Black Metal.

[Addo_Of_Nex]

I think they're great. The incorporation of progressive and avant garde elements is something I really like.

I would get "Death's Design" if you were to check them out.

 

[xeperu]

Listening to Ordo Ad Chao. I think I enjoy this album more than most. I think it is wonderfully dark and I love the production. It sounds so claustrophobic and evil. Atilla rules as well.

Its cool you like, its one of my favorite releases overall for this year. But I think its weird how this album gets slagged for 'having terrible production' and being 'musically unfocused' because I found absolutely nothing with either.

 

[Zephyrus]

I'm still not a fan of that album's production.

 

[Hatebreeder]

I'm still not a fan of that album's production.

Agreed. It almost sounds like they were trying to make something that was the complete antithesis of Chimera.

 

[Slayed Necros]

Det Frysende Nordarriket is a kind of compilation (of demos) too.
I think it is not that good. And it is difficult to get for a reasonable price.

Yeah, but then the self-titled is even harder to find. I'm lucky to own both

Det Frysende Nordariket definitely contains Ildjarn's strongest material. The Norse EP alone is probably the best thing he's ever done, along with the Svartfrad EP. As for actual full-length albums, I too recommend the self-titled above the others, but seeing as it's extremely rare, check out Forest Poetry and Strength and Anger.

 

[Alter]

I'm still not a fan of that album's production.

I thought it was excellent in terms of production. The music does lack though.

 

[Zephyrus]

I thought it lacked in both departments.




The new Anaal Nathrakh is fucking killer, I wish I'd gotten it sooner. Easily in the top 10 black metal albums for the year.

I'll have formal list with captions and such posted on the blog by New Years.

 

[Alter]

Likewise for my blog. Mine will be after New Years. Maybe I will find a good album before 12:00.

So Mayhem and Peste Noire have/will be playing live together in France. That must be/have been amazing.

 

[~Derek~]

Attila's vocal style is making me hesitant about getting Dem Mysteriis Dom Sathanas.

 

[The Ozzman]

But you don't mind Barnes vocal style in Six Feet Under?

 

[KevenZ]

"The new Anaal Nathrakh is fucking killer, I wish I'd gotten it sooner. Easily in the top 10 black metal albums for the year."

that album has nothing to do with black metal..... it should be classified into grindcore/death

 

[KevenZ]

Opera IX - 'Sacra Culto'

Wow, I'm surprised someone on this board knows this band (too much newcombers here imo), Sacro Culto and Black Opera were some of my favorite albums of the late 90s, probably the only band with female vocal that plays GOOD music.

 

[MasterOLightning]

Attila's vocal style is making me hesitant about getting Dem Mysteriis Dom Sathanas.

It's the best thing about the album.

 

[Addo_Of_Nex]

It's the best thing about the album.

Quoted for truth. It's probably the only thing I like about the album.

 

[Vilden]

It's the best thing about the album.

No, Euronymous riffs is obviously THE thing about the album.

 

[Zephyrus]

Attila's vocal style is making me hesitant about getting Dem Mysteriis Dom Sathanas.

You shouldn't let the vocals get in the way of enjoying one of THE top albums for black metal guitarists such as yourself to worship. You'll get used to the vocals.

 

[Matt]

You shouldn't let the vocals get in the way of enjoying one of THE top albums for black metal guitarists such as yourself to worship. You'll get used to the vocals.

The vocals is the only thing he listens to, it seems.

 

[~Derek~]

^Not true, if the riffs or the foundation of the music isn't good, what's the purpose of listening? Riffs, but vocals can enhance the music.

 

[supseudonymous]

"The new Anaal Nathrakh is fucking killer, I wish I'd gotten it sooner. Easily in the top 10 black metal albums for the year."

that album has nothing to do with black metal..... it should be classified into grindcore/death

Umm no? I'd say blackened death.

 

[Zephyrus]

Black/Death/Grind, but I file it under Black Metal. What impressed me the most about this release was the vocals, the most dynamic VITRIOL has been. He does inhuman screams, growls, clean singing, and even brutal death gurgles with a hint of "scree".