Very Accessible/Melodic Black Metal

[Hell Awaits Us All]

can I get some recommendations for good bands like dissection and anael?

 

[Dazed and Brutal]

Sacramentum
Rotting Christ
Necromatia

 

[Slayed Necros]

Vinterland - Welcome My Last Chapter
Dawn - Nær Solen Gar Nider For Evoghe
Dawn - Slaughtersun (The Crown of Tiarchy)
Varathron - His Majesty at the Swamp
Hirilorn - Legends of Evil and Eternal Death
Abigor - Nachthymnen (From the Twilight Kingdom)

 

[Mort Divine]

Samael - Worship Him
Samael - Blood Ritual
Samael - Ceremony of Opposites

Fairly accessible and they're the big influences on Anael's sound.

 

[Seditious]

personally I find most Melo-Black accessable, but most of all:

Cryptic Wintermoon
Graveworm
Mirzadeh
and
Naglfar


(didn't think 2nd wave like Rotting Christ/Samael would be considered "melo-black", I don't see it that way, at least not when you put it besides these keyboard-melody groups named above)

 

[Seditious]

but regardless what you want, Samael's Ceremony of Opposites is a top 10 album of all time, genre be damned.

be sure to get the reissue with the Rebellion EP included

 

[Pessimism]

Vinterland - Welcome My Last Chapter
Dawn - Nær Solen Gar Nider For Evoghe
Dawn - Slaughtersun (The Crown of Tiarchy)
Varathron - His Majesty at the Swamp
Hirilorn - Legends of Evil and Eternal Death
Abigor - Nachthymnen (From the Twilight Kingdom)

This is a good list (especially Dawns Slaughtersun).

 

[Death Aflame]

Nagelfar (different band from Naglfar just FYI)
Winter of Sin
Withered Beauty

 

[cookiecutter]

Definitely Naglfar.

 

[Mort Divine]

(didn't think 2nd wave like Rotting Christ/Samael would be considered "melo-black", I don't see it that way, at least not when you put it besides these keyboard-melody groups named above)

It isn't but he named Anael, so I mention Samael.

 

[Life Sucks]

Grand Belial's Key

They sound nothing like Dissection or Anael, but they're accessible and catchy.

 

[Seditious]

It isn't but he named Anael, so I mention Samael.

I'll have to check em out, been hard to find anything like the blood ritual/ceremony of opposites era Samael

 

[skeptik]

Anael would be what you're looking for then. Maybe some Xantotol and Holy Death as well, but not as much.

 

[Skepticism]

Woods of Ypres, think melodic black, with Bergtatt riffs and acoustic passages.
Will of the Ancients