overlooked essentials

[cookiecutter]

and certainly not essential

 

[Crimson Velvet]

How does Sorhin's second album compare to the first?

I've only heard the one I listed, and don't even know if it's the first or the second, to be honest!

 

[AchrisK]

Believer
Mortification - Scrolls of the Megilloth
Paramaecium - Exhumed of the Earth
Horde - Hellig Usvart

 

[Crimson Velvet]

Horde is worthless. Perhaps the first clone band in black metal...

 

[AchrisK]

Antestor - the Return of the Black Death

 

[AchrisK]

Horde is worthless. Perhaps the first clone band in black metal...

Not worthless. Good.

 

[Crimson Velvet]

Derivative clone ≠ good

 

[AchrisK]

Derivative clone ≠ good

It was a good album.

 

[zabu of nΩd]

Horde is worthless. Perhaps the first clone band in black metal...

The first?

 

[Crimson Velvet]

Alright, one of the first in the second wave of black metal!

 

[AchrisK]

Alright, one of the first in the second wave of black metal!

Usually early bands in a genre which put out quality releases, even when they are similar to existing bands, are considered among the better bands in a genre. Hellig Usvart is a good album with genuinely good "ublack" metal. If it had been put out by a band whose ideology had lined up with the BM scene, it would have been hailed as an all time classic.

 

[zabu of nΩd]

^ You've just convinced me to download this.

 

[AchrisK]

You're welcome. It's totally old-school, and I think the album gets much stronger as the second half approaches. There are some pretty subtle melodies that once you detect them are pretty infectious. The first song is almost worthless IMO.

 

[Crimson Velvet]

Most early bands in the genre didn't rip off their immediate predecessors!

 

[AchrisK]

Did Horde steal riffs? I think not. Did they play in the style? yes.

 

[Scourge of God]

Christian metal = jumbo shrimp

And Horde is gayer than a Freddy Mercury-Rock Hudson sex tape.

 

[AchrisK]

Christian metal = jumbo shrimp

And Horde is gayer than a Freddy Mercury-Rock Hudson sex tape.

You = false

/

 

[Scourge of God]

Dude, do you really want to get tooled yet again? Are you some sort of glutton for punishment?

 

[Mort Divine]

No, he is right.

 

[Scourge of God]

No, he is right.

Yeah, but we've already established that you're a total homo, as well as a tasteless jiggabrew, so why, again, would we take your word for it?