What records has influenced you the most?

[Rapture]

To all you list thread haters

Let's seee

Mahogany Rush - Live '77
Jeff Beck - Wired
Allan Holdsworth - Metal Fatigue
Gary Moore - Victims of the Future
Racer X - Street Lethal (Or any other PG stuff)
Yngwie Malmsteen - Rising Force
Rainbow - Long Live Rock n' Roll
Van Halen - VHII
Uli Jon Roth - Firewind
Jimi Hendrix - Live at Winterland
UFO - Strangers in the Night
Pat Travers - Crash n' Burn
Stevie Ray Vaughan - Couldn't Stand the Weather
Shawn Lane - Powers of Ten

 

[Louis Cypher]

I love lists! haha! brings out my inner Geek! So the few that come to mind immediately would be...

Van Halen - VH1/VH2/Women & Children First (reason 1 why i started playing)
Ozzy Osborne - Blizzard of Ozz (reason 2 why i started playing)
Steve Vai - Passion & Warfare
David Lee Roth - Eat em and smile
Extreme - Pornograffiti
Dokken - Beast from the East
Lynch Mob - Wicked Sensation
NIN - Downward Spiral
White Zombie - Astro Creep
Fear Factory - Remanufacture
Korn - Korn

 

[thedarkoceans]

OK....

The Ocean-All Albums
Converge-Jane Doe,No Heroes,You Fail Me
Mastodon-All Albums
Dead To Fall-All Albums
Dillinger Escape Plan-Almost All Albums
Ion Dissonance-Pretty Much Everything,Mostly Cursed.
Bury Your Dead-Cover Your Tracks,Beauty And The Breakdown
The Faceless-Akeldama
Deftones-Diamond Eyes
Cave In-Until Your Heart Stops
Nine Inch Nails-Broken

 

[ry_z]

Influenced how I write music? Or how I listen to it? The lists are different.

Writing (lately, anyway):

Versailles - Jubilee -Method of Inheritance-
D'espairsRay - [coll:set]
Katatonia - Last Fair Deal Gone Down
Diabolical Masquerade - Nightwork

Listening (more or less chronologically):

Rush - 2112
Opeth - Blackwater Park
Fantômas - Fantômas
Isis - Oceanic
Sunn O))) - White2 (the track Decay2 [Nihils' Maw] in particular)
Kashiwa Daisuke - Program Music I
Ryoji Ikeda - 99 (1999) :: Variations For Modulated 440Hz Sinewaves :: / 20' To 2000.March

 

[Flesh]

The Trees Are Dead And Dried Out......... Wait For Something Wild-Sikth
Nothing-Meshuggah
Blood Mountain-Mastodon
White Pony-Deftones
Sol Niger Within-FTSD
The Bedlam In Goliath-The Mars Volta
Mezzanine-Massive Attack
Ghost Reveries-Opeth
Far Beyond Driven-Pantera
Illadelph Halflife-The Roots
Chaos AD-Sepultura
Midnight Marauders-A Tribe Called Quest
Lateralus-Tool
Slum Village, vol. 1+2 -J Dilla
Probably the albums that got me into each artist and influenced me the most=
All that comes to mind

 

[MUTANTOID]

Every Deftones record

Shadows Fall - The Art of Balance (when this record came out, it was my audio bible)

 

[elrrek]

Godflesh - Streetcleaner and Selfless
Iron Monkey - S/T and Our Problem
King Crimson - Red and The Construction of Light (I wish I could play like that)

Other notables:
Fields of the Nephilim and Sisters of Mercy - for cleans with massive chorus and delay
Slayer - for realising that solos can just be sheet noise nuts
future sound of london - for just creating a sound
Actual, proper horrible doom (e.g. Khanate) - for just being slow and wrong

 

[TheEvilsocky]

let's see...

The Number of the Beast- Iron Maiden, Got me playing guitar.
Van Halen 1-Van Halen
Best of- Deep Purple
Best of- Black Sabbath
British Steel- Judas Priest
Reign in Blood- Slayer
Everything- Megadeth, Got me taking lesson's and into
Inhuman Rampage- Dragonforce
Systematic Chaos- Dream theater
Leprosy-Death
Dead Heart in a Dead World-Nevermore, got me looking at 7 string's.
Outworld-Outworld, Bought a 7 string.
Ire Works- Dillinger Escape Plan, My first "bizarre" album (as described by friends)
Color's- Between the Buried and Me
Skullgrid-Behold... The Arctopus
Animal's as Leader's- Animal's as Leader's
Obzen, Nothing and Catch 33-Meshuggah
The Sound of Perseverance-Death.

