[Ragingwinter]

Just curious as to some stories behind everyone's intro to black/death metal. Bands, albums, videos etc...

[heavyR]

[Ragingwinter]

good point... first one was Emperor and Venom.

[Ragingwinter]

First 2 i should say haha

[slokopdeborrel]

Almost two decades ago, there was a leader in the youth movement I was in with long hair, leather jacket, combat boots, metal bandshirts etc. by which young me was very impressed. During our summer camp he gave me a list of songs I had to look when I was back home. A big turning point in my life hehe.

[midgetviolence]

Under the Sign of Hell was the first "real" black metal I heard.
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[Eiskrieg]

Venom and Bathory in the late 80's.

[NWN PROD]

The first second wave black metal band I heard was probably Blasphemy around 1991 or 92 when my friend Vaughn played me Fallen Angel of Doom... in my car.
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[Primitive]

Cradle of fags unfortunatly, bought it cause somebody reccomended me to them, and sold it back to the store for a dollar! I was more into death and grind back then but hellspawn I think was first black metal stuff I bought after that, and the stuff I heard off a death records compilation I bought. This is a long long time ago....
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[ADK]

Just right in time, I would say.

[blacknuclearhellstorm]

For me it was a couple of Venom songs on some 3xCD metal collection... I think it was Welcome To Hell, In League With Satan and Manitou. Heard it at a friends house in 7th grade or something like that. Some years later I started getting into total shit bands like Cradle Of Filth and Dimmu Borgir but since I've always had a tendency to look around for more extreme, more brutal and more uncompromising stuff (regardless of genre) I dropped all that as soon as I was exposed to real black metal. Mostly norwegian bands at that time, like Mayhem, Emperor and Darkthrone, but aslo swedish Bathory which I still listen to a lot. Nowdays much of what those bands put out back then barely fit within my definition of BM and I'm much more into the whole war/bestial kind of black metal today, probably because I just love extreme walls of sound and have been a part of the noise scene for many years as well. Favorite BM bands today include Black Witchery, Antediluvian, Teitanblood, Revenge, Ampütator etc... And although not bestial- or war-like at all, I also have a very soft spot for italian Tenebrae In Perpetuum and swedish Watain.
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[Perverted Necrofucker]

Immortal - Diabolical fullmoon mysticism

and one week later - Darkthrone - Under a funeral moon
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[Fallen_Empire]

Satyricon - Mother North music video in 8th grade probably. It was mostly a joke to my friends and I at that point because that video is so over the top ridiculous, but by 9th grade I had discovered that there was something to black metal that the other genres I was into at the time were lacking.
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[Haunt In The Dark]

That live cover of "Hell Awaits" on Cradle Of Filth's "Dusk And Her Embrace" because it was on a CD sampler I got in a magazine I bought for Pantera at the time. I was 11. Soon after, I got into Immortal and all the Scandinavian bands.

[N.W.D]