First Metal Album

The first metal album I heard was probably Number of the Beast, before that I had heard Kiss, Moterhead etc. But Maiden blew me away, they quickly became my favorite band at age 6. Big smile

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Probably the first metal album I've bought, embarassingly, is Killswitch Engage's "As Daylight Dies". I listened to a bit of metal that I downloaded before that but that was the first physical album I've had.

That's not embarrassing. Killswitch shreds it up. Even if their fans are mostly teeny-boppers, it doesn't mean their music is bad. I love Killswitch and dig a handful of metalcore artists.

I wish Howard Jones was still in the band...

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Metallica-Ride The Lightning and it was mind-blowing Headbanger

The year was 2004 at the tender age of 14 Big smile

Edited by ProgMetaller2112 - 21 Jan 2013 at 2:40am

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

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

Giving my age away a bit but it would be either Black Sabbath - S/T or Deep Purple - Machine Head on vinyl in 1972. Up till then I had been listening to The Beatles, Bob Dylan & Donovan.

I loved that one too when it came out. I think I was 8 years old Headbanger

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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

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.

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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 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...