Let Us Know The Records That Changed Your Life
Beez charts the 10 records that changed his life. Come on in and let us know yours!
Just having a gander on Facebook and I noticed that a friend of mine had posted the top 20 records that changed her life and it got me thinking about it for today’s blog.
What constitutes a record that changed your life? Simple. It’s an album that, regardless of how much your musical taste changes, will always mean something to you.
At the risk of sounding like a dirty hippy, music’s a beautiful thing that can genuinely change your life. Be it hearing a lyric and realising that things in life need to change, finding the album that you most like to get absolutely shit-faced to or just an album that makes you feel in a way that you’ll never forget, that’s having a massive impact in your life through music so without further delay…
1. Metallica – Load. I was 12 when Load came out. I was (and I want to vomit on myself as I say this) massively into Brit-Pop and the opening riff to Ain’t My Bitch changed my life forever. I still think it’s one of the most criminally under-rated records of all time.
2. Kiss – Destroyer. “They look fucking ridiculous. I like Slayer and Sepultura, I bet Kiss are shit,” said the 14 year old Beez. Wrong, wrong, wrong. Hearing Destroyer for the first time taught me to never judge a book by it’s cover and, if you were at Download last year, you’ll know that Kiss straight-up own.
3. Clutch – Blast Tyrant. How had I never heard this band before!? Clutch taught me that you don’t need to be one of the biggest-selling bands in rock and metal to be one of the best. They’re still one of the best rock bands in the world today and they’re still getting better. God bless ‘em!
4. The Clash – The Clash. All the best bands in the world have punk rock ethics. Lamb Of God, Metallica, Public Enemy, Slayer; they’re all punk rock bands at heart and The Clash were more punk than any band you can think of. Don’t like us doing ska? Fuck you. Don’t like us embracing the start of hip-hop? Fuck you. Love it.
5. Pantera – The Great Southern Trendkill. I still remember having the speaker up way too loud when that initial scream kicked in and it remains one of my favourite metal records out there. Joint with Far Beyond Driven for best Pantera record and overlooked way too much.
6. Monster Magnet – Powertrip. There are personal reasons behind it but this album has not one bad second on it. Psychadelic, hedonistic, decadent and rocking, Powertrip remains one of the finest albums of the past 20 years in my (anything but) humble opinion.
7. Bon Jovi – New Jersey. Bon Jovi were the first band I ever, ever, ever got into and I still love them. People will tell you they don’t like Bon Jovi and then know all the words to all of their songs. Besides, who are we to argue with a man who’s seen a million faces and rocked them all?
8. Thin Lizzy – Live & Dangerous. If you’re going to go out and get battered, there’s no better soundtrack. God help you if you’re near me at the bar and I hear the intro to Rosalie!
9. NIN – The Downward Spiral. The lyrics were relevant to me when I was 15 and they’re still relevant to me now. It probably just means that I’ve not grown up at all and that I still hold all the characteristics that the miserable teenage Beez did but still, it’s a hell of a record.
10. Slayer – Reign In Blood. An obvious one, I know. I knew the day that I fell in love with Slayer that metal would be my life from now onwards. No compromises, no following of trends and no bullshit – that’s what metal’s about and no one encapsulates that like SLAYAAAAAAARGH!!!!!!
Right, I’ve mouthed off for long enough. It’s your turn, what records changed your life and why? Get yourself involved.
‘TIl next time…
Beez
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totally agree with the great southern trendkill and far beyond driven being the best pantera albums!
The Offspring – Americana
Follow the Reaper – Children of Bodom
Master of Puppets – Metallica
Appetite for Destruction – G ‘n’ R
Karma – Kamelot
The Crimson Idol – WASP
1. Metallica – Ride The Lightning
My favourite ‘Tallica album. The first metal album I heard!
2. Trivium – Ascendency
Along with Metallica, these were the guys that got me into metal. And specifically this album.
3. Alice Cooper – Brutal Planet
Full of heavy, melodic industrial metal anthems. Great lyrics, great riffs, and again, one of the first metal albums I’d heard.
4. Judas Priest – Painkiller
Oh come on! Need I say any more?
5. Marilyn Manson – Eat Me, Drink Me
I’d loved Manson for ages, and this album certainly didn’t disappoint. A controversial choice, I know, but certainly at that point in my life I could really relate to the lyrics. That album was the soundtrack to my dark and depressing days…
6. Ozzy Osbourne – Tribute
Can any live album live up to this>??
7. Alice Cooper – Along Came A Spider
An eerie, haunting yet highly melodic metal album embracing a fantastic horror concept. Cooper’s still got it!
8. The Misfits – Box-set
Wow! Heavy, fast horror punk! Twisted lyrics, catchy choruses, horror movie imagery. How can you not love the Misfits?
9. Motorhead – No Remorse
Motorhead – heavy metal in its’ rawest form. An album collecting some of the best bits of one of metal’s greatest defenders!
10. Iron Maiden – The Number Of The Beast
Almost purely for the song 22 Acacia Avenue.
This was very hard! In a sense, it’s individual songs as opposed to albums that changed my life. I think if this list had been songs, then I’d have found it much easier to pinpoint exactly why they had an effect on me!!
