I've found lately that some bands that used to bore me years ago are finally clicking with me these days. The most obvious one is Watain, which I couldn't get into fifteen years ago having me enthralled these days. Anyone else have similar experiences?
Dissection. Still not a diehard fan or anything but it took years.
Mastodon, Voivod, Tool. All worth the effort in the long run.
Quote from: Pentagrimes on January 28, 2024, 03:28:47 PMDissection. Still not a diehard fan or anything but it took years.
In the same boat there. All I hear is decent enough melodic death metal.
Judas Priest. Thought they were hot garbage.
A friend of mine won the remasters boxset (well, it came with the first four albums and a whole lot of styrofoam). We were walking to his gaff one day, I said let's put some on and laugh at how shite they are... I left that evening with all his Priest CDs :laugh:
Quote from: hellfire on January 28, 2024, 03:54:03 PMQuote from: Pentagrimes on January 28, 2024, 03:28:47 PMDissection. Still not a diehard fan or anything but it took years.
In the same boat there. All I hear is decent enough melodic death metal.
I don't regard them as death metal at all and I think their thrash roots are what I struggled with for ages. I think it was Purcell drunkenly explained them as "black metal Ride The Lightning" that helped me make a bit more sense of them. Not that the sound like that,but the feel of that era is there for me
Killing Joke. It took a couple of decades for the penny to drop, but when it did, it dropped hard.
Mercyful fate
Quote from: Pentagrimes on January 28, 2024, 03:28:47 PMDissection. Still not a diehard fan or anything but it took years.
Same here, it wasn't until I heard Into Infinite Obscurity that it made me come around a bit more.
Yeah, Dissection never interested me until recent times.
Motörhead of late. I never disliked them and I saw them live years ago and thought they put on a great show, I just never bothered living anything up. I recently grabbed Ace of Spades and Iron Fist and both are savage. I'll continue to delve in.
Veles. I traded or bought The Black Ravens Flew Again around 15 years ago and it never interested me whenever I stuck it on. In recent months or maybe even weeks it has clicked with me. Probably has something to do with a personal surge in interest in the work of Graveland. I find that super grim sounding BM really appealing these days.
Down the years, Iron Maiden and Tool are the ones that come first to mind as bands I'd heard plenty of times but never got into, or actively disliked. Iron Maiden swung me first time I saw them live, Tool the second time. Albeit with the help of a few shrooms in the latter case. Both bands that have never been far from current listening ever since.
Killing Joke
Meshuggah
Nine Inch Nails
Thought they were all bum for ages before they clicked. There's more too if I get down to thinking about it
The ones that immediately come to mind are Godflesh, Faith No More, Therapy? and Tool, as they were initially recommended to me as something else entirely. All favourites now.
Smashing Pumpkins and twas only recently, the song bodies did it for me.
The Ulver black metal stuff I used to think was garbage, it just clicked one day listening to the demo on YouTube
I don't hate Samael anymore
Hated Steel Pole Bathtub on initial listen but got into them years later after getting into Brainbombs and the like
Was never a huge Wino fan til the Shrine builder album now I love most things he does
Quote from: Skott Furys jizz rag on January 29, 2024, 01:41:43 AMHated Steel Pole Bathtub on initial listen but got into them years later after getting into Brainbombs and the like
One of my favourite bands of all time. "The Miracle of Sound in Motion" in particular. Delighted to see someone else mention them here.
Danzig. Bought Danzig 4 when I was fourteen, complete impulse buy at the time and probably because I saw a picture of them in Metal Hammer or something, and thought they looked class. In fairness, they took a good promo pic and had cool names. First track in and I was genuinely appalled, it wasn't at all what I expected, not particularly heavy and yer man sounded like a drunk Elvis. Didn't bother with them again until maybe 10 years later and decided to revisit. It clicked then thankfully.
It took me a long time to get into death metal vocals. I loved bands like Death, Atheist and Autopsy, who had more rasping/screaming style vocals, but couldn't get into bands with guttural vocalists. Listening to Incantation's Onward to Golgotha was where it finally clicked for me.
Fucken hell surprised to see some big hitters on here slow to the Dissection table!.
I can take or leave them TBH. Prefer The Somberlain to Storm... but yeah, it took a while to come around to them at all.
Quote from: Paul keohane on January 29, 2024, 08:15:04 PMFuckeb hell surprised to see some big hitters on here slow to the Dissection table!.
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I agree. For rme they are one of the best to ever do it. I remember when I first heard them, it was like a BM/DM Van Halen to my ears.
Riffs for days and killer melodies.
Head of the Demon. Was probably listening to more intense, fast stuff when I first tried. Spinning the last album a lot the last few weeks!
Black Sabbath...Paranoid put me right off them initially..
Thin Lizzy and Motorhead. Obviously I was well aware of their material over the years. I basically skipped the "Rock" band phase getting into music and delved head first into all the Death Metal bands, Carcass, Corpse, Deicide etc so it is only in the last few years I'm going back as it were and listening to Lizzy and Motorhead. Have a good few albums on vinyl now that get played regularly.
Dillinger Escape Plan is another one. Liked Miss Machine but thought the rest was shite. Love em now once it clicked.
Never truly got Motorhead until I saw them live, was a convert after that.
Smashing Pumpkins, took me a whle to get past the vocals.
Zeppelin didn't truly click with me until I gave IV a listen from beginning to end.
