Metal Introduction

[Ghost Tears]

What band led you into the metal underground?

Mine would be Opeth. About two years ago i bought BlackWater Park purely out of curiousity and have bought all their albums since. Since then i can not stomach mainstream music what so ever except for a little tool and a perfect circle which isnt entirley mainstream.Since i bought BlackWater Park i have over 200 albums and my latest find is Rapture-Songs for the withering absolutley amazing.

 

[Pancakes]

Skyclad. Folk + metal = win.

 

[JesusChristPose]

Sentenced. I picked up Amok at a very low used price, which in turn led me to Opeth.

 

[Obyeybyeogone]

Still Life- The Moor

 

[IanDork107]

I randomly bought Cradle Of Filth - Dusk and Her Embrace and it turned me off to extreme metal for a while, but my friend played the century media firestarter compilation for me which closed with Nectar. None of the other songs impressed me at all, but I immediately bought Orchid, Morningrise and MAYH.

 

[Sóti]

morbid angel - domination

 

[Arch]

Dark Tranquillity

 

[manuelgv]

Testament-Demonic
from that on I left mainstream music

 

[R.I.P.2]

In Flames - Clayman was the first album I think.

 

[transfixed]

In Flames - Jester Race

 

[Nefilim]

I actually never listened to "mainstream" music... I started listening to Iron Maiden when I was 9 or so, and have constantly delved deeper into the metal ground since. The first Death Metal album I really liked was Edge of Sanitys "Purgatory Afterglow".

 

[Abyssic Torment]

My Dying Bride

 

[Nugent Goes AOL]

Dillinger Escape Plan was the first "extreme" CD I owned, but Opeth really kickstarted the transition a few years later.

 

[ouagadougou]

Children Of Bodom, about 3 years ago

it's not underground here in Finland, tho

 

[Nested Tables]

Depends what one defines as underground.

I'd guess that Black Sabbath are probably 'overground', so to speak, along with Metallica.

So...

Erm...

Possibly Cradle of Filth?

Or maybe Stormtroopers of Death.

 

[spikes77]

Slayer

 

[Belial]

Fear Factory got me introduced to "harsh" vocals, but what actually got me into the metal underground was In Flames and Tristania. I bought "The Jester Race," and "Beyond the Veil" based on Amazon.com reccomendations and because the sound clips on the site sounded interesting. It's been an upward spiral since.

 

[Lina]

Technically The Gathering, I suppose. But Opeth was the first band I got into with death metal vocals.

 

[no country for old wainds]

Well, I first got into Metallica and Sabbath, and then to the rest of the'Big Four' of thrash, and it went from there. Opeth brought me into the growling.

 

[Kittarin]

In Flames - Clayman.
at a concert. I was blown away.
I got into Opeth about 3 months later, at their concert with Amorphis