1. Keep of Kallesin
2. Immortal
3. Bal Sagoth
4. Emperor
5. Gorgoroth
but in its own style I do prefer the ambient and black noise. ^^
ur a skank.
Death Metal is better.
Yeah great band…
So Black Metal, Don’t listen often but..
Emperor – The best of this genre to me
Cradle Of Filth – The first Decade of the band only, Until "Midian"
Dimmu Borgir – From "Entrhone Darkness Triumphant" to "Puritanical Euphoric Misanthropia"
Anorexia Nervosa
There are other few, but I can’t remember them now.
may I know why?
then they come up with things like nimphetamine, you say something like "WTF, go an join Korn dude".
Anyway screw the 2000’s Cradle of Filth, I’ll stick to their old albums and have a good memory.
Borknagar was another good band.
Yeah that’s pretty much typical that so many people simply don’t like Cradle of Filth anymore as a band but still they did have neat harsh songs like Cthulhu Dawn and all. It’s most likely the same with bands like Dimmu Borgir and The Kovenant (although I really don’t mind the industrial blend :3).
ur a skank.
Death Metal is better.
What about
blackened death metal~~
…..huh?
Arcturus anyone? lol
Bal Sagoth!
Arcturus anyone? lol
Bal Sagoth!
lol i’m just being silly.
okay i made ‘spook’ up. you win. i concede.
SON. OF. A. BITCH. yep. you beat me.
Kinda nostalgic, but at the same time with what’s left of them, you know, …
Frost, Hellhammer, Vyl.
1. Nokturnal Mortum
2. Emperor
3. Carpathian Forest
4. Peste Noire
5. Burzum
Beyond that, I don’t know, I’m not in the mood to pick between them all right now. There are so many sub-genres of black metal that it’s really hard to rank them. I generally fap to the French, Ukrainian, and Norwegian shit. USBM is ok. The Swedish sound doesn’t really do it for me, most of the time, though Marduk kick ass.
Alcest’s Le Secret is the greatest black metal album ever recorded. Peste Noire’s Ballade cuntre lo Anemi francor might be second.
Post-black is delicious and I need to hear more of it. Agalloch, Krallice, and Klabautamann are not enough.
Opeth were never black metal. Their early material really defies classification, and you should go listen to it. Orchid, Morningrise, and My Arms Your Hearse are all probably top 100 metal albums of all time material.
Though some of the following bands aren’t 100% "kvlt" and "trve" and often cross the borders to Pagan Black or DSBM, these are my fave ones.
Above all: Bal Sagoth (though they aren’t really BM but more a genre of their own)
After them in no particular order:
Skyforger (esp. "Latvian Riflemen")
Ulver (both "old" and "new")
Arckanum
Eljudner
Taake
Drapsnatt
Austere
Svarti Loghin
Nokturnal Mortum (esp. "Mirrovozzrenie")
Furia (POL)
Borknagar (only the first album)
Moonsorrow (only the "Veris�keet" album)
Morrigan
I’m also a lot into Viking stuff like Bathory, Crom, Manegarm, Ereb Altor etc. but that’s another genre 😉
I hate revisionism and this to me is just another example of it. Like when doom metal turned from its theological and bluesy roots into this goth garbage it is today or when The Offspring became punk. People who pick Moonsorrow, Alcest or similar shit on their lists of favourite black metal bands should not even talk about the genre. If you think it’s funny to laugh at some ridiculous promo pics or something at least don’t claim that you are a black metal fan in the same sentence. Even the notion of someone listening to black metal because of "tight drumming" or something like that is utterly stupid.
And read (http://www.archive.org/details/gualterimapesden00mapwrich) some (http://www.archive.org/details/lasorcierewitcho00michiala) shit (http://www.lucifer.tw/fantasy/artist/devil/pic/plancy.pdf) before you get into this…
"Society has no idea of what it is dealing with. By the Church’s thousand year anniversary it has not grasped that the demand for logical consquence and rationality also can find a religious variety, which – contrary to the lie of eternal life – worships the ecstatic contemplation of truth, which is death, for nothing is more true. With that within sight, reality will suddenly feel close and near. To make it even more intense, one worships it in all shapes and colors, with text, pictures and music, like any other religion. The truthful as the good, and therefore the beautiful, is a basic Aristotelian principle that has definitely not passed the black-clad by. When this seems to be the reality in the heads of these self-styled fog-bursters, it would be naive to think that they are moved by a weaker force than one that has always made enthusiasts force the truth, contrary to society’s beliefs.My conclusion is that this society is facing a movement that it will take a long time to establish a clear view upon, and that any lightly considered action against it may be like putting out a fire with gasoline."
[Morgenbladet, 1995]
I hate revisionism and this to me is just another example of it. Like when doom metal turned from its theological and bluesy roots into this goth garbage it is today or when The Offspring became punk. People who pick Moonsorrow, Alcest or similar shit on their lists of favourite black metal bands should not even talk about the genre. If you think it’s funny to laugh at some ridiculous promo pics or something at least don’t claim that you are a black metal fan in the same sentence. Even the notion of someone listening to black metal because of "tight drumming" or something like that is utterly stupid.
