What are the first (truly heavy) albums you owned?

When I bought Alive, I remember playing it and mentioning it was "rock music". My *insert expletive here* Stepfather said..."That ain't rock n roll, that's that damn Hard Rock, it's not even music!".

I was glad when my Mother divorced his sorry ass.

Anyway, I did start young. By the time 1978 rolled around I was using all of my allowance money on records.

Kiss - Destroyer in 1976, my first real album ever.... then picked up more KISS and got Van Halen I as a new release!!!

detuned wrote:

When I bought Alive, I remember playing it and mentioning it was "rock music". My *insert expletive here* Stepfather said..."That ain't rock n roll, that's that damn Hard Rock, it's not even music!".

I was glad when my Mother divorced his sorry ass.

Anyway, I did start young. By the time 1978 rolled around I was using all of my allowance money on records.

What an a$$!!!!!!

I started with music young too. If this thread is referring to Trash, my first Thrash albums where Metallica - Ride The Lightning, Kill 'em all;Slayer - Show No Mercy, Haunting The Chapel, Hell Awaits; Exodus - Bonded By Blood; Anthrax - Fistful of metal, Armed & Dangerous, etc, etc back in 84

thejokeriv wrote:

Kiss - Destroyer in 1976, my first real album ever.... then picked up more KISS and got Van Halen I as a new release!!!

I remember buying the debut BOSTON album as a new release, because I loved the cover! LOL.

I saw KISS in '78 in Roanoke VA, one of my first concerts.

detuned wrote:

thejokeriv wrote:

Kiss - Destroyer in 1976, my first real album ever.... then picked up more KISS and got Van Halen I as a new release!!!

I remember buying the debut BOSTON album as a new release, because I loved the cover! LOL.

I saw KISS in '78 in Roanoke VA, one of my first concerts.

I was still into Superfriends in 1978!!!

The earliest I remember. Iron Maiden-Killers at the age of 7, my parents had it, and the cover just called me to it.

detuned wrote:

When I bought Alive, I remember playing it and mentioning it was "rock music". My *insert expletive here* Stepfather said..."That ain't rock n roll, that's that damn Hard Rock, it's not even music!".

I was glad when my Mother divorced his sorry ass.

Anyway, I did start young. By the time 1978 rolled around I was using all of my allowance money on records.

it was opposite at my house. i remember telling my dad how much Kiss sucked & him telling me to go to hell lol.

my first heavy record outside of traditional metal & punk was Slayer's Hell Awaits. i got it from my older sisters boyfriend in 1986.

manny wrote:

detuned wrote:

thejokeriv wrote:

Kiss - Destroyer in 1976, my first real album ever.... then picked up more KISS and got Van Halen I as a new release!!!

I remember buying the debut BOSTON album as a new release, because I loved the cover! LOL.

I saw KISS in '78 in Roanoke VA, one of my first concerts.

I was still into Superfriends in 1978!!!

I not sure if I was then because I was only 5....

The first "Heavy albums" I got were Vengeance Rising - Human Sacrifice

The first album I ever bought was when I was about 10. I got like 100 dollars for my birthday and I spent some on video games, then I figured why not buy a CD? I got a Black Sabbath Ozzy Years Comp and Iron Maiden Number of the Beast. Needless to say, It blew this 10 year old's mind.

Mine would be either....

Vengeance Rising - Human Sacrifice or
Mortification - s/t

I got them both around the same time on cassette and I still have them even though I replaced them with cds several years ago.

Megadeth - Youthanasia
Iron Maiden - Fear of the Dark
Metallica - Metallica

In that order.

My original intent for this thread was to have everyone list their first albums on a Thrash or Death Metal heaviness level. I guess I worded the question wrong. Oh well... it can be about any style that you considered heavy (at the time).

Yeah, I read it without the parentheses "what are the first albums you owned"?

(Truly heavy) in parenthesis = I don't get to count my NWA or Nirvana CDs.

EDIT: To answer to the original intended post

Satyricon - Nemesis Divina

I was maybe 14-16 when I slowly got into the other metal bands I mentioned earlier. This one came out around the time and got me into black metal, and also made me think black metal was the greatest thing ever. It was huge at the time in Finland. Plus you could see a vagina in the music video they made. Nowadays it all sounds more like noise to me, but with the right atmosphere, that one's a great album still. And Mayhem were great, too.

Well I had Mortification when I was really young, but when I later became a full fledged fan of thrash was upon getting Kreator's Extreme Aggression album. That album really lives up to its title and that raw aggression really appealed to me

Deliverance - Weapons of Our Warfare
Vengeance Rising - Once Dead
Tourniquet - Stop the Bleeding

the first heavy metal album I owned was Metallica-Metallica, but I'm not too sure what my first thrash/death album was. Might have been Morbid Angel-Covenant but it was soon confiscated by my dad who wouldn't let me have any albums with a Parental Advisory label or gory album covers.

I might have misunderstood this thread I was talking like Thrash, etc.....

Truely heavy first for me was Stryper Soldiers Under Command 1986 I think it was

I was all 80s rock/metal and hip hop as a teen (I know, weird combination) until Vulgar Display of Power came out. I'd heard of Pantera then, but never heard them. So I bought that album...and it peeled my wig back! To my ears, that bad boy was SO HEAVY!

Of course, compared to what I listen to now, that album's timid. At the time, though, it blew my mind. Haha. It made me realize that heavy music could be great, you know.

The first one was Deep Purple- Machine Head. I also got Hendrix- Smash Hits and Black Sabbath- Paranoid soon afterwards. These were all those black Warner Bros. cassette cases that were pull-out (rather than opening and closing) style. They had stickers on the front rather than inserts. Somebody must remember those?

Strangely the first "extreme" thing I remember getting was a German band called Bloodstar, which was a Symphonic/Industrial/Death type thing, maybe kind of like Samael. Not all that extreme really, but it was a departure for me at the time.

Sepultura - Arise

I was into this band a lot in my early metal years.

Still like to revisit their older catalogue from time to time.

I also got Blue Oyster Cult's records from the S/T up to Spectres pretty soon after that.

Iron Maiden-Piece of mind on tape, back in 1985....
sweet time, I must say...

Some of my first albums were:
JUDAS PRIEST:PAINKILLER cd
IRON MAIDEN:LIVE AFTER DEATH 2 vinyls
VAN HALEN:WOMAN AND CHILDREN FIRST tape
POISON:LOOK WHAT THE CAT DRAGGED IN vinyl
SEPULTURA:ARISE vinyl
OBITUARY:THE END COMPLETE vinyl
DEATH:HUMAN
etc....
I start buying serious back in 1991.

Metallica's "Black Album". At the time it was some pretty heavy stuff.