Atmospheric Metal

[Eldavidas]

Can anybody recommend any decent metal bands that create an epic atmosphere on their records?

I'm really into black metal at the moment and I love Bands like Bathory, Dissection and early Burzum. I'm also a big fan of Emperor's In The Nightside Eclipse album!

It doesn't matter on the genre or even if it's purely symphonic/ambient as long as it's atmospheric.

Cheers

 

[nissan]

Darkspace is what you've been waiting for. Good luck hunting their albums down

 

[Zephyrus]

Darkspace is what you've been waiting for. Good luck hunting their albums down

seconded

 

[genocide roach]

one word:

agalloch

i win
~gR~

 

[Faint]

Drudkh and Wolves In The Throne Room.

 

[Pitiless Wanderer]

actually, bal sagoth owns all thats been recommended so far.

 

[Blue_Jay]

Negura Bunget
Walknut
Agalloch

 

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

Bal-Sagoth aren't very atmospheric at all.

Listen to Mithras - Worlds Beyond The Veil.

 

[~ED~]

if you like darkspace then you'd also dig Paysage d'hiver, Winterkaelte and Nacht are very similar to Darkspace I.

I'm also a big fan of Emperor's In The Nightside Eclipse album!

Kataxu - Hunger of elements.

 

[Zephyrus]

Add Zargof - Departure for the Cosmic Twilight if you like atmospheric symphonic BM.

 

[nissan]

if you like darkspace then you'd also dig Paysage d'hiver, Winterkaelte and Nacht are very similar to Darkspace I.


Kataxu - Hunger of elements.

Thanks for the recommendation.

 

[tagradh]

Bal-Sagoth aren't very atmospheric at all.

Listen to Mithras - Worlds Beyond The Veil.

Along with Negura Bunget. Best band mentioned so far.

 

[Skepticism]

By early Burzum do you mean only his metal albums?

 

[Eldavidas]

Thanks for the big response to my thread.

I checked out a few of the bands mentioned and I really liked Agalloch and Kataxu! It's exactly the sort of stuff I'm looking for!

And yeah, by early Burzum I mean his metal albums.

 

[Wires & Waves]

some people are recommending stuff i wouldnt say is particularly atmospheric...

sacramentum - far away from the sun
immortal - pure holocaust
beherit - drawing down the moon
graveland - thousand swords
kvist - for kunsten maa vi evig vike
summoning - dol guldur
sorcier des glaces - snowland
gontyna kry - welowie
veles - night on the bare mountain
yamatu - shurpu absu
skepticism - stormcrowfleet
incantation - onward to golgotha
infester - to the depths... in degradation

 

[ohiogrinder]

Xasthur, of course.

 

[Pitiless Wanderer]

Bal-Sagoth aren't very atmospheric at all.

Listen to Mithras - Worlds Beyond The Veil.

Mithras?:Smug:

 

[tagradh]

Mithras?:Smug:

Best UK band going. ;<

 

[rfe]

Kataklysm's Victims Of This Fallen World has some songs that feel pretty atmospheric.

 

[Slayed Necros]

Septic Flesh - Mystic Places of Dawn
Septic Flesh - Esoptron
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