Hello Mates. As you can see on my picture, i start listening music in the early 80's, exactly when i was 14 years old.I went into a legendary store in Brasil called Woodstock and when i just crossed the door, i heard the most incredible thing i had ever heard at my life till that time. I studied in a catholic school , so i get into the store and i was saluted by " Welcome to Hell" from Venom. That was the turning point of my entire life.
Funny fact: i went there with a "Rock" friend to buy the new Van Halen album, 1984. That was what i knew about 'metal", the track "Jump" and the cover-art i saw in the legendary zine/mag Rock Brigade. I just get back to hear Van Halen after the fall of the Second Wave of Black Metal.
It started with a "Thunderstruck" video I saw on TV in 1991, soon bought a pirate tape of AC/DC's "Razors Edge" as well some others - I was just 11 back then :).
Second shock soon after was "Reign in Blood" - damn, this shit was THE thing as well some of death metal stuff - Morbid Angel, and finally... "Ablaze in the Northern Sky". I remember the intro scarred the shit out of me.
Morbid Angel make me rethink if i would open my mind or be just a black metal guy for all my life.Altars of Madness was a turning point because black metal was almost dead.I never liked Mayhem, so just when Emperor released the first EP i went back to Black Metal.
Mr. Bungle was one of the 1st albums that really made a lasting impact. The musical insanity paired with incredible talent and creativity blew my little 16 year old mind! Plus it had all the musical ingredients you need....metal, noise, experimental sounds and circus music! Later on i heard Gnaw their Tongues and that was the missing link in music I needed. That 1st album is one of my favorite releases to date, and can't say enough great things about the incredible dark works by Mories!
the velvet underground and nico!!! 17. it was then everything changed. for better or for worse? perhaps worse. BUT ALAS! it was then. this banana. i learned the perversion of pop the bastardization of rock yet all as well the Genuine Deep Soul music has potential to provide. but but, how did this feed into my EXTREME fetish? The outcasts The underworld!! The supreme unfettered isolation. The weary withdrawal. It was all here. It all made sense. Still does.. Heroin. BE THE DEATH OF ME. my favorite rock song. One of my favorite songs to this day. Greatest climax of music history. The deathly lethargic propulsion into sheer visceral orgasm chills me to this day. This song gives new meaning to HARSH NOISE. it’s the relinquish of all spiritual attachment. A rejection of all ambition, of all motivation. Of all care. Towards anything. Truly. For all which matters is the corporeal explosion of sensation. The temporary transcendence of pleasure is worth EVERYTHING. Death itself. And honestly who wouldn’t relate. Anyone would trade their life for a glimmer of heaven. They do it all the time. Disturbing is an understatement. Relatable even more so disturbing. Yet. What is most. Which still gets me to this day. Is how ineffably beautiful it all is. And when the noise revs and revs and revs and revs into life consuming intensity, and you know it’s All over soon. So very soon. You can’t help but love in awe, to the wonders of existence, it’s inextricable relation to death. And the total abandonment of all restraint. This my friends. Is the only way to destroy evil and sorrow.
Wow, excellent start.Took some time to me absorve this album.I first started with Iggy and the stooges, then Television and just before i listen to a Mott the Hoople and a T-REX. After this musical rehab, i went through Velvet Underground.Lou Reed was a tuff singer to me, after all screaming vocals i was used to listen.Then i listen to Transformer and i change my mind.I went back to Andy Warhol, read the Please Kill Me book and all make sense. Libertarian.