very good thanx

I don't like Kolossus personally but Armada remains a great album. It kind of goes on on their previous album but I think you have to listen to BM for awhile to appreciate this more raw form and hear it.

Anyways I'd start with albums like:
Watain - Sworn to the dark
Immortal - At The Heart of Winter
Immortal - Damned in Black
Immortal - Sons of Northern Darkness
Dimmu Borgir - Spiritual Black Dimensions
Dimmu Borgir - Puritanical Euphoric Misanthropia
Negator - Die Eisernen Verse
Negator - Old Black
Naglfar - Pariah
Old Man's Child - Ill-Natured Spiritual Invasion
Old Man's Child - Vermin
Satyricon - Now Diabolical
Ajattara - Äpäre
Craft - Fuck The Universe

Thanks for the list, man. I'll be sure to check those albums out, hopefully they'll all be on Spotify *grin*. It always takes a while for me to get into bands, genres or whatever though, so I'll try to be patient when giving them a listen! Even getting into death metal took a while. I had to repeatedtly listen to Bloodbath for ages before I could step further .

What appeals to me with KoK though is the clear production, and the rather unique vocals. To me, they don't even sound remotely like the typical black metal shrieks.

Certainly not worth 100%, but nonetheless this is a pretty killer demo. And this is coming from someone who doesn't really like their post-Goat Horns material. The keys are just majestic, and you'd want to wander in those landscapes any of the several covers depict.

dammit, I miss the the subtle, bracketed quotes at the end of responses sometimes and post to the wrong person. My bad, I'm sure I'll get used to it eventually.

Shrieks aren't typical for black metal, it's called deppressive black metal and if you ask me it isn't black metal at all. I hope you'll enjoy some of it! It took me a long time to get into black metal as well!

Gris (as mentioned) Sombres Forets, Coldworld, Lifelover, Hypothermia, Wedard, Anti, Nykalgia....

I know them but that's not really what I'm looking for now.

Are you kidding me? Shrieking (high-pitched harsh vocals if you will) is predominant vocal style in black metal. Depressive black metal probably sometimes cares less about vocal quality, but that does not differentiate DSMB vocals as separate entity from typical black vocals called shrieks.

This will probably be a strange request as I am rather new to Black Metal, and am not a big fan of most the of classics and the bands mentioned in this thread a lot.

Looking for fast, agressive stuff with clean, modern production. (like Anaal Nathrakh), but with some of the symphonic influence seen in Blut Aus Nord's latest, and I hate to say it but, later Cradle of Filth and Dimmu Borgir.

I am also a big fan of catchy Black/Death metal like Necrophobic and Melechesh, so any reccs like this would also be appreciated. Good production is a must.

Dreamscapes of the Perverse. I actually wrote a review for their debut. While the writing may be a bit amateurish, you'll get the just of its sound from it if you are interested.

I would also recommend Vesania, a great symphonic/melodic black metal band from Poland.

Try Luna Ad Noctum's latest "The Perfect Evil In Mortal", they play symphonic laden, melodic black metal that exhibits crisp & clear production.

Crimson Moonlight are a Christian-oriented black metal band, but don't let that deter you from checking them out. Their most recent album "Veil of Rememberance" is really spectacular, and while the production is good, it is not as glossed up as Dimmu Borgir and the like.

An obligatory rec. would also be Catamenia. Specifically, their later albums "Location:Cold" and "Winternight Tragedies" fulfill your request.

Lastly, Immortal's latest "All Shall Fall" is very well produced and while not their best release, may interest you well enough as it exhibits a fair share of melody. In addition to ASF, I think you would be pleased with the previous "Sons of Northern Darkness".

enjoy

I've now heard it. A very good effort from a band that I previously was less than impressed with on other albums. I would say it's decent but far from great and it's nothing that Emperor in their early days haven't done much, much better.

This is SUCH a helpful post, thank you. I actually love all the reccomendations and they're exactly what i'm looking for (normally I only like 1 or 2 reccs people give).

At first listen, Dreamscapes of the Perverse is my favourite, and I love the range of vocals on Crimson Moonlight. Obviously i'd already heard of Immortal, but did NOT know they had a new one out. Should have put them in my original post actually, as another example of what I was looking for. Thanks very much!

glad I could help. Hopefully, this additional band you'll like as well.

Vesperian Sorrow from Texas. Their most recent "Regenesis Creation" is a symphonic black metal masterpiece. They have some fairly long songs however, most over 5 minutes. If you can tolerate longer songs, then you will love these guys.

These guys are great too. I love longer songs- infact I tend to dislike songs under 3 minutes long.

Hi

I want some instrumental black metal, or at least minimal vocals.
I like stuff like Forest of Fog's Rabenflug album.

ex: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nr8gEqVNZXU

Thanks in advance.

1) I also want to know about more stuff that sounds like Rabenflug.

2) I'm looking for bands that sound like Obtained Enslavement.

i'm looking for something musically similar to Satanic Warmaster,(perhaps without keys, however) but i'd like to it to also have the vocals and rawness of something in the vein of Ithdabquth Qliphoth... too much to ask?

Horna could be worth checking out.

Ad Hominem, Urgehal and Judas Iscariot Maybe? Both have some excellent albums. Start with their debuts.

