What were your prime years as a metalhead? Prime for me means no other music mattered, scene excitement, mystique etc etc
For me its 86-96, bands were mystical figures that could only be read/seen in Kerrang, Metal Hammer or when you had enough money to buy a cassette or vinyl (cd's were a 90s thing for me), getting to Dublin/Belfast for a gig was difficult (well difficult for me anyway)
I remember tuning into the BBC Friday Night rock show (with hit and miss reception) to Tommy Vance, Alan Freeman, Johnny Walker to hear Metallica for the first time, Manowar, DIO even Ted Nugent, fuck me even Larry Gogan use to play Harvester of Sorrow on the Sunday top 40 countdown. I would save up and make the trip to Dublin to hit HMV/Virgin Megastore and buy what was on my to get list, then eventually the sound cellar, before that I used to order CD's from ST Records in the UK, sterling postal orders were a pain but the only way
In 91 we got SKY TV in so Headbangers Ball was available, that was a game changer for access to new bands, Glam/Thrash/Classic Rock.
From 96 on, and especially when Nu-Metal arrived on the scene its just never been the same, even before the internet took a real hold.
86-96 = my plateau!!
I'd say similar - 86 to about 95 was the "golden era" for me, from really discovering metal as a 10 year old *via all the stuff you mentioned, and the classic thing of knowing a few older kids or friends' older brotehrs who were into thrash) through to getting really stuck into death metal and tape trading at about 15 through to the Norwegian wave of BM. by the time I was about 18 as mentioned elsewhere I was really geting more into punk. hc, noise and other stuff more extensively as BM was taking over and I didn't really care for it musically, aesthetically or politically. That whole decade or so was absolutely formative though, and I can see now as well it was an absolutely fascinating and groundbreaking period musically and in terms of how the underground operated.
I suppose I had a second period that came close from about 2006 to whenever I left Vircolac,where the underground metal scene definitely took over for me again, but over the last 3 or 4 years it's kind of gone back to saturation point for me and the magic is somewhat gone. A lot of that I think is down to having been in a band that were active during that time.
Not that you asked but conversely my low point was from about 97 to about 2004, I just had absolutely no interest in the metal scene. Ironically a lot of the heavier hardcore bands I was into (particuarly the stuff on Slap a Ham, Pessimiser, early Hydra Head, and bands like Cattlepress, enewetak, and Gehenna) were drawing heavily from the death, grind and black metal stuff I'd been into and worked it into what they were doing, which kinda lead me back. A lot of the Sludge/Southern Lord/Melvins inspired stuff also kinda got me back interested in going back to checking out underground metal again also.
Nowadays it's like any other kind of music, some times it's all i want to listen to, other times I couldn't care less, depends on the day. Metal is probably the most formative music on me all things considered, and a lot of my interests in things like films, or art, are shaped by it as well - if you were into death and thrash metal as a kid for example you probably also liked horror movies and things like that. It'll always be my first love musically so I can't see myself completely losing interest again..but it's really not the most exciting thing to me nowadays, if that makes sense.
87-93
I was always big into music but started getting into Metal around 87, helped by a new friend in 2nd Year making me a mix tape with the likes of Whitesnake and Cinderella, that kind of thing, and I rapidly sped towards Megadeth, Celtic Frost, Metallica, Nuclear Assault, etc.
I was fully into Thrash, went to as many gigs as I could afford, and loved Death Metal from my first hearing of Open Casket on Tom Hayes radio show in 89. It was a fucking lovely time to be a teenager hoovering up all the new bands coming out who were taking the music further than you could ever have imagined. By this stage I was staying up until 4:30am every Friday night/Saturday morning to watch Power Hour/Raw Power/Noisy Mothers and whatever else it was called, finger hovering over the record button to video anything with an interesting first couple of bars. Several times I bought an album on the strength of the artwork and the label it was on, or seeing someone in a band I liked wearing a t-shirt, most notably Control and Resistance. It seemed hard to find shit music. Everything was new and exciting.
In 93, we had Focus, Elements, Grin, Individual Thought Patterns, The Outer Limits, the future of music seemed full of possibilities but, instead, the following years got progressively worse. There were still great albums coming out, but they were fewer and farther between. I still tried to keep an interest but most of the bands I love broke up or got shit. What took over was shit to my ears. The Metal Show on 2fm was several years too late. The second half of the 90's was a fucking wasteland in Metal, generally, and there were other forms of music far more interesting which attracted me. I kept a toe in the water, so to speak, but it wasn't really until the turn of the century that things started getting interesting again.
