I think that I'm one of perhaps two or three people that post here anymore that listen to true black metal. Here's a few from a quick run through my playlist (avoiding the biggest/most obvious names without going too obscure). If you're on board with any of this, throw me some suggestions


Arckanum
Averse Sefira
Baptism
Beherit
Behexen
Craft
Djur
Dodsengel
Gris
Gronde
Judas Iscariot
Katharsis
Maniac Butcher
Merrimack
Negura Bunget
Nightbringer
Ondskapt
Paysage d'Hiver
Sortsind
Taake
Tsjuder
Urgehal

3/10/2012 12:27:49 AM

I love Katharsis http://www.facebook.com/pages/Katharsis/189529634450533

3/10/2012 4:22:54 AM

what defines a true black metal

3/10/2012 4:37:40 AM

Im into Children of Bodom, which is kind of black metal I guess. I dont segregate genres though, if its good metal and I like the sound I will listen to any band regardless of genre....with the exception of nu metal.

I guess it depends on what you are calling true black metal.

Im always open to suggestions of new music to try

Im more of a melodic death fan though personally.

[Edited on March 10, 2012 at 8:23 AM. Reason : .]

3/10/2012 8:08:46 AM

Paysage d'Hiver is my motherfucking JAM. I love that guy.

I'm more into atmospheric black metal than the really raw, kvlt stuff, but I still like a lot of the bands you mentioned. Other stuff you might like: Angantyr, Kataxu, Krohm, Lunar Aurora, Vinterriket, Peste Noire, Funeral Mist, Terzij de Horde, Austere, ColdWorld, Hate Forest, Permixtio, Darkspace, Mutiilation, The Great Old Ones.

[Edited on March 10, 2012 at 3:00 PM. Reason : ]

3/10/2012 2:59:14 PM

true black metal

3/10/2012 3:59:12 PM

I think they're more Viking Metal, but I'm a huge fan of Bathory and Enslaved. Gorgoroth and Mayhem are probably the more "black metal" sounding bands I like, but I personally dont dig the whole "lo-fi" thing that a lot of artists (Burzum, Darkthrone) go for.

3/10/2012 4:17:49 PM

I am more into Alkali Earth Metal

3/10/2012 5:25:05 PM

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"I love Katharsis"

indeed. pretty brutal stuff. If you haven't already you should check out Tsjuder's album "Desert Northern Hell" and Urgehal's album "Goatcraft Torment," think they'll be right up your alley.





(hey BHS he spells it out in the beginning of that one)

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"what defines a true black metal"

I do

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"Im into Children of Bodom, which is kind of black metal I guess."

Not black metal. Nothing against them, just not what I'm referring to itt

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"Other stuff you might like: Angantyr, Kataxu, Krohm, Lunar Aurora, Vinterriket, Peste Noire, Funeral Mist, Terzij de Horde, Austere, ColdWorld, Hate Forest, Permixtio, Darkspace, Mutiilation, The Great Old Ones."

Awesome. Thanks for the list...Already very familiar with Vinterriket, Funeral Mist, ColdWorld (I want to like them but I just can't give it up for'em. They definitely have their moments but in general too much reliance on keys for atmosphere for my tastes) and Darkspace. Definitely will look into the rest

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"true black metal"

true black metal

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"I think they're more Viking Metal, but I'm a huge fan of Bathory and Enslaved. Gorgoroth and Mayhem are probably the more "black metal" sounding bands I like"

Good show, sir. I excluded them under the "obvious names" clause but they certainly hold their respective places

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"I am more into Alkali Earth Metal"

just keep it out of your eyes

3/12/2012 10:24:42 AM

My favorite black metal band is Puddle of Mudd

3/12/2012 10:50:11 AM

hell yeah bro

side note: revisiting coldworld's melancholie2 album, better than I remembered (especially from track 3 and on)...guess it's been a while

3/12/2012 10:58:50 AM

ahahahahhaAhahah you made this thread and didn't post only krallice videos?

Also vattnet viskar at slims Wednesday. Look up weakness on jewtube

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[Edited on March 12, 2012 at 12:14 PM. Reason : i pretty much only listen to hipster-elitest/pretentious black metal now]

3/12/2012 12:12:28 PM

yeah i tend to see Children of Bodom as more of melodic death

3/12/2012 8:49:07 PM

Just got a Darvulia album in the mail today; you'd probably like it. Basically, if it's French black metal, I probably like it--Darvulia, Angmar, Blut Aus Nord, The CNK, Merrimack, Mutiilation, Peste Noire, etc. I first got into French stuff with some of the more atmospheric black metal groups like Alcest, Amesoeurs, and Les Discrets, but I dunno if you're quite as into that side of things.

