Reccommend some Black Metal?

[Fenrir13]

Trelldom's "Til Et Annet.." is an excellent album IMO, if you can find it. Also check out Aura Noir(sort of black/thrash), of course the staples like Emperor and Darkthrone(try Wrath of the Tyrant and Blaze in the Northern Sky), and I always suggest Gorgoroth(anything, really.)

 

[no country for old wainds]

if you are going to check only one band, then it should be Emperor

If you're going to check out a hundred bands, none of them should be Emperor.

 

[Slayed Necros]

Emperor aren't important.

 

[Henrik Main]

Emperor aren't important.

Albeit brilliant.

 

[no country for old wainds]

Not that, either. Some pre-Nightside stuff is worth buying, Nightside is very average, the rest sucks.

 

[Henrik Main]

To the thread starter; here are some symphonic/synth-laden black metal recordings that I recommend:

Alghazanth - Osiris: Typhon Unmasked
And Oceans - The Symmetry Of I, The Circle Of O
Arcturus - Aspera Hiems Symfonia
Borknagar - Quintessence (not strictly black metal, but close enough)
Dimmu Borgir - Puritanical Euphoric Misanthropia, Stormblåst
Emperor - In The Nightside Eclipse, Anthems To The Welkin At Dusk
Gehenna - First Spell EP, Seen Through The Veil Of Darkness (Second Spell)
Kvist - For Kunsten Maa Vi Evig Vike
Limbonic Art - Moon In The Scorpio
Obtained Enslavement - The Shepherd And The Hounds Of Hell
Old Man's Child - Revelation 666, Ill-Natured Spiritual Invasion
Ragnarok - Nattferd
Summoning - Dol Guldur
Svartahrid - As The Sunrise Flickers
Tartaros - The Grand Psychotic Castle
Tidfall - Circular Supremacy
Twin Obscenity - Where Light Touches None
Vesania - Firefrost Arcanum (you should really enjoy this one)

 

[Goffdahl]

Whats a good Nokturnal Mortum album to start off with?

Definately Goat Horns!

 

[genocide roach]

to say emperor are not important to black metal is to say black sabbath wasnt important to metal!

i dont know if you can tell, but im a fan hahaha
~gR~

 

[polarity]

to say emperor are not important to black metal is to say black sabbath wasnt important to metal!

i dont know if you can tell, but im a fan hahaha
~gR~

Emperor are one of my favorite bands, but they're hardly important to the black metal scene beyond being one of its best bands. I can't think of any bands they've influenced that don't suck.

 

[no country for old wainds]

Emperor didn't make much BM material. What they did make wasn't essential, although some of it was good.

 

[crimsonfloyd]

Bands to try out
Borknagar-Folk influenced BM
Burzum-Powerfuly emotional stuff
Darkthrone-Essentail Raw BM
Dimmu Borgir-Essential Symphonic BM
Dissection-Melodic BM with some Gothenburg influence
Emperor-The best black metal band, plain and simple
Enslaved-Extreemly progressive BM, with lots of Viking influences
Graveland-Very good raw BM
Graveworm-Very good syphonic BM
Mayhem-Early stuff is excellent raw BM, newer stuff is pretty eperimental
Nargaroth-Very, very interesting band
Old Man's Child-Well you know already
Satyricon-Good syphonic stuff
Throns-Good avant-garde
Ulver-Excellent folk influenced BM