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Katatonia - Discouraged Ones

Around 1981, my older cousin used to watch a TV show called The NewMusic. I remember seeing Motorhead and Venom videos, but I didn't appreciate it yet because I was only 11. Around 1983, my dad finally got cable television. I saw Iron Maiden featured on some late-night video program, and I loved it right away. Guess I was finally old enough to get it. They were referring to Maiden as 'heavy metal' and it was the first time I heard the term. Then my cousin gave me some records she didn't want. It included Black Sabbath's Master Of Reality which made quite an impact. Throughout the eighties, I tuned-in to MuchMusic's Power Hour on TV, every Thursday without fail. I started liking thrash and the more extreme metal. Before the internet existed we were literally in the dark. Learning was a slow process. I started buying albums by Maiden, Motorhead, Metallica, Anthrax. Those were my gateway bands. Around 1987, somebody at school was supposedly into 'underground' and 'Satanic' metal. He seemed like a freak and I was pretty interested. We started tape trading. He gave me recordings of Venom, Bathory, Hellhammer, Destruction, Possessed, Sacrifice, Exorcist, etc. - bands I didn't know even existed. After hearing that, I was totally possessed by metal. By 1990, Death Metal was getting pretty big and I was buying stuff like: Deicide, Obituary, Death, Entombed, Carcass, Napalm Death, etc.

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Dark Funeral - ‘Where Shadows Forever Reign’ Pound for pound the best Dark Funeral album. Lord A has his shit together that’s for sure.

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Funeral Storm - Arcane Mysteries Bought to us by the letter ‘H’ yes, and containing a lot of the letter ‘Q’ (for Quality).

My metal story starts in 2002, wow been a headbanger 17 years already, with my cousin. I didn't have much of an interest in music at the time, nothing really grabbed my attention, so when we visited him and I heard what I now know to be the Cowboys From Hell riff I recall thinking wow what's that? Over the next few months he'd show me bands whenever I came to visit. Pantera, Megadeth, Maiden, Priest, Sabbath, Angel Witch, Slayer - anything he was listening to at the time. Before long I was buying albums, saving up pocket money to do it, but my parents were very anti-metal at the time so I had to hide them and only listen when no one was around. I kept that up for years, getting stuck in a rut because I kept seeing the same bands on store shelves and either owned all their stuff or knew the band was no good. That was until I joined this place - what an eye opener that was. I still get that kid in a candy store feeling every time I look through the recommended bands threads and find cool stuff I haven't heard before.

To quote a guy I met online, "sounds like you're winning at life"...

Howling Sycamore - Seven Pathways To Annihilation Hooded Menace - Ossuarium Silhouettes Unhallowed ...today's playlist brought to you by the letter "H"