Eligos
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I would definitely say that it's deeper.
And the number of great black metal bands is not small at all.
And the number of great black metal bands is not small at all.
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I agree, but the number of shitty black metal bands is greater than most other genres. That might be just because I've heard more shitty black metal bands though.
I included them because I know it would cause a little uproar.
Of course I don't believe in those opinions, but a one-time friendly troll couldn't hurt
Eligos
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Sirjack
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lm an ignorant old school death metal fan. name me the greatest black metal band and the album.
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Einherjar86
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I don't know. Power metal offers a plethora of very horrible bands.
If we're suggesting black metal for death metal fans, I'll throw out Aeternus's Beyond the Wandering Moon.
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Yeah, but my opinion on power metal doesn't hold that much worth considering I tend not to like the genre as a whole, with the exception of the whole American, more traditional/epic scene. (Manilla Road and their worshipers if that counts as power metal)
To Eligos, if you're looking for mediocre black metal that doesn't really interest you all that much (I may get flamed for this) look no further than later-Borknagar, Chthonic, Crimson Moonlight, Kampfar, Sear Bliss, and Vesperian Sorrow.
To Eligos, if you're looking for mediocre black metal that doesn't really interest you all that much (I may get flamed for this) look no further than later-Borknagar, Chthonic, Crimson Moonlight, Kampfar, Sear Bliss, and Vesperian Sorrow.
Eligos
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I'll agree with you on Crimson Moonlight and Vesperian Sorrow. Thanks for refreshing my memory.
Good album, but for the BEST black metal, I would say:
Deathspell Omega - Si Monvmentvm Reqvires, Circvmspice
Devathorn - Diadema
Sagaris - Raising The Oldest
Gosforth - Hornlust
All solid and moderately interesting, but 2-3 spins tops.
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I find nothing interesting about Kampfar or Sear Bliss. Granted I haven't listened to either of the two in awhile, what should I take a second listen to?
Cythraul
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What exactly is your justification for this claim? Did you intuit it or did you actually calculate the ratio of outstanding bands to bad bands in black metal compared with other genres? At any rate, your tendency would obviously be to underrate bands that are widely recognized as good black metal bands, so your view is not surprising.
Are you talking about the actual number of shitty black metal bands or the ratio of shitty to good black metal bands? That's an important distinction to make. At any rate, it's to be expected that you're going to find lots of terrible black metal bands, since there are more black metal bands than bands of other metal genres with the exception of death metal (this is based merely on a cursory look at the numbers given on metal-archives, but I reckon it's a very good indicator). Obviously the amount of crappy bands is going to increase as the number of total bands increases. Also, it's easy to overrate the quality of bands in other genres simply because every other genre of metal, with the possible exception of funeral doom and death/doom, requires a higher level of technical proficiency as the bare minimum for passing muster. It creates the illusion that bands in other genres must in general be better than most black metal bands. But this does not tend to indicate anything about the quality of the songwriting or the quality of the albums of those bands.
I can't believe I'm still going on about this crap. I swear I'm done now...at least for tonight.
Out of all of Bloodbath's albums, prefer the latest, The Fathomless Mastery.
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Diabolical Masquerade is pretty good black metal imo. Ravendusk In My Heart and Nightwork are awesome. 
Sure! For Sear Bliss, I like The Haunting. Kampfar's best as raw/pagan black metal is Fra Underverdenen, but I prefer the viking/folk of Mellom Skogkledde Aaser.
Btw, do you like Arckanum? Kostogher is incredible.
About the latest 'okay' black metal bands/albums, Kampfar - Kvass and Heimang fits the description. 1349 as a whole too and Demonoir isn't an exception. Immortal's All Shall Fall was very meh and Darkthrone is making just passable albums since ages.
Saparmurat_Niyazov
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The only black metal that I'm bored to death by is the ultra-raw stuff. Granted, I do love early Darkthrone and Burzum, but for the most part, the repetitive waltz-style drum beat and buzzing, "treblely" guitars get on my nerves. Then there is the croaking vocals that are either totally devoid of effects or over-reverbed. BAH!
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