Your first Extreme Metal album(s)

[Mentok]

Yeah, also I remember liking the GZR track. Haven't heard it in awhile so I don't really know if it aged well.

 

[Vilden]

Depends, either Realm of Chaos, Human or De Mysteriis Dom Sathanas I think. I owned some german thrash like Pleasure to Kill and Sentence of Death before that though, if they count?

 

[TheInsane]

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.

Yeah, I had also been gradually exploring heavier music. I went from childrens stuff, pop and some rock (like Europe) as a small child to heavier rock around the age of 9 or 10 (GnR, AC/DC, Aerosmith) to more thrashy and heavy stuff just a short while later (Megadeth, Pantera, Metallica, Anthrax) also around the age of 10. Then even more extreme as 1997 hit and I was 13 or 14 which was when I got that CoF album.

 

[Lifewithoutpain]

I was into Slayer, Metallica, Celtic Frost and Venom and other less mentionable bands in the early- to mid-eighties but when I got Leprosy in October 1988, it changed my musical focus. I loved it right away and still do.

 

[Onder]

I also have some albums that I've heard when getting into genre and still love them even though I know they're generally considered below average or something in the metal circles, ie:

Vader - Revelations
Nuclear Assault - Out of Order
Pestilence - Spheres

 

[sevag00]

Metallica - ...AJFA
Dimmu Borgir - PEM

 

[beast from the east]

It was Altars of Madness. I remember the first time I really listened to it, I thought "my god, this is some fucking atrocious 'singing'", but I loved the crunch of the guitars so I stuck with it. Thank beelzebub I did.

 

[challenge_everything]

My Dying Bride - The Angel and the Dark River

It was back in about 99 and I was browsing a CD library here which is unfortunately now closed. I picked it up because it looked suitably gloomy and angsty. Still love it too. The next one I picked up was Amorphis' The Karelian Isthmus. Ah, those were the days.

 

[mutantllama]

Depends, either Realm of Chaos, Human or De Mysteriis Dom Sathanas I think. I owned some german thrash like Pleasure to Kill and Sentence of Death before that though, if they count?

German thrash counts, as well as some US thrash.

 

[DarkBliss]

Metallica - ...AJFA
Dimmu Borgir - PEM

 

[Tonka Time]

Ulver - Nattens Madrigal
Carcass - Heartwork
1349 - Liberation

 

[CF87]

I'm pretty sure White Zombie `devil music and astro creep.

 

[HamburgerBoy]

Winter - Into Darkness
The Heralds of Oblivion, Vol. I

Pretty much the only two extreme metal albums that my dad owned. Hated them both, as did he (both were in the empty-Nesquik-container abyss) apparently. He bought the Winter thinking it was a Winger album, actually.

 

[damnromulans]

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.

It's such a good one. It was perfect as the little stepping stone between Slipknot and the goodness that lies on the other side of Cradle of Filth, and catered nicely to my "goffik" taste at the time.

 

[Cythraul]

I think the first few extreme metal albums I bought were the following:

Morbid Angel - Domination
Morbid Angel - Covenant
Napalm Death - Fear, Emptiness, Despair
Dismember - Like an Everflowing Stream
Mayhem - De Mysteriis Dom Sathanas
Cannibal Corpse - Tomb of the Mutilated

I had 'em all on cassette, btw. I was also 10 at the time.

 

[Slayed Necros]

I found Nailbomb's Point Blank on the side of the road when I was about 10 years old, if that counts. I haven't heard it in over 10 years, but I thought it was pretty extreme back then.

 

[DarkBliss]

Winter - Into Darkness
The Heralds of Oblivion, Vol. I

Pretty much the only two extreme metal albums that my dad owned. Hated them both, as did he (both were in the empty-Nesquik-container abyss) apparently. He bought the Winter thinking it was a Winger album, actually.

Winter? That's so...random.

 

[MasterOLightning]

My first two were In Flames - Clayman, which I now find to be terrible, and Opeth - Blackwater Park, which is still in my all-time favorites.

 

[TheInsane]

Funny story. It was in 1997 that I started to listen to more extreme metal. The bands I discovered at first were mainly through two outlets. One was a friend with and older brother and we both dug the hell out of the compilation cd called "beauty in darkness" ( [ame]http://www.amazon.com/Beauty-Darkness-Various-Artists/dp/B000000H1G/ref=pd_sim_m_3[/ame] ) which got me into stuff like Therion, Crematory, Pyogenesis, Tiamat, Hypocrisy, Cradle of filth and Dissection.

The other source of new music was MTV's Headbangers ball. I taped it because it aired to late for me and I only saw a few episodes before the show was cancelled. The first of these taped episodes had a huge impact on me though. I even recorded the sound from the tv to a tape and I listened to it in school in my walk-man Remember there were no such thing as mp3 players or much file-share in 1997. ON that show I remember hearing and liking the following - Machine heads "ten ton hammer", Cradle of filths "malice through the looking glass" (performed live in studioe pre-release of dusk and her embrace"), Morbid Angels "god of emptiness", Pist ons "grey flap" and My dying brides "the cry of mankind".

Both these sources has shaped my continued interest in music a lot. I still like everything I just listed (except maybe Pist On which I remember being dissapointed with even when I got their album in 1997).

So before there were any "first extreme metal album" in my collection there were Headbangers ball and copied tapes of my friends brothers albums

 

[Personified Hatred]

Hard to remember. Perhaps a tape compilation called "Hellish Chaos vol. 2", which contained Italian Black Metal bands.