88-93
Thrash, the end of thrash, the beginning of death metal , 'triple thrash treat' on headbangers ball. Browsing Sound Cellar/ Borderline/ getting cheap tapes in Freebird, dayglo gig bootlegs on O Connell Bridge/ Record Collector . T Shirts and guitar tab books in Virgin Megastore. 10 rothmans (dont smoke anymore). I could go on..good days, still :abbath: as F.
I'm gonna say maybe 89-99...89 cos that's roughly when I started with G'n'R and progressed from there, and 99 was when the fatigue set in from years of over exposure to the likes of Metal Hammer and the whole nu-metal scene. I was conscious of the early BM scene but it wasnt what I was into at the time, perhaps I was too invested in the Roadrunner sound of the early 90s. The early 00's was when I started getting more into the BM stuff I'd previously overlooked, and apart from the likes of maybe Converge, Isis etc, I was definitely looking 'backwards'. I'm still the same now tbh, and am more likely to pick up something I may have missed at the time than listening to newer stuff.
My interest in music kicked off in 87 when I first heard Animal by Def Leppard. Bear in mind I was only 6 at the time. I spent the next few years listening to a shitty copied version of Hysteria and remained that way until around 1990/1991.
From there on out it was Metallica (Ride The Lightning and Black album), Megadeth (Hanger 18 and In My Darkest Hour) and Suicidal Tendencies (How Will I Laugh... and Lights, Camera....). I became obsessed with searching out new stuff. That continued until around 1996 when it all seemed to run out of steam.
Originality seemed to die that year over either music being a product or the rise in marketing nostalgia (the KISS and Sabbath reunions being the start of the metal nostalgia train)
While things did return somewhat from around 2003-ish, it wasn't the same level of excitement and I view the last 4 or 5 years as the absolute worst in metal history (way worse than the late 90s)
Ah memory lane, my favourite
1989 my brother brings home a Def Leppard tape from somewhere and I remember being literally thrilled by it ha ha, just the darkness of a heavy riff scratched something for me. 89/90 had great music, still love music from that time. Remember Joe Elliot on that music quiz show with Dave Fanning!?
I started not giving a shit around the mid noughties I think, when twin guitar harmonies came back into vogue. Bands like Killswitch Engage and Trivium, and that insufferable Lamb of God - so boring (to me). I put it around 2003 maybe, Iron maiden got Bruce back and I think Thin Lizzy tshirts were cool. Around that time I started to regress and stopped buying into the new stuff as much
It's a hard one to pin point.
As said in previous posts there have been times when the obsession wanes.
Sharing a room with my older brother exposes me to loads of Bon Jovi, Def Lepperd, Motley Crue plus The Beach Boys.
He then discovered GNR which caused my parents to lose their shit.
Pottered along with that sort of stuff until 93/94 when I was given taped copies of Vulgar Display, Individual Thought Patterns, Arise, Covenant, Puppets and The Real Thing.
I remember vividly putting on Puppets and turning it off about 10 seconds into the intro of Battery and thinking fuck this acoustic shit. I soon thereafter discovered my mistake. After that it was all guns blazing.
So I suppose from 87/87 - 95 it was all metal and the glorious discoveries.
It stopped for a while as I thought I was into hip hop but it turns out that I just liked to hear Ice -T and Icecube saying fuck.
In 98 I moved to Cork and not long after I met Ronan Hayes - Belinus and he introduced me ti Black Metal. Is heard bits on The Metal Show and thought it was shite.
He gave me the 3 Darkthrone albums, some Satyricom and Bathory.
That's all a long winded way to say i had a peak and a lull but overall my listening is probably 95% metal. Mostly DM, BM, thrash, HC etc.
Mostly older stuff, classics and stuff I missed when it came out.
I see people's end of year lists and I check out stuff I don't know. A lot of it sounds the same to me. There is so much of it.
On a different point I wonder do new and younger listeners still get that feeling of fear/danger/thrill from hearing Deicide, Mayhem etc for the first time.
Quote from: Barrytron on January 17, 2026, 09:39:54 AMRemember Joe Elliot on that music quiz show with Dave Fanning!?
Number One! 😂
I think there are a couple of episodes on youtube. Surreal having the singer of one of the biggest bands in the world, at the time, being a regular fixture of a low budget RTE quiz show.
Never really had peak metal years, as my interest in guitar music kicked off properly with "Daysleeper" by REM in 1998. I was listening to Slayer and Death within a year of that, but any purchasing was always tempered with other sounds.