And read (http://www.archive.org/details/gualterimapesden00mapwrich) some (http://www.archive.org/details/lasorcierewitcho00michiala) shit (http://www.lucifer.tw/fantasy/artist/devil/pic/plancy.pdf) before you get into this…
[Morgenbladet, 1995]
Oh noes I better stop listening to this for fun and enjoyment, !!
http://i25.photobucket.com/albums/c100/buccobucco/A6eNBULRpp4ienqxlVM07Lmoo1_400.gif
I hate revisionism and this to me is just another example of it. Like when doom metal turned from its theological and bluesy roots into this goth garbage it is today or when The Offspring became punk. People who pick Moonsorrow, Alcest or similar shit on their lists of favourite black metal bands should not even talk about the genre. If you think it’s funny to laugh at some ridiculous promo pics or something at least don’t claim that you are a black metal fan in the same sentence. Even the notion of someone listening to black metal because of "tight drumming" or something like that is utterly stupid.
And read (http://www.archive.org/details/gualterimapesden00mapwrich) some (http://www.archive.org/details/lasorcierewitcho00michiala) shit (http://www.lucifer.tw/fantasy/artist/devil/pic/plancy.pdf) before you get into this…
[Morgenbladet, 1995]
I can’t tell you how much you Metal Elitist douche bags piss me off. As for Black Metal, I tried getting into it, but I can’t really take it seriously. It sounds incoherent and out of sync with each other. But that’s just me and my opinion. And I can’t believe no one has mentioned Venom!
I hate revisionism and this to me is just another example of it. Like when doom metal turned from its theological and bluesy roots into this goth garbage it is today or when The Offspring became punk. People who pick Moonsorrow, Alcest or similar shit on their lists of favourite black metal bands should not even talk about the genre. If you think it’s funny to laugh at some ridiculous promo pics or something at least don’t claim that you are a black metal fan in the same sentence. Even the notion of someone listening to black metal because of "tight drumming" or something like that is utterly stupid.
And read (http://www.archive.org/details/gualterimapesden00mapwrich) some (http://www.archive.org/details/lasorcierewitcho00michiala) shit (http://www.lucifer.tw/fantasy/artist/devil/pic/plancy.pdf) before you get into this…
[Morgenbladet, 1995]
HAHAHA wow!!
ANYWAY, enough with the pseudo-intellectual omniscient ego trip…seriously, so sick of people trying tell OTHER people what THEY, THEMSELVES, think "real" black metal is (or "real" anything). And for someone who claims to know it all you apparently don’t know or conveniently left out the anti-Christianity/organized religion aspects of black metal. That in itself is not hateful, also quite common are lyrics about nature and folklore (I know that sounds REALLY funny/strange, imagining guys in corpse paint making songs about the trees and the snow and the mountains but it’s true). Many bands, especially those out of Norway, promoted a going back to ones roots – paganism (some promoted Satanism and atheism as well).
I, personally, listen to it because I DO enjoy it since uh, I know what black metal IS and not what someone THINKS it is based on a few misconceptions from the media such as ALL black metal being hateful/evil/etc.
Black metal, like all other styles of music, is listened to for various reasons INCLUDING fun & enjoyment. And why is it such a problem for someone to listen to black metal for those specific reasons? Does that somehow fuck up your day?!?
So onward with my fav. black metal bands:
Immortal (love love LOVE them)
Kampfar (Valgalderkvad, to me, is one of their best songs)
Mystic Circle
Behemoth, I know not black now but they were in the early days
P.S. – that pic of Varg is hilarious (he looks like a grandpa in that pic)! Now Nationalist Socialist bm is something I can never, EVER get with or support and it’s so sad that a lot of people actually think that black metal equates to that.
Probably ’cause the thread’s generally about the style, even though Venom obviously started it all indeeed. 😀
I was also into immortal and behemoth (if behemoth are black metal)
dimmu borgir
behemoth(early days before death)
immortal
enslaved
obtained enslavement
other famous bm bands didnt click so well with me. i like melody or symphony with my bm.
I’m like that with all kinds of music. This is why I like melodic death metal a lot. Fuck that douche who talks about the kind of people that SHOULD listen to this kind of shit because the last time I checked, people listen to music for enjoyment. Seriously, who would want to listen to something that will just piss them off even more? Music should either compliment the mood you’re in (I listen to Suicide Silence when pissed because it makes me want to find someone I hate and pound their face until it’s nothing but mush and blood) or be a stress-reliever and calm your ass down.
YouTube – Urfaust – IX Der Einsiedler (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n5aFbl4p4wM)
Burzum as well except for the albums Varg recorded while in prison.
Funeral Mist
Infernal War
Immortal
Dimmu Borgir (from Enthrone Darkness Triumphant to Puritanical Euphoric Misanthropia)
Agreed!
DEATH SEX EJACULAAAAAAATION!!
I love me some Marduk.