Metallica – Metallica
G ‘n’ R – Appetite…
Manic Street Preachers – Generation Terrorists
Sepultura – Chaos A.D.
Probably others too….
Nirvana – Nevermind
Marilyn Manson – Antichrist Superstar
Megadeth – Rust In Peace
Metallica – Master of Puppets
GNR – Appetite for Destruction
RATM – RATM
Iron Maiden – Powerslave
Tool – Lateralus
Korn – Follow the Leader
Slipknot – Slipknot
Metallica – Kill ‘Em All
Not my favourite Metallica album, but the first one I heard, and the that got me into metal.
Children Of Bodom – Hatebreeder
The perfect balance of speed and neo-classicism.
Symphony X – Paradise Lost
I slightly prefer The Divine Wings Of Tragedy, but this had the most impact on me.
Red Hot Chili Peppers – Blood Sugar Sex Magik
Just the funkiest album ever.
Nirvana – Nevermind
Made me realise that it only takes a few power chords to make an awesome song.
SOAD – Toxicity
Rammstein – Mutter
Slipknot – Iowa
American Head Charge – The War of Art
Barney – You’re a man of impeccable taste and I would like to kiss your first-born on the top of the head.
Cory – Not sure I’m with you on Manson but those are some individualistic choices. Hats off!
Wes – Argh! I forgot about Lateralus! Goddammit!
Keep ‘em coming, peeps!
Black Sabbath – Paranoid
AC/DC – Back in Black
Iron Maiden – Piece of Mind
Judas Priest – British Steel
Metallica – Ride The Lightning
Ozzy Osbourne – No More Tears
i got south of heaven and reign in blood at the same time! it was awesome. another double whammy was getting the number of the beast and master of puppets simultaneously! those where the days…
Metallica – ReLoad (mainly for ‘Fuel’)
Motorhead – Bomber
Judas Priest – Unleashed in the East
Slayer – Reign in Blood
Killswitch Engage – The End of Heartache
and something i personaly like: R.E.M. – Automatic for the People
korn – follow the leader
pantera – cowboys from hell
metallica – kill them all
guns – appetite for destruction
sabbath – master of reality
priest – british steel
zeppelin – IV
ac / dc – live
rage against the machine – battle of l.a.
deftones – white pony
Slipknot-Iowa
(pretty much got me into metal)
Metallica-Metallica
Linking park-Hybrid Theory
Machine Head- Through the ashes
1. Metallica- Metallica
Obvious one, but the opening riff of Enter Sandman cemented me as a metalhead. Not in my top 50 records these days
2. Placebo- Without You I’m Nothing
The first record I genuinely fell in love with of any kind, and the first one that made me go to a gig.
3. Fear Factory- Obsolete
Soley responsible for getting me into heavier stuff than Metallica, and it’s the album I’ve listened to more than any other. And it was the first album to really make me pay attention to drumming. Raymond Herrera- genius!
4. Bad Religion- All Ages
I know it’s a compilation, but it was the first genuine punk CD I heard and the one led me out of the mainstream
5. Disturbed- The Sickness
*hangs head* I know it’s juvenile tat but I loved that record when it came out
6. Megadeth- Rust In Peace
Led me to Reign In Blood, which led me to The New Order and all the other thrash classics
7. Shadows Fall- The Art Of Balance
After the true awfulness of nu-metal (including the Bizkit- they sucked then, they suck now, Beez, and I’m the same age as you!) this was the first record I bought that showed good metal was back
8. Sick Of It All- Yours Truly
My first hardcore album, containing the best song title ever- ‘Disco Sucks, Fuck Everything’. Still put on the best gig I’ve ever been to at the Underworld in ‘04.
9. System Of A Down- System Of A Down
Got it when it came out, loved it, still do- System were the first band I got every album by when it came out, and saw live on every album tour. Reunite for Download please!
10. Lamb Of God- As The Palaces Burn
Do I need a reason? The best album since ‘Demanufacture’. Bar none. Although I haven’t got Wrath yet…
1. Metallica -Ride The Lightning-
For Whom The Bell Tolls and Creeping Death on the same album, nuff said…..! AMAZING!!
2. Machine Head- The Blackening
Just EPIC, how can you listen to HALO without headbanging. IMPOSSIBLE. Its just so so good.
3. Lamb Of God- Sacrement
Didnt know much about them before this album (dont ask me why cos i dont know) and I had never heard metal like that before, they are the new Pantera.
4. Pantera- Far Beyond Driven
I was going through a post-hardcore phase at the time and my mate but this on in his car and that was it. Riffing perfection.
5. Down- Over The Under
Southern metal is so good, dirty, sludgey, fat riffs, and phil has the perfect voice to go with it. Just spark a dooby and bang you
1. Lullabies to Paralyze – Queens of the Stone Age (favorite album of all time)
2. Contraband – Velvet Revolver
3. Once – Nightwish
4. Ten Thousand Fists – Disturbed
5. Mezmerize/Hypnotize – System of a Down
6. L.D. 50 – Mudvayne
7. Slipknot – Slipknot
8. Sacrament – Lamb of God
9. Death Cult Armaggedon – Dimmu Borgir
10. Self-titled – Matt Mays and El Torpedo
1) Slayer – Reign in blood
Rage Against The Machine – Battle of LA
2) Motorhead – Overkill
3) Pantera – Reinventing the steel
4) Misfits – Walk Among Us
5) Rancid – ..And out come the wolves
6) Suicidal Tendencies – Still cycoa after all these years
7) Metalica – Ride the lightening
9) The Unseen – State of Discontent
10) Rise Against – Appeal to Reason
1. Metallica -Ride The Lightning
Because its Metallica and its got creeping death and bells.
