I'm a college jazz student and I'm writing a black metal/crust solo EP thingy and im looking for some inspiration to help me on my way to putting thick, meaty chords in BM without it sounding too pretty. The closest thing I can think of to doing this is Weakling, with the whole "orchestrated" sound with all the different melodies coming in and out of everything, yet still heavily saturated chordally. This is especially true in parts of this song:

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

Other example would be a much darker wolves in the throne room:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=07XF5uKZlgw

or much more melodic Old wainds.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iGtDSFMqi2Y



any suggestions?

Aha, what you are after is hipster black metal. Anything from the following link will suffice.
http://www.last.fm/group/Hipster+Black+Metal

troll harder, and no, not necessarily. I mentioned one hipster band. Most hippie black metal stuff is melodically pretty in the box anyways, like Skagos and their constant diatonic triads... SQUARE. So maybe some hippie bm that actually sounds dark? Give me a real rec.


for musicians, metal that uses sevenths and evil chord progressions, diatonic or not, hipster or not. I happen to dig lots of the hipster stuff so suk it, haters gonna hate


another example maybe? ash borer.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PvBhB_lOc-w

I never thought I would see a black metal fan say, "haters gonna hate" when talking about black metal. Anyways, does Nargaroth happen to fit into what you're looking for?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j0f9qnbgO_M

I was not trolling, that was a legitimate suggestion. Lovers gonna love.

Hipster Black Metal?





What the fuck is this shit? Please tell me I'm just stupid and this is just a joke

top one is fake, bottom one isnt. and alright, lovers gonna love, my bad. but ya, Nargaroth is a step in the right direction, or at least that song is... i wanna say all of their other stuff is the whole power chord worship thing tho

Looks a little photoshoped to me... still hilarious, though.

Ok guys, theres no reason at all to be rude to the OP. Somebody recently brought up how rude we are if somebody brings up a style thats the slightest bit different than "ours". I think we ought to be courtious to the guy and at least offer him some music he would like.

Can't really think of any though, theres so much out there. Just check out the black metal help thread and check some of that stuff out.

By the way, anybody know who's art that is on the third link?

ya thats actually Zdzisław Beksiński. crazy stuff, i thought it was a worthy background

I'm going to have to go with Andacht by Lunar Aurora.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hm4Jem6tnEY

I'm not much of a musician from a technical standpoint though, so that could be completely off

Dawn: Clicky

Henke Forss's vocals are fucking evil.

this is pretty close to what im looking for. i have a feeling i should have heard of this band before

Have you heard Sear Bliss?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r7icAzGSJ-c

they make highly atmospheric / orchestral feel yet still sounding evil

Or Forest Silence

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QbHAwfTSn0I

Im digging forest of silence, the production is really unique. clear but not like, demon burger high fi stuff.