How big is your metal collection?

I just started collecting CDs last fall, and out of my 70 or so CDs, I would say that about 50, give or take, are metal or metal-related.

artist / band	title of the album	year recorded	genre
A.C.T	Imaginary Friends	2001	metal/progressive
A.C.T	Last Epic	2003	metal/progressive
AC/DC	Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap	1976	rock/hard
Alice In Chains	Facelift	1990	metal/grunge
Alice In Chains	Dirt	1992	metal/grunge
Altura	Mercy	1996	metal/progressive
Anthrax	Persistence Of Time	1990	metal/thrash
Antigama	Warning	2008	metal/grindcore
Arch, John	A Twist Of Fate	2003	metal/progressive
Assjack	Assjack	2009	metal/hardcore
Beck Group, The Jeff	Beck-Ola	1969	rock/hard
Behemoth	Satanica	1999	metal/blackened death
Black Sabbath	Black Sabbath	1970	rock/hard
Black Sabbath	Master Of Reality	1971	rock/hard
Black Sabbath	Vol 4	1972	rock/hard
Black Sabbath	Live At Last	1974	rock/hard
Black Sabbath	Sabotage	1975	rock/hard
Blue Cheer	Vincebus Eruptum	1968	rock/hard
Blue �yster Cult	Blue �yster Cult	1971	rock/hard
Blue �yster Cult	Tyranny And Mutation	1972	rock/hard
Blue �yster Cult	Secret Treaties	1974	rock/hard
Blue �yster Cult	Fire Of Unknown Origin	1981	rock/hard
Burning The Masses	Mind Control	2010	metal/death
Carnival In Coal	Vivalavida	1999	metal/grindcore/pop
Coalesce	012 : 2	2008	metal/hardcore
Crimson Glory	Crimson Glory	1986	metal/progressive
Crimson Glory	Transcendence	1988	metal/progressive
Cult, The	Beyond Good And Evil	2001	metal/heavy
Dead Soul Tribe	A Lullaby For The Devil	2006-2007	metal/progressive
Deep Purple	Deep Purple	1968	rock/hard
Deep Purple	Fireball	1971	rock/hard
Deep Purple	Machine Head	1972	rock/hard
Deep Purple	Who Do We Think We Are	1973	rock/hard
Deep Purple	Burn	1974	rock/hard
Deep Purple	Come Taste The Band	1975	rock/hard
Def Leppard	Pyromania	1983	metal/glam
Dickinson, Bruce	The Chemical Wedding	1998	metal/heavy
Dickinson, Bruce	Tyranny Of Souls	2005	metal/heavy
Disharmonic Orchestra	Expositionsprophylaxe	1990	metal/death
Dream Theater	Images And Words	1992	metal/progressive
Extreme	Extreme	1989	metal/glam
Extreme	Pornograffiti	1990	metal/glam/funk
Extreme	III Sides to Every Story	1992	metal/glam/funk
Faith No More	Angel Dust	1992	metal/rap
Fates Warning	Awaken The Guardian	1986	metal/progressive
Fates Warning	Perfect Symmetry	1989	metal/progressive
Fates Warning	Parallels	1991	metal/progressive
Fishbone	Truth And Soul	1988	metal/funk
Fishbone	Fishbone	2002	metal/funk
Fishbone	Live At The Temple Bar And More	2008	metal/funk
Helloween	Keeper Of The Seven Keys Pt 1	1986-87	metal/power
Helmet	Betty	1994	metal/hardcore
Ice Age	The Great Divide	1999	metal/progressive
Ice Age	Liberation	2001	metal/progressive
Iron Maiden	The Number Of The Beast	1981	metal/heavy
Iron Maiden	Powerslave	1984	metal/heavy
Iron Maiden	Somewhere In Time	1986	metal/heavy
Iron Maiden	Seventh Son Of A Seventh Son	1988	metal/heavy
It Bites	Eat Me In St Louis	1989	rock/hard
iwrestledabearonce	It's All Happening	2009	metal/mathcore/pop
Jelly Jam, The	The Jelly Jam	2002	metal/groove
Judas Priest	Sad Wings Of Destiny	1976	metal/heavy
Judas Priest	Sin After Sin	1977	metal/heavy
Judas Priest	British Steel	1980	metal/heavy
Judas Priest	Painkiller	1990	metal/heavy
King's X	Gretchen Goes To Nebraska	1989	metal/groove
King's X	Faith Hope Love	1990	metal/groove
King's X	XV	2008	metal/groove