3/13/2012 3:59:27 AM

I have to take the French stuff on a band-by-band basis, it's a varied and unique subset and where a lot of it works, some just falls into weird-for-the-sake-of-weird. I love Blut aus Nord, the Vlad Tepes/Belketre split, Antaeus, Gris (if Quebec counts as French) for example, but I've heard more than one French atmospheric album touted as absolutely visionary and it sounded to me like the ass-end of a b-side album Varg would have written in prison on a casio

But yeah, lots of names for me to check out. I haven't had any free time since the semester resumed but I will update, keep'em coming as you think of them. After checking out Peste Noire, I had a stroke of recognition and went and dug up an old rip of their La Sanie des Siècles - Panégyrique de la Dégénérescence album that I forgot all about. Definitely good stuff.

3/13/2012 7:39:51 AM

Alcest is playing at kings in like 2 weeks i think. I've been listening to a lot of SMRC, but not much other black metal. I blame doom/sludge for stealing my soul from the kvlt

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3/13/2012 12:16:10 PM

Krallice gives me boner

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3/16/2012 11:07:25 PM

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"what defines a true black metal"

if you listen to it and think, "well, this kind of sucks", then you're listening to true black metal

3/17/2012 2:12:16 PM

metallica's black album is pretty good.

3/17/2012 11:59:18 PM

There is only one true metal, norwegian death metal. Well that and the almighty deathklok.

3/18/2012 12:28:19 PM

If you google "Norwegian death metal," all of the first page's results are for Norwegian black metal.

And you misspelled Dethklok.

3/18/2012 5:20:25 PM

The early norweigan bands were mostly trying to copy american death metal bands but without all the colorful joking crassness

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3/18/2012 6:09:29 PM

I picked up the s/t a couple years ago and Dimensional Bleedthrough about a year ago and, while they are definitely talented as hell and an interesting group, they just haven't sunk in with me yet. They'll have a great idea or an awesome melody or a genius riff or something and then drive it into the ground with that spastic dissonant guitar dueling, takes me out of the mood. But maybe I just need to spend some more time with it...most bands that I can say I truly love I didn't really get into on the first couple listens. In any case, krallice is definitely some hipster post-black stuff but I'll allow it!

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"There is only one true metal, norwegian death metal."

wat? Assuming you mean "scandinavian" in general, even the swedish death is a little too melodic and "epic" for my tastes (gothenburg in particular), with a few notable exceptions. Finnish death is almost always not death but folky or avant-garde and norwegian death barely even exists. Mainland and eastern europe (germany, poland, austria, greece, occasionally france, and where old-school death is concerned, england) are more consistent with sick death metal, but even they don't compare to the the good ol' USA. Proud to say we've got death metal on lock over here



[Edited on March 18, 2012 at 10:25 PM. Reason : i was disappointed with that southpark episode that called slayer "death metal"]

3/18/2012 10:20:35 PM

3/18/2012 11:58:27 PM

Dimensional Bleedthrough is my least favorite album, however Autochthon is my favorite krallice song. The new album is better. S/T is the best. I hate to admit that they are hipster black metal, mainly because they don't really claim to be a black metal. They're brooklynvegan at it's best. All the best weird metal comes from brooklyn. Bloody Panda, Hull,

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3/19/2012 12:33:02 AM

speaking of brooklyn, i saw liturgy live a couple years ago at kings, bought a vinyl and a shirt

haven't listened to the former nor worn the latter since but i remember having a good time and the guys were chill to talk to. i should note there was much beer involved. PBR, iirc.




this should be in this thread

3/19/2012 1:01:08 AM

Liturgy is true hipster black metal. At least the krallice dudes play in other metal bands lol. I still like liturgy, they are impressive live

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3/19/2012 8:34:41 AM

yeah dude had a three piece drum kit and like one cymbal and tore that shit up

i was impressed, but i'm also easily impressed when drunk

3/19/2012 2:29:51 PM

http://www.youtubedoubler.com/?video1=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C6kZND9o_ZY&start1=&video2=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7CSXC6Xj8A0

[Edited on March 25, 2012 at 11:36 PM. Reason : .]

3/25/2012 11:31:41 PM

hahahaahahahah


man...what a perfect bandmember. perfectly happy to do his thing and won't skip practice because his girlfriend is upset

3/26/2012 8:32:21 AM

does candiria count? not a huge black metal fan, but someone turned me on to them and I dig it

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wSOa-Dxns5w

http://youtu.be/wrqs5KAGlfQ

they mix in some hip hop and jazz and improvise some live which I find impressive

live

http://youtu.be/cuxZ9o8mIVc

[Edited on March 29, 2012 at 6:49 PM. Reason : .]

