Black Metal.

[Krow]

It's kind of sad how so many black metal musicians are racist. Still, their music is completely valid and generally very good.

Hardly. Most NS basement black metal is fucking terrible. There's good bands for sure but most Jew Camp/Aryan Blood SS bands are garbage propaganda aimed at young white guys that don't fit in.

 

[The Butt]

Krow is right, but there are many gems in the rough when it comes to NSBM.

 

[dwellerINTHEdark]

Kataxu's Hunger of Elements being one of them.

 

[JontRevolting]

Cue 'Lust - Genesis of a Satanic Race' and 'Spear of Longinus - Nothing is Forever, and Forever is Nothing'.

 

[Omni]

I think that black metal in general has the highest number of bad bands compared to good ones out of any genre of music that I've heard.

 

[JontRevolting]

That is subjective when it comes to BM I think The Grinch said it best 'one man's toxic waste is another man's pot pourri'.

 

[dwellerINTHEdark]

I'm constantly stumbling upon fantastic black metal acts with relative ease so I wouldn't agree with that Omni.

 

[Draehl]

I'd agree with Omni, but also say it has the best quality of all genres when done right.

 

[no country for old wainds]

I think that black metal in general has the highest number of bad bands compared to good ones out of any genre of music that I've heard.

prog metal's probably worse

 

[Omni]

prog metal's probably worse

Oops, I forgot about that mess.

 

[PrincessHades]

Krow is right, but there are many gems in the rough when it comes to NSBM.

Yeah. Most NSBM is absolute shit. Lots of bands are basically RAC/hatecore bullshit, but there are a few bands- namely Absurd, Graveland, and Goatmoon that produce fairly good music, and in the case of Absurd, great music.

 

[PrincessHades]

prog metal's probably worse

Progressive metal tends to be plagued by poor songwriting in exchange for technicality. Dream Theatre, while being very technical, fails to write good songs with good structures to them.

 

[Draehl]

Progressive metal tends to be plagued by poor songwriting in exchange for technicality. Dream Theatre, while being very technical, fails to write good songs with good structures to them.

With a small handful of notable exceptions

 

[no country for old wainds]

there are loads of NSBM bands with some worthwhile material tbf. infernum, nokturnal mortum, wolfnacht, the shadow order, fanisk, temnozor, dub buk, fullmoon, astrofaes, gontyna kry, stutthof, forest, forgot, branikald, thallium, lucifugum, ad hominem, and on and on it goes.

 

[The Butt]

I quite enjoy most of those. I'm not so big on Ad Hominem anymore though, and was never a huge Temnozor fan. Decent band though.

 

[EspaDa]

That Malokarpatan band from Slovakia mentioned by Onder is pretty good. What's also delightful is the fact that I can understand many words from their lyrics.

 

[Goffdahl]

Been obsessed with Lunar Aurora lately. Didn't actually know where to start with the band though so I've been randomly buying albums I find for decent prices. What's their best album in your opinion?

For me it's Andacht along with Elixir of Sorrow + the lengthy track "A Haudiga Fluag" from the split with Paysage d'Hiver. But everything they have done is worth your while. Stellar band!

 

[unknown]

ditto on Andacht. Such a fucking great album. Too bad Hoagsacht wasn't a terrific followup

Dug this one out from the bottom of my closet. I haven't listened to this in years

 

[PrincessHades]

I'm listening to the song All Shall Fall by Immortal right now. Immortal is a very underrated band, because people continuing they're "trve" enough. They are my second favorite black metal band, behind Burzum.

 

[JontRevolting]

They're great live...I still love Immortal especially Blizzard Beasts,Pure Holocaust and Battles In The North.