Yup, Mabudon named many of my classic faves from childhood!
My parents were into music like Led Zepplin, Sabbath, Deep Purple, Uriah Heep, BOC, etc..so I was introduced to hard rock early on and my first record I got to buy was the debut Maiden LP. When I was a skater I moved into listening to punk and hardcore like Dead Kennedys, Crass (I've had shokuchuus avatar/icon tatooed on my arm since I was 13)/Conflict, Black Flag, Circle Jerks, Vandals, SNFU, etc.. But since my punk friends moved away I went back to metal and became a metal journalist for the last 13 or so years. Publishing different zines and writing for other folks mags. My favorite magazine was Battle Helm (I published it from 1998-2001) in which I got to interview, meet & party with many of my musical heroes (or anti-heroes) like Virgin Steele/Pile Driver, Wasp, King Diamond, Venom, Impaler, Misfits, Thor, Sodom, Destruction, Accept/UDO, Dio, Doro Pesche/Warlock, Witchfynde, Bathory (R.I.P.), Sabbat/Skyclad, Sepultura (I admit, Morbid Visions is the only stuff of theirs I like), Hammerfall, Gwar (just because!), Motorhead, Rob Halford, Dee Schnieder, etc...
I also did some over the top concept studio projects/bands in my day; Cernunnos Woods- ambient druidic folklore (4 albums), Sigillum dei Draconis- experimental noise (2 albums), as well as some guest storytelling/narrations (using the "old man" voice from Cernunnos Woods) on a couple celtic folk albums by ...The Soil Bleeds Black.
My parents were into music like Led Zepplin, Sabbath, Deep Purple, Uriah Heep, BOC, etc..so I was introduced to hard rock early on and my first record I got to buy was the debut Maiden LP. When I was a skater I moved into listening to punk and hardcore like Dead Kennedys, Crass (I've had shokuchuus avatar/icon tatooed on my arm since I was 13)/Conflict, Black Flag, Circle Jerks, Vandals, SNFU, etc.. But since my punk friends moved away I went back to metal and became a metal journalist for the last 13 or so years. Publishing different zines and writing for other folks mags. My favorite magazine was Battle Helm (I published it from 1998-2001) in which I got to interview, meet & party with many of my musical heroes (or anti-heroes) like Virgin Steele/Pile Driver, Wasp, King Diamond, Venom, Impaler, Misfits, Thor, Sodom, Destruction, Accept/UDO, Dio, Doro Pesche/Warlock, Witchfynde, Bathory (R.I.P.), Sabbat/Skyclad, Sepultura (I admit, Morbid Visions is the only stuff of theirs I like), Hammerfall, Gwar (just because!), Motorhead, Rob Halford, Dee Schnieder, etc...
I also did some over the top concept studio projects/bands in my day; Cernunnos Woods- ambient druidic folklore (4 albums), Sigillum dei Draconis- experimental noise (2 albums), as well as some guest storytelling/narrations (using the "old man" voice from Cernunnos Woods) on a couple celtic folk albums by ...The Soil Bleeds Black.