My best music experience goes like this. I grew up in a religious background, the type where I was made to go to church every Sunday (I am a Christian). I was about 9 months into metal and my favorite bands were your general popular metal bands: Metallica, Maiden, Sabbath, Priest as well as some heavier stuff like Pantera and hardcore punk like Minor threat. I had never listened to death or black metal. My story is kind of similar to something you said, CountBlagorath, about hearing stuff about black metal, especially the whole "Mayhem scene", with the murders, burnings and suicides. Being from a religious background I was frightened. At this point I was too scared to even listen to Venom because I thought that their music would be really twisted and extreme. I knew what the cover of Mayhems "De Mysteriis Dom Sathanas" and I had never seen something so sinister and evil, with the crazy logo and haunting cathedral on the front. I said to myself that I would never listen to something like that but, I couldn't help but wonder what the actual music sounded like. It was playing on my mind, whether I should give it a listen or not until I couldn't stop thinking about it so I went to my computer, downloaded the whole album and synced it to my ipod. I liked listening to music at night so I waited until I went to bed and then plugged in my ear buds. When I pressed play the volume was way to loud and I jumped out of my skin. The blistering blastbeats and freezing cold riffs of Funeral Fog slammed into my ears. I was terrified. I was lying in bed and the sweat was pouring of me. I felt like I was descending into the depths of hell and being possessed. As soon as the vocals kicked in I was shaking and thats when I had enough. I had to listen to the whole of Killers by Iron Maiden to calm down. My curiosity had been filled and I didn't go back to Mayhem for a long time. As my music taste progressed I got into bands like Slayer, Exodus and even Venom. After hearing some death metal I decided to give Mayhem another listen. Thats when I really started to dig it. Then I discovered your videos and started listening to Darkthrone and Burzum. That's how I came to appreciate black metal!
I've been struggling with depression for the last 7 years, but it fluctuates. Over these years, there've been stretches where I've felt well enough to go out and have a good time with friends or be a functional participant in society, but there've also been stretches where I've felt really hopeless and miserable and where I've decided to isolate myself from everyone. I've been in one of these low periods for the past couple of months, but I had an experience a few weeks ago that really lifted my spirits. My parents were on vacation, and I was home alone. One day though, I decided to put on the 20th Anniversary Remastered Pressing of Garbage's self-titled album. The second track is called "I'm Only Happy When It Rains", but a sun shower occurred outside within seconds of the song beginning to play. It was just a beautiful moment of perfect synchronicity that made me think: Moments like this make the world worth experiencing!
I love these videos andI love making responses to them as well! Its always interesting to hear people tell their stories about music and how much it means to them.
My favorite music experience was probably the first time listening to lateralus by tool. If it wasn't for this album alone, I might have never been the expansive metal fan I am today
Satyricon live 2009. The most intense and energetic concert I've ever been to. Best listening experience: 2002 listening to Blackwater Park for the fist time
Great video man! Just from you telling your stories, I got chills. I have too many stories to type out, but a huge one, for me, was when I listened to The Tenth Sublevel of Suicide by Leviathan. I was in a dark room, I closed my eyes and it was like I felt the power of the riffs flow through me, I felt all the saddness, the anger, that was put into that album. It brought me to tears and covered me with chills. I had never been able to get into black metal, but after I heard that, it changed everything for me.
I'm really looking forward to the video responses. I first heard Burzum's Filosofem when I was 16, back in the winter of 2013. I'd never listened to black metal before, but I'd heard so much about the infamous figureheads of the genre, like Varg, Dead, and Euronymous. I had this idea that all of black metal was this very intense, Satanic, really brutal genre. I hadn't really given it that much attention, and I had a lot of preconceived notions. One day, my friend gave me a burnt copy on a disc of Filosofem and told me to give it a listen. I was already really into metal, mostly death metal, thrash, and some 'core stuff. Knowing this was black metal, I was expecting something that sounded very twisted, maniacal, and evil. When I put the CD on, it was starting to snow outside. There was a greyish-white overcast, and I'm almost sure it was the first snow of the season (it was December). Right as Dunkelheit started (labeled as "Burzum" on this disc), I felt the cold, sinister atmosphere I felt this album was going to offer. Staring outside the window at the snow... I remember after all the black metal songs on the album had passed, each with their own level of extremity and serenity, I laid back in my room, as it was getting dark outside early, listening to the ambient track Rundtgåing av den transcendentale egenhetens støtte, relaxing... Filosofem has been my favorite album of all time ever since, and it only opened gateways to more black metal and ambient music for me.
great video my man. best recent musical experience for me was listening to Panopticon's Kentucky while driving through the Bernheim Forest in KY a few weeks back. Just awesome.
