I want to get into black metal

[DDemarte]

I want to start listening to black metal but i'm not sure where to begin. i listen to metalcore, deathcore(don't judge) and some thrash. If you can give me some names of bands with their best album/s, that would be great. thanks

 

[matt schrauben]

Borknagar, Paysage d’hiver, old Dimmu Borgir, old Darkthrone, Burzum, Emperor, old Agollach, old Woods of Ypres, etc, etc…

I’m sure some others on here will have many other high quality recs.

 

[Onder]

I suggest starting with old 2nd wave classics. Early Mayhem, Burzum, Darkthrone, Immortal, Satyricon, Gorgoroth.

 

[DDemarte]

i just finished listening to the burzum song dunkelheit, it's amazing.

 

[EspaDa]

Yeah, it is. Try this one too:



matt_schrauben, you apparently meant Agalloch, didn't you?

I'd also recommend Sargeist, Mortuary Drape, early Bathory and Marduk.

 

[DDemarte]

i really like burzum. its really atmospheric and raw

 

[matt schrauben]

matt_schrauben, you apparently meant Agalloch, didn't you?

I most certainly did

 

[wandering_taco]

You might enjoy this band's sound, a little thicker and heavier than a lot of second wave stuff.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5rK38-NFFe0

 

[AllShallFall]

Also try Melechesh. Awesome oriental black metal.

 

[crimsonfloyd]

These are the essential, genre defining albums. Try these to get a sense of what styles you like and don't like:

Bathory- Under the Sign of a Black Mark
Darkthrone- Transilvanian Hunger
Burzum- Hvis Lyset Tar Oss
Emperor- Anthems to the Welkin at Dusk
Immortal- Pure Holocaust
Dissection- Storm of the Light's Bane
Enslaved- Vikingligr Veldi

Start with those and if you like them, then branch out into the other Norweigian classics. Then sample the Polish and French movements.

 

[TechnicalBarbarity]

Crimson and Onder have it pretty much covered .. although i'd replace Storm of the Light's Bane with The Somberlain ... which in my opinion is one of the greatest black metal albums ever recorded.

 

[whiskey funeral]

What everyone else has said. Also, I suggest looking at some of the more recent posts in the Black Metal thread.

 

[Baroque]

Try Windir

 

[MotherEel]

Anything Telloch has been involved in.