How big is your metal collection?
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Topic: How big is your metal collection?
Posted By: Metalbaswee
Subject: How big is your metal collection?
Date Posted: 27 Mar 2010 at 3:58pm
| So, how big is it? In GB,Albums,Tracks? |
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Posted By: Logan
Date Posted: 27 Mar 2010 at 4:12pm
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So big that even Lawrence Welk would envy it.
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Posted By: UMUR
Date Posted: 27 Mar 2010 at 4:14pm
My wife says it�s way too big ------------- http://www.lyngby-boldklub.dk/" rel="nofollow - Forever TRUE - Forever BLUE! https://rateyourmusic.com/~UMUR" rel="nofollow - UMUR on RYM |
Posted By: Logan
Date Posted: 27 Mar 2010 at 4:17pm
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^ does she mean your collection?
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Posted By: Balthamel
Date Posted: 27 Mar 2010 at 4:24pm
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Opeth - Blackwater Park, Damnation, Deliverence, Ghost Reverice and Watershed Mastodon - Remission, Leviathan, Blood Mountain and Crack the Skay In Flames - Colony, Clayman, Reroute to Remain and Soundrack of Your Escape Meshuggah - Destroy Erase Iprove Lamb of God - Sacrament and Wrath Korn - Follow the Leader Masterplan - MKII Megadeath - the World Needs a Hero Dream Theater - Images & Words, Awake, Train of Thought, Systematic Chaos and Black Clouds and Silver Linings Planet X - Quantum The Sword - Gods of the Earth Tool - Lateralus and Opiate Soundgarden - Badmotorfinger and Superunknown Anathema - Judgement Atheist - Elements Gojira - From mars to Sirius Faith no More - Angel Dust Ayreon - 01011001 Dimmu Borgir - In Sorte Diaboli Vreid - Milorg Cynic - Traced in Air A.C.T - Imagenary Friends Deftones - Andrenaline and some more |
Posted By: UMUR
Date Posted: 27 Mar 2010 at 4:50pm
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Logan wrote:Posted By: Raff
Date Posted: 27 Mar 2010 at 5:06pm
| Not as big as other people's, but not too minuscule either - especially if we include hard rock, grunge, alternative and such. For metal, as for prog, we tend to get stuff we are bound to like, so our collection will never be as enormous as some other people's. |
Posted By: Vehemency
Date Posted: 27 Mar 2010 at 5:16pm
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Not too big either. I won't buy stuff just for collection's sake. Everything is for listening purposes only, no matter if it's a tape limited to 50 handnumbered copies. Includes other than metal releases too, of course: http://rateyourmusic.com/~skaven |
Posted By: Matt
Date Posted: 27 Mar 2010 at 5:20pm
Medium size, not to big and not to little.  have to be a few hundred------------- Matt |
Posted By: DeathOfSeasons
Date Posted: 27 Mar 2010 at 6:15pm
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Well my CD collection is at around 800 and something albums at the moment and I'd guess three quaters of those are Metal albums.
I've got a photo of my collection on my RYM page: http://rateyourmusic.com/~DeathOfSeasons - http://rateyourmusic.com/~DeathOfSeasons
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Posted By: birdwithteeth11
Date Posted: 27 Mar 2010 at 11:25pm
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I'd say about 60-70% of my music is metal or hard rock-related in some way.
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Posted By: coorpz
Date Posted: 28 Mar 2010 at 9:26am
Oh yeah. Big. Just getting more TR00 KVLT VNTERGROVND METAL 4 MY KOLLEKTION. Witch t**t ^ |
Posted By: dean
Date Posted: 28 Mar 2010 at 11:19am
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I have no idea - probably in thousands if I ever bothered count them. I tend to be a competist for many metal bands (Anathema, Paradise Lost, Opeth, Katatonia, Pain Of Salvation, My Dying Bride, Type O Negative, Moonspell, Sentenced, Limbonic Art, Emperor, Theatre of Tragedy, The Gathering, Nightwish, Craddle Of Filth, Savatage, John Oliva's Pain, Trans Siberian Orchestra, Tool) and cherry-pick the major part of the discographies from many more (Celtic Frost, Metalica, Megadeth, Nevermore, Morbid Angel, Cathedral, Threshold, Dream Theater, Orphaned Land, Ironing Maiden, Darkthrone, Mayhem, Neurosis/Tribes of Neurot...) -------------  |
Posted By: rushfan4
Date Posted: 28 Mar 2010 at 11:26am
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It looks as though I have about 600 CDs that I have labelled as Heavy Metal. That doesn't include albums that are included in either the alternative or progressive categories. Most of it is 70's/80's/90's metal however. Any new metal is most likely from the traditional prog metal category. ------------- 
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Posted By: A Person
Date Posted: 28 Mar 2010 at 11:48am
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605 MB so far.
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Posted By: Pekka
Date Posted: 28 Mar 2010 at 12:03pm
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I'd say a few hundred albums, I've never counted them per genre. somewhere between 200-400 I'd say. ------------- http://iamthreepeople.bandcamp.com" rel="nofollow">  <- Click on this!
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Posted By: thellama73
Date Posted: 29 Mar 2010 at 7:11pm
| Not too big. Fifty albums, tops. |
Posted By: Kashmir75
Date Posted: 30 Mar 2010 at 12:19am
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I've got everything by the following artists: Metallica Iron Maiden Opeth Dream Theater Led Zeppelin All of the original Black Sabbath, and some of the Dio and Tony Martin era stuff Not entire discographies, but I have albums by many other bands too: Slayer Megadeth Anthrax Trivium Machine Head System of A Down Soundgarden Tool Pain of Salvation Rage Against The Machine Alice In Chains Faith No More Mastodon Symphony X Judas Priest Ozzy Osbourne Van Halen Motorhead Budgie and many more...