2. Machine Head- The Blackening
Because its the best metal album since ride the lightning
3. Lamb Of God- Sacrement
riffage, drumage and cool vocals
4. Pantera- Far Beyond Driven
Same as above, they just did it first.
5. Down- Over The Under
Phils vocals, and awsome dirty, southern, groovey sludgey riffs.
6. Everytime I Die- The Big Dirty
Metal, Hardcore, Rock and Roll, Punk and southern rock mixed togther. PERFECT!
7. Reuben- Racecar is Racecar Backwards
unbelievably underated, pure genious and amazing songwriting.
8. Billy Talent- Billy Talent
Hardcore, punk rock with crazy vocals. One of the best live bands ever.
9. Incubus- S.C.I.E.N.C.E
This started me off listening to sum heavier riffs. Amazing vocals and musicianship!
10. sikTh- The Trees Are Dead And Dried Out Wait For Something Wild
Weird, unique, technical and just awsome.
11. Rage Against The Machine- RATM
cos no one else plays guitar like that, and its just cool isnt it
1)Limp Bizkit – Chocolate starfish and the hotdog flavored water.
2)Slipknot – Slipknot.
3) The Sex pistols – Never mind the bollocks.
4)Iron Maiden – Number of the Beast.
5)AC/DC – Let there be rock!
6)Megadeth – Rust in peace.
7)Nirvana – Nevermind.
8)Motorhead – Overkill.
9) Korn – Follow the leader.
10) Beastie boys – License to ill.
Bad Religion – No Control
- The band that lead me into the punk and metal world. Still kicking ass after all the years.
Iron Maiden – The Number of the Beast
- First metal band that I ever listened. Full of great songs and this record is still one of my favorites by Maiden (Right after SSoaSS)
Guns N Roses – Appetite for Destruction (had it on cassette!)
Metallica – Metallica
Korn – Korn
Lamb of God – Ashes of the Wake
Pink Floyd – Dark Side of the Moon
Prodigy – The Fat of the Land
Slipknot – Slipknot
My musicals tastes are so different now but all those albums will always hold a place in my heart : *(
1) System of a down- Toxicity
2) Pantera-Vulgar display of power
3) RATM – Battle of LA
4) Slayer-South of Heaven
5) Opeth-Blackwater park
6) Kyuss-Wretch
7) Clutch-Robot hive/Exodus
8)Lamb of God-Sacrament
9) NIN-The downward Spiral
10) Slipknot-Iowa
Wow, some people simliar to me here. The Offspring – Americana got me into rock, then Trivium – Ascendancy into metal. I mainly thank Kerrang! for getting me into a lot of bands (yes, as a 14 year old I liked Kerrang).
These days I’m into stuff like Pantera, Machine Head and Lamb of God
Great shout for Great southern trendkill, Blast Tyrant, Load and Powertrip. Feel exactly the same way. Well said sir!
1) The Bends – Radiohead. The First “guitar” band I ever loved. Still do.
2) …And out come the wolves – Rancid. Made me realise that Cast and Ash were shit and I was actually a punk. Who Knew?
3) Scream, Dracula, Scream – Rocket From The Crypt. Came out when Grunge was ruling the world, I never realised rock music could be so much fun. Put this record on and don’t tap your foot during the whole time it’s on. Not possible.
4) Roots – Sepultura. The heaviest thing i’d ever heard. Emotive, empowering and ground breaking. The opening of Attitude sends a chill up my spine.
5) Around The Fur – Deftones. The Metal Radiohead, that album has everything pushed to the Nth degree.
6) El Diablo – Will Haven. So maybe Sepultura aren’t so heavy! For the first few weeks of owning this album I was scared to be in the room on my own with it. And it meant it wasn’t such a shock when I started listening to Neurosis, Dillinger, Converge and Botch.
7) In.Casino.Out – At The Drive In. I don’t think i’ve ever felt so excited about discovering a band. Seeing them at the Underworld with a handful of people was like seeing The Beatles, The Pistols and Elvis all at the same time before anyone had ever heard of them. Could, would and should have been the biggest band of the century.
9) Undertow – Tool. Could frankly be any of their albums but… My mum bought me this on my seventeenth birthday. I’d never heard them but she thought i’d like them. It’s probably not very metal to say “I love my mum” but this is a pretty compelling reason to say it. The best band ever…ever…ever.
10) Levithian – Mastodon. So as I got a bit older Iturned into one of those twats who used to like metal but “grew out of it” (cocks) and began listening to Depeche Mode, Justin Timberlake, Ben Folds Five and The Killers. Then someone told me to listen to this album. And I realised how much I love this type of music. All the old shit came out again and so did Lamb of god, Gojira, Everytime I Die, Nachtmystium, The Bronx These arms are snakes and Pelican. Cheers for that lads.
