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My all-time favorite is probably the German band Nagelfar. The 2nd album Srontgorrth is probably my nr 1 favourite album of all time, regardless of genre.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nA5lC4Z ... lPromotion

I totally forgot to call out Oranssi Pazuzu. Yes, one of the best black metal bands of the decade for sure.

I've mostly fallen off black metal these days...and that super dark atmosphere doesn't do a ton for me. The bands I still like tend to be more on the prog...side of things.

[youtube]Enslaved's debut album[/youtube]

Let not this classic slide under the cracks.

Let not this classic slide under the cracks.

Aoratos are more death than black…

No one mention French,Greek scene or Canada pardon Quebec….
Bruh

Lee Harrison wrote:

Aoratos are more death than black…

No one mention French,Greek scene or Canada pardon Quebec….
Bruh

Are you kidding? I… I specifically mentioned all of them.

Aoratos are more death than black…

No one mention French,Greek scene or Canada pardon Quebec….
Bruh

Author:	IllBeBach0213 [ Wed Mar 20, 2024 2:43 pm ]
Post subject:	Favorite Black Metal Bands?
Ever since I started listening to metal, black metal held a place in me. What are your favorite bands (and songs if you want. Please post videos if so!) Mine are Peste Noire https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=0PfeW47ft ... b3lldXg%3D Burzum https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Ce7PVdN4r ... YXJuZXQ%3D Forgotten Woods https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=gKa66lUgl ... Fyaw%3D%3D Destroyer 666 https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=yg-Kva94R ... b2x2ZXM%3D Agalloch https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=qAaq0mpk9 ... luZyBzbm93

Author:	SanPeron [ Wed Mar 20, 2024 3:09 pm ]
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I have a love/hate relationship with this genre, I think is one of those genres that underground bands are better than the most known ones. I don't know if that happens with other genres, it reminds me a little bit of hardcore in that sense. I deeply despise Depressive Suicidal Black Metal, for a lot of reasons, but mostly because I disagree with the message of that genre. Atmospheric black metal is another one that I don't like at all because I can't stand the music. Raw black metal is also terrible for my taste, so I have a very specific taste regarding this genre and kind of music. My top ten black metal albums would be something like this, without repeating bands. 1) Dissection - The Somberlain 2) Immortal - At the Heart of Winter 3) Emperor - In the Nightside Eclipse 4) Celtic Frost - To Mega Therion 5) Bathory - Under the Sign of the Black Mark 6) Sacramentum - Far Away from the Sun 7) Naglfar - Vittra 8) Windir - Arntor 9) Dawn - Slaughtersun (Crown of the Triarchy) 10) Vinterland - Welcome My Last Chapter

Author:	Defenestrated [ Wed Mar 20, 2024 3:39 pm ]
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Not sure if this'll be more than just a newbie guide/recommendations thread, but anyway. My favorites list would be pretty typical - many of the Norwegian classics, etc. I'll just throw out a couple things I've been really coming around to lately... I'm late to the party for sure, but Mgła has finally been clicking with me. Somehow Exercises In Futility has gotten about 7M views on YouTube. I'm a little hesitant to ask if anyone knows how. Spoiler: show I've also been digging Virus, the follow-up project to Ved Buens Ende. Not exactly BM, but still quite cool. Definitely has its own unusual "voice," can't think of any others quite like it. (I heard Fleurety years ago, but didn't find it as interesting.) Spoiler: show

Author:	Oxenkiller [ Wed Mar 20, 2024 7:40 pm ]
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"Under the Sign of the Black Mark" is an undisputed classic black metal album for sure. A landmark album of the genre. Oddly for me, this album never clicked for me except for the slower tracks, as I found the drum work to be too repetitive. Same with Mayhem's groundbreaking, genre-defining masterpiece- undeniably a great album start to finish but I found the best tracks on it to be "Life Eternal" and "Freezing Moon-" because there wasn't enough rhythmic variation in the rest of the tracks. I would pick "Filosofem" and some of his later work as essential albums- and yeah I know he's a douchebag but thankfully he tends to keep his opinions separate from his music. Dark Throne's first album is excellent as well.

