MasterOLightning
Optimator
If you like Deadwing, you'll like the new album. It's not a huge departure. It feels a bit short though. Only 6 songs, including the 17 minute one, which really should be broken into three.
So-Far this year...
- Thread starter Alter
- Start date
Alteredmindeath
Wasteland Survivor
Megadeth, Therion, King Diamond, Manegarm, Ensiferum, Turisas put out some stuff this year I got.
not much black metal for me this year but looking forward to Enthroned, Immortal, Winds, Arch Enemy, Bloodbath, Diabolical Masquerade and DarkThrone albums to come.
not much black metal for me this year but looking forward to Enthroned, Immortal, Winds, Arch Enemy, Bloodbath, Diabolical Masquerade and DarkThrone albums to come.
Vitor
Unconventional [Listener]
great, deadwing is awesome... a band called Transatlantic has a album with 4 songs, and the album has 75 minutes... awesome too
KevenZ
New Metal Member
- Feb 2, 2006
- 876
- 0
- 0
same here, 2006 was mediocre as well.
I currently like Vo Skorbyah, which is pretty excellent. It's folk/funeral doom from Russia.
Blue_Jay
New Metal Member
Never listened to Negura Bunget, Amon Amarth, Enslaved, Vader, or Wolves in the Throne Room for the year 2006? Good stuff.
I could probably name at least 75 excellent, quality releases from 2006, especially in regards to black metal. Last year was a phenomenal year for metal.
Blue_Jay
New Metal Member
Amon Amarth.....we don't have the same taste. I'm more into avantgarde/atmospheric black metal.
I think all those you mentionned have been average to me.
Danggggg. Just so you know Negura Bunget's OM is avantgarde black metal. Why did you think that album is average? Wolves in the Throne Room might be atmosphereic; but, I dunno what you're looking for in atmosphere with black metal.
The Ozzman
Melted by feels
EmbraceTheDeath
Member
- Jan 29, 2007
- 251
- 0
- 16
Mort Divine
Shrine Maiden of the In-Crowd
Reverend Bizarre - III: So Long Suckers
Alcest - Souvenirs D'un Autre Monde
Mayhem - Ordo Ad Chao
Pain of Salvation - Scarsick
Demiurg - Breath of the Demiurg
Alcest - Souvenirs D'un Autre Monde
Mayhem - Ordo Ad Chao
Pain of Salvation - Scarsick
Demiurg - Breath of the Demiurg
wagontrain
Member
My 2007 favorites so far:
Top 10 black metal (there has been TONS that I like, so the bottom of this list gets really shady):
1. Nae'blis - Sketches of Reality
2. Drowning the Light - To The End of Time (LP)/Through The Noose Of Existence (demo)/A World Long Dead (LP)
3. Hypothermia - Rakbladsvalsen
4. Inquisition - Nefarious Dismal Orations
5. Graveland - Will Stronger Than Death
6. Sacrificia Mortuorum - Maturum Est
7. Be Persecuted - II
8. Walknut - Graveforests And Their Shadows
9. Deathspell Omega - Fas - Ite, Maledicti, In Ignem Aeternum
10. Dodsferd - Fucking Your Creation
Top other metal (heard almost no non-black metal):
1. Moonsorrow - V: Havitetty
2. Helritt - Trotzend Dem Niedergang
3. Ensiferum - Victory Songs
4. Asunder - Works Come Undone (Hail Weakling!)
Top other stuff in no order:
Lustmord - Juggernaut
Fennesz + Sakamoto - Cendre
Eluvium - Copia
Jesu - Conqueror
Rhys Chatham - 400 Electric Guitars
Atrium Carceri - Ptahil
God is an Astronaut - Far From Refuge
Denzel & Huhn - Paraport
Hikikomori - Jamendo
Maserati - Changes For The New Season
William Basinski - Shortwavemusic
Hp.stonji - Syntonum
Amon Tobin - The Foley Room
That list of other stuff is all post-rock or some combination of experimental/ambient/electronic.