Gojira- The Way Of All Flesh
Cult Of Luna- Eternal Kingdom
Death- Symbolic
Vital Remains- Icons Of Evil
Dimmu Borgir- In Sorte Diaboli
Alestorm- Captain Morgan’s Revenge
1) System of a Down – Toxicity
Iron Maiden – Powerslave
2) Metallica – Metallica
3) Pearl Jam – Ten
4) Megadeth – Rust in Peace
5) Pink Floyd – Dark Side of the Moon
6) System of a Down – Mezmerize/Hypnotize
7) Pantera – Vulgar Display of Power
9) Nirvana – In Utero
10)Ozzy Osbourne – The Ozzman Cometh
Bonus 11) Macabre – Sinister Slaughter
in no particular order, i’d guess at:
1) Foo Fighters – The Coulour & The Shape (the first rock CD i ever bought)
2) Down – Nola
3) NoFX – So Long & Thanks For All The Shoes
4) Monster Magnet – Powertrip (totally agree on that one!)
5) Korn – Life Is Peachy (Pretty much the album that got me into metal)
6) Roots Manuva – Run Come Save Me (the album that properly got me into hip-hop)
7) Kyuss – 3CD Box Set (can’t choose!)
and more recently, it has to be Gojira’s ‘The Way Of All Flesh’. Phenomenal.
dont bitch at me for the choices… i know some of them arent great but im listing the ones that have opened me up to different styles of music
Machine Head – Through The ashes of Empires
Machine Head – The Blackening
Manson – Golden age of Grotesque (not his best i know… but i wouldnt be listenin to metal at all had i not borrowed it)
arch enemy – doomsday machine
trivium – ascendancy
in flames – soundtrack to your escape
afi – sing the sorrow
the distillers – coral fang
1. Pantera – Vulgar Display of Power
2. Slayer – Reign In Blood
3. Metallica – Kill ‘Em All
4. Black Sabbath – We Sold Our Souls for Rock ‘n Roll
5. Pantera – Far Beyond Driven
6. Slayer – Divine Intervention
7. Ozzy Osbourne – No More Tears
8. Pantera – Great Southern Trendkill
9. Black Label Society – Blessed Hellride
10. Pantera – Cowboys From Hell
metallica: puppets: i prefer ride the lightning, but this was the first metallica album of many. also the album that got me really into playing guitar
maiden: live after death: best live album ever
Blink 182: enema of the state; the album that got me into music
BLS; shot to hell: Zakk forever!!!
ozzy; randy rhodes tribute
sepultura; roots: BLOODY ROOTS!!!!!
rodrigro y gabriella: awesome acoustic shit
trivium ascendancy; more guitaring funtimes
slayer reign in bood. cant be beaten,
Linkin Park – Hybrid Theory
Iron Maiden – Somewhere In Time
Nickelback – Silver Side Up
Bon Jovi – Crush
Pink Floyd – The Dark Side Of The Moon
Iron Maiden – Brave New World
The Mars Volta – Amputechture
Sepultura – Nation
Tool – 10,000 Days
Elvis Presley – 30 No.1 Hits
Twisted sisted – Stay Hungry (Started my Heavy Metal journey. Fun)
Iron Maiden – Powerslave (Best metal album ever. Venom may have invented extreme metal, but it would be nowwhere without Maiden)
Megadeth – So Far So Good.. (First Thrash album I bought)
Sepultura – Arise (death/thrash?? Dunno. For me it opened the door to death metal)
Death – Human (First “real” DM I bought way back. Still amazing and being played regularly)
Ozzy Osbourne – Blizzard of Oz (Randy got me into Yngwie and Eddie v H. Listen to Mr Crowley on a rainy day. Very sad. Set me up for…)
Opeth – Morningrise (opened to door to Opeth, and then Aggaloch, etc.)
Kreator – Coma of Souls (prompted me to pick up the best thrash ever – “Pleasure to Kill”)
Emperor – Anthems to the Welkin at Dusk (I cannot begin to describe this. On my short list of best metal albums ever)
Motley Crue – Shout at the Devil (Highschool. I had to rebel and be angry at that age. Silly and ultimately pointless. Still, great HEAVY metal album.)
In no particular order:
Metallica – Master of puppets
Korn – Issues
Mastodon – Blood Mountain
Machine Head – Through the Ashes of Empires
36 Crazyfists – Rest Inside The Flames
Lamb of God – Ashes of the Wake
Dethklok – The Dethalbum
Pantera – Cowboys from Hell
Protest the Hero – Fortress
System of a Down – System of a Down
Protest The Hero – Fortress
Korn – Issues
Machine Head – Burn My Eyes
Dream Theater – Train Of Thought
Threshold – Hypothetical
Annihilator – King Of The Kill
Opeth – Deliverance
Morbid Angel – Covenant
Megadeth – Youthanasia
Iced Earth – Dark Saga
AC/DC – Back In Black
Iron Maiden – The Number Of The Beast
KISS – Dressed To Kill
Pantera – Cowboys From Hell
Sex Pistols – Never Mind The Bollocks
Motley Crue – Shout At The Devil
Anthrax – Among The Living
Slayer – Reign In Blood
Godflesh – Streetcleaner
The Wildhearts – Earth Vs…
Not in order
1)Machinehead- Halo
Made me want to kill som1 lol and convinced me to stay on guitars
2)System of a Down- Ariels
such a powerful song for vocals
3)Wednesday 13- Skeletons
favourite band this songs lyrics are simply…..AMAZING
4)Wednesday 13- My Demise
a song that completely relates to my life
5)Wednesday 13- Curse of Me
also relates completely
6) Cradle of Filth-Death of Love
Gets me over heartache
7)Cradle of Filth-Her Ghost in The Fog
just amazing and fukin awsome live
8)In Flames- Come Clarity
Got me into song writing
9)Jhonny Cash- Hurt
probs the deepest song ive ever heard the song the legend himself wrote before he died R.I.P
10)AC/DC- Thunderstruck
got me into rock!!