Author:	Reid [ Wed Mar 20, 2024 7:56 pm ]
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Nowadays I listen to less black metal than I used to, but I've found that means my favorites have solidified over the years. Bathory are and have been my favorite metal band period, with the self-titled debut and Under the Sign of the Black Mark being the apex of that early black metal style. I find that first-wave black metal is probably one of my favorite styles of metal overall, I've listened to Venom, Bathory, Celtic Frost, and Sarcofago consistently ever since I was in high school, and I've more recently got heavily into Sabbat (JPN). I think there's just this energy and sense of fun in a lot of the first-wave bands that you don't find it later black metal that really appeals to me (and yes, I know the debate around first-wave black metal not actually being "black metal," but w/e, close enough). Weirdly enough I've found myself caring for a lot of the big second wave bands less and less over the years, especially the Norwegian scene. More into bands outside that scene that developed their own unique sound building off of the second wave, like Summoning, Moonsorrow, and Primordial. I've only started to recently delve into the Hellenic scene, but so far I love the first two albums from Varathron, truly excellent and unique takes on black metal.

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Author:	HeavenDuff [ Wed Mar 20, 2024 10:27 pm ]
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If we're going by the amount of time I spent listening to them, I'd have to say Agalloch, Sigh and Arcturus would be pretty far up there, but they aren't really "pure black metal", so I don't know if they count or if all their material counts. As for more straight-forward more "by the book" black metal, I'd have to say that Panopticon, Ulver, Darkthrone, Bathory and Immortal are among my favorites as well. After these, I'd have to give a shoutout to Alcest, even if a lot of their stuff is more on the shoegaze and post-black side of the equation. Still, I enjoy most of their stuff, even the very early black metal stuff on Tristesse Hivernale, for instance. Balrog is probably my first pick that's kind of outside of the big names that we often hear. But the band's first LP, entitled Ars Talionis - The Art of Murder, is some of the most vicious, raw and violent black metal there is. I simply love it. I recent years my love for bands like Mgla and Blut Aus Nord has grown quite a bit. I love BAN's modern stuff, but their first LP, Ultima Thule is one of the most gorgeous black metal record there is, IMHO. I also love me some black crust stuff like Iskra. Beyond this, I would have to say that bands like Darkened Nocturn Slaughtercult Carpathian Forest, Wolves in the Throne Room, Darkspace, Taake, are also bands that I spin quite a bit. Oh! And Stormkeep's debut album was mind-blowing! I hope they makre more stuff like it in the following years.

Author:	lupin99 [ Thu Mar 21, 2024 1:00 am ]
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I prefer Swedish BM or other BM bands from other countries then the Norway BM scene. My favorite BM are: Dark Funeral Unlord Rotting Christ Bathory Hellhammer I know I sound generic but I am really picky on this genre. Recent BM I had enjoyed are Syn -wilk https://youtu.be/Yx-k3Fzc9bE?si=ge1t4Zmn3XxxOczh Mordant Rhed Hatred for Humanity Demo https://youtu.be/BMXA0mCBIhg?si=d7g4th7YfEpxKcxV

Author:	Demon Fang [ Thu Mar 21, 2024 2:30 am ]
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Bathory...'s first four albums, developing the sound from thrash with screechy vocals to something more its own... and then developing his own take with the epic Blood Fire Death. Melechesh have fuckin' riffs - in particular, dense riffs capitulating a massive fiery desert sound. Sigh due to their more unique take on the sound, mixing horror with kabuki theatrics. Anaal Nathrakh as their music is like a soundtrack to the apocalypse. White Ward for their mix of black metal and dark jazz making for some truly all-encompassing atmospheric music that their contemporaries aren't even fit to shine the shoes of. Particularly Love Exchange Failure, which is a masterclass in conveying that feeling of claustrophobic loneliness you could only get in a city. Honorable mentions go to the unholy trinities from Darkthrone and Gorgoroth, as well as Mayhem's Deathcrush and De Mysteriis Dom Sathanas.