I was sixteen years old, I had bought dark throne transelvanian hunger, went to my bedroom hung my thick hard to see through blanket over my window, the heat was unbearable, it was at least one hundred degrees outside locked my door and cranke the stereo as loud as it could go and almost had a mental break down from how amazing that one album is
My favorite live experience was seeing Behemoth play, and them finishing with Chant for Eschaton which is my favorite song from them. And my favorite experience in general is really tough to decide, it might be this one night where I was gazing up into the stars for hours listening to The Nightspectral Voyage by Obsidian Gate and Son of the Morning by Elderblood, over and over.
I remember leaving a place really blazed at midnight or some ridiculous hour, It had just started to rain lightly but there was a storm brewing in the distance, i remember walking home, the rain got heavier as i went and it wasn't long before the whole storm was moving towards me and the sky was getting quite black, I was listening to my ipod it was only about a 10 minute walk and I put on Old Thunder by Ahab, before getting home I remember sort of running but then slowing down to be in awe of the storm while listening to such an intense song and then realizing I should get home before it got too intense as I saw lighting in the distance, it seemed like the storm was chasing me as I listened to this song which solidified my love for Ahab
may not be very heavy, but periphery II really changed the way that i listened and played music. it was my first real experience with progressive metal and it showed me just how much you can do with the guitar. another one was Portal of I by ne obliviscaris. it was just a wonderful experience which is what really led me to listening to much heavier music.
One of my utmost favorite music experiences has to be this one I had listening to Filosfem So when me and my dad used to take a 5hr drive across out state for thanksgiving. This one trip was during a time when I was trying to find out what music I liked. At that time I was getting into black metal so I downloaded my copy of Filosofem to my phone. I put that album at as soon as it first turned dawn. Barely any light out. Massive trees began appearing out of nowhere. It was like the world was being painted before my very eyes. With every note more of the world would appear before our headlights. It felt like I was in vessel and watching the creation of the universe. In perfect sync with that album. As the album hit the first ambeint/dungeon synth track Rundgang Um Die Transzendentale Saule Der Singularitat. We broke out the tree lines and hit about an hour long stretch of plains. As soon as we hit the plains. The first waves of synth rolled out of my headphones and the sun was barely coming into full peak. The sun was right in front of our car. Massive and archaic. Rising up out of the plains to devour the world. And as soon as the sun rose. Waves of fog came out of nowhere. The longer the song went on. The more fog there was. Until all you could see was an ocean of fog and one massive hazy burning ball illuminating everything. The earth had been devoured by the fog. The synth rolled on ans on and the fog grew thicker and more ominous. I remember seeing nothing. I don't even think I could see the front of our truck. Just the ocean of fog and the massive ancient sun rising up. And then we went up a hill. I remember everything for a moment bursting into clarity. The sun illuminated the world. It stretched high above us. Massive in scope. And everything seemed like a painting. It was so surreal. The whole entire world felt ancient and old. I felt like I was the only person alive. And we descended down the hill and across the plains with the last notes of synth ringing in my ears. That part where the tone of the synth changes and everything starts descending and getting more spaced out (around the 12:15mark). And then we were lost. Lost in an ocean of fog for what felt like an eternity. Watching the sun rise across the Earth. And miles of plains appear in and out of my eyes. Between swirls of ominous fog. And feeling how ancient and caught in a breath the world is. With that song ringing through my ears. That moment. Was nothing less of transcendental. And sparked my love of atmospheric music of all kinds.
Best listening was actualy very recent. I bought the album "Kzohh - Rye. Fleas. Chrismon." which is like a doom/death/black/ambient stuff with the thematic of the black plague…(it's hard to explain). It was early spring and still cold at night. I put the album in the player, opened the window and just sat there listening to it and i got goosebumps. The athmosphere of the whole album is so thick and dark that it made me feel like i was back in the middle ages listing to the screams of the dying. I highly recommend the album and great video btw.
