Your Prime Years

[Eoin McLove]

What bands are you in?

[Goosebumples]

What 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.

[Eoin McLove]

Leigh, how's it going dude? I had no idea it was you. Good to hear you're keeping busy  Are you still in Maynooth?

[Goosebumples]

Leigh, how's it going dude? I had no idea it was you. Good to hear you're keeping busy  Are you still in Maynooth?

Nah Galway, Maynooth went tits up once the rent doubled  Bands are all in dublin though, killer commute...

[Eoin McLove]

Fair play, man. That's some spin!

[Goosebumples]

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?

[Eoin McLove]

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.

[Goosebumples]

Class, very happy yis are still at. No idea what occultronic rituals will sound like but ill be looking forward to it 

[The Heretic]

Sound stuff lads but lets keep the thread on the subject in hand if atall possible   

[Paul keohane]

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.

[Paul keohane]

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.

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!😅

[Putrefaction]

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...

[Eoin McLove]

Mexican Pets... I remember that name. Why do I think there was a Celbridge connection there? I'm probably getting confused.

[Black Shepherd Carnage]

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.

[Maggot Colony]

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.