I remember being in Tower Records in Dublin circa 2006 or so (with Barry/Bane), handed the guy a bunch of CDs. The reissues of the first two Trouble albums, Blessed Are The Sick, World Downfall, and Chic's "C'est Chic", your man says "think you picked this one up by mistake", and I says "no that's the main one" :laugh:
Was Aidan Walsh on that show as well?
Remember The Lyrics Board?? Now that was telly :-*
I dunno, for me getting into GNR around 89/90. Weirdly I can't even remember the first time I heard them, I just remeber being utterly obsessed. Then Metallica knocked them off top spot and I lost interest in them for decades as they weren't heavy enough. Whatever, couldn't give a shite about that these days.
The 90s were fun with the Metal Show and the odd peek at Headbangers Ball if one of the lads who "had the channels" recorded it. Despite listening to a real wide mix of good and bad stuff, at the time it was all magic to me. Being a kid, someone in their twenties seems old, so the distance you feel between where you are in your life, and these "legends" you look up to is incomprehensible. Funny the difference ten years made back then, whereas now you look at the cool up and coming 20 year olds who know it all and you just laugh and think, muppets :laugh:
I found the 00s really exciting as the internet opened up the underground to me, and I had my own money to spend on records. The doom, death and black metal scenes were in revival mode and I jumped in with both feet.
In 2026 I'm at a point of oversaturation. I find it hard to muster much interest in new bands with the deluge of stuff. Instant scenes pop up over night... people with 50 bands going and hundreds of recordings to their name and they've been operating for two or three years. It's all so bland and uninspiring. But I'm also just burnt out to death with all of it. I'm hoping it's a phase and I'll get excited again, otherwise I'll just keep buying reissues of stuff.
Boring old fart syndrome in full effect 8)
Can't recall if it was here or the old MI forum, but there was a topic about the "Iceberg of metal" and how it's only possible to scratch the surface given the amount of stuff out there. This kind of applies to me in that (I think) I have amassed a reasonably large collection of music over the years but nowhere near enough that I've exhausted all the older, classic material. Occasionally a newer band might pique my interest but there's so much I've overlooked, i tend towards older stuff and dont feel a real need to check out new material. It's only recently I paid Autopsy much attention. Ditto earlier stuff from the likes of Sodom, Kreator. Greek BM, RC aside, pretty much passed me by.
Nirvana, Rage Against the Machine and the likes got me in 4th class around 95/96. A friend's sister then had recordings of old Noisy Mothers which got us into Slayer, Pantera, Fear Factory, Machine Head and Biohazard He also had Sky so recorded SuperRock and Tommy Vance so found more off those. Free cds with Kerrang and MetalHammer were also a source as well as The Metal Show on 2fm. Black and death metal started around 98/99.
Jesus, I'm significantly skewing the average downwards if I state the years for me, lol :abbath:
Bit later for me I suppose, from about 06-10. Right about when I started writing and putting tunes out there. Hadn't a notion what I was at but I absolutely lived for it, being in the shadow of bands active around that time was something else, AOP, WOTH, Mourning Beloveth, Abaddon Incarnate, all kicking out top tier albums that lit a fire in me. Really inspiring. MetalIreland was super active and I was a regular dossing in computers class trawling the forums and finding dodgey downloads on the school broadband of bands I seen mentioned on there. Then when I left home it was all just music music music, attending shows, every waking moment with a guitar in my hand, counting down the hours till rehearsal while I drudged through minimum wage shifts.
Ofc, theres still amazing talent out there and nostalgia certainly plays its part, I guess ya just get more accustomed to it as ya get older and maybe less likely to "look up to" bands in terms of what Im at these days as the whole mystique fades as ya get to know people/get used to it. Took a few years out playing to sort my life out but that fire never really went away. Working on two records for two bands atm and its my best work imo, so perhaps minus nostalgia Im feeling in the prime now :laugh:
What bands are you in?
Quote from: Eoin McLove on January 17, 2026, 07:14:38 PMWhat bands are you in?
Leigh here, if ya remember me from Maynooth andy ;)
Mortichnia still a thing, guitar parts all written on a new album, should record in the first half of this year.
Joined Fraught a few months back, lads were kind enough to let me take the reigns on writing an EP and thats due to be recorded very soon.
Leigh, how's it going dude? I had no idea it was you. Good to hear you're keeping busy 8) Are you still in Maynooth?
