Rolling Metal Thread 2010

ah cheers guys! utech looks pretty promising; i'll hopefully digest some of this stuff presently :)

Wrath of the Weak is really good, Burzum-inspired stuff. And yeah, Horna has their moments.

What was the first heavy metal band you got into?

Quiet Riot back in 1983.

First metal band I got into: Blue Oyster Cult. (They were my first concert, too.)

New albums whose counterpoised greatnesses I still don't feel I've noted strongly or frequently enough: HIM's Screamworks and Immolation's Majesty and Decay. The sounds of people perfecting some particular thing they've chosen to absolutely dominate...

You beat me to it Glenn. I have crystalline memories of running around in 1978 with an X-Wing fighter in my hand while "Godzilla" was cranking on the stereo.

But the first metal album I really "got" was Metal Health.

METALLICA! Well... Black album Metallica... and then I spent a while lost in the mid-90s alternative wilderness. But the Black album was the first CD I ever bought!

What was your first metal metallica album? ;)

Master of Puppets or Ride the Lightning, don't remember the order in which I got them.

LOL ^ it's true!

"Drop out of life, x-wing in hand, follow Godzilla to the promised land..."

First metal band I truly got into was either Maiden or Priest, thanks to a dubbed tape a friend made me with multiple selections from both. First real album I got into on my own was And Justice For All. Fell away from metal in the early 90s thanks to absolutely no metal presence at my lolcollege, so I missed out on a lot of good stuff. Checked back in 98-99, heard a bunch of shitty nu-metal - promptly checked out again (though Slipknot stayed with me). Picked up again major in 2004 and have been filling in gaps ever since.

I had heard Zep & Sabbath from my cousin when I was about 6 ('78 or '79), as well as stuff like BOC and Nazareth; but the first metal I claimed as my own was the Judas Priest compilation Hero, Hero. I saw it at a used record shop and it had the coolest cover ever, plus it was two records and cheaper than buying a single new one. Would have been late '81 - was just entering my heavy D&D phase. Metal Health was when I started to get that there was a whole genre of stuff to explore. That was also when the local record shop carried newly released stuff and not just 70s back catalog - their MTV presence changed everything.

But the Black album was the first CD I ever bought!

same here! well, either that or nevermind. I can't remember.

first lp: some monkees best of
first tape: sir mix a lot "baby's got back" cassingle

I was huge into Justice and Bleach. 1991 disgusted me at age 18 and I skipped the Black Album, Nevermind, Psalm 69, and Angel Rat. Of course I can see the merits in all of these albums now, but of all 4, I've only gone back and actually purchased/examined the Voivod.

first lp: Michael Jackson - Thriller
first tape: Sammy Hagar - VOA (given to my as 8th bday present along with my first boombox, given at approx. 3 PM, tape taken away for alleged swears at approx. 4:15 OM)
first cd: Nirvana - Nevermind

"me" = "my"

it took me about a decade but I just started listening to nevermind again. never really stopped liking it but the overexposure coupled with the perfect mental recollection I had from listening so many times at a young age never really made me want to throw it on.

can't really say the same for the black album. first band that broke my heart. also, it really is a pretty sorry record.

psalm 69 never stopped being awesome, imo.

on another note, I'm watching the iron maiden flight 666 movie and it rules. just thinking about bruce bruce flying all of iron maiden + their crew + their family + their gear all across the world in a giant jet named "ed force one" puts a huge grin on my face.

hm, i didn't know we were doing this but these are the ones I remember buying/stealing:

first LP: Police - Synchronicity
first cassingle: Prince - Batdance
first tape: Metallica - $5.98 EP
first cd: Fu-Schnickens - FU Don't Take It Personal

first cd: Fu-Schnickens - FU Don't Take It Personal

hah - love this!

To get off metal and on topic, my first 7" was Gary Numan "Cars" and my first LP was Yellow Submarine. First cassette was probably Metal Health and first 3 CDs were Pink Floyd - Meddle, Iron Maiden - Killers, and Tad - God's Balls.

i find it hard to believe no one's done this thread before. Where's Jaymc when you need him?

It's been done many times. Just not within the Metal thread.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YnpkcfkQ4lA&feature=related

^^^ jammin this right now

really stretching my memory here...

first full-length tape: probs ride the lightning or master of puppets
first mailorder purchase: nine inch nails - broken
first 7"s: the two brujeria 7"s on alternative tentacles

the first metal tape I bought was Master of Puppets, second was Maiden's Somewhere in Time. '86 was a huge shift in taste for me. Before that the hardest stuff I liked was AC/DC and Zeppelin. partially because of MTV, I got into hair metal after that - was big into Twisted Sister, the first Tesla album, Judas Priest, Quiet Riot, stuff like that.

