Décadent;5722005 said:
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Do us a favour and give me a brief rundown of some or all of these bands. I seem to be lacking in my knowedge of them.
this may take a moment...
Alkonost - folk black metal type stuff. the band uses keyboards but not too heavily. they lean more towards folk metal rather than black metal
Balrog (fra) - I'm really surprised not more people know about Balrog. Light speed drums and riffs. Really nothing to complain about...the lyrics/titles seem to be rather cheesy, but the music is great, imo. Check out
Bestial Satanic Terror
Belinus (Ire) - Primordial worship band number one. that should paint a vivid enough picture
Darkestrah - Fucking awesome band! Oh man. The riffs! These guys know how to tear it up.
Embrace of Memory is such a great fucking record
Dub Buk - Black metal from Ukraine. They combine some pretty interesting elements. very nationalistic.
Idu Na Wy is a good place to start
Fanisk - V5 turned me on to this band. The remastered version of
Noontide is great. Definitely not for people with short attention spans (all of the songs clock in at over 8 minutes). Keyboards are present but add atmosphere. Great drums.
Geasa - Primordial worship band number two
Heol Telwen - Folk/pagan/celtic metal. Think of Cruachan with a set of testicles (and better music...actually, don't think of Cruachan). Not cheesy at all.
An Deiz Ruz is a good album with a fair amount of variety. Hope you don't mind pennywhistles
Krohm - Interesting artist. The music is very "trancy" (as a reviewer on M-A put it). The musicianship is good. More midpaced songs rather than 5000bpm songs
Kvist - I know a number of people that hold
For Kunsten Maa Vi Evig Vike in high regard. One album band, and it's a damn good serving of melodic black metal. You can hear the bass! What a novel concept
Lunaris - Symphonic melodic black metal I guess. Their first album,
The Infinite has some very cool tracks. if you're at all into early Arcturus and that sort of stuff
Manes - Think Burzum but with more influences and stuff thrown in. keyboards and other atmospheric things are present.
Master's Hammer -
Ritual was released in 1990, so you can kind of imagine how it sounds. lo-fi and pretty odd at times, but I still consider it a solid effort.
Mefisto - uh...not sure why I threw them into a black metal list...they're a blackened thrash/speed metal type band. They only have a best of/compilation released, and it's a pretty good cd if you can get your dirty mits on it
Mirrorthrone -
Carriers of Dust was one of the best black metal releases this year. Again, not for the short attention span people. The production is fucking nice. The riffs and musicianship are fucking excellent. Get this album now.
Mysterium - Another celtic/pagan black metal band with some Gothic/doom elements thrown in (mainly regarding vocals and instrumentation)
Pagan Reign (rus) - a fucking excellent band. I've only heard
Ydeli Biloy Veri (Destiny of Ancient Fate), but they released another cd this year which I'm sure is also amazing. Great riffs. Nice production. The keyboards kind of bug me at times, but nothing too major
Secrets of the Moon - great German BM band. Their songs are pretty different from your standard bm bands. a good amount of variety, great riffs and a nice production makes them stand out.
Stiny Plamenu - another East European bm band that plays good black metal. Drums aren't produced very well. But the music is great. All three of their albums are pretty good
Velimor - Russian NS band. I've only heard
For the Glory of Our Kin, and I really like it
Vulpecula (US) - ambient black/death metal. It's done by the same guy in Ares Kingdom and Order From Chaos (if you know who they are). Slightly different black metal.
In Dusk Apparition is a solid album
now I'm going to bed. always glad to help.