Author:	Raven_Augustus [ Thu Mar 21, 2024 8:42 am ]
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I've been playing Paysage d'Hiver a lot lately. Really excellent lo-fi/raw black metal. If your ears are attuned to the harsh presentation, you will discover some truly magnificent melodies and structures. My all-time favorite is probably the German band Nagelfar. The 2nd album Srontgorrth is probably my nr 1 favourite album of all time, regardless of genre. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nA5lC4Z ... lPromotion

Author:	CoffeeCat [ Thu Mar 21, 2024 1:26 pm ]
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I've mostly fallen off black metal these days since I'm not nearly as depressed a person as I used to be, and that super dark atmosphere doesn't do a ton for me. The bands I still like tend to be more on the prog or blackened death side of things. My all-time classic black metal faves are the usual ones from Scandinavia... Immortal, Emperor, Dissection, Enslaved and early Borknagar if you want to count them. For newer and less "traditional" black metal, I'm still a huge fan of Ihsahn, and I like other stuff like Tribulation, DHG, Agalloch, Myrkur, Summoning, Necrophobic, Sulphur Aeon, Thulcandra... anything too depressive and dark is not really my thing though.

Author:	Forever Underground [ Thu Mar 21, 2024 7:59 pm ]
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Raven_Augustus wrote: My all-time favorite is probably the German band Nagelfar. The 2nd album Srontgorrth is probably my nr 1 favourite album of all time, regardless of genre. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nA5lC4Z ... lPromotion Seconding this one as also my favourite album of all time of any genre. Such a stunning work. Some favourite black metal bands of mine: Abigor Altar of Plagues Bathory Darkspace Hirilorn Midnight Odyssey Nagelfar Nokturnal Mortum Tyrannic

Author:	Oxenkiller [ Thu Mar 21, 2024 8:01 pm ]
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Good call on Paysage. I own his "Im Wald" lp and still regularly crank it.

Author:	taliusmaximus [ Thu Mar 21, 2024 8:21 pm ]
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I always had a hard time catching the feel for BM until i found Basalte and their album Vertige. Band from Quebec (where I'm from!) and they totally opened my eyes to atmospheric black metal. Hope you enjoy!

Author:	Opus [ Fri Mar 22, 2024 12:57 am ]
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Venom and Mercyful Fate.

Author:	Zerberus [ Fri Mar 22, 2024 4:14 am ]
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There are very few BM bands where I really love their entire discography, so I'll list some albums instead. I'll also try to keep it to mostly "true" black metal, and not death/black, war metal, black/thrash or whatever. Ash Borer - Ash Borer Burzum - Filosofem Marduk - Panzer Division Marduk Darkthrone - Panzerfaust Alcest - Kodama Skogen - I döden Cultes des Ghoules - Henbane Oranssi Pazuzu - Mestarin Kynsi Void Meditation Cult - Utter the Tongue of the Dead Bathory - Under the Sign of the Black Mark

Author:	Samoroth [ Fri Mar 22, 2024 10:40 am ]
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I've been listening to black metal since 2006, have gone pretty deep down the rabbit hole. Don't listen much to it in the past couple of years. Favorite bands and albums: Darkthrone: Especially early and mid black metal era. Burzum: All the 90s black metal albums before prison. Lifelover: Not pure black metal musically but were fully part of the BM scene. Furia: very innovative Polish black metal band. Armagedda: Especially their magnus opus 'Ond Spiritism'. Deathspell Omega: Si Monvmentvm Reqvires, Circvmspice, Fas - Ite, Maledicti, in Ignem Aeternum and Paracletus. Aosoth: Arrow in the Heart. Summoning: Stronghold and Let Mortal Heroes Sing Your Fame. Negura Bunget: Om (ignore everything after Om). Leviathan: Great all across the board, favorite is Scar Sighted. Dissection: Everything especially second album. Satyricon: Up and until Rebel Extravaganza, everything after sucks. Mgla: With Hearts Toward None. I could name more but these are the bands from the top of my head I still like. Enjoy!

