Black Metal.

[Killbot]

I presume he's talking about the Italian one. The vocals do grate a little, but I quite enjoy the band as a whole, even with those crappy parts that sound like they're using the trumpet function on a cheap keyboard... you know the bits I'm talking about.

 

[entanglement]

Isn't Banshee a car?

 

[Astrum]

In GTA. :Smug:

and yes, I am talking about the Italian Nazgul.

 

[Demilich]

Confuses me that a lot of people have a problem with (for example) vocals like those of Varg Vikernes. I think they're amazingly expressive and totally captivating!

 

[LuminousAether]

You know what I can't stand in black metal? Banshee screams. Bands that use them exclusively as vocals. Bands like Nazgul and Helheim.

What, like some of the older Fleurety stuff like A Darker Shade of Evil?

 

[CF87]

I really enjoy Diabolical Masquerade. Blakkheim seems to have a wide variety of oldschool black metal influence just with a modern twist on it. If you have not heard DB they are just a two person black metal project, dan swano being the other band member.

Favorite albums would be Nightwork and The Phantom Lodge. 'Nightwork' reminds me of king diamond musically with raspy vocals and the intensity of newer generation black metal.

 

[DarkBliss]

I really enjoy Diabolical Masquerade. Blakkheim seems to have a wide variety of oldschool black metal influence just with a modern twist on it. If you have not heard DB they are just a two person black metal project, dan swano being the other band member.

Favorite albums would be Nightwork and The Phantom Lodge. 'Nightwork' reminds me of king diamond musically with raspy vocals and the intensity of newer generation black metal.

and by newer generation black metal, I assume, you mean stuff like Now, Diabolical, right?

 

[LuminousAether]

I really enjoy Diabolical Masquerade. Blakkheim seems to have a wide variety of oldschool black metal influence just with a modern twist on it. If you have not heard DB they are just a two person black metal project, dan swano being the other band member.

Favorite albums would be Nightwork and The Phantom Lodge. 'Nightwork' reminds me of king diamond musically with raspy vocals and the intensity of newer generation black metal.

I prefer Death's Design to the other albums.

 

[DarkBliss]

Death's Design is nice but it's sooooooooooo FRAGMENTED.

 

[LuminousAether]

Yeah, it made it a true bitch to download all the mp3s back in the day.

 

[~Derek~]

Personally I prefer in that in comparison to the other styles of metal, Black Metal is still reasonably underground. I like it this way - it stops Black Metal as a whole from becoming completely whored like other metal styles have.

Yes, it sounds wanky, but, it keeps things real. Fuck popularity for Black Metal, I want it kept the way it is - confined to those of us who understand it. The rest of the dumbasses preoccupied with their popular bands can fuck off.

If people begin to like black metal for what it is and not some trend like kids who 10 years from now will probably laugh at their old music tastes then black metal is secure. As long as people love it for the music and not to be popular, trendy, or grim then black metal will prevail.

 

[Hubster]

eeeeeeee... well men, yeah i still whit the same opinion about it is just a freaking noise do you understand, this music really sucks! for me the best Genre of metal is THRASH metal and Heavy metal thats all...

Good. Now get the fuck out of this thread.

Confuses me that a lot of people have a problem with (for example) vocals like those of Varg Vikernes. I think they're amazingly expressive and totally captivating!

Bingo. I love Varg's vocals. They suit the ideology perfectly.

 

[Dazed and Brutal]

If you don't like Varg's vocals you just aren't cut out for Black Metal.

 

[LuminousAether]

I don't think Varg has a bad voice. Burzum isn't my favorite in black metal, but I do enjoy his music. Out of black metal, I'd probably say Ihsahn has the best voice.

 

[Matt]

I like Lord Byron or Grutle Kjellson myself.

 

[skeptik]

Then your answer would be Grutle Kjellson, since Lord Byron doesn't sing in a Black Metal band.

 

[Matt]

Whatever dude. Bal-Sagoth are pretty bm to me, especially their first album which I doubt you've heard.

 

[George]

Whatever dude. Bal-Sagoth are pretty bm to me, especially their first album which I doubt you've heard.

It's not that rare.

 

[Hell Awaits Us All]

I gotta admit there are some real nerds on this board

reading through page 86 and 87 made me LOL "Same here. I like my music to be uncommercialized. It lets me know that I'm not a fucking drone. Also that that band I'm listening to isn't full of sellouts. Sure, I'll listen to some mainstream stuff, but I'd rather go searching. Plenty of underground bands have way more talent than big bands."

can you spell N-E-R-D?

 

[~Derek~]

If you don't like Varg's vocals you just aren't cut out for Black Metal.

I like his vocals, they're just not one of my favorites.