Albums currently kicking your ass
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Master_Yoda77
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It's true as fuck doom metal from Boston. Tons of candlemass and trouble worship.
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On one hand, I think that Soulside Journey is the best Darkthrone album by a good amount and I would have loved a proper follow-up album. On the other hand, I'm not sure that I agree that Goatlord beats the next few albums they released.
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CiG
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I prefer Goatlord to Soulside Journey but not by a lot.
But I prefer the Dennis Dread trilogy and The Underground Resistance to everything before it, except maybe A Blaze In The Northern Sky which I rate just about as high.
Darkthrone are one of my favourite bands though and in my opinion one of the most consistent Metal bands there is, so I can't really speak ill of any of their material.
But I prefer the Dennis Dread trilogy and The Underground Resistance to everything before it, except maybe A Blaze In The Northern Sky which I rate just about as high.
Darkthrone are one of my favourite bands though and in my opinion one of the most consistent Metal bands there is, so I can't really speak ill of any of their material.
Krow
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I can't be arsed to write out the Icelandic but here goes...
Nadra - Allir vegir til glotunar
This is guys from Carpe Noctem + Misthyrming.
Not physically released yet but on their bandcamp streaming for free download.
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still an all time top 5 album for me.
dwellerINTHEdark
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Yeah, that's my favorite of their black metal albums. So good.
CiG
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A Blaze in the Northern Sky was one of the first black metal albums that I heard and my first Darkthrone.
CiG
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Interesting, A Blaze In The Northern Sky grew on me over time, but Under A Funeral Moon was instant obsession. The songs are quite catchy considering the genre which was really weird at the time. There were songs almost as catchy as the stuff I was listening to back then, like the New York Dolls, The Cramps, Ramones etc.
"Natassja In Eternal Sleep" and "Unholy Black Metal" truly got stuck in my head for days at a time.
I was much older than most when I got into Metal, I'd say about 15 or 16. What about yourself?
"Natassja In Eternal Sleep" and "Unholy Black Metal" truly got stuck in my head for days at a time.
I was much older than most when I got into Metal, I'd say about 15 or 16. What about yourself?
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Master_Yoda77
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Still magical. One of heavy metal's finest moments. This, Sad Wings, Epicus, and Slumber of Sullen Eyes are always at the top.
Thanks for asking. I'm going to tell you about when I got into the black side of metal.
Firstly, my favourite Darkthrone is 'Transilvanian Hunger' closely followed by 'A Blaze...' and 'Under...' as well as 'Panzerfaust'. 'Goatlord' and 'Soulside...' are pretty cool but not quite the same magic for me. After 'Panzerfaust' my interest dwindles a little bit to the point of disappearing completely over the last decade or so.
I initially got into black metal back in 1995 when I was 15, so generally same age as you. It was just amazing - so mysterious, because we obviously had really limited information about it all, mostly from magazines of course. The whole Euronymous thing had just gone down, and we were all pretty impressed with it all in a juvenile teenage boy sense. My first black metal album was Satyricon's 'The Shadowthrone' in 1995, and to this day it remains my favourite. By the way, I still remember my friend and I being appalled by the sound quality of Darkthrone when we first listened to it in a music store in about 1995. The covers were amazing but it took a bit of time to get used to that sound hahahaha.
In 2000 I got a re-energising for black metal when 'Grand Declaration of War' came out. Mayhem toured Australia the next year I think and did an instore, and it all took off again for me. I moderated the forums at blackmetal.co.uk from about 2003 to technically now, although I haven't been to the site since about 2012 and I think it's closed down. It used to be really good though, with a pretty small idiot to legend quotient considering the types black metal seems to draw.
These days I still love the genre as my favourite in metal, but 99% of new releases I just ignore. There's just so much copy-cat stuff and I don't really care much for the avante-garde soundscapes and off-kilter shit that seems to be all the rage these days. Hail 1990-1995. Hail Euronymous. 666 etc lol.
Draehl
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Never could appreciate Darkthrone or Mayhem. It makes me sad. Burzum, Ulver and Emperor tho \m/
CiG
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I was actually talking to comrade Omni but cool story anyway!
I'm obviously not as old as you, so 15 in 1995 probably is about average but from my experience with people that grew up in the internet age (early teens in the early 2000's) a lot of people got into it earlier. I never had the internet growing up and the internet played no role whatsoever in my introduction to underground music, it was an older friend I skateboarded with that turned me on to Metal.
I still remember eventually being sold on the idea of Metal so much that I went out and spent my own money on my first Metal CD's, pretty fond memories actually. Hearing Darkthrone was like stepping into another realm or something, I couldn't believe how anybody could look or sound like that.
I'm obviously not as old as you, so 15 in 1995 probably is about average but from my experience with people that grew up in the internet age (early teens in the early 2000's) a lot of people got into it earlier. I never had the internet growing up and the internet played no role whatsoever in my introduction to underground music, it was an older friend I skateboarded with that turned me on to Metal.
I still remember eventually being sold on the idea of Metal so much that I went out and spent my own money on my first Metal CD's, pretty fond memories actually. Hearing Darkthrone was like stepping into another realm or something, I couldn't believe how anybody could look or sound like that.
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