Kiss	Dressed To Kill	1975	rock/hard
Kyuss	Welcome To Sky Valley	1994	metal/stoner
Kyuss	...And The Circus Leaves Town	1995	metal/stoner
Lady Pank	Zawsze Tam Gdzie Ty	1990	rock/hard
Lady Pank	Nana	1994	rock/hard
Led Zeppelin	I	1968	rock/hard
Led Zeppelin	II	1969	rock/hard
Led Zeppelin	III	1970	rock/hard
Led Zeppelin	IV	1971	rock/hard
Led Zeppelin	Houses Of The Holy	1972	rock/hard
Malmsteen, Yngwie J.	Yngwie J. Malmsteen's Rising Force	1984	metal/neo-classical
Melvins, The	A Senile Animal	2006	metal/sludge
Melvins, The	Nude With Boots	2008	metal/sludge
Mephistopheles	Songs Of The desolqte Ones	1999	metal/blackened death
Meshuggah	obZen	2007	metal/thrash/avant-garde
Metallica	Ride The Lightning	1984	metal/thrash
Metallica	Master Of Puppets	1985	metal/thrash
Metallica	...And Justice For All	1988	metal/thrash
Metallica	Death Magnetic	2007-2008	metal/thrash
Ministry	Psalm 69	1991	metal/industrial
Morbid Angel	Blessed Are The Sick	1991	metal/death
Mr. Big	Bump Ahead	1993	metal/glam
Mr. Bungle	Mr. Bungle	1991	metal/avant-garde
Mr. Bungle	Disco Volante	1995	metal/avant-garde
Mudhoney	Every Good Boy Deserves Fudge	1991	metal/grunge
Mumakil	Behold The Failure	2008	metal/grindcore
Mundanus Imperium	The Spectral Spheres Coronation	1997-98	metal/symphonic black
Neuraxis	The Thin Line Between	2008	metal/death
Osbourne, Ozzy	No More Tears	1991	metal/heavy
Osbourne, Ozzy	Ozzmosis	1995	metal/heavy
Pain Of Salvation	One Hour By The Concrete Lake	1998	metal/progressive
Pain Of Salvation	The Perfect Element Pt I	2000	metal/progressive
Pain Of Salvation	Remedy Lane	2002	metal/progressive
Pearl Jam	Ten	1992	metal/grunge
Planet X	Quantum	2007	metal/instrumental
Platypus	When Pus Comes To Shove	1998	metal/groove
Platypus	Ice Cycles	2000	metal/groove
Queen	Queen	1973	rock/hard
Queen	Queen II	1974	rock/hard
Queen	Live Killers	1979	rock/hard
Queen	Live At The Bowl	1982	rock/hard
Queensr�che	The Warning	1984	metal/progressive
Queensr�che	Rage For Order	1986	metal/progressive
Queensr�che	Operation: Midcrime	1988	metal/progressive
Queensr�che	Empire	1990	metal/progressive
Queensr�che	Promised Land	1994	metal/progressive
Rainbow	Ritchie Blackmore's Rainbow	1975	rock/hard
Rainbow	Rising	1976	rock/hard
Rainbow	Long Live Rock'N'Roll	1978	rock/hard
Rush	Snakes And Arrows	2006	rock/hard
Sherinian, Derek	Planet X	1999	metal/instrumental
Skid Row	Skid Row	1989	metal/glam
Slayer	Hell Awaits	1985	metal/thrash
Slayer	Reign In Blood	1986	metal/thrash
Soudgarden	Superunknown	1994	metal/grunge
Strapping Young Lad	City	1996	metal/extreme/industrial
Strapping Young Lad	Strapping Young Lad	2003	metal/extreme
Strapping Young Lad	Alien	2005	metal/extreme
Suffocation	Blood Oath	2009	metal/death
Sweet Noise	Getto	1996	metal/hardcore
Sweet Noise	Koniec Wieku	1998	metal/hardcore
Thin Lizzy	Jailbreak	1976	rock/hard
Thin Lizzy	Johnny The Fox	1976	rock/hard
Titan	A Raining Sun Of Light & Love, For You & You & You	2007	rock/stoner/psychedelic
TRUST	R�pression	1980	metal/heavy
Uriah Heep	Salisbury	1971	rock/hard
Uriah Heep	The Magician's Birthday	1972	rock/hard
Uriah Heep	Demons And Wizards	1972	rock/hard
Van Halen	Van Halen	1978	metal/heavy
Van Halen	Fair Warning	1981	metal/heavy
Van Halen	Diver Down	1982	metal/heavy
Vesania	God The Lux	2004-2005	metal/blackened death
Waltari	Blood Sample	2007	metal/eclectic
Whitesnake	The Early Years	1978-1984	rock/hard

