Naked City - Torture Garden
Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds - Live
NIN - Downward spiral

lately:
Candlemass - Dacrylis Glomerata
Electric wizard - Dopethrone
High on fire - Blessed Black Wings :headbang:
 
ok well as far as changed my life and changed my life guitar playing wise its a lil diff



the first albums that really made me aware of the guitar as an object... and changed my life as far as was part of my growing up


gnr - apetite for destruction
led zeppelin - led zeppelin (I - houses of the holy)
metallica - ...and justice for all
pantera - vulgar display of power
pearl jam - ten


the first albums that really made changed my world as far music and changed my life dramatically as far as my playing

dream theater - awake
dream theater - scenes from a memory
meshuggah - destray erase imrpove
jason becker - perpetual burn
opeth - blackwater park
and recently got me into a hybrid of everything i love - nevermore - t.g.e.
srv - couldn't stand the weather


gun to my head my biggest inspiration and influence is john petrucci.


my fav album of all time however is apetite for destruction by gnr
 
I hope I don't get flamed for my picks......most of these albums influenced my life during my teen years.:saint:

Van Halen - 1st + 1984

Cranberries - No Need To Argue

Coal Chamber - self titled

Deftones - Around the Fur

Metallica - Black

Joe Satriani - Time Machine

Sevendust - Animosity
 
Faith no more - angel dust
Pink Floyd - wish you were here
Slayer - decades of agression - wow
Iron maiden - fear of the dark
GNR - apetite for destruction
RATM - RATM
Jeff Buckley - grace

Not exactly metal haha
 
Metallica - Kill 'em All
Queensryche - Operation Mindcrime
Judas Priest - Painkiller
Megadeth - Rust in Peace
Fight - War of Words
Machine Head - Burn My Eyes
Testament - Low
Exodus - Tempo of the Damned
 
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