Metal records that changed your life

[Wa Wa Zat]

I was young and innocent(sophomore in High School) and then a friend at school asked me if I would tape some records for him on my Montgomery Wards lp/tape/radio/stereo combo(my first stereo)sniff:

Metallica - Kill 'Em All - I had never heard anything like this before and I was completely blown away.........I would be a big fan of this band until Cliff left us. I can finally listen to ...And Justice... anything after ...Justice... SUCKS!!! Lousy Sell Outs!!!

Mercyful Fate - Melissa - Loved the music but I never dug the vocals. recently rebought this and cannot figure out why I didn't like it.

Raven - Break The Chain ep - two great songs with a silly cover of Born To Be Wild w/Udo. I ended up getting the Live At the Inferno album,which completely ROCKED!!! and then eagerly awaited the new studio/major label debut record........and it SUCKED!!

Armored Saint - EP - Three cool tunes, but I never got heavily into them, but I always dug them

Honorable mention:

Spinal Tap - Heard this and became a huge fan of this album and its humor


It would lead down the path to Thrash, Technical, Shred and just plain ol' Metal........I was never the same.

[Golden AWe]

The Unholy Six = the first six albums from Black Sabbath changed my life and attitude towards music...

Other very important albums have been

Sepultura - "Chaos A.D." - easily their best album.

Megadeth - "Peace sells, who's buying" and "Countdown to..." made me a fan of the band...they play sooo tight.

Opeth - I haven't really find a weak album from their whole catalogue yet.

Anthrax - "Among the living" and "Sound of a white noise", different era's, still full of marvellous stuff.

[Carmine]

Well the first is Van Halen....8 years old when I first heard that album, I couldnt believe it!

The next would be Ride the lightning, I only bought it cuz they were opening for Ozzy on the Puppets tour and I wanted to hear them before I went. Fight Fire with Fire and For Whom The Bells Toll sent ME down the road to Metal Awareness like no other!

Anthrax "Spreading the Disease" it was the first album Joe Belladonna sang on....he's my bud, lives in my hometown!

[Wa Wa Zat]

No Way Dude!!!(sorry had to go there)

That was my first Metal concert! I saw them at the Cow Palace in SF when I lived in San Jose with me folks.

It Rocked!!!!

[Carmine]

Originally posted by Wa Wa Zat
No Way Dude!!!(sorry had to go there)

That was my first Metal concert! I saw them at the Cow Palace in SF when I lived in San Jose with me folks.

It Rocked!!!!

Yep, his real last name is Bellardini. He was a kickass hockey goalie too! His parents still live in Oswego, NY....Joe built them a big new house, right next to their old one! And one for himself next to that. He's a great guy...in Florida I think? After the band "Belladonna" went bust, there was some talk of an Anthrax reunion, but I have not heard anything in a while.

[guwapo_rocker]

The Difranco Family.:D

[fe_lung]

For me it was a little known record called Van Halen I - I doubt anyones ever heard of it, but it had a song called Ain't Talkin' Bout Love which made me want to learn to play guitar.

Then I heard The Sex Pistols and realized that I really could play guitar if I wanted to, even if I wasn't as good as EVH.....

[aesop]

Fair Warning...no doubt. I could write a book about it, actually...

...a close second would be 'Back in Black'. I've still never heard an album with such raw uninhibited power...like a heavy metal jack hammer to the brian...unrelenting, unyielding, unforgiving, unapoligetic...with the lyrical content to back it up...

...and Angus's guitar playing is like a big, fat, blues-laden heavy metal middle finger aimed right at you.

[Big Troubles]

Van Halen I

Motley Crue- Too fast for Love

Led Zep- Houses of the Holy

AcDc- Hwy To Hell

[PHOENIX]

Originally posted by Big Troubles
Van Halen I

Motley Crue- Too fast for Love

Led Zep- Houses of the Holy

AcDc- Hwy To Hell

Hey BT long time no see.


The albums that affected me were...

Motley Crue - Shout at the Devil ( This got me hooked on Heavy Metal)

Iron Maiden- Somewhere in Time ( I played that cassette to death in my walkman and helped me get through early high school)

Metallica - Kill Em All ( I totally flipped out when i heard this, Started hanging around the bad crowds and smoking dope)

GnR - Appetite ( soundtrack of my youth)

The Tragically Hip - Any album ( Had something in common with my future wife and helped me mellow out)

[sambo]

AC / DC - Back In Black and Highway to Hell ... still has the same effect on me now, such huge albums
Ozzy - Blizzard of Ozz ... who the bloody hell was this Randy Rhoads dude????
VH - VH1 .... like nothing else before them..
Motley Crue (SATD) and GnR in the mid / late 80's....

[Rikk]

BUDGIE - Never Turn Your Back On a Friend


SUICIDAL TENDENCIES - Suicidal Tendencies


JUDAS PRIEST - Hell Bent For Leather (Killing Machine)


BLACK SABBATH - Sabotage


DOLLY PARTON - Bubbling Over (this one is a real riffage-heavy masterpiece)

[rustoffa]

The first Van Halen record flabbergasted the best of the best regarding all manner of rock genres when it was released.

I never considered classic VH "metal".

The dynamics of classic VH is best described as Van Halen....

You know, Runnin' with the ice cream devil.....

Dancin' the night away under lit-up skies with beautiful girls while dirty-faced kids wait in garbage cans,etc.

...back to metal.

Probably Priest, Maiden, or The Plasmatics.

[sambo]

Originally posted by rustoffa
The first Van Halen record flabbergasted the best of the best regarding all manner of rock genres when it was released.

I never considered classic VH "metal".

Will agree... VH were not metal in the true sense of the word, but life changing certainly... the opening to RWTD was certainly a turning point.

back to metal.....

[lms2]

oh never mind.