I know this will probably sound kind of silly but I remember a time where here in Iowa we got absolutely dumped on with snow. I was out pretty consistently with the shovel trying to keep the drive cleared so it wouldn't be a big pain in the ass later. I had just started listening to Darkthrone at that time and had been hooked on the song Quintessence and I pretty much listened to that song on repeat while I was trudging through the snow with my shovel. The pace of the song and the slowness of my never ending battle against Old Man Winter seemed to fit perfectly.
Hey! I have not heard much folk, but the album you mentioned from Hexvessel MOVED me. Please, what other folk bands/artists are you a fan of? Also, do you like Nocturnal Poisoning?
a couple bands that hit me hard as a child (in the 90s, early 2000s) are Garden Of Shadows (both albums), Fairytale Abuse (the first two ep's), quo vadis (all of the albums), At Dawn They Sleep (paradise lust album), Chastisement (but lost we are album) and ephel duath (opera album). if you can find these bands, they are amazing. i know you can find them on youtube, ive had to upload them because they are bands you cant find much of anywhere else.
haha zune and fye that's really showing the age of your collecting journey. I was telling somebody about virgin mega store where I live, because when the closed I bought a ton of vinyl. They were like what is virgin mega store? I use to go canal street in philly allot to and now all those as some shops are gone. luckily record store are having a good come back.
+CountBlagorath I use to live in the Poconos Pennsylvania so I know what you mean man. listening to you reminds me of finding all those bands and attaching myself to nature. Did you ever go on lostsoulsdomain? That was my metal haunt.
Great video. Stories about music and how it affects you always get me. Regardless of the genre. I love it. Great idea here, man. Maybe I'll try to do something similar if I get the time. But you're just gonna act like you didn't cut a fart at 2:18?
I SWEAR TO CHRIST I DIDN'T! It was my phone vibrating on my laptop from a message I got! If I did fart, I would have made a face with one that sharp. Just thinking about that makes my asshole hurt.
great video one of my top musical experience was wen a first listen to mercenary 11 dreams epic day every time I heard the album it's brings me back memories of that day
I had been a Burzum fan for a long time before I had heard anything off of Hvis Lyset Tar Oss, except "Tomhet". I had even heard stuff off the 2 prison albums and all of the post-prison metal albums before I heard anything off that record. One day, I FINALLY decide I was going to sit back and give it a spin. The first time I had heard the song "Det Som Engang Var", I was truly moved. I was moved in that way that Ronnie James Dio and Iron Maiden moves me, and that;s hard to match for me, I felt so powerful listening to it. When the main riff("THE" riff) with the epic "battle" drums kicked in, I was blown away by the sheer power. When the song gave way to the more atmospheric riffs that matched the keyboards, I felt a very strong, almost spiritual, feeling that was like I was in the middle of an enchanted and mystical forest in a simpler, more ancient time. It fucking felt like I was in a Zelda game. I personally think Varg should've put "Et Hvitt Lys Over Skogen" on the album.
Damn, I've got a couple of musical experiences. Pantera and SlipKnot got me into Metal 7 years ago (I was 15 going 16, 22 now). When I first heard Floods in that period I was blown away, a couple of months afterwars I started playing Guitar (I still play now and I'm good, don't play as much now though.) When I was 17/18 I got into Opeth, and at 18 I got into Melodic Death, The Gallery and The Jester Race blew my mind. My first live music experience was at 19 to see a local scene Progressive Death band similar to Opeth who are awesome. My first more famous gig was at 21 with Testament and Amon Amarth, which was quite good. Last year I saw Insomnium perform Winter's Edge, and I was at Bloodstock in August which was lovely and my first festival (I live in the UK).
I remember having this crazy experience with Judas Priest once, I remember I bought a Sin After Sin cd along with a copy of Sad Wings of Destiny at a record store and it was raining that day, so when I got home I popped the CD in and skipped to track 5 "Let Us Pray/Call For The Priest", and as soon as those dual guitars came in at the beginning of the song, the biggest clap of thunder and bolt of lightning boomed and lit up the sky Fucking surreal shit like that is incredible
Can totally relate to the experience you had listening to Hexvessel, specifically Sacred Marriage. I had a similar experience when I first listened to that track and it still brings up that same feeling whenever I listen to now 4 years later.