Menace Ruine are pretty good. I was listening to Radiance by Nadja yesterday and the new Blood Of The Black Owl; both awesome.

The first metal album I bought was Iron Maiden ST (a few years after the fact), then a couple of weeks later Live After Death. The first Metallica album I bought was Ride The Lightning. But then I got into drugs and the Butthole Surfers and didn't buy any metal for a few years.

Listening to the new Lair of the Minotaur disc, Evil Power. I don't know...I want to love this band, because on the surface they're the ultimate metal band - their name, the fact that their albums have titles like Carnage, The Ultimate Destroyer and War Metal Battle Master, the video for the last album's title track - but I just don't feel like they're living up to their potential. In my opinion, they peaked with The Ultimate Destroyer.

I love the new LOTM album! They've gone totally primitive, very Darkthrone-ish at times, and the more simplified, direct approach pays off hugely. It's huge, it's blunt, it's dumb, but it's the catchiest stuff they've ever done. This band was made to make true, rousing battle metal anthems, and they've finally done that.

first 3 CDs were Pink Floyd - Meddle, Iron Maiden - Killers, and Tad - God's Balls.

I didn't think God's Balls was released on CD except for that truncated version tacked to the end of Salt Lick?

Anyway, these are my firsts:

First single: Def Leppard - 'Animal'
First tape: Michael Jackson - Bad
First LP: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles OST
First CD: Soundgarden - Superunknown (I still love this one)

Can't wait for LOTM. Just received new Darkthrone though... which should be good.

I stand by my take on the LOTM disc. I think it's been all downhill for them since The Ultimate Destroyer. Based on the new song they played last night, though, I'm very excited for the next disc by The Sword. (I also hope they record and release the version of Thin Lizzy's "Cold Sweat" they played, 'cause that kicked all kinds of ass.) I didn't get either of those on video (I was still online during the new song and only heard it because it was an outdoor show, and...well, I just didn't record the other one), but you can see them play an older song, and see the first song of Motörhead's set ("Iron Fist") right here.

I gotta tell you, this Flip Video camera/device is fucking amazing. It cost me $185, and the recording quality is fantastic. I feel kinda goofy using it, because the model user in the TV commercials is, like, a six-year-old girl, but fuck it - the thing works.

Oh, and as far as firsts are concerned, my first metal album was by Judas Priest...might have been Point of Entry, might have been Screaming for Vengeance, I don't remember exactly, but it was right around 1982-83 that I discovered them and immediately became a huge fan and had my dad (parents were divorcing) buy me pretty much their whole catalog from Sin After Sin through Screaming, which was new then. I specifically remember picking up British Steel and Hell Bent for Leather in one of those big chain stores where the cassettes were in almost indestructible plastic sleeve things that I had to chop open with a knife because the cashier hadn't removed them before we left the store. I had those two and Screaming on cassette, but the others - Sin After Sin, Unleashed in the East, and Point of Entry (I never had Stained Class) were on vinyl.

I should be more nervous about interviewing Lemmy in front of what I'm thinking is gonna be 5-600 people today, but I'm weirdly calm. I'll probably flip out and shit myself (only figuratively, I hope) about 4 PM CST, when we're meeting up - the event starts at 5PM CST. It doesn't look like it's gonna be webcast or anything, fortunately/unfortunately.

Lemmy was the coolest guy ever when I met him at an aftershow my sophomore year of college and clumsily asked him for an impromptu interview. He gave me 10 minutes of his time, answered all my stupid questions, and then offered me some Jack Daniels at the end.

But yeah, I can understand how interviewing him in front of a big audience would be an entirely different thing -- DON'T CHOKE.

Good luck Unperson, and say hello to Lisa and Jenny from me. Would love to be there for the Home Of Metal shizzle alone.

Wish I could see that Q&A with Lemmy, as well as to see all the Voivod shows down there this week. Best of luck, Phil!

Yeah, my nervousness is all about the presence of a live audience. I know exactly how cool and helpful/friendly Lemmy himself is; I've interviewed him twice before. In fact, the first one is one of my favorite stories ever, and I don't think I've ever shared it here. So here goes.

