Black Metal.

[Vegard Pompey]

I checked out Slow Forever when it made the 2016 list and there are aspects of it I like. I love how oppressively plodding it is (really lives up to the title) and some of my favorite parts of the album are the really mind-numbingly repetitive ones like the outro to Elephant Graveyard that just goes on and on. What brings it down for me is Slipknot-tier lyrics and vocal performance (I like the pessimistic bent of the album, but a lot of the lyrics are just edgy word salad; "COLD WHORES HAIR MOTHER FUCKING NIGHTMARE" etc.) and I wish they'd pick better riffs to repeat incessantly.

 

[CiG]

I'm weird about sludgy metal. I love straight up sludge metal, but when it's mixed with other genres I usually hate it.

 

[Phylactery]

Please don’t insult Slipknot by comparing them to this garbage.

The last Cobalt album has the dude from Lord Mantis on vocals so it has that blackened sludgeness about it. Although I still like the album a lot, I do feel it is their weakest release based on the vox. But that album is nowhere near horrendous.

Honestly I hated everything about that song. I think you know my taste in black metal quite well so you should know I wouldn’t like something like this. If it can even be called black metal. And yeah the vocals are atrocious.

I don’t remember Eater of Birds sounding anything like this, or being anywhere near as offensive.

 

[dwellerINTHEdark]

Don't get too comfortable with the music you listen to. Challenge yourself and you'll start appreciating styles you loathed once.

 

[Vegard Pompey]

I challenged myself by listening to Slow Forever multiple times in its entirety. That doesn't make it a good album.

 

[CiG]

I constantly surprise myself by what I've grown to appreciate, recently especially. I'm always trying to challenge my comfort levels with music, but some things just don't work. To each their own I guess.

 

[dwellerINTHEdark]

I constantly surprise myself by what I've grown to appreciate, recently especially. I'm always trying to challenge my comfort levels with music, but some things just don't work. To each their own I guess.

Same.

 

[Phylactery]

Yeah, I think most people here try to move out of their comfort and discover new stuff. Except Morguelord, who apparently only listens to death metal. But I’ve been listening to metal for over half my life now and I mostly know what I do and don’t like in terms of sound, so it gets more difficult.

I do sometimes wonder if I hadn’t discovered my favourite metal albums at the points in my life that I did, would I even like them as much? Really difficult to answer that. Some of them hold huge nostalgic value for me and helped me through difficult times of my life. Times where I was a socially awkward person and lacked a lot of confidence. Times where I was struggling accepting not being straight. And just some pretty dark times in general. It’s hard for things I’m dicovering now to compete with that.

 

[Vegard Pompey]

I do sometimes wonder if I hadn’t discovered my favourite metal albums at the points in my life that I did, would I even like them as much? Really difficult to answer that.

The real question is, would you still like all of your favorite albums if no country had never been born?

 

[CiG]

Ironic.

 

[Phylactery]

Times where I was struggling accepting not being straight. And just some pretty dark times in general. It’s hard for things I’m dicovering now to compete with that.

To add to this, I recently got friendly with someone from work and he said to me: “I did think you might potentially be bi or even gay, but then when I found you listen primarily to that extreme metal stuff, I thought no way then”. I thought that was quite funny, and also rather offensive. Can’t think of much more metal than getting drilled by a huge cock - just look at Halford!

 

[Krow]

I don’t remember Eater of Birds sounding anything like this, or being anywhere near as offensive.

It’s the only album without McSorley (Recluse) on vocals. The tone of the band changed without him. I remember the other guy kicked him out because he’s a nut job. I like Cobalt’s first three but Slow Forever was a pass for me as soon as it came out.

 

[no country for old wainds]

The real question is, would you still like all of your favorite albums if no country had never been born?

he’d be listening to erasure and the pet shop boys, meanwhile you’d be listening to nothing but dream theater and sadly nursing the irae melanox shaped hole in your heart.

 

[EspaDa]

All Cobalt albums are great, guys. Slow Forever is pretty different from their previous long plays, but it's just another magnificent work of theirs! It has some stoner and sludge leanings thanks to the contribution of Charlie Fell, who has an infernal voice and inconceivable, anguished screams. I'm still looking forward to their next release, but unfortunately there's no info about upcoming plans for Cobalt. Fucking ace band, motherfuckers!

 

[CiG]

Meh.

 

[CiG]

This guy has some pipes on him.

Not as good as In the Dungeons of Mind but still good.

 

[Krow]

I have high hopes for the new Svartidaudi. Wasnt a big year for black metal for me except for CdG and maybe Drudkh. Anyone want to recommend me some albums to check out from '18?

Any kind of black metal is fine but leave the black thrash out, I keep up with it pretty well because its a favorite of mine.

 

[no country for old wainds]

i'll chuck out ten i liked that haven't been mentioned much around here:
aorlhac - l'espirit des vents
autarcie - sequania
blackrat - dread reverence (black thrash but nobody else has mentioned them afaik)
chaos invocation - reaping season, bloodshed beyond
lutomysl - ecce homo
nachash - phantasmal triunity
spite - antimoshiach
strigoii - the oldest of blood
transilvania - the night of nights
uruk - nihilistic warfare in inhuman realms

 

[dwellerINTHEdark]

I really wasn't impressed with the new CdG album, I think I lost my taste for them.

Do check out the Rur album from this year. Dense atmosphere on that one. Aorlhac was pretty cool as well.

 

[CiG]

I'll throw Vargrav into the hat, that one really impressed me.