Recommend me some Black Metal

smackbunnybaby

JoeyD wrote:

Ihsahn are another act that would be in the same vein as newer emperor. He is a kind of one man band who plays black metal with a progressive feel. That seems to be the general direction black metal is going these days, away from the harsh days of mayhem and bathory.

Prezatch

smackbunnybaby wrote:

You should win post of the year for that

h-street23

Enslaved freaking rule!

MAYPOP

Karl Hungus wrote:

Emperor's albums are ALL great.

This is the tr00th

nacho libre

Alcest - Le Secret
Peste Noire - La Sanie des siècles:Panégyrique de la dégénerescence

neGev

nacho libre wrote:

Peste Noire - La Sanie des siècles:Panégyrique de la dégénerescence

Really good album.

Den_M

I'm nor sure if Samel qualify as black metal (they've changed a lot over the years) but their recent stuff is pretty great. Operatic without being cheesy. Check out their song Supra Karma :
http://www.radioblogclub.com/open/11468/samael/Samael-SupraKarma

JIZZLORD

h-street23 wrote:

Enslaved freaking rule!

as someone who has been listening to enslaved all day so far i agree

slssprite

where is this guy from?

StormWarrior

You MUST buy some music by Wintersun, they are possibly the best black metal band ever. And don't forget Ill Nath! And I know it's not really black metal, but have you checked out Children of Bodom? Their third album, Follow the Reaper is the best album ever.

slssprite

oops, guy has dissapeared...

You MUST buy some music by Wintersun, they are possibly the best black metal band ever. And don't forget Ill Nath! And I know it's not really black metal, but have you checked out Children of Bodom? Their third album, Follow the Reaper is the best album ever.

nah, wintersun is not bm. In fact it's a mixture of everything - death, doom, folk, viking, but not black.
It's Illnath, not Ill Nath.

h-street23

Enslaved's Isa album is probably the best introduction to BM. They're a very consistent band.All their recent stuff from Blodhemn onwards is great.


But then, I like Babylon 5, so my opinion is not to be trusted.

Karl Hungus

h-street23 wrote:

Enslaved's Isa album is probably the best introduction to BM. They're a very consistent band.All their recent stuff from Blodhemn onwards is great.

Enslaved are amazing, but seriously, all their stuff is fantastic, I don't know why you say from Blodhemn onwards is great, because ELD was a phenominal album. Infact, that was my introduction to the band. I'd say you really can't go wrong with any Enslaved album.

h-street23 wrote:

But then, I like Babylon 5, so my opinion is not to be trusted.

Babylon 5? Trust this man even more so, he's got remarkably good taste!

lld

to the thread starter:
sorry, but I think asking for music recommendations in a forum is a bad idea. The outcome is the same every time, every one bombards the thread with the list of their 50 favourite bands, not all of whom will be any good. in no time at all you're left more clueless than when you started.


personally i think a good place to start always is here:
http://www.anus.com/metal/about/black_metal/

its relatively concise, it cuts out the crap and it highlights who're the best of the best (which always makes for a good place to start)

neGev

lld wrote:

to the thread starter:
sorry, but I think asking for music recommendations in a forum is a bad idea. The outcome is the same every time, every one bombards the thread with the list of their 50 favourite bands, not all of whom will be any good. in no time at all you're left more clueless than when you started.


personally i think a good place to start always is here:
http://www.anus.com/metal/about/black_metal/

its relatively concise, it cuts out the crap and it highlights who're the best of the best (which always makes for a good place to start)

Right, because some random guy throwing up a site automatically makes his opinion more valid than any poster here...

I could mention the fact that Angelcorpse, Dark Tranquility, Katatonia and Mortiis aren't even BM, yet they're there on the front page. Or that **** BM bands like Behemoth, Dimmu Borgir and Marduk are included.

Ridiculous.

Karl Hungus

lld wrote:

to the thread starter:
sorry, but I think asking for music recommendations in a forum is a bad idea. The outcome is the same every time, every one bombards the thread with the list of their 50 favourite bands, not all of whom will be any good. in no time at all you're left more clueless than when you started.


personally i think a good place to start always is here:
http://www.anus.com/metal/about/black_metal/

its relatively concise, it cuts out the crap and it highlights who're the best of the best (which always makes for a good place to start)

Anus.com is probably one of the worst metal sites there is. Cuts the crap? There's more crap than any other site I've seen! It's pretentious, elitist, and on top of that, misinformed.

The guy behind that site wrote a rant about Chuck Schuldiner being a Christian, which has me puzzled, because as a huge fan of Death, I've never once heard of this before, and sure enough when I googled it, the only page that claims Chuck was a Christian was anus.com, which offers absolutely no evidence for the claim, other than an interpretation of the Philosopher's lyrics.

But then again, if you read this, the author of the site also believes, and I quote:

Vocalist/guitarist Chuck Schuldiner died of AIDS in 2001.

:rolleyes:

Really informed opinions right there.

My opinion: Avoid anus.com at all costs.

Pugsley

h-street23 wrote:

But then, I like Babylon 5, so my opinion is not to be trusted.

Dont speak ill of B5 in these halls

As for BM, been listening to alot of Die Apokalyptishen Reiter lately, excellent take on black metal, although they virtually completely reinvent their style every album so maybe only 60% of it could even be considered BM, with a lot of it being death, their latest offering "All You Need Is Love" is a superb piece of symphonic death.