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Posted By: Sleeper
Date Posted: 30 Mar 2010 at 10:26am
| I have about 450 albums and I'd say 200- 250 are metal, most of which are prog metal, but I do branch out slightly. |
Posted By: CCVP
Date Posted: 30 Mar 2010 at 11:52am
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My "pure/tr00" metal collection is pretty small, specially when compared with my prog collection. It would be around 15/20 albums top. But if you include my progmetal collection the number sharply grows to over 250/300 albums. -------------   
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Posted By: FusionKing
Date Posted: 31 Mar 2010 at 11:03am
| ...Never as big as I'd like it to be... |
Posted By: MAVIIIVAM
Date Posted: 11 Apr 2010 at 8:19am
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")  .------------- "If you're happy to be an Ant in the Sand Box, you're welcome to it!" -Forbidden For Progressive Metal and Prog Rock, come visit, request songs and explore at PrOgulus.com |
Posted By: Murphy
Date Posted: 11 Apr 2010 at 11:11pm
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'. ------------- Guai ai gelidi mostri �Everything that is doddering, squint-eyed, infamous, sullying, and grotesque is contained for me in this single word: God� Andr� Breton |
Posted By: MAVIIIVAM
Date Posted: 12 Apr 2010 at 12:41am
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)  .------------- "If you're happy to be an Ant in the Sand Box, you're welcome to it!" -Forbidden For Progressive Metal and Prog Rock, come visit, request songs and explore at PrOgulus.com |
Posted By: Sean Trane
Date Posted: 12 Apr 2010 at 3:32am
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If we are to include every group that's so far included (or will be soon), I'd say I've some 30 to 40 albums maybe up to 50.... (Zep, Purple, Rainbow, BOC, grunge, RATM, RHCP and Heep included)
But pure metal albums.... I'd say something like 15 or 20 (including Priest, Anvil,; Sabbath, Maiden etc...) ------------- my music collection increased tenfolds when I switched from drug-addicted musicians to crazy ones....
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Posted By: Nightfly
Date Posted: 14 Apr 2010 at 2:37pm
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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.
just remembered I forgot to include the ones I have listed as prog that crossover to this site like prog metal, heavy prog etc so i guess that'll raise it to around 1600 - 1800.
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Posted By: MAVIIIVAM
Date Posted: 14 Apr 2010 at 2:44pm
I'd been wondering when you "Audiophiles" were gonna' come out into the light .Deep Purple and Blackmore are great! (I like the Morse era too and I like that they respect each others music). But Blackmore era is definately a Classic. ------------- "If you're happy to be an Ant in the Sand Box, you're welcome to it!" -Forbidden For Progressive Metal and Prog Rock, come visit, request songs and explore at PrOgulus.com |
Posted By: The T 666
Date Posted: 14 Apr 2010 at 10:39pm
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Of my 1500 cds, probably 500 are metal. ------------- 
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Posted By: FusionKing
Date Posted: 15 Apr 2010 at 7:17am
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I shall go and count them now...so I can give a genuine answer to that!
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Posted By: FusionKing
Date Posted: 15 Apr 2010 at 8:02am
| 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) |
Posted By: Negoba
Date Posted: 15 Apr 2010 at 8:14am
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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? ------------- We're gonna do a little number featuring Randy Rhoads... Wine is fine but whisky's quicker. That's what Rock n' Roll's About!!!! |
Posted By: FusionKing
Date Posted: 15 Apr 2010 at 8:22am
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Nice avatar, Negoba!
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Posted By: topofsm
Date Posted: 15 Apr 2010 at 12:05pm
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I have exactly 66 albums in my collection. I'm probably going to wager 30-35 are metal, but I'm not sure and I haven't counted.
However I do know that I need 600 more albums.  ------------- Lost respect for these archives when I saw Creed added, among other bands. Not going to be foruming here anymore. You can keep my reviews if you want. |
Posted By: MAVIIIVAM
Date Posted: 15 Apr 2010 at 1:37pm
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  ------------- "If you're happy to be an Ant in the Sand Box, you're welcome to it!" -Forbidden For Progressive Metal and Prog Rock, come visit, request songs and explore at PrOgulus.com |
Posted By: MAVIIIVAM
Date Posted: 16 Apr 2010 at 3:26pm
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By the way folks . . . You guys with the smaller "Physical" collection of Metal, does that mean the rest of your Metal Music is on MP3? I'd say that is your "Collection" as well. And are they FULL Albums or just selected Tracks you purchased? Questions questions . . . ------------- "If you're happy to be an Ant in the Sand Box, you're welcome to it!" -Forbidden For Progressive Metal and Prog Rock, come visit, request songs and explore at PrOgulus.com |
Posted By: Time Signature
Date Posted: 16 Apr 2010 at 3:43pm
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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. ------------- 
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Posted By: topofsm
Date Posted: 19 Apr 2010 at 11:56am
MP3 collection =/= a music collection. ------------- Lost respect for these archives when I saw Creed added, among other bands. Not going to be foruming here anymore. You can keep my reviews if you want. |
Posted By: lucas
Date Posted: 28 Apr 2010 at 4:45am
I didn't include the first two Danzig albums (more bluesy rock than hard rock)
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Posted By: bonnek
Date Posted: 28 Apr 2010 at 5:47am
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About a third of my albums is metal of related (hard rock, grunge,...). That's around 600 or 700 titles. |
Posted By: NecronCommander
Date Posted: 28 Apr 2010 at 12:22pm
| 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. |
Posted By: FusionKing
Date Posted: 15 May 2010 at 7:38am
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It's gone from 66 discs to 90 discs now, so hopefully when my next trip to the city pushes it over the hundred mark, it will be a more honourable collection of metal.
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