Sweden: Naglfar, Dissection, Dawn, Vinterland, etc.

Looking for melodic black metal, preferably from the Nordic countries. I've been listening to Finnish Black and Swedish black for a while, and some in Norway appealed to me.

I'm being country specific because those three titans have seemed to capture exactly the sound I had been looking for. Perhaps the good folks on this thread can recommend me some black metal that are somewhat like these:

Sweden: Naglfar, Dissection, Dawn, Vinterland, etc.
Finland: Sargeist, Satanic Warmaster, Behexen.
Norway: Iskald, early Darkthrone, etc.

Specifically if you play guitar, it could be nice to help me out find some invert-power-chord heavy black metal. (How redundant of me to say that). Sargiest and Satanic Warmaster have captured this sound quite nicely, and I've always loved the epic-story telling of Swedish melodic black/death bands doing the story telling with more of the music than the words.

Thanks in advance.

Dissection is my favorite band of all time, man. Hahah. Thulcandra's first album, Fallen Angel's Dominion, is pretty much a Storm of The Light's Bane rip off.

If you look at the tracks and the sounds, playing both albums at the same time...

Night Eternal is a direct rip-off of Night's Blood, Fallen Angel's Dominion is a direct rip-off of Retribution: Storm of The Light's Bane, Frozen Kingdom is a direct rip-off of Where Dead Angels Lie, Legions of Darkness is a direct rip-off of Soul Reaper. Hell, both albums even start with a guitar intro and end with a piano outro. Thulcandra is worshiping Dissection, and to be honest, the nostalgia factor of that album made it REALLY enjoyable for me. I loved the production.

Under a Frozen Sun is less of a rip-off and more of an inspiration from the Swedish Melodic Black/Death scene, and it was my favorite album of 2011. Definitely check it out if you have the time.

Also, Storm of The Light's Bane is probably the most influential album to me, but it may not be to you. I loved both The Somberlain and Storm of The Light's bane. Somberlain has more Death than black influence, and Storm of The Light's bane has more black than death influence. They are both titanic albums, and I've listened to them since I was about 8. (I'm 16 now)

Looking for some Atmospheric/dark ambient black metal bands or just any that really stick out.

Also avoid Woods of Desolation unless you're into stuff like Alcest. It's ridiculously melodramatic and contrived.

Markov: Give a listen to Sad Legend's s/t, Astriaal's "Renascent Misanthropy", and Lord Belial's "Angelgrinder". Let me know what you think of those and I'll try to recommend from there.

Had to check out Sad Legend myself, and I listened to the song Han, and what a frustrating piece of music it is, it could've been so good if half of the stuff wasn't so poor in taste.

Kveldulfr, by the way, the song Demonseed by Matricide has a riff I'm sure you'll like. It's off the Holy Virgin EP.

I'm looking for really aggressive black metal with lots of blastbeats, any recs?

Rotting Christ, Varatheon, Necromantia and Agatus! I guess we could add Septic Flesh as well. You also have Nocternity, cool rawer bm than the previously mentionned ones.

I'm a little new to Black Metal, but recently one of my friends introduced me to the band Immortal and their album "At The Heart Of Winter", and since then, it's been playing non-stop on my iPod and CD player, haha. Are there any other Black Metal bands in the same sort of vein as Immortal?

Markov: Give a listen to Sad Legend's s/t, Astriaal's "Renascent Misanthropy", and Lord Belial's "Angelgrinder". Let me know what you think of those and I'll try to recommend from there.

So far Sad Legend and Azure have been my favorites, thanks a lot to Zoid, And, and everyone else who rec'd.

Pre-gay Keep Of Kalessin

Would "pre-TERRIBLE MUSIC" offend your sensibilities any less?

Any decent black metal bands anyone can reccomend from Hungary?

I would like some pretty aggressive black metal with really politically charged lyrics. By politically charged I mean from the liberal side so stuff that's like anti war, anti corporation, and anti corruption. If some songs have different lyrical themes that's fine as long as most are political. Please no satanic lyrics.