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

[Thoth-Amon]

I remember you took some of the pressure of my noob self, since compared to you I was an awesome poster

 

[Ender Rises]

I remember you took some of the pressure of my noob self, since compared to you I was an awesome poster

Yeah. I was as bad as Dave at one point, I think.

 

[cookiecutter]

You weren't quite as morally repugnant

 

[ErikSL]

The first metal album i ever heard and thought was extreme(at the time) was Master of Puppets way back in the day. I think after I heard that album, I listened to nothing but metallica, blues, and sabbath.

But the first time I liked newer extreme metal was when I heard Borknagar's Empiricism. Thats what got me into black metal, death metal, and other extreme genres.

 

[Ender Rises]

You weren't quite as morally repugnant

I think my massive Alice in Chains girl sig and my blinky BLS/Damageplan sig made up for that.

 

[Zephyrus]

Your Invader Zim artist phase was the worst.

 

[AchrisK]

Doom doom doom

 

[HaggardBastard]

I'm going to assume we're not counting thrash. If that were the case, then it would've been early Metallica, Slayer, and Sepultura.

Regardless, the first really extreme album I ever bought was Emperor's Anthems to the Welkin at Dusk. That album changed my fucking life. I remember it clear as day: it was july of 1998, and I was about to turn 13. I bought it at Camelot Music, a store in the local mall that I think became or was bought by or merged with FYE.

I listened to it non-stop, for days on end. It was the most immense, crushing, powerful thing I'd ever heard in my life, and it's probably still my favorite album ever. I suppose you could chalk that up to sentimentality or nostalgia or what have you, but that album is an absolute monster.

 

[VeraRenczi]

Dissection's The Somberlain


I have lost touch with black metal over the years, but Dissection is probably the best black metal band IMHO and something that I could easily get into again.

 

[Descending Winters]

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

Well besides for the early Slayer, Morbid Angel, Cannibal Corpse, & Death stuff I believe it was Mayhem's De Mysteriis Dom Sathanas and Dark Funeral's The Secrets of the Black Arts. Don't really care for most black metal these days however.

 

[waif]

I still don't see how people can enjoy Mayhem's DMDS. The vocals absolutely kill it for me.

 

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

They're bad fucking ass!

 

[waif]

They sound so nasal and silly...

 

[HaggardBastard]

I love the vocals on De Mysteriis. They lend the album an air of antiquity and exoticism that's lacking in most other black metal releases. I find them ghastly, chilling even; it's easily Attila's best performance. Granted, I've also seen them compared to a constipated Dave Mustaine, but to each his own, I suppose.

 

[Thoth-Amon]

They sound so nasal and silly...

yeah but the music is awesome

 

[cookiecutter]

The vocals are great.

 

[waif]

yeah but the music is awesome

Yeah, it is.
I'm gonna try forcing that record on myself.

 

[Manic Ferocity]

Not including the few Children of Bodom albums I had heard prior, Emperor - In the Nightside Eclipse. I had somewhat of a similar reaction that HaggardBastard had to Anthems...

 

[Shredzilla]

Well, Blackwater Park was my first semi-Death Metal album that I loved, but if I must name a shear, straight up, face ripping Death Metal band, then In Their Darkened Shrines by Nile was one of the first full-fledged Death Metal bands that I listened to and loved.

 

[no country for old wainds]

i used to bone blackwater park, then i got majorly into opeth and thought blackwater park was among their weakest shit, then i got majorly out of opeth and im back to thinking bwp is one of their best albums

first dm album i heard (slayer aside) is with fear i kiss the burning darkness, first bm was under a funeral moon i think. pretty fucking good starting points i must say.