Life-changing albums?
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Thorns of Sorrow
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In chronological order...
Metallica - Ride The Lightning
Dream theater - Awake
Opeth - Blackwater park
Katatonia - Dance of December Souls
Metallica - Ride The Lightning
Dream theater - Awake
Opeth - Blackwater park
Katatonia - Dance of December Souls
Fortis Aganoth
In the Frozen Dusk...
In Flames - The Jester's Race
Opeth - Orchid
MDB - Like Gods of the Sun
All got me intot his type of music. I love MDB, I have always loved sad music, which brough me to Opeth, the sad emotional goldmine. In Flames were just fucking awesome.
Opeth - Orchid
MDB - Like Gods of the Sun
All got me intot his type of music. I love MDB, I have always loved sad music, which brough me to Opeth, the sad emotional goldmine. In Flames were just fucking awesome.
mindflesh
Rainbow Satan Overflow
Same thing here, except that I wasn't 12 but about 14 and haven't started to play an instrument (yet).
Another album is probably Blackwater Park; it is one (and definitely the one with the most influence on me) of the albums that made me at first tolerate and then like growls. I remember having burnt a CD with lots of songs I liked at that time: Most of it was rock, gothic and similar stuff... and two Opeth tracks, Harvest and Bleak - Bleak being the only track with growls on the CD. I had always disliked that harsh vocals before, but Opeth had something mysteriously appealing... So after that I continued to broaden my horizon of musical styles and still do.
So Master Of Puppets definitely changed my life since it pushed me into music that deviated quite a bit from what my friends and most other people in my surroundings listened to.
All other albums after that also changed my life, everything we do changes our life since it all has consequences that lead to other consequences etc... But the difference is that I have been extremely interested in music since Master Of Puppets, and all other albums increased this interest or gave it another direction.
Morningrise
...I am just thin air...
Blackend IV- A black metal compilation that I got when I was about 13, my first MAJOR introduction to extreme metal. This COMPLETELY changed my life. My outlook on music, people, and myself. Gave me a more open mind and it's odd because my life has become much more "dark" and secluded. This is because of this music, and I just don't know if I like that it has done that to me....
i know it is truely pathetic, but the album that brought me into har(er) music is slayer - diabolus in musica. yeah. since then i have listened to metal. 4 years now.
KielbasaSausage
YARRRRG
Sepultura - chaos ad
first got me into the metal scene. used to listen to metallica but a friend showed me sepultura and opeth - made me realise that metallica is WAY too over rated.
first got me into the metal scene. used to listen to metallica but a friend showed me sepultura and opeth - made me realise that metallica is WAY too over rated.
I can think of four...
#4- Dream Theater's "Scenes from a Memory"
#3- The Haunted's "...Made me Do It" (Not particularly a great album, but it got me to pursue metal more actively.)
#2- Tool's "Lateralus"
#1- Tool's "Ænima"
The Tool albums literally changed the way I percieved things.
#4- Dream Theater's "Scenes from a Memory"
#3- The Haunted's "...Made me Do It" (Not particularly a great album, but it got me to pursue metal more actively.)
#2- Tool's "Lateralus"
#1- Tool's "Ænima"
The Tool albums literally changed the way I percieved things.
Infinite Reach
meh
Guns N Roses - Appetite for Destruction. Listened to GnR religiously when I was a kid.
Metallica - Black album. Say what you want about them, but this was my first metal album back in day. Got me into the older Metallica and the world of metal.
Dream Theater - Awake. My very first taste of true progressive metal, something I didn't even know existed before then.
Mr Bungle - California. Blew me away, and still does.
Opeth - BWP. First Opeth album I heard.
Metallica - Black album. Say what you want about them, but this was my first metal album back in day. Got me into the older Metallica and the world of metal.
Dream Theater - Awake. My very first taste of true progressive metal, something I didn't even know existed before then.
Mr Bungle - California. Blew me away, and still does.
Opeth - BWP. First Opeth album I heard.
Mocika
Root Of All Evil
Guns N Roses - Appetite for Destruction - when i was 14. This was my first `metal` album i started listening on my own. and a bit later a Rumble Militia made me interested in thrash and the next step was Sarcofago 
Parasite
Captain Evil
ham
GAK! \m/ \m/
Tool's Aenima and Lateralus both changed my life, and the way i think about stuff.
Back when i was only listenin to Tool, Metallica, and Pearl Jam, Cannibal Corpse's 'The Bleeding' changed my whole perspective on heavy music. it was a case of "i didn't know music like this existed", and led me down the Death Metal track... and eventually led me to Opeth.