don't really have much but if I had to choose my best listening experience it would probably be Cannibal corpse torture album. During my high school years the main things I listened too were very few typical entry level bands like Metallica, iron maiden, A7x, SOAD, some disturbed, and generally a few metalcore band and it didn't stray much from that simply because I had this stupid idea of not wanting to try music because "I might not like it"......honest to God I can't even explain why I thought like that. However one night I was just sitting a home playing CoD and for some reason in my head I thought "let's listen to some death metal" and I just popped open RUclips, typed in cannibal corpse and their torture album was the first to come up. Obviously from going from maiden and sevenfold to cannibal corpse it didn't click with me until the third of forth listen but once it did and I started to like it I just remember going from album to album to album on RUclips just finding all this new stuff one after another. Plus through that mass amount of exploration I ended up finding not only your channel but infidelAmsterdamns, CKN, and some others which provided even more new shit to the point i felt overwhelmed buy how much stuff I needed to go through. but that year will always be the best experience simply because of how overjoyed and exciting it was to just keep finding new music at such large amounts.
The first time I ever heard Genevieve by Velvet Cacoon I was lying in bed with a 103° fever. When it was over I threw up. The next day my fever fell to 102° and I listened to Stratification by Wold for the first time. What is wrong with me.
best music metal experience is when i got to meet frost from the almighty satyricon and best listening experience in metal is when i first heard immortals sons of northern darkness and for very long time that was the only extreme metal album that i listened to every single day and then when i got to school i discovered venom and i was completely blown away the first song i heard was nightmare and i played it for my grandmother and she was completely terrified because she had never heard anything like that in her live maybe led zeppelin but still
My best experience have to have been back in 2004 when I heard Siren Song of the Counter Culture by Rise Against. Listening to that album for the first time was an epiphany. That album opened my eyes to sounds that I didn't even know existed. I must have listened to that album 5-6 times on the first day, and I spend the days after searching for similar bands and similar sounds. Looking back Siren Song of the Counter Culture isn't that great of an album, but the memory will always be something special.
When I first really got into music I was in sixth grade and riding to school. I heard Green Day and was hooked. I went home because I thought I saw the album and it was there. Nimrod was the album and my love of music was born.
It was the first time I listened to metal, I was super fucking pissed from stuff that happened earlier that day, my cousin told to listen to Jekyll and Hyde by Five Finger Death Punch. I listened to it, and the moment the guitars ramped up, I was in a euphoric state. I let out the best headbang of my whole life. It was the closest I've ever been to a musical orgasm.
What do your parents think of all this now? Are they still uber religious, or just more chill? You've mentioned them buying some metal albums for you in the past, and even some of your records that used to be your dad's are metal records.
I was sixteen years old, I had bought dark throne transelvanian hunger, went to my bedroom hung my thick hard to see through blanket over my window, the heat was unbearable, it was at least one hundred degrees outside locked my door and cranke the stereo as loud as it could go and almost had a mental break down from how amazing that one album is
My best music experience goes like this.
I grew up in a religious background, the type where I was made to go to church every Sunday (I am a Christian). I was about 9 months into metal and my favorite bands were your general popular metal bands: Metallica, Maiden, Sabbath, Priest as well as some heavier stuff like Pantera and hardcore punk like Minor threat. I had never listened to death or black metal. My story is kind of similar to something you said, CountBlagorath, about hearing stuff about black metal, especially the whole "Mayhem scene", with the murders, burnings and suicides. Being from a religious background I was frightened. At this point I was too scared to even listen to Venom because I thought that their music would be really twisted and extreme. I knew what the cover of Mayhems "De Mysteriis Dom Sathanas" and I had never seen something so sinister and evil, with the crazy logo and haunting cathedral on the front. I said to myself that I would never listen to something like that but, I couldn't help but wonder what the actual music sounded like. It was playing on my mind, whether I should give it a listen or not until I couldn't stop thinking about it so I went to my computer, downloaded the whole album and synced it to my ipod. I liked listening to music at night so I waited until I went to bed and then plugged in my ear buds. When I pressed play the volume was way to loud and I jumped out of my skin. The blistering blastbeats and freezing cold riffs of Funeral Fog slammed into my ears. I was terrified. I was lying in bed and the sweat was pouring of me. I felt like I was descending into the depths of hell and being possessed. As soon as the vocals kicked in I was shaking and thats when I had enough. I had to listen to the whole of Killers by Iron Maiden to calm down. My curiosity had been filled and I didn't go back to Mayhem for a long time. As my music taste progressed I got into bands like Slayer, Exodus and even Venom. After hearing some death metal I decided to give Mayhem another listen. Thats when I really started to dig it. Then I discovered your videos and started listening to Darkthrone and Burzum. That's how I came to appreciate black metal!