Author:	cultofkraken [ Fri Mar 22, 2024 7:43 pm ]
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I’ve been listening to black metal for almost 30 years now. This is a really hard question to answer. I have favourites that vary a lot in sound within the style… I prefer to pull favourites from different scenes. Eastern European BM bands like Root, Graveland, Veles, Master’s Hammer, Tormentor, Drudkh, Astrofaes, Maniac Butcher and Dark Storm. German, Swiss and Austrian BM: Lunar Aurora, TRoB, Nagelfar, Nargaroth, Summoning, Amestigon, Abigor, Bethlehem, Tsotthoggua, Samael, Moonblood, Paysage D’hiver USBM: Judas Iscariot, Weakling, Thornspawn, Absu, Leviathan, Krieg, Lurker of Chalice, Bloodstorm, Xasthur, Black Funeral, Inquisition, Weltmacht Canadian BM: Blasphemy, Miasma, Frozen Shadows, Allfather, Niflheim, Sombre Forets, Nocturnal Departure, Spectral Wound, Sorciers des Glacé, Godless North French BM: Antaeus, Aosoth, Bekhira, Mutiilation, Osculum Infâme, Vlad Tepes, Belketre, Belenos, Himinbjorg, Blut Aus Nord, Anorexia Nervosa Norwegian/Niderosian BM: Thorns, Burzum, Fimbulwinter, Mayhem, Darkthrone, Emperor, Enslaved, Immortal, Hades, Forgotten Woods, Mare, Arcturus, Kaosritual, Carpathian Forest, Limbonic Art, Odium, Manes, Tsjuder Swedish BM: Dawn, Dissection, Dark Funeral, Abruptum, Sacramentum, Craft, The Black, Vinterland, Marduk, Nifelheim, Niden Div. 187, Ondskapt, Naglfar, Ancient Wisdom, Bathory, Thy Primordial, Panphage, Jordablod, Armagedda Finland: Horna, Behexen, Circle of Oroborus, Sargeist, Beherit, Impaled Nazarene, IC Rex, Satanic Warmaster Dutch and Belgian BM: Urfaust, Lugubrum, Fluisterwoud, Galgeras, Botulistum, Enthroned, Hellenic BM: Rotting Christ, Necromantia, Varathron, Zemial, Thou Art Lord, Dodsferd, Thy Darkened Shade, Nocternity, Agatus Lots of other favourites: Midnight Odyssey, Sad Ex, Naxzul and Abyssic Hate from Australia, Altar of Perversion, Bulldozer, Beatrix and Ténèbrae in Perpetuum from Italy, Grima from Russia, Xibalba Itzaes from Mexico… So many favs so little time… could keep going and going.