- ham
Back when i was only listenin to Tool, Metallica, and Pearl Jam, Cannibal Corpse's 'The Bleeding' changed my whole perspective on heavy music. it was a case of "i didn't know music like this existed", and led me down the Death Metal track... and eventually led me to Opeth.
- ham
Parasite
Captain Evil
^ Exactly. I would have liked to put Tool as number 1 because they were the first emotional band, with such melodic vocals, with such emotion behind it and such intelligent lyrics, all of th emind games they play.
But since when i was 6 or 7 my step father gave me a copy of "And Justice For All..." I really have to say that the song "One" alone was the song that broke open the flood gates for me into the world of hard music. That song is the most important song in my extensive musical history.
But since when i was 6 or 7 my step father gave me a copy of "And Justice For All..." I really have to say that the song "One" alone was the song that broke open the flood gates for me into the world of hard music. That song is the most important song in my extensive musical history.
Ac/Dc Back in Black and The Razors Edge started my interest into metal/ hardrock, really the first heavy music I ever heard.
Slayer- Reign in Blood pretty much did it for metal- it still gets me pumped.
Now I think Ulver's Perdition City and Eternal by Samael- seem to have been pushing me into different directions- I really love the wacked out electronica vibe of Ulver.
Slayer- Reign in Blood pretty much did it for metal- it still gets me pumped.
Now I think Ulver's Perdition City and Eternal by Samael- seem to have been pushing me into different directions- I really love the wacked out electronica vibe of Ulver.
Chaostar
Member
Metallica over rated ?
Sepultura better than Metallica ???????????
NO !!!!!! I can't belive someone says that !!!
Ethereal Sage
Mind Of Out Sight Of Out
Black Sabbath - Paranoid + Masters Of Reality.
Limbonic Art - Moon In The Scorpio
Raison D'etre - Within The Depths Of Silence And Phormations.
Limbonic Art - Moon In The Scorpio
Raison D'etre - Within The Depths Of Silence And Phormations.
Hmm, I wonder why I haven't thought about this before...
I'd have to say Metallica's ...And Justice For All, and the song One in particular changed my life in that it was really the first ever metal song I liked. And to think I saw the video on MTV!
Then came King Diamond/Mercyful Fate, which ended my innocent childhood and introduced me to all matters occult. Black/Death Metal soon followed.
The last big change was brought about by Cynic's masterpiece album Focus. It got me into technical metal, which soon led into other, more mellow forms of music like Spastic Ink & Dark Hall. I've since moved on to 70's progressive rock and stoner.
But the really great thing is I still like them all. There's never a shortage of great music to listen to.
I'd have to say Metallica's ...And Justice For All, and the song One in particular changed my life in that it was really the first ever metal song I liked. And to think I saw the video on MTV!
Then came King Diamond/Mercyful Fate, which ended my innocent childhood and introduced me to all matters occult. Black/Death Metal soon followed.
The last big change was brought about by Cynic's masterpiece album Focus. It got me into technical metal, which soon led into other, more mellow forms of music like Spastic Ink & Dark Hall. I've since moved on to 70's progressive rock and stoner.
But the really great thing is I still like them all. There's never a shortage of great music to listen to.
Metallica - Metallica
By no means one of my favourite albums, but it was my first Metallica album and my first metal album. It changed the way i viewed music forever. Also helping me mature.
Dream Theater - Scenes From A Memory
This album not only played a part in broadening my musical tastes, but helped me mature a lot as a person too.
Opeth - Blackwater Park
My favourite album to this day. It helped me mature even more as a person, to the person i am today. Open minded, a lot less ignorant that i used to be, closer to an adult than a child etc...
These albums all played a part in helping me become the person i am today. They all moved my maturity to another level and for that they kick ass!
By no means one of my favourite albums, but it was my first Metallica album and my first metal album. It changed the way i viewed music forever. Also helping me mature.
Dream Theater - Scenes From A Memory
This album not only played a part in broadening my musical tastes, but helped me mature a lot as a person too.
Opeth - Blackwater Park
My favourite album to this day. It helped me mature even more as a person, to the person i am today. Open minded, a lot less ignorant that i used to be, closer to an adult than a child etc...
These albums all played a part in helping me become the person i am today. They all moved my maturity to another level and for that they kick ass!
Blind Tranquillity
Guardian of the Dark
Blind Guardian - Nightfall in Middle-Earth
This album got me into Blind Guardian.
