Mellodic / Symphonic Black Metal

[Avigrus]

Hi All,

I'm looking for some new mellodic or symphonic Black Metal bands to check out. Possibly also some Black/Folk bands. I haven't listened to a great deal of black metal so i'm looking for a solid starting point.

I would prefer bands / albums with good production.

Currently loving the following;

Emperor - Anthems To The Welkin At Dusk & IX Equilibrium
Old Man's Child - Vermin
Stormlord - Mare Nostrum
Catamenia - Eskhata, Chaos Born, Location: Cold

Cheers,
Av.

 

[tagradh]

Not symphonic but Spite Extreme Wing are definitely one of the best black metal bands ever. Kinda similar to Dissection in places.

 

[Zephyrus]

Anorexia Nervosa - Drudenhaus
Bishop of Hexen - The Nightmarish Compositions
Crionics - Armageddon's Evolution
Dimmu Borgir - Spiritual Black Dimensions
Kataxu - Hunger of Elements
Limbonic Art - In Abhorrence Dementia
Nokturnal Mortum - To the Gates of Blasphemous Fire
Obsidian Gate - Colossal Christhunt

 

[J.]

Golden Dawn - The Art of Dreaming

 

[tagradh]

Dark Fortress - Séance
Dark Fortress - Eidolon
Naglfar - Sheol
Naglfar - Pariah
Naglfar - Harvest
Keep of Kalessin - Armada
Cryptic Wintermoon - The Age of Cataclysm


But get Spite Extreme Wing's 3 full albums first. :0

 

[Zephyrus]

Naglfar - Sheol
Naglfar - Pariah
Naglfar - Harvest
Keep of Kalessin - Armada

Naglfar's first two are far superior in terms of melodic Black Metal. Same goes for Keep of Kalessin.

 

[Einherjar86]

Tvangeste- Firestorm
Ancient Rites- Dim Carcosa
Borknagar (any album)

Check out Moonsorrow if you want symphonic folk metal.

And Zeph nailed it with Bishop of Hexen; great symphonic black metal.

 

[Zephyrus]

I'll reassert my recommendation of Nokturnal Mortum's To the Gates of Blasphemous Fire, as it is Symphonc Folk Black Metal very similar to Anthems...

 

[tagradh]

Naglfar's first two are far superior in terms of melodic Black Metal. Same goes for Keep of Kalessin.

I agree with Naglfar but not KoK. The guy said he wanted good production though, Pariah and Harvest are way better in this department than the earlier albums.

 

[Zephyrus]

And what does he mean by good production? The first two albums by either band are by no means of bad production, and coincidentally they contain better music.

 

[chuj666]

Graveworm

 

[WINTER TYRANT]

I second Einherjar's Tvangeste suggestion. You might wanna try some Alghazanth as well.
Martyrium
Maybe some Obscurcis Romancia
Omniscient
Vesperian Sorrow

 

[Avigrus]

Thanks for the rec's - had a listen to most of these - stand outs so far; Naglfar, Graveworm, Keep of Kalessin, Cryptic Wintermoon, Limbonic Art, Borknagar & Dark Fortress.

Going to try and order a few cds this weekend.

 

[Dem0n0id]

Sacramentum - Far away from the Sun.
Drudkh - Blood in Our Wells, Autumn Aurora.
Windir - Artnor, 1184.
Ulver - Bergtatt, Nattens Madrigal (mostly their early stuff).
Arcturus - Aspera Hiems Symfonia
In the woods - Heart of the Ages
Sworn - The Alleviation

 

[Seditious]

Ulver - Bergtatt, Nattens Madrigal (mostly their early stuff).

what in the hell

did those raw old skool BM masterpieces transform unrecognizably into well-produced modern melodic-BM albums while I wasn't lookin'?!!!

 

[Dem0n0id]

Well, not exactly well-produced modern BM, but i do find it more melodic than most other old skool stuff. The thread starter might like it anyways

 

[Seditious]

Well, not exactly well-produced modern BM, but i do find it more melodic than most other old skool stuff. The thread starter might like it anyways

fair enough.

 

[The Ozzman]

Avigrus:

Quit changing your sig so I don't have to keep AdBlocking it

 

[tagradh]

One band I forgot to mention before, Thyestean Feast. Kinda like Windir/Cor Scorpii but, imo, better.

 

[Valerie]

Vesperian Sorrow
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