Author:	nephilim80 [ Sat Mar 23, 2024 8:00 am ]
Post subject:	Re: Favorite Black Metal Bands?
Bands Mayhem Immortal Emperor Bathory Watain Marduk Darkthrone Deathspell Omega Bal-Sagoth Summoning Enslaved Albums (one per band) Mayhem - De Mysteriis Dom Sathanas Immortal - At the Heart of Winter Emperor - In the Nigthside Eclipse Bathory - The Return Watain - Sworn to the Dark Marduk - Plague Angel Darkthrone - A Blaze in the Northern Sky Deathspell Omega - Kenose Bal-Sagoth - The Power Cosmic Summoning - Minas Morgul Enslaved - Frost Khold - Phantom Stormkeep - Tales of Othertime Gorgoroth - Incipit Satan Craft - Terror Propaganda Cradle of Filth - Dusk and Her Embrace Dimmu Borgir - Enthrone Darkness Triumphant Arcturus - La Masquerade Infernale Anaal Nathrakh - The Codex Necro Borknagar - Quintessence Absu - Tara Dark Funeral - The Secrets of the Black Arts Agalloch - The Mantle Venom - Black Metal Ulver - Nattens Madrigal Burzum - Hvis Lyset Tar Oss Satyricon - Nemesis Divina 1349 - Beyond the Apocalypse Dissection - Storm of the Light's Bane Primordial - To the Nameless Dead Drudkh - Autumn Aurora Urgehal - Through Thick Fog Till Death Hecate Enthroned - The Slaughter of Innocence, a Requiem for the Mighty Siebenburgen - Delictum Songs just 10 Mayhem - Life Eternal Immortal - Withstand the Fall of Time Darkthrone - Transilvanian Hunger Watain - Legions of the Black Light Cradle of Filth - Funeral in Carpathia Emperor - Beyond the Great Vast Forest Gorgoroth - Sorg Dark Funeral - Shadows Over Transylvania Khold - Døde Fuglers Sang Stormkeep - The Seer

Author:	CoffeeCat [ Fri Mar 22, 2024 10:48 am ]
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I totally forgot to call out Oranssi Pazuzu. Yes, one of the best black metal bands of the decade for sure.

Author:	EvergreenSherbert [ Fri Mar 22, 2024 11:01 am ]
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Darkthrone, Kvist, Ulver, and Lunar Aurora have been my favorites for a while.

Author:	Zerberus [ Fri Mar 22, 2024 2:44 pm ]
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CoffeeCat wrote: I totally forgot to call out Oranssi Pazuzu. Yes, one of the best black metal bands of the decade for sure. And somehow they just keep getting better with every album

Author:	baconboom [ Fri Mar 22, 2024 4:19 pm ]
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My all time favourite black metal band is Arckanum. His first free albums are just perfect. Such a thick and enchanting atmosphere. After that he lost some of the initial spark, but has never released a bad album imo. Of the Norwegian second wave classics, Darkthrone from Blaze through to Panzerfaust gets the most plays from me. I also really enjoy a few of the Les Légions Noires projects. Mutiilation's Vampires of Black Imperial Blood is amazing and the Vlad Tepes/Belkètre split is definitely up there. Some stuff that could be considered proto-dsbm is also great. Strid and Forgotten Woods on the gentler, more introspective side of things, and Malvery and Sortsind for raw torment. I'm very picky about later dsbm, but I like Wigrid and Lyrinx a lot. More recent stuff I've been listening to regularly includes Trha, very atmosphere and unique black metal, Sorry..., a standout dsbm project, Keys to the Astral Gates and Mystic Doors, raw Darkthrone worship, and with a more experimental approach, Cosmic Church.

Author:	Benedict Donald [ Sat Mar 23, 2024 7:59 am ]
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CoffeeCat wrote: I've mostly fallen off black metal these days...and that super dark atmosphere doesn't do a ton for me. The bands I still like tend to be more on the prog...side of things. Same with me. I rarely reach for any BM at all these days, and when I do it's mainly the Borknagar / Enslaved / Emperor / Immortal / Winterfylleth ilk.

Author:	pyratebastard [ Sat Mar 23, 2024 6:25 pm ]
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Let not this classic slide under the cracks.

Author:	ChildClownOutlet [ Sat Mar 23, 2024 6:30 pm ]
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Not the biggest BM fan unless it's stuff with other genres fused in there, Dissection, Later Immortal, Melechesh, Enslaved, Mithotyn

Author:	Demon Fang [ Sun Mar 24, 2024 3:26 am ]
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pyratebastard wrote: [youtube]Enslaved's debut album[/youtube] Let not this classic slide under the cracks. oh man i nearly did that Yeah, Enslaved from the debut until... roughly at about Below the Lights is some good-to-great black metal.

