Seems like an appropriate thread to ask whether anyone else feels the same way I do about black metal in a live context.
When it comes to "proper" black metal (not stuff like Behemoth or Dimmu) it just doesn't work in a live context.
It just doesn't make sense to me. Even some of my favorite bands, Gorgoroth for example, who play their shit well and are alright showmen just fall flat in that context.
I saw them in a small but packed venue, in a really shitty part of town, more an abandoned warehouse than anything else, in between dark alleys with prostitutes and the like, the broken bathroom was splattered in blood as if someone would have been hit or shot against some urinal, and more than a few of the attendants were screaming incoherently, intoxicated maybe (Satan, my lord, Belial, etc). There was no ventilation or anything, so the place eventually got really REALLY hot, even though it was around midnight.
If that's not an atmosphere, I don't know what is :Spin:
I actually didn't like their music on the cds all that much, before that concert that is.. however, I don't think I can do justice to that show with just words.
Also been to Dark Funeral twice, they played at a military base's theater the first time, so the 'security staff' in there happened to be G.I.s with AK-47s and threatening faces up on the stage, by the sides -I think they were ready to open fire on anyone who'd go up to them or cause too much riot.. well, I wanna think so
I was so close to Ahriman I could touch his boots, and Caligula was about just two-three meters away. I almost gave birth to my liver, though.
As well as the rest of this awesome setlist. Also, In My Darkest Hour with the Jackson Flying "W" guitar. 
