If you could choose just 3 songs that epitomise the spirit of each genre...

[AsModEe]

Black Metal:
Burzum: en ring til aa herske
Gorgoroth: Gorgoroth
Ildjarn: Skogssvinet
ambient, evil, animalic - three facets.

There should be an own list for proto-black-metal...

Power Metal:
Blind Guardian: Mirror, Mirror
Iced Earth: Night of the Stormrider
Iron Maiden: Number of the Beast
epic,harder kind, roots.

I agree that Iced Earth is now doing power metal... but NotS is more of a thrash album.

 

[Lies and Perfidy]

JP nailed speed metal. Here is the final word on thrash:

Slayer - Angel of Death
Exodus - Bonded By Blood
Destruction - Thrash Till Death

 

[Unfaithfully Metalhead]

^ I think Dead is their vocalist at that time...

DM:
Death - Scream Bloody Gore
Morbid Angel - Altars of Madness
Immolation - Dawn of Possession

BM:
Mayhem - De Mysteriis Dom Sathanas
Bathory - Under the Sign of the Black Mark
Beherit - The Oath of the Black Blood

GM:
Theatre of Tragedy - Velvet Darkness they Fear
Within Temptation - Mother Earth
Sirenia - At Sixes and Sevens

TM:
Metallica - Kill Em All
Kreator - Pleasure to Kill
Slayer - Reign in Blood

PM:
Dream Theater - Images and Words
Symphony X - The odyssey
Adagio - Underworld

Nope it was Attila's vocals.. Dead and his brains were maggot food by then...

 

[no country for old wainds]

Correct. His vocals are theatrical to the point where it's humorous. De Mysteriis... has grown on me a bit, though.

 

[Jean-Pierre]

Correct. His vocals are theatrical to the point where it's humorous. De Mysteriis... has grown on me a bit, though.

That's because De Mysteriis fucking rules, and Atilla's vocals are fucking awesome.

 

[no country for old wainds]

oic

 

[Unfaithfully Metalhead]

Correct. His vocals are theatrical to the point where it's humorous. De Mysteriis... has grown on me a bit, though.

Yeah its growing on me too ... just wish it was different vocals.. as for the album the songs could of been done better.. to me its a overrated album though important one for its time... my other fave tune is From The Dark Past... Varg is pretty good on the album though i hate the shithead... Hellhammer is good as well..

 

[Unfaithfully Metalhead]

That's because De Mysteriis fucking rules, and Atilla's vocals are fucking awesome.

I definetly would not go that far about the vocals lol especially on the title track.. and as i stated before the songs could of been structured better...

 

[no country for old wainds]

No, in Tormentor Attila's vocals are fucking awesome. In Mayhem Attila's vocals are fucking gay.

 

[Cynical]

No, in Tormentor Attila's vocals are fucking awesome. In Mayhem Attila's vocals are fucking gay.

You fail it.

 

[no country for old wainds]

Fail what, exactly? Preferring gargling that can be best compared to a constipated frog, over raw and fitting shrieks?

 

[The Grimace]

Yup. Atilla always rules.

 

[Jean-Pierre]

Yup. Atilla always rules.

. wait....the second Tormentor album was shit...and I haven't heard Aborym-don't really plan to.

 

[Cynical]

Fail what, exactly?

It, duh.

Preferring gargling that can be best compared to a constipated frog, over raw and fitting shrieks?

Atilla's vocals are far greater than your british mind can ever comprehend.

 

[Cythraul]

Attila's vocals suck infinite amounts of ass. He sounds like a tone-deaf old lady who's fallen and can't get up. I really don't see how anyone could think that guy's vocals are good.

 

[byrne]

Melodic DM
Amorphis - Grails Mysteries (The Karelian Isthmus)
At the Gates - Windows (The Red in the Sky is Ours)
Arghoslent - Hereditary Taint (Incorrigible Bigotry)