I've been struggling with depression for the last 7 years, but it fluctuates. Over these years, there've been stretches where I've felt well enough to go out and have a good time with friends or be a functional participant in society, but there've also been stretches where I've felt really hopeless and miserable and where I've decided to isolate myself from everyone.
I've been in one of these low periods for the past couple of months, but I had an experience a few weeks ago that really lifted my spirits. My parents were on vacation, and I was home alone. One day though, I decided to put on the 20th Anniversary Remastered Pressing of Garbage's self-titled album.
The second track is called "I'm Only Happy When It Rains", but a sun shower occurred outside within seconds of the song beginning to play. It was just a beautiful moment of perfect synchronicity that made me think: Moments like this make the world worth experiencing!
I love these videos andI love making responses to them as well! Its always interesting to hear people tell their stories about music and how much it means to them.
My favorite music experience was probably the first time listening to lateralus by tool. If it wasn't for this album alone, I might have never been the expansive metal fan I am today
That last story is the sort of stuff dreams are made of
literally heard the mantle for the first time watching the snow too from the PA snow storm 3 years ago, unreal experience
Thanks for your stories of musicExperience.
Satyricon live 2009. The most intense and energetic concert I've ever been to. Best listening experience: 2002 listening to Blackwater Park for the fist time
My favorite album of all time right there. I first listened to it two years ago and it blew me away instantly.
Great video man! Just from you telling your stories, I got chills. I have too many stories to type out, but a huge one, for me, was when I listened to The Tenth Sublevel of Suicide by Leviathan. I was in a dark room, I closed my eyes and it was like I felt the power of the riffs flow through me, I felt all the saddness, the anger, that was put into that album. It brought me to tears and covered me with chills. I had never been able to get into black metal, but after I heard that, it changed everything for me.
i saw animals as leaders last weekend and it was the best live music I've experienced. also, behemoth.
I'm really looking forward to the video responses.
I first heard Burzum's Filosofem when I was 16, back in the winter of 2013. I'd never listened to black metal before, but I'd heard so much about the infamous figureheads of the genre, like Varg, Dead, and Euronymous. I had this idea that all of black metal was this very intense, Satanic, really brutal genre. I hadn't really given it that much attention, and I had a lot of preconceived notions. One day, my friend gave me a burnt copy on a disc of Filosofem and told me to give it a listen. I was already really into metal, mostly death metal, thrash, and some 'core stuff. Knowing this was black metal, I was expecting something that sounded very twisted, maniacal, and evil.
When I put the CD on, it was starting to snow outside. There was a greyish-white overcast, and I'm almost sure it was the first snow of the season (it was December). Right as Dunkelheit started (labeled as "Burzum" on this disc), I felt the cold, sinister atmosphere I felt this album was going to offer. Staring outside the window at the snow... I remember after all the black metal songs on the album had passed, each with their own level of extremity and serenity, I laid back in my room, as it was getting dark outside early, listening to the ambient track Rundtgåing av den transcendentale egenhetens støtte, relaxing... Filosofem has been my favorite album of all time ever since, and it only opened gateways to more black metal and ambient music for me.
great video my man. best recent musical experience for me was listening to Panopticon's Kentucky while driving through the Bernheim Forest in KY a few weeks back. Just awesome.
Tool and Mastodon 2007, then Saint Vitus 2015, then Coroner 2014 and 2015. Best concerts ever...
I was sixteen years old, I had bought dark throne transelvanian hunger, went to my bedroom hung my thick hard to see through blanket over my window, the heat was unbearable, it was at least one hundred degrees outside locked my door and cranke the stereo as loud as it could go and almost had a mental break down from how amazing that one album is
My favorite live experience was seeing Behemoth play, and them finishing with Chant for Eschaton which is my favorite song from them. And my favorite experience in general is really tough to decide, it might be this one night where I was gazing up into the stars for hours listening to The Nightspectral Voyage by Obsidian Gate and Son of the Morning by Elderblood, over and over.
