DarkBliss
...And okra for all
Yea, ok. It's just that your comment about carnival music beckoned to mind their La Masquerade Infernale album and I assumed you were averse to them as well.
I can't really think of one single element in "In the Nightside Eclipse" that's not black metal, to be honest.
By that logic, only Venom can claim to be "traditional black metal". Any band that helped sementing the foundations of black metal in its most fruit-bearing years by adding to its framework in a significant way can claim that title now, I reckon.
It's not 'raw" Black Metal. And some people claim symphonic Black Metal not to be "pure" BM.
In The Nightside Eclipse is not at all what I would call 'symphonic' Black Metal in the lay sense as would apply to Anthems To The Welkin At Dusk. I've never seen ITNE as anything but purely Black Metal.
And more often than not, in symphonic black metal, the amount of blast beats is much less.
Just remember how varied the genre is, especially in terms of production. You have both raw bands and symphonic bands who use the whole range of productions from lo-fi atmospheric to in-your-face digital perfection.
And you should pick up that Nokturnal Mortum, especially if you go nuts for Anthems.
Not a single mediocre song on that album.