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My musical taste has always been growing heavier during the 80s. In 1982 or so I started listening to Iron Maiden, Judas Priest, and Deep Purple, besides the usual pop stuff. Probably the NDW (Neue Deutsche Welle) has influenced my taste most heavily <g> in this time. Most notably I remember Fehlfarben, Grauzone and Ideal. In late 1986 I discovered Metallica and Slayer through a friend and began collecting metal albums. My taste went swiftly and strongly into the thrash direction, but also into death, doom, avantgarde (Celtic Frost, Voivod) and progressive (Watchtower) metal, and hardcore punk.

Recently I went a little 'back to the roots' (where I never had been before) and bought a lot of 70s rock stuff, like Deep Purple, Led Zep, Thin Lizzy, Rainbow, Slade, UFO and more...

Years ago, I wrote some short reviews (in German) of metal albums, gave them a humorous title (silly puns :) and published them in a small communication mag.

Cum On Feel The Noize (Playlist)

Time Does Not Heal

Which songs go through your mind all the time? Here are (some of) mine:

Through The Ages (All Time Charts)

It's hard to choose just a few albums when so many master pieces are available. I haven't even mentioned Iron Maiden, Judas Priest, Rage, Atheist, Blind Guardian, Forbidden, Trouble and many others :-(
It is remarkable that nearly all of these were released between 1984 and 1989...
  1. Possessed Beyond the Gates
  2. Metal Church Metal Church
  3. Metal Church The Dark
  4. Voivod Killing Technology
  5. Omen Battle Cry
  6. Exodus Another Lesson in Violence
  7. Death Leprosy
  8. Watch Tower Energetic Disassembly
  9. Heir Apparent Graceful Inheritance
  10. Bolt Thrower War Master
  11. Candlemass Epicus Doomicus Metallicus
  12. Hades Resisting Success
  13. Dark Angel Darkness Descends
  14. Jag Panzer Ample Destruction
  15. Megadeth Peace Sells... But Who's Buying?
  16. Paradise Lost Gothic
  17. Helloween Walls of Jericho
  18. Sabbat History of a Time to Come
  19. Overkill Taking Over
  20. Dark Millennium Ashore the Celestial Burden
  21. Agnostic Front Liberty & Justice For...
  22. Obituary Slowly We Rot
  23. Asphyx God Cries
  24. Slayer Show No Mercy
  25. Bathory Under the Sign of the Black Mark
  26. Bathory Blood on Ice

Walk This Way (Interesting Web Sites)

Stairway To Heaven (Band Home Pages)

Nearly every band has a web site nowadays. I won't start to collect them all, but here are a few of my favorites.
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Updated 2007-12-15