The interview took place in 2003, when Motörhead was supporting Hammered and I was still EIC of High Society. I met up with them at The World, a club owned by the WWE, and since it was for High Society, we brought along two female models. Lemmy and I did a half-hour interview, which went great, and then he sat down on this big leather couch to be photographed, and the girls took their clothes off. Whereupon the WWE flack in the room shit himself, immediately trying to quash the whole thing and have all of us ejected from the building. We started frantically arguing, pointing out that there were no WWE logos in the shot (the couch was propped up against a blank wall) and that we promised not to reveal the location of the shoot in the final piece (we didn't; we just said "High Society caught up with Motörhead when they came through New York), and on and on. Either way, I was dragged upstairs afterward to meet with some VP of something or other at WWE Entertainment, had to sign some papers swearing to all of the above, blah blah blah. Totally bonkers, to my mind; oily dudes in Speedos are okay, but naked women aren't? Oh, well. Lemmy was totally good-humored about it all, of course.

I didn't think God's Balls was released on CD except for that truncated version tacked to the end of Salt Lick?

That's what I had. Didn't realize that this has never been corrected? I'll have to ask Tad about that next time I'm in Seattle.

Yep, if you want the other three tracks, you've gotta track down the (out of print, I think) vinyl.

Oh I've had the vinyl since it came out. One of my very favorite records. I always claim that it's the heaviest record Seattle produced until Burning Witch.

I don't get starstruck by anyone but it's still a bit weird to me that Tad is my friend now.

Tad were my favorite Seattle band. Saw them play City Gardens in Trenton, NJ in support of Salt Lick. They were opening for Primus for some reason.

Have you seen his new YOB-influenced doom outfit Brothers of the Sonic Cloth? I'm not blown away by the recordings but the live show is GREAt.

Don't think they've hit the East Coast yet, and anyway shows are a rare thing for me these days.

This doesn't have much to do with metal; I just love it...

http://bit.ly/9ktCbR

That is fantastic and I don't even watch BSG.

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Yeah, Decibel is great. Honestly, the best thing to do to really get into metal? Just start buying shit. Really. I was in your position back in 2004, trying to get back into metal after more than a decade of not really keeping up with it. I just started sampling from all over, grabbing albums by bands I'd never heard before or even heard of. Heard a lot of horrible shit and a lot of great shit. But it really helped me focus on on the subgenres that did the most for me. Since then I feel like I've developed a definite "taste" in the metal I love. You just need to dive in and surround yourself with the music. Take chances. As great as Decibel is, don't let it dominate your selections. Browse Terrorizer, browse BW&BK, browse whatever mags you see at the newsstand. You'll be better off and find yourself exposed to quite a wide variety.

Anyway, hope that helps somewhat.

― he's always been a bit of an anti-climb Max (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Thursday, March 11, 2010 11:59 PM (6 days ago)

Thanks, jon! That's solid advice. I've already learned a bunch just from reading this thread and some older ILX threads on metal, but I definitely think just buying a bunch of stuff is a good idea.

ksh: there are a bunch of really, really good mixes here: http://ghostradio-archive.blogspot.com/

I don't know who the guy is that does 'em but he knows his shit, like, immensely. The one I am rocking right now is #XXI, the newest one...fucking incredible. they're all beautifully put together & grouped well & will give you lots to dig into. I

― the most sacred couple in Christendom (J0hn D.), Friday, March 12, 2010 12:29 AM (5 days ago)

Oh that looks great J0hn! Thanks so much. I'm going to download one or two of them and check 'em out. :-)

In the 90s, those hoary days before blogs, I used to just take several hours a week to go to record stores (like Cheapo's in Minneapolis) and look through all the CDs alphabetically, searching for metal albums with covers/logos/names that interested me. I'd listen to piles of them in the store, and take chances on anything that seemed intriguing. I put back 3/4 of what I picked up, but some of the shit I discovered has stuck with me for life. That's how I first heard Amorphis - Karelian Isthmus, Grave - Into the Grave, and even Coroner - No More Color (which I discovered way later than I should have).

The thrill of the hunt counts, and good metal CDs are hiding in record stores everywhere.

In the 90s, those hoary days before blogs, I used to just take several hours a week to go to record stores (like Cheapo's in Minneapolis) and look through all the CDs alphabetically, searching for metal albums with covers/logos/names that interested me.

Haha, that was me in a nutshell from 1984 to 1988. The best was making a blind purchase because the cover looked cool (Slayer's Haunting the Chapel, Megadeth's Peace Sells for instance) and being utterly floored or just plain baffled by the music inside.

Yeah for me it was all about discovering death metal around '94. I saw the Chaos AD tour and was already into Carcass and Bolt Thrower and Necrophobic. So the floodgates were blowing open.

Oh yeah, I was gonna say that I discovered Vader - The Ultimate Incantation this way, but then I remembered reading it's review in S.O.D. They gave it a rating of Ten Fucking Skulls, so I knew I had to have it.