Black Metal... why?

[Kenneth R.]

yes. and that's good too. listen to Perdition City.

 

[i aint play this]

Blood Inside slays too, Ulver is a pretty fucking good & consistent band

 

[intimidatingcrustaceans]

people are way too liberal with the acronym "bm"

i will agree that akercocke, enslaved, and ulver slay...

 

[all_sins_undone]

perdition > blood inside

yes ulver kicks ass, one of the favorites bandzzz

 

[Manbient]

black metal is the worst topic in the entire world to discuss. Please, don't ever try to bring about discussion about it... nothing ever goes right at any point beyond initiation.

 

[derbeder]

Black metal may be beyond your conceived notion of how metal, or music, should be. In essence it is a movie without pictures; a celluloid phantasmagoria. Accordingly, the film jumps to another scene seeminigly unnconnected with the previous context, is suddenly inserted in between frames.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hail_Horror_Hail
lol

rofl

why?

 

[biggsy]

 

[Demilich]

Alteredmindeath owns this thread!

 

[Opethian666]

Don't forget about Wolves In The Throne Room.

 

[JoeVice]

if u don liek Backstreet Boys it is becuz u don understand them, like any form ov art iirc

some might say so...i don't see it...but...

NP: Burzum - Hvis Lyset Tar Oss
Inn i slottet fra droemmen - anus.com sound sample

i like.

but, in black metal discussions, there are far too many people like altermindeddeath trying to explain to me what i am missing. really though, why black metal? there is so much meaning behind black metal, from its stimulation of fantasy in a decaying modern society, to its rebellion against death metal bands that were selling out by recording in a studio.

 

[Kenneth R.]

Joe are you on crack?

let's recap:

you said: "If you don't like black metal you don't get it"
aint play jokes: "If you don't like BSB you don't get it"
you say: um... not really.
altermindeddeath says something pretentious (and funny as hell)
you chastize him, ask a rhetorical question, answer it yourself.

are you drunk or just stupid?

 

[JoeVice]

Joe are you on crack?

let's recap:

you said: "If you don't like black metal you don't get it"
aint play jokes: "If you don't like BSB you don't get it"
you say: um... not really.
altermindeddeath says something pretentious (and funny as hell)
you chastize him, ask a rhetorical question, answer it yourself.

are you drunk or just stupid?

do you have a crush on me?

 

[RedinTheSky]

people are way too liberal with the acronym "bm"

I am going to say the opposite is true. Enslaved doesn't sound like Diabolical Masquerade doesn't sound like Primordial. Yes Primordial is Black Metal. All Black Metal bands don't sound like Darkthrone and Venom (Ugh). All Death Metal bands don't sound like Death and Cannibal Corpse. The same comparisons could be made for all genres of music.

 

[Justin S.]

Ignore the people who recommend later Enslaved, Ulver, Dimmu, etc. This music does not capture the "essence" of BM and is not representative (which is what we are seeking here).

If you are new to BM and want a decent glimpse at what it has to offer I would recommend the following recordings:

Emperor- In the Nightside Eclipse
Burzum- Hvis Lyset Tar Oss, Filosofem
Immortal- Pure Holocaust
Darkthrone- Under a Funeral Moon, Transilvanian Hunger

(For something more recent)
Averse Sefira- Tetragrammatical Astygmata
Leviathan/Xasthur split

For more accessible material that is still listenable, later Emperor is a decent choice (just stay away from IX Equilibrium).

 

[Crimson Velvet]

^ Listen to this man!

Also, to truly understand modern black metal, you need also understand its roots. To do that, these recordings will need careful listening and diggin':

Bathory - "The Return", "Under the Mark" and "Blood Fire Death"
Celtic Frost - "Morbid Tales" and "To Mega-Therion"
Hellhammer - "Apocalyptic Raids"
Tormentor - "7th Day of Doom" and "Anno Domini"
Sodom - "In the Sign of Evil"

 

[Kenneth R.]

Negura Bunget - 'N Crugu Braduli & Om

JoeVice, perhaps in your culture a pointing-out of idiotic inconsistency is equivalent to a come-on, but you're sadly mistaken.

 

[CF87]

When you hear the right black metal it is on a different level from any music in existence. fuck dream theater

 

[derbeder]

these impure black metal albums are very good:

Dodheimsgard - 666 International, Supervillain Outcast
Satyricon - Rebel Extravaganza
Fleurety - Min Tid Skal Komme
Arcturus - Aspera Hiems Symfonia

among more classic black metal albums don't miss out on:
Abigor - Nachthymnen

 

[i aint play this]

Ignore the people who recommend later Enslaved, Ulver, Dimmu, etc. This music does not capture the "essence" of BM and is not representative (which is what we are seeking here).

If you are new to BM and want a decent glimpse at what it has to offer I would recommend the following recordings:

Emperor- In the Nightside Eclipse
Burzum- Hvis Lyset Tar Oss, Filosofem
Immortal- Pure Holocaust
Darkthrone- Under a Funeral Moon, Transilvanian Hunger

(For something more recent)
Averse Sefira- Tetragrammatical Astygmata
Leviathan/Xasthur split

For more accessible material that is still listenable, later Emperor is a decent choice (just stay away from IX Equilibrium).

lmao, listen A. child's wife, you are really a pretentious arrogant little pussy aren't you? did you ever stop and think for a minute that, maybe, people may care about what sounds good and not about TEH trOO essEnce Of BlAcK MeTiL? good music is good music, shove that ''tr00'' thing up your ass
''Ignore the people who recommend later Enslaved, Ulver''
insufferable douche...

 

[A ska to S]

blah blah blah spent genre yawn nothing new in about 11 years. I don't understand how someone can like other forms of extreme metal but still not "get" black metal. It's not much of a stretch. Pissed off megalomaniacal teenagers with jacksons.