Author:	cultofkraken [ Sun Mar 24, 2024 6:47 pm ]
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pyratebastard wrote: Let not this classic slide under the cracks. This, Hordanes Land, Frost and Eld are some of the most impactful BM albums for me from any scene.

Author:	DeadKid [ Sun Mar 24, 2024 11:23 pm ]
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The main ones I enjoy listening to are Craft, Ludicra, Satyricon and Mayhem. Creeping and Exordium Mors from my country. Also Aoratos even though there's only one album so far. Has great atmosphere that stands out from the members' other projects for me:

Author:	Lee Harrison [ Mon Mar 25, 2024 5:38 am ]
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Aoratos are more death than black… No one mention French,Greek scene or Canada pardon Quebec…. Bruh

Author:	cultofkraken [ Mon Mar 25, 2024 1:13 pm ]
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Lee Harrison wrote: Aoratos are more death than black… No one mention French,Greek scene or Canada pardon Quebec…. Bruh Are you kidding? I… I specifically mentioned all of them.

Author:	Lee Harrison [ Mon Mar 25, 2024 8:57 pm ]
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cultofkraken wrote: Lee Harrison wrote: Aoratos are more death than black… No one mention French,Greek scene or Canada pardon Quebec…. Bruh Are you kidding? I… I specifically mentioned all of them. Ok but I expected more mentioning

Author:	SanPeron [ Mon Mar 25, 2024 9:26 pm ]
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Swedish black metal is the best, my favorite school of BM. That country has created excellent metal during all its history.

Author:	ClicheUsername [ Mon Mar 25, 2024 9:44 pm ]
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A few favorites that I didn't see mentioned... Anubi Baxaxaxa Celestial Bloodshed Eternal Majesty Faustcoven Helheim Mortuary Drape Musta Surma Nåstrond Nuit Noire Obtained Enslavement Reverorum Ib Malacht S.V.E.S.T. Svartsyn Ungod Vitsaus

Author:	Ace_Rimmer [ Mon Mar 25, 2024 9:58 pm ]
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Lately mostly mgla. Also Immortal, Mayhem, Satyricon.

Author:	Samoroth [ Tue Mar 26, 2024 9:03 am ]
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Lee Harrison wrote: Aoratos are more death than black… No one mention French,Greek scene or Canada pardon Quebec…. Bruh I literally mentioned Aosoth and Deathspell Omega, both of whom are French.

Author:	Ace_Rimmer [ Tue Mar 26, 2024 11:43 am ]
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Most black metal isn't that memorable for me and works best as background music. I will put on black metal promotion and let it run sometimes. For me I think I prefer most black metal when it is adding in other elements.

Author:	Cock_Waffle [ Wed Mar 27, 2024 12:48 pm ]
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Always been a big fan of the Finnish scene, atmospheric and blackgaze to a lesser extent. Horna - Sanojesi Aarelle Sarastus - Enter the Necropolis Sargeist - Satanic Black Devotion An Autumn for Crippled Children - Only the Ocean Knows Elderwind - The Magic of Nature

Author:	MetlaNZ [ Sat Mar 30, 2024 6:31 am ]
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More of fan of the 80's and early 90's black metal: Absu Aura Noir Bathory Burzum Darkthrone Dawn Desaster Deströyer 666 Dissection Emperor Enslaved Hellhammer/Celtic Frost/Triptykon Immortal Marduk Master's Hammer Mayhem Melechesh Mercyful Fate Moonsorrow Mortuary Drape Order from Chaos Primordial Root Rotting Christ Sadistik Exekution Samael Satan's Host Satyricon Thorns Varathron Venom Watain Edit: Satan wanted it in alphabetical order.