tbh i find every wednesday 13 and cradle of filth song
And Metallica – Black Album
01 – Pantera – Cowboys From Hell
02 – Megadeth – Peace Sells… but Who’s Buying?
03 – Death Angel – Act III
04 – Slayer – South of Heaven
05 – Testament – The New Order
06 – Kreator – Extreme Agression
07 – Metallica – Ride the Lightning / Kill em’ All
08 – Pantera – Vulgar Display of Power
09 – Machine Head – Burn My Eyes
10 – Depeche Mode – Black Celebration
ROBZ13 (iI HATE EMOS!!!)
Johnny Cash didn’t write Hurt…
These albums changed my musical taste forever…
Foo Fighter -The colour and the shape….The very first time I heard everlong I knew I was onto something big and I went and purchased this album…none stop listening of this album has ran ever since, we are talking 10 years.
The Offspring- Americana…..Yep I fell Into the offsrping trap at the tender age of 16, I loved the pace of the album and at the time It was the heaviest thing I had ever really listend too.
Metallica- Re-load…Yep pretty much the first taste of Metallica I had…loved bad seed a little too much, what with the groove and loud as hell playing this has a little place In my now old skool loving metallica heart.
Metallica- Master of puppets…So I start up a conversation with a drummer friend of mine and I tell him about my love for Re-load and how amazing Metallica are and he inorms me about this little album…I go out and buy It and my eyes are opened..forever.
Sepultura- Chaos AD..So I am enjoying my cureent music collection but start to feel the urge to step It up a bit…at the time I was working at asda at the time while at college ad a freind on the music department told me to check out chaos AD..from the secon the album started spinning I loved It and it began my love affair with heavy metal.
Nonpoint- Statement…this was around the nu-metal era and this album will forever be the number one album of that era, what with the raw aggresion and funky bass grooves this should be In everyones music collection.
Disturbed- The Sickness…first band I saw live, ever since heraing them play stone cold steve austins theme In the then WWF I loved It and purchased the album and gig tickets..stupify to me Is still the best ‘nu metal’ song ever written.
Tool- Anemia….opened my eyes to the more experimental side of alternative music, from the lyrics to the atmosphere this album mixed with everything listed before helped to create my musical taste ot this day….
There’s only one album that really changed me;
Iron Maiden – Best of The Beast
The first metal record I properly got into, and since then I’ve never looked back.
1) Fear Factory – Demanufacture
Down – NOLA
2) Machine Head – The More Things Change
3) Pantera – The Great Southern Trendkill
4) Will Haven – El Diablo
5) Meshuggah – Chaosphere
6) Cradle Of Filth – Cruelty And The Beast
7) Lamb Of God – As The Palaces Burn
9) Killswitch Engage – Alive Or Just Breathing
10) Vision Of Disorder – Imprint
1.venom-black metal
2.sonic sydncate-only inhuman
3.hammerfall-steel meets steel
4.dimmu borgir-in sorte diaboli
5.megadeth-peace sells… but who’s buying?
6.pantera-vulgar display of power
7.rob zombie-hellbilly delux
8.slayer-reign in blood
9.iced earth-somthing wiked part 1
10.black sabbith-paranoid
Iron Maiden-Powerslave
Metallica-s/t
Led Zeppelin-BBC Sessions
Megadeth-Countdown To Exctintion
Slayer-Reign In Blood
Judas Priest-Brittish Steel and Nostradamus
Amon Amarth-Twilight of the Thunder God
1) N dubz- ouch
2) dizzy rascle- come dance with me
3) 50 Cent- get up
4)basshunter- now your gone
5)T-Pain ft lil wayne- got money
6)T-Pain – Church
7)H20 Ft. Platnum – Whats It Gonna Be
8)T2& Jodie- Heartbroken
9)lies Ft. Akon – Hypnotized
10)Kanye West – Flashing Lights
MINT SONGS INNIT
In no particular order:
1. Opeth – Blackwater Park
2. Guns N Roses – Appetite For Destruction
3. Black Sabbath – Black Sabbath
4. Deep Purple – Deep Purple In Rock
5. Iron Maiden – Somewhere In Time
6. Windir – 1184
7. Machine Head – Burn My Eyes
8. Metallica – …And Justice For All
9. Devin Townsend – Ocean Machine
10. Seigmen – Total
The list just goes on. I could find a lifechanging album tomorrow
nirvana – bleach
metallica – kill ‘em all
pantera – far beyond driven
alice in chains – dirt
kashmir – cruzential
lamb of god – ashes of the wake
mark lanegan – bubblegum
mastodon – leviathan
testament – the gathering
mr. bungle – california
lights on the highway – lights on the highway
1. Iron Maiden– Number of the Beast
2. Opeth– Ghost Reveries
3. My Chem– Cheers for sweet revenge
4. Nine inch Nails– Downward Spiral
5. Nightwish– Century Child
6. Megadeth– Rust in Peace
7. Dream Theatre– Scenes from a Memory
8. Korn– Follow The Leader
9. Killswitch Engage– the End of Heartache
10 Marilyn Manson–Antichrist Superstar
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pantera – voulgar display of power
machine head – burn my eyes
slayer – seasons in the abyss
metallica – and justice for all
life of agony – river runs red
biohazard – urban discipline
senser – stacked up
korn – korn
tiamat – clouds
anathema – silent enigma
1.Rammstein – Live aus Berlin
i found that album on the bus stop and that it was , my convertion from drum’n'bass – club junky began . i was 17 back than .
