Your first Extreme Metal album(s)

[Bitencourt29]

I'm pretty sure mine was Death - Leprosy.

 

[Imolarot]

Sepultura - Arise
I saw the video premier for Dead Embryonic Cells on Headbangers Ball and bought the cd, old school with the big cardboard box and the rest is history.

 

[Krigloch the Furious]

Cannibal Corpse - Tomb of the Mutilated
the year, around 2000. I was already into Slayer and Metallica and those bands.
And for some reason a friend of mine had TOTM. I only had to hear the first song (hammer smashed face) to know that that shit kicked huge amounts of ass. I was hooked.
He actually gave me the cd.
I went home and searched mp3.com and Nile came up. All went downhill from there.

 

[damnromulans]

lol

Cradle of Filth - Dusk And Her Embrace

 

[Saparmurat_Niyazov]

That was my first black metal album (if you want to call it that). I still like it.

 

[bagdad]

If Metallica counts, Ride the Lightning/MOP

Otherwise, Amon Amarth - With Oden on Our Side in 06.

 

[mutantllama]

Slayer-Hell Awaits

 

[Forgotten.nemesis]

For me when I was 12 I saw a live show from metallica and after that i listened to master of puppets album.thats still kick ass for me!

 

[Psychonaut]

Ok now that I think of it a little more I would have to say it would have to be Venom - Black Metal back in the early eighties..

For me it was this or Hellhammer's Apocalyptic Raids also in the early 80's. I liked Black Metal more, though.

 

[Balmung]

My first extreme album was Sentenced's North From Here. I still love this fucking album.
Albums like early Katatonia, Anathema or Paradise Lost, and My Dying Bride were what followed after I guess.

 

[Destructo_Pat]

Behemoth - The Apostasy

 

[The Ozzman]

Carcass - Heartwork

 

[WNxScythe]

The Reaper one from Children of Bodom. Oh wait all the covers have reapers on them...

-goes to look at MA-

"Follow the Reaper" - CoB

It blew my mind at the time, I was obsessed with them for about a year. Now the keyboards annoy me and the melodies sound predictable, the solos suck, and the vocals kinda annoying... but still, it got me into "extreme metal" so I thank it for that.

They do still have some really cool harmonies in some of their songs though.

 

[damnromulans]

That was my first black metal album (if you want to call it that). I still like it.

It is black metal for sure. I do too.

 

[VelociBrad]

Pretty sure it was Altars of Madness around 1996 or something, I was 14 going on 15.

 

[SkeletonWitch]

My Dying Bride - As The Flower Withers

Opeth - Blackwater Park

 

[autumnsoul]

Cadaver - ...In pains (1992)
Napalm Death - Utopia Banished

 

[w0es]

I still remember the day my friend gave me a CD including Death's Individual Thought Patterns.I didn't like it at all for the first times I listened to it.But the more I listened to the album the more I got into it and still its one of my favs in Death

 

[StephenSLR]

Extreme - self titled.

* runs and hides.

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[Xorv]

IN FLAMES - the jester race (with bonus tracks, i think)

still own it.

followed by

in flames - whoracle (still own)
fear factory - obsolete (I think it was obsolete, lost it anyways)