Quote from: Eoin McLove on January 17, 2026, 07:50:24 PMLeigh, how's it going dude? I had no idea it was you. Good to hear you're keeping busy 8) Are you still in Maynooth?
Nah Galway, Maynooth went tits up once the rent doubled :'( Bands are all in dublin though, killer commute...
Fair play, man. That's some spin!
It'll all be worth it when the new records are done n dusted!
I seen ya mention on here you're out in OZ these days. At the risk of derailing the thread further, any music on the go there?
I've a new album nearly done. I've been working with Rodge from WOTH on a project called Candens Mallum, where we are conjuring Hiberno-Pagan Occultronic rituals for a doomed planet.
Class, very happy yis are still at. No idea what occultronic rituals will sound like but ill be looking forward to it ;D
Sound stuff lads but lets keep the thread on the subject in hand if atall possible :abbath: :)
Id say around 89/90 was when I first heard metal; I would have been 10/11.
Master of puppets, I was instantly hooked!.
I quickly got my hands on Slayer,Anthrax;Suicidal tendencies stuff.
Went into secondary school in 92, and I got my hands on loads of DM stuff, plus where I lived there was a big enough gang of us that were all into metal.
So my teen years were just filled with discovering loads of underground stuff!
By 97/98 lads I grew uo with weren't into it anymore, and the metal scene in general was just in a downward spiral.There was fuck all gigs happening in Cork around then too, and I was preoccupied with my leaving cert etc.
So around then was definitely the least interested I was in metal.
But it didn't last long; a few good gigs had started to pop up (Thanks to DME) and some DM bands started to make some good stuff.
Going back to the mid 90s I thought I missed the boat with seeing some of the originators live!.
But ive fond memories now of around 99-2002, early 20s,care free had thankfully got to see some of those bands I thought i never get to see.
That period was good for metal in Ireland.
Quote from: Circlepit on January 17, 2026, 09:54:26 AMIn 98 I moved to Cork and not long after I met Ronan Hayes - Belinus and he introduced me ti Black Metal. Is heard bits on The Metal Show and thought it was shite.
Id have been very friendly with Ronan years back, id be close to the other lads in Belinus,Gordon and Marsie.Havent seen much of Ronan over rent years; hes moved very rural now by all accounts.Not playing in any bands either! considering he was in about 10 at one point!😅
Great thread.
For me it was '91 to '94.
Nuclear Assault - "The Plague" was the first proper metal album I heard and I was hooked immediately. Had to be faster, heavier, darker from then onwards. Meeting a certain Mr. NL helped with that, leaving his gaff with a stack of LPs including Prophecy of Doom, Extreme Noise Terror, Carcass, Sonic Violence, Deviated Instinct, Pitch shifter and Rottrevore...staring at that Reek of Putrefaction cover the whole walk home, wondering what the hell this was gonna sound like, ha!
There was so much going on at the time, I knew a bunch of punks in school who introduced me to Crass, Conflict, Dead Kennedys, GBH, Minor Threat etc and my girlfriend at the time was into indie/alternative stuff like Hüsker Dü, Big Black, Fugazi, Pixies, PJ Harvey etc., as well as listening to The Metal Show and Dave Fanning on 2FM, No Disco and Headbangers Ball on TV.
I discovered Industrial myself just by taking a chance on buying stuff in Comet Records like NIN, Ministry, Meat Beat Manifesto, Pigface, Optimum Wound Profile, Meathook Seed etc.
And there was so many great Irish bands around at the time too - Therapy?, Whipping Boy, Pet Lamb, Mexican Pets, Scheer, Schtum, The Frames...seeing The Sultans live in '93 in Sir Henry's was my first experience of pits, stage-diving, crowdsurfing, amazing night...
Nu-Metal kinda killed it for me for years then - only got back into metal properly from 2002 onwards via the likes of Isis, Pelican, Mastadon and playing in bands in the local Cork metal/hardcore scene, interest started to peak again.
I guess we're all still secretly chasing that feeling of discovering bands/genres for the first time, getting that initial buzz from so much new music... would love to go back to those early days again, hunting music, calling up to that guy you never met before but who had that album on tape, happy days...
Mexican Pets... I remember that name. Why do I think there was a Celbridge connection there? I'm probably getting confused.
I find this a tough one to pin down. Reckon I had two periods of Prime Years: when I first became obsessed with metal via Ride the Lightning then Believer, Tourniquet, Death, Dismember (91 to 98 or so) and then later when Era V were most active, including the time I was living in town and gigging or Bruxelling pretty much every weekend on top of rehearsing (2006 to 2008). In both those periods, metal took up equal amounts of my time, and I look (and listen) back to each of them with equal appreciation.