3/29/2012 6:45:38 PM

On my phone but you must be trolling. Idk who that band is but improvisng, hip hop and jazz are the antithesis of what anyone in the early black metal scene would've been about

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3/29/2012 8:18:24 PM

like I said, don't know much about black metal, just throwing it out there

3/29/2012 8:28:34 PM

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Candiria

In general, black metal is minimalist, harshly recorded (at least in the original days because it was a bunch of poor teenagers trying to record shit as fast as possible) and in someway satanic, anti-religious, anti-establishment

I recommend anyone who likes metal or even people who don't to watch some of the documentaries on it. These people were truely evil and lived the lives they sang about. Its borderline scary, but cool.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i4U33U_UyzQ
I just started watching this now and i'll report back. So far they said gaahl is the most evil man alive and i'd have to disagree.

Until the Light takes us is the best documentary i've seen on black metal. Pretty unbiased imo.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-NScR9AjQUE
There is one that is just a recording of interviews and conversations with the original members (that weren't murdered and didn't commit suicide lulz) WITH the interviewers edited out that is pretty cool, but it focused on mostly the negative stuff and not as much on the early ideologies that those kids had.

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[Edited on March 29, 2012 at 10:21 PM. Reason : This video watches like pro-gorgoroth propoganda for a black metal fan who has never heard of them]

3/29/2012 10:20:12 PM

love4 music documentaries, just added until the light takes us to netflix queue

3/29/2012 10:28:14 PM

tl;dw version a bunch of kids who hated mcdonalds and coca-cola make shit music, end up killing each other and burning like 60 churches in norway

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[Edited on March 29, 2012 at 10:37 PM. Reason : also Atilla from the band Mayhem will be preforming with Sunn O))) at hopscotch lulz]

3/29/2012 10:32:14 PM

atilla is probably my single biggest vocal influence...not that I really try to sound anything like him but his pure, sincere hatred on the de mysteriis album definitely struck me as the way to go in those early days when I put down the drumsticks and picked up the microphone. akerfeldt and tagtgren later had their influences, and more recently kvarforth from shining...but atilla will always be that sentimental #1


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dLT-3TWwSX4&feature=youtube_gdata_player

[Edited on March 30, 2012 at 3:46 AM. Reason : might as well post this seein as it's one of my all time favorites, and all]

3/30/2012 3:31:36 AM

hit edit time limit, continued from above while we're on the subject of some good vocalists...could go on for a while here but it's past my bedtime

attila-
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dLT-3TWwSX4&feature=youtube_gdata_player

kvarforth-
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gEtxrn7169U&feature=youtube_gdata_player

gratuitous honorable mention,
helmuth-
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H-nZRZtYJ9k&feature=youtube_gdata_player

3/30/2012 4:05:59 AM

Immortal's Pure Holocaust album just queued up on my playlist...man, this one takes me back. back of the school bus, an old discman that played for about an hour and a half before the batteries gave out, through shitty plastic over-the-head headphones with the ear felts long gone and couldn't have been happier

4/3/2012 5:50:20 PM

i thought this thread was about Krallum specifically

4/3/2012 6:06:26 PM

it's actually about scotty mcreery if you're clever enough to pick up on the subtlety

4/3/2012 6:47:36 PM

i know he'll be attending NCSU

4/3/2012 6:48:56 PM

I've gotten a lot of DSBM recently, which maybe you would like more than the atmospheric stuff I mostly listen to. To wit, some of the best of what I've gotten:

Nyktalgia
Trist
Wigrid
Sun of the Blind
Veil
Wintercult
Dhampyr
Be Persecuted

4/3/2012 8:27:53 PM

man blodhemn is such a god damn good album. Probably gonna put on mardraum then monumension and fuckin end the day right

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5/24/2012 11:20:57 PM

Why in the hell did I not say to listen to Mgla?

Listen to Mgla.

[Edited on August 6, 2013 at 11:42 PM. Reason : ]

8/6/2013 11:41:59 PM

I'm starting a black metal band

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[Edited on August 7, 2013 at 10:47 AM. Reason : like today.]

8/7/2013 10:40:39 AM

??

8/7/2013 6:25:16 PM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LVDzQi-FSS4

This album is actually unbelievable

4/4/2016 10:27:14 AM

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"norwegian death barely even exists"

For the longest time I thought in flames was Norweigan :x twas sad to find out they're sweedish

4/4/2016 11:43:33 AM

this thread is racist.

4/4/2016 11:59:09 AM