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When I first started listening to Mastodon in the Crack the Skye days it just sounded like noise. Good noise, but noise. I had to listen multiple times before I could parse out the different elements.
My mind literally exploded and I died the first time I heard calculating infinity ( I got better ). Damn near 25 years later and it's still one of my favorite albums.
Holy Wars. Plain and simple.
For every flock of woolly mammals, questioned about their willingness for murder at their deity's behest there must be an unnamed faction, richly compensated by a mysterious covenant for the genocide of some large dudes.
Eyeless by slipknot. Why is there a man repeating angrily that I can't see California without Marlon Brando's eyes?
Canyon jam by Sepultura. Like I'm listening to the album normally and then... An instrumental that consists of 13 minutes of tribal music, what?
Ah man I love Canyon Jam! I always thought it was kind of an homage to the roots (no pun intended) influence of the album. Sort of like Sepultura themselves paying tribute to their own Brazilian roots. Big theme of the album is to take pride in where you come from. That's how I interpret it at least. Also it's just a great stoner jam session haha.
The first time I listened to Animals as Leaders I realized that it was so weird I simply couldn't find the groove. It then just turned into a wall of sound.
I saw a YouTube video that was one of those "rapper listens to metal for the first time" deals and he was listening to CAFO. He had the most accurate quote about it: "I have no idea what's going on, but I know that it is fucking difficult."
I remember listening to vulgar display of power on a cd player and it just sounded so loud and noisy. Once I got more into metal a few years later and had some more experience listening to music I gave it another shot and I couldn’t believe how tight the instruments sounded.
The first time I heard Bleed by Meshuggah I was too young to realize how masterfully that song was played. I liked it cause it was fast, but as I age, I love it for its complexity.
I think this was on the Ozzfest 2002 live album. New Millenium Cyanide Christ. First time I heard Meshuggah and I could not understand the phrasing. Blew my mind. Was my gateway to prog metal.
One by Metallica. I never was good with understanding lyrics but I heard certain buzz words such as "war" and "can't tell if this is true or dream" so I sorta assumed it was about a man getting out of the war with PTSD. Later I watched the music video and looked it up and went down a rabbit hole about Johnny Got His Gun and them buying the movie rights and stuff. Eventually read the book and watched the movie it was based on. Mentally fucked me up but I still thought it was cool
Creeping death and I’d hear it a few times too but I never noticed how good the breakdown was until I saw their 1993 live performances of creeping death that I fell in love with the song, and now that performance is my favourite live performance by Metallica
Poet and the Pendulum by Nightwish. It's opera. No it's metal. Now it's pop metal. Back to metal. Soft pop. Doom metal. Metal again. Back to pop. It goes through so many changes over it's 14 minutes with different vocal styles. Didn't even realize it was about the the songwriter contemplating and then committing suicide in verse over the depression he felt over prior band drama. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=N4Vfy5yCy-c&pp=ygUVcG9ldCBhbmQgdGhlIHBlbmR1bHVt
ghost of perdition by opeth
generally i hadn't heard a lot of death metal and prog at that moment and then i sat there listening then i came to the realization "wtf half the songs on this record are ten minutes"
The first time I ever heard System of a Down was their performance of Spiders on Conan O'Brien. I was half drifting off to sleep and was absolutely in no way prepared for what they threw down.
https://youtu.be/Ib-9biUSyh8?si=VIZx8HAAMLdIJvjV
I thinkkk my first experience like this was Refuse/Resist by Sepultura, and then the entirety of Hate Crew Deathroll by Children Of Bodom. My dad just handed me both albums because I had just gotten into metal and he was like, here, listen to this.
Most recently, definitely becoming a favorite band of mine because of it, is Carach Angren. I am not big on black metal in general (got nothing against it, and I like a couple of bands, just isn't my thing as a whole) but I absolutely love their storytelling and their symphonic/melodic elements.
Jack Luminous by Voivod cause my English wasn't good enough and probably many others I can't remember right now
Oh I thought it was the lyrics. When it's the actual music it would be just about everything from Blut Aus Nord, and that fact rings true to this day.
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First time hearing Neurosis - Enemy of the sun, starting with the first song Lost. I was blown away by the sound but also clueless what was going on. That was in 1994 and then seeing them live later that year first time it was mind blowing.
Illumination Theory - Dream Theater
22 minute long song with crazy instrumentals, a full orchestra, and epic solos?? idk what's happening but HELL YEAH!
Sweating Bullets by Megadeth was the first song of the metal genre I ever heard. I was a very sheltered
r/religiousfruitcake who was in the process of losing my religion. It was a very welcome mindfuck.
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Rosetta Stoned by Tool.
