Black Metal.

[Zephyrus]

that was ockham again wasn't it

nice.

 

[SkiesAtOurFeet]

How does Deathspell Omega - Kenose hold up to their other material?

 

[MasterOLightning]

It's their best one.

Far more coherent than Fas. Catchier than SMRC. I think this is the peak of technical black metal, that I'm aware of. In my top 5 or 10 BM releases.

It's more similar to the Mass Grave Aesthetics and Diabolus Absconditus tracks than any other releases they've done. I prefer Kenose to those two, but MGA is an outstanding song.

 

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

No it's not imo, but it's still worthy.

 

[AndICried]

been getting quite into recent french stuff. peste noire, eikenskaden, dso, alcest. also, italian not french, but tenebrae in perpetuum have been a favourite recently:

 

[Zephyrus]

How does Deathspell Omega - Kenose hold up to their other material?

It's their best one.

This. Though I disagree that it's catchier than SMRC. It certainly isn't as accessible.


"Kenose III" is possibly the greatest Black Metal riff ever penned.

 

[Hubster]

been getting quite into recent french stuff. peste noire, eikenskaden, dso, alcest. also, italian not french, but tenebrae in perpetuum have been a favourite recently:

Eikenskaden ftw

 

[General Zaroff]

Really cool album.

Speaking of USBM, here's a cool article a friend sent me: http://www.believermag.com/issues/200807/?read=article_stosuy

And, as Blake Judd of Nachtmystium told me: “I just feel that those bands are marketed for what has happened outside of the music, not so much involving the music. Like ‘Oh, church burning and murder and [Gorgoroth vocalist] Gaahl kills or tortures guys,’ but the last Gorgoroth album was weak as shit. Who cares what he does, if he’s a criminal? There’s guys selling crack in Chicago that are scarier to me than that guy.”

 

[entanglement]

So I got Vuotare's 'Dysphoric Undertones' because it was mentioned in this thread (I think), and its really very, very average. I still need to give it another listen before I press del.

 

[Hubster]

Really cool album.

Speaking of USBM, here's a cool article a friend sent me: http://www.believermag.com/issues/200807/?read=article_stosuy

Interesting read. Cheers.

 

[Onder]

What do you guys think of Revenge?

 

[KevenZ]

And, as Blake Judd of Nachtmystium told me: “I just feel that those bands are marketed for what has happened outside of the music, not so much involving the music. Like ‘Oh, church burning and murder and [Gorgoroth vocalist] Gaahl kills or tortures guys,’ but the last Gorgoroth album was weak as shit. Who cares what he does, if he’s a criminal? There’s guys selling crack in Chicago that are scarier to me than that guy.”

Blake is a criminal too since he steal money with his label and judging from his new pic, he sure looks scary.

 

[Lord Kur]

there's a bunch of bands named revenge. do you mean the canadian one?

 

[Lord Kur]

So I got Vuotare's 'Dysphoric Undertones' because it was mentioned in this thread (I think), and its really very, very average. I still need to give it another listen before I press del.

maybe you aren't much of a drone fan? I like the album because it's a very cool mix of black metal and drone. Maybe you should give it more of a chance because it's certainly not "average". I don't know many bands at all who play that kind of mix. I think it's a lot more interesting than most ambient type black metal.

 

[Killbot]

there's a bunch of bands named revenge. do you mean the canadian one?

Maybe he meant the act of revenge.

 

[~Derek~]

I liked the article on USBM, it was very interesting and gave me some new bands to check out.

 

[Zephyrus]

The article provided a lot I already knew but it had plenty of new insights. It could have focused more on USBM rather than the whole Varg muder affair.

 

[cookiecutter]

I assume it was written for an audience mostly unaware of black metal's history

 

[Zephyrus]

I was thinking that.

I just find it so amazing that it might be true that other genres of music can be so diverse and malleable as Black Metal. I see Black Metal fused with almost every other genre of music, it's hard to believe that any other genre can possess such a quality.

 

[General Zaroff]

Has Black Metal ever been fused with Jazz?