Controversial opinions on metal

[crimsonfloyd]

That first Blut Aus Nord album is pretty overrated. The non-metal parts (i.e. all the synth stuff) are pretty amazing; the metal is solid, but far from exceptional. Their second album is their real masterwork from their more epic records.

As for all the other albums being brought up, none of them approach Storm of the Lights Bane. It's a rare album where every song is phenomenal. And I don't get the hate on "Where Dead Angels Lie." It's an exquisitely written song.

 

[Phylactery]

Nastrond - Toteslaut needs more mentions bitches.

That first Blut Aus Nord album is pretty overrated. The non-metal parts (i.e. all the synth stuff) are pretty amazing; the metal is solid, but far from exceptional. Their second album is their real masterwork from their more epic records.

I agree that Fathers of the Icy Age is much better than Ultima Thulee.

Are you not that into Bergtatt? Aren't you a huge Agalloch fan? It's clearly one of their biggest influences.

 

[J.]

Never understood the BAN hype. Theyre alright with the epic stuff but TWWTG/mort type stuff is awful

 

[TechnicalBarbarity]

If you're a false.

deathcore, bro. Deathcore.

 

[Krow]

deathcore, bro. Deathcore.

I've been ironically calling people falses on this board for years. It's better than pages of insults and name calling isn't it?

 

[crimsonfloyd]

Nastrond - Toteslaut needs more mentions bitches.



I agree that Fathers of the Icy Age is much better than Ultima Thulee.

Are you not that into Bergtatt? Aren't you a huge Agalloch fan? It's clearly one of their biggest influences.

Bergtatt is 55 on my 100 Greatest Black Metal albums list. SotLB is 8. So Bergtatt is great, but SotLB is in amongst the highest echelon of black metal.

 

[crimsonfloyd]

Never understood the BAN hype. Theyre alright with the epic stuff but TWWTG/mort type stuff is awful

Mort is indeed garbage but TWWTG is probably the best industrial black metal I've heard. Overall they're a very inconsistent band in both style and quality.

 

[J.]

im not a big fan of industrial bm, so that could explain it. best ive heard are

samael - passage
aborym - fire walk with us
mysticum - in the streams of inferno

 

[Pitiless Wanderer]

TWWTG is awful. I remember all the hype surrounding it (Terrorizer especially) and being so let down when I first heard it.

 

[Pitiless Wanderer]

Samael is great, yea.

 

[no country for old wainds]

as overhyped french BM albums from 2004 go, i much prefer SMRC. TWWTG isn't so bad though. thorns meets godflesh meets sonic youth or something to that effect.

 

[TechnicalBarbarity]

That Deathspell Omega album absolutely destroys everything else mentioned in the last few pages... except for SotLB.

 

[Mort Divine]

SMRC destroys nothing

 

[Serjeant Grumbles]

SMRC destroys nothing

It certainly destroyed your mom's "nothing" last night.

 

[TechnicalBarbarity]

SMRC destroys nothing

... but you also think ho-hum bands like Unanimated and Ares Kingdom are top-tier

 

[CiG]

@Serjeant Grumbles That was... Cringe.

 

[TechnicalBarbarity]

 

[Serjeant Grumbles]

@Serjeant Grumbles That was... Cringe.

And you say this with full knowledge of the archaic slang meaning of "nothing"?

 

[CiG]

And you say this with full knowledge of the archaic slang meaning of "nothing"?

 

[HamburgerBoy]

Sweet Clinton gif