 

[cwhitey2]

At the Gates - Slaughter of the Soul
The Bled - All albums
Sepultura - Chaos A.D.
Old In Flames
Killswith Engage - pre Howard
Metallica - Black album
a lot of '90's and early 2000's metalcore (dont be hating)
Between the Buried and Me - Alaska and Color's
MGMT
ISIS - all
~ALL Classic Rock~
Alice in Chains - Dirt
TBDM - all albums as well
pretty much anything experimental

 

[lemeker]

Songs from the Big Chair -Tears For Fears (this is just such an amazing record)

Moving Pictures and Permanent Waves - Rush (my first real musical influence)

The Wall - Pink Floyd (like Rush, gotta thank dad for this one, we used to air guitar with T squares to these guys and Rush when I was knee high....good times)

.....And Justice For All -Metallica (this cd change my life, made me want to "really" play, write and be in a band....pretty much everything......)

Persistence of Time - Anthrax (Scott is the reason I play rhythm guitar)

Cause of Death - Obituary (got me into death metal)

 

[Inazone]

Metallica - And Justice for All
Megadeth - Countdown to Extinction
Alice in Chains - Facelift
Carcass - Heartwork
Dissection - Storm of the Light's Bane
Testament - Low

There are many others, but I can pretty easily remember the first time I heard each of those albums and what I was doing musically at the time.

 

[USMarine75]

Metallica - And Justice for All
Megadeth - Rust In Peace
Testament - Practice What You Preach
Joe Satriani - Surfing with the Alien, Flying in a Blue Dream
Steve Vai - Passion and Warfare
Cacophony - Go Off!
Van Halen - 5150, FUCK, Balance (didn't start liking them until around '90)
Alice in Chains - Facelift and Dirt
Jimi Hendrix - Live at Woodstock

These albums changed everything for me! I remember hearing each one for the first time and thinking... wow, I never knew you could do that with a guitar! I'm trying to think of what has made me feel that way in the last couple years... maybe the first time I saw the CAFO video? Also, the Sequoia Throne video for PTH.

 

[Gamma362]

Metallica: Master of Puppets, this is the reason I picked up the guitar. Also RTL and Justice
Megadeth: Rust in Peace
Nevermore: Dead Heart, in a Dead World; This Godless Endeavor
Machine Head: The Blackening

 

[skoatdestroy]

metallica- ride the lightning
decapitated- post organic
gwar- violence has arrived
pantera- vulgar display of power
slayer- reign in blood

 

[gilsontsang]

Threat Signal - Vigilance, the harmonizing guitar solos are amazing!

 

[pstol]

Protest the Hero - Fortress got me into stuff that actually requires a little bit of practice

 

[Dimensions]

The Contortionist- exoplanet
Circa Survive - on letting go


my top two.

 

[brutalwizard]

after the burial- rareform

animals as leaders

megadeth- rust in peace

all shall perish- awaken the dreamers

paul gilbert- get out of my yard

monomate- grand battle

 

[linchpin]

Cannibal Corpse - Kill

Enya - Paint the sky with stars

 

[Beowulf Von Thrashmeister]

The records that have influenced me the most are (in no particular order) ...


Iron Maiden `Number Of The Beast`

Metallica `Master Of Puppets`

Fields Of The Nephilim `Dawnrazor`

Kreator `Pleasure To Kill`

Sabbat `History Of A Time COme`

Celtic Frost `To Mega Therion`

Emperor`Wrath Of The Tyrant`

Cynic `Focus`

Therion `Of Darkness...`

Rush `Exit Stage Left`

Atheist `Piece Of Time`

Venom `Black Metal`

Cradle Of Filth `The Principle Of Evil Made Flesh`

Motorhead `Ace Of Spades`

Dream Theater `Images And Words`

Sisters Of Mercy `First And Last And Always`