Favorite song of 2007 so far:
Moonsorrow - "Jäästä Syntynyt / Varjojen Virta"
Top 10 black metal (there has been TONS that I like, so the bottom of this list gets really shady):
1. Nae'blis - Sketches of Reality
2. Drowning the Light - To The End of Time (LP)/Through The Noose Of Existence (demo)/A World Long Dead (LP)
3. Hypothermia - Rakbladsvalsen
4. Inquisition - Nefarious Dismal Orations
5. Graveland - Will Stronger Than Death
6. Sacrificia Mortuorum - Maturum Est
7. Be Persecuted - II
8. Walknut - Graveforests And Their Shadows
9. Deathspell Omega - Fas - Ite, Maledicti, In Ignem Aeternum
10. Dodsferd - Fucking Your Creation
Top other metal (heard almost no non-black metal):
1. Moonsorrow - V: Havitetty
2. Helritt - Trotzend Dem Niedergang
3. Ensiferum - Victory Songs
4. Asunder - Works Come Undone (Hail Weakling!)
Top other stuff in no order:
Lustmord - Juggernaut
Fennesz + Sakamoto - Cendre
Eluvium - Copia
Jesu - Conqueror
Rhys Chatham - 400 Electric Guitars
Atrium Carceri - Ptahil
God is an Astronaut - Far From Refuge
Denzel & Huhn - Paraport
Hikikomori - Jamendo
Maserati - Changes For The New Season
William Basinski - Shortwavemusic
Hp.stonji - Syntonum
Amon Tobin - The Foley Room
That list of other stuff is all post-rock or some combination of experimental/ambient/electronic.
Favorite song of 2007 so far:
Moonsorrow - "Jäästä Syntynyt / Varjojen Virta"
wagontrain
Member
100% agree. Maiastru Sfetnic is one of my all-time black favorites, while OM I hardly even consider black at all.
I don't think they have necessarily lost their identity, just changed it. OM is folk/progressive much more than black metal. For people that are more into that kind of stuff, the change has been a good thing.
Negura Bunget is in the same category as Shining for me. Old stuff is incredible black metal, new stuff is much less incredible folk/avant/whatever but most importantly: not "really" black metal.
wagontrain
Member
Seriously... not sure how you can like atmospheric bm and not like 2006. The year was fucking packed with good stuff, but just mentioning one is enough to make the point:
The Ruins of Beverast
Captain
Varmint-Cong
I - Between Two Worlds was my favorite album of last year, along with Solitude Aeturnus, Lair of the Minotaur, Negura Bunget and Tankard.
Zephyrus
Tyrants and Slaves
Vitor
Unconventional [Listener]
The Ruins of Beverast was among my top ten.
My favourite black metal albums of 2006:
Wedard - Einsamer Winterweg
Bishop of Hexen - The Nightmarish Compositions
Anti - The Insignificance of Life
The Ruins of Beverast - Rain Upon the Impure
Sombre Chemin - Notre Héritage Ancestral
Peste Noire - La Sanie des Siècles - Panégyrique De La Dégénerescence
Negurã Bunget - Om
Stielas Storhett - Vandrer...
Sterbend - Dwelling Lifeless
Sarkom - Aggravation of Mind
Secrets of the Moon - Antithesis
Keep of Kalessin - Armada
Antaeus - Blood Libels
Gorgoroth - Ad Majorem Sathanas Gloriam
Anaal Nathrakh - Eschaton
Epheles - Souviens-Toi (technically re-released)
Koldbrann - Moribund
etc.
And Dornenreich's "Durch Den Traum" was my favourite overall album. Also Wormphlegm, Agalloch, Ahab, Autumnal, Panzerchrist, Moonspell, Monarch etc.
So by comparison 2006 is aeons better than 2007.
Similar threads