The prime years for me were probably 91-96. The 2fm Beatbox was huge for me as it introduced me to AC/DC and GNR, and seeing Maiden's Be Quick or Be got me into metal proper. A friend's older brother was a metalhead, and he taped Metallica's black album and Pantera's Vulgar Display for me. He also introduced me to Deicide's feral demo. I'll never forget hearing that, it sounded like the end of the world.
Metal was quite popular in our secondary school so there was loads of tape-swapping. Kerrang, Raw magazine, The Metal Show, and Headbanger's Ball got me more into death and black metal, but I was still listening to false stuff like Korn and NIN. Nirvana and the grunge stuff was big for me around this time too, and that kind of lead me away from metal and into more punk and hardcore.
I still go back to 97/98,.metal was at it lowest point imo, Nu metal had got hold.Loads of the old guard were releasing very poor material.The Original death metal bands were either broken up, on a break ,or releasing shite.
I genuinely thought it was fucked!
I got into metal in 1998 and the prevalence of nu made me wonder was I making a mistake, and the few good bands I'd heard were a fluke as all the older metal was deadly.
Which makes this a good place to ask as they were a very important part of the floodgates opening for me - the shoebox full of rock/metal goodies my BIL gave me when first getting into it all had a bunch of sampler/magazine CDs. They were usually the shiny CD with one colour streaked on them (there was a blue one, green, yellow). From the early 90s.
Seemed to go for quality over quantity with the tunes. Some of the tracks spread across them include;
Voivod - Psychic Vacuum.
Kreator - Winter Martyrium.
Coroner - Paralysed/Mesmerized.
Alice In Chains - Would?
Soundgarden - Slaves and Bulldozers.
Pretty neat samplers for young and intrigued ears to get hold of.
Has anyonen any idea what discs these were?
I still have moments when I hear something and get that goosebump holy shit feeling.
It might be new band, an old band that delivers something wild or something like that.
It's far more of a rare thing to happen nowadays but when it dies it's equally as z brilliant as the days of yore.
87-95 I think.
It started with Thin Lizzy & GnR (didn't go the Iron Maiden route) before expanding quickly to the big 4.
Then it was a short hop to Sepultura -> Obituary, Death, & Morbid Angel.
Everything went to shit in the late 90s.
Then when the internet really took off after 2000, I discovered all the cool stuff out there, and finally got to grips with BM (before that I thought it was shite)
I think the peak moment was seeing both Holy Wars and Thunderstruck on the same episode of the Beat Box with Simon Young in 1990. They were quickly recorded on to VHS and worn out over time. They were eventually overwritten by an episode of Home & Away, I still haven't forgiven my younger brother.
I would approach this from a slightly different angle and say my main metal years were about 2000-2015 because that's when I was heading out to metal shows, rock bars, and had the most metal friends. I was listening to stuff like Black Sabbath and Zeppelin in the early 90s, but metal really solidified for me as a social sport.
This would have been my main metal band playing years as well so my social life revolved around local metal shows and club nights. RocKD every Sat afternoon in the Limelight, The Venue for nights out, local shows all over the city both playing and attending, catching whatever touring acts came through, Meltdown and Ragnarock at the union or Voodoo, peak MetalIreland era and community etc etc. When you grow up in the local scene like that you tend to know everybody, so every metal event is a big gathering of friends. Even drinking nights in with friends were spent drinking and listening to metal.
2015 is the cutoff because that's when I moved to Canada so I just don't have a metal social circle here in the same way. Still go to the odd metal show with one of the guys in my band, and sometimes we'll hang out and listen to a bit of metal after practice (we're not actually a metal band ourselves).
My own personal metal listening has always fluctuated, but I'd guess the peak of it was around 2000 until about 2006 when I was really voraciously catching up with all the classic.
Just as an aside, archive.org has an absolute ton of old Headbanger's Ball episodes for anyone looking for a nostalgia trip. I've been enjoying all the early 90s ones of late because you get grunge, plus still a side dose of glam and thrash (triple thrash treat etc). Great to have on in the background while you're fucking about doing stuff, but many times I've also just sat down with a carryout and watched them. Great times! Cheesy as fuck adverts in between :laugh:
Early nineties were the prime years for me, discovering the thrash bands, very much guided by Mowerliberationfront on here, never did take to Lawnmower Deth though, still very much energised to hunt out bands and albums, virtually no interest in going to gigs these days, partly due to a near 8 hour round trip to Dublin , partly being middle age with work and family and all that entails, I'd say my major buzz is just going on distro sites each week and adding to the collection, also like watching some YouTube folk with large collections and knowledge. Still exciting for me to have some disposable income these days to actually buy albums weekly that I couldn't have done in my years spent in pubs.
