Black Metal.

I think the title track is one of the weaker tracks on the album. Veles' Scrolls, Kuyaviya, Kolyada are all better imo. Still a great song obv (the whole album is).
 
Regarding Nokturnal Mortum, they are such an up and down band. Lunar Poetry is strong, Goat Horns is excellent, and then there is a series of mediocre records followed by the phenomenal Voice of Steel.
 
I consider them pretty great in general tbh, with no bad album really, just some really fucking good ones tend to out shine the others.
 
I agree with Krow, they have't released anything bad. Nechrist is probably their worst effort with Weltanschauung and Goat Horns topping the list.
 
Nokturnal Mortum is awesome. I love Weltanschauung and Goat Horns, the other albums are great too but I haven't listened to them as much. I think Return of the Vampire Lord is one of my favorite tracks from them though that EP was just OK overall to me. I also really love Perun's Celestial Silver, which is on NeChrist, but don't remember some of the tracks on there. Haven't listened to it in awhile.

Bah, there's nothing inherently wrong with liking music that contains racist lyrics tbh. Don't have to agree with the message to like the art. It's funny a friend posted something to the affect of "I see you liking racist record labels!" it's like is nobody allowed to employ a racist? I suppose they are suppose to be homeless and starve to death or something.
 
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I'm relatively uneducated on black metal. Really craving more filthy primal shit like Lord Mantis, any recs? I'm not saying the lyrics need to be fucked but they need to be a little fucked and sound like they mean it.
 
I'm relatively uneducated on black metal. Really craving more filthy primal shit like Lord Mantis, any recs? I'm not saying the lyrics need to be fucked but they need to be a little fucked and sound like they mean it.

But Lord Mantis isn't black metal at all. They were always sludge-y for me. Check out Cobalt.



 
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Our difference of opinion shows because Cobalt isn't quite what I'm looking for. Good but not quite. I think of Lord Mantis as definitely blackened sludge, and it's more the black metal influences of ferocity I'm interested in. Stalking it's prey then fucking annihilating it, the atmospheric side. A band that doesn't necessarily have balls, but definitely has teeth.

I'm looking for filthiness in lyrics and vocals, with a very organic feeling of hatred driving the guitars. Fucking depraved hatred. Murderous and mean, sans the satanic. Rabid.

I don't super care for Darkthrone but they're another good example. My bad if this is a shitty descriptor I'm a poet not a musician lol.
 
Our difference of opinion shows because Cobalt isn't quite what I'm looking for. Good but not quite. I think of Lord Mantis as definitely blackened sludge, and it's more the black metal influences of ferocity I'm interested in. Stalking it's prey then fucking annihilating it, the atmospheric side. A band that doesn't necessarily have balls, but definitely has teeth.

I'm looking for filthiness in lyrics and vocals, with a very organic feeling of hatred driving the guitars. Fucking depraved hatred. Murderous and mean, sans the satanic. Rabid.

I don't super care for Darkthrone but they're another good example. My bad if this is a shitty descriptor I'm a poet not a musician lol.

I posted Cobalt because the ex Lord Mantis vocalist Charlie Fell (great vox) joined Cobalt on their newest record.