Your first Extreme Metal album(s)

[SouthernTrendkill]

If you count Opeth then it was Still Life, but that's not very extreme IYAM. So if I remember correctly it was a few discs from Dimmu Borgir a friend gave me. I think Once Was Not was the first extreme metal album I actually purchased.

 

[metal_wrath]

If you count Opeth then it was Still Life, but that's not very extreme IYAM. So if I remember correctly it was a few discs from Dimmu Borgir a friend gave me. I think Once Was Not was the first extreme metal album I actually purchased.

Opeth is absolutely "extreme metal" moreso than Dimmu Borgir.

 

[st3333phani3333]

Then what is your first really "extreme" band.

Oh, I think I got the concept wrong on this topic. Well, then it was Darkthrone. I remember picking up Soulside Journey and Sardonic Wrath on my own.

 

[metal_wrath]

Good shit.

 

[st3333phani3333]

Yes, yes. When I first read this topic, I was thinking what was the first metal album you heard. I am pretty sure I had the whole concept wrong. I mean, those were the first two albums I picked up by myself, bought, and stuck with. But the Metallica and Slayer were the first two bands I heard and then I started to branch of and find various types of metal.

 

[Einherjar86]

Opeth is absolutely "extreme metal" moreso than Dimmu Borgir.

Can't say I agree with this. Not saying one is better than the other (I'm not a huge fan of either), but I would not say that Opeth is more "extreme" than Dimmu Borgir.

 

[Episteme]

I remember I bought Colony by Inflames and Hatebreeder by Children of Bodom. The first extreme metal song I heard though was Zero Signal by Fear Factory on the Mortal Kombat soundtrack. My taste has changed significantly over the past 10 years.

 

[Living_Monstrosity]

Well for the first extreme song I heard was "Pull the Plug" by Death when I was maybe 13. After that I just kept getting into more and more. Still one of my favorite songs to this day. Death is my favorite band too.

 

[Caecius]

I honestly don't remember my first "extreme" metal CD. Perhaps Bolt Thrower - Realm of Chaos.

 

[mntwinsfan]

Probably Altars of Madness.

 

[Thoth-Amon]

This was my first extreme metal album as well. I believe the year was 1997. I also like i still even though I dont listen to it that often anymore.

Same here... well it was my first 'black metal' album. I'd already been a big fan of thrash and death metal for a good 3 years or so.
Um.... trying to think of my first extreme metal albums... perhaps Slayer- Decade of Aggression? Or possibly Obituary- Cause of Death and Cannibal Corpse- Tomb of the Mutilated. My memory is hazy concerning those glory days.

 

[Krow]

The first one I actually owned was Cannibal Corpse - Tomb of the Mutilated.

Back when my parents monitored everything I bought and worried about violent entertainment.... atleast it was the cathedral art version...

 

[Thoth-Amon]

The first one I actually owned was Cannibal Corpse - Tomb of the Mutilated.

Back when my parents monitored everything I bought and worried about violent entertainment.... atleast it was the cathedral art version...

A friend of a friend copied it for me... so in a sense I didn't actually own the album. But I listened to it over and over and over again nonetheless.

 

[Krow]

Wait... I have my alternate arts screwed up.

This is the one I meant.

 

[waif]

I heard this back in eighth grade...had no idea what it was, only found it like a year ago. Still don't have the album.

First album was In Flames - The Jester Race.

 

[AlienZombie]

Napalm Death - Harmony Corruption
Was actually the 1st metal album of any sort that I heard...

 

[DarkBliss]

I must say Dimmu's PEM is really annoying to listen to on headphones, but on the stereo it just sounds epic.
And I'm sorry, anyone who doesn't hear similiraties with Necromantia is deaf.

 

[Saparmurat_Niyazov]

Deicide: Once Upon The Cross
Before then I thought there were only 7 metal bands in the whole world, being Black Sabbath, Iron Maiden, Metallica, Megadeth, Slayer, Anthrax, and Judas Priest.

 

[DarkBliss]

I could've lived perfectly fine with just three of them.

 

[-CC-]

The first extreme metal song I heard though was Zero Signal by Fear Factory on the Mortal Kombat soundtrack.

Hahaha this brings back memories, yeah I had that MK soundtrack too, though not for the metal but the trance tracks..what a great soundtrack compilation IMO, Napalm Death's Twist The Knife was on that too if I remember correctly