2.Marilyn Manson – The golden age of grotesque
i still been a clubber age 18 , and on MTV i’ve seen mOBSCENE video , all the nazzi alike thing shoked me and i did bought my firsts rock album , i never told abouti it to my street mates .
3.Rob Zombie – hellbilly delux
again MTV , Dragula video ,
i found new true way of life , stoped clubbing , putting cars in walls , and taking drugs . from now on it’s babes , bikes and booze ( well i hoped so )…
4. The 69 eyes – Devils
one of my new friends gave me that album after I have seen Lost boys video on internet , that is an era of new friends to me and new beggining .
5.Metallica – St. Anger
Sorry , but it is best Metallica’s album to me , because it is their first i ever heard , becase of that album i crossed the border of my country and gone to see Metallica live in neighbore Lithuania .
6. Ария – Химера
this is russian rock my friends , best rock thing that ever came out from Russia , my first heavy metal encounter .
7. Slipknot – Vol. 3 – The Subliminal Verses
when everybody said they lost they hard core sound , i descovered ‘em , still pushing my fingers into my eyes .
now i understand that chap from college who came in slipknot alike robe with big S on the back . i thought he was just an idiot back than , but now i would like to join him back than !
8.Disturbed – the sickness
i bought Dawn of the Dead dvd , soundtack down with the sickness is the best ever record they ever done , i started thinking about discovering metall , i moved to england to that point and at same time discovered another record :
9. STATIC – X – shadow zone
that is when i first realised how much metal bands is out there and started looking for more , and the best way was – to start buying METAL HAMMER .
10. KYPCK – Cherno
found a small print in your mag about finish group singing in russian , yes it is great , howhewer they have terrible accent ! that is the point when i decided buy every metall hammer issue and DOWNLOAD 2009 is waiting for me ! hey hey !
Stay metal guys , and remmember there is more metall than you think not obligatory in english !
From Russia with Love , as we say ………..
Metallica – master of puppets
Guns n roses – appetite
Pantera – vulgar display
morbid angel – covenant
marilyn manson – antichrist
judas priest – british steel
Def leppard – adrenalize
megadeth – countdown
machine head – burn my eyes
AC/DC – live at donnington (best live album ever)
1. Gojira – From Mars To Sirius
2. Opeth – Watershed
3. Meshuggah – Catch 33
4. Behemoth – The Apostasy
5. Enslaved – Vertebrae
6. Machine Head – Burn My Eyes
7. Dimmu Borgir – Enthrone Darkness Triumphant
8. Sepultura – Roots
9. Mastodon – Blood Mountain
10. Metallica – Master Of Puppets
1. Metallica – And justice for all
what can i say… the first time i heard proper heavcy music.
2. Faith No More – Angeldust.
Shit on a hair dryer. this is heavy in a really weird way jizzlobber is one of the most twisted tunes ever.
3. Pan-feckin-tera – Far beyond driven. The sonic equivelent to getting the shit kicked out of ya.
4. Pan-feckin-tera – like a numatic drill jammed in your ear.
5. Rory Gallegher- live in europe.
I prefer rory to jimmy, not saying he’s better, ther’s just something about the guy. a great ambassodor for ireland.
6.Machine Head – Burn My Eyes. Tibght as a ducks ares under water.
7. Meshuggah – Obzen. Grooveier than two snakes fucking, soul shaking.added to the fact this is the most recent albumby a band that’s been going for more than twenty years. not many bands from th eightees can compedte with meshuggah.
8. Opeth – Deliverence. I think mickael is going to go down in history as one of the best song writers.
9. Sepultura – Arise. Igor is joined top fave drummer of all time. The ultimate mosh album.
10. Strapping Young Lad- city. Gene Hoglan, heavy devy and jed simon. i personally think this is heavier than any death metal band just because there is a hint of humanity in amongst that sonic wall.
Pantera – Great Southern trendkill – it just kills, very underrated
Wildhearts – earth vs – just a joy, start to finish
Therapy? – troublegum – so dark, yet catchy
LOG – Wrath – it’s just kicked my arse!
Bon Jovi – Keep the Faith -1st cd I bought, love em, hate em, you ALL know the words!!