Also:
Azaghal - Mustamaa
Bilskirnir - In Flames of Purification
Vlad Tepes - March To The Black Holocaust
Kristallnacht - Blooddrenched memorial
Graveland - Carpathian Wolves and In the Glare of Burning Churches

This is a cool thread. Black metal is by far my favorite metal sub-genre, but there are a lot of crappy bands out there. My black metal tastes are quite varied, so bear with me. My favorite albums would have to be Battles in the North by Immortal, because of its frosty, blizzard-y feel, I like Nord by Sethereal for the same reason. Sons of Northern Darkness by Immortal, it just sounds so noble and majestic to me. Anthems... by Emperor, along with some of Alghazanth's stuff, because it is so complex. Lunar Poetry by Nokturnal Mortum because of its wild, woodsy feel, along with absolutely perfect songwriting and stunning musicianship.
I am looking to get into more traditional, grimmer black metal. I want to hear more bands that, if someone asked you to define black metal, you would show them. By this I mean bands like Darkthrone, Judas Iscariot, Profanatica, etc...
What would you recommend? feel free to recommend anything outside of this genre as well.

check out ARCKANUM (esp. "Kostoher" and his latest "ÞÞÞÞÞÞÞÞÞÞÞ" album), TAAKE's debut, BORKNAGAR's s/t debut... pfff.. there are tons more... ULVER's "Nattens Madrigal - Aatte Hymne til Ulven i Manden".
Though some slight acoustic parts also appear on some of them, this is mostly grim, frosty and mighty BM!

I hate how at some point it's always agalloch, darkspace, drudkh, verdunkeln and coldworld that get recommended when someone asks for "atmospheric black metal".

I need some black metal similar to the album "Distant in Solitary Night" by Judas Iscariot. Any suggestions?

Early Darkthrone.

if that was directed at me, i listened... with all the talk of them previously why the hell haven't i checked them out before? nice and fast as raw, really cool.



thankyou, i really dig Vlad Tepes already, in face i've been getting into the LLN stuff for a little while. Graveland are awesome too. I actually have a Judas Iscariot album someone gave to me but I haven't given it a listen let.
Of the others, i tried Kristallnacht first. Despite my misgivings i have to admit there's something about this sort of "noble sounding" NSBM that gets me everytime. When i have some time i will give the others a listen. thanks for the suggestions!

Can someone please point out which guy is Wrest in the current Twilight band photo on their M-A page?

I think he's the second guy from the left.

Early Darkthrone offcourse start with Transilvanian Hunger and Under A Funeral Moon. Something I'm listening to right now you might like: Maleficarum - The Unholy Falldown Of Christianism

Also:
Ad Hominem
Urgehal
Beastcraft - Dawn Of The Serpent
Azaghal - Mustamaa
Bilskirnir - In Flames of Purification
Vlad Tepes - March To The Black Holocaust
Kristallnacht - Blooddrenched memorial
Graveland - Carpathian Wolves and In the Glare of Burning Churches
Veles - Triumph Of Pagan Beliefs
Dark Fury - Vae Victis!

I'm looking for awesome blackmetal / war demo's. please advise demo's only!!!

Not just demo's that were kind of ok or worth a listen or look this band definitely has some talent. No! I mean demo's that were these bands their best work and are awesome enough to listen to over and over again. Let's stick to pure old school black / war metal please, no ambient, atmospheric or deppressive stuff.

Here are some of my favourite:
Tulus - Samlerens Kammer
Baalberith - A Escalada Triunfante
Proclamation - Imperious Jaws of Ire
Conqueror - Anti-Christ Superiority
Von - Satanic Blood
Veles - Triumph Of Pagan Beliefs
Old Wainds demos are awesome
Hate Forest - Scythia
Beherit demos
Mastema - Inhuman Satanik And Evil
Blodulv - Kristkrossare
Death Yell - Vengeance from Darkness
Goat Semen - Goat Semen
Old Funeral demos
Graveland - In the Glare of burning Churches

Anyone?

No. There is no such thing.

Damn! Although I can't say I was surprised.

I can not for the life of me bring myself to actually enjoy a black metal band. When i started out listening to "extreme" metal I enjoyed listening to death metal "purists" and I would occasionally listen to Darkthrone's Soulside Journey album, but it was never very memorable for me. I noticed that the majority of the bands on this site are Black metal so i must be missing out on something. How could a Black Metal newbie like me get into this genre. I do enjoy Dissection's Storm of the Light's Bane from time to time and Diabolical Masquerade's Nightwork.

I know it's not straight-up black metal, but I'm looking for stuff along the lines of Primordial's "A Journey's End", or any of their albums up to "Storm Before Calm". Their later stuff is great as well, but I'm looking for other bands that manage to attain that haunting sound that Primordial used to have.

Thanks.

Try Gorgoroth, Pentagram is the only album I like but many will disagree... Also maybe Immortal - Fullmoon Mysticism. Maybe even Galgeras or Fluisterwoud.

i've been trying to re-find a Black Metal album i found through these forums awhile ago

they hailed from New York, the cover for the 1 album they had an that i listened to was black and gold and i think they had only 2 members. was quite Darkthrone-y if i remember correctly. i think they had a large name too
sorry if this doesn't really help but it's all that seems to come to mind, i could just be making shit up in my head....but i'm sure it's a band

any help would be appreciated, thanks

sorry, can't help directly. But I tried the "advanced search" function with "black" (genre) and "new york" (city/state) which then gives a list of 120 bands. Not too many to check out and maybe one of the names rings a bell?

I don't think Gorgoroth and Immortal sound like Obtained Enslavement, but I'll check those other bands.

Obtained Enslavement's debut album definitely borrow from Fullmoon Mysticism and I do think the vocals are kind of similar with Pentagram sometimes. But no none of these bands sound just like Obtained Enslavement. Not at all actually but I hear influences and just thaught you might like them.