The black metal thread
 

It seems that a lot of people (including me) who most of the time don't listen to metal are getting into black metal, probably because once you dig a little deeper there is some really fucked up, dark shit to be found(not dark in a "look at me I'm so scary" way).

To me there is the same dark feeling in Black Metal as there is in some of Nick Cave/Birthday party, swans, early industrial, PIL and even joy division or sonic youth's Bad Moon Rising.

Other black metal I've come across remindes me of the raw fury of early hardcore.

Some of the best black metal black metal I've come across includes,

Akista
Burzum
Darkthrone
Abruptum (more industrial/noise the stuff I've come across)
Xasthur
Leviathan
Striborg
Abyssic hate

Any recommendations/favourites or thoughts?

I have been a big black metal fan for a long time.
It's cartoonish, but so "of its own world" that I cannot help but love it.
Most of it is pretty bad, but when it's good it is so damn good.
Some favorites of mine:
Burzum
older Mayhem
Xasthur
Nortt
Nokturnal Mortum
Graveland
Lugubrum
Hurusoma
Trelldom

you can't say you have heard black metal if you haven't heard mayhem. and people who write metal off completely are dumb morons.

gorgoroth
sigh
early emperor
early (or latest) satyricon
deathspell omega
blut aus nort
marduk
dark funeral
dissection
early beherit
craft

I could never get into Marduk for some reason. I love Emperor and Deathspell Omega though!
Watain is also a band I like quite a lot.

black/death/speed metal sucks

We weren't talking about death metal or speed metal last time I checked this thread, but thanks for your enlightening and insightfully well-written critique.

Always been fascinated by black metal,grindcore and the like but i am not an expert.At the moment i'm massively into Burzum and Leviathan thanks to you guys.Not black metal but does anyone like Cathedral?Ace band.

cathedral were awesome, their newest album, with the exception of the 24 minute song, is a dud. but the ethereal mirror and all those other albums? marvelous! i liked lee's singing more in napalm though.

did king retard just said this music sucks?

no wonder he is such an idiot.

i take marduk in small doses, i don't have an album by them but some of their songs are pretty kick ass. actually, darkthrone's the past is alive sounds very marduk-esque, sort of with that discharge/punk edge.

by the way, thanks porky for introducing me to nokturnal mortum.

AHHH i forgot wigrid!!! ace ace band! check 'em out if you like burzum.

My favourite of theirs.

I've heard a bit of Marduk, didn't mind it but it didn't make me want to buy the album. I have trouble gettting into BM with overbearing synths and organs like Blut Aus Nord and Emperor.

Savage Clone is Lugubrum the band with the Saxophone?

That cover art almost reminds me of a Chameleons album, of all things.

I don't remember hearing saxophone, but they do occasionally use banjo.

then scratch emperor, sigh and early satyricon from my list, if you don't like keyboards (although those are the bands who have prominent keyboards but actually help the songs instead of pussing them out, not like dimmu burger or cradle of shit). wigrid have keyboards but they are not overbearing, again, kinda like burzum.

I'm not a huge fan of any black metal really. I'm far more into harps.

So how does an American get sarcasm then? Is there a long waiting list, or were you just lucky from birth? Well done anyway. Very well done.

I have nothing more to contribute other than faint approval. I'm not an expert on the black stuff, but what I likes I likes, and won't I don't I don't.

you are giving king_buzzo too much credit, he's not clever enough to be sarcastic.

ps: confusion is sex is way darker and scarier than bad moon rising.

i've been gorging on black metal massively for the last 18 months

here are some bands:

Leviathan
Striborg
Elysian Blaze (striborg bloke's other band)
nachtmystium
draugar
crebain
horn of dagoth
deathspell omega
furze
benighted leams
emit
botulistum
twilight
urgehal
katharsis
I Shalt Become
Enslaved
Blasphemy
Beherit
Behemoth
Darkestrah
Anaal Nathrakh
1349
absu
funeral moon
funeral mist
blut aus nord
haemoth
dead reptile shrine
lurker of chalice (Wrest from Leviathan's other band)
spektr
judas iscariot
drudkh
krieg
einskaden
wolok
marblebog
von
ludicra
mutiilation
wolves in the throne room
sterbend
velvet cacoon
moonblood
ondskapt
sapthuran
old wainds
ruins of beverast
s.v.e.s.t.
wold
ved buens ende

I've never really listened to Black metal before though I have to say It sounds quite interesting.

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