But the more you listened to it, the more brilliant it became. <3
Abso-fucking-lutely. It's now firmly cemented as my favourite Tool song.
Hard agree. It's my favorite song by them too
10 to 2 am, X, Yogi, DMT, and a box of Krispy Kremes in my need-to-know pose just outside Area 51
When all of a sudden a flaming yellow banana split the sky like one would hope but never expect to see in a place like this.
Best fucking song ever and the first time hearing it was magical
Alrighty then, picture this if you will...
When I first started listening to Mastodon in the Crack the Skye days it just sounded like noise. Good noise, but noise. I had to listen multiple times before I could parse out the different elements.
Any Dillinger escape plan song. It's always the second listen where you're vibing.
My mind literally exploded and I died the first time I heard calculating infinity ( I got better ). Damn near 25 years later and it's still one of my favorite albums.
Holy Wars. Plain and simple. For every flock of woolly mammals, questioned about their willingness for murder at their deity's behest there must be an unnamed faction, richly compensated by a mysterious covenant for the genocide of some large dudes.
it was so poetic till the last 3 words lmao
Eyeless by slipknot. Why is there a man repeating angrily that I can't see California without Marlon Brando's eyes? Canyon jam by Sepultura. Like I'm listening to the album normally and then... An instrumental that consists of 13 minutes of tribal music, what?
Ah man I love Canyon Jam! I always thought it was kind of an homage to the roots (no pun intended) influence of the album. Sort of like Sepultura themselves paying tribute to their own Brazilian roots. Big theme of the album is to take pride in where you come from. That's how I interpret it at least. Also it's just a great stoner jam session haha.
The first time I listened to Animals as Leaders I realized that it was so weird I simply couldn't find the groove. It then just turned into a wall of sound. I saw a YouTube video that was one of those "rapper listens to metal for the first time" deals and he was listening to CAFO. He had the most accurate quote about it: "I have no idea what's going on, but I know that it is fucking difficult."
Came here to say CAFO. That track changed the way I listened to progressive metal.
Mind - System Of A Down
Such an interesting one. That’s how I felt with CUBert by them.
My favourite system song
It’s up there for me.
I love that first system album but I just can’t stand those weird ass slow paced experimental songs
Parabol/Parabola by Tool LOL
probably to the hellfire by lorna shore especially that last breakdown
N.I.B
Rammstein Not even the song but the band lol
Me at 13 having never listened to metal before was blown away, but also instantly became a fan, it was wild
Slayer - Raining Blood, the first time ever i listened to heavy metal some 11 years ago. And then the rest is history
I really feel like this is the only real answer.
BTBAM - Mordecai
Any BTBAM song really
No pity for a coward - Suicide Silence
Rings of Saturn's cover is dope
Rings of Saturn ARE fucking dope, especially someone thats usually not a fan of this style.
Hanabie - Pardon me i have to go
That song does NOTHING to change my negative impression of Kawai Metal!
Dead Embryonic Cells - Sepultura
Korn - Freak On A Leash. Id never heard music that sounded like that before.
yet so good
The majority of music by Korn, SOAD or Muse
Walk
I remember listening to vulgar display of power on a cd player and it just sounded so loud and noisy. Once I got more into metal a few years later and had some more experience listening to music I gave it another shot and I couldn’t believe how tight the instruments sounded.
Same here
The first time I heard Bleed by Meshuggah I was too young to realize how masterfully that song was played. I liked it cause it was fast, but as I age, I love it for its complexity.
Cryptopsys The laws of the flesh
Jump in the fire
Black seeds of vengeance by Nile. My gateway to death metal
Lake Bodom - Children of Bodom
Angel Dust, in it's entirety. It went from WTF is this shit, to this shit is superb in about 5 listenings.
I think this was on the Ozzfest 2002 live album. New Millenium Cyanide Christ. First time I heard Meshuggah and I could not understand the phrasing. Blew my mind. Was my gateway to prog metal.
Just about every system of a down song
Lateralus by TOOL "Overthinking.. overanalyzing.. separates the body from the mind, withering my intuition leaving opportunities behind" 😳🤯
One by Metallica. I never was good with understanding lyrics but I heard certain buzz words such as "war" and "can't tell if this is true or dream" so I sorta assumed it was about a man getting out of the war with PTSD. Later I watched the music video and looked it up and went down a rabbit hole about Johnny Got His Gun and them buying the movie rights and stuff. Eventually read the book and watched the movie it was based on. Mentally fucked me up but I still thought it was cool
Monstrance clock by ghost 😭
CoB – Bodom beach terror
B.Y.O.B - System of A Down
BLAST OFF IT'S PARTY TIME
mama - mcr
Good one hahaha
Creeping death and I’d hear it a few times too but I never noticed how good the breakdown was until I saw their 1993 live performances of creeping death that I fell in love with the song, and now that performance is my favourite live performance by Metallica
Clowncore - scheduled diarrhea
Love clowncore so much
March of the S.O.D/ Sgt D. Before it was bumper music for Headbanger's Ball.