KISS – KISS Alive II
AC/DC – Back In Black
GnR – Appetite for Destruction
GnR – Use Your Illusion I & II
Metallica – Metallica
Led Zepplin – Led Zeppelin 4
Megadeth – Countdown to Extinction
Iron Maiden – Number of the Beast
SLIPKNOT – Subliminal Verses
White Zombie – La Sexorcisto Devil Music Vol. 1
Marilyn Manson – Antichrist Superstar
Devildriver – The Fury of Our Maker’s Hand
Machine Head – Through the Ashes of Empires
Killswitch Engage- Alive or Just Breathing
Jamiroquai – Return of the Space Cowboy
Murderdolls – Beyond the Valley of the…
Mudvayne – L.D. 50
Slipknot – Iowa
Metallica – S & M
Pendulum – In Silico
1 : slayer / god hate us all
2 : megadeth / rust in peace
3 : metallica / ride the lightning
4 : manowar / kings of metal
5 : iron maiden / best of the beast
6 : judas priest / painkiller
7 : megadeth / united abominations
8 : metallica / s y m
9 : van halen / van halen
10 : led zeppelin / stairway to heaven
long living to rock n roll baby ¡¡¡ yeaahh ¡
That’s a lot of comments!
I still remember sitting in maths class, 1997, 14 years old, and my mate said “Here, have a listen to this”.
MetallicA.
…And Justice For All.
Granted, not their best – not even in my favourite Top 20 any more. But there’s NO looking back after the impression that leaves on a 14y/o! End of.
BTW – there are a few comments about people not owning Wrath yet? WHY THE HELL NOT??!?! Second only to The Blackening as perhaps THE metal album of the naughties – big call, but see for yourself.
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In no particular order;
1 Metallica – Kill Em All
2 Iron Maiden – Live After Death
3 GnR – The Spaghetti Incident
4 SOAD – Hypnotize/Merzmerize
5 Slipknot – Iowa
6 Trivium – EP/Ascendancy
7 Def Leppard – Yeah!
8 Whitesnake – Slip of the Tounge
9 BFMV – The Poison
10 Pantera – Cowboys from Hell
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Wow, some really good choices here
Anthrax – Spreading the Disease
Chimaira – Chimaira
Gentle Giant – The Power and the Glory
Jethro Tull – Thick as a Brick
Kiss – Alive
Mastadon – Leviathan
Pantera – Reinventing the Steel
Rush – Hemispheres
Tool – 10,000 days
Trivium – Ascendancy
1) Smashing Pumpkins – Siamese Dream
Tool – Aenima
2) Nine Inch Nails – The Downward Spiral
3) Pearl Jam – Ten
4) The Smiths – The Queen Is Dead
5) Alice In Chains – Dirt
6) Soundgarden – Superunknown
7) Marilyn Manson – Mechanical Animals
9) At The Drive-In – Relationship of Command
10) Rival Schools – United by Fate
Bee Gee..
Your comment on Wrath is absolutely spot on. I though Lamb Of God had reached their peak with Sacrament. Ho boy was I wrong!
1) Ac/dc- If you want blood…
i first heard this in a music lesson in school back in 1979..awesome..it changed my life..the best £4 ive ever spent on music
and in no particular order
Ministry – psalm 69
Nine inch nails – pretty hate machine
Slayer – reign in blood
Isis – panopticon
Rammstein – mutter
Clutch – pure rock fury
Black sabbath – master of reality………..
and hundreds more ..too many to mention!
one album changed my life-white heat white light velvet underground cos i realised i didn;t have to listen to all that crap that sounds like adverts after that.
1. Radiohead – OK Computer
I was 16 when this came out and spend an entire year listening to it. Teenage love that saved me from eurodance…
2. HIM – Razorblade Romance
I was in the hospital at this time, very ill and I found this music very soothing. It helped me to calm down a bit. It was quite entertaining lying there and listening to Valo singing “Baby, join me in death”. Anyway, I survived.
3. Theatre of Tragedy – Velvet Darkness They Fear
Instant love. I remember the night I listened to it for the first time. It was so strange and new, eerie combinations of death vocals and soprano (yes, back then it WAS new, no matter how cliche it may be today), twisted folk motifs, changes in the mood and rhytm. I spent the whole night tossing in my bed, bits and pieces of melodies appearing in my head, dreaming weird dreams.
4. Katatonia – Brave Murder Day
These guys, this album and these repetitive guitar riffs made me love metal.
5. Opeth – Orchid
OK. My favourite band ever. Their albums are great, their concerts are even better.
6. 69 Eyes – Paris Kills
They are so pretentious and so cool. They are no whiny nancies crying over the sadness of life. 69 eyes show you that being a goth means dancing into the moonlight. This album cheers up.
I liked the previous stuff but this album turned me into the groupie
7. PJ Harvey – Stories from the City, Stories from the Sea
When the night comes and the lights are off in the music store, this album dominates and rules all the other albums. Girl power.
8. Muse – Origin of Symmetry
No particular story. I heard it on the radio and found it amazing. Just one question: why oh why does Matthew lick his guitar?!!
9. Queens of the Stone Age – Lullabies to Paralyze
I wrote my thesis by listening to this album. Queens substitute for the lack of sleep. They really do.
