Black Metal.

[zoidberg]

But do you still think they're great?

the song Midnight Inquisitor was, err..... is pretty much great, the other 2 songs were just good.

 

[Rabid Headbanger]

But if you still think they're great it should be present tense.

 

[zoidberg]

OK! why do you try to ruin black/thrash!!!

 

[Alter]

I thought it was decent. Not the best but decent.

The lyrics are TERRIBLE and the music is boring.

 

[Rabid Headbanger]

Why do you try to ruin grammar?

 

[zoidberg]

i will put both you and myself on ignore for the duration of until one of us logs off.

 

[cookiecutter]

The lyrics are TERRIBLE and the music is boring.

Who really cares about bad lyrics in extreme metal. Especially when they are not native english speakers.

 

[Hubster]

Actually, some of us do. Personally, I find lyrical content is just as important as the music. I don't think it should be a deciding factor on the band overall though...

 

[cookiecutter]

I'm not saying that it's not important, it's just that bad lyrics shouldn't really affect your perception of the music when you can't understand them.

 

[Hubster]

Now that sounds better

 

[Slayed Necros]

I need some symphonic black metal recommendations. Name the band, and please specify the best album from that band.

Gehenna - Seen Through the Veils of Darkness (Our Second Spell)
Kyprian's Circle - Noitatulen Vartija
Obtained Enslavement - Witchcraft
Vintersemestre - Jääverisaatana
Wallachia - Wallachia

 

[Hypnos]

What I have heard is standard funeral doom, so yeah he is wrong himself.

no. he is not wrong. you are wrong with your misconception of standard funeral doom

 

[Alter]

Who really cares about bad lyrics in extreme metal. Especially when they are not native english speakers.

No, they are just childish. The whole band's image and sound is childish.

Read the lyrics.

Hear my voice into your head, don't try to stop it
The poison streaming into your veins is me

The cold you can feel is my revenge
You're just a scum, a creeping filth, you inspire hate

Take this poisoned blade or are you
So c**t that you can't end your life?

Everyone has the right to kill himself
Families and friends are only excuses
It's stupid to say, I want to die
When you don't have the courage to kill yourself

I watch your blood flowing to my feet
I smile watching you creeping like the worm you are

And your eyes are watching me asking for help
The only thing you'll receive will be my foot on your face

These blades are tearing me and killing me
Your hand try to reach me asking for help

So fucking sad human are you enjoying it?
Hear my voice and fucking kill yourself now

 

[Hubster]

no. he is not wrong. you are wrong with your misconception of standard funeral doom

Indeed.

 

[unknown]

listening to the new Nortt... it reminds me of Sunn O)))

 

[Hubster]

I can see the correlation in that. Each Nortt release has become progressively more ambient, so I guess right now it could be akin to Sunn O))) in a way.

Meanwhile I'm enjoying the brilliant hatred of Hate Forest's "Battlefields".

 

[Alter]

I guess I need to check out Nortt!

 

[sevag00]

Arcturus - Aspera Hiems Symphonia
Anorexia Nervosa - Drudenhaus
Covenant - Nexus Polaris
Crionics - Armageddon's Evolution
Dimmu Borgir - Spiritual Black Dimensions
Kataxu - Hunger of Elements
Limbonic Art - In Abhorrence Dementia or Ad Noctum: Dynasty of Death
Nokturnal Mortum - Lunar Poetry
Obsidian Gate - The Nightspectral Voyage
Tartaros - The Grand Psychotic Castle
Troll - Drep De Kristne
Zargof - Departure for the Cosmic Twilight

Wolven Ancestry - The Wrath of Gaia

Gehenna - Seen Through the Veils of Darkness (Our Second Spell)
Kyprian's Circle - Noitatulen Vartija
Obtained Enslavement - Witchcraft
Vintersemestre - Jääverisaatana
Wallachia - Wallachia

Thanks for the recs guys. I need to check out these albums.

 

[Vilden]

no. he is not wrong. you are wrong with your misconception of standard funeral doom

Explain.

They new album may be someting diferent as I said I haven't heard it but the stuff from Graven to Ligfærd is standard funeral doom? What about it isn't?

 

[Hubster]

The stuff from Nattetale to Ligfærd and through to Galgenfrist (i.e. every single release) is quite removed from standard funeral doom. Placing Nortt, and say, Skepticism or Shape Of Despair in the same bucket is pretty far-fetched. The only literal similarity is perhaps the pace, and Nortt is very slow indeed, almost borderline drone (in terms of it's pace, nothing else, think of bands like Earth).

Nortt takes elements of f/d, but fuses it with Black Metal philosophy, minimalist arpeggiated playing (i.e. Burzum influences), extremely basic chording, but the emotional expression and pace is all f/d (f/d for a start is far more complex melodically, it has far more tonal colour than black doom does).

I strongly believe that in the Black Metal field, Nortt is about as far from standard as you can get. No one does Black Doom like Nortt, nothing has come close (and it's a very finite field as well) - he has perfected the art of expressing dark emotion without relying on a vast array of tonal spectra, he has maximised minimalism. This does not occur in funeral doom: the f/d spectra, while limited, is still much wider than that in Nortt, it has a far more detailed characteristic makeup.

Perhaps it just doesn't ring for you... there are others here who are not moved by Nortt, but aside from me being a huge fan, I must also say that I consider it to be art of a very high standard. It is extremely creative and consistent, and unique which is rare these days.