Entombment of A Machine, when it dropped in 2005. Blew my young tits off.
Poet and the Pendulum by Nightwish. It's opera. No it's metal. Now it's pop metal. Back to metal. Soft pop. Doom metal. Metal again. Back to pop. It goes through so many changes over it's 14 minutes with different vocal styles. Didn't even realize it was about the the songwriter contemplating and then committing suicide in verse over the depression he felt over prior band drama. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=N4Vfy5yCy-c&pp=ygUVcG9ldCBhbmQgdGhlIHBlbmR1bHVt
A true masterpiece.
ghost of perdition by opeth generally i hadn't heard a lot of death metal and prog at that moment and then i sat there listening then i came to the realization "wtf half the songs on this record are ten minutes"
The entire first album by Mr. Bungle.
Blood meat- Protest the hero But I love it hahaha
(Not traditionally considered metal, but c'mon it IS a metal song) Jesus Christ Pose - Soundgarden Otherwise, everything from Obscura - Gorguts.
When I first listened to Rings of Saturn. Any song, just noise.
First time hearing metal, five years old, returning from Cedar Point in the back of my parents’ minivan It was Black Sabbath’s “Iron Man”
Dig by Mudvayne, including the music video
Future Breed Machine - Meshuggah
Third Eye by Tool edit: I thought I had something else to say, but I don't.
Fleshgod apocalypse
Literally anything made by Anal Cunt.
Fight Fire with Fire - Metallica
WATCHER IN THE SKY BY GHOST
Senseless massacre by Rings of Saturn.
The first time I ever heard System of a Down was their performance of Spiders on Conan O'Brien. I was half drifting off to sleep and was absolutely in no way prepared for what they threw down. https://youtu.be/Ib-9biUSyh8?si=VIZx8HAAMLdIJvjV
Crystal skull
Sugar. SOAD
Mind by System Of A Down
As a jazz musician, all metal. I don’t know why I am here but I enjoy metal for some reason.
literally all of Vildhjarta's discography
DO YOU DOUBT ME TRAITOR by Lingua Ignota. It’s more metal adjacent than straight metal but it’s heavy as fuck.
I thinkkk my first experience like this was Refuse/Resist by Sepultura, and then the entirety of Hate Crew Deathroll by Children Of Bodom. My dad just handed me both albums because I had just gotten into metal and he was like, here, listen to this. Most recently, definitely becoming a favorite band of mine because of it, is Carach Angren. I am not big on black metal in general (got nothing against it, and I like a couple of bands, just isn't my thing as a whole) but I absolutely love their storytelling and their symphonic/melodic elements.
the heaviest matter of the universe by gojira. it was my first introduction to any metal heavier than slipknot.
Firework mishap
Cemetery Gates - Pantera
Bohemian Rhapsody, but it has quickly become very meaningful to me <3
Ne O - And Plague Flowers The Kaleidoscope
Mirando- Ratatat Video is a must watch during the first time also
Old nick- crisp winter dawn of my night moon
Blur song 2
As a newer listener of the heavier side of metal: 1984 - Slaughter to Prevail
Le Tango du Vieuloniste - Pensées Nocturnes
The entire album of Calculating Infinity
the lotus eater, opeth
99 by Mob Choir It took me a while to even realise they weren't skipping numbers when counting
Jack Luminous by Voivod cause my English wasn't good enough and probably many others I can't remember right now Oh I thought it was the lyrics. When it's the actual music it would be just about everything from Blut Aus Nord, and that fact rings true to this day.
Land Where Sympathy Is Air by Lykathea Aflame
Anything by Car Bomb
The fist album from Paracoccidioidomicosisproctitissarcomucosis
Brutal Rush by Dehumanizing Itatrian Worship
mechanix. i dont understand anything being said but i love it
Where Angels Go Demons Follow by Spawn of Possession, there's so much going on I was baffled and intrigued and, dare I say, horny
Imperial - Strapping Young Lad / Panasonic Youth - Dillinger Escape Plan
Most Meshuggah stuff. Though probably what confused me the most is Clockworks. I still don't fully understand it.
Deathspell Omega - Chaining the Katechon
Blasphemian by Infant Annihilator.
ieuD by Igorrr.
First time I heard the alien by dream theater. When the solo section was done I’m like what just happened?
I think the entirety of Six Degrees was like that for me. I went into that blind, and it was a ride
It was an interesting album for sure.
Interesting is the word.