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1.- “In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida” – IRON BUTTERFLY (cuando salió esta canción tenía alrededor de ocho años de edad y fue la que me indujo a seguir los sonidos duros del rock)
2.- “Ride the Lightning” – METALLICA
3.- “Dusk… and her Embrace” – CRADLE OF FILTH
4.- “Psalm 69” – MINISTRY
5.- “Theli” – THERION
6.- “In Rock” and “Made In Japan” – DEEP PURPLE
7.- “La Revolución de Emiliano Zapata” – LA REVOLUCIÓN DE EMILIANO ZAPATA (México)
8.- “El Ritual” –EL RITUAL (México)
9.- “Puritanical Euphoric Misanthropia” – DIMMU BORGIR
10.- “Sleight Of Hand” – GUY MANN-DUDE
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1 – Manowar – “Kings of Metal”
2 – Iron Maiden – “Seventh Son of a Seventh Son”
3 – G’N'R – “Appetite for Destruction”
4 – Europe – “The Final Countdown”
5 – Running Wild – “Port Royal”
6 – Tarantula – “Kingdom of Lusitania”
7 – Judas Priest – “Painkiller”
8 – WASP – “Headless Children”
9 – Metallica – “And Justice… For all”
10 – King Diamond – “Conspiracy”
I also agree with barney but i would have to say tht cowboys from hell would have to be my fave album…the one tht has most effect on me is KoRn’s album KoRn.. their songs on tht album are just mind blowing! the third one would be sepultura’s albums Chaos A.D, Arise & Roots
Heres My Top 10 in the order in wich I heard them. Going back from 2002 to the Present Day
1) Iron Maiden – Best of The Beast
Martin Simpson – Prodigal Son
2) Dragonforce – Valley of the Damned
3) Edguy – Rocket Ride
4) Dream Theater – Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence
5) Battleheart – Battleheart
6) Ensiferum – Victory Songs
7) Moonsorrow – V. Havitetty
9) Opeth – Watershead
10) Forefather – Steadfast
Nice picks, but only 1 vote for FNM’s Angel Dust? tsk tsk, for shame!
1: David Bowie – Hunky Dory
I may be a big, scary metalhead but Bowie has always been and will always be my absolute hero. My dad got me hooked on him before I was even old enough to speak and, later on, it led to my obsession with T. Rex, Roxy Music, The Velvet Underground, and the like.
2: Pantera – Cowboys From Hell
This is where it all started for me. I was 12 and my friend brought it over to my house. Up until that point, I’d been raised on a healthy dose of David Bowie and Elton John and had no idea a guitar could make sounds that this Dimebag Darrell guy was making. I just remember thinking ‘how the HELL is he doing that?!’ It was the most intense thing ever and it made metal a proper part of my life.
3: Megadeth – Rust In Peace
I discovered Rust In Peace about two weeks after hearing CFH for the first time and it was just as exciting. It’s a rock solid album, good from start to finish, and it’s got some of Megadeth’s best tracks ever. I listen to it nearly every day.
4: Iron Maiden – Powerslave
Maiden’s best, in my opinion, and another one I can easily listen to all the way through. It spawned my interest in bands like Angra, Helloween, and Stratovarius and made me want to be a vocalist.
5: Bauhaus – In the Flat Field
This album opened up a whole new world of music to me at 14. I found a copy of it for $1.50 in a secondhand shop and bought it on a whim because I thought the cover was cool. It was the weirdest thing I’d heard at the time, but I immediately hooked, nonetheless.
6: Smashing Pumpkins – Mellon Collie & the Infinite Sadness
The Pumpkins were an absolutely MASSIVE part of my life for a long time and still remain in my top five bands (even though I have zero respect for Billy Corgan because he’s a slap-headed bag of dicks). I think it’s because they really seem to get the idea that ‘heavy’ is an attitude, rather than just a sound; The way the album seamlessly moves from grungy psychedelia to fuzzy bass rage still blows my mind. Not too bad for a bunch of guys who originally set out with aspirations to become a new wave group with a jazz drummer.
7: Candlemass – Nightfall
I know that most people hail Epicus Doomicus Metallicus as Candlemass’ greatest work, but I have to disagree. I love the epic dirginess (made up words have feelings too) and I love Messiah Marcolin. He may look ridiculous, but that boy can sing like a motherbitch. Oddly enough, this album eventually led to me getting into sludgey stuff like Clutch.
8: Helloween – Keeper of the Seven Keys: Part I
My friend’s older brother (who absolutely worships Kai Hansen) recommended this to me after a conversation about Bruce Dickinson. I bought it along with Gamma Ray’s ‘Land of the Free’ and fell in love almost immediately. Fast guitars = this girl’s biggest weakness.
9: Dir en grey – Vulgar
A more recent album than the rest, but a fast favourite. Recommended by a random guy I met at SXSW because I was wearing a Mad Capsule Markets t-shirt. It’s heavy and groovy and the vocals are fantastic. They put on a brutal live show as well. Love love love this band. Well worth a listen, even if you’re not into the whole Japanese thing, even if it’s just for the last track.
10: Celtic Frost – Morbid Tales
This album changed my life because it was the first time my dad (a preacher) forbid me to listen to an album. I ended up having to buy it four times because he kept taking it away from me, haha! When you’ve just turned 16 and you’re driving around with your friends, blaring Celtic Frost, you can’t help but feel like a badass.