Got in metal in the late 80s early 90s, but I had a few other obsessions in my teens that were always competing for my time and what little pocket money I had. So really my prime in terms of discovering new music, going to gigs, getting into new bands etc would have been in the 00s after I finished uni due to the internet and actually having disposable income.
Still love discovering new music. Will still buy albums based on band name and/or artwork. Though the thought of going to a gig, makes my knees and back ache...
My era wouldn't be seen in the same light as the classic ones posted above but it's all relative. One by Metallica was the song that really got me into metal around the age of 12 in 1998 so my years were formed during the height of nu-metal which to me felt like a metal version of grunge at the time. Seeing my bro playing Coma by GNR on his acoustic was one of those moments where I wanted to pick up guitar eventually when I was 14. Moved on from my brothers love for GNR, Nirvana, Soundgarden, Metallica etc to Manson/Korn/Deftones/NIN seemed like a natural enough progression so 1999-2005 was the teen obsession stage, Iced Earth, Maiden, Children of Bodom, In flames, Opeth were all the rage for me along with the nu-metal stuff shipped in, MTV as time went on started to stop showing metal/rock and in general were moving into the reality show side of things by the mid 2000s so I was recording any decent music video I could find on VHS tapes.
It was only when I got into a band in 2006-2012 did I get into the black/death/doom genres and also into the local Irish scene. I remember seeing A Distant Sun when I was 16 sneaking into gigs, seeing the keyboards and thinking how cool that was to blend it with the guitars. Old Season in the voodoo was another moment was a teen thinking wow we've got some gems right under our nose. Gigging during that time too - seeing the mini thrash revival take shape in the mid 2000s was cool from a local perspective with the likes of Mass Extinction.
I usually buy stuff on bandcamp to support nowadays, most of my CD collection now gone, some tapes scattered somewhere. I do miss the random purchases in a physical location based off artwork alone, finding some gems like Anathema, Paradise Lost, MDB and then some absolute flops like Hammerfall :laugh: Gigs are still a social outlet - chat to a friend or two throughout the year, look at the bands coming and pick which ones suit to go to.
For me it was from 1985 to 1992. I first heard Iron Maiden at a youth club, a lad had number of the beast on vinyl and I was mesmerised by it.
Of course at that stage I was into Gary Moore and Thin Lizzy also as they were on TV and radio a bit.
Then my cousin moved here from New York and had Ride the lightning along with early Priest stuff and that for me was that.
Got heavy into thrash hardcore and death metal as the decade proceeded , went to college got exposed to loads of stuff amd metal kinda ended for me as really nothing good seemed to be happening and grunge was where it was at.
Fell out of love of metal until I heard Formless by Mourning Beloveth in 2013 and steadily getting hooked again.
Think it's all relative too, 1998 had Formulas Fatal to the Flesh and Sound of Perseverance, both super duper albums to me. I was also partial to a bit of nu metal or that groove stuff like Mindset and Stuck Mojo etc. I remember watching and loving that Korn VHS and laughing at the gear that Maiden were wearing on the inlay of Live after Death around that time. When I wasn't watching Home and Away and calling my pals with a callcard etc etc
I had tried posting in two of these threads several times in the past few days and got distracted each time, let's see how this goes :laugh:
I have posted it here before but thanks to my brothers, there has always been metal present in my life. While very young I knew tons of bands and songs but my own personal foray into it started with Strapping Young Lad's "City" in 1999, being absolutely mind melted by it, then diving backwards for years into loads of stuff I already knew I enjoyed, and finding tons more to love in it - FNM, TON, NIN, Mr Bungle, Neurosis, etc etc etc. Obvious unironic Korn, Limp Bizkit and Fear Factory love too here, given the age of me :laugh:. Also remained into electronic music the whole way through, trance and the like. Don't even know where to begin listing what I was into or was carried through to today. I remain obsessed with music. Peak discovery happened in spells for different subgenres but for my own genuine focus on it to setting the foundation of what I love today - '99-'09.
Wildly mixed because I also gave time here gigging, then time away from it, then years out of the country, then back and formed Third Island and back into gigging and local scene. Each of those triggered a new round of music discovery each time too. But yeah I will put some of that in the other thread later