Black Metal.

[skeptik]

F.O.A.D. is a superb album.

 

[Zephyrus]

Not Black Metal, wrong thread.

 

[cookiecutter]

I agree with Bluewizard about Quintessence, it really isn't that dark at all.

 

[Zephyrus]

It is compared to the rest of their discography. Everything before it is folk/epic while everything after is more progressive.

 

[skeptik]

Not Black Metal, wrong thread.

Completely and utterly wrong, but you wouldn't know why.

Also, the self titled is by far the 'darkest' work from Borknagar, and also by far the best.

 

[Zephyrus]

It's their tr00est, I'll give you that.

 

[cookiecutter]

Does anyone know where I can buy Sterbend - Dwelling Lifeless? I really like what I've heard on their myspace.

 

[Pessimism]

Gorgorotten

 

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

BAHAHA.

 

[Scourge of God]

Borknigger was not then, is not now and never will be black metal. Or heterosexually inclined...

 

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

good one

 

[Manic Ferocity]

Not sure if that was sarcasm or not but that was actually pretty good.

Borknagar's first album was pretty cool.

 

[DarkBliss]

I don't know, he could have made it more potent by replacing the with [D]. Or maybe a [P}. Ah, the possibilities are truly numerous. What an oversight on his behalf. Still, it would be a three-grader's humor at best.

 

[Alter]

Looks like I need to check out Krieg soon...


From there myspace influence section.

Profanatica, Demoncy, Beherit, Darkthrone, Judas Iscariot, Satanic Warmaster, The Velvet Underground, The Stooges, Rudimentary Peni, Archgoat, Interpol, GGFH, Black Flag, Forgotten Woods/Joyless, Ellis, Bataille, Hamsun, Welsh, Lovecraft, Bukowski, the cut up method employed by Burroughs et al, Merzbow, Whitehouse

 

[~Derek~]

It's their tr00est, I'll give you that.

Which is probably why the only Arcturus I've found interesting is their first album, I was the same way about Bornagar until I heard Quintessence though, except replace first album with "everything before Quintessence"

 

[DarkBliss]

Looks like I need to check out Krieg soon...

I found Krieg so painful listen to. It's like mutilating your ears with rusty forks. Abrasive to the max. These festering wounds may never heal...

 

[Zephyrus]

I found Krieg so painful listen to. It's like mutilating your ears with rusty forks. Abrasive to the max. These festering wounds may never heal...

Maybe because all you heard was Destruction Ritual?

 

[DarkBliss]

Maybe because all you heard was Destruction Ritual?

No, I heard the Black House and some random tracks off another album as well, but didn't remember anything good about those, so I deleted all of them. Meh, no big losss. Not my cup of tea. I did listen to Destruction Ritual most out of those and found it so mindnumbingly awful that it threw me off from giving the band another chance

 

[unknown]

Krieg has some pretty good literary influences...not sure how it influences their music but whatever

 

[I-Oblivion-I]

Haha I remember the first time listening to destruction ritual and I thought it was just random static noise. I just recently listened to a few songs of it however and I can actually notice the riffs and song structure now.