Black Metal Recommendations-Beyond the Obvious

[Ellestin]

The Weltenfeind 3-way split with Absurd, Grand Belial's Key and Sigrblot (4 songs each) is downright excellent. Exactly what I needed to get excited about good old perverse & epic black metal again.

 

[General Zod]

Check out the new Mgla release, Groza. It's the first full length.

Zod

 

[Evil?]

The Weltenfeind 3-way split with Absurd, Grand Belial's Key and Sigrblot (4 songs each) is downright excellent. Exactly what I needed to get excited about good old perverse & epic black metal again.

Where can I get this?

 

[Ellestin]

Where can I get this?

I don't think it's out yet. Or maybe it is? [/captain helpful]

 

[J.]

i like the sigrblot album. maybe i should check that out. i think ive bought one black metal album all year: the celestia one

 

[Hell Mike]

The Weltenfeind 3-way split with Absurd, Grand Belial's Key and Sigrblot (4 songs each) is downright excellent. Exactly what I needed to get excited about good old perverse & epic black metal again.

First of all: I have to get this, and the Sigrblot album as well. When it first was released I waited for the LP version as it was promised to be really kool and have two more tracks (I think), and then I just never got around to getting it for some reason.

Second: Who made the kickass cover art? Could it be the same dude that did the Tormenting Legends II stuff? The style is kind of similar. Complete asskick anyway.

 

[Ellestin]

Second: Who made the kickass cover art? Could it be the same dude that did the Tormenting Legends II stuff? The style is kind of similar. Complete asskick anyway.

I have no idea but there is a T-shirt out with the design and mewants.

 

[Vittra]

Haven't checked every page if these guys have been mentioned, but i'll mention them anyways!

Anything involving the Blazebirth Hall is stellar, Voidhanger turned me into this stuff with my first purchase of the Branikald "Stormheit" Demo Reissue at Peste Noire. Think Russian version of the Black Legions. Kaldrad has pretty much been involved in all of these bands, he is most notably from Temnozor, which i'm sure has been mentioned on RC before. Kaldrad reminds me of a of Neige


Blazebirth Hall (Raw NSBM):

Branikald (Branikald, It's too bad "A Stormride" from Stormheit isnt on this)
Forest (Forest)
Raven Dark (Raven Dark)
Nitberg (Nitberg)
Rundagor(Rundagor)
Vargleide (Vargleide)
Wotansjolv

 

[cthulufhtagn]

chaos moon "languor into echoes, beyond" is so damn good, everyone who hasn't checked this out get on the fucking boat

 

[\/oidhanger]

Haven't checked every page if these guys have been mentioned, but i'll mention them anyways!

Anything involving the Blazebirth Hall is stellar, Voidhanger turned me into this stuff with my first purchase of the Branikald "Stormheit" Demo Reissue at Peste Noire. Think Russian version of the Black Legions. Kaldrad has pretty much been involved in all of these bands, he is most notably from Temnozor, which i'm sure has been mentioned on RC before. Kaldrad reminds me of a of Neige


Blazebirth Hall (Raw NSBM):

Branikald (Branikald, It's too bad "A Stormride" from Stormheit isnt on this)
Forest (Forest)
Raven Dark (Raven Dark)
Nitberg (Nitberg)
Rundagor(Rundagor)
Vargleide (Vargleide)
Wotansjolv

Some of the WOTANSJOLV The Dreams of Baldr material is supposed to be on the RAVEN DARK release In the Last Ray/Ruler's Age. If that's true, I believe they're supposed to be tracks 4 and 5. YGGRASSIL is another BBH band, but as far as I'm aware nothing of that has been readily available. Great bunch of bands though, some of my favourites. Glad you're enjoying them!

 

[J.]

started listening to some black metal again, mainly belenos and summoning

 

[WhiteBeastofWotan]

Vreid are pretty rockin' though I don't hear much similarities to Windir, despite the band members (its more of a Black 'n' roll style). Kraft is a great album.

The upcoming Vreid album "Milorg" leaked and its awesome

 

[~Neurotica]

I'm really enjoying new Taake.

 

[cthulufhtagn]

gah fuck you europe!

 

[Reign in Acai]

I should be posting these thoughts in the funeral doom thread, but since this is where this band was mentioned, this is where I shall vent.

I finally listened to Celestiial's Desolate North. This may give Novembre's Materia a run for the "worst music I've heard in '08" crown. Note to aspiring musicians, strumming a string with the back end of a toothbrush while playing your HoMedics SS- 2000 Sound Spa as a backtrack does not constitute the proper formula for a funeral doom album. Seriously, what the fuck is this shit?!? Samples of finches chirping, water pit pattering, winds gusting, my ears bleeding. This sounds like something Oprah would be shilling alongside Le Secret. This is as abstract as it gets.


Listen to "White Depths Dove the Red-Eyed"

 

[cthulufhtagn]

3 tracks from the album up on their myspace


here's one i think a lot of folks here might really get into; black metal about pagan britain with nary a cheeseball jollyfolk flute solo to be found...really ripping, evil shit actually! the vocals are pretty low in the mix, the way satan intended, with a smattering of clean male chant-like segments somewhat reminiscent of belenos. chock full of oppressive misty-mountains-of-doom atmosphere and wicked riffage, melodic but raw as fukk. yeah, i know just described like a million black metal bands but these guys really kick ass

reminds me a lot of sventevith-era behemoth, would also perhaps compare it to wolves in the throne room, belenos, nasheim etc

this is the best thing i've heard out of the uk in a long ass time, UNRULY shit

 

[einride]

and all i can think of is how much time they must have spent photoshopping the power lines out of that cover image

 

[cthulufhtagn]

hey if they're good enough for opeth

 

[cthulufhtagn]

so, behexen, should i start with "by the blessing of satan"?

 

[Vittra]

No, the original Rituale Satanum (not the re-master).