[meme] Think of 15 albums that had such a profound effect on you they changed your life or the way you looked at it. These are the albums that no matter what they were thought of musically shaped your world. When you finish, tag 15 others, including me. Make sure you copy and paste this part so they know the drill. Get the idea now? Good. [/meme]

Okay, from that starting point, I had to just kind of think of albums that influenced the evolution of my musical tastes. Perhaps they were important to me in other ways, but I don’t know that I could come up with *15* albums that changed my life or the way I looked at it. In many cases, these were the first albums that I listened to by the band in question, and often these albums led me down a path toward a different sort of music than I had listened to previously. Admittedly, these are all metal, but they’re different kinds of metal, and each were important, as I said, to the evolution of my musical tastes.

1. Metallica – And Justice For All
2. White Zombie – La Sexorcisto: Devil Music, Vol. 1
3. Pantera – Far Beyond Driven
4. Biohazard – State of the World Address
5. Ultraspank – Ultraspank
6. Spineshank – The Height of Callousness
7. Various Artists – MTV2 Headbanger’s Ball
8. In Flames – Reroute to Remain
9. Dark Tranquillity – Damage Done
10. At the Gates – Slaughter of the Soul
11. Ceremonial Oath – Carpet
12. Trivium – Ember to Inferno
13. Protest the Hero – Kezia
14. Lamb of God – Sacrament
15. Wintersun – Wintersun

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