Gorgoroth, "Pentagram" - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sHfgXh1506Q - full album

First full length by the black metal supergroup (led by guitarist Infernus) from 1994. Heard it in an older friend's car (an influencer, he was the guitarist in a band where at 16 years old I was at the low end of a nine year age gap in the group) at a young age and it stuck with me ever since. I don't really put on any pretentious airs about sincerely enjoying black metal (as an adult, that is ;) but this is an album that cannot be denied. #shreds

When my girlfriend and I started dating, the same friend who turned me on to this album suggested that on our first date, if my girlfriend could "hang" with some of the more hilarious/terrible music I was into way back when, then she's a keeper. I played for her a selection of noise records and eventually this album, too. Every few years we put it on blast and drive around the suburbs listening to it, like idiot children. We did that a few days ago and the next morning she wrote me an email while I was at work to say that two crows were sitting outside her window, but were eventually chased off by some kind of large grey duck-like bird. I replied with the wikipedia entry for Huginn and Muninn.