Any other metal fans here?

[Burek]

I grew up with metal in the 80s...well most everybody here did. There were two types of people: those that listen to metal and those that listen to punk as a primary choice, but we all listened to both.

We all still remember trading cassettes with brand new albums, sometimes you could barely hear the music because it was a copy of a copy of a copy of a copy, and sometimes you could hear several layers of music when the cassette got copied over too many times.
Dual deck cassette recorders were a must.

Needless to say, we listened to everything...start off with Motorhead, Judas Priest, Iron Maiden and the rest of melodic British metal, than move to German thrash/speed (Sodom, Kreator, Destruction...) and the rest of Europe (Celtic Frost, Merciful Fate/King Diamond, Bathory...)
Of course, American thrash was important (Slayer, Megadeth, Metallica, Exodus, Overkill, Anthrax, Exciter, Testament, Venom, Voivod...)
Later came some great bands like Sepultura, Ratos de Porao, Pantera, Machinehead, C.O.C.

I never really got into Death, I did like Morbid Angel, and of course Napalm Death was a must with their grindcore 30 second a piece blurbs, but once Deicide and Cannibal Corpse rolled in I couldn't do that...

Metal is still my primary choice, but I don't listen to any new stuff, I prefer to revisit my youth, so just yesterday I downloaded best of Megadeth and Iron Maiden to listen to in my car.

And I still have a huge collection of LPs that just sit there in the attic. All Iron Maidens up to 1990, all Judas Priests also, Sepultura, Celtic Frost, Helloween, and hundreds more.