Top 10 BM Albums of the 00s

It's just funny that SMRC seemed to be the album of the decade, if one could be picked, and then no one lists it. As close to a unanimous modern classic as an album can get. It hasn't aged poorly either. I tried to not repeat any bands in my list, otherwise DsO and Drudkh would have had multiple appearances. I weaseled DsO into my second list because I had to include SVEST, and I liked that compilation so much.
 
Beherit - Engram
Nocternity - Onyx
Absu - Tara
Hail - Inheritance of Evilness
Averse Sefira - Advent Parallax
Antaeus - Cut Your Flesh and Worship Satan
Zemial - In Monumentum
Katharsis - VVorldVVithoutEnd
Morrigan - Plague, Waste, and Death
Darkspace - Dark Space III

Basically in that order. I know I am probably forgetting something as well.
 
yeah I tried to limit myself to just one album and one band...no duplicates (otherwise another Drudkh or Primordial or Agalloch would've been up there for sure)
 
I am not for applying a real strict interpretation of black metal, but I can't really see Agalloch as black metal in this decade, otherwise AATG gets a mention. I even had doubts about putting that Nokturnal Mortum album. They and Graveland are BM by association mostly at this point. I guess we haven't agreed on a firm genre for folky/epic metal. But if you have to pick an established category, BM fits best still.
 
I really think I need to listen to Engram more. I liekd it a lot but I never listened to it and thought, Wow this is one of the best Black Metal albums of the last decade! Maybe I am missing something.
 
Yeah, I really do not get the Engram buzz. There are several listings by others that I just haven't heard and I have no place to comment on, but the high praise for Engram confuses me. I am guessing it will be like Darkspace or Weakling in that no amount of "Listen to it more" comments are going to help me get what's so great about it. (And I'm betting those who say that sure as hell haven't given 10-15 listens to my unpopular choices.)
 
It's the potency of the album's fusion of the classic Beherit sound and riff work with new structural ideas that it seems Holocausto perfected during his non-metal stint. Subtle things like the samples in "Axiom Heroine", "All in Satan", and particularly the second movement of "Demon Advance" are effective in the sense that the experimental components of the music combine forces with the old school sensibilities to make something new yet familiar. Too much modern metal has the experimentation clashing with the genre's framework and creating a cluttered mess, but Engram is the exact opposite. Engram is just, fresh.

Edit: As much as I hate it when people just point to ANUS, they really did hit the nail on the head with the point of the album even if the review is Prozak's typical calculated bullshit.
 
Forest Of Fog - Rabenflug
Deathspell Omega - Fas - Ite, Maledicti, in Ignem Aeternum
Peste Noire - La Sanie des siècles - Panégyrique de la dégénérescence
Austere - To Lay Like Old Ashes
Faulnis - Gehirn zwischen Wahn und Sinn
Blut Aus Nord - Ultima Thulée
Sombres Forets - Royaume De Glace
Gris - Il Était une Forêt...
Darkspace - II
Drudkh - Microcosmos
 
In no particular order...

Absu - Tara
Immortal - Sons Of Northern Darkness
Negura Bunget - N Crugu Bradului
Urfaust - Geist Ist Teufel
Negura Bunget - Om
Wolves In The Throne Room - Two Hunters
Darkspace - Darkspace III
Krallice - Krallice
Altar Of Plagues - White Tomb
Blut Aus Nord - Memoria Vetusta II

This list would be a lot more accurate if I could get my hands on a lot of the obscure stuff I can only find on youtube (Paysage D'Hiver, etc.)
 
unknown said:
yeah wtf

then again I've never really been concerned about appearing cool because I listen to that faggy hipster avant garde shit
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What a tool. :cool:

This is tough. After some thought this is the list I came up with:

Black Lotus- Harvest of Seasons
Negura Bunget- N' Crugu Bradului
In Lingua Mortua- Bellowing Sea - Racked By Tempest
Borknagar- Quintessence
Primordial- To the Nameless Dead
Sear Bliss- Glory and Perdition
Windir- 1184
Bornholm- March For Glory and Revenge
Askival- Eternity
Summoning- Let Mortal Heroes Sing Your Fame
 
Hail The Wizard! said:
Forest Of Fog - Rabenflug
Deathspell Omega - Fas - Ite, Maledicti, in Ignem Aeternum
Peste Noire - La Sanie des siècles - Panégyrique de la dégénérescence
Austere - To Lay Like Old Ashes
Faulnis - Gehirn zwischen Wahn und Sinn
Blut Aus Nord - Ultima Thulée
Sombres Forets - Royaume De Glace
Gris - Il Était une Forêt...
Darkspace - II
Drudkh - Microcosmos
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Ultima Thulee is from '95 or '96.
 
Deathspell Omega — Si Monumentum Requires, Circumspice
Peste Noire — La Sanie des siècles - Panégyrique de la dégénérescence
S.V.E.S.T. — Urfaust
Katharsis — VVorldVVithoutEnd
Drudkh — Autumn Aurora
Blut aus Nord — The Work Which Transforms God
Weakling — Dead as Dreams
Luror — Cease to Live
Dark Tribe — In Jeraspunta - Die Rückkehr der Tollwütigen Bestie
The Ruins of Beverast — Unlock the Shrine
 
In no order -

Deathspell Omega - SMRC
Blut Aus Nord - TWWTG
Beherit - Engram
Darkspace - Dark Space III
Deathspell Omega - Fas - Ite, Maledicti, In Ignem Aeternum
Lunar Aurora - Andacht
Ondskapt - Dodens Evangelium
Antaeus - Blood Libels
Dark Tribe - In Jeraspunta
Nachtmystium - Instinct: Decay
 
Anticitizen One said:
Deathspell Omega — Si Monumentum Requires, Circumspice
Peste Noire — La Sanie des siècles - Panégyrique de la dégénérescence
S.V.E.S.T. — Urfaust
Katharsis — VVorldVVithoutEnd
Drudkh — Autumn Aurora
Blut aus Nord — The Work Which Transforms God
Weakling — Dead as Dreams
Luror — Cease to Live
Dark Tribe — In Jeraspunta - Die Rückkehr der Tollwütigen Bestie
The Ruins of Beverast — Unlock the Shrine
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