Black Metal.

[Mort Divine]

ANUS has great taste honestly, for the most part.

 

[skeptik]

ANUS has fucking ridiculously good taste in Metal, actually. Of course, you have to actually like that style of Metal, which you don't.

 

[zabu of nΩd]

Fair enough, I guess. I just seem to remember seeing an article on that site ridiculing Cradle of Filth and Dimmu Borgir, and thus concluded that they're a bunch of closed-minded retards.

I guess the closed-minded part would still be true, though.

 

[skeptik]

To give an example of how well their taste coincide with mine, here's their Death Metal section and my take on said bands:

Abomination (win)
Acerbus (don't know)
Adramelech (win)
Amorphis (win)
Ancient Rites (win)
Asgard (win)
Asphyx (win)
At the Gates (win)
Atheist (win)
Atrocity (win)
Autopsy (win)
Baphomet (win)
Cadaver (win)
Capharnaum (don't know)
Cartilage (win)
Cenotaph (win)
Centinex (don't know)
Ceremonium (win)
Ceremony (win)
Cryptopsy (don't really care for, but can respect their debut)
dead horse (don't know)
Death (win)
Deathstrike (win)
Deceased (win)
Deeds of Flesh (meh)
Deicide (win)
Demigod (win)
Demilich (win)
Deteriorate (don't know)
Dismember (win)
Divine Eve (win)
Entombed (win)
Fleshcrawl (win)
God Macabre (win)
Gorguts (win)
Grotesque (win)
Gutted (don't know)
Hate Eternal (no)
Hetsheads (win)
Hypocrisy (win)
Immolation (win)
Imprecation (win)
Incantation (win)
Infester (win)
Intestine Baalism (win)
Kataklysm (win)
Kilcrops (don't know)
Lepra (don't know)
Luciferion (win)
Magus (win)
Martyr (don't know)
Massacra (win)
Massacre (win)
Master (win)
Molested (win)
Monstrosity (win)
Morbid Angel (win)
Morpheus Descends (win)
Mortem (win)
Mortuary (win)
Mythic (win)
Necromass (win)
Necrophiliac (don't know)
Necrophobic (win)
Nuclear Death (win)
Num Skull (win)
Obituary (win)
Oppressor (win)
Pessimist (don't know)
Pestilence (win)
Possessed (win)
Pyrexia (don't know)
Rigor Mortis (win)
Rise (don't know)
Revenant (win)
Sadistic Intent (win)
Seance (win)
Sentenced (win)
Sepultura (win)
Sinister (win)
Slayer (win)
Suffocation (win)
Thanatopsis (don't know)
Therion (win)
Torchure (win)
Unanimated (win)
Uncanny (win)
Unleashed (win)
Vader (win)

 

[zabu of nΩd]

Well it's not really hard to be that on-target when it all sounds the same.

 

[skeptik]

To the untrained ear.

oh snap

 

[cookiecutter]

Fair enough, I guess. I just seem to remember seeing an article on that site ridiculing Cradle of Filth and Dimmu Borgir, and thus concluded that they're a bunch of closed-minded retards.

I guess the closed-minded part would still be true, though.

Well it's not really hard to be that on-target when it all sounds the same.

Dumb.

Nec I'm surprised you like Kataklysm

 

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

Matt, you should really check out Necrophiliac. It is good.

 

[The Ozzman]

Or he could just check out a graveyard near an asylum

 

[zabu of nΩd]

Dumb.

No, that would be you for taking my clearly-expressed biases that seriously.

 

[cookiecutter]

No, that would be you for taking my clearly-expressed biases that seriously.

 

[zabu of nΩd]

 

[skeptik]

I only like the very early Kataklysm stuff btw, same with Vader and most of the other bands listed with an extensive discography.

 

[zabu of nΩd]

Early albums always own later ones. Regardless of the genre.

 

[skeptik]

Pretty much yeah.

 

[cookiecutter]

Except for Fleetwood Mac

 

[zabu of nΩd]

Good point.

 

[zabu of nΩd]

To the untrained ear.

oh snap

I understand your sentiments here, but it seems like 99 percent of the time "training my ear" for black metal involves training myself to overlook the consistent lack of compelling melodies. That's really what puts me off to the genre most of the time, and not the actual harshness of the sound.

If I seem grossly misguided in this assumption, feel free to list for me some BM bands/albums/songs that you think meet a high standard of melodic quality.

 

[skeptik]

Um...well what have you been exposed to?

 

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

Most black metal is melodic.