Your first heavy metal album/tape/cd

[Dead Winter]

My first heavy metal purchase was around 1987...I was like 8 or 9, I don't remember, and it was Cinderella's album, Night Songs. I had been listening to bands like Def Leppard and AC/DC since I was about 5 years old, but Cinderella was the first one I purchased.

From that point on, I was hooked.

Still love Somebody Save Me to this day.

 

[schenkadere]

UFO-Obsession and Van Halen's debut...I bought them around the same time. KISS doesn't cont, right?...cause then it would be Destroyer back in '76, I think.

 

[Karmic]

HAMMERFALL

 

[I-TEND-TO-DIE]

AC/DC - live

I believe

 

[DreamNeonBlack]

I think it was an Alice Cooper album...back in the 70's. Possibly Welcome to my Nightmare.

 

[Chromatose]

Operation: Mindcrime

 

[derek]

I think it was Led Zep two, in a tattered LP format.

 

[Swabs]

I think I bought 'Slayer - Divine Intervention' when I was about 11.

 

[Liverslapper]

Van Halen & Fire House

My step mom had them when she was in highschool, i happened to find them with a bunch of old AC/DC tapes and some CD's.


My first metal CD i owned was Pantera: Cowboys From Hell.

Started listening to blues before the halen, stuff like BB King, SRV (lots of SRV) and Jimi Hendrix. Then is expanded.

 

[Metalmilitia2000]

i got Mercyful Fate "9" and Megadeth "Killing Is My Business..." both at about the same time.

 

[Will Bozarth]

Metallica - The Black Album when I was 11

 

[Shapeless)))]

LOK - Naken, blästrad och skitsur

I still like it.

[edit]
I was around 14 at the time.

 

[[KOTNO]Narrot]

first purchase was iced earth - night of the stormrider in 1998 ... it's been a while

 

[Shmu]

Scorpions World Wide Live video tape , i found it when i was 10 in my uncle's antiques

 

[Lordlucid]

Operation: Mindcrime

Mine was, Promised Land

 

[WhiteBeastofWotan]

Assuming that the shitty nu-goth shit i listened to in middle school doesn't count, i think it was Master of Puppets.

 

[Lord Foul]

I believe I received Master of Puppets, For Those About To Rock..., and Blow Up Your Video on the same birthday. Prior to that I have vague memories of owning the Top Gun soundtrack.

 

[flying_whale]

Ride The Lightning

 

[Shpongled]

Metallica - The Black Album when I was 11

Same, except I was 13 I think.

My 2nd album was Fight - War of Words.

 

[Cat5Messiah]

I don't recollect what my first metal cassette was. I used to just listen to my parents' cassette collection which including some Metallica, some Megadeth and others. In 1992, I religiously listened to Dream Theater - Images and Words and prior to that, I used to listen to Queensryche - Empire very often.

I got my first CD player in 1994 and purchased my first CD with it. I got Megadeth - Rust in Peace.