When you first got into metal....

[RagePSV]

What were the albums that you found yourself listening to constantly? Here's my short list:

Queensryche - Operation Mindcrime
Iron Maiden - Piece of Mind
Metallica - ...And Justice For All
Megadeth - Rust In Peace
Slayer - Seasons In The Abyss
Sepultura - Arise
Anthrax - Persistence of Time
Suicidal Tendencies - Lights, Camera, Revolution


These were all my middle school jogging music. My mom was cool, she would go in and buy the stuff with parental advisory stickers for me that I couldn't get.

 

[Miguel]

Guns and Roses - Apetite for destruction
Metallica - Ride the lightning
Slayer - Reign in blood
Bon Jovi - Slippery when wet

Didnt even know that power and prog metal existed.

 

[johan68]

Saxon - Strong Arm of the Law
Saxon - Wheels of Steel
Iron Maiden - Iron Maiden
Jaguar - Power Games
Motörhead - Bomber


And they were all quite new then..... Yiekes...

 

[imaskinbeater]

Mercyful Fate - Melissa & Don't Break the Oath
Metallica - Ride the Lightning
Megadeth -Killing is my Business
Iron Maiden - All the older stuff
Judas Priest - All the older stuff
Saxon - Power and the Glory
Manowar - first three albums
Anthrax - Fistful of Metal
Queensryche - EP and The Warning

Many many more......

BTW: Bon Jovi isn't metal

 

[TENTH DREAMER DECEIVER]

1983
Priest: Sad Wings, Sin
Maiden: TNOTB, POM
Quiet Riot: S/T
Ozzy: Bark At The Moon
Zep: All

 

[edgeofthorns]

I wore out the following albums:

Testament - Practice What You Preach
Metallica - ...And Justice For All
Anthrax - State of Euphoria
Megadeth - Rust In Peace
Ozzy - Bark At The Moon
Queensryche - Operation Mindcrime

Man, I had really good taste when I was a kid!!!

~Brian~

 

[Justin G]

Dream Theater's Images and Words, Faith No More's The Real Thing, and, ahem, the first Firehouse album.

 

[eppst1]

Slayer - South of Heaven
Iron Maiden - Live After Death
Nuclear Assault - Survive
Over Kill - Years of Decay
Sanctuary - Refuge Denied
Megadeth - Peace Sells...

 

[rdyfrde]

Iron Maiden - Somewhere in Time
Metallica - And Justice For All
Queensryche - Operation Mindcrime
Savatage - Gutter Ballet

 

[jaimek]

My three biggies:

Queensryche - Operation: mindcrime
Testament - Practice What You Preach
Savatage - Gutter Ballet

 

[mark b]

Micheal Schenker ( Built to Destroy )

Iron Maidens early stuff

early Metallica

Mercyful Fate, first 2

Manowars early stuff

Def Leppard ( Pyromania )

 

[Exploding Ned]

Fortunate enough to have had a friend who was heavily into early metal, we'd have "buy or die" tirades back and forth about all the latest we read about in early Kerrang issues... but yeah early Ozzy, Priest, Maiden and Saxon obviously, but also Tokyo Blade, Angel Witch, Tygers Of Pan Tang, Blitzkrieg, etc., and even Metallica's Kill Em All. Will probably think of dozens more later. And BTW I don't consider Deep Purple or Led Zeppelin metal. To me, metal started with Black Sabbath, and didn't expand to more bands much until 1978-79. Just my take, that's all.

 

[MysticX9]

Rush - HEMISPHERES/2112/CARESS OF STEEL
Judas Priest - HELL BENT FOR LEATHER/UNLEASHED IN THE EAST/SIN AFTER SIN
UFO- OBSESSION/STRANGERS IN THE NIGHT
Black Sabbath - Vol. IV/SABOTAGE
Scorpions - LOVEDRIVE/TAKEN BY FORCE
Van Halen - I & II
Triumph - JUST A GAME
Deep Purple - BURN
Led Zeppelin - I & II
Frank Marino - LIVE
Robin Trower - LIVE/BRIDGE OF SIGHS/TWICE REMOVED FROM YESTERDAY

How is that for "Old School?"

 

[MysticX9]

Fortunate enough to have had a friend who was heavily into early metal, we'd have "buy or die" tirades back and forth about all the latest we read about in early Kerrang issues... but yeah early Ozzy, Priest, Maiden and Saxon obviously, but also Tokyo Blade, Angel Witch, Tygers Of Pan Tang, Blitzkrieg, etc., and even Metallica's Kill Em All. Will probably think of dozens more later. And BTW I don't consider Deep Purple or Led Zeppelin metal. To me, metal started with Black Sabbath, and didn't expand to more bands much until 1978-79. Just my take, that's all.

I agree that technically Zeppelin and Purple are not metal (and would probably recoil in horror at being labeled such), but they were so influential on many of the bands that defined the genre that mentioning them in metal discussions seems warranted. That's why I included them.

 

[Pelata]

Some of the albums I played to death when I became a Metalhead:

KISS - Asylum
RATT - Invasion Of Your Privacy
DEF LEPPARD - Pyromania
KISS - Lick It Up
OZZY - Bark At The Moon
DOKKEN - Tooth And Nail
ACCEPT - Balls To The Wall
KEEL - The Right To Rock

 

[ratanda]

When I first got into metal it was...

Anthrax - Among The Living
Slayer - Live Undead
Testament - The New Order
Metallica - Garage Days Re-revisited, Metallica - Master of Puppets
Megadeth - Peace Sells
Death Angel - Frolic Through The Park
Ozzy - Tribute

 

[Dolamite S. Biffle]

Pantera - Vulgar Display of Power
Iced Earth - Something Wicked This Way Comes
In Flames - Clayman
Sentenced - Crimson

I listened to "metal" before 2001 but not really.

 

[Wyvern]

Easy, when I was first into metal I had only a few albums:

Iron Maiden - "Piece of Mind"
Iron Maiden - "Powerslave"
Iron Maiden - "Killers"
Black Sabbath - "Live Evil"
Black Sabbath - "Heaven And Hell"
Black Sabbath - "Never Say Die"
Black Sabbath - "Sabotage"
Black Sabbath - "Born Again"
Judas Priest - "Screaming For Vengeance"
Judas Priest - "Defenders Of The Faith"
Def Leppard - "High'N'Dry"

 

[Claus / Intromental]

cozy powell - tilt
michael schenker - the michael schenker group
balance - in for the count
ozzy - diary of a madman / blizzard of ozz
accept - breaker / restless and wild
saxon - wheels of steel

I feel old posting those ... but I got into hard rock back in 79/80 when I was just 9 years old - my uncle "forced" me to listen to the stuff he liked (as a provocation against my parents who preferred Cliff Richard/Beatles/RollingStones/Elvis/Doors). I of course thought my uncle was cool, so I took his side haha

 

[Cheiron]

Blind Guardian - Nightfall...