My non-psysical collection corresponds exactly to my physical one. I like to buy the CDs, because I like having the physical token (and I don't like illegal downloads - I mean, we should support the bands, eh?) and then I transfer them to my iPod.

As to the size of my collection, I don't really know since it's integrated into the rest of my music collection (of which metal albums do constitute a considerable majority), but I'd say it's probably not too impressive to some of the super ultra metal afficionados. But it ain't small either.

Negoba wrote: I had hundreds of cassette tapes. Most of them I have no idea where they are now. I've moved so many times, and heat and what not destroys magnetic tape.   A lot of CDs have come in and out of my life...I've bought, copied, re-purchased, etc. Mindcrime probably 5 times.   For some reason my copy of Mark Wood's Voodoo Violince is still sitting at my parents' house in my old bedroom. Anyone remember that one?

Yup! The man sure knows how to play . . . a VIOLIN!!!! Violin VIOLINCE!
I love that he's on the Combat Label - The Label of Guitar Shredders

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About 66 of my CD's are DEFINATELY PURE METAL. I left out everything that is potentially contentious, such as any proto metal/ hard rock  (Thus I did not count things such as Black Sabbath, Deep Purple and Alice Cooper) or any of my grunge related albums (So I did not count any of my Soundgarden, Alice In Chains or R.A.T.M. stuff either) I included only Trad, Glam and Thrash. I would have had more, only for the fact that my grunge collection has kind of took over my metal (and even my prog, for those of you who know me from PA!) Pretty measly for one who has over 600 discs of nothing but rock that only 10% is pure metal! I have disgraced myself, clogging up all that space with half of Seattle! (flogs oneself with a bullet belt)

Of my 1500 cds, probably 500 are metal. 

Out of around 3000 albums in my collection I'd say about 1200 will be on this site. This is of course including proto metal bands like Zeppelin and Deep Purple etc.

Edited by Nightfly - 15 Apr 2010 at 12:57pm

Murphy wrote: I can feel your pain. A couple of years ago, in a fleeting attempt to start life over I bundle up most of my black metal collection and burnt them in a bonfire out in the forest; goodbye LLN tapes, goodbye nihilistic misanthropy... good excuse to run naked through the white wilderness, the night winds caressing at my loins, tho'.

Now THAT seemed like a good time to be blasting Skyclad while going through that Pagan Ritual .
Mine however was due to the economic climate and trying to find a Steady 9 to 5 job.
Being a Freelance Artist is about all the work I'm finding (and it aint enough folks!).
Next time Murphy, trade them CD's and Tapes for cash . . . go "Skyclad" after (and nihilistic misanthropy
will just get you wacky friends) .


Edited by MAVIIIVAM - 12 Apr 2010 at 12:43am

Ugh, that hits a sore spot ,

I "had" over 1000 Metal and Metal sub-genre CD's, but last Year was really tough and had to sell
almost HALF of them in small stacks  Month to Month . . .
But I kept my faves and Collectors items.  All 500+ of my Metal LP's I still have though.
(I need to write them all down one day).

Recent Note:
Bad Bad MAV . . .
I "had" over 2500 Cd's until I had to sell bits and pieces of it from every genre of music.
My Classic Rock, Prog Rock/Metal, Thrash, Death and Heavy Metal got the brunt of the loss .
But only the stuff I knew I could get again or have been re-mastered.
So basically I had over 1500 in the Metal sub-catagories . . . I need a steadier way of making a
living (Freelance Artist), so much Metal has come out that I've missed out on .
I've had a collection going since 1977 with LP's up to about 1998 and my 1st purchase of a CD,
Cyclone Temple "I Hate, therefore I Am" in 1991.  A nice memory, and that the 1st purchase was
a Thrash Album makes sence (and buying it at a great Store that still resides in the Claremont
Village in Claremont Ca. "Rhino Music") .


Edited by MAVIIIVAM - 15 May 2010 at 3:07pm