Kyuss was another. Took absolutely ages to get into them, odd really as I like anything that sounds like Sabbath, but I was more into the Cathedral/Electric Wizard side of things at the time.
Alice in Chains probably the most glaring one for me.Basically dismissed them throughout all my teen years and early 20s.Got my hands on Dirt in the mid 2000s never looked back.
Type O Negative, heard a few of their faster songs and naively assumed the rest of the stuff was in the same vein so picked up a few albums. Played them once, had no idea what I was listening to, back on the shelf. A year or two later I threw them on again and it all clicked
I remember thinking Swans were boring dirge until seeing them at Hellfest, where I went fucking mental.
Quote from: DeadGoon on February 03, 2024, 07:14:26 AMI remember thinking Swans were boring dirge until seeing them at Hellfest, where I went fucking mental.
I saw them at Chaos Descends and found them boring and pretentious. I wanted to punch Gira in the face.
You had the chance at least twice that weekend man, you were just too fucked to realise. :laugh:
I doubt it. I spent most of the weekend stuck on the top bunk :laugh:
:laugh: Before your death defying leap from it.
I've got one going right now, following an album recommendation from forum exile Pedrito: Blind Guardian - Nightfall In Middle-Earth. Very much clicking since last night, though none of the brief exposures I've previously had to them down the years ever even made me curious to listen to more. Sure there's a little bit of that Rhapsody-style fairy power metal in there which kinda put me off the entire genre when I bought Symphony of Enchanted Lands II when it first came out. But man, there's real grit in here too. Kürsch at times sounds identical to Blackie Lawless, something I was not expecting at all, Lawless having to my ears one of the most perfect voices for metal of all time.
Love a bit of Blind Guardian, check out their first couple of albums which are more straightforward speed metal without the pomp if you're not as big into that
Quote from: Trev on February 03, 2024, 05:58:18 PMLove a bit of Blind Guardian, check out their first couple of albums which are more straightforward speed metal without the pomp if you're not as big into that
Their cover of 'Mr. Sandman' on Headbanger's Ball was the only time i've ever heard them. Must give them a proper go at some stage
For me, Voivod. Took a while for me to get my head around them. Long story short, the album'The Outer Limits' got me into it. Have been a fan ever since.
Quote from: Trev on February 03, 2024, 05:58:18 PMLove a bit of Blind Guardian, check out their first couple of albums which are more straightforward speed metal
Wow, they really are! Listening to Battalions of Fear here for the first time and if you told me it was an Enforcer demo I'd believe you.
Quote from: Eoin McLove on January 28, 2024, 10:40:15 PMYeah, Dissection never interested me until recent times.
Motörhead of late. I never disliked them and I saw them live years ago and thought they put on a great show, I just never bothered living anything up. I recently grabbed Ace of Spades and Iron Fist and both are savage. I'll continue to delve in.
Veles. I traded or bought The Black Ravens Flew Again around 15 years ago and it never interested me whenever I stuck it on. In recent months or maybe even weeks it has clicked with me. Probably has something to do with a personal surge in interest in the work of Graveland. I find that super grim sounding BM really appealing these days.
Graveland up to Creed of Iron is great stuff but definitely a bit of an acquired taste for me at least. Veles is decent. One album by the Temple of the Fullmoon circle I really love is Infernum - tar na fuin.
There's loads of good 90s Polish bands like Sacrilegium, North, Arkona, Fullmoon...
Aeternus would be the first name that springs to mind. Had their first two albums on Hammerheart Records and couldn't make head or tail of the aural barrage. Ended up trading both and thought no more about the band until five years ago when I heard Beyond the Wandering Moon at a friend's party. Suffice to say it clicked right away and I made every effort to track down the treasures I'd been only too happy to discard two decades previous. No joy acquiring the originals so the reissues on Karmageddon Media had to suffice. The benefits of hindsight.
Quote from: vinterland on February 04, 2024, 10:16:52 PMAeternus would be the first name that springs to mind. Had their first two albums on Hammerheart Records and couldn't make head or tail of the aural barrage. Ended up trading both and thought no more about the band until five years ago when I heard Beyond the Wandering Moon at a friend's party. Suffice to say it clicked right away and I made every effort to track down the treasures I'd been only too happy to discard two decades previous. No joy acquiring the originals so the reissues on Karmageddon Media had to suffice. The benefits of hindsight.
Soulseller have reissued the early Aeternus on CD and LP. I have the demo on the way.
Quote from: Eoin McLove on February 04, 2024, 10:24:16 PMQuote from: vinterland on February 04, 2024, 10:16:52 PMAeternus would be the first name that springs to mind. Had their first two albums on Hammerheart Records and couldn't make head or tail of the aural barrage. Ended up trading both and thought no more about the band until five years ago when I heard Beyond the Wandering Moon at a friend's party. Suffice to say it clicked right away and I made every effort to track down the treasures I'd been only too happy to discard two decades previous. No joy acquiring the originals so the reissues on Karmageddon Media had to suffice. The benefits of hindsight.
Soulseller have reissued the early Aeternus on CD and LP. I have the demo on the way.
Cheers for that. I see they also have Born of the Flickering complete with original artwork. Another gap in the collection soon to be plugged. The Hot Records version was fetching ridiculous prices on Discogs and Ebay.
Yup. I have it on tape but I'm considering the CD... or LP. I have In the Shades of Life coming with the same order. I hadn't heard a note of it until they announced it a few months ago and it is really good.