Here’s my journey into Extreme Music. It all started back in 1991, when I am in Sec 1, from MTV asia, I get to know about Nirvana, RHCP, Gun & Roses, Extreme, Def Leppard, Queen, Ozzy etc. I was a hard rock fan back then,. I was crazy over classics like Nirvana’s Nevermind, GnR’s Use your Illusions, RHCP’s Blood Sugar Sex Magik, Skid Row’s Slave to the Grind, Alice in Chain ‘s Dirt.
On the same year, on one special sleepless night, I was watching Channel 5, at 2am, on air, MTV’s HeadbangerBall, it was Metallica Night. METALLICA……… fade to black, one, enter sandman, sad but truth…..on and on.. I was a metal freak since then…..
One by one, Megadeth, Fight, Rage Against The Machine, all the metal albums I can find in the local music store, fall into my playing lists….. Also Tang Dynasty from China.
1993. I pick up Morbid Angel’s Covenant. God Of Emptiness, Lion Den, Rapture, WOW… the grunting of David Vincent, inspirational lead guitar of Trey Azagthoth, the insane beating of Pete Sandoval, Naplam Death, Carcass, Brutal Truth, Death, Deicide follow…… I am all into Death/Grind back then….
I was looking out for new releases from Earache, Century Media, NuclearBlast and Roadrunner…. Type O Negative’s Bloody Kisses open up my liking of Gothic and Doom. That deep low vocal of Pete, and the slow yet heavy riff make me a fan till today. October Rust still in my TOP Ten list.
Since then I was exploring to all sort of heavy stuff, Main stream and underground; Classic, Death, Doom, Folk, Gothic, Grindcore, industrial, Neo, Nu, Power, Speed, Progressive, Speed, Thrash, Symphonic, black……..
The very 1st time get to know about Black Metal, it was Dissection’s Where Dead Angels Lie that catch my attention. Not really into BM until I heard Emperor’s I am A Black Wizard from Century Media Identity, Vol 2 sample CD. It was in 1996.
To know more about the metal genre, I make a U–turn, I go back to the history of Metal… I pick up old record from Black Sabbath, Venom, King Diamond, Mercyful Fate, Bathory, Mayhem, Celtic Frost….
It been 16 years.. I am still experiencing new Band, new sounds, as long it sound metal, I am into it…… Hail
MY ALL TIME FAV album :
1) Morbid Angel : Covenant
2) Carcass : Heartwork
3) Type O negative : October Rust
4) Mercyful fate : Melissa
5) Emperor : In the Nightside Eclipse
6) Immortal : Sons of Northern Darkness
7) Tang Dynasty : Tang Dynasty
8) NIN : Pretty Hate Machine
9) Black Sabbath : Black Sabbath
10) Abigor : Verwustung/Invoke The Dark Age
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