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

[Onder]

Nuclear Assault's Out of Order maybe.. If that counts as extreme..

 

[mantaur]

Carcass(Heartwork),Opeth(Blackwater Park),Arch Enemy(Burning Bridges) and Children of Bodom(Something Wild) are what really got me into the more 'extreme' metal.Before that it was mainly old school Metallica,Ozzy Osbourne,Pantera.My first black metal album was Dimmu Borgir Death Cult Armageddon.

 

[Personified Hatred]

The first extreme Metal album I heard was an underground Black Metal tape compilation called "Hellish Chaos vol. 2", and I liked it.

 

[Belligerent]

The first time I heard Wake Up And Smell The Carcass I nearly shat myself then 2 months later I bought Heartwork and Swansong. That was back in 1996 I think.

Soilwork's A Predator's Portrait album got me into metal.

Good starter album for sure.

 

[Donnie Darko]

In Flames - Suburban Me, Swim, Reroute to Remain

 

[Melodeath]

My oldest brother used to play doom stuff like Crowbar and Moonspell and I liked it, but I didn't "seek it out." I liked it, but in that point in my life, I wasn't seeking out music.

I didn't actually start to explore "extreme" metal until after a friend sent me In Flames - The Jester's Dance and Soilwork - Song of the Damned

I think that's how it happened, at least
I don't think I ever really heard extreme metal and didn't like it. It was just a question of when I made the initiative to find more

 

[waif]

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.

Try some melodic death metal then.
Paths of Possession
Early In Flames
Early Dark Tranquility
etc

 

[Oblivious Maximus]

The very first extreme metal song I heard was Vader - When Darkness Calls and I was hooked instantly.

 

[HamburgerBoy]

Testament's Demonic. I've always preferred their later-era stuff.

 

[Hatebreeder]

First metal album ever was Blind Guardian's A Night at the Opera, but first extreme metal albums were Meshuggah - Catch Thirty-Three and Lamb of God - As the Palaces Burn, which would help ease me into death metal, of which my first albums were Deicide - Best of (Roadrunner Compilation) and Children of Bodom - Follow the Reaper.

 

[no country for old wainds]

reign in blood. didn't appreciate it back then half as much as i do now, though. first "extreme metal" album that i loved is i suppose blackwater park

 

[SentinelSlain]

I bought best of deicide in year 7 (aged 13) just to 'see'. I liked it quite a bit for the oh I only listened to Metallica and Priest before this woah this is heavy!

 

[AchrisK]

Metallica - Kill em all, in 1983/84.

Next was probably Mercyful Fate - Melissa.

 

[waif]

What's the cutoff for "somewhat extreme?"

 

[AchrisK]

^I would think that thrash, death metal, black metal and doom qualify (though classic doom may be borderline). I wouldn't say heavy metal or power metal.

 

[supseudonymous]

What's the cutoff for "somewhat extreme?"

Extreme = Black, Death
Somewhat extreme = some Black, Death influences
Non-extreme = other

 

[waif]

More or less what I figured, but someone even posted Kill 'Em All...

 

[AchrisK]

More or less what I figured, but someone even posted Kill 'Em All...

Dude, wake up. In 1983, that was extreme. Plus, thrash is extreme. It was the first extreme metal. Thrash qualified then and it qualifies now.

 

[Black Friday]

Dude, wake up. In 1983, that was extreme. Plus, thrash is extreme. It was the first extreme metal. Thrash qualified then and it qualifies now.

I'd say it goes under somewhat extreme.

 

[mutantllama]

Dude, wake up. In 1983, that was extreme. Plus, thrash is extreme. It was the first extreme metal. Thrash qualified then and it qualifies now.

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