What's with black metal ?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fkPL98Sn4kI

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  On 1/4/2010 at 5:44 PM, noise said:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fkPL98Sn4kI

 

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As with black metal I might like, it's fine until the bloke starts croaking. The music is epic but I can't take the vocals seriously at all. But that's just me.

Black Metal is fucking kool. I used to thrash out to that shit last september

yeah some people in scandinavia take this shit really serious, but most people know it's all about getting drunk and laid and playing dress up and being awesome.

the main reason for all the dress up is cause girls find it fucking hot and will sleep with you

Darkthrone and Burzum!

Don't mind the music (when i'm thrashing out) but totally avoid the women who are into this scene. Just all the piercings and that kinda stuff, you often see pretty girls who have pierced themselves crazy. They are so heavy into the scene.

Dude, thats brutal!

  On 1/4/2010 at 6:18 PM, beerwolf said:

  On 1/4/2010 at 5:44 PM, noise said:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fkPL98Sn4kI

 

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As with black metal I might like, it's fine until the bloke starts croaking. The music is epic but I can't take the vocals seriously at all. But that's just me.

I really dig Darkthrone, and I like these vocals over the cleaner, theatrical stuff by black metal bands now. The early lo-fi releases of the scene are so much better.

Darkthrone is also awesome because both members are otherwise normal blokes. They have a sense of humor outside of their music, and their music is arguably darker than most of their peers.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ytVbn6DjjiY

Yes, Darkthrone is the best to come out of the whole black metal movement. I used to follow alot of black metal religiously, but nowadays it's only Darkthrone, old Bathory and some more obscure stuff. Also Ulver, seeing them live next month!

Darkthrone's myspace is also a favorite site of mine since the 'band of the week thing' started. Always some pure raw music, and Fenriz' compilation albums always have a few new bands I dig. I also emailed briefly with fenriz (also a big electronic fan) nice guy with heart for real music instead of scene and image. More bands from that genre should have that attitude.

yep, darkthrone are the best. all you really need is "a blaze in the northern sky" and "under a funeral moon". awesome music, and i still love the covers!

this shit is lol

def lepard for the win

  On 1/4/2010 at 8:22 PM, Willemjan said:

Yes, Darkthrone is the best to come out of the whole black metal movement. I used to follow alot of black metal religiously, but nowadays it's only Darkthrone, old Bathory and some more obscure stuff. Also Ulver, seeing them live next month!

 

Darkthrone's myspace is also a favorite site of mine since the 'band of the week thing' started. Always some pure raw music, and Fenriz' compilation albums always have a few new bands I dig. I also emailed briefly with fenriz (also a big electronic fan) nice guy with heart for real music instead of scene and image. More bands from that genre should have that attitude.

Nice, Ulver should be excellent. Some of Burzum's tracks are brilliant, though some of the purely synth made ambient stuff is absurdly repetative (I guess that's what happends when you record in jail, by youself, and you're misanthrope). Beyond that, I haven't listened to much other black metal and likely won't. I'm more into sludge, doom, post-metal, etc.

That's cool you talked to Fenriz, I've been meaning to check out Neptune Towers, his ambient side-project. Supposedly Nocturno Culto, Darkthrone's other member, is now a schoolteacher.

  On 1/4/2010 at 10:14 PM, panz0r said:

yep, darkthrone are the best. all you really need is "a blaze in the northern sky" and "under a funeral moon". awesome music, and i still love the covers!

  On 1/4/2010 at 10:32 PM, LOL Alzado said:

this shit is lol

def lepard for the win

indeed.

Death Metal > Black Metal

sheet metal

Like another poster here, I also grew up on Slayer, Pantera, Megadeth, Sepultura. I was fairly impressionable and by age 10 Gwar was my favorite band. I'm actually really glad I didn't find out much about black metal until I was older. I saw what bands like Kiss looked like and it made me curious as to what they sounded like. I was pretty let down when I heard them. Was expecting some out of this world demonic shit. Then I found Skinny Puppy and my world was complete. :)

there were some pretty "demonic" blackmetal bands though. for instance, check out most of the bands from the LLN (Les Légions Noires) collective:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4SbhD-BCKCQ

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FgE1VbxKz9M

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4TJdWy7FeCc

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pXL9TYLKl3M

good stuff is still happening, but there's just so much utter shit going on that it's easy to see the whole genre as really really bad.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ybCaRLR7is&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dz3RS4663Cw&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=40nhmWvGg-k

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lWgOLsNN8Yk

i'm crapping some mega turds in my underpants here dudes

Kokoon - kudos for linking Brenoritvrezorkre, one of my absolute favourites. Paysage D'Hiver is also god damn awesome.

There is a lot of great BM, but of course a lot of shit to wade through.

  On 1/7/2010 at 6:03 PM, LOL Alzado said:

i'm crapping some mega turds in my underpants here dudes

if you mean that those tracks i posted weren't *scary* enough, i can agree. they're not scary, but some of that stuff does sound very otherworldly to me.

  On 1/7/2010 at 6:44 PM, psn said:

Kokoon - kudos for linking Brenoritvrezorkre, one of my absolute favourites. Paysage D'Hiver is also god damn awesome.

 

There is a lot of great BM, but of course a lot of shit to wade through.

funny things are happening too, some bands that should've stayed "underground" keep getting dug up by the likes of pitchfork &co hipster crowd, which results in heaps of their (much lesser) contemporaries. but fortunately, there are quality (and original!) bm bands, coming from all parts of the world!

BM or not, its easily one of the best record of the decade.

what is it?

Wolves in the throne room, Two hunters.

" Truth be told, and to commit a kind of heresy, if Joy Division had appeared some 30 years later as a black metal band, they would actually be Wolves in the Throne Room." well put !

http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:wifpxzthldhe~T1

  On 1/7/2010 at 6:44 PM, psn said:

Kokoon - kudos for linking Brenoritvrezorkre, one of my absolute favourites. Paysage D'Hiver is also god damn awesome.

 

There is a lot of great BM, but of course a lot of shit to wade through.

I feel this way with BM especially, it seems a lot more hit-or-miss than other genres. It's such a strange scene: between the NSBM shit, the handful of contradictory (but sometimes decent) "unblack/Christian" BM artists, and all the bands that are goofier than Dethklok, it almost seems worth ignoring.

Fenriz (Darkthrone) said in an interview "if we are Hank Williams then modern Black Metal is Garth Brooks."

"Shit to wade through" would make a brutal track title.

Speaking of Unblack, Horde's show is, believe it or not, the best "BM" show I have ever seen. Funny, that.