the first some what extreme metal album you heard... and liked

[naboo]

Of all things, Dying Fetus - Killing on Adrenaline.

 

[The Ozzman]

Same here. It's funny now to think that this album actually scared me back then. The guitar work was definitely a selling point for me, but for the first couple of listens I kept thinking, "What the FUCK is wrong with their guitar amps? This is ridiculously heavy."

Nice

Yeah, I hadn't heard anything like it either. I was digging shit like Slayer and Pantera at the time too and I bought this and was like 'What the fuck is this?'

 

[Alter]

Wait, it was Six Feet Under's 13 in like 6th or 7th grade. I was not sacred or anything but the vocals were too much for me.

 

[Avigrus]

First extreme album was Sepultura - Morbid Visions .. I didn't really like it at the time. Then it was Slayer - Divine Intervention, I liked this one but hardly listen to it anymore.

Then it was, Killengod - Into the Ancient Moon.

 

[Bitencourt29]

Might have been Darkthrone-Sardonic Wrath. Still one of my favorite records.

Hate Them and Sardonic Wrath are among my favourite Darkthrone albums. Not to mention SW's great artwork - love that cover.

 

[Addo_Of_Nex]

Kreator- Pleasure To Kill

That was album that singlehandedly made me stop taking things like virtuosity in mind when I listened to music (I would only listen to shit like Yngwie and such at that time), and pretty much initiated my interest in metal. I wouldn't really appreciate it until my ability to analyze music improved, but it still played a monstrous role in fueling my interest in this type of music.

 

[Rumpole]

I think it was Kreator for me too, possibly Sodom.

 

[Omni]

The first extreme metal song I heard was "Han" by Sad Legend, when someone sent it to me online.

The first extreme metal album I heard and enjoyed was Filosofem by Burzum.

 

[waif]

I'm not counting thrash, otherwise it'd be RiB or maybe some Pantera. The first true extreme metal (with extreme vox and all) was some random shit I heard online when I should have been doing a french project in 8th grade. It was some site with random samples of obscure death metal songs (it wasn't a metal site, either, it seemed like one of those generated web sites tbh). I heard a couple songs on there that seemed awful cuz of the vocals, but there was one I really liked. I remembered it was called Twisted Tower of Fire, but I never knew who it was by. I forgot about it for a couple years until the other day I remembered it and searched on google. Turns out it was Twisted Tower Of Fire by Dark Army.

The keyboard intro is fucking awesome, aside from that pretty average, but I still like it. Doesn't approach the epic evil awesomeness it had for me the first time I heard it way back when.

The first extreme metal album I had was In Flames - The Jester Race. It was a blind buy based on the cover and the price ($5). Needless to say it fucking kicked my ass.

 

[Zephyrus]

That sounds pretty good, but I ought to give it a sober listen.

 

[waif]

Listening to some other songs on Youtube and it's really good. Gotta get that album.

 

[Omni]

Here's the first extreme metal song I listened to. It was good back when I first heard it, and it's good now.

 

[Master_Yoda77]

Lol. Mine was probably SlipKnot back in 7th and 8th grade...I listened to so much shitty music back in the day...

The first real extreme metal album I listened to was Onset Of Putrefaction by Necrophagist and probably Prowler In The Yard big Pig Destroyer shortly after.

 

[WINTER TYRANT]

Dimmu's Stormblast for me. Unfortunately it wasn't till like 99 or 00'

 

[sevag00]

Dimmu Borgir, Purtanical Euphoric Misanthropia.

 

[V.V.V.V.V.]

At the time I only listened to a bunch of nu metal bands and the solos on APP completely blew me away.

And they still should.

 

[TheAnonymous]

Probably Orphaned Land - Mabool if it counts as extreme, not so sure. If not, then Amon Amarth - Versus the World (only a few months ago). I heard a few songs of theirs that I liked but this album was fucking fantastic. Amon Amarth is still the only death metal that I actually like.

 

[Vossyrus]

Cradle of Filth's "From the Cradle to Enslave" and "Her Ghost in the Fog" are what got me into "extreme metal." Most of the stuff I had listened to over the years prior to this was mainly stuff bordering on metal, but more so hard rock, industrial and gothic so I guess this wasn't much of a stretch. However, I remember the feeling of how overwhelmingly heavy some of the extreme metal bands were when I first listened to them - I actually really miss that feeling.

 

[DarkBliss]

My gateway albums, in chronological order:
Metallica-Ride the Lightning
Nightwish-Oceanborn
Tristania-Widow's Weeds
Slayer-Reign in Blood
Death-Symbolic
Hypocrisy-Abducted
Behemoth-Zos Kia Cultus
Dimmu Borgir-Enthrone Darkness Triumphant
Satyricon-Nemesis Divina
Emperor-Anthems to the Welkin at Dusk

A pretty standard set.

 

[Nightmare_Heaven]

As far as I remember, the first extreme metal bands I heard were Death and Deicide. My first Death Metal album was Leprosy. I won't go into thrash, cause it'd be Slayer or Sepultura or something and that was a while before hearing Death Metal.

First Black Metal I heard was Emperor, and I hated it. I was too busy getting into DM around the same time. I tried again a month or 2 later with Burzum, and loved it. My first Black metal album was Hvis Lyset Tar Oss.