General Zod said:
I agree. It took me a while to appreciate Death Metal. But now I have quite a bit of it in my collection. I tend to revisit highly touted Black Metal discs from time to time, to see if there's any more there that I might appreciate. So far, most of the genre still does nothing for me.
Fair enough - it's probably the least 'instant' of all genres anyway. It was a combination for me between sessions of Arcturus, Borknagar, early Ulver, Agalloch, Empyrium etc and a ton of viking stuff. All of which cracked the ice to more 'intense' or 'traditional' BM.
I would listen to my albums in bits and pieces, and then one day, I found myself listening to it more and more, until I was fully immersed listening to the entire albums in one sitting. I have to say, it was
Nightside Eclipse that changed everything for me after listening to it off and on for perhaps a year! I felt the urge to write a review for it (just the overall dynamic of how I interpret it) and I even started a thread about it on this forum, asking what other bands were similar, and through that I discovered Nokturnal Mortum...one of my current fave bands, and I have a feeling you might like them actually.
I have to say that between BM and DM, I actually prefer BM. There's so much more variation IMO, and when you finally 'get it', you start noticing all the neo-classical elements as well, especially obvious with NM.
I'm rambling I know...heh.
