Accessible Black Metal

[TheBahggs]

Im looking for some relatively accessible bm bands aside from the following:

Belphegor
Burzum
Deathspell Omega
Dissection
Emperor
Gorgoroth
Immortal
Limbonic Art
Marduk
Mayhem
Naglfar
Samael
Satyricon
Ulver
Windir
Xasthur

Thanks!

 

[Einherjar86]

Keep of Kalessin (I'm just getting into these guys, and they're fucking awesome)
Dimmu Borgir (a lot of black metal fans don't like them, but I think they rock)
Borknagar

 

[Belligerent]

Keep of Kalessin (I'm just getting into these guys, and they're fucking awesome)

You bet your ass they are.
I'll add:Gorath
Dragonlord(BM/Thrash)
Enslaved

 

[mutantllama]

I've been meaning to check out Dragonlord. Maybe I'll do that now...

 

[Belligerent]

^Check out Black Wings of Destiny. Very accessible i might add.

 

[Einherjar86]

You bet your ass they are.
I'll add:Gorath
Dragonlord(BM/Thrash)
Enslaved

Hells ya. I was also going to mention Enslaved. Great band.

 

[Unfaithfully Metalhead]

me not a big fan of Enslaved... on another note I just got the Arcturus album Aspera Hiems Symfonia/Constellation/My Angel album... so far its good and is accessible imo... other ones you might want to check is Sargeist and 1349...

 

[no country for old wainds]

my angel is alright

i don't really get any sense of what 'accessible' means based on the initial list

 

[V.V.V.V.V.]

"stuff i like"

 

[Seditious]

Cryptic Wintermoon

 

[MasterOLightning]

I have no idea what the guy is looking for, since no one here really listens to that many BM bands that I would consider "inaccessible" for anyone who has already delved into black metal to some degree.

So on that note, I recommend Leviathan, since everything since Verrater is pretty much great.

 

[Seditious]

^^ yea, seriously, if Immortal is accessible, I don't know what isn't.

 

[V.V.V.V.V.]

There is much more intolerable stuff in BM than Immortal.

 

[Seditious]

I don't take 'tolerable' and 'accessible' to be interchangeable.

 

[V.V.V.V.V.]

I don't take 'tolerable' and 'accessible' to be interchangeable.

Intolerability in black metal is akin to how challenging, difficult and raw it is. None of those things increase perceived accessibility.

But I suppose the word is not a good one to use here.

 

[Seditious]

Intolerability in black metal is akin to how challenging, difficult and raw it is. None of those things increase perceived accessibility.

But I suppose the word is not a good one to use here.

indeed, but to say there are less tolerable things than x is not to say x is tolerable, when there are, as with the facets you note, bands more tolerable still.

hell, you put Immortalesque BM into Carpathian Forest album production, and you're already a little more accessible to some people, or instead of 14 minute long Moonsorrow songs, 6 minute Manegarm songs, to a different person that is more accessible.

if you're already at the point where you can get raw-produced foreign-language blast-beat long-song black-metal perfectly in stride, I think you're beyond concerns of accessibility, like a doctor or lawyer giving a shit about an IQ test...such things seem rather obsolete when the person is unable to recognize what is inaccessible to the uninitiated as inaccessible.

 

[scytheavatar]

Later era Immortal albums like At the Heart of Winter and Sons of Northern Darkness are certainly accessible. Their eariler albums like Pure Holocaust certainly isn't, in fact I would rate them to be among the most challenging black metal to enjoy.

 

[Vitor]

Im looking for some relatively accessible bm bands aside from the following:

Belphegor
Burzum
Deathspell Omega
Dissection
Emperor
Gorgoroth
Immortal
Limbonic Art
Marduk
Mayhem
Naglfar
Samael
Satyricon
Ulver
Windir
Xasthur

Thanks!

...and ocean
bal-sagoth
gehenna (nor)
impaled nazarene
mactätus
between the forest
covenant
the abyss
allegiance

more???

 

[Seditious]

Later era Immortal albums like At the Heart of Winter and Sons of Northern Darkness are certainly accessible. Their eariler albums like Pure Holocaust certainly isn't, in fact I would rate them to be among the most challenging black metal to enjoy.

no kidding?
I might just check those out then.
Pure Holocaust (or maybe Battles in the North) is the one I was recommended, way back when, and I wasn't impressed by it (wasn't ready for it?).
cheers

 

[Great_Cold_Death]

I would recommend Wyrd and Vinterland, that's rather accessible (enough for me cause I'm not really into black metal).