This album got me into reading all of almost all J.R.R.Tolkien's books (The Hobbit, LotR, The Silmarillion) just so that I can understand the lyrics...
And it also got me into thinking a lot about music and into more complicated music in general (it was mostly simple Power Metal before NIME).
Blind Guardian - A Night at the Opera
This album just amazed me.
And I guess it also motivated me to go to Greece to see them playing live.
Those two changed my life in other ways too but it's hard to explain...
Here are the albums that have made some changes in my CD's collection (in chronological order):
Blind Guardian - NIME.^
Amorphis - Elegy (my first album that contained Death vocals).
Testament - The Gathering (most agressive album I have. felt strange buying it, but I like it).
Dark Tranquillity - The Mind's I (hard to explain).
The Gathering - How to Measure a Planet (made me apriciate subtlety...)
Blind Guardian - ANATO.^
Death - Sounds of Perseverence (it's Death... hard to explain again...)
Yes - Close to the Edge (my first prog rock album)
There are some I want to buy and are also about to change my collection:
Any My Dying Bride - Turn Loose the Swans
Emperor - Prometheus, The Disipline Of Fire And Demise
This album got me into Blind Guardian.
This album got me into reading all of almost all J.R.R.Tolkien's books (The Hobbit, LotR, The Silmarillion) just so that I can understand the lyrics...
And it also got me into thinking a lot about music and into more complicated music in general (it was mostly simple Power Metal before NIME).
Blind Guardian - A Night at the Opera
This album just amazed me.
And I guess it also motivated me to go to Greece to see them playing live.
Those two changed my life in other ways too but it's hard to explain...
Here are the albums that have made some changes in my CD's collection (in chronological order):
Blind Guardian - NIME.^
Amorphis - Elegy (my first album that contained Death vocals).
Testament - The Gathering (most agressive album I have. felt strange buying it, but I like it).
Dark Tranquillity - The Mind's I (hard to explain).
The Gathering - How to Measure a Planet (made me apriciate subtlety...)
Blind Guardian - ANATO.^
Death - Sounds of Perseverence (it's Death... hard to explain again...)
Yes - Close to the Edge (my first prog rock album)
There are some I want to buy and are also about to change my collection:
Any My Dying Bride - Turn Loose the Swans
Emperor - Prometheus, The Disipline Of Fire And Demise
Board
A role model to mankind:
Maybe:
Guns N' Roses "Appetite for destruction" or "Use your illusion II" (can't remember which one I got first). They were what got me into metal!
Type O Negative "Bloody kisses" - When I first saw "Black no. 1" on Headbangers Ball I was like "Goddamn this is cool". It was what I had waiting for for so long!
Maybe Parliament "Mothership connection". It's the best record ever made if you ask me and is one of the first funk records I bought (on cd) and was the one that got me into funk shit!
Virgil Warner & Suzi Jane Hokom "S/T" - only has a couple of good songs, but "Lady bird" and "Summer wine" are both absolutely fantastic songs! They are both written by Lee Hazlewood and are maybe the two songs that really opened my eyes to other music than 70's funk and metal! Maybe I should say Gershwin's "Summertime" as it's without a doubt the best composition EVER if you ask me. I had some versions of the song before finding the VW&SZH record, but when I heard those two songs by VW&SZH my taste in music kind of changed from the funk and metal stuff to more 60's stuff! They also opened the door to my Lee Hazlewood fetischism! Now he's my favorite artist and I would rather listen to him than to Satyricon.
Guns N' Roses "Appetite for destruction" or "Use your illusion II" (can't remember which one I got first). They were what got me into metal!
Type O Negative "Bloody kisses" - When I first saw "Black no. 1" on Headbangers Ball I was like "Goddamn this is cool". It was what I had waiting for for so long!
Maybe Parliament "Mothership connection". It's the best record ever made if you ask me and is one of the first funk records I bought (on cd) and was the one that got me into funk shit!
Virgil Warner & Suzi Jane Hokom "S/T" - only has a couple of good songs, but "Lady bird" and "Summer wine" are both absolutely fantastic songs! They are both written by Lee Hazlewood and are maybe the two songs that really opened my eyes to other music than 70's funk and metal! Maybe I should say Gershwin's "Summertime" as it's without a doubt the best composition EVER if you ask me. I had some versions of the song before finding the VW&SZH record, but when I heard those two songs by VW&SZH my taste in music kind of changed from the funk and metal stuff to more 60's stuff! They also opened the door to my Lee Hazlewood fetischism! Now he's my favorite artist and I would rather listen to him than to Satyricon.
