Who are the kings of Black Metal?

[Yoda]

Burzum. Varg is a genius.

 

[FuzzyWuzzy]

Emperor Wins, followed very closely by Burzum, I must state that Varg was an idiot and contradicted himself way too many times, i don't care about the man though, just his music...
-Fuzzy

 

[Dev]

Deathspell Omega / Lunar Aurora .

 

[virul]

Burzum / Mayhem

 

[CarcassVox]

Emperor

 

[Julian Zembrowski]

Deathspell Omega / Lunar Aurora .

Huge fan of DSO, Never heard Lunar Aurora though. I'll check em out!

 

[Ecto]

You will laught at me but my vote goes to Samael. Passage and Eternal are completely great. The lyrics are pretty good and Xy is very creative. And Vorph vocals are kind of unique. You know, today are many bands in the scene, but you can't differ who is who. It's all so iqual. At least I know when is Samael playing.

 

[Dev]

Huge fan of DSO, Never heard Lunar Aurora though. I'll check em out!

Please do ! Their last 4 are great (Zyklus being my favorite) and very different . One of the most underrated band I've ever heard .

 

[Dreadful]

emperor is my fav. out of all of those, but they haven't been consistant with their "black metal" as much as darkthrone so my vote goes to darkthrone.

 

[opeth_353]

Emperor

 

[Manbient]

Of those, Emperor, or possibly Burzum. But everyone knows the real answer is Weakling.

 

[BlackenedDawn]

Emperor, hands down, although their name is mispelled on the poll. Darkthrone is great but still sounds like trash 15 years later (one could contest tis the "true black metal way"). Burzum is almost black metal for Euronymous' death, rather than Varg's later atmospheric releases. Mayhem is and always will be a major part of Black Metal, but people mainly focus on what they have done in the past, rather than what they are doing now (even though all the current members are well established musicians outside of the band). Immortal, while always dead on with their music, their image is hysterical and you can't laugh at something " so evil." So that leaves us with Emperor, who seemingly redefined the genre with every one of their major releases. In The Nightside Eclipse, Anthems and IX Equilibrium are all amazing works, even if they do tend to swing away from BM near the end. What other black metal act could disband and return as headliners of Wacken?

 

[EVH316]

You will laught at me but my vote goes to Samael. Passage and Eternal are completely great. The lyrics are pretty good and Xy is very creative. And Vorph vocals are kind of unique. You know, today are many bands in the scene, but you can't differ who is who. It's all so iqual. At least I know when is Samael playing.

I'm not laughing. Samael are very, very good. I just think it's hard to proclaim anyone but members of the original black circle as the kings of BM.

 

[hibernal_dream]

What about Enslaved and Sacramentum? Both have released more quality albums than Mayhem or Darkthrone, and are more imaginative than both.

 

[FuzzyWuzzy]

Enslaved \m/

 

[Julian Zembrowski]

Please do ! Their last 4 are great (Zyklus being my favorite) and very different . One of the most underrated band I've ever heard .

Hmmm just got some of they're stuff, really amazing! Thanks for unintentionally directing me towards them. It's inspiring to hear some new black metal that's done well with atmosphere.

 

[twilightsrobe]

But everyone knows the real answer is Weakling.

Dead As Dreams is phenominal, but I'll go with Burzum... he's had a huge influence on black metal.

 

[Reveries]

you forgot Ulver, They are way better than any of those guys.

 

[NFU]

venom, bathory, mercyful fate you bunch of fucking quacks.

 

[Morpha]

you forgot Ulver, They are way better than any of those guys.

How are they kings of black metal? Not even fucking close. All those bands he listed had better albums, besides Mayhem and Samael (I don't like them much). I mean, I love black metal and all, but Ulver doesn't even play black metal anymore, and they started later than those bands did. They weren't originators or anything. Good music, but no way they are close to the real kings of black metal.