I remember leaving a place really blazed at midnight or some ridiculous hour, It had just started to rain lightly but there was a storm brewing in the distance, i remember walking home, the rain got heavier as i went and it wasn't long before the whole storm was moving towards me and the sky was getting quite black, I was listening to my ipod it was only about a 10 minute walk and I put on Old Thunder by Ahab, before getting home I remember sort of running but then slowing down to be in awe of the storm while listening to such an intense song and then realizing I should get home before it got too intense as I saw lighting in the distance, it seemed like the storm was chasing me as I listened to this song which solidified my love for Ahab
may not be very heavy, but periphery II really changed the way that i listened and played music. it was my first real experience with progressive metal and it showed me just how much you can do with the guitar. another one was Portal of I by ne obliviscaris. it was just a wonderful experience which is what really led me to listening to much heavier music.
One of my utmost favorite music experiences has to be this one I had listening to Filosfem
So when me and my dad used to take a 5hr drive across out state for thanksgiving. This one trip was during a time when I was trying to find out what music I liked. At that time I was getting into black metal so I downloaded my copy of Filosofem to my phone.
I put that album at as soon as it first turned dawn. Barely any light out. Massive trees began appearing out of nowhere. It was like the world was being painted before my very eyes. With every note more of the world would appear before our headlights. It felt like I was in vessel and watching the creation of the universe. In perfect sync with that album.
As the album hit the first ambeint/dungeon synth track Rundgang Um Die Transzendentale Saule Der Singularitat. We broke out the tree lines and hit about an hour long stretch of plains. As soon as we hit the plains. The first waves of synth rolled out of my headphones and the sun was barely coming into full peak. The sun was right in front of our car. Massive and archaic. Rising up out of the plains to devour the world. And as soon as the sun rose. Waves of fog came out of nowhere. The longer the song went on. The more fog there was. Until all you could see was an ocean of fog and one massive hazy burning ball illuminating everything. The earth had been devoured by the fog. The synth rolled on ans on and the fog grew thicker and more ominous. I remember seeing nothing. I don't even think I could see the front of our truck. Just the ocean of fog and the massive ancient sun rising up.
And then we went up a hill. I remember everything for a moment bursting into clarity. The sun illuminated the world. It stretched high above us. Massive in scope. And everything seemed like a painting. It was so surreal. The whole entire world felt ancient and old. I felt like I was the only person alive. And we descended down the hill and across the plains with the last notes of synth ringing in my ears. That part where the tone of the synth changes and everything starts descending and getting more spaced out (around the 12:15mark). And then we were lost. Lost in an ocean of fog for what felt like an eternity. Watching the sun rise across the Earth. And miles of plains appear in and out of my eyes. Between swirls of ominous fog. And feeling how ancient and caught in a breath the world is. With that song ringing through my ears.
That moment. Was nothing less of transcendental. And sparked my love of atmospheric music of all kinds.
Best listening was actualy very recent. I bought the album "Kzohh - Rye. Fleas. Chrismon." which is like a doom/death/black/ambient stuff with the thematic of the black plague…(it's hard to explain). It was early spring and still cold at night. I put the album in the player, opened the window and just sat there listening to it and i got goosebumps. The athmosphere of the whole album is so thick and dark that it made me feel like i was back in the middle ages listing to the screams of the dying. I highly recommend the album and great video btw.
I know this will probably sound kind of silly but I remember a time where here in Iowa we got absolutely dumped on with snow. I was out pretty consistently with the shovel trying to keep the drive cleared so it wouldn't be a big pain in the ass later. I had just started listening to Darkthrone at that time and had been hooked on the song Quintessence and I pretty much listened to that song on repeat while I was trudging through the snow with my shovel. The pace of the song and the slowness of my never ending battle against Old Man Winter seemed to fit perfectly.
Hey! I have not heard much folk, but the album you mentioned from Hexvessel MOVED me. Please, what other folk bands/artists are you a fan of? Also, do you like Nocturnal Poisoning?
a couple bands that hit me hard as a child (in the 90s, early 2000s) are Garden Of Shadows (both albums), Fairytale Abuse (the first two ep's), quo vadis (all of the albums), At Dawn They Sleep (paradise lust album), Chastisement (but lost we are album) and ephel duath (opera album). if you can find these bands, they are amazing. i know you can find them on youtube, ive had to upload them because they are bands you cant find much of anywhere else.
haha zune and fye that's really showing the age of your collecting journey. I was telling somebody about virgin mega store where I live, because when the closed I bought a ton of vinyl. They were like what is virgin mega store? I use to go canal street in philly allot to and now all those as some shops are gone. luckily record store are having a good come back.
