First Metal Album

They're Metal influenced for sure, but I've met people who dont consider them Metal. Personally I'm not quite sure, I think they could probably be accurately classified as something else just as easily.

Þessi undirskrift kemur málinu bara alls ekkert við!

Personally I definitely consider Rammstein metal, so Mutter it is

Forever TRUE - Forever BLUE!
UMUR on RYM

If you wanna consider Rammstein as Metal then Mutter. Otherwise...something Iron Maiden. Cant remember what album I first purchased. Probably either Fear of the Dark or Brave New World.

Þessi undirskrift kemur málinu bara alls ekkert við!

Metallica's Ride the Lightning

"Before you see the light you must die!!!!!!!!!!" - Slayer

"Today is born the seventh one, born of woman, the seventh son" - Steve Harris

First metal album I heard would have been Saxon "Power & The Glory" and I was about 13 so we are going back 26 years (clucking bell!) and the record was around 6 years old at that point. My cousin lent me his entire vinyl collection I remember which had all the Maiden records inclusive of "Somewhere In Time", Rush "Moving Pictures", UFO "Strangers In The Night" and some punk records that I quickly dismissed,

First album I bought would have been Obituary "Slowly We Rot", I remember picking up the album and looking at that artwork and thinking I had to have it. I took it back to my grandparents house as my dad worked nights and was in bed, my granddad was a hi-fi buff and had some neat equipment and he let me put the record on in his den. He stayed for a minute after it started because he was convinced the LP or his equipment was faulty because he had never heard anything like it. I told him it was supposed to sound like that and he just left the room looking very puzzled. Confused

I remember hearing "Smoke On The Water" when I was about 4 or 5 and thinking it was the coolest thing ever. That was 1976 or 1977...

First album I had was Twisted Sister's "Stay Hungry", which I got in 1984. First non-hair metal was Iron Maiden's "Somewhere In Time". First one I bought was Iron Maiden's "Seventh Son Of A Seventh Son". Those were the days...

hahaha, I was 10 when I bought The Final Countdown as well! And it was my first vinyl, leaving aside the OST to Rocky IV that my older brother sold to me for 20 cents (in today's value) a couple of years before because I wanted to own a vinyl of my own and I liked Eye of the Tiger. My brother, being the dickhead that he was, first drew cigars and glasses on all the people on the back (Rocky, Adrian, Drako, the lot!).

Anyway, my oldest brother had a substantial vinyl collection (which he did not like to share, so I played them when he was not around with fear for my life) and he considered Europe to be "pussies" (he was way into thrash at that point) and he would not even consider buying the album. I loved the title track (who doesn't?) so I went and bought it myself. It's a great album actually. And I remember feeling justified when I saw Mike Wead (Hexenhaus, Memento Mori, Mercyful Fate, King Diamond, etc) in 1999 wearing a tourshirt of the album. Ha!

But, my serious discography collecting started in 1990 (now I need my own collection, stealinng through my brother's did not cut it anymore) and my first conscious choice were:

1) Metallica - Kill Em All

2) Metallica - Ride the Lightning and Master of Puppets

3) Flotsam and Jetsam - No Place for Disgrace and Helloween - Walls of Jericho (EP and Judas included)

4) Metallica - And Justice for All

5) Flotsam and Jetsam - Doomsday for the Deceiver

...which are all albums I have tattoed in my heart through excessive playing.

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I really can't remember, been listening to metal all my life. I do remember one of my earliest memories is hearing Number of the Beast.

If I say fuck two more times that's forty-six fucks in this fucked up rhyme

I think my first Metal album was either ...And Justice For All or Powerslave.....I think I may have got them both at the same time.

Edited by Dobbie03 - 19 Jun 2015 at 3:25pm

Powerman 5000 haha!