Black Metal.

[Dazed and Brutal]

I go by what they sound like more to me (which is straight-up heavy metal/NWOBHM).

End discussion now.

But thats not even what they sound like. They were much more gritty than any of the other NWOBHM bands of that time except for maybe Motorhead. And they had a sloppy thrash sound that would hold typical for first wave bands that followed (Bathory, Sacrofago, etc.).

 

[Manic Ferocity]

Well they stood out from other NWOBHM bands, obviously. Future bands expanded upon Venom's sound which ultimately created the sound of black metal. That's why I consider them a proto-type.

 

[skeptik]

Yeah, like Bathory's "Born For Burning" right?

 

[byrne]

I'm really enjoying Inquisition - Nefarious Dismal Orations. Anyone else heard / like this? It's probably better than all the other black metal releases I've heard this year (not that there are that many I've heard).

 

[Slayed Necros]

Yeah, that Inquisition album rules. Their best since the debut, I reckon.

 

[Koude Haat]

agreed on Inquisition. its in my top 5 for the year

 

[Hubster]

Yeah, like Bathory's "Born For Burning" right?

Now thats a fucking brilliant song right there

 

[skeptik]

You know that song is a direct ripoff of Venom's "Don't Burn The Witch" right? Which means that Quorthon is a fucking faggot liar since he said he'd never heard Venom at that point.

 

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

Damn man, maybe he was bluffing.

 

[skeptik]

He wasn't "bluffing." He lied in interviews all the time to build up a mysterious image around his music. He claims to have derived his original sound purely from Motorhead and GBH, which is a crock of shit. He shit on all of the other extreme bands back then.

 

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

k

 

[Alter]

Quorthon is just a lair. And a pretentious one at that.

 

[Hypnos]

by the way, old KAT rules!

 

[skeptik]

Fuck yes, their first 3 albums rule, and 666 can properly be considered early Black Metal. Nuclear War Now! Productions recently reissued the first album on vinyl with the original cover art, a patch, a sticker, a large poster, and 666 on splatter vinyl and Metal And Hell on pic disc. Well, that's the die hard version anyway.

 

[Alter]

Is 666 just a boring, Venom-copy, Hellhammer style band?

 

[skeptik]

I'm talking about the Kat album titled 666, but no, the band is far from crap or boring.

 

[Hypnos]

i prefer the polish version of their songs on 666 than the english ones on Metal & Hell. they manage to create some truly underground occult atmosphere, similar to the early Mercyful Fate recordings

 

[skeptik]

Yeah, I'm sure most people prefer the Polish version, it just adds a bit to the occult atmosphere. Though, for example, for Turbo (another Polish band), I prefer the English version of Last Warrior over the Polish.

 

[swizzlenuts]

Malignance, I need some more raw Black Metal. I'm talking more specifically about early second wave material, stuff like early Graveland, Ungod, Master's Hammer, Root, etc. Bands with a heavy focus on riffs, yet still with that second wave approach, almost between the first and second wave. Do you have anything like this to recommend me? Preferably stuff that's actually obtainable.

Bump for Malignance.

 

[Hypnos]

@Nec: never heard the english versions of Turbo songs