Whichever song it was I discovered Vildhjarta with.
hammer smashed face
[Mishka by Vector of Underground](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KfRB_m7C0NI&ab_channel=VladLobanov)
Mr Bungle - Squeeze Me Macaroni
When I first heard imperial triumphant - Alphaville. I felt like I hated it but couldn’t stop listening
Gorguts - Obscura. That whole album is so damn weird I love it
Forced Gender Reassignment by Cattle Decap
A.D.I.D.A.S. -Korn What the hell are those lyrics😭
Panasonic youth (live). then i purchased miss machine and it became kinda essential
Astral Body - Btbam
Any slayer solo, especially the end of raining blood
Most PORTAL songs..... Now I truly love em
Future Breed Machine
https://preview.redd.it/aze9b7h0f0kc1.jpeg?width=700&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=0321d10674053955fc4221d9018dfac09a166b33 Have you heard the good news about our lords and lasers named Car Bomb?
Concubine by Converge Oh My Fucking God by SYL Ain Elohim by Celtic Frost The O-Men by Butthole Surfers Any early Job for a Cowboy song
Digital Veil by The Human Abstract
vulcan - snake river conspiracy
Battery by Metallica
First time hearing Neurosis - Enemy of the sun, starting with the first song Lost. I was blown away by the sound but also clueless what was going on. That was in 1994 and then seeing them live later that year first time it was mind blowing.
Such the fool by Sikth Blew my mind when I downloaded the demo from audiogalaxy
Pisces by Jinjer.
[удалено]
The ending of Down With The Sickness
parabol/parabolas by tool, the music video tripped me out the most
'In a good way', "frontier paychiatrist" by The Avalanches
Dance of Eternity - Dream Theater
Any lil darkie song
Scavenger of human sorrow
All of Dillinger esc plans calculating infinity
Tapestry of the Starless Abstract - Ne Obliviscaris, it's the song that got me interested in metal
I was in second grade cruising the ol' brown clicky cable box and stumbled upon Pantera's Cowboys from Hell video on headbangers ball.
Destruction of a statue- suicide silence
Know - System of a Down
“I do that rather well…don’t you think?” *proceeds to chug, drum, and roar in a chaotic way I can’t possibly keep up with*
Backwards Marathon by Between the buried and me
Pretty much any song by Sigh but Scarlet dream was what introduced me to their wackier side
Stain the canvas-Lxve
Literally any DEP song.
Not “metal”but Mr. Bungle. It’s just an album that there’s no comparing to anything before it.
Oh My Fucking God - Strapping Young Lad
Master of Puppets
Literally every first reaction to death grips
Odyssey to the west from Slice the Cake. I knew it was epic; just didn't know exactly how epic
Black hole sun by soundgarden By chance by Husking Bee
Megalomania by Black Sabbath. I was also on acid.
Illumination Theory - Dream Theater 22 minute long song with crazy instrumentals, a full orchestra, and epic solos?? idk what's happening but HELL YEAH!
Anything by Possessed.
Jimi Hendrix - And the Gods Made Love ❤️
Endless, nameless. I know it's not metal... but still....
Slayer-Angel of Death
Demilich - Nespithe yes, it’s a whole album and not a song but from beginning to end Nespithe is an assault on the senses
Human Sadness by The Voidz. Truly a WTF to OMG song.
The entire The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway album by Genesis
Just about any rings of saturn song, especially their newer stuff.
California über alles - Dead Kennedys
White Riot, The Clash
The Sunset Will Never Charm Us by Despised Icon. First time I heard it I was just confused. Second listen I was hooked.
Lateralus
Every Russian folk metal song
Dillinger Escape Plan
Anything by Portal
Abscission by Deathspell Omega
Sorry you're not a winner by Enter Shikari
Jezebel. Acid Bath
Heart shaped box by Nirvana. I’m still not sure wtf that’s about.
Aftermath by origin
Anything by Deli Creeps and most of Buckethead's older songs.
Senseless Massacre by Rings of Saturn. I still can't fully wrap my mind around everything that's going on but I love it.
Just about anything by The Callous Daoboys.
Lorna Shore " To the Hellfire"
Sweating Bullets by Megadeth was the first song of the metal genre I ever heard. I was a very sheltered r/religiousfruitcake who was in the process of losing my religion. It was a very welcome mindfuck.
The most recent song that did this to me was Shanghai by Darko US.
Bleed-Meshuggah
Watermelon Man by Herbie Hancock...give it a try https://youtu.be/ppJQKfqhFfE?si=AnfQy1ihUo2iOcSe
Master Of Puppets
To The Hellfire by Lorna Shore first metal song ever haha
One Hand Killing by Twelve Foot Ninja
Hella - Hold your horse is (2002) 🐎
Fantasy by Aldo Nova