Depressing, Sorrowful, Misanthropic Black Metal: Let's Discuss

[Crimson Velvet]

Whoops... sorry!

She's hot too!

 

[cthulufhtagn]

haha dammit i wanna rep jk for that

 

[JayKeeley]

ANIMUS

So anyway, the Animus CD "Poems for the Aching, Swords for the Infuriated" is on sale at Dark Symphonies.

Any thoughts from anyone? Great reviews at metal-archives and perhaps more importantly, Oaken Throne.

 

[J.]

Bilskirnir

ive always wondered about this band. didn't know they were depressive or whatever

for me, Mortifera gets the job done.

 

[Demilich]

Any thoughts from anyone? Great reviews at metal-archives and perhaps more importantly, Oaken Throne.

What!?!11 :zombie:

 

[JayKeeley]

According to metal observer, Animus = "Post Burzum" metal a la Drudkh, Velvet Cacoon, and Woods of Ypres

 

[JayKeeley]

What!?!11 :zombie:

I forgot the

 

[eireone]

Animus is great! Apparently it is one guy from Israel making super buzzy trance inducing bm. His cd is six long untitled tracks... get it!

Bilskirnir is great.. amazing vocals... I would definitely put him in this category... but you could also lump him in the NSBM catergory. Apparently he has some aliases... Ulfhethnar and Odelegger? Haven't heard those though.

 

[eireone]

Oh yeah... Mortifera is ridiculous! Great band... very somber. I saw another of the threads on here dedicated to Neige so obviously all are up on his other bands! All of which are great imo. The new Alcest sounds like it may be amazing.

 

[dill_the_devil]

Listening to that Selvmord demo that ~Neurotica linked at the moment - this is wicked cool stuff, excellent incorporation of acoustics, and nice balance in the guitar tone between 'warm' and 'fizzy', if that makes any sense. Cool bass work too.

 

[~Neurotica]

 

[dill_the_devil]

Giving Kladovest a quick spin now - sounds very Xasthur-esque...

EDIT: Right, based solely on first impressions (i.e. listening to the first two tracks or so by each of the three bands you posted material by), Raventale >> Selvmord >>>>>> Kladovest. We'll see how it pans out though.

EDIT THE SECOND: Okay, I was actually intending to go to the pub or something, but I'm still sitting here listening to Raventale. It reminds me a lot of Drudkh (most likely because both are from Ukraine), but with more of a melancholic doom bent to some of the riffage.

 

[~Neurotica]

Raventale sounds the most interesting and depressing, imo. They also seem to be more melodic. Gonna contact them and tell about your comments

 

[dill_the_devil]

- get him to send me a shirt!

 

[~Neurotica]

Done. Waiting for response.

 

[Tranquillian]

Raventale is most excellent. Looking for a place to buy the cd now.

 

[JayKeeley]

Just finished listening to the first track on Raventale....this is truly excellent. I must have this.

 

[JayKeeley]

seriously, this is utter brilliance. tell me where I can buy Raventale!! They don't even have a website. I assume it's a self-release.

I bet most people here would go ga-ga over this.

 

[JayKeeley]

my avatar wants to have babies with this other raven

 

[J.]

so if i can find this album for $9 p/p within the US, who is gonna buy my copy?