Albums currently kicking your ass

[Manic Ferocity]

Temnozor is cool if you can deal with a good amount of folk influence. Otherwise, seconded. I don't know much about BBH or Russian black metal in general.

 

[no country for old wainds]

Forest - Like a Blaze Above the Ashes

Utterly transporting.

I'm actually not all that familiar with the Russian black metal scene outside of Branikald, Nav, Old Wainds and this. Anyone care to give recommendations?

nothing to add to this except yeah i forgot temnozor

 

[Manic Ferocity]

Probably the best release to come out of LLN.

 

[Phylactery]

Cool, thanks. I’ve actually heard that Raven Dark as well. The production is quite rough, even for me but is quite good. Never heard Nitberg or Rundagor so I’ll check those out.

I’m familiar with some Temnozor.

 

[Talos of Atmora]

 

[dwellerINTHEdark]

Mayhem. Haven't heard this one before, oops.

 

[Phylactery]

I kinda regret not listing this in the 1994 thread. My fault for deciding I was familiar enough with it to not need to bother relistening to it.

"Transilvanian Hunger", "Slottet I det fjerne", "Graven tåkeheimens sale" and "En ås i dype skogen" are masterpieces. So vivid in the images they conjure, so pure in their simple composition and so cold in their eerie detachedness. Definitely better than Under a Funeral Moon.

After all these years I still can't take the cover art seriously, it's hilariously bad.

 

[dwellerINTHEdark]

 

[EternalMetal]

Primitive Man - Caustic

Sludge metal masterpiece. They killed it last night in Philly as well.

 

[dwellerINTHEdark]

Kroda. New album that came out today. It's immense.

 

[zerostatic]

 

[dwellerINTHEdark]

Caladan Brood

 

[RadicalThrasher]

 

[Der Morgenstern]

 

[Draehl]

 

[Phylactery]

Mgla - Presence

If the 3rd track was as good as the first two this would be one of my favourite EPs of the 2000s. Presence 1 and 2 are probably my favourite Mgla songs.

 

[EspaDa]

 

[dwellerINTHEdark]

2 hours of Panopticon sounds daunting (1 is often too much), but I'm guessing it's not so tedious as you put it in this thread.

 

[Master_Yoda77]

I get the feeling that this is going to be a contender for AOTY. Massive fucking epic doom riffs from the guys in Griftegard with, I fucking swear, Messiah on vocals. But it's not.

 

[Draehl]

2 hours of Panopticon sounds daunting (1 is often too much), but I'm guessing it's not so tedious as you put it in this thread.

It's broken up into two distinct styles. The first half is all atmoblack and the second a folky Americana deal.