Thats so awesome man. I'm only 25 and I live in the middle of the woods, so stores that that were hard to come by.
+CountBlagorath I use to live in the Poconos Pennsylvania so I know what you mean man. listening to you reminds me of finding all those bands and attaching myself to nature. Did you ever go on lostsoulsdomain? That was my metal haunt.
I never did back then. I was always posting on Metal Archives and random forums ran by bands.
Great video. Stories about music and how it affects you always get me. Regardless of the genre. I love it. Great idea here, man. Maybe I'll try to do something similar if I get the time. But you're just gonna act like you didn't cut a fart at 2:18?
I SWEAR TO CHRIST I DIDN'T! It was my phone vibrating on my laptop from a message I got! If I did fart, I would have made a face with one that sharp. Just thinking about that makes my asshole hurt.
Hahahahah! I'm at work in tears right now! "One that sharp!" Hahahahahahhaha!
great video one of my top musical experience was wen a first listen to mercenary 11 dreams epic day every time I heard the album it's brings me back memories of that day
i just gave Forteresse listen. Awesome band
thx for the video
I had been a Burzum fan for a long time before I had heard anything off of Hvis Lyset Tar Oss, except "Tomhet". I had even heard stuff off the 2 prison albums and all of the post-prison metal albums before I heard anything off that record. One day, I FINALLY decide I was going to sit back and give it a spin. The first time I had heard the song "Det Som Engang Var", I was truly moved. I was moved in that way that Ronnie James Dio and Iron Maiden moves me, and that;s hard to match for me, I felt so powerful listening to it. When the main riff("THE" riff) with the epic "battle" drums kicked in, I was blown away by the sheer power. When the song gave way to the more atmospheric riffs that matched the keyboards, I felt a very strong, almost spiritual, feeling that was like I was in the middle of an enchanted and mystical forest in a simpler, more ancient time. It fucking felt like I was in a Zelda game. I personally think Varg should've put "Et Hvitt Lys Over Skogen" on the album.
i really like your agalloch story, litteraly the same thing happened to me but with wintersun self titled album...such a magic experience.
Damn, I've got a couple of musical experiences. Pantera and SlipKnot got me into Metal 7 years ago (I was 15 going 16, 22 now). When I first heard Floods in that period I was blown away, a couple of months afterwars I started playing Guitar (I still play now and I'm good, don't play as much now though.) When I was 17/18 I got into Opeth, and at 18 I got into Melodic Death, The Gallery and The Jester Race blew my mind. My first live music experience was at 19 to see a local scene Progressive Death band similar to Opeth who are awesome. My first more famous gig was at 21 with Testament and Amon Amarth, which was quite good. Last year I saw Insomnium perform Winter's Edge, and I was at Bloodstock in August which was lovely and my first festival (I live in the UK).
I remember having this crazy experience with Judas Priest once, I remember I bought a Sin After Sin cd along with a copy of Sad Wings of Destiny at a record store and it was raining that day, so when I got home I popped the CD in and skipped to track 5 "Let Us Pray/Call For The Priest", and as soon as those dual guitars came in at the beginning of the song, the biggest clap of thunder and bolt of lightning boomed and lit up the sky
Fucking surreal shit like that is incredible
Best music related experience?
Seeing Myrkur live. It was fantastic and I absolutely loved every moment if the show.
Can totally relate to the experience you had listening to Hexvessel, specifically Sacred Marriage. I had a similar experience when I first listened to that track and it still brings up that same feeling whenever I listen to now 4 years later.
Getting pulled over in the Bronx, while NWA Fuck The Police was playing in 1989...Lol
don't really have much but if I had to choose my best listening experience it would probably be Cannibal corpse torture album. During my high school years the main things I listened too were very few typical entry level bands like Metallica, iron maiden, A7x, SOAD, some disturbed, and generally a few metalcore band and it didn't stray much from that simply because I had this stupid idea of not wanting to try music because "I might not like it"......honest to God I can't even explain why I thought like that. However one night I was just sitting a home playing CoD and for some reason in my head I thought "let's listen to some death metal" and I just popped open RUclips, typed in cannibal corpse and their torture album was the first to come up. Obviously from going from maiden and sevenfold to cannibal corpse it didn't click with me until the third of forth listen but once it did and I started to like it I just remember going from album to album to album on RUclips just finding all this new stuff one after another. Plus through that mass amount of exploration I ended up finding not only your channel but infidelAmsterdamns, CKN, and some others which provided even more new shit to the point i felt overwhelmed buy how much stuff I needed to go through. but that year will always be the best experience simply because of how overjoyed and exciting it was to just keep finding new music at such large amounts.
yo Sean, I'd love to hear your response to this: top 20 songs for winter
The first time I ever heard Genevieve by Velvet Cacoon I was lying in bed with a 103° fever. When it was over I threw up.
The next day my fever fell to 102° and I listened to Stratification by Wold for the first time. What is wrong with me.
I was walking in the forest and listened to agalloch and I didn't eaven realize that I hade been walking for hours
Breaking Bad and Better Call Saul is fantastic
best music metal experience is when i got to meet frost from the almighty satyricon and best listening experience in metal is when i first heard immortals sons of northern darkness and for very long time that was the only extreme metal album that i listened to every single day and then when i got to school i discovered venom and i was completely blown away the first song i heard was nightmare and i played it for my grandmother and she was completely terrified because she had never heard anything like that in her live maybe led zeppelin but still
Will you ever do a top ________ albums of all time list?
My best experience have to have been back in 2004 when I heard Siren Song of the Counter Culture by Rise Against.
Listening to that album for the first time was an epiphany. That album opened my eyes to sounds that I didn't even know existed. I must have listened to that album 5-6 times on the first day, and I spend the days after searching for similar bands and similar sounds.
Looking back Siren Song of the Counter Culture isn't that great of an album, but the memory will always be something special.
Falling asleep while listening to Lifit es Dauderfaerd by Pest....
oh I want to make a response video for this and share my greatest experiences. =D
When I first really got into music I was in sixth grade and riding to school. I heard Green Day and was hooked. I went home because I thought I saw the album and it was there. Nimrod was the album and my love of music was born.
Green Day really got me into music as well only the first album I heard was Dookie. Still a personal favorite of mine to this day!
+TimTamTheTurtleMan My favorite is insomniac.
Musicbookoholic Yeah, thats a great album too
Great video! :)
It was the first time I listened to metal, I was super fucking pissed from stuff that happened earlier that day, my cousin told to listen to Jekyll and Hyde by Five Finger Death Punch. I listened to it, and the moment the guitars ramped up, I was in a euphoric state. I let out the best headbang of my whole life. It was the closest I've ever been to a musical orgasm.
Hearing Black Sabbath on vinyl for the first time.
Me thinks I'll make a video response sometime soon to this. First I just need some damn freetime
What's your opinion on SPITE
Great stories and nice tan. Is your mother's illness something that can be cured?
Some yes, some no. There is way too much to explain.
Ok just know that your community is there for you when you are stressed or depressed.
Musicbookoholic Thank you so much! That seriously means the world to me.
You are most welcome.
Ey, Count, is this your whole collection on discogs?
Not all, but majority.
+CountBlagorath This may sound proposterous, but I'm almost on par with you. Never thought, that would happen. Awesome collection you have there.
Sean do you smoke weed? Some of my most deeply spiritual listening experiences have been when i'm stoned.
subtitles please for mexico!!!!
What do your parents think of all this now? Are they still uber religious, or just more chill? You've mentioned them buying some metal albums for you in the past, and even some of your records that used to be your dad's are metal records.
slice the cake other slices
the cake is a lie
heard you fart 2:18 :)
I replayed that bit like 10 times lol
Heeeeyyyy, better call Saul. An amazing show I would recommend to anyone who liked breaking bad or just great stories
First
Not first
Your parents must be proud.
Come on, you didn't butcher Hvis Lyset Tar Oss that bad. Tomhet, however.....
I figured as much
I have a hard time saying that one myself.
I guess nobody wants to hear my Metallica story so I"ll spare you
I was sixteen years old, I had bought dark throne transelvanian hunger, went to my bedroom hung my thick hard to see through blanket over my window, the heat was unbearable, it was at least one hundred degrees outside locked my door and cranke the stereo as loud as it could go and almost had a mental break down from how amazing that one album is