What was the first ever metal album you ever bought?

[Iron Chef Sakai]

for me, it was Souls of Black from Testament. Yea, I can remember that far back!

How about you?

 

[LieToPurify]

Vulgar Display of Power - Pantera
Master of Puppets - Metallica
Strapping Young Lad - Alien

all at once.

 

[Dee Snarl]

Van Halen - 1984

If that counts. It did for me, then.

Other early contenders were V/A - Masters of Metal (my first exposure to Maiden, Sabbath, Dio...)and The Best of Judas Priest (the OLD one).

 

[hibernal_dream]

metallica - ajfa

 

[ohiogrinder]

Sepultura - Chaos AD

 

[Wires & Waves]

lol

opeth - blackwater park :/

which to be honest is an early teenage embarrassment on par with (hypothetically) liking good charlotte

 

[Dazed and Brutal]

As like many others

Metallica - Master of Puppets

 

[unknown]

^^^same...Metallica - Master of Puppets

 

[Cythraul]

Metallica - Kill Em All

 

[Slayed Necros]

Fear Factory - Demanufacture

 

[byrne]

Fear Factory - Demanufacture

same

 

[audiophileguy]

pretty sure it was reign in blood. I was into nu-metal earlier but that doesn't really count.

 

[challenge_everything]

I think mine was My Dying Bride - The Angel and the Dark River

That's a pretty odd way of getting into metal

 

[xenophobe]

I bought Metallica Ride the Lightning the day it came out!

I also remember when Diary of a Madman came out.

My first metal album though? Probably Judas Priest Hell Bent for Leather or Iron Maiden's self titled...

 

[DarkBliss]

Metallica-Ride the Lightning

 

[Satanstoenail]

I honestly can't remember. I think it was ...And Justice for All on cassette when it came out. It took me a while to actually buy anything, I used to get all my music on dubbed cassettes off friends and record songs off the radio. I also wore an onion in my belt, as was the style at the time. :zombie:

 

[DarkBliss]

that's one hell of a fashion trend

 

[Personified Hatred]

Metallica - ...And Justice For All

In late 1996...

 

[Zephyrus]

The Kovenant - S.E.T.I.

that was the first album I bought only because I couldn't find all the songs to download it.

My first honest metal purchase was Borknagar's Quintessence and The Archaic Course. They still remain some of my favorite albums of all time.

 

[Cythraul]

I also wore an onion in my belt, as was the style at the time. :zombie: