bands you've experimented with...

[lucifer_cbhc]

haven't seen this one... and this is how i find most of my music, too. what are some band/CD combos that you've bought on a whim? maybe a passing word from a friend, but you've never heard of full song of it, and just decided for one reason or another, to buy it?

i've got some pretty good ones that i can remember off the top of my head...

In Flames - Reroute to Remain (first In Flames... now have 5 of them)
Dark Tranquility - Damage Done (first DT... going to buy more!)
The Crown - Crowned in Terror (because of Lindberg)
Sentenced - Amok (amazing album..)
Sinergy - Beware the Heavens (knew it was an Alexi Laiho/Jesper Stromblad and it had to be good)
Soilwork - Steelbath Suicide (random choice)
The Great Deciever - A Venom Well Designed (because of Lindberg)

been some not-so-good ones, too.

Lockup - Hate Breeds Suffering (because of Lindberg)
Venom - Black Metal

plan on buying the new Dimension Zero CD when it comes out.

 

[Arch]

I bought Soilwork's NBC on a whim... didn't like it.

 

[mousewings]

I bought Godflesh and the Obsessed on a whim.

I thought Obsessed was okay and I first hated Godflesh. I later liked them after a few listens.

 

[Humanure]

I don't think I'll ever top the day I picked up In Flames - Whoracle and Dimmu Borgir - Enthrone Darkness Triumphant. I think I saw both CD's in an old Nuclear Blast catalogue and decided to give 'em a shot. Ended up being the beginning of my European metal obsession .

I recently picked up the new Amon Amarth after only hearing their previous album once or twice last year....I'm very happy with it.

-Humanure

NP: Carnivore - Male Supremacy

 

[necrotiqat]

interestingly, that's how i got into metal. one of the first albums i ever bought was "haven" - just because I had read something once about it. worked out well in my opinion.
~qat

 

[red_beef]

I bought Zyklon's World OV Worms for no reasons. Till this day I still wonder why...

- red_beef [happy with the cd anyway ]

 

[Misanthrope]

I heard The Dividing Line and bought The Gallery just because of that song. My jaw dropped the first time i listened to punish my heaven.

 

[mousewings]

@necrotiqat : I love your avatar. Nosferatu is one of my favourite movies.

I also bought some old David Gray albums without listening to any of the songs on them. They have quite a different sound from the new ones. More acoustic. I've learned to love them though.

Also I go the old COC ones (with different singers) without hearing them. Blind is okay. The old punk style ones aren't that great IMO.

 

[red_beef]

Yeah, I don't really listen to the old stuff from COC anymore. Albatross still kick @$$.

- red_beef

 

[BiatchGuy]

too many bands to list.

lately though, I've got no money, so I've been downloading a ton of mp3s from all sorts of bands/artists.

 

[Morfiend]

So I kept hearing about this band Opeth a few years ago when Blackwater Park came out. I read some reviews of the album and it seemed to sound like just what I was looking for. I went to a local cd store and picked it up...I went home and I had to pick my jaw up from the floor :zombie:

Even though I hated their Anthems album, I gave Emperor another chance with In the Nightside Eclipse. Needless to say I was blown away, what a phenominal album.

 

[Child of Time]

I have bought allmost all my albums without hearing a single song from them before the purchase. I just read about bands and then I buy their records.
It's simple.

 

[Janick]

I bought Paradise Lost's Icon when I saw half of a song (don't even know what song that was) in TV and DT's Projector after I heard ThereIn. Both great picks.
One Minute Silence: Buy now... saved later was random pick, and it's not so great but ok... Random pick was also some Corrosion of conformity cd, didn't like it so I sold it.

 

[Malaclypse]

i seldom buy cds at random

near dark -> turned out to be the crappiest cd i own
soundgarden - superunknown -> turned out to be great
amorphis - tales... -> founded my death metal awareness
tiamat - wildhoney -> bought on recommendation of a friend and i had a lot of fun with this one

 

[Naku ist krig]

The Black League - Utopia A.D
i regret it though..

 

[Ormir]

Last one was Entomed - Left Hand Path. And I regret it a lot.

 

[necrotiqat]

Seriously? Left hand path is something of a "classic" album so to speak. What didn't you like about it?

 

[justvisiting02]

yeah i bought Ajattara - Itse the other day, just cuz i liked the cover